Comments by "Psiberzerker" (@Psiberzerker) on "Really Bad r/Legaladvice - Deleting Emails to Avoid Subpoena" video.
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@phoenixnoire2435 LOL, I live in Waco, and I've been arrested in like 6 states (Including Pima County AZ) Also for being Transgender, in North Carolina. You know that weirdo freak they warned you about in the girl's room? You're talking to her. (The restroom was upstairs, at Jesse O. Sanderson.) If you want to play the Privilege card, I'll see you, and raise you, all day. So no, it's not technically illegal to be poor in these United States. It's not technically illegal to be Black, either. They can just stop you, frisk you, and shoot you for matching the description, and "I feared for my life!" to plead down from murder to payed vacation.
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By the same logic, you could argue that it's "Illegal to be female." Because we don't have access to due process, freedom, nor even the right to free speech, when it comes to something like Sexual Abuse Allegations. In that case, he's presumed innocent until proven guilty, so you can argue that formal charges would ruin his life, and ruin his reputation. (Even all the way up to the Supreme Court/Senate Confirmation Hearings.) She doesn't have such protections, especially in a "He said/she's dead" situation. So, they can literally get away with murder, in a court of law, and it's all perfectly legal.
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@phoenixnoire2435 Oh, it's discrimination, all right. It's just Legal discrimination. They can't legally make Poverty "Illegal." So, they lock you up for life, for Possession of Marijuana, and then profit from it. Legally, even after they decriminalize possession (In say California) they can keep blacks, and Hispanics in prison for it, because releasing them would be ex-post-facto. We can't legally get them released without first proving that the Marijuana laws were illegal, and racist to begin with. Of course they were, but good luck Proving that!
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@phoenixnoire2435 Just 2 examples of how they can punish people for being poor (Or female, minorities...) without explicitly making it Illegal, because such laws would be unconstitutional. Kinda not unlike how they could start off one document with "All men are created equal," and keep owning men (And women, children...) for generations like Cattle. There is a very important difference between making something like Poverty ILLEGAL, and using something like Poverty to profit off of the people that prop them up on the top of their scrotum pole. If they make it Illegal, they have to charge you, and give you Due Process, in a court of law. If they don't, they can just take you away from your parents, and lock you up in Kidternment camps indefinitely, because "National Emergency." If you declare something illegal, or declare war, then you have to follow the law (Or international treaties, like the Geneva Conventions.) If they don't, then they can just make you go away, and never worry about being held accountable. With the law, what you say, and how you say it is critically important.
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@phoenixnoire2435 There's no THE answer, because there's no THE problem. False Dichotomy. The rich can afford to buy the courts, the legislature, and the Oval Office, and they set it up in the first place. The Founding FATHERS made it so that you had to be a land (And therefore Slave) owner just to be elligible for the Continental Congress, or the Presidency. They wrote the 27th Amendment in 1789, and it was ratified in 1992, after the 13th, and 19th Amendments, just to name a few. This corruption isn't new. The disparity between wealth and power predates the Discovery and conquest of America, by Genocide for Profit, and Poverty was never "Illegal" throughout that entire history. The truth is that Poverty is Profitable. It always was, it's the cornerstone of Capitalism. If they criminalize it, they would jeopardize the power structure that's literally based on it.
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