Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "LegalEagle" channel.

You burned it once already, when our mighty militia prevailed at the pub... We then chased your forces all over the continent, but never managed to force them into our strongpoint. The pub. If you want more humor, just look up our history of invading Canada...
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How can a Cyber Truck be illegal when it so rarely works? As for the honking statute, they literally outlawed their own militia, for proper PMCS of vehicles requires sounding the horn during checks and hence, prohibit the operation of their rescue vehicles. That said, I rather doubt that any of their officers will want to argue with men with machine guns and artillery, given the necessity for both in response to natural disasters. Hey fits right in with the President that wanted to nuke a hurricane to blow it out.
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You missed the same thing that the prosecutor missed. What happens when you've stretched leather, then wet it and allowed it to dry without it being stretched to stay the same size? It shrinks and the last time I had it on me, I noticed that blood is mighty wet. And jurors are instructed to consider only what was presented in the trial. And I've been a juror several times for several trials. Still, the Simpsons isn't exactly realistic. Homer would never get an operator's ticket in the US, Chernobyl or with TEPCO perhaps, but not in the US. ;) As for stinky britches, never found cause to sing about them. Cut back on the beans, yes, sing, nope. I like keeping a patent airway.
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@meh8982 your first instruction by your attorney during deposition or before testifying, "I don't remember" is preferred over remembering some things or trying to relate foggy memories.
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I still love those who insist that the Constitution protects "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", conflating a declaration of war, the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution. The Declaration had no legal standing in the US, that war long being over before we even had a Constitution. And it ignores that inalienable right of life being forfeited in an executed prisoner, making the right utterly alienable. The same being for liberty, otherwise all prisons, jails and inpatient mental health care facilities unconstitutional entities. And laughable is the "right" to the pursuit of happiness, as how can one prohibit that? Frankly, all of the nonsense spouted off is an indictment of our civics education, or more specifically, it's abject failure thereof. And if English became a mandatory language, would I need to change my old insignia, which reads "de oppresso liber"? There would be some significant resistance to that, with folks one really shouldn't want to fight with.
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Trump is singular and unique, in that were he to meet me again (met him back just before y2k) and he'd tell me his name, he'd be the first person to identify themself and be carded by me.
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What steams my clams is the prohibition by the SCOTUS against jury nullification. Anarchy doesn't lie there, but justice occasionally lies there and a right is fundamentally discharged via caveat of the court. Yeah, it's complicated within some areas. :/
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By the same token, study for the CISSP. One doesn't need to know that at that level, one hires people who do know and fully understand the risks and benefits of specific types of interfaces. I don't need a CIO that knows how to maintain and back up a SAN.
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@seandobbins2231 save for that whole democracy thing. You know, if one isn't a criminal, specifically a convicted felon, one can run for public office and create policies. Not specialists, whose opinions are known to vary depending upon who is paying for their "services" and well, listening to them while growing up, as often as some physicians told us smoking was bad for us, there were an equal number claiming smoking was good or neutral to one's own health. Hence, decades of inertia, until finally the prostituted voices got drowned out by their peers - rather than weeded out via self-policing of their ranks, which was intended. Our largest problem now is that political leadership has ended up selected strongly by largely religious minorities, who are enforcing idiocy and forcing it down a nation's throat, resulting in a race to the bottom and those are the very results we see here. An upside, due to that idiocy, one party went full Nativist mode and is rapidly destroying itself, just as that Nativist group destroyed the Whig party in the mid-1800's. Excuse me as I farther calm down. Just detonated at some militia goofball in another channel, who proclaimed all militia members were labeled by our government as domestic terrorists. He won't enjoy the exchange further, as I was unit historian for a historic National Guard unit - one founded under Colonel Benjamin Franklin. And well, lessee... Militia being, by Act preexisting this nation as able bodied males of military age (ages specified by each act and occasionally differing), later updated for females (initially only in the National Guard, but expanded by legislation, but leaving conscription an unresolved question) as unorganized militia and organized being organized militia that was in 1903 given a new fangled nation, the National Guard. So, he's getting hit over the head with both codified law and history. That seems to make me a liberal in his book, a decidedly odd and telling tell on his part.
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@topogigio7031 you do realize what the phrase "based upon" means, don't you? Derived from old war gaming systems, then customized to become what we know today. I watched it as it developed, way back in 1974 until today. But, what would I know? Those that were there wouldn't know anything whatsoever about what was going on there and then.
