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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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No. No, they've been doing that since day one. In fact, they used to hold more people in jail prior to conviction than they do now. Bail and bond are fairly new in our history. They'd even hold you in matters of debt and other petty offenses.

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I thought bail was one of the main grievances of the colonists

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Not really. They bitched about a lot of stuff, including the justice system, but we've been detaining people before conviction since day one.

Justice used to be faster, however. They'd find you guilty in a day and hang you the following morning. In the cities it was more organized. In the rural areas, they'd hold you in jail until a traveling judge came to their county/town. They were marshals and served as judges among other duties.

There was less due process with the colonial system, but there was something resembling it. Our system is based on that, stemming all the way back to the Magna Carta. I think I spelled that right.

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That's really shitty when people can simply make a false accusation and have you locked up based on the lie.