Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?
  • FireTower FireTower 24m ago 100%

    Great question. In theory/practice you can just shut up from square one. But asserting your rights by doing so in clear unambiguous terms for is advisable. Judges understand someone saying "I wish to invoke my right against self incrimination as protected in the 5th amendment" better than the do pure silence.

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  • Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?
  • FireTower FireTower 22h ago 100%

    7th amendment applies to civil suits. Judges may when common law doesn't govern. But that's limited. And criminal defendants must consent to bench trial by not contesting any of the facts.

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  • Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?
  • FireTower FireTower 22h ago 100%

    Movies are works of fiction not law. In America if you choose to temporarily waive your right to silence and speak to police you may at any point reassert that right.

    I couldn't blame cinematographers for attempting to tell a story. But they are artists not lawyers.

    You may talk to police that way in America but any good lawyer will tell you not to because the strength of the fact that your silence can't be used against you often will offend out weigh any defense you might argue.

    When guilt must be proven absence of evidence is the defendant's friend.

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  • Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?
  • FireTower FireTower 23h ago 100%

    As an American this is an interesting comment.

    Traditional American understandings agree with the notion of innocent until proven guilty and that rights exist regardless of accusations. But here it is not a judge but a jury of your peers who decides the facts based on evidence shown to them. Here judges decide matters of law not fact.

    (Unless you choose to have a judge rule on the facts (likely because you are probably unpopular in your community because of the nature of the accusations and you feel it'd be more fair for a judge to decide the fact in your eyes))..

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  • American law outlines a series of protections for those accused of crimes but not yet convicted. (Like the 4th-6th amendments) Does your country have any unique/novel protections of the rights of potentially innocent people accused but yet to be convicted? If not are there any protections you think should be in place?

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    How come Georgism (land value tax) never caught on?
  • FireTower FireTower 1d ago 100%

    I'm not sure what an exception could look like that wouldn't swallow the rule. Maybe a requirement for a minimum of a certain sq footage of undeveloped land. But that might not work in areas where many lots have a small amount of habitat land that together forms a larger habitat.

    I think it might have merit on a municipal level in very urban areas but not on a state or national basis because of this.

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    I Think He Lied To You Guys
  • FireTower FireTower 1d ago 100%

    https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/timeline-of-trumps-covid-19-comments/

    Also snopes on the bleach thing:

    During an April 2020 media briefing, Trump did ask members of the government's coronavirus task force to look into whether disinfectants could be injected inside people to treat COVID-19. But when a reporter asked in a follow-up question whether cleaning products like bleach and isopropyl alcohol would be injected into a person, the then-president said those products would be used for sterilizing an area, not for injections.

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  • Judge slaps down Florida effort to ban abortion ad: ‘It’s the first amendment, stupid’
  • FireTower FireTower 1d ago 100%

    wild misinformation ads would be OK too...

    Yes. Because the government is not the supreme arbiter of truth. If someone wants to put out an advert saying the sky is yellow they can. Our society functions on the principle that an open market of ideas will result in the best ideas prospering while a closed market of ideas would stifle new better ideas.

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  • How come Georgism (land value tax) never caught on?
  • FireTower FireTower 1d ago 100%

    This might not be the reason but in the US a lot of land is privately owned undeveloped land. If you taxed undeveloped land you may incentivize the destruction of habitats of a lot of wildlife.

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  • Is it illegal in your country to throw the food away?
  • FireTower FireTower 1d ago 100%

    If the food pantries in your area are well stocked like they are in much of the US it's probably to ensure that homeless people are getting free non-expired food rather than free expired food.

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  • Rare copy of the US Constitution up for auction is expected to sell for millions
  • FireTower FireTower 2d ago 100%

    No need 1A speaks to that:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

    No need. America is a nation who's founder where largely of one religion but they ensured that no one religion should assert itself over others.

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  • Rare copy of the US Constitution up for auction is expected to sell for millions
  • FireTower FireTower 2d ago 100%

    And what crime passed by the federal legislature did they commit that wasn't in violation of the constitution (including BoR) in your opinion? Last I checked 1A is still there.

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  • Rare copy of the US Constitution up for auction is expected to sell for millions
  • FireTower FireTower 2d ago 100%

    I'd say pretty good. How often do you see the federal government passing a law that violates the rights of the American people? And when it does how often can you say that there isn't a constitutional violation in that law?

    Additionally you say that like we don't enjoy many rights that our global peers don't. Like the right to a trial by jury in civil matters, to confront your accusor in a criminal trial, the many strict protections we have on searches, or the protections on political speech.

    So many of the rights that document protect people take as granted. Most every violation of one of those rights can be declared to be because we have yet to enumerate that right or we haven't followed the rules the constitution imposed on our government.

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  • Rare copy of the US Constitution up for auction is expected to sell for millions
  • FireTower FireTower 2d ago 100%

    Having faith in politicians and liking a document designed to ensure the preservation of human rights & liberties are two different things.

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  • Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris
  • FireTower FireTower 4d ago 100%

    and gets updates automatically when moving.

    In any good democracy the government doesn't know where you moved to until you tell them. Hence the need.

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  • US supreme court declines to pause new federal power plant emissions rule
  • FireTower FireTower 4d ago 100%

    Or emergency stays are an extreme remedy that are unlikely to get granted. We don't need to develop conspiracy theories to explain the ordinary.

    This is just like all the articles about them not granting cert to a case. They don't grant cert to 99% of cases.

    This is a very banal matter. We shouldn't be trying to make something major of it.

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  • Logging created a checkerboard pattern in northern california...
  • FireTower FireTower 4d ago 100%

    Another replyer alluded to this but if every plant can spread its seeds X feet then by cutting like this you increase the total surface area the plants are able to spread to. Increasing the natural regrowth rate.

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  • ELI5 How did all these MAGA people get voted into congress? What did they promise they would do? and have they done it?
  • FireTower FireTower 5d ago 100%

    The MAGA movement of 2016 billed itself as an anti establishment movement. Contrasting itself from traditional Republicans and the Democratic party. It promised to "Drain the Swamp".

    Their success is indictive of a discontent with the state of the government at the time. They targeted the blue collar demographic promising stances on issues that'd help them.

    Here's a video on a county that voted Democrat from 1869-2016: https://youtu.be/yfxvHqTCy2w

    Keep in mind you came to a left leaning platform with essentially no Trump supporters and asked why do people like Trump. Listen to what they cite not just us.

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  • Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris
  • FireTower FireTower 5d ago 100%

    Up until the 1880s pretty much all Americans ballots weren't private. Some states still technically aren't private.

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  • Woman who was ‘casting spells’ arrested, cops find cooked human flesh in her home
  • FireTower FireTower 1w ago 100%

    more likely

    Now I ain't Doctor Phil. But I'm willing to say that with greater confidence than more likely. We're talking 100% bonafide cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

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  • Woman who was ‘casting spells’ arrested, cops find cooked human flesh in her home
  • FireTower FireTower 1w ago 100%

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    It is probable cause. Probable cause to go get a warrant issued to allow them to search the house. America has some very strong protections for people suspected of criminal offenses.

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    [US] National Constitution Day / Citizenship Day (Sept 17th)
    www.whitehouse.gov

    >To honor the timeless principles enshrined in our Constitution, the Congress has, by joint resolution of February 29, 1952 (36 U.S.C. 106), designated September 17 as “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day” and authorized the President to issue a proclamation calling on United States officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day. By joint resolution of August 2, 1956 (36 U.S.C. 108), the Congress further requested that the President proclaim the week beginning September 17 and ending September 23 of each year as “Constitution Week.” >NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 17, 2024, as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and September 17 through September 23 as Constitution Week. On this day and during this week, we celebrate our Constitution and the rights of citizenship that we enjoy together as the proud people of this Nation.

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    www.abc.net.au

    >... Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum on August 25 after three people wearing balaclavas allegedly stole 27 handguns worth an estimated $200,000.

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    https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/massachusetts-high-court-strikes-down-switchblade-ban-2024-08-27/

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19239048 > >The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. > > >The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

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    Law FireTower 2mo ago 96%
    Massachusetts high court strikes down switchblade ban
    https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/massachusetts-high-court-strikes-down-switchblade-ban-2024-08-27/

    >The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. >The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

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    This 5 shot 7.62 caliber double action revolver is actually suppressed by its unique cartridge design. ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fec37f121-d6d5-4ce3-a8a8-d5fc1ed4212c.jpeg) When fired expanding gases from the gunpowder pushed a plug forward which inturn pushed the liquid solution (60% alcohol 40% glycerol). This incompressible solution pushed on the bullet to launch it out of the revolver's barrel. The gases were contained in the cartridge preventing the typical sound report of a gunshot. And the liquid would follow the subsonic bullet out of the barrel as well. https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Gurevich_silent_revolver

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    Law FireTower 2mo ago 100%
    El Paso settles DOJ lawsuit after 176 soldiers' vehicles improperly auctioned
    www.elpasotimes.com
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    https://youtu.be/-b5nkML8idE

    Had this pop up in my YouTube feed less than 2k views on it but thought people here might be interested. (She talks more in the stream than she did in the game)

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    This Chinese production C96 Broomhandle pistol is found in the collection of the UK's Royal Armouries. Curator Jonathan Ferguson showed it off recently in [this video](https://youtu.be/Rmue3jeYLCc) briefly. It notably the word pistol engraved on the side where it should say Mauser. Just in case you couldn't tell I suppose.

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    https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/benelli-introduce-new-rifle-as-solution-against-uav-during-battle While it seems to lack any really novel new features it definitely is interesting seeing major manufacturers pivoting with FPV drones taking over the modern battlefield.

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    >The first repeating rifle used in combat by a military force was a flintlock system developed by the Kalthoff brothers. It was adopted in the 1640s by the Danish Royal Guard, who purchased a bit more than 100 of the guns, and used them successfully in the Siege of Copenhagen in 1659. The Kalthoff is a .54 caliber flintlock rifle with a magazine of 30 balls under the barrel and a powder storage compartment in the buttstock. A lever under the action is rotated forward 180 degrees and then back to completely reload the rifle – this action loads a ball into the chamber, seats it fully in place, loads powder behind it, primes the pan, cocks the hammer, and closes the frizzen. This was an amazing amount of firepower in the mid-1600s, and the mechanism in the gun is brilliant. >The Kalthoff brothers (Peter, Mathias, Caspar, Henrik, and William) spread out across Europe working for many royal courts although it was in Denmark where their gun saw the most substantial military use. The system would lead to other repeating flintlock designs like the Lorenzoni, but these did not really meet the quality of the original Kalthoffs (in my opinion). However, the system was very expensive to make and rather fragile to use. By 1696 the Danes had taken them out of service in favor of simpler and more durable designs. https://youtu.be/ghKrbNpqQoY

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    jalopnik.com

    >As one Subaru Crosstrek owner recently learned the hard way, it bears repeating that all-wheel drive is not the same as four-wheel drive. A Subie owner posted a warning letter they received a month after driving on Colorado River Overlook Road in Canyonlands National Park to the r/NationalPark subreddit. The letter notes that this particular road is restricted to 4WD vehicles only, and the Crosstrek is equipped with AWD, not 4WD. It also warns that they may face serious consequences if they’re caught taking an AWD car on a 4WD-only trail again.

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    School-House Rock ignored it too

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