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@leehongjin6884 overruled under Article 1, Section 8 of the federal Constitution.
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It isn't that Matt left his Venmo account to public, but that it was set to pubic that seems to have generated outrage. While he sang, "Thank heavens for little girls", for without them what would Matty Gaetz do...
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@mikgus not seeing that happen. He's undermined himself too much, alienated the majority of the GOP moderate base and his devoted voters are a tiny minority. Even were they to try to force all non-Trump voters away from the polls at gunpoint, they'd still not manage to get enough votes for him. DeSantis, is of graver concern. Especially, given grand juries are looking at his election fraud scam. Kind of hard to run rallies and speeches while in court defending one's liberty against one's felonies.
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@alphanerd7221 ?
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@FlameDarkfire I'm totally for more tanks for police. No tracks or fuel for the tanks, the usual maintenance bills, but no tracks to wear down or fuel to waste. Maintenance is expensive as hell for armor, as is fuel.
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As I've said for decades. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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Which would universally fail. Treason is exceptionally narrowly defined in the Constitution. So narrowly, only a few convictions were ever obtained in the nation's history.
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That's one of the reasons firearms were created.
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That is a thing, that entire public trust thing exists because of that fact. A trust by the public is abrogated, so the punishment for such a betrayal is enhanced. Given that this is all straight time, with no time off for golfing or behavior, does it really matter is Trump is sentenced to 17 years or 17 million years? He'd die in prison either way. Albeit a lot lighter, as there is no Burger King in the supermax. And icing on the cake, it's solitary, as he can't be trusted not to flap his yap about classified information.
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Trump drained the swamp by pumping in raw sewage.
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OK, she'd first have to be impeached by Congress. Then, her judicial immunity stripped so that she could be charged with dereliction of duty. I figure that'll happen right around when the sun goes out.
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And I'd be "Just as well, I was going to suggest you come back and discuss this in another 30 years or so".
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Having sat on multiple juries over the decades, suffice it to say that it's a yuge pain in the ass, tedious, boring, honestly during jury selection, I nearly fell asleep as a prospective juror. The trials, all of which did go to trial in the civil cases I sat on, slightly more exciting. Around equal between watching grass grow and paint dry. Never did consider trying to duck it, as it's a duty, not some entertainment venue, something necessary that any good citizen should feel honored to be involved with, despite it being deadly dull and designed to be such. Facts are being found, not excitement and drama. Didn't duck out of my military duties, I sure wasn't going to try to duck out of my more important civic duties!
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In Dennis' case, you also have to consider the liability of having a dangerous carnivore about around a main road on the island. The electrified fence was laughable, as mains voltage isn't applied to such fences, the voltage is stepped up from mains voltage and only the conductor is charged, the circuit would be to ground that one would be standing on. Also, the skeletons falling from the ceiling, add in liability as you said, but further damning is, the things would be predicted to fall, as the island is seismically active, so earthquakes would drop them on unsuspecting guests.
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@Gotlyfe I actually have, although it was at volume to a friend. Most nodded in agreement, although I was asked to tone the profanity down to protect tender ears. Embarrassing, as there was construction going on and they suddenly stopped...
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@Archontasil laughably, due to the Section 230 safe harbor, not moderating at all protects the company. Or one has to moderate properly, lest one lose protection. Overall, an idea that looked good on paper, but has been an utter debacle for society.
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Heh, our youngest briefly had a COVID-19 workman compensation issue, but directing her to the state website and then having her report, not to her employer alone (who unlawfully told her to file for unemployment and lose all benefits), but to the hospital she was contracted with and well, the hospital dug out the Riot Act and read it to the employer at a decibel level consistent with thermonuclear fusion. Her bills are being properly and lawfully paid for.
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Kind of hard to make war in a vague way.
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They have absolutely no authority to force me to obey the law of gravity. Alas, that law enforces itself. But, the Constitution also states that our federal government must secure and protect the public welfare, given the Constitution itself defines the nation as the people. Not dying from a fairly easily preventable disease most certainly is in the interests of the people and when one is speaking of a pandemic that's national, within the purview of the federal government assisting state and local governments and institutions. So, Congress cannot pass a law enforcing gravity, but can order masks be worn on federal property and tax and allocate tax dollars to support the states in battling a national pandemic. States who refuse to allow local counties to manage a pandemic are misguided, as a state government micromanaging, rather than coordinating county and city efforts is a fool's errand that can only go wrong. Full disclosure: Our youngest daughter, in her mid-30's, contracted COVID-19 a couple of months ago, while she was working at a hospital in housekeeping. That was ascertained to be due to a lack of compliance with hospital procedures by closing COVID-19 patients room doors to prevent the spread to the staff. The hospital, once they became aware of the issue promptly ensured compliance via inspections and training. She's slowly recovering after a couple of weeks of hospitalization. Our eldest is an RN in a hospital, she's contracted COVID-19, but thankfully remains asymptomatic. The route of transmission for her appears to be related to reuse to failure of PPE, which despite some lying by our national leadership, still remains in short supply. The companies simply can't keep up with, let alone modestly exceed current demand. I have pre-existing medical conditions, as does my wife, said conditions essentially guarantee our demise if we experience any significant level of exposure, so we mask up when in proximity to other people (it doesn't make sense for when we're simply outside, as we're in a rural area, but entering a store or area congested with people outside, it''s mask time). Keep the good information coming, Mack! Just had to textually beat down an inlaw's championing a disinformation campaign by the cult Falun Gong's Epoch Times. Disinformation has to be fought with real, true information and while it sucks to find out one is wrong, one feels a lot better once one knows what is true and what is bovine defecation being passed off as food.
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@SylviaRustyFae nope. Both apply to you anywhere you are legally allowed to be in most states. So, if allowed to be armed at work or one's place of business, they apply. If in one's private vehicle and are legally allowed to be armed, again, they apply.
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@CaseyEm that's why we have landmines, right?
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@CaseyEm amazing how you "know" my thoughts, in their entirety, based upon one hyperbole laden comment! Indeed, in your prior estimation, I'm a vigilante, so the greatest threat, the armed person is to be eliminated, yes? BTW, what are the case law supported grounds for the use of lethal force by police and how do they naturally conflict with a non-protective role for law enforcement?
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Every child deserves a parent, alas, that child didn't actually have an actual parent.
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Not any longer, one judge has effectively neutered the government's authority to govern its own secret documents. Indeed, espionage cases that are long settled by convictions are now in danger of being overturned based upon this precedent. Oddly, there are procedures and documentation methods to reclassify a document, they're a royal PIA, but it's literally routinely conducted. Oddly, not a one involves just taking a document home and leaving it in the bathroom for use as emergency toilet paper or waving it around inside of a bar.
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One small problem with one of your arguments. There was no armed mob, hence why seditious conspiracy were some of the many charges and not treason. Taking up arms against the government being, not sedition, but treason. As best I recall, only one individual was armed and thankfully, didn't utilize their weapon, making such an assertion still dicey. Now, had the oathbreakers "QRF" taken up their arms, they'd have perfected treason for all and those convicted of seditious conspiracy would've been on the hook for the full ride on treason, complete with being open to writ of attainder and corruption of blood. They didn't, so the charges are seditious conspiracy, with a few convictions thus far and the other cases ongoing.
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@totite22 the Constitution. The Constitution defines very narrowly that treason is the taking up arms against one's nation or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As we're not at war, it's a tad difficult to have an enemy. The article goes on to require two eyewitnesses to the act of treason testify before an open court. Nobody took up arms, thankfully. Which leaves seditious conspiracy, for which there are currently several convictions and a number of ongoing cases. But, it was close. The oathbreakers, ahem, Oathkeepers had a "QRF" (Quick Reaction Force) whose arms were stored in a nearby hotel room just outside of the District limits. Had they collected their arms and entered the District, one has a claim that treason was in progress and had they arrived at the riot armed, treason would have been perfected to most reasonable minds.
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I'd simply say that we're quite comfortable as we are and I'm even more comfortable administering a comminuted skull fracture, as well as being a lapsed pacifist. Note the lack of an articulated threat, possibly implied, but I do know how to stoop digging before a hole is created.
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Trump, despite now years of court experience has yet to learn the first rule of the courtroom. DON'T PISS OFF THE JUDGE! Worse, that's rubbing off on his attorneys, who, not enjoying the heat of the frying pan, decided to jump out and check out the fire.
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I actually can. Buying Twitter from Musk, then returning it, as I ordered an extra large social media platform and he sold me a small.
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I'm reminded of the fact that PVT Manning was sentenced to 35 years, served nearly 7 before Obama commuted it. That, for 700000 documents being divulged to a foreign interest. So, yeah, loads of moving parts. Enough that, for a guy who isn't shy about taking anything electronic or mechanical apart and putting it back together again, am left thankful for lawyers who can parse through the bingo scorecard.
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