What authoritarian meatheads the government employs. [More]
Kudos to a brave citizen for standing up for his rights, which is apparently officially "suspicious."
I'm sure there is no shortage of cud-chewers who would tell us he shouldn't have a problem if he has nothing to hide.
[Via Tony F]
Friday, April 24, 2009
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that was hilarious. made my day.
So much to say.
I'm surprised they didn't just smash the windows and drag him out.. Too many witnesses, too many phonecams, I guess.
"It's like football; we're covering the backfield." And when they extend the "backfield" from 100 miles north of the border to 1,500 miles, to the NORTHERN border, imagine how much safer we'll all be -- from ourselves, I guess.
"You're taping us. You know there's a bounty for our deaths in Mexico?" I can't imagine why.
100 miles inland from the border, through how many states? That's the equvalent of an entire state where "a person's rights don't matter."
I salute this brave person. If more had the courage to do the same, checkpoints would close down and your driver's license -- now, as we were warned, your INTERNAL PASSPORT -- would go back to merely being proof of passing driver education.
AAAArrrrgh!
well! just like TSA checkpoints. at the inauguration, and supposedly at airports, too. and other kinds at all ports, now, with TWIC!
i'm certain these will stick to their geopolitically contained areas. nothing to worry about.
"downrange."
The voice sounds like the baptist minister you blogged about a few days ago getting beat down by BP. Same guy?
Good for him, that driver did all the right things. It's insane that this is routine in our "free" country. Insane.
If he's not being detained and he's not free to go is that not kidnapping? If someone is kidnapping me I'd feel that my life is in danger and do everything I can to flee the kidnappers while calling 911 and reporting the attempt.
They seemed to imply that if he tried to "go on his way" before they gave him permission, that they'd be authorized to use deadly force to stop him. Pretty cheeky for someone bending the 4th Amendment out of recognition even WITH Supreme Court approval. For someone going on "hunches" of who should be pulled over into "secondary" for searching. For someone who pulls out an impact weapon to intimidate a citizen asking a legitimate question.
What if they put THESE Imigration and Customs Enforcement agents ON THE BORDER BETWEEN THE AUTHORIZED CROSSINGS where people cross on foot by the hundreds each night? They wouldn't have to "inspect" thousands of vehicles and motorists every day 100 miles inland. They couold be as macho as they want, out there with the gila monsters and rattlesnakes.
I would like to believe that the Border Patrol would be on the border in force with the military to keep that killer flu thats killing people in Mexico. Which will ever happen because the parasites will allow the American population to become sick and let many tens of millions of folks die before it would think about doing the right thing.
Drugs and violence are going to look like nothing when that flu hits the US.
"You're taping us. You know there's a bounty for our deaths in Mexico?"
Keep treating U.S. citizens that way, and there may be a bounty for your heads on THIS side of the border!
"You're taping us. You know there's a bounty for our deaths in Mexico?"
Keep treating U.S. citizens that way, and there may be a bounty for your heads on THIS side of the border!
Same guy, worse scenario
Yes, bile, that's what happens when you stand on your rights when you're alone with them at night.
One of them in the nunchuks video actually said "You (agreed to or asked for) this by proxy. You want us to do the best job possible, don't you?"
Ja wohl, mein Herr.
Not in my name. I've told every elected official who supposedly represents me. Not in my name or for my supposed benefit. The solution is MORE freedom, not less. Instead of cozying up to dictators like Venezuela's Chavez, sanction them like Cuba until they see the light. We don't need anything they have. Mexico too. People come here for more money and more freedom. Send it THERE so they don't have to. It's the same land mass, there's just an invisible line. It's stupid.
It was clear that they wanted him to pull forward while an agent was in front of the car. I do believe they would have shot him and claimed self-defense.
Will people begin stopping for checkpoints ... 100 to 200 yards out? I think "yes."
But when you believe in "borders", and "securing" them, this is where it leads.
How far we've drifted...
Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same - still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state.
Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
West Berlin
June 12, 1987
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