#hellscape

The year is 2025. You’re in the movie theater watching Back to the Future IV. Mystical, twinkling music plays as some snot-nosed twerp climactically pulls a dusty tarp off of a Delorean in their grandfather’s old shed. Dramatically lit shots of aviators, orange vest, and Calvin Klein underwear. Down tempo Alan Silvestri theme swells. 40-year old men wearing “Re-elect Mayor Goldie Wilson” shirts whooping during the scene where CGI de-aged Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd step out from the shadows. The sounds of a man in the back of the theater lighting himself on fire. That man is me. Einstein is on a hoverboard.

dirtypuzzle:

dirtypuzzle:

if you want some rage fuel read the DeShaney v. Winnebago County Social Services case from 1989 where it’s established that the police and social workers have no duty to anyone. the case is about a 4 y/o boy who was being abused by his father, who had custody of him, and even after a complaint from his ex-wife, multiple ER visits and ER doctor complaints, 20 social worker visits where the worker noted “bumps, bruises, and lacerations,” and the father not enrolling his kid for school when required, no action was taken. the worker even said she feared for the kid’s life, but didn’t do anything to remove him from the home, and just a day after that, the father beat the kid so badly he was put into a coma and spent the rest of his life afterward in an institution. the majority opinion for the case when the kid’s mother sued under the 14th Amendment was that the 14th Amendment only protects individuals from the state, and the state has no obligation to protect people from each other, even in cases where the person cannot protect themselves, like in the case of a child being abused by a legal guardian/parent. this is why cops don’t have to do shit for you, btw. nor does social services. if the profession does not have internal ethics requirements, you are SOL.

NOPE. take it back. rage fuel is Castle Rock v. Gonzalez (2005). follow-up on the same logic as DeShaney goes thusly:

• battered wife asks for restraining order against abusive husband and it’s granted
• husband then kidnaps her three kids, which she knows for certain bc he confirms it over the phone to her
• she goes to the cops and asks them to get her kids back bc, ya know, restraining order for DV
• cops say they can’t do anything and to wait until 10pm to see if he brings the kids back. he doesn’t. she asks again at 10pm, they say wait until midnight. finally cops take the report at midnight and then go to dinner.
  
• a few hours later, husband shows up at the police station and opens fire. cops shoot him dead, and they go out into the parking lot to search his truck. three daughters are dead in the back.
  

10th Circuit Appeals say that the wife had a vested “property interest” via the restraining order (property referring to her children) that the police violated by not acting when she asked them to. (don’t get me started on that or we’ll be here all day.) SCOTUS reverses this decision and the majority opinion from Scalia is that, just because a restraining order is Colorado law for DV situations doesn’t mean the police have to act on it. otherwise stated: the restraining order provides the grounds for arrest, but does not force the police to actually conduct the arrest.

and you know what that means? that means that it is legitimate case law in the united states that says the cops are not required to do their jobs. they can do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t violate the very narrow set of constitutional no-nos that have been litigated over the years.

yeah. that’s how you get an uvalde.

xlxxifer:

i haven’t opened obey me in months and honestly im afraid to do so at this point

i did it and it is a hellscape in there