Posted on 08/05/2004 4:41:52 AM PDT by joesnuffy
Pulled over by an ***hole with power.
Let's get a couple of minorities to drive the truck. Let's see those politically correct pro-choicers verbally abuse a minority and get away with it!
That's supposed to be mildly funny, somewhat true, and 100% sarcastic!
It is well established that the First Amendment allows for restrictions on "time, place, and manner". I expect these troopers would have dealt the same way with an anti-war group's truck bearing graphic images of the mangled bodies of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.
This was in Connecticut, driving home from Mass.
I believe if you're a "Jesus Freak" you can be abused despite racial background. /sarcasm
... and the other kicked out of Connecticut by state troopers!- excerpted from the article..
Besides sports teams, what's the difference?
Thanks!
Mass. drivers drive crazily in all lanes, but CT drivers do 60 in a 65 zone, and only in the left lane.
Next time they should travel in a convoy, along with a car-full of Tom Hagen-like lawyers ready to file a show-cause motion in the nearest courthouse.
TROOP G - Bridgeport
149 Prospect Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
TELEPHONE:
(800) 575-6330
(203) 696-2500
(Note: The 800 number can only be used inside Connecticut.)
Here is the address of the commander of the Connecticut State Police:
Colonel Edward J. Lynch
Deputy Commissioner
1111 Country Club Road
Middletown, Connecticut 06457-9294
Telephone: (860) 685-8441
Fax: (860) 685-8354
"Jesus-freak"????? Since when are the police entitled to yell names and intimidate Christians on account of their religion? Clear breach of the First Amendment in my view.
Calling Christians "Jesus-freaks" is not a permissible time, place or manner restriction.
"It is well established that the First Amendment allows for restrictions on "time, place, and manner". I expect these troopers would have dealt the same way with an anti-war group's truck bearing graphic images of the mangled bodies of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq."
These cops set themselves up as judge and jury. Escorting someone to the stateline???? Apparently they didn't even give them 'til sundown.
As agents for the government would you call what these cops did "shrinkage" or "not shrinkage". Gee, let me think about this for a minute.
None of which even remotely applies here.
If these men were driving around with color photos of surgical procedures on their truck, the trooper would have a point.
But there is a holocaust going on in America right now, and these photos serve to alert the public to this unpleasant fact. This fact outweighs the public's right to be free from exposure to unpleasant images.
The driver may or may not be in violation of some law. But that fact is irrelevant, in absolute moral terms. However, the driver should be willing to pay whatever fine is applicable.
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