'Blank this blank' puts woman in jail
Source: WOOD TV8
LaRue Ford, who has no criminal record, had hoped to spend Christmas with family in Chicago. Instead, she spent the holiday in the Berrien County Jail.
She is still locked up there, has been for eight days.
Her offense, according to court records: "profanity in the clerk's office."
"She said, 'f--- this s---,'" said attorney Megan Reynolds, who is working on her case with several other
ACLU attorneys.
Read more: http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/sw_mich/larue-ford-jailed-for-swearing-in-court-clerk-office-122612
Eight days! While I would never support using that language, this is just ridiculous!
Meanwhile, those who wrecked our economy...
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Good grief! 
The law states the language is liable "if done with intent to ‘annoy,’ ‘offend,’ ‘harass’ or ‘terrify,’ ".... but then the law goes on to clarify that "there is no requirement that... the communication must be intended to offend or annoy" in order to be liable.
Oooookay. 
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ~ Noam Chomsky
That's fascism as defined by Mussolini himself. The GOP brands, Libertarianism and Tea Party are the embodiment of that style of governance. By eliminating our voices opposing their taking over all the necessities through a democratic government, they will be able to profit directly off of us.
The tyranny of the powerful causes people to stifle themselves for the necessities of life -- and they will only use government in ways to enforce that goal. They are enabled by those who seek to privatize all functions of government for their own personal profit, discriminating against all but their cronies. This they do while devouring the commons and calling it reform, when it's theft.
but this incident took place in Michigan. Not that there's much difference... southwestern lower Michigan is just as red as northwestern Indiana. The state line might as well not even be there in some ways. 
... I only read as far as it said she moved from AZ to IN. Yeah, Michigan. Indiana Jr. Both right-to-be-a-slave states now.
interest in it that I had once considered relocating to Michigan, but not long after that what he had said started coming out and I changed my mind. I'm trying to get out of RW territory, not move into more of the same. Here, they think if they can get more RW and more religious people are going to flock here. How times are changing.
Phew, I'm glad we have the internet, I've learned a lot about various places. Some pretty freaky and others really good. I think there's going to be more and more of a geographical divide in this country along ideologies. Putin once said he thought the US was getting so polarized the US would eventually break into several geographical regions. Maybe he's onto something.
This is from over a year ago but what would have changed about the judge?
Over 85% of the people who work for Berrien County courthouse know about this judge who is a drunk and a racist.
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I'd probably be jailed and my "grumpy Stinz" t-shirt destroyed if I made the mistake of wearing it there (sorry, can't find the image, but it has a centaur-comic character with the words "Been there, done THAT! FUCK IT!"
No.
