Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse at night...All lit up so the bad guys can't see it.
No expense is too much for the feds when their using your money.
There are several thousand more pics available of this small modest courthouse, on the Internet.
“Have we ever actually caught a terrorist taking pictures while openly carrying a handgun?”
Actually, they caught two ragheads taking pics of bridges in New York. Had to let them go as didn’t catch them in the act, but you know they were up to no good. And there were other ragheads, I think it was out west somewhere, taking pics of dams and another one of nuke facilities, and here in Chicago, some Muzzies were taking suspicious pics of the Sears Tower. And you are intentionally missing the point. This guy was setting up the cops equally intentionally. And bringing them out for suspicious behavior (I assume someone called in on him, unless a squad car came by) took these cops, plus an expensive to fly helicopter out while another actual crime could have been happening on the other side of town while manpower was being wasted on this idiot. Keep trying to justify it you guys. You can’t, but just to make as equally a stupid point as this guy was making, you will continue on.
Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse at night...All lit up so the bad guys can't see it.
No expense is too much for the feds when their using your money.
There are several thousand more pics available of this small modest courthouse, on the Internet.
That was the point, it would be hard to miss — if you think the cops are overstepping, you test it by committing legal acts and standing up to them when they try to stop you.
Once we were handing out republican literature at an annual meeting of an electric cooperative. The police came to stop us. We had to speak quite some time to convince them that while the meeting was “private”, the sidewalk in front of the public building could not be “reserved” and therefore was available for literature and protest.
We can of course just stop doing anything that police don’t want us to do. But police don’t make the laws, they enforce them. There is no law against standing on a public sidewalk and taking a picture of a public building. The only reason he could “bait” the police is because the police decided it was suspicious.
And while a vast majority of terrorists have been muslim, a vast majority of muslims are not terrorists. And surprisingly to some, muslims do some things “normal” people do, like sightseeing. Until we get that whole “precog” thing working, we will be stuck with mere speculation that people are “up to no good”. And either sadly or thankfully, we don’t let police decide who is “up to no good” based on their speculation.
And that means that terrorists will get away with some terrorism, and that is the price we pay for not getting locked up for legal activity. A police state can be a safe place. It just isn’t a place I want to live.
“ragheads” - YOU’RE A RACIST AND YOU’RE PROFILING!!!!