https://atlpresscollective.com/2024/02/01/georgia-cash-bail-expansion-act-will-criminalize-charitable-bail-funds/?amp=1
I don't even think it's a slave labor thing this seems like pure cruelty in response to the cop city protest bail funds
Yeah the lesson here is bail funds are perceived as a threat by the bourgeoisie and they're also pretty useful to have.
If the bill passes the way to adapt would be to have volunteers personally pay the bail with the funds money.
theyll just say that money was for that purpose, pretty standard way of creating financial restrictions
True. I didn't think of that at first. I was seeing those posts the last couple of days on accounting for all the convict labor in the American economy and connected it to this post right away.
I just hope it doesn't snowball into such a practice.
The American capitalists can't use immigrant labor like they used to since they decided to use them as political scapegoats. This was done to appease the populists on their right and shore up the rotting neoliberal order for at least another generation. Their fallback plan in keeping the price of labor cheap is making child labor and convict slave labor more available.
Just an incredible move, and i can't tell if they bit their own ass leaning in to it too hard, or genuinely believe it because in some ways they're blind to the consequences of their ideology. Remember when Obummer crashed the Georgia peach harvest by terrorizing so many farm workers?
I hesitate to even speak this in to existence, but eventually some gop goon is going to try to enslave migrants crossing in to the us, if they haven't already.
100%, if the RICO chase against the protestors is anything to go by.
or genuinely believe it because in some ways they're blind to the consequences of their ideology
Their ideology can't even pass the marshmallow test lmao
Illinois: "how could you possibly think that's what I meant by 'abolishing cash bail'-"
Georgia: "another day, another banger"
Hahahahhhahahahhahaha ahahahahahahahahah hahahahahahahahhahahahahahah
"If paying your way outta jail gets criminalized, then people will be unjustly in jail."
Thats not the bulletproof argument you think it is. Notwithstanding the horrendous disparities in the
injustice system, that argument implies that wealthy people have some inherent moral superiority above that of the normal person. Literal Victorian attitude.This is a complete misunderstanding of the new law. You can still pay your own bail, but not others. Rich people can pay just fine, but communities can't come together to support each other and cover bail. This will hit hardest at strikers and protesters.
Well, that's something I learned today, thanks :)
The thing is that monetary bail and fining has always been icky to me because it basically creates a different, more lenient system for the rich while normal people have to suffer.
Yeah it sucks, it also creates an industry of high interest debt and bounty hunting.
"Did you advocate for jail not being something you can buy your way out of? Literally 1984."
