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First Epidemic of VOTER FRAUD Already Reported In Nevada!!!

She's so nice she voted twice! http://latestbloomer.uskoa.com/?p=1792

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Moose attacks Guy - Video

Man with camera is chased by a moose causing him to drop his camera. Kinda funny.... more

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No criminal charges will be filed against Cincinnati District 4 police after dog died in their custody

On Friday, July 6 it was reported that a dog died while tied up to a pole outside... more

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Sandusky Verdicts Follow The Tempest, Yet Gale Winds Still Howl

Tempest http://mytinyspot.blogspot.com/2012/06/sandusky-verdicts-follow-tempest-yet.html

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[06-21-2012, as Sandusky jury deliberates] Here's Sports Illustrated's 1999 Profile Of Jerry Sandusky & Its 2011 “Rewind” ~ They Will Say ANYTHING!

Major Revision 101

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Jerry Sandusky's Fate Now With Jury After Mother Teresa Appears In Defense Closing Arguments ~

Yup, Mother Teresa, no joke.

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GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT

MY COUSIN ANTHONY SHEPHERD SITS FOR 10 MONTHS IN FRESNO CO JAIL WAITING FOR HIS SECOND... more

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Rewritten Headlines: Bank of America to Two Faced Cat

Tony D rewrites today's headlines so you don't have to read the news!

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Indonesia sex tape star is jailed

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Bruno Mars agrees to plea in drug case; dodges jail time

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Mexican actress pleads guilty in fake marriage case

Mexican actress Fernanda Romero has pleaded guilty to charges of lying to federal... more

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Son of Pink Floyd guitarist charged with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg

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China's dark side: Body fishing job

Wei Jinpeng is a fisher of dead people. He scans the river about 18 miles from... more

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Jennifer Mee, the ‘Hiccup’ girl faces murder charges in Florida!

Jennifer Mee gained national recognition back in year 2007 as the girl ‘who... more

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French court has Google in the dock

Google has been ordered to pay 5,000 euros (£4253) in libel damages to a man who... more

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LA CORRUPCION en BELL CALIFORNIA!- Bell City Corruption Ran Deep

Al menos ocho funcionarios de la ciudad de Bell fueron arrestados hoy por la... more

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British and Canadian soldiers accused of smuggling heroin from Afghanistan

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Woman who dumped cat in bin apologises and/or thought it was funny.

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Blago Verdict: The Jury deadlocked on 23 out of 24 charges

The Blago verdict includes the one most serious charge – the attempt to sell the... more

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Owe Money? Be Careful, or You Might End Up in Jail | | AlterNet

Owing money is not a criminal offense in the USA. But big business has found a way to end-run this process.
June 19, 2010 |

Reports of mild-mannered Americans getting arrested for being in debt are starting to pop up in states across the country. All over the Net, we've been reading about these poor saps snatched off the street — right in front of their horrified children — by glowering cops and locked up just for missing a few credit card payments.

Right, but they're not. They can't. In this country, owing money is not a criminal offense. It is in Dubai, where nearly half of the prison population is behind bars for defaulting on bank loans. But in the United States, incarceration for debt was abolished in 1833, and now debt itself is a mere civil matter. Sure, collection agencies want you to think the FBI cares whether or not you pay that Nordstrom bill. But they risk losing their licenses for so much as implying this, thanks to the U.S. Fair Trade Commission's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, in effect since 1966.

Read between the lines and you'll see that these debtors weren't arrested for being debtors but — in most cases — for missing court dates for negotiating their debts.

Incur debt and your creditor can call you, write you, hire a collection agency and finally sue you. At that point a subpoena, delivered via process server or registered mail, announces that you're now a defendant, your creditor a plaintiff. This subpoena lists a date and time at which you are ordered to appear before a judge in civil court "to disclose your assets and liabilities and determine how this defendant is going to pay this plaintiff," explains Will Lund, superintendent of Maine's Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection, which enforces the FDCA and licenses collection agencies.

"Attendance by the defendant is mandatory. To ensure that it's mandatory, a subpoena is involved. To not show up is not dissing the plaintiff. It's dissing the court," Lund says. "It's contempt of court, and that can lead to arrest."

Most debtors don't realize that ignoring the summons means crossing that line, exiting the stressful but safe realm of owing money and entering the stark realm of mugshots and body searches and jail-issued sandwiches eaten among robbers and arsonists. This transit happens when a judge signs a capias, a civil warrant for arrest on the basis of failure to appear in court.

"If you've got a capias against you for failure to appear, you could be arrested if you're stopped by the police," affirms Katherine Martell of Fairfax, Virginia-based K&M Law Group, which specializes in debt restructuring and debt recovery. "That's not the same as snatching people off the street for not paying debts."

The frequency of such arrests, and law-enforcement officers' eagerness to make them, vary from county to county and state to state, but given the severity of other crimes that cops have to deal with, this one is always low priority.

"It's not like a roundup where the police say, 'Hey, we're gonna go out and pick up all the debtors today," says attorney Marshall Meyers of Phoeniz, Arizona-based Weisberg & Meyers. "But if you get pulled over for a traffic ticket, say, and you've got a warrant for failure to appear in court, they can bring you in."Owing money is not a criminal offense in the USA. But big business has found a way to... more

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