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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • They are charging him under two laws and well outside the intent of both. The first is what is informally called the Klan Act, a law enacted to protect black churches during reconstruction when they were targeted by the KKK. The second is called the FACE act, a law from the 90s that was intended to protect abortion clinics but in a compromise with conservatives protects churches as well - notably this law requires violence to have been inflicted so I have no idea how they justify using it, the original magistrate judge crossed it out on the warrants for the 3 protesters he agreed to charge.

    This is all transparently vindictive prosecution of journalists who are unfriendly towards the administration. The protesters themselves should only be charged with trespassing or disturbing the peace at most, but the DoJ is entirely compromised into a weapon against the American people.






  • This shit makes my job harder. I am required by law to provide a PSAP with the location data of any 911 caller (within a pretty tight radius). I have to use software in concert with softphones which requires the user enter their location when logging in the phone on their computer, just in case it is used to dial 911. This isn’t optional, we could face serious legal penalties if a user dials 911 and the response is delayed because the responders go to the wrong place.

    My stuff is only used for 911. We don’t keep track. Really. There’s not even a mechanism to do that.

    But when MS pulls this invasive bullshit it makes people afraid that my 911 software is doing the same thing. It makes them lie on the form or refuse to put anything in it. It makes them less safe and it makes my life difficult trying to convince them that the software we are using really is just for safety and that nobody, not even me, has access to it.






  • SRPD responding to the call isn’t going to know those are real cops, they will be responding to a home invasion call and discover that the invaders are cops when they are already there and then they will know that they are obligated to stop the crime even if sympathetic to the bad guy.

    And the kidnapping might be successful, sure. But the risk for Cletus here is that SRPD isn’t 100% on his side and he and his crew get arrested and take major felony charges. There is a reason this didn’t happen in New York. Louisiana is weaponizing the law for two purposes: 1. to discourage doctors from providing health care to women. 2. And to establish standing so they can petition the Supreme Court to ban abortion drugs.





  • The same thing that stops any kidnapper. If your point is “people can do crimes in California” then, yes, people can do crimes in any state.

    EDIT:

    Actually, you know what? Let’s game this out, since I get the impression you have a somewhat naive view of how things actually work in the real world.

    Here’s what happens: Louisiana fails to extradite the doctor, so Louisiana State Trooper Cletus and his loyal, but not-too-bright cohorts decide they’re gonna go to Cali and arrest them sumbitch.

    The thing you have to understand is that the way policing works is mostly, mostly through enforcement of consequences by the state. If a cop tells you that you are under arrest you comply because the state will levy severe penalties on you if you don’t.

    So Cletus, et. al. show up in Santa Rosa and go to the doctor’s office, because they know that’s the safest place to arrest someone. They show up and are stopped at the front desk. The admin isn’t going to give them access to the facility because they are not the California cops. The Santa Rosa PD gets called and, if the State Troopers are lucky they are told to get lost, if not they catch charges.

    Ok, so that doesn’t work, maybe Cletus and Co decide to go to the doctor’s home. They bang on the door in the evening and demand he come with them because he is under arrest in the state of Louisiana. The doctor does not open the door and call the Santa Rosa PD who come and blah, blah blah. Maybe charges. If they are very, very stupid, they kick in the door and try to abduct the doctor, extraordinary rendition style. Maybe they get shot, maybe they get pepper sprayed, maybe the doc is a black belt and whoops their ass. In any case, now they are home invaders and SRPD shows up code 1 because the doctor or his spouse are on the phone with them already. This is serious felony time for Cletus and you can be sure the state will throw the biggest book they can find at him.

    Of course, Cletus and his posse know the consequences for failing here are 10+ years in California penitentiary so they are simply not going to try. Thinking Lousiana cops are going to go to California to cart off some doctor for an indictment is fantasy. If a California judge rules against extradition, the doctor is perfectly safe as long as he stays there.