>>>I'm dying to finally be covered by health insurance.
Why? You're probably an engineer or programmer (this is slashdot after all), so you're making $60,000 or more per year. You could easily afford health insurance out of your own pocket.
If you strike me down, I shall simply rise-up again .
1. (shrug). Somebody brought it up as relating to GPS, since like GPS it's an attempt to spy upon people. Read the GGP.
2. The Bible is a fictional document. The Constitution is the LAW which reigns supreme over all areas of the United States, even the president, congress, and supreme court. It is worthwhile to know what the law says, else we might as well be a law-less society. Unless you're suggesting we ignore the law? I'm sorry but I will not.
3. That was my point. The power to fine people for not having health insurance belongs to the States, not the central government or the Congress. I'm glad we agree on this point.
4. No. I will not leave this country. The Founding document of this nation reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." My family has been here since the 1700s. It is not we that must leave, or change.
Furthermore if I had said, circa 2005, "If you don't like Bush or his Patriot Act then leave," you would not have appreciated that. Please don't do the same discourtesy to me.
Congress already hands-out "deductions" or "credits" for people who do things Congress likes, such as buying an electric car ($2000 tax credit). If they use the same approach with healthcare, where you get a $2500 credit if you have health insurance, then that's essentially legal.
BUT my understanding is that Congress wants to impose a fine, which means instead of owing approximately $34,000 last year, I would have paid $34,000 + $2500 fine == $36,500. That's the part that is probably considered illegal. I guess we'll have to wait for the courts to decide.
Anonymous Coward wrote: You are paranoid, a conspiracy nut and have a highly inflated self-image if you honestly think that anyone in the government gives a flying fuck about what you're doing.
That depends which government we're discussing. If the government is in Venezuela or Iran, and I and my fellow freedom fighters have staged a coup to kill the supreme dictator, then YES the government cares about me/us. The government wants to squash the freedom fighters before they have a chance to succeed.
Just imagine if Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu would have had GPS technology to track his citizens, and execute any rabble rousers before they organized the central protests. He might still be in power today, rather than a bullet-ridden corpse. Tracking technology only serves power-hungry leaders desire to remain in power, not the citizens
1. (shrug). Somebody brought it up as relating to GPS. Go read the great-grandparent post.
2. The Bible is a fictional document. The Constitution is the LAW which reigns supreme over all areas of the United States, even the president, congress, and supreme court. It is worthwhile to know what the LAW says, else we might as well be a law-less society. Unless you're suggesting we ignore the law? I'm sorry but I will not. The Constitution is the law and I have sworn an oath as a government official to obey it.
3. That was my point. The power belongs to fine people for not having health insurance belongs to the States, not the central government or the Congress. I'm glad we agree on this point.
4. No. I will not leave this country. The Founding document of this nation reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
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My family has been here since the 1700s. It is not we that must leave, or change. It is the government that must change, because it is becoming a pre-1990 eastern-european-style tyranny. It has effectively revived the nobility system (with the politicians as the new nobility), and turned all the rest of us into serfs to be ordered around like puppets (buy health insurance or be heavily fined). It is the government that has betrayed the founding principles of this nation, and broken the Supreme Law of the land in direct violation of the oath to uphold that law. I will not leave. I will stay.
Freedom to work and enjoy the fruits of my labor, without somebody coming along and taking almost $35,000 of it every fucking year..... freedom to be clear of debt and not have to fear for my children's or my grandchildren's future that the country might go bankrupt..... freedom to speak my mind without being called a "racist" or "terrorist" just because I disagree with the Obamas or the Bushes..... that Freedom is a cause worth dying for.
What do YOU have that is worth dying for? Anything? Anything at all?
Yeah but triangulation is difficult and time-consuming, plus far from exact. It also requires knowing where somebody is at, else you'll be triangulating Baltimore when the suspect is over in Philly. In contrast GPS is like a big sign that says, "Here he is" as it moves across the cop's map. It's precise, instant, and easy
Unconstitutional is right. I'm not paying any damn ~$2500 fine just because I don't have health insurance.
