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Poor people don't drink tap water, due to lack of trust in the media among others.[1] The comments here that insinuate otherwise is also an effect of that same media,[2] on the same spectrum that led them to support school closures.

This whole topic is just a symptom of a more general disease. Defund CPB (and hence PBS and NPR) before we lose any more to this idiocy.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7474465/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/26/us/epidemic-of-oral-disea...


Starting off with superfluous agitprop... And ending with it. Hate for Trump is classic misdirection, it's amazing just how much propaganda is in even the most basic public policy articles.

Like, damn, it was the Biden administration that told the NTSB to go pound sand.[1]

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2024-04/NHTSA-NT...



If this complaint is true (my understanding is a complaint is always only one side of the story and the evidence presented may not end up being admissible, obviously IANAL and so forth), then seems quite similar to the MA case from several years ago: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/12/04/judge-shel...

Yes it would appear so.[1] It's a federal felony complaint so I believe it has to go to a grand jury next.

[1] https://www.mass.gov/news/commission-on-judicial-conduct-fil...


Intentionally misdirecting a federal investigation is a crime.[1][2] Pretty straightforward accusation.

"Our legal system provides methods for challenging the Government's right to ask questions—lying is not one of them." — Justice Harlan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements [2] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...


Ok looks like they're 18 USC 1505 (obstruction) and 18 USC 1071 (harboring) charges.[1] Less straightforward.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69943125/united-states-...


There was no "misdirecting" here. The judge truthfully told the agents they wouldn't be allowed to detain someone in the middle of a hearing without exceptional permission, at which point they all left, apparently didn't even bother to watch the courthouse doors, and upon their return had the judge arrested for not detaining a man it wasn't her job or legal authority to detain.

Per the criminal complaint, despite a federal warrant for Flores-Ruiz's arrest, Judge Dugan escorted Flores-Ruiz through a non-public jury door to escape arrest.

She had no legal obligation to hold the man or have him exit in a particular way. The agents on the scene clearly agreed, or they wouldn't have left!

What does this have to do with this situation though?

Massive breakdowns in "community" psychiatric systems while simultaneously illegalizing expansion through "certificate of need" processes. (If you've ever heard someone deflect with the word "beds", that CON process is what they refer to. "More funding" is misdirection.)

I think it notable the people mentioned come from Democratic Party strongholds. New York is attempting to rollback some of this and reemphasize more involuntary institutionalization. It's time to get more people off the street and out of the jails and into padded rooms.

Absolutely nothing to do with Trump or Elon, other than the feds are also having to deal with the mess the states are making. IMO yet another article that does not inform, but is really just another attempt at hate- and fearmongering.


I challenge what you call sane, sir.

Convention, normalcy, and polite society are all very fine, yet civilization rests upon certain demands.

You are not far off, I do not criticize your intent, merely that as a denier of the “exogenous”, I wonder if you will be so hardline with your own when their treachery or corruption is made bare.

If you will say with me, “an incorruptible righteous rule of law” will save us, we are bondsman(and women) to a common critical cause.

“Them, they, and those other” however are not the threat to our lawfully protected free world. Integrity, and principle, and a continuity of “devotion” (human sacrifice) pays for civilization or it doesn’t.

Civilization will always have its rabble and unrest. Mitigating savage powers with a “civilizing accord” is the whole foundation of any.


This seems like a "mad pride" argument mixed with deflection.

Crazy people are othered, I think that's a safe human instinct.

Claiming treachery and corruption is, well, irrelevant. Misdirection.


How calculated.

Test:

A man’s life who purgers before law is forfeited to law.

Those who you protect know all about the voices in our heads, it is those who deny or refuse to believe who are also a danger to us all (who’s lives are propped up by flimsy deniable truth.)


More deflection. Crazy people are a bigger threat than the corrupt. It's not a one-or-the-other thing, but to be more concerned with corruption-on-the-street than lunacy-on-the-street is ultimate materialism.


I only meant that you should accept my offer to hold hands and pray together for an uncorruptible righteous rule of law among the powers over Man. That covers the crazy people too.


I’ve lived on the streets “white boy”, I know what passes for crazy and corrupt. (Cute sarcasm intended.)


You need an enemy who isn’t you.

I get it.

Btw, I’m not an anarchist or liberal, I am a hard liner. Simply not your hardliner.


Well we're certainly not going to see any European institutions step up, despite their propaganda to the contrary.


We know damn well all these stories will do is trigger "muh Trump" and "muh Elon" responses. Especially from non-Americans who have no idea how their own government works or what it's doing.


Encouraging news. The most amusing thing is it spells the end of Fox television next time there's a Democratic president.


I am a Wikipedian who edits on government and law, and no, neither NPR nor PBS (WETA) NewsHour are anywhere near impartial. The notion that left-of-center consumers have impartial news is laughable. The US does not have a BBC.


"Now" is a misnomer. They're laws from when we were spending absolutely massive amounts of money keeping Taiwan, Germany, Poland etc independent. (Read: a long time ago.) They also include arbitrary property confiscation and a whole slew of other powers. Ignorance is bliss.


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