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Jeff Sessions Takes a Stand for Debtors’ Prisons
COMMON DREAMS | 29 DECEMBER 2017 | Nusrat Choudhury

Posted on 12/29/2017 3:50:24 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/12/29/jeff-sessions-takes-stand-debtors-prisons


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: progressives
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1 posted on 12/29/2017 3:50:24 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

the leaders of a country with $20 TRILLION in debt should not start suggesting prison for those that run up a debt they cannot pay


2 posted on 12/29/2017 3:54:58 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

This guy is a total prick.


3 posted on 12/29/2017 3:57:44 PM PST by The Cuban
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They have debtors prisons now — for unemployed and legally unsophisticated guys who are behind on child support payments that have a disguised alimony component.


4 posted on 12/29/2017 3:58:07 PM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What about prison for TRAITORS such as Hillary, Obama, Jarrett, Comey, Jeh Johnson, Wasserman-Schultz, Huma, Holder, Power, Mills, Clapper, Lynch, Rice, Brennan, Rosenstein, Stzork, McCain, McCabe, etc?


5 posted on 12/29/2017 4:00:13 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Have they no prison? Are there no workhouses” - Ebenezer Scrooge


6 posted on 12/29/2017 4:01:35 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: sten

They do it where I live. They throw you in jail if you can’t pay your court fees, your traffic tickets or child support.


7 posted on 12/29/2017 4:04:09 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I wonder if anybody is going to read the article, or just make a comment to show off their Sessions Derangement Syndrome.


8 posted on 12/29/2017 4:04:20 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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If you can’t pay, you should face the consequences. Credit rating downgrade is simply not enough, because the taxpayers end up footing their bills. Time to have more severe punishment.


9 posted on 12/29/2017 4:06:27 PM PST by sagar
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To: CivilWarBrewing

There are no prisons for the privileged class.


10 posted on 12/29/2017 4:06:46 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Moonman62

The article is a hit piece on Sessions. All he wants to do is institute a fair system where a fine is a fine that needs to be paid... just because you’re poor, it does not mean you are free to ignore the law.


11 posted on 12/29/2017 4:09:25 PM PST by sagar
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I hope Trump fires him and Rosenstein. Washington is not drained/cleaned up.


12 posted on 12/29/2017 4:11:17 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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What about prison for TRAITORS such as Hillary, Obama, Jarrett, Comey, Jeh Johnson, Wasserman-Schultz, Huma, Holder, Power, Mills, Clapper, Lynch, Rice, Brennan, Rosenstein, Stzork, McCain, McCabe, etc?

Sessions doesn't care about them. That's considered making money, dirty or not. Like so many Senators he may be in on the cut.

13 posted on 12/29/2017 4:11:29 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: Moonman62

“I wonder if anybody is going to read the article, or just make a comment to show off their Sessions Derangement Syndrome.”

If you equate not supporting debtor prisons with “Sessions Derangement Syndrome”, I think you’ll find that most of the country has had a case of it for at least 100 years or so.


14 posted on 12/29/2017 4:11:44 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Moonman62

Thats the only reason I opened it. SDS is real and I love seeing the nutbags on it.


15 posted on 12/29/2017 4:12:57 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyedigress; Moonman62

Sessions was one of my top 5, maybe top 3 Senators until not that long ago. His attempt at being the part time Attorney General, and admitted lack of support to get a Republican into his former seat, have both been unmitigated disasters.

If Sessions Derangement Syndrome is such is thing, it’s afflicting those that are still supporting him despite these obvious failures.


16 posted on 12/29/2017 4:18:41 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: LouieFisk

If you equate not supporting debtor prisons with “Sessions Derangement Syndrome”, I think you’ll find that most of the country has had a case of it for at least 100 years or so.

...

There’s one who didn’t read the article.


17 posted on 12/29/2017 4:21:33 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: sten
the leaders of a country with $20 TRILLION in debt should not start suggesting prison for those that run up a debt they cannot pay

I once sarcastically suggested indentured servitude for members of Congress in payment of the national debt...

18 posted on 12/29/2017 4:21:41 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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I am curious, who are you comparing him to?


19 posted on 12/29/2017 4:31:27 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Moonman62

“There’s one who didn’t read the article.”

Actually, since you have some bizarre notion the article supports debtors prisons and praises Sessions for backing them, it would seem that you are the illiterate one in this thread.

But there is help for those suffering from a total lack of reading comprehension; I’ll give a direct quote from the article, as kind of a “Cliff Notes” helper. I hope it’s not too difficult for you:
“There is no place in this country for a justice system that lets rich people buy their freedom while poor people are locked up”

But good luck with that reading comprehension issue. Cheers!


20 posted on 12/29/2017 4:31:55 PM PST by LouieFisk
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