So if I suddenly disappear during 2010, first you can party, and then second you can come visit me in jail. The Constitution gives to the U.S. no power to fine people for not buying a product. What's next? I'll be fined because I bought a conventional Civic instead of the "green" hybrid version? Any such power has been reserved to the STATES or the people. The U.S. can take its unconstitutional fines and shove them up its marble ass.
What I don't understand is why a SECURITY update would kill my Mac. I think I'd rather have an adbot than a broken machine. The adbot is annoying, but it still lets me use my computer to access the net. Security Update 2009-005 Bricked my computer.
I just tried to install security update 2009-005, and after I rebooted my Mac, that was it. Dead. It refuses to relaod the OS and just sits there with that pissant spining wheel.And when I called Apple they reufssed to help. Burn in hell,Apl;e! Jsut bunr in hlel! I amnever, vneve r,evner go to buy another one fo tyoyur products.
Adn don';t rtlell em I don't ahve a right ot abe anhry.` That's almsot $2000 donw the drasin. {Pcir of' shit. Macintopsh pioce odf dhuisdt
>>>This marks them out to the rest of us as being a bit mindless, easily led etc.
I've found that those who listen to "alternative" music have the same flaws, but are merely following a different type of peer pressure (the pressure to listen to non-popular music).
>>>Last.fm is definitely a way to feel awkward with friends. Some of my acquaintances are well-read, well-dressed, well-spoken people, the sort who really seem to have it all together, but then you can never really manage the same level of respect for them after you've seen their Last.fm profile is nothing but Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga. >>>
That's because (1) a lot of the so-called "better" music that people have recommended to me is actually boring shit, and (2) I'm not looking for boredom, put-me-to-sleep music. I'm looking for fun music. Lady Gaga is weird but fun. (3) Being familiar with music from hotties like Timberlake and Daughtry makes you popular with the ladies. Saying, "Those guys are crap" is only going to get you dumped
>>>2.) The responding officer saw a man inside, and, with the 911 call, presumed a crime was in progress.
First: The United States Supreme Court has ruled that phone calls can not be used as "probable cause" to enter a private home otherwise, as the justices pointed-out, neighbors could use these phonecalls to report fake observances and thereby harass their neighbors.
Second: It's not illegal to insult a cop. Again refer to the Supreme Court rulings. Speaking "truth to power" is protected speech.
Third: Nothing you have said justifies arresting a Homeowner after the homeowner has identified himself. At that point the police are supposed to say, "Thank you for your cooperation" and leave. Just as when I was working at a store I sometimes dealt with unruly customers, so too must a cop. You don't arrest people just because they're angry and/or having a bad day, otherwise we'd ALL spend time in jail at one point or another.
>>>Unless you want to disband the idea of any policing at all..
STRAWMAN argument. I never said or even implied that I want to get rid of the police. What I want is for them to be punished when they arrest citizens w/o cause..... i.e. if Professor Gates spent a night in jail, in violation of his First Amendment rights, then the arresting officers should also spend a night in jail as equal punishment. If it had been a month, then the officers can spend a month in jail.
Inconvenience the officers the same way they inconvenience us.
Oh, I just remembered another story. A young guy his 20s was in his bedroom when suddenly he heard a bunch of men smash down his front door and start making their way through his house. Scared out of his mind, the young guy pulled out a gun, aimed towards the bedroom door, and prayed the intruders would go away. Instead the intruders knocked down the bedroom door, and the young guy fired.
Normally this would be a case of self-defense, except it involves police. They had searched the wrong stinking home! And now that young man is being tried for murder of two officers. That is fucked up. If anybody should be on trial it should be the police for breaking-and-entering without warrant. But no. You can't blame the police; blame the innocent citizens instead.
>>>So your problem is that the police make mistakes (which astonishes me, I always thought police were perfect).
No. My problem is that the police suffer from Power Trip-itis. Take as example the Professor Gates case, where the police arrest him because "he insulted us". Yes but he's in his own yard and insulting people, believe it or not, is protected speech. The ONLY reason the police arrested Gates was because they were abusing their power. They knew perfectly well Gates had done nothing wrong, but they wanted to "act big" and beat-down the prof. (Note I said beat-down, as in diminish, scare, intimidate.)
