Trouble is, most people don’t know they have the right to say No, or they’re simply too nervous to decline... [More]Trouble is, most people don't know they have a lot of rights, or they're simply too sheeplike to insist on them...
Even worse, the particularly foolish and unworthy have abdicated their rights, and insist that the government deny them to those of us who refuse to follow suit.
I guess this bill is a good thing and I'm just being a pill. I just don't get folks who think they don't have rights unless the government tells them they do, and having them spelled out for us by those with career incentives to keep us ignorant seems like a whole 'nother way for things to get screwed up.
Besides, what have you got to hide?
[Via Mack H]
Video today showed Maryland cops suddenly swarming one college kid and wailing on him with their batons, with no provocation, and rendering him unconscious. Kid's rights mattered not in the least to these thugs in uniform. Now we know why Maryland insists on disarming its citizens: to allow the police to strike at will without fear of reprisal.
ReplyDeleteI no longer believe that there are "rogue cops". I believe that ALL police are no longer LEOs, but enemies of the people.
I posted the link to that video yesterday.
ReplyDeleteSo you did. I saw it on the news today. That said, though, my belief about the cops still stands.
ReplyDeleteThe REAL trouble is, every time most people assert their rights like me, they end up in Jail with $2000 worth of legal bills and no recourse to follow up on the FALSE ACCUSATIONS that put us there.
ReplyDeleteThe Sheeple are well-trained.
ReplyDeleteThis bill, IF signed into law, should help a little. Think of it as a civil rights act. Sort of.
Note, if you have read the bill, there is no penalty for LEOs who disobey.
An oversight, no doubt.
The practical problem with exerting your rights against the excesses of cops is that traitorous judges and others have put forth unconstitutional rulings that claim to allow such rights to be circumvented. In the case of refusal to a search, the old "get the drug dog, let him 'smell something'" ruse is used. The foundational concept that such a law or ruling is void on its face (Marbury v Madison, 1803) is completely foreign to enforcers of "it's the law!" flavor.
ReplyDeleteMy last confrontation with a cop reaffirmed what I'd already known, that most all cops are impervious to reason and resort immediately to threats of lethal force (I consider 'taken to jail' a lethal threat for numerous reasons, and also because the threat is of course backed up with a gun).
I now realize that every encounter I may have with a law enforcement officer is riding a razor's edge between a harmless annoyance and a lethal confrontation. Since I would prefer to avoid being murdered for refusing to allow a select number of my God-given rights to be trampled on, I've resorted to taking careful measures to avoid such encounters, particularly when I'm driving.
Of course, should I have the rotten luck to find myself in such a situation that I'm unable to foresee, prevent, or escape using persuasiveness or reason, the only thing my next of kin will ever be told is that I was some crazy wannabe cop-killing fanatic who was a danger to society and thank goodness I was put down like a mad dog; oh, and of course our cop cameras don't have the video nor audio, sorry.