Posted on 07/06/2005 7:07:36 AM PDT by Diva Duck
Thank God we'll be better armed, since we'll be badly outnumbered.
"Have we now deteriorated into some sort of banana republic where pressure groups dictate public policy and the rule of law be damned?"
Yes.
Until they get elected. Then they follow suit.
"We don't elect the CEO's or the rich campaign financier's, so are we actually a democracy, they don't seem to be paying much attention to "We the People". Start voting for the ones with the least cash, they're the ones who haven't been bought and are the least influenced."
People are stupid. They vote name recognition, period. The stupid people, (and there are lots of them), are getting the government they deserve. The rest of us... we're just getting hosed.
Just curious...Does Denver PD use cameras for traffic enforcement/revenue generation???
Yes, we do need to make sure they can't come back.
It's FUN to photograph illegals. They scatter like las cukarachas. I had a friend that wanted to take some pictures of his new house while it was being constructed. He pulled out his camera and all of a sudden there was nobody on the site.
Well, then, the superiors are "aiding and abetting", also called "misprision of a felony".
More than sufficient to have the cuffs slapped on them. Anybody in the Lone Star state got the guts to do a Citizens arrest?
It's not a bullet proof theory, thats for sure.
Can we start calling it Confiscation of Private Property instead of Eminent Domain?
And Felonious Alien instead of illegal immigrant?
(just a suggestion, not taking anybody to task. Too early in the morning to start bashing freepers.)
There is no right not to be photographed. That is well established in law. That is why the paparazzi exist. They can't run your car off the road, but they can peep in your windows. Peeping isn't exactly against the law.
If we aren't a banana republic, we are getting very, very close to the edge of the cliff. The 2000 election was very close to a turd world election, IIRC. And the band keeps playing "Nearer My God to Thee."
Better yet, don't photograph the day workers, photograph the employers who drive up to hire them.
If the police and the army protect the illegals instead of us, we'll be screwn. We better hope we have the army on our side. Any further discussion had better be taken offline. Far, far offline.
I don't know but Houston announced JUST LAST WEEK that they're going ahead with plans to photograph red light runners. Of course border jumping felons will just tear up the citations, if they ever gave a correct address in the first place. The citizens get screwn again. First, last, and in the middle.
WRITE TO OR CALL THE MAYOR AT:
Mayor Bill White
City of Houston
P.O. Box 1562
Houston, TX 77251
PHONE: 713.247.2200
There's a big difference between a law breaker who will pay the fines (municipal income) and a law breaker that will cost the municipalities to handle. It's much cheeper and more popular with the farming/construction business to ignore the problem.
rule of law went south a long time ago.
some highlights from california:
1. when i moved to costa mesa in 1986 illegals and their families were living by the dozens in rental homes. on my street there was one house with 30 cars. we counted them.
the judges ruled against the homeowners--violating city occupancy laws. one irony, at the same time police were issuing tickets to whites who sold stuff at stop signs and traffic lights. but when illegals showed up selling carnations and roses, the police did not ticket them. thus, gradually the practice changed so that white americans could do what they formerly could not do.
prices fell and many long time white homeowners sold their homes at losses because the neighborhoods were now stressed and gang and graffiti habited. they felt threatened.
knives and guns appeared at school bus stops. this increased the fear and american homeowners vacated those 'hoods for safer cities.
usually the feds bought the homes and sold them to the illegals using your tax monies to finance.
ironically, the white americans that rented their houses made big bucks.
this process was repeated ad infinitum across california.
2. in the late 80s the l.a. city council instructed l.a. police to not pick up illegals. jackie goldberg, l.a. city councilwoman,a lesbian activist and veteran of the berkeley "free speech" riots was the one who pushed this.
3. during prop 187 the san diego sheriffs watch nearby while a mexican high school protest burned an american flag. an american white guy attempted to rescue the american flag and was beaten up by the high school students, as the sheriffs watched. they did not intervene. the high school teachers had let the students out to protest prop 187.
No, if this were a banana republic then our schools would be propaganda instruments for nonce ideology instead of refined institutions of dispassionate learning.
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