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United States News Title: “hero” Says “Suspicion is a Misdemeanor” Heres a video taken of another hero law enforcer who makes up the law on the spot! A guy is filming the publicly visible exterior of a police station from a public sidewalk which is (for the moment) abundantly legal when he is approached by two confrontational heroes who of course demand his ID, Soviet-style. Not because the man is committing a crime but because he is challenging the authority of the heroes. It is time, therefore, for a Dominance Display. The fact that this sort of thing is has become routine in the United States says a lot about the state of the United States, which is no longer even plausibly a free country. It is a country in which lawless law enforcers do as they please insolently because they are confident that there will be no meaningful repercussions, no matter what they do. The guy taking the video politely asks what crime hes committed, or is suspected of committing. This used to be the probable cause standard for detaining a person; that is, armed government workers were once-upon-a-time legally required to have a specific reason for suspecting a criminal act had been committed or was about to be committed before they could lawfully prevent a citizen from peaceably going about his business. It is no longer required. Technically, perhaps but that is as irrelevant as the Fourth Amendments defunct guarantee that we are to be left unmolested absent probable cause and the Fifth Amendments similarly defunct injunction that we are not to be made to provide evidence that can and will be used against us in a criminal proceeding (see, for example, your 1099 form). So. The heroes reply that he is suspicious and he is informed that this is a misdemeanor. The reality is, the heroes want to show who is Boss and will use any device, legal or otherwise, to establish this fact. In a free country- if we still had one this citizen would be free to go. Of course, we do not live in a free country. And so he isnt free to go. These hero law enforcers are brazenly acting well outside their lawful authority which fact ought to result in their being fired and charged with abuse of authority under color of law but it doesnt. They are free to go. To continue assaulting people under color of law. As a matter of routine. And, worse. Consider, for instance, the fate of the Salt Lake City hero who brutally assaulted a nurse who declined to perform an illegal blood draw. He has been fired and his victim awarded a $500,000 settlement. But he is not in a cage. He has not been charged with the criminal assault under color of law he is flagrantly guilty of. Those familiar with this case know the basic story. An unconscious car wreck victim was taken to the hospital to be treated for his injuries. A thug with a badge shows up and like the thug he is demands immediate submission and cooperation from the nurse, whom he orders to draw blood from the unconscious victim, despite the nurse very calmly pointing out that it is not legal for her to do this nor for him to demand it. In response, the thug with the badge and the government-issued gun physically attacks the nurse, assaulting her for the grievous offense of not obeying an armed government workers commands. Even though those commands had no basis in law. So, what happens? The taxpayers end up paying $500,000 for the damages caused by the violent, out-of-control and criminal hero. The hero himself is merely fired. Not even a fine. As a thought experiment, imagine the consequences if the nurse had jabbed her finger into the body-armored chest of the hero, to make a point. It goes without saying she would have been caged and charged with felony assault upon a hero. She would have faced prison time not merely the loss of her job. This double standard is so routinized it might as well be codified made official. Heroes also feel entitled to shove their porcine snouts into every nook and cranny of our lives. To surveil us using every means available to them (e.g., automated license plate readers, random checkpoints, devices that hack into our cell phones). They demand that we submit to searches of our persons and property in order to establish were not guilty of something. They seize our money simply because we have too much of it. Etc. Etc. They wear opaque sunglasses and tint the windows of their cars opaque but we are not permitted to tint the windows of our cars much at all. For their safety, we are told; in reality, so that it is easier for them to look inside our cars and so conduct visual searches at random. Yet these same heroes get their backs up when a citizen so much as points a video camera their way. It is hardly necessary to elaborate. It is like pointing out that the sun has come up or that it is dark at night. We have become subjects and are no longer citizens. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I called the number he posted and told the lady from the Colorado Springs Police Department, Falcon Division that I supported the way the officers reacted. She was very nice and added that the incident took place the day after the Dallas shootings where 5 officers were ambushed and killed and 9 others wounded. This selfish, punk scumbag and others like him who think they know the law end up wasting the officer's time in order to get hits on YouTube.
Of course you did - you must feel sooo proud of yourself. This selfish, punk scumbag and others like him who think they know the law end up wasting the officer's time ... What crime did he commit? Answer - NONE. The guy taking the video politely asks what crime hes committed, or is suspected of committing. This used to be the probable cause standard for detaining a person; that is, armed government workers were once-upon-a-time legally required to have a specific reason for suspecting a criminal act had been committed or was about to be committed before they could lawfully prevent a citizen from peaceably going about his business. **** Good grief - your authority fetish knows no bounds. I called the number he posted That figures.
He was outside the police station acting in a suspicious manner the day after the shooting of 14 cops in Dallas. That gave the cops the power to detain him to determine who he was and what he was doing. They told him that. He refused to identify himself, so he was arrested for disorderly conduct. They told him that, too. When he later identified himself, he was released and all charges were dropped. Now, your turn. Why was he recording outside a police station? Why did he refuse to identify himself? Why was he uncooperative? Because he was trying to make the cops look bad in a YouTube video. That's it. The only reason. He's scum. And so are you for promoting this behavior.
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