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Title: Cops Go ‘Undercover’ as Homeless People in Elaborate Scheme to Separate You from Your Money
Source: Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co ... aborate-scheme-separate-money/
Published: Jul 26, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-07-26 12:33:55 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 4391
Comments: 21

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San Bernardino, CA — In an apparent attempt to give rise to their bottom line, the San Bernardino Police Department took to the streets dressed as panhandlers this week.

Four officers donned their cardboard signs and walked the street looking for vile criminal law breakers who’d dare to be inside a vehicle without their seat belts on.

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According to the NY Daily News,

The four-hour operation led to 50 total vehicle stops, including 33 for cell phone violations, 15 seat belt violations and five cars impounded because the drivers were either unlicensed or driving on suspended licenses, police said.

Officers Walton and Alvarez wore sunglasses and plainclothes and held cardboard signs — like those held by a panhandler asking for money — with a twist.

“I am NOT homeless,” the officers wrote by hand on the cardboard. “SB police looking for seatbelt/cell phone violations.”

The SBPD claimed that their efforts were noble as they risked life and limb to stop rogue villains who’d dare threaten the very fabric of civilization by attempting a text message or a phone call while stopped in traffic; or forgetting to buckle up.

“During this detail, our undercover officers walked up to the windows of many vehicles unnoticed by the drivers that were either talking or texting on their cell phones,” police said in a statement on the sting. “Those calls and messages can wait until you arrive at your destination and are not worth risking the life of yourself or those around you while driving.”

Curiously, they failed to mention how exactly extorting money from people for victimless crimes such as not wearing their seatbelt contributes to the safety of the community. Probably because it doesn’t. Seat belt violations are merely a scam to allow officers to “lawfully” extort money from the citizenry so they can keep getting their scheduled promotions.

In fact, the enforcement of laws for victimless crimes, in reality, makes society less safe. In a recent study, it was revealed that locking people in cages for crimes in which there is no victim, almost guarantees that they will become a real criminal. 

Sadly, most people attempt to rationalize the idea of police extorting money from them for victimless crimes such as seatbelt violations, window tint, etc. Police are just doing their job, they say, when they pull us over and give us a piece of paper demanding we pay them — or face death.

Death? Yes. Death.

Most people do not contemplate a “traffic citation” in its entirety. Most people will not realize that the only way the state can compel you to pay them for these supposed “violations” is to threaten you with violence. It is the threat of violence to which the state owes its very existence.

People do not pay these citations out of the kindness of their hearts; they pay them because if they didn’t they’d be locked in a cage. Despite people not explicitly saying that is why they pay them, subconsciously it is understood. Pay up, or lose your freedom. Resist losing your freedom, and you will be killed — for not wearing a seat belt.

But remember, these public servants who extort the masses through the enforcement of immoral laws designed solely for boosting revenue, do this to keep you safe. They do this to maintain order and keep us free. Sadly, many of these officers actually believe that kidnapping, caging, and killing you over a plant, or a seatbelt, makes society a better place — they even consider it to be heroic.

The good news is that more and more cops are seeing the tyrannical nature in which these laws are based and are calling it out.

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#2. To: Deckard (#0)

"Seat belt violations are merely a scam to allow officers to “lawfully” extort money from the citizenry"

How about we make a deal?

You don't have to wear a seatbelt if the rest of us don't have to pay for your medical care if you get in a accident and are seriously injured. Same thing with talking on a cellphone. Talk away. But you better have good health insurance.

But if you want me to pay for your medical care, then I'm going to insist on some laws which will minimize my cost.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-07-26   14:11:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: misterwhite (#2)

Same thing with talking on a cellphone.

Uh - the good folks here were cited for using a cell phone in a stopped vehicle.

On the other hand, cops have the luxury of committing manslaughter while texting and not face any consequences.

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Deckard  posted on  2015-07-26   14:34:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Deckard (#3)

"Uh - the good folks here were cited for using a cell phone in a stopped vehicle."

Silly cops probably assumed they were talking before they stopped and would continue talking after they started.

You and I both know they only talked in the 2-3 seconds they were stopped.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-07-26   15:02:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: misterwhite (#4) (Edited)

Silly cops probably assumed

Yep

The fact remains that they were cited for texting while stopped.

Shall we allow cops to write citations based on "assumptions"?

Never mind - we all know your answer.

Deckard  posted on  2015-07-26   15:37:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Deckard (#8)

"The fact remains that they were cited for texting while stopped."

Oh, I see. They were stopped. They weren't "driving" at the time.

I guess it would be OK if they were drunk, too, as long as they're stopped.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-07-26   18:08:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: misterwhite, GrandIsland (#13)

Oh, I see. They were stopped. They weren't "driving" at the time.

Gee, you finally get it.

They aren't going to kill anyone while they are stopped, unlike the examples of cops who were texting while driving I provided above.

Guess what? None of those murderers were cited.

But what the hell, this is the kind of selective outrage we all have come to expect from you badge-sniffing cop apologists.

Laws only apply to non-cops. right?

Deckard  posted on  2015-07-26   18:35:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Deckard (#14)

They aren't going to kill anyone while they are stopped, unlike the examples of cops who were texting while driving I provided above.

I've texted at a stop light before. Just last week. It was distracting and I shouldn't have done it.

I'll probably do it again though.

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