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To: flutters

Has anyone else noticed that even the smallest infractions (like this was even an infraction) are being punished with being arrested now. It used to be when I was a kid, cops lectured people on certain things.


18 posted on 05/29/2009 8:56:10 AM PDT by refreshed
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To: refreshed
It used to be when I was a kid, cops lectured people on certain things.

When we were kids people had common sense. Had the park lawn gone unmowed, a group such as the Rotary, or VFW, or AL would have done it. If they didn't a local citizen would have, and everyone would have thanked him.

40 posted on 05/29/2009 9:22:23 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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It’s right out of Ayn Rand.

Make so many things illegal that even the law abiding citizens start to break laws.


43 posted on 05/29/2009 9:26:53 AM PDT by JenB987
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“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.”

Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3


51 posted on 05/29/2009 9:48:55 AM PDT by CSM (Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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To: refreshed

A cop (plainclothes but she identified herself as a cop) recently lectured me about my 6 year old boy, strapped in the car with a seatbelt, who she felt I was endangering by not keeping him in a booster seat longer, even though I violated no laws (CA law says seat belts alone OK after age 6).

My boy was cowering and crying with fear and thought I was endangering his life by not putting him in a booster.

So, I don’t mind being spared the lectures.

(CA is a police state.)


53 posted on 05/29/2009 9:50:58 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: refreshed

“Has anyone else noticed that even the smallest infractions (like this was even an infraction) are being punished with being arrested now. It used to be when I was a kid, cops lectured people on certain things.”

>According to a police report, a witness said Hamilton was blowing grass onto the sidewalk and shredding trash in the park that had not been picked up. Police said they arrested the 48-year-old Hamilton after he refused to stop mowing and charged him with obstructing official business and disorderly conduct.<

It sounds like he was arrested for being a knucklehead.


56 posted on 05/29/2009 10:06:44 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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