And even then I could say, "Oh well, mistakes happen," but the police keep falling into that same pattern of treating citizens as if they are servants and the police are masters. See all the numerous links I provided which leads to literally dozens of police abuse videos/cases. Listen to the tales of people being ticketed for Driving While Black or Driving While Hispanic. Think of your own experiences with police (I had some texas a-holes demand to search my car's trunk; and then detain my an hour when I refused).
It's power trip-itis. I've known some bosses that had the same disease.
I'm sure this Church Pastor and Community Leader also had lots of positive character witnesses in his favor. It didn't save him from being stopped, forced to submit to car search without warrant, and then beaten by the cops - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzd7G875Hc
Or this guy: He was working for Congressman Ron Paul, and yet that status didn't shelter him from being harassed and blocked from travel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SXuclz47Y
Or this guy. He's a Cambridge professor! And yet he still got drug *out of his own front yard* and thrown into jail. His status did not protect him from the police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15KsSLQhBg - And it would not save you either. Your door would be busted down, house overturned as the police searched it, and you forced to submit to interrogation. .
>>>"rifle" not "riffle".
Oh look. I'm not talking to a real person - I'm talking to a dictionary bot.;-) Nitpicking typos on an internet forum only makes you look even more foolish.
Please don't change the subject. We are discussing the government, their officers on the street, and whether they can be better parents to children than their actual parents. And you've now admitted that police arrest innocent people. The police can not be trusted to know the law, as they tend to arrest people who never should have Been arrested (or detained) in the first place. People like these:
I got a B in Statistics & Probability, and one thing we learned is that you can not extrapolate *anything* from mail-in postcards. There is no control over how the postcard was distributed, who responded, or their sex/ethnic makeup. Now contrast that with the Nielsen Company which tracks 4000 homes across America to determine television popularity, but they very carefully choose these homes based upon location, sex, color, age, and so. In that controlled study you can extrapolate from 4000 homes to 110 million homes.
You cannot do the same with a completely-random survey done with mail-in postcards. The results are the scientific equivalent of junk.
What I should do is call the police and tell them you sold me some marijuana, due to you being a drug dealer to the local city. Then after the police knock-down your front door, riffle through all your stuff (including breaking a lamp or two), then you can come back here tomorrow and explain to us how you think the police acted reasonably
>>>I would have to say that they only have a bad track record according to those who are anti-police(
Really? Take a look at these videos, and explain to me why these people deserved to be arrested (or detained for questioning w/o probable cause). They had not done anything wrong and were cleared of all charged after they got out of jail.
I repeat. Explain to me how ANY of these people "deserved" to be harassed by taxpayer servants (aka police). We'd all like to hear how you justify this.
>>>I would place more trust in what a police officer says is or is not illlegal.
Yeah because the police have NEVER arrested anyone who was innocent. We can trust the goose-stepp..... I mean black-suited thu..... I mean the uniformed Gesta..... oh never mind.
We might as well just turn-over our children to the schools and sell ourselves as serfs to the politicians. We can call them some astute title like... uh... Lords. Yeah that's the ticket. At this rate the year 2100 is going to end-up looking a lot like 1100 with feudalism and all.
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>>>I'm dying to finally be covered by health insurance.
Why? You're probably an engineer or programmer (this is slashdot after all), so you're making $60,000 or more per year. You could easily afford health insurance out of your own pocket.
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If you strike me down, I shall simply rise-up again
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1. (shrug). Somebody brought it up as relating to GPS, since like GPS it's an attempt to spy upon people. Read the GGP.
2. The Bible is a fictional document. The Constitution is the LAW which reigns supreme over all areas of the United States, even the president, congress, and supreme court. It is worthwhile to know what the law says, else we might as well be a law-less society. Unless you're suggesting we ignore the law? I'm sorry but I will not.
3. That was my point. The power to fine people for not having health insurance belongs to the States, not the central government or the Congress. I'm glad we agree on this point.
