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Nanny-State Mindset Leads to Police Brutality
RealClearPolitics ^ | August 4, 2014 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 08/04/2014 7:13:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In Florida recently, police pulled up to a young boy playing in the park and asked where his mother lived. According to a report on WPTV, the mom was then arrested for "allowing her son to go to the park alone." Her son had a cellphone, and she would check in with him along the way. The mom believes "he's old enough, but Port St. Lucie Police disagree."

There is a tendency to dismiss stories such as this as a silly mistake by an overzealous police officer, but sadly it's part of a larger problem. In fact, a similar story of arresting a mom for not supervising her child 24/7/365 took place a few weeks back in South Carolina. A Washington Post column reported these incidents as part of a series on "the increasing criminalization of everything and the use of the criminal justice system to address problems that were once (and better) handled by families, friends, communities and other institutions."

This abuse of governmental authority is the natural extension of nanny-state efforts such as the crusade to ban large sugary drinks. Once you accept the premise that so-called experts should decide what's best for the rest of us, the only question remaining is how to deal with people who don't comply.

It's the same mindset that believes the National Security Agency should be allowed to read all our emails and monitor our phone calls in the name of national security. Just trust us, they say. We're from the government, and we're here to help....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: lawenforcement; nannystate; police; policebrutality

1 posted on 08/04/2014 7:13:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Bender2; Lil'freeper

Yup


2 posted on 08/04/2014 7:28:16 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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jeepers crimminy crackers, at least give the kids age so we could decide for ourselves if its too young to leave a child alone.


3 posted on 08/04/2014 7:40:12 PM PDT by willywill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At five years old, I was exploring old Wehrmacht army barracks. Once I brought back a ‘pineapple’ grenade I found.


4 posted on 08/04/2014 8:44:24 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I was a young lad, my folks would kick us out of the house and tell us to stay out till lunchtime, my problem was making it home by dinner. There were too many woods to explore back then. I miss my Tom Sawyer days. I guess my folks would be felons by today’s standards.


5 posted on 08/04/2014 9:09:53 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I was seven I was given pocket money and told to walk the mile into town and get a haircut, then walk back. The dogs from the farms I passed would always come out and walk to town with me, and accompany me back after the haircut, peeling off as they came to their farms until I got home again, alone.


6 posted on 08/05/2014 12:30:14 AM PDT by Doug Loss
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