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Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court
Pemdas writes "On March 22nd, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear a case involving an arrest for lack of producing ID on the demand of a police officer. Dudley Hiibel was parked off the road, and was asked 11 times to show ID to the police officer, who gave the justification of 'investigating an investigation.' Finally, he was arrested, and eventually convicted of delaying a police officer,' and fined $250. The incident occurred in Humboldt County, Nevada; Mr. Hiibel's side of the story includes a good section on Terry stops, and has a video of the incident for download. The parallels to the previously covered Gilmore v. Ashcroft case are striking, and the ruling will be an interesting precedent on the issue of requiring ID's. The ACLU, EPIC, and EFF, among others, have filed Amicus briefs in the case."
For the record regardless of whatever cigar toting Clinton did, can you change what you had for lunch yesterday? I think not. Fact remains Asscroft is the one in power now, and the one who is looking to pass all these kooked out laws, not Clinton. So put your petty political party to the side and shoot from the hip with facts, or at least with something worth substance.
You're right maybe I should educate myself maybe I wouldn't make so many typos and remember to include links to sources of my information so trollers don't get all pissy in their underoos. Point well taken thank you.MoFscker
Except he was responding to a _possible_ crime. A father and his daughter arguing while she drove. So like responsible citizens they pull over and cool off rather than endangering the rest of us.
Then along comes the pig. He's heard there might be something going on. So his oinks into a situation as an entirely unwanted third party. In his ignorance he demands ID when no crime is evident. When it's not forthcoming he starts arresting people.
It was a blatent abuse of power. Yes, there are rational _reasons_ for the officers actions. But they have to be good reasons that can be applied in every case.
If an acceptable cause for a required ID check is a possible connection to a possible crime then we've just been transported to Berlin 35'
1.Remind me not to move to Georgia.
2.Georgia, and probably the rest of the United People's Republic of America is now officially a "Police State". The police are always right. Civilians are always wrong. The Police are all-powerful and may kill or imprison at their discretion and whim.
3.To anyone who does not see this as an obscene (and completely pointless) abuse of power, please renounce your citizenship and move to China ASAP.
4. Would giving the cop the finger, making pig noises, and speaking in intimate terms about his mother, constitute a crime as well?
Actually, I already know the answer to this. Cops are treated as Special Citizens in our republic. While it is legal to tease, insult, or be disrespectful of a regular citizen, to do so to a POLICE OFFICER is a serious, serious crime.
5. Although I do appreciate your comments, you are a member of the US Gestapo. Please die as soon as possible. Thank you. Near the end of my life, I plan to kill as many pigs (not the smart kind) as I can manage to do before being killed myself. Hopefully explosives will have advanced by that time. I consider killing police in a police state to be as noble an act as killing members of the SS (Germany) or GPU (USSR).
6. I am not posting this as an AC, but hopefully the Georgia Police do not have jurisdiction in my state. If you do then come and get me you f**ng pig!
7. Do all cops vote Republican? Just curious.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.