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Remember this the next time the cops tell someone they can’t do anything about a stalker or angry ex threatening to kill them until they actually act. They can do something. They choose not to.
Judges too! He set her bail at 100K. Rapists get less than that.
The whole fucking system is as crooked as a $3 bill
Threatening the hospital that was denying my father care, leaving him to die, was the only way I got into the literal board room to reason with them. I got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.
He still died because he was so sick at that point that they couldn’t do the procedure he needed when he first arrived.
So I threatened them in 2010, and I’d fucking do it again now for my child. We are supposed to stand up for our loved ones.
It's disgusting. There needs to be legal recognition of all that is at stake for patients and their families. The denial of necessary care is structural violence and should be treated as such by everyone.
"You people are next" does seem pretty threat-ish, however:
After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston's bond at $100,000.
That is completely out of touch with what happened. "You people are next" not an act of terrorism.
It's hard for me to agree this is a threat after media has spent years explaining why all of Trump's language is actually never threatening or inciting violence, even after his language incited violence.
It is towards the ruling class. They can't let this grow into something that threatens them.
It's easily argued that the statement was a warning, not a threat.
Per the GoFundMe, she was released and charges dropped:
Hi everyone, it looks like the county released Briana with no charges, so I stopped the campaign. See here: https://www.polksheriff.org/inmate-profile/2435323 I am looking how to run a gazillion of reimbursements on this platform.
From the article’s source article:
“She’s been in this world long enough that she certainly should know better that you can’t make threats like that in the current environment that we live in and think that we’re not going to follow up and put you in jail,” said Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor.
I thought we had a legal definition of a real threat, and this isn’t it.
This man on the other hand was released after his EIGHTH stalking arrest in three years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/plano-man-8th-arrest-stalking-harassing-smu-students/
But someone who is stalking their ex and threatens to kill them the cops won't do anything about.
Attorneys have said the insurance industry uses a "delay, deny, defend" tactic to withhold health care services.
Jailed for using words to describe what insurance companies do?
Judge is trying to fill their year-end quota.
"Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," she allegedly said near the end of the call.
Let's be real, the "You people are next" is probably the reason for jail.
She said "Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," according to the article.
Funny part is insurance companies hear worse than this all day long however this is their trigger.
L O L
They think they're making an example. That this will have a chilling effect.
They're wrong. All this is going to do is radicalize even more people. As it should.
Remember folks, the company reps you interact with are generally not the ones making the rules they are paid to abide by. They're working for a living, just like us.
With that, calling this an "act of terrorism" is an incredulous overreaction that just goes to show how badly they're shitting their pants right now.
Nothing like jail time to radicalized someone more. Judge is playing 5d cheese by providing motivation.
Judge is playing 5d cheese...
Man, cheese with 2 extra dimensions has to be really delicious.
May the first amendment suit she files after this gain her the money she needs for her healthcare. And may whatever insurance company this is be dissolved.
I imagine the "Delay, Deny, Depose" didn't get her in trouble nearly as much as the "You people are next" part. Yeah, that's a bit hostile there.
Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She's being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,
"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.
I've met victims of domestic violence who were threatened much worse than "you guys are next" so I'm not buying this as anything other than the system trying to use her as an example.
This occurred in Deregulated Fucking Florida and I thought the damn MAGATs are for freedom of speech.
Only for billionaires or corporations
This will definitely ease tensions among the masses and rouse support for the Healthcare execs lmao
According to the affidavit, 42-year-old Briana Boston used the phrase during a call with BlueCross BlueShield about a denied claim.
"Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," she allegedly said near the end of the call.
The "You people are next" line certainly adds some context to this story.
A bit, but it still doesn't explain how this warrants terrorism charges and $100,000 bail. A visit from the police and probation or anger management courses? OK I still don't really agree but it makes some sense. But not prison time. She's getting punished harder than many rapists and child molesters.
Regardless whether you support her general conduct, I think we can all rally around one tenet here:
Don't harass a shitty company's T1 support out of priciples against the company in general.They're in no better position to effect change in the system than you are. They exist only to be slightly more competent phone robots, turning your whiney noise into itemized actions, and filter those actions down to a restricted subset of system commands the company permits them to do.
If anything, they're on our level of the totem pole. Any outrage directed at them for actions of their broader company are a gross misdirection and wholly counterproductive.
I don't know who this lady was speaking to on the phone. But if it was some minimum wage phone bank slave who is just the ablative frontline of the customer support hotline, I don't support her threat in that context.
After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston's bond at $100,000.
"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.
Lol, catch phrase or actual corporate practice? Because quoting a company memo to said company is apparently a threat.