4. No. I will not leave this country. The Founding document of this nation reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." My family has been here since the 1700s. It is not we that must leave, or change.
Furthermore if I had said, circa 2005, "If you don't like Bush or his Patriot Act then leave," you would not have appreciated that. Please don't do the same discourtesy to me.
You make a good point.
Congress already hands-out "deductions" or "credits" for people who do things Congress likes, such as buying an electric car ($2000 tax credit). If they use the same approach with healthcare, where you get a $2500 credit if you have health insurance, then that's essentially legal.
BUT my understanding is that Congress wants to impose a fine, which means instead of owing approximately $34,000 last year, I would have paid $34,000 + $2500 fine == $36,500. That's the part that is probably considered illegal. I guess we'll have to wait for the courts to decide.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
You are paranoid, a conspiracy nut and have a highly inflated self-image if you honestly think that anyone in the government gives a flying fuck about what you're doing.
That depends which government we're discussing. If the government is in Venezuela or Iran, and I and my fellow freedom fighters have staged a coup to kill the supreme dictator, then YES the government cares about me/us. The government wants to squash the freedom fighters before they have a chance to succeed.
Just imagine if Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu would have had GPS technology to track his citizens, and execute any rabble rousers before they organized the central protests. He might still be in power today, rather than a bullet-ridden corpse. Tracking technology only serves power-hungry leaders desire to remain in power, not the citizens
1. (shrug). Somebody brought it up as relating to GPS. Go read the great-grandparent post.
2. The Bible is a fictional document. The Constitution is the LAW which reigns supreme over all areas of the United States, even the president, congress, and supreme court. It is worthwhile to know what the LAW says, else we might as well be a law-less society. Unless you're suggesting we ignore the law? I'm sorry but I will not. The Constitution is the law and I have sworn an oath as a government official to obey it.
3. That was my point. The power belongs to fine people for not having health insurance belongs to the States, not the central government or the Congress. I'm glad we agree on this point.
4. No. I will not leave this country. The Founding document of this nation reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
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My family has been here since the 1700s. It is not we that must leave, or change. It is the government that must change, because it is becoming a pre-1990 eastern-european-style tyranny. It has effectively revived the nobility system (with the politicians as the new nobility), and turned all the rest of us into serfs to be ordered around like puppets (buy health insurance or be heavily fined). It is the government that has betrayed the founding principles of this nation, and broken the Supreme Law of the land in direct violation of the oath to uphold that law. I will not leave. I will stay.
Freedom to work and enjoy the fruits of my labor, without somebody coming along and taking almost $35,000 of it every fucking year..... freedom to be clear of debt and not have to fear for my children's or my grandchildren's future that the country might go bankrupt..... freedom to speak my mind without being called a "racist" or "terrorist" just because I disagree with the Obamas or the Bushes..... that Freedom is a cause worth dying for.
What do YOU have that is worth dying for? Anything? Anything at all?
I suspect nothing.
Yeah but triangulation is difficult and time-consuming, plus far from exact. It also requires knowing where somebody is at, else you'll be triangulating Baltimore when the suspect is over in Philly. In contrast GPS is like a big sign that says, "Here he is" as it moves across the cop's map. It's precise, instant, and easy
Unconstitutional is right. I'm not paying any damn ~$2500 fine just because I don't have health insurance.
So if I suddenly disappear during 2010, first you can party, and then second you can come visit me in jail. The Constitution gives to the U.S. no power to fine people for not buying a product. What's next? I'll be fined because I bought a conventional Civic instead of the "green" hybrid version? Any such power has been reserved to the STATES or the people. The U.S. can take its unconstitutional fines and shove them up its marble ass.
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-1 Not insightful.
Verizon would simply reply, "We do not accept the new terms for $0.00 payment. Contract voided and service discontinued."
What I don't understand is why a SECURITY update would kill my Mac. I think I'd rather have an adbot than a broken machine. The adbot is annoying, but it still lets me use my computer to access the net. Security Update 2009-005 Bricked my computer.
APPLE'S NOT ANY BETTER!!! THEY KILLED MY MAC!
