That judge SERIOUSLY does not want all 500 people sent to his court immediately.
The cops have a sense of humor about that.
They seriously will send him all 500 at once.
He does have to review the cases individually.

No, he doesn't have to review the cases or even see one of the prisoners. The issue this judge is dealing with is the detention of all the prisoners, not the indviduals.

when the two come in conflict, order overrides law. the police have the weapons, the courts don't. the police likely have support from higher ups, the courts don't.

Good call Justin. Gotta love given it bback to them.

Ouch, Mr. Las and Order - guns outweight the rule of law? Please go back to the wild west and peddle your frontier justice there. Either there or some fascist country (that isn't this one.)

Judge's order was not to arraign all 500 people, it was to release them outright if they could not be arraigned in a timely manner (by the deadline.)

uitthe courts ARE higher up than the police... they make (interpret) the law, the police enforce them. the courts could technically call in the national guard to force the police to free the prisoners (just as the guards were used against the Southern police during desegregation).

What was the name of the judge or courtroom involved?

The philosophy of selling war in a free market economy.

The market is saturated .

I opened a restaurant. It is my duty to my workers to advertise, to build loyal customers, to sell food. The food must be appetizing, be necessary, must be sellable.

I opened a weapons manufacturing plant. It is my duty to advertise, to build loyal customers, to sell weapons. The weapons must be necessary, palatable, must be sellable. It must be seen as appetizing.

If profits decline we must work to build them up otherwise we might go under. It is my duty to my workers, to the people that we employ that jobs remain open.

Under capitalism we will never be free of war. We can not make laws to get rid of it, we can not fight wars to end wars, because weapons are not tools. Weapons are simply an advertisement, a corporation that needs profits, that needs wars. Without this market many government leaders would lose their major source of income. Hell, they would lose their government. Government is simply an abdication of personal responsibility to another. Governments that flourish under free market economy’s all have one thing in common. The trade and manufacturing of weapons.

It is not shocking that war has to have advertisers, that war needs humanitarian disguises. But war is simply profit. War is only a job. War has no ideology except class, caste, and death. War is built on the backs of the poor and only kills the poor. War is not Haiti or Guatemala, or Columbia. It is Lockheed Martin. It is Carlyle Group. It is Bush, it is Bin Laden, it is the rich laughing as they decimate the poor in undisguised attempts of contempt. War is not a party affiliated activity, war is not Government or lack thereof but war is the weapon manufactures themselves. It is those who profit when war takes place. It is those who build weapons to end war.

Maoists do not end war, republicans, democrats, communists, socialists do not end wars. Tax payers do not end wars. Wars are not inevitable. Wars are not solvable. Wars are simply an economic commodity much like sugar, gold, or diamonds.

As long as we toast to capitalism we will toast to the supply and demand of weapons. We will raise a glass to the heroes who designed the AK-47, to the Einstein’s who were “shocked†they were in a secret lab building nuclear bombs. As long as we commend the great works nostalgically of the great weapons being designed and released we will insure that capital is supplied and demanded.

This is the Capital of the Government. Governments have no other capital. They are the ones who own the guns, bombs, and release the death upon which the masses of the poor exhume themselves. There is no Washington. Fundamentally it is not a state. It is simply a wall street, an open market of bidding done by those who wish to have symbolic elections. Symbolic velvet gloves. A place were they can hold fancy dinners at the people’s expense as they create one advertising scheme after another. One more campaign to raise funds for one more weapons manufacture.

The people are exhausting. Though we petition them, and are most often, jailed by ourselves, killed by ourselves, exhumed on false egalitarian promises, and easily delude ourselves, we have become too many, and are now exhausting them too much. So the pretenses are slowly eroding. The Patriot Act already existed. It doesn’t need to be passed to be acted upon daily or to be upheld.

We do not have lawmakers who create laws, we have lawmakers who create advertisements for select companies. Promises of riches, equality, of free speech abound.

The board of directors elected their President in the year 2000. They elected to kill the stock market and let Washington regulate it. They now ask that you die not in effigy of government but in suicide mission to show loyalty to the fine corporations who now control you in capitalism. You have their logo’s on, your children work for them, are educated by them, are owned by them. Your families pay their wages, and these wages of death are greatly appreciated by them. They appreciate having the finest things available. They appreciate you. But they can not be bothered to attend your funerals when you die for their business ventures. You did what you were told. It is to be expected. You did not do anything extraordinary. You simply went to work. You built the product, were the product, were consumed by the products of death. There is no sorrow you have died. There is no remorse. It was simply a tool of capitalism, a part of economics and if you were too stupid to see it then why should I attend your funeral. I will exalt your death. It is commendable to look at how will our advertising campaign went.

American politicians, those great board of directors have elected their own leader. We did not have elections in 2000 but that is no reason to end the war machine or “buck the system.†It is nice that we have lives. We should be grateful that the system has not taken ours, we should be grateful that the corporations allow us illusions.

I was an Irish indentured servant but the indenturement never ended when the corporation followed us to Oregon. They simply made us equal slaves when they made the corporations have equal rights to me. The only non slaves in America---

So let us elect a new corporation in 2004. This time let Bechtel instead of Halliburton take office. Let it not be Haiti or Guatemala but let it be Nepal and Korea in 2004-2008. Let the elections be exciting. After all they are the build up to releasing the new product!!!

the courts ARE higher up than the police... they make (interpret) the law, the police enforce them.

Yes, and in USA, you have the right to peaceably assemble and express your views free of coercion from the gov't. (What's wrong with this picture?)

The big dirty secret is the courts power exists only when its directives are executed by the executive branch. Its a tad more complicated than that (because the courts can keep going to higher executive authorities to enforce mandates), but the bottom line is that if the executive branch does not act upon the courts mandates, the court can't do squat. The reason why the executive branch does act on the court mandates is that to not to do so destroys the legal foundation of the executive branch's powers. Gov't becomes a despotic tyranny, where "law" is arbitrarily enforced by who has greater juice at the moment. Any executive with the slightest clue would not dare open up Pandora's box.

What is really disturbing is that we may be seeing the beginning of the dissolution of our republican gov't as we know it.

the courts could technically call in the national guard to force the police to free the prisoners (just as the guards were used against the Southern police during desegregation)

No, they cannot. The National Guard answers to the Governor (and I believe the federal gov't). The Governor acts upon the mandate issued from the judiciary branch. If the governor does not chose to do so, the state court can't do squat, except excalate the issue to the federal gov't. (On the other hand, I'm not familiar with the NYS constitution, so perhaps the mechanism is slightly different there.)

I was curious how it feels to be responsible for all the lost money going to the police and authorities instead of to the homeless, sick, and truly needy. Do you realize how many people could be fed for the costs associated with just one arrest, let alone thousands. Why are you people so hypocritical? Why are you not taking the money you have all spent on your expensive toys, like camcorders, cameras, $3000 bicycles, hotel rooms, airline tickets, and so on, and not doing something truly beneficial with it? Why are you protesting the system that gives you the right to protest? Do you not realize that you could all very well be machine gunned in many, many, other countries around the world for what you are doing? And yet you claim to be "opressed"? Your hypocrisy is self incrimidating and shows you for the shallow bunch of self centered spoiled brats that you are.

Hey cool, you keep cutting and pasting the same comment in every thread.

I guess those Video Professor tapes are working for you now that you've mastered Windows Cut and Paste.

your tax dollars at work, jeez!

Remember these Republican views on how force and the courts relate to each other the next time you hear one of them (likely Shrub) going off on how we are a Nation of Laws.

Hypocracy R Us, -- the R is for Republican

I was curious how it feels to be responsible for all the lost money going to the police and authorities instead of to the homeless, sick, and truly needy.

We're protesting against Republicans. None of that lost money would have gone to the homeless, sick & truly needy anyway.

Do you realize how many people could be fed for the costs associated with just one arrest, let alone thousands.

Again, that money would not be feeding thousands. It would be shipping more heroic Americans with their ordinance to die in Iraq. I feel good we've forced GWB to spend that money domestically.

Why are you people so hypocritical?

Hi Pot, meet Kettle.

Why are you not taking the money you have all spent on your expensive toys, like camcorders, cameras, $3000 bicycles, hotel rooms, airline tickets, and so on, and not doing something truly beneficial with it?

Why did Jesus allow Mary apply all those expensive spices when they could have been spent on the poor? Judas?

Why are you protesting the system that gives you the right to protest?

Because this nation's forefathers believed dissent was a crucial component to having a free society. We're fighting for democracy. Rights aren't "given" by the gov't. They are taken by the governed.

Do you not realize that you could all very well be machine gunned in many, many, other countries around the world for what you are doing?

Yes, but then we would have the right to fire back. Ask any Iraqi.

And yet you claim to be "opressed"?

The Constitution enumerates specifically the right to peacably assemble and express opinion without harrassment from the gov't. When a thousand people are imprisoned for acting according to their rights, that is being oppressed.

Your hypocrisy is self incrimidating and shows you for the shallow bunch of self centered spoiled brats that you are.

You are a useless piece of crap who has no clue of the philosophical basis of this country's system of gov't, or what is required by it. Go be a "good" German.

(No offense to those Germans ancestry, but I'm sure you know where that reference comes from.)

The posting starting with:
I was curious..... is a site troll. The same posting is appearing on other articles.

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