It could potentially be child abuse.

While I think most of us would agree that subjecting one's child to elective cosmetic medical procedures is disgusting and misguided, I'm not sure that it's technically illegal in any way in the U.S. (though I agree it should be). District Attorneys in certain jurisdictions might try to prosecute this on the basis of child endangerment. Are you saying this would be a clear-cut criminal case in the U.K.?

I think it would depend upon circumstances.  

The question would be Alabama's legal definition of "abuse."  In the United States, doing something someone else does not like is not necessarily "abuse."

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the social services people have more power in the UK than they do in the United States.  They certainly have a lot of power here.

The people who tend to get in trouble with the social services in the United States most often cannot afford lawyers.

That does not bother me too much.  Do not like it but I think I can live with it.

Martin

Those random cop sweeps for unlawful possession of miniatures can be over-the-top brutal.

Doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me.  Making it legal for cops to enter your home without a warrant and stopping you for speeding with no proof I would think opens the local government to an amazing amount of lawsuits.

"(The court is saying) we would rather opt on the side of saying if the police act wrongfully in entering your house your remedy is under law, to bring a civil action against the officer."

So either they think that the majority of citizens are just going to roll over for this and not prosecute them when it happens, or their target audience is too poor to do so.  

Kingofpain89 wrote:Doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me.  Making it legal for cops to enter your home without a warrant and stopping you for speeding with no proof I would think opens the local government to an amazing amount of lawsuits.

So either they think that the majority of citizens are just going to roll over for this and not prosecute them when it happens, or their target audience is too poor to do so.  

I was being tongue in cheek with my statement, but seriously, does this do anything but create more dead cops? There are a LOT of hard core gun and survivalist types out there, some with semi-auto weapons, that already think the government has it in for them. Having a cop bust down their door with a no-knock warrant, especially say if the warrant is a mistake (for the wrong offense, or at the wrong address), may now be legal, but that doesn't mean a half dozen cops aren't going to do down along the way.  Both the Ruby Ridge and Waco Siege fiascos could have been avoided had they just waited until the people they were looking for came into town to buy beer or cigs, or responded to fake real estate buyers (as Weaver did at Ruby Ridge) who were Marshals in disguise.  It does frighten me that law enforcement seems to be ratcheting up the intensity in these situations by these rulings.

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:Both the Ruby Ridge and Waco Siege fiascos could have been avoided had they just waited until the people they were looking for came into town to buy beer or cigs

Both Ruby Ridge and Waco could have been avoided with simple adherence to very clear laws.

In both cases, federal agents acted with a riot mentality on very suspect...or completely made up...legal authority.

Waco was an avoidable tragedy.  Officers should have gone to jail for their actions at Ruby Ridge.

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As for the killing of our teacher unions, I am astonished at how weak and feckless my union turned out to be.  The NEA is supposed to be this all-powerful monster.  Where is that power and why haven't we used it?

I think a national teacher walk-out on September 1st is in order and I don't know why we're not planning it.

mbassoc2003 wrote:It isn't difficult in the US to obey the law. It's just that some find it very hard to do so.

And they all work in the U.S. Federal Gummint. State and local ones as well. The U.S. Constitution is gone. Face it, it's a facade. The Banks own the U.S.. Corporatism rules the day. Our Finance Comittees make weak queries of Herr Bernanke where all the money from the ILLEGAL bailouts went, and he basically thumbs his nose at Congress and tells them to F-Off. No punishment. No removal from his position. No balls.

And the people here just keep electing the same pieces if S**T every time (sans overwhelming fraud), and don't do a damn thing to stop this BS. Why? Because doing so would be an inconvenience. They have the time to go to the stadium dressing and acting as Neanderthals, yet none of these low-brow terds can bother themselves to go on jury duty to overturn bad laws WHICH IS THEIR RIGHT AND DUTY!!! Not to mention that most probably have never read the U.S. Constitution in their lives, or at least not recently.

The pot is boiling. The frog is just about cooked.

I vomit inside every time I see something like Indiana take place. See any legislators getting recalled or impeached? You won't. You might get called a bad name in the press.