I just tried to install security update 2009-005, and after I rebooted my Mac, that was it. Dead. It refuses to relaod the OS and just sits there with that pissant spining wheel.And when I called Apple they reufssed to help. Burn in hell,Apl;e! Jsut bunr in hlel! I amnever, vneve r,evner go to buy another one fo tyoyur products.
Adn don';t rtlell em I don't ahve a right ot abe anhry.` That's almsot $2000 donw the drasin. {Pcir of' shit. Macintopsh pioce odf dhuisdt
>>>This marks them out to the rest of us as being a bit mindless, easily led etc.
I've found that those who listen to "alternative" music have the same flaws, but are merely following a different type of peer pressure (the pressure to listen to non-popular music).
>>>Last.fm is definitely a way to feel awkward with friends. Some of my acquaintances are well-read, well-dressed, well-spoken people, the sort who really seem to have it all together, but then you can never really manage the same level of respect for them after you've seen their Last.fm profile is nothing but Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga.
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That's because (1) a lot of the so-called "better" music that people have recommended to me is actually boring shit, and (2) I'm not looking for boredom, put-me-to-sleep music. I'm looking for fun music. Lady Gaga is weird but fun. (3) Being familiar with music from hotties like Timberlake and Daughtry makes you popular with the ladies. Saying, "Those guys are crap" is only going to get you dumped
I don't even know HOW to use mod points. Other people did that to you.
>>>and misusing words like drug instead of dragged makes you look like a fool.
wiktionary.com and dictionary.com:
"simple past and past participle: "dragged" or "drug" (Eastern U.S.)
>>>2.) The responding officer saw a man inside, and, with the 911 call, presumed a crime was in progress.
First: The United States Supreme Court has ruled that phone calls can not be used as "probable cause" to enter a private home otherwise, as the justices pointed-out, neighbors could use these phonecalls to report fake observances and thereby harass their neighbors.
Second: It's not illegal to insult a cop. Again refer to the Supreme Court rulings. Speaking "truth to power" is protected speech.
Third: Nothing you have said justifies arresting a Homeowner after the homeowner has identified himself. At that point the police are supposed to say, "Thank you for your cooperation" and leave. Just as when I was working at a store I sometimes dealt with unruly customers, so too must a cop. You don't arrest people just because they're angry and/or having a bad day, otherwise we'd ALL spend time in jail at one point or another.
>>>Unless you want to disband the idea of any policing at all..
STRAWMAN argument. I never said or even implied that I want to get rid of the police. What I want is for them to be punished when they arrest citizens w/o cause..... i.e. if Professor Gates spent a night in jail, in violation of his First Amendment rights, then the arresting officers should also spend a night in jail as equal punishment. If it had been a month, then the officers can spend a month in jail.
Inconvenience the officers the same way they inconvenience us.
Oh, I just remembered another story. A young guy his 20s was in his bedroom when suddenly he heard a bunch of men smash down his front door and start making their way through his house. Scared out of his mind, the young guy pulled out a gun, aimed towards the bedroom door, and prayed the intruders would go away. Instead the intruders knocked down the bedroom door, and the young guy fired.
Normally this would be a case of self-defense, except it involves police. They had searched the wrong stinking home! And now that young man is being tried for murder of two officers. That is fucked up. If anybody should be on trial it should be the police for breaking-and-entering without warrant. But no. You can't blame the police; blame the innocent citizens instead.
>>>So your problem is that the police make mistakes (which astonishes me, I always thought police were perfect).
No. My problem is that the police suffer from Power Trip-itis. Take as example the Professor Gates case, where the police arrest him because "he insulted us". Yes but he's in his own yard and insulting people, believe it or not, is protected speech. The ONLY reason the police arrested Gates was because they were abusing their power. They knew perfectly well Gates had done nothing wrong, but they wanted to "act big" and beat-down the prof. (Note I said beat-down, as in diminish, scare, intimidate.)
