As a sheriff's deputy dumped the contents of Joy Uhlmeyer's purse into a sealed bag, she begged to know why she had just been arrested while driving home to Richfield after an Easter visit with her elderly mother.
No one had an answer. Uhlmeyer spent a sleepless night in a frigid Anoka County holding cell, her hands tucked under her armpits for warmth. Then, handcuffed in a squad car, she was taken to downtown Minneapolis for booking. Finally, after 16 hours in limbo, jail officials fingerprinted Uhlmeyer and explained her offense -- missing a court hearing over an unpaid debt. "They have no right to do this to me," said the 57-year-old patient care advocate, her voice as soft as a whisper. "Not for a stupid credit card."It's not a crime to owe money, and debtors' prisons were abolished in the United States in the 19th century. But people are routinely being thrown in jail for failing to pay debts. In Minnesota, which has some of the most creditor-friendly laws in the country, the use of arrest warrants against debtors has jumped 60 percent over the past four years, with 845 cases in 2009, a Star Tribune analysis of state court data has found.
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In January, a judge sentenced a Kenney, Ill., man "to indefinite incarceration" until he came up with $300 toward a lumber yard debt.
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People that don't pay debts are dishonest; same as stealing. Either pay up or serve time and/or work off the debt with a suspended sentence!
ReplyDeletelaura are you mentally disturbed? One loses his job or has a heart attack, his home, and can't pay his debt he should GO TO JAIL? Are you all with it, in that empty head of yours?
ReplyDelete"In extreme cases, people stay in jail until they raise a minimum payment"
ReplyDeleteOk, how do I raise the minimum payment if I'm locked up tossing salads to save my life?
Time to arm ourselves and fight back once and for all.
People are brainwashed into thinking the economists, the banks and the law is always right. Let me ask you this: if a bank closed its doors tomorrow and was unable to return your 300 dollars do you think all the employees would go to jail for it indefinitely?
ReplyDeletelaura does bp go to jail for killing thousands of sea life and soon to be humans? You Freak
ReplyDeleteSo if the Banks are basically BANKRUPT and not able to pay their bills or depositors without lying about their books then why are they NOT IN JAIL ?
ReplyDeleteHow about the Federal Reserve committing FRAUD since they are not Federal and have no Reserves then why are they not in JAIL ?
There are laws for the rich, laws for the poor and, apparently, no laws at all for bankers or politicians.
ReplyDeleteHey this all started with Clinton and everyone just accepted the taking away of America's jobs, then came the Bush devil taking away of American's freedoms and nobody batted an eye... Now everything is being socialized and we are for all intensive purposes in a police state.
ReplyDeleteSo I would say that lady should enjoy living in the hell that she basically accepted through her apathy and indifference while the globalists subverted everything this nation stood for.
Don't complain now about it, just enjoy it the fascism because basically the scrooges want you to die and decrease the surface population.
:)
The Main Stream Media's manupulations will make for great comedy down the road some day ....
ReplyDelete"Bernanke grows more optimistic on economy.
Fed chair says the European debt crisis is likely to have only a 'modest' impact on the U.S."
I'm inconclusive in answering yes or no about the going to jail for not paying debt, I become capricious trying to conjure up a definite answer.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do know is that when I was 18 I used to get energy drinks at a somewhat unknown liquor store down the street through the drive thru. The people that owned it were Arab I believe. I used to be so desperate to get one of those stupid drinks I would always propose to them that if I could borrow one dollar to help me pay for the drink I would give it back the day after. I mostly held firm on my word.
They liked me enough and always would agree, and yet sometimes I would get behind. Among those times there were those which I would go and ask for more debt, "I don't have it now but can I borrow two dollars today and I'll give you three next time I come?"
After this pattern continued for months it ultimately made everything slide off track, I couldn't remember who I owed or how much. Eventually I became intimidated to go back due in part to the fear of confrontation and also because I couldn't quite come up with about five dollars seeing that I hadn't worked in several months and all my money was wasted on stupidity.
So anytime I could get my hands on a couple bucks to buy stupidity (energy drinks) I would go to the gas station or another liquor store and avoid going back to them at all costs.
Now imagine this playing out with thousands of dollars (common people), millions (corporations), and billions to trillions (nations).
It seems we'll need more places built. This way all people can keep eluding their self manufactured predicaments. I suppose things happen in which there is reason to exculpate people's inability to eleviate their obligations but for the most part the western world is falling because people are extravagant. All things I purchased at that age were totally oblique in comparison to actual commodities.
I'm practicing epigrams, so my post may seem a bit extemporaneous. Feel free to excoriate me for using this commode to execute this excursiveness which you all may find execrable. The felicitous constituent of my comment is within propinquity to the subject matter - at least with a conspectus. The exactitude as to what I commute is not obfuscated but only this terminal paragraph being here; the reason as to why it was added may be ambiguous. I'm sure that was conspicuous but I suppose it is inconsequential.
The bankers will regain the authority to jail or even torture those that don't pay their debts. They have all the power and can do what they want.
ReplyDeleteMore and more people are rebelling debt-wise and it isn't going over well with the greedy banksters.
The guy on YouTube that charged up all his credit cards and bought silver with no intention of every paying it back, LOL, now that's a guy that gave the bankers a double FU.
START THE REVOLUTION
ReplyDeleteThose that think hyperinflation will mean free homes via fixed mortgages, think again. The bankers are working on legislation to protect themselves in the area also.
ReplyDeleteThey will have us coming and going. The only people that might stand a chance are those with gold and silver.
Sometimes I see humor in this blog. The guy are few topics back that asked if there was any hope in today's youth, the 20-somethings.
ReplyDeleteOne reply was that today's youth are a bunch of worthless airheads, posturing on Facebook and twittering back and forth like a bunch of self-concerned 'twits.'
For some reason I've been thinking about that and observing people more lately. Geezus H. Christ the guy is right.
I guess the youth really have it coming.
Of course there are exceptions and some youth are actually intelligent. Like the youth people that follow this blog, of course.
The police and Sheriff are treasonous scumbags who should be hung from lampposts for enforcing these laws.
ReplyDelete"I was just following orders" is no defense. Have no mercy on them when the revolution begins. They have chosen sides.
5;04: MR WORDSMITH HERE.... Listen,you-don`t make me come down there! lol lol.
ReplyDeleteNo no no no no no.....yes
ReplyDeleteI don't think you are being honest with this story. She didn't get arrested for owing money she got arrested for ignoring a required court appearence. The lumber yard debt was not as simple as the headline made it appear. If you commit fraud you have broken a law it doesn't matter that you prefer to claim you are being punished because of a debt.
ReplyDelete9:36 people do NOT go to jail for ignoring a debt, they go bankrupt, have bad credit, perhaps have their wages garnisheed or get an asset taken away. Nowhere does it state there was a FRAUD..
ReplyDeleteI think laura is make believe, I think someone posted that stupid shit to get a good conversation going on this particular subject! If not then the only thing I can say is baaaaaaaaaaahhhh bahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe will never get out of this mess unless We the People take the high road and set the standard. Acting like criminal banksters or cheering citizens that steal services, violate contracts and laws makes us worse than those we all despise.
ReplyDeleteWe each need to clean up our house before we fix the corrupt system.
Laura - you're a conservative fer sure.
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