adespoton

It’s not that simple. Deterrence can be useful to minimize certain types of crime being normalized. But it’s not going to stop someone who thinks they’re going to be arrested no matter what they do, nor the person who truly believes they’ll never get caught, nor the person who commits the crime out of ignorance, nor crimes committed in the moment without considering the consequences.

So… these guys are rejecting Jesus’ teachings to follow pharasitical law?

Or do they really plan to follow:

• Love the Lord your god with all your heart, mind, soul and strength
• Love your neighbor as yourself
• Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

Because the stuff in the Old Testament is the stuff that failed to accomplish its goal, which is the entire reason it’s included at all.

Or are they planning a global literalist interpretation of Paul’s instructions to various people? So, take a little wine, don’t let women speak or be uncovered in public, nobody wears jewelry or makeup or perfume, no same-sex sex, no familial sex of any kind, no behaving in a way that may cause another believer to sin, donate regularly to the Christians in Jerusalem?

There’s also the well-established history of projection to consider with the GOP. While I doubt anything at scale was actually pulled off, an investigation is still fair and reasonable.

Wouldn’t THAT be an interesting turn of events… Trump gets into power and the first thing he does is revoke the charitable status of all churches that don’t give him a 10% cut….

Criminal!

Already seen it multiple times in Africa. First thing China does is sets up a local Chinese enclave to run the port. The enclave has its own security. If the victim nation tries to do anything about it, the port shuts down until they relent. If they try to take the port by force, it gets seized and held by the security forces, and may refuse to do any local shipping until the nation caves.

But how can you tell they aren’t a criminal criminal criminal defense defense lawyer? Do you have to be a criminal criminal defense defense lawyer lawyer yourself?

Does anyone actually see Russia joining? The only belt and road candidate I can imagine from BRICS is South Africa.

However. There’s quite a few second-tier BRICS hangers on (Indonesia, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Sudan, etc) that I can imagine could be quite excited about belt and road, at least in the short term.

Good news is: CBC is planning to focus more on local news, finally giving PostMedia some competition.

There’s always the option to vote NDP.

Is that “criminal defense” lawyer, criminal “defense lawyer” or both?

Maybe they watch it as a comedy or an instructional video?