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To: Mark was here
Some Crackpots actually thought the Bill of Rights stood for something.

The right to murder police officers. Which Amendment was that again?

139 posted on 12/10/2005 9:03:19 AM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
The right to murder police officers. Which Amendment was that again?

The right to be secure in ones property, if the case is the cops came in unannounced.

143 posted on 12/10/2005 9:08:09 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Mojave
The right to murder police officers. Which Amendment was that again? Hmmm...let's see. Premeditated? No. Let's see? was the "muderer" listed on the warrant? No. Were there drugs found? No. I think we have a few amendments to pick from. You can't even admit it was a screw up and in your world it's Ok for the cops to bust in the wrong place as long as long as they say they are sorry afterwards. Thank God you were around in the 18th century. You just ain't getting it.
147 posted on 12/10/2005 9:16:20 AM PST by NELSON111
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To: Mojave
The right to murder police officers. Which Amendment was that again?

Self defense is covered by the ninth amendment. The Declaration of Independence states:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—

The second amendment protects the right to the means of self defense, while the ninth protects rights not enumerated in the other amendments, which includes the right to life as enumerated in the Declaration.

To not even consider that the accused might have thought he was defending his and his child's life is pretty darn statist, IMHO. If nothing else the accused is supposed to be given the benefit of any reasonable doubt, of which there seems to be plenty in this case.

Negligent homicide is about the most severe case to be made, and even then you'd have to demonstrate that a reasonable person would have known the people breaking in were police.

153 posted on 12/10/2005 9:25:03 AM PST by El Gato
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To: Mojave
The right to murder police officers. Which Amendment was that again?

If [and I don't know that this is the case] the decedent forcibly entered this person's dwelling without a facially-valid warrant authorizing the officer to enter the dwelling in the manner he did, then the decedent was a robber who got what he deserved.

421 posted on 12/11/2005 8:22:04 PM PST by supercat (Sony delinda est.)
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