And even then I could say, "Oh well, mistakes happen," but the police keep falling into that same pattern of treating citizens as if they are servants and the police are masters. See all the numerous links I provided which leads to literally dozens of police abuse videos/cases. Listen to the tales of people being ticketed for Driving While Black or Driving While Hispanic. Think of your own experiences with police (I had some texas a-holes demand to search my car's trunk; and then detain my an hour when I refused).
It's power trip-itis. I've known some bosses that had the same disease.
I'm sure this Church Pastor and Community Leader also had lots of positive character witnesses in his favor. It didn't save him from being stopped, forced to submit to car search without warrant, and then beaten by the cops - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzd7G875Hc
Or this guy: He was working for Congressman Ron Paul, and yet that status didn't shelter him from being harassed and blocked from travel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SXuclz47Y
Or this guy. He's a Cambridge professor! And yet he still got drug *out of his own front yard* and thrown into jail. His status did not protect him from the police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15KsSLQhBg - And it would not save you either. Your door would be busted down, house overturned as the police searched it, and you forced to submit to interrogation.
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>>>"rifle" not "riffle".
Oh look. I'm not talking to a real person - I'm talking to a dictionary bot. ;-) Nitpicking typos on an internet forum only makes you look even more foolish.
>>>As opposed to the mob?
Please don't change the subject. We are discussing the government, their officers on the street, and whether they can be better parents to children than their actual parents. And you've now admitted that police arrest innocent people. The police can not be trusted to know the law, as they tend to arrest people who never should have Been arrested (or detained) in the first place. People like these:
- Professor Gates - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15KsSLQhBg
- Young man stopped from traveling to Arlington Virginia from St. Louis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SXuclz47Y
- Pastor traveling in AZ gets stopped, forced to submit to car search without warrant, and then beaten - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzd7G875Hc
- Many, many, many people arrested for using a videocamera - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arrested+for+taping&search_type=&aq=f
None of these people should have been arrested.
You can not trust the police to know the law.
Yes but that says nothing about extending an Anti-Copying/Anti-piracy Treaty to all citizens. The president has zero authority there.
>>>a postcard survey probably doesn't provide the best method of getting solid, unbiased results
Yes I know. I just said that.
The result is invalid.
It's statistical junk.
I got a B in Statistics & Probability, and one thing we learned is that you can not extrapolate *anything* from mail-in postcards. There is no control over how the postcard was distributed, who responded, or their sex/ethnic makeup. Now contrast that with the Nielsen Company which tracks 4000 homes across America to determine television popularity, but they very carefully choose these homes based upon location, sex, color, age, and so. In that controlled study you can extrapolate from 4000 homes to 110 million homes.
You cannot do the same with a completely-random survey done with mail-in postcards. The results are the scientific equivalent of junk.
P.P.S.
Here's a thought -
What I should do is call the police and tell them you sold me some marijuana, due to you being a drug dealer to the local city. Then after the police knock-down your front door, riffle through all your stuff (including breaking a lamp or two), then you can come back here tomorrow and explain to us how you think the police acted reasonably
P.S.
>>>I would have to say that they only have a bad track record according to those who are anti-police(
Really? Take a look at these videos, and explain to me why these people deserved to be arrested (or detained for questioning w/o probable cause). They had not done anything wrong and were cleared of all charged after they got out of jail.
Professor Gates - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15KsSLQhBg
Young man stopped from traveling to Arlington Virginia from St. Louis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SXuclz47Y
Pastor traveling in AZ gets stopped, forced to submit to car search without warrant, and then beaten - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzd7G875Hc
Many, many, many people arrested for using a videocamera - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arrested+for+taping&search_type=&aq=f
I repeat. Explain to me how ANY of these people "deserved" to be harassed by taxpayer servants (aka police). We'd all like to hear how you justify this.
>>>I would place more trust in what a police officer says is or is not illlegal.
Yeah because the police have NEVER arrested anyone who was innocent. We can trust the goose-stepp..... I mean black-suited thu..... I mean the uniformed Gesta..... oh never mind.
We might as well just turn-over our children to the schools and sell ourselves as serfs to the politicians. We can call them some astute title like... uh... Lords. Yeah that's the ticket. At this rate the year 2100 is going to end-up looking a lot like 1100 with feudalism and all.