How We Protect At-Risk Kids.

[AFK]

Holder just said "diversion" on the TV and made me 

Thanks, RWHN!

Funny, I heard it and it made me 

[Doktor Howl]

So the only reason that alcohol won't be banned in the US is because of lobbyists, and not because we tried that and found that Prohibition didn't work?

It's the reason a proposal would never make it to a point where you could even discuss the merits of the proposal.

Hobbyists get in the way.  If it's not the model train assholes, it's those crochet spags.

[Doktor Howl]

Holder just said "diversion" on the TV and made me 

Thanks, RWHN!

Funny, I heard it and it made me 

Yep.  Now we can fuck people over for life and pretend we didn't.

[AFK]

No, that's not how diversion works.

[Doktor Howl]

No, that's not how diversion works.

So, no records are kept?

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Yeah, Dok, no one uses the threat of a felony conviction and life-long discrimination to make kids SHUT UP and toe the line!

[tyrannosaurus vex]

No, that's not how diversion works.

So, no records are kept?

Silly Discordians. You keep assuming an imaginary distinction between "theory" and "practice," and another one between "rhetoric" and "meaning." If you'd just Wise Up, you'd have a lot less to worry about.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So the only reason that alcohol won't be banned in the US is because of lobbyists, and not because we tried that and found that Prohibition didn't work?

It's the reason a proposal would never make it to a point where you could even discuss the merits of the proposal.

But no one would make the proposal in the first place, because Prohibition didn't work.

[Doktor Howl]

So the only reason that alcohol won't be banned in the US is because of lobbyists, and not because we tried that and found that Prohibition didn't work?

It's the reason a proposal would never make it to a point where you could even discuss the merits of the proposal.

But no one would make the proposal in the first place, because Prohibition didn't work.

Hobbyists fucked everything up. 

[AFK]

No, that's not how diversion works.

So, no records are kept?

Records are kept when you get your teeth cleaned.


Yeah, obviously if you are diverted to a treatment program, that program is going to have records on your services there.

[Doktor Howl]

No, that's not how diversion works.

So, no records are kept?

Records are kept when you get your teeth cleaned.


Yeah, obviously if you are diverted to a treatment program, that program is going to have records on your services there.

Will the courts?  Will they show up on a background check?

[AFK]

So the only reason that alcohol won't be banned in the US is because of lobbyists, and not because we tried that and found that Prohibition didn't work?

It's the reason a proposal would never make it to a point where you could even discuss the merits of the proposal.

But no one would make the proposal in the first place, because Prohibition didn't work.

Depends on who and how you are defining "work".

[Doktor Howl]

So the only reason that alcohol won't be banned in the US is because of lobbyists, and not because we tried that and found that Prohibition didn't work?

It's the reason a proposal would never make it to a point where you could even discuss the merits of the proposal.

But no one would make the proposal in the first place, because Prohibition didn't work.

Depends on who and how you are defining "work".

[AFK]

No, that's not how diversion works.

So, no records are kept?

Records are kept when you get your teeth cleaned.


Yeah, obviously if you are diverted to a treatment program, that program is going to have records on your services there.

Will the courts?  Will they show up on a background check?

It's going to depend on the crime, and will certainly vary from state to state.  Here in Maine youth who are arrested for a non-violent, simple possession drug crime will not have anything on their record if they successfully complete a diversion program. 

[Doktor Howl]

Let's see...

Mafia rises to new heights of power:  Check.
Americans go to jail for something that's really their own business:  Check.
The entire law enforcement system in America becomes a joke:  Check.

Yes, by some standards, prohibition of alcohol was fucking BRILLIANT.