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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/14/brazil-open-indigenous-reserves-mining-without-indigenous-consent?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR0KLj3KmlyCguIIAuJkNGb5xOluRcl1JsTZB2ZykU5ZIYxkJ2ydXXSnxQ4

[josh]

https://bookriot.com/2019/03/19/florida-bill-would-make-banning-books-easier/

And allow librarians and teachers to be punished for recommending to kids books that the community thinks are inappropriate.

[josh]

https://www.newsweek.com/kids-and-guns-alarming-rise-firearm-deaths-among-american-children-1370866

More children were shot to death in 2017 in the US than police in the line of duty and active duty US military - two to one.

[kiidcarter8]

User error.

Or do you think they shouldnt check the passport photos at all?  Just that the age matches?  Though even that could trip up an agent - as some kids look older/younger that their real age.

This US citizen lives in Tijuana and goes to school in US?  I didnt get this part.

Do you truly not get the difference between checking passports and keeping the kids for 36 hours and hectoring one of them until he signs a "confession" that his sister is not his sister?

USER (the border security)

ERROR (he/she got it wrong)

But you have to have an alternative -

How would you like this handled (when photos seemingly do not match)?  And what can of worms might that open?

Maybe you want no check points at all.  Just say so.

[whiskeypriest]

User error.

Or do you think they shouldnt check the passport photos at all?  Just that the age matches?  Though even that could trip up an agent - as some kids look older/younger that their real age.

This US citizen lives in Tijuana and goes to school in US?  I didnt get this part.

Do you truly not get the difference between checking passports and keeping the kids for 36 hours and hectoring one of them until he signs a "confession" that his sister is not his sister?

You would make a fine storm trooper.

Not A US citizen, Kiiid, but two US citizens.

Their (the brother's and sister's) mother is not a US citizen. They live with their mother. They go to a Catholic school in the United States.

It's terribly complicated.

Well, kid is always a knee jerk supporter of authority. There is no end to the sacrifice of liberties he is willing to have others endure so that he can feel safe.

[barton]

LOL at your third option on the new poll, Josh.

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/BlazeTV/status/1108858324089532416

I will await the predictable response.

[kiidcarter8]

https://bookriot.com/2019/03/19/florida-bill-would-make-banning-books-easier/

And allow librarians and teachers to be punished for recommending to kids books that the community thinks are inappropriate.

Oh.......poor Toni Morrison.  How unfair!

[Yankguy1]

I assume they're gonna have a nice big fire to burn all those books!!!!!

[LarryBnDC]

https://twitter.com/BlazeTV/status/1108858324089532416

I will await the predictable response.

His son’s death is tragic and what those people did was unconscionable and a symptom of this terrible political climate... unfortunately a lot of the venom in this political culture can be laid at his own feet.

Galatians 6:7

[LarryBnDC]

https://bookriot.com/2019/03/19/florida-bill-would-make-banning-books-easier/

And allow librarians and teachers to be punished for recommending to kids books that the community thinks are inappropriate.

Oh.......poor Toni Morrison.  How unfair!

What, no love for Frank McCourt?

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/politics/republican-senators-john-mccain/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNNp&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-03-21T22%3A40%3A04

The GOP members of Congress are overall a bunch of gutless wonders. They have the cowardice of their convictions. I'm not a big John McCain fan, but Trump's attacks on him are stupidly vicious, as well as both lies and pointless.

Trump is feuding with a dead man. It makes the old Bush v. Murphy Brown battle seem logical.

Where are the AOC quotes on McCain?

[facilitatorn]

It takes a minute to have enough tape to clearly show Eric forfeited the right to ask to be treated civilly. He’s more or less a professional slanderer for the mob.

Kid is willing to trade noise for principles every time, mainly beachside he is allergic to principles.

[kiidcarter8]

Now this is nice -

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/politics/republican-senators-john-mccain/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNNp&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-03-21T22%3A40%3A04

Thanks for the link.

[josh]

User error.

Or do you think they shouldnt check the passport photos at all?  Just that the age matches?  Though even that could trip up an agent - as some kids look older/younger that their real age.

This US citizen lives in Tijuana and goes to school in US?  I didnt get this part.

Do you truly not get the difference between checking passports and keeping the kids for 36 hours and hectoring one of them until he signs a "confession" that his sister is not his sister?

USER (the border security)

ERROR (he/she got it wrong)

But you have to have an alternative -

How would you like this handled (when photos seemingly do not match)?  And what can of worms might that open?

Maybe you want no check points at all.  Just say so.

When the photos don't match, assuming that they don't (which is undemonstrated in this case), I would like them to try a variety of options:

a) CONTACT THE (alleged) SCHOOL. If the kid is regularly at the school and the NINE year old they have matches the one the school is expecting, let the kid go to school!

b) CONTACT THE (alleged) PARENT. The parent may be able to provide the evidence that this child is who she says she is.

c) DNA test of the child and the (alleged) sibling. If they are siblings, the test will show that.

Kiiid, you say "user error" (and expect me to know what you mean by that), as if this is not an institutional problem. It is not just the person who stopped her, but whomever made the decision to keep her for 36 hours and whomever pressured the big brother to rat on her in what likely would not have been admissible interrogation to start with.

This is not ONE individual who screwed up. This was a problem by multiple people and we have no idea how often they do it.