• brown567@sh.itjust.works
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    To those like me who are confused because Skyrim is single-player: it was a Kik username inspired by Skyrim

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    ‘found no evidence connecting him to the girl, the messages, or the images involved in the case.’

    So the ONE piece of evidence was a username?? And he was convicted on that?

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    Yeah you really should be asking how the fuck you send someone to prison with zero fucking evidence of them committing a crime.

    Surely bare minimum is that several people in the legal system need to be losing their jobs over it. If not facing criminal negligence charges of their own.

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      More like the shit police work and complete lack of evidence. How the hell could that make it through the courts all the way to sentencing?

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          In the UK, it’s because it’s the defence’s job to notice this kind of thing, but paying for a good lawyer is life-ruiningly expensive, and public defenders via legal aid are paid hourly, but have a cap on the number of hours that’s never enough to deal with anything properly, so are either rushing everything and miss things, or are massively overworked and earning well below minimum wage when their unpaid work is included.

          I don’t know if the same problems extend to Canada, but it’s fairly likely, as the adversarial approach just inherently means the defence has to do loads of things that would be someone else’s job or not need doing at all under alternative systems, so you have to have a trained professional doing lots of work, and that’s inherently expensive, but taxpayers don’t like spending money on defending people who probably did crimes.

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        Apparently the defence missed it too, which is pretty damning for whoever was (supposed to be) defending him, I’d think.

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          Even if the user name was correct, after a full search turned up no evidence of wrongdoing or behaviors consistent with the allegation, it should have been insufficient for sentencing.

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    it is this rife lazy shit right here from cops, prosecutors and anyone who should know better and are paid to know better is why im always correcting people on the spelling of my name even if it is one letter off.

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        lol right, I still can defend myself, have free speech and you have this. Bang up job!

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          My favorite part is how this chud thinks they can “defend themselves” when cops come to their door with an arrest warrant 😂

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          Considering the original scenario is cops coming to arrest you, I don’t think you’ll get very far in “defending yourself”. But good luck in not dying in the shoot out with the cops.

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            This site is full of “FUCK GOVERNMENT!” “FUCK THE POLICE” and its full of people that will lay down. No wonder your government is running rough shod over you…

            If no one stands up you die on your knees.

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              No wonder your government is running rough shod(sic) over you…

              Since you talk about the 2nd Amendment and Open Carry, I’m just going to assume that you’re American, as am I. I could be wrong but that would mean you’re just a shill.

              If we’re both American that means the same government is running roughshod over both of us. The only difference is you have a bunch of guns that have never used against the “government” and probably will never get used against them. So please continue to espouse your violence while hiding behind a computer screen.

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                First Nations and an American. Granted my tribe is from mostly Ontario I have zero trust in either government.

                And me talking smack behind a screen, yeah ok.

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          At this point I have to assume you’re just a troll who’s trying to make actual gun owners look stupid to further the stereotype of all gun owners being second amendment trailer trash ass holes who don’t understand anything other than beer, guns and fucking. Because surely you can’t be that stupid. But, I’ve been proven wrong by other people’s stupidity before. Let’s just all be shocked someone with your intelligence level isn’t sitting in jail for a negligent discharge that killed someone.

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            Ah personal attacks. I said nothing insane like your post

            I own an ATF stamped machine gun

            I own an ATF stamped SBR

            I own 7 ATF stamped suppressors. (sucks now that they are free)

            I have almost every NRA certification.

            I train weekly and regularly do IDPA events.

            I have never had an ND/AD.

            Be a man, I open carry.

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        Or defending your rights in the US as I feel everyone on the planet should have those same rights.

        Wrong guy, a freedom of speech issue and they arrested the wrong guy in the wrong fucking country!

        You want to lay down thats on you, I’ll die with my boots on.

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            Tell me about the “Emergency Act” that was enacted, first time ever used in Canada.

            I know more about Canadian history then you want to play with. turdue runs basically mashall law and seizes bank accounts and youre more free than me? Are you serious?

            Because truckers protested. That shit would never fly down here.

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          Not sure what’s worst, getting wrongfully arrested because cop can’t do their job right or getting wrongfully killed because cop think you have a gun.

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      I’m going to guess you have a “Don’t thread on me” flag up, but also a “Thin blue line” flag at the same time?