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Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn't talk to the police
Disloyal Opposition ^ | July 26, 2008 | J.D. Tuccille

Posted on 07/30/2008 5:21:36 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast

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To: VOA
For later.
61 posted on 07/31/2008 11:00:43 AM PDT by Lurker (Islam is an insane death cult. Any other aspects are PR to get them within throat-cutting range.)
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To: Hacksaw

>I’ve encountered only one who was a real dick, and he was likely that way before he ever became a cop. Most others have been very professional.<

When you have to deal with the dickhead cop be sure to always write a letter to the Chief relating the incident. That will almost guarantee that the letter will end up in the cops performance file.


62 posted on 07/31/2008 11:02:34 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man.)
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To: nina0113

I would think you could see that investigating her and investigating someone else is a different situation.


63 posted on 07/31/2008 11:18:33 AM PDT by DeLaine
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To: Graybeard58

I don’t know Graybeard...you’d better be careful! heehee


64 posted on 07/31/2008 11:22:08 AM PDT by DeLaine
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To: Hacksaw

Perry Police are, as you say...dickheads. But the Houston Sheriff’s deputies are my HEROES for the way they helped me while I was separated and my husband was harrassing me.


65 posted on 07/31/2008 11:24:38 AM PDT by DeLaine
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To: durasell

Speaking of moron, try listening to what he is saying. :D


66 posted on 07/31/2008 11:27:55 AM PDT by DeLaine
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To: TXFireman

ping for later watching


67 posted on 07/31/2008 11:45:52 AM PDT by Jonx6
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To: DeLaine
you’d better be careful!

You're right, he does have that shifty look in his eye. Click my screen name, scroll down and that's him on the right side of the picture. (on his wedding day)

He even looks like a cop. Of course I can't tell them apart, they all look alike to me.

68 posted on 07/31/2008 11:48:03 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Ich bin ein Berloser - Barak Hussein Mohammed Obama)
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To: dcwusmc
"With the scores of thousands of laws we have, we are only felons who haven’t gotten caught yet. But they’ll decide what to charge us with when they get around to it."

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers."

Ayn Rand

69 posted on 07/31/2008 11:57:35 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Graybeard58

Yeah, surrre they all look alike to you. I bet your boy stands out. hehe, I’m right aren’t I


70 posted on 07/31/2008 1:16:43 PM PDT by DeLaine
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To: Joe 6-pack

I agree with Ayn Rand (and you, by extension) 1000%. Nor do I assume any unearned guilt. But my statement is, in fact, true, as I am sure you realize... and if someone is OUT TO GET someone else, it’s altogether too easy to find something, ANYTHING at all, to charge them with.


71 posted on 07/31/2008 4:12:05 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: dcwusmc
Sadly it's not a new phenomenon. Tacitus wrote:

"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

72 posted on 07/31/2008 4:21:05 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: DeLaine

Here he is:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282017/posts

and here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1400633/posts


73 posted on 07/31/2008 5:11:30 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Ich bin ein Berloser - Barak Hussein Mohammed Obama)
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To: OnRightOnLeftCoast

ping


74 posted on 07/31/2008 6:11:40 PM PDT by mr snerd
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To: Jonx6

Well worth the time bump.


75 posted on 08/01/2008 6:15:53 PM PDT by Jonx6
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To: mountainbunny
Using your reasoning, the Founders must've been somehow in collusion with Al Queda or their ilk when they wrote the Bill of Rights. It gives ordinary citizens and accused criminals all sorts of "outrageous" rights. What the Hell were they thinking?

You put your finger on a very sensitive point for me.
First of all, don't be silly. AlQaeda didn't exist when our Constitution was adopted.

Yes the Founding Fathers did exactly that, but they weren't aware of it, and had no way of knowing that, 215 years later, the Courts would create rights for criminals, particulary foreign nationals which, by the standards of the day when the Constitution was ratified, were unthinkable.

How is this relevant? Perverting laws which were created under one set of societal rules, and applying them willy-nilly to what amounts to a different country, carries with it a whole new set of legal problems.

Neither hyperbole nor sarcasm will resolve those conundrums and contradictions.

76 posted on 08/05/2008 9:29:34 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: cornfedcowboy
To all-this is mandatory viewing, even if you are a criminal lawyer.

I totally agree.
The system is certainly prone to errors, but no system is perfect.
Of course, even if the odds are 100,000 to 1 in your favor, being innocent and convicted is no picnic.

In the past my position and my defense of it has been, OK, I acknowledge that possibily, and am willing to accept it, rather than letting the other 99,999 criminals go free, and not allow my love of absolute perfection to create God-knows how many additional victims.

But that's an individual choice on my part, in a free society.

77 posted on 08/05/2008 11:01:14 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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