There are many other conditions that can be set to prevent someone leaving the country. You’re either being wilfully ignorant or, like I said before, acting in bad faith.
Barlow said the court appearance notice was sent to the actor’s P.O. Box rather than his address on file, and due to being sick with COVID-19, he did not check it in time for the appearance.
He missed one court date, and the opposing counsel or the court used a different from standard mailing method.
And he’s a rich dude doing charity work, and he had a project he was on his way to. Hardly “fleeing”
As a single father, I never missed a child support payment, even before it was court ordered, even when I lost my job. When I got a better job I renegotiated and paid more.
But child support is only a necessity because our country would rather sustain a class of parasitic “owners” who have to make greater profits year after year. The courts are part of this apparatus that steals value from all workers. Another part of the apparatus is carcerial punishment. Another, systematic racism. All are intrinsically connected.
He is forced to pay child support and then incarcerated when he doesn’t. Because of artificial scarcity, our politicians would rather transfer money to wealthy donors by sending weapons that arm a genocide than to make sure children are properly taken care of with healthcare, education, safe and abundant living conditions. This necessity is enforced by the violence of a legal cartel, and that violence is used against BIPOC workers at much higher rates of than on white workers.
The individual conditions are often more specific and contradictory. For example, Mr. McCrary was a child celebrity and perhaps was somewhat wealthy himself. But he was still a worker, albeit a creative one, whose creative work generated millions and millions in profits, more than enough to support his children but instead are gobbled up in the coffers of TV execs, reinvested to make millions and millions more in interest, rinse and repeat.
Yet this racist, barbaric system is so well tuned to alienate and destroy people’s innate humanity, that it generates suckers who defend it endlessly, asking bad faith questions ad nauseum like some snot nose second string junior varsity debate club dingleberry
The system of violence and incarceration affects black people much more than it affects non-blacks. From experience, when we buy the framing that the system is fair and equal, then we distance ourselves from the reality of violence and incarceration that has plagued BIPOC communities for hundreds of years of this continent.
If we fail to frame the issue in light of systematic injustice, then we are lost in illusion and idealistic alienation
That’s incredibly bad faith. How do you define crime? So if a law is passed that says its illegal to be homeless (another systematic consequence that marginalizes a growing number of people), well now crime has increased in the city because a new category of illegality has been introduced.
Veterans are more affected by homelessness than other demographics, and are now being targeted for violent incarceration because of a made up crime. Police departments get more funding as crime “increases,” even though what has been scientifically proven to actually help eliminate homelessness among veterans, would be to get them some money, housing, food, mental health care, and social support.
Except it’s cheaper to buy cops and prison cells than it is to help people, which means a higher percentage of the profits earned from exploiting workers like you go to landlords and mass murder. And those cops and prison cells are used disproportionately to harm black communities. It all comes back around.
But of course those homeless veterans committed a crime so you don’t have to think about that.
Racism is just one way that the system convinces you to sell out your neighbors and accept worsening conditions than you deserve. You sell out your communities for the right to fight over scraps. It’s myopic and small minded to reduce all social problems to personal responsibility, when the rich are clearly conspiring against you and other workers, especially black workers.
You’ll eat shit, as long as it is a larger bowl than those whose oppression you ignore. You reduce the plight of others to personal responsibility because that’s what fear and alienation does to people.
You’re like the poor rural white worker who flies a confederate rebel flag, clinging to delusion rather than reality. Slave owning confederate planters only ever made white workers poor and disenfranchised, sent whites to die in a brutal war because we were worth less to them than their black property.
Made to hate yourself, you displace that hate onto others. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and you’ll keep happily playing your part. I hope you are able to change and see things for what they are, rather than make excuses for a system that hates and exploits you. Hopefully you’ll never be in a position where you need help but your very existence warrants constant investigation and incarceration. but looking at the world today, I don’t really like our odds.
I think I saw another comment where someone was talking about their favorite flavour of ice cream instead of about racism in America – shouldn’t you be recentering the conversation on that? I’m sure you can string together a coherent take about how the ice cream industry is racist.
My goal isnt to string together a coherent idealist take, it is to find material oppression that actually harm people, and meet people there in the fight against oppression that affects us both. I dont always succeed, but I try very hard and dedicate a lot of time and energy talking to people and learning from their experiences rather than putting others in a box.
My take on the ice cream industry is that the largest companies should be publicly owned and the profits redistributed to the public good, including reparations for historic victims of slavery, targeted racial violence and disenfranchisement, because not doing so is an affront to my own freedom, and to everyone’s freedom, except a wealthy few.
But honestly most grocery store foods are owned by only 2 companies who have incentives to make food worse and more expensive so they can increase their own profits. In the mean time, we get sicker.
You seem more preoccupied with racism than I am. I just want people to have a fair shot at a good life. A lot of the arguments you are making sound to me like someone who doesn’t think they can get ahead without some cop taking out others. Your own views are proof of the violence I am referring to, as your arguments are a textbook example of how people act when they feel threatened. If there wasn’t a worse prison to place others in, you might see your own conditions as a prison and try to escape them. I’m just trying to help you see the cage we are all in, and the reasons we are in it.
Maybe that’s futile, but I’m an optimist in that way
no i’m clearly saying that the us will arrest black men for the “crime” of existing while black
Skipping court after failing to pay child support = existing while black?
Wow, you’re really trying to be as bad faith as possible, aren’t you?
I’m confused here tbh.
He had unpaid child support, missed a court appearance and was arrested leaving the country.
Ostensibly he was fleeing repercussions.
Jail is kinda wild but if he is a flight risk ( eg: he was caught heading to another country ) then detention might be proper.
Idk what the color of his skin has to do with anything here.
Just trying to see if
youthey actually read the article or are just virtue-signalingDo you think he should be held without bail for his crimes?
Do people trying to flee the country typically get bail?
There are many other conditions that can be set to prevent someone leaving the country. You’re either being wilfully ignorant or, like I said before, acting in bad faith.
Okay, but do people who skip court and try to flee the country typically get bail or not?
This comment thread started about the US having issues with this. In the US, pawbably not. In other countries, pawbably yes.
He missed one court date, and the opposing counsel or the court used a different from standard mailing method.
And he’s a rich dude doing charity work, and he had a project he was on his way to. Hardly “fleeing”
Edit https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/darius-mccrary-net-worth/
Oh he is not rich
So he was sent his court appearance, didn’t appear, and tried to leave the country.
Do you genuinely think anyone else would have been given bail under those circumstances?
Well yeah, part of bail is assessing flight risk. Just taking a vacation somewhere isn’t a flight risk. He has a good reason service was not proper.
As a single father, I never missed a child support payment, even before it was court ordered, even when I lost my job. When I got a better job I renegotiated and paid more.
But child support is only a necessity because our country would rather sustain a class of parasitic “owners” who have to make greater profits year after year. The courts are part of this apparatus that steals value from all workers. Another part of the apparatus is carcerial punishment. Another, systematic racism. All are intrinsically connected.
He is forced to pay child support and then incarcerated when he doesn’t. Because of artificial scarcity, our politicians would rather transfer money to wealthy donors by sending weapons that arm a genocide than to make sure children are properly taken care of with healthcare, education, safe and abundant living conditions. This necessity is enforced by the violence of a legal cartel, and that violence is used against BIPOC workers at much higher rates of than on white workers.
The individual conditions are often more specific and contradictory. For example, Mr. McCrary was a child celebrity and perhaps was somewhat wealthy himself. But he was still a worker, albeit a creative one, whose creative work generated millions and millions in profits, more than enough to support his children but instead are gobbled up in the coffers of TV execs, reinvested to make millions and millions more in interest, rinse and repeat.
Yet this racist, barbaric system is so well tuned to alienate and destroy people’s innate humanity, that it generates suckers who defend it endlessly, asking bad faith questions ad nauseum like some snot nose second string junior varsity debate club dingleberry
Correct. Not for merely existing as a black person.
We don’t need to knee-jerk and make everything about race just because we saw a picture of a black person in an article.
The system of violence and incarceration affects black people much more than it affects non-blacks. From experience, when we buy the framing that the system is fair and equal, then we distance ourselves from the reality of violence and incarceration that has plagued BIPOC communities for hundreds of years of this continent.
If we fail to frame the issue in light of systematic injustice, then we are lost in illusion and idealistic alienation
Every time a crime happens, we need to check if they are black. If they are, we need to screech about racism.
Got it. Thanks coach!
That’s incredibly bad faith. How do you define crime? So if a law is passed that says its illegal to be homeless (another systematic consequence that marginalizes a growing number of people), well now crime has increased in the city because a new category of illegality has been introduced.
Veterans are more affected by homelessness than other demographics, and are now being targeted for violent incarceration because of a made up crime. Police departments get more funding as crime “increases,” even though what has been scientifically proven to actually help eliminate homelessness among veterans, would be to get them some money, housing, food, mental health care, and social support.
Except it’s cheaper to buy cops and prison cells than it is to help people, which means a higher percentage of the profits earned from exploiting workers like you go to landlords and mass murder. And those cops and prison cells are used disproportionately to harm black communities. It all comes back around.
But of course those homeless veterans committed a crime so you don’t have to think about that.
Racism is just one way that the system convinces you to sell out your neighbors and accept worsening conditions than you deserve. You sell out your communities for the right to fight over scraps. It’s myopic and small minded to reduce all social problems to personal responsibility, when the rich are clearly conspiring against you and other workers, especially black workers.
You’ll eat shit, as long as it is a larger bowl than those whose oppression you ignore. You reduce the plight of others to personal responsibility because that’s what fear and alienation does to people.
You’re like the poor rural white worker who flies a confederate rebel flag, clinging to delusion rather than reality. Slave owning confederate planters only ever made white workers poor and disenfranchised, sent whites to die in a brutal war because we were worth less to them than their black property.
Made to hate yourself, you displace that hate onto others. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and you’ll keep happily playing your part. I hope you are able to change and see things for what they are, rather than make excuses for a system that hates and exploits you. Hopefully you’ll never be in a position where you need help but your very existence warrants constant investigation and incarceration. but looking at the world today, I don’t really like our odds.
I think I saw another comment where someone was talking about their favorite flavour of ice cream instead of about racism in America – shouldn’t you be recentering the conversation on that? I’m sure you can string together a coherent take about how the ice cream industry is racist.
My goal isnt to string together a coherent idealist take, it is to find material oppression that actually harm people, and meet people there in the fight against oppression that affects us both. I dont always succeed, but I try very hard and dedicate a lot of time and energy talking to people and learning from their experiences rather than putting others in a box.
My take on the ice cream industry is that the largest companies should be publicly owned and the profits redistributed to the public good, including reparations for historic victims of slavery, targeted racial violence and disenfranchisement, because not doing so is an affront to my own freedom, and to everyone’s freedom, except a wealthy few.
But honestly most grocery store foods are owned by only 2 companies who have incentives to make food worse and more expensive so they can increase their own profits. In the mean time, we get sicker.
You seem more preoccupied with racism than I am. I just want people to have a fair shot at a good life. A lot of the arguments you are making sound to me like someone who doesn’t think they can get ahead without some cop taking out others. Your own views are proof of the violence I am referring to, as your arguments are a textbook example of how people act when they feel threatened. If there wasn’t a worse prison to place others in, you might see your own conditions as a prison and try to escape them. I’m just trying to help you see the cage we are all in, and the reasons we are in it.
Maybe that’s futile, but I’m an optimist in that way