Editorial: Watching is a crime?(PA)

salisburypost.com ^ | 26 August, 2010 | Staff

[Mojave]

What crime was committed on the on the woman's property? I must have missed that part.

The article describes the offense and the subsequent conviction. Try reading it.

[magslinger]

I said so, when the laws do not protect the people as they should. And you hate the people (like me) when we don’t give JBTs the respect they think they deserve and are quite OK with laws being misused to deprive the people of their rights.

[Mojave]

I said so, when the laws do not protect the people as they should.

Who decides? You?

"Wants what he wants when he wants it -- and thinks that constitutes a natural law." --Robert Heinlein

[magslinger]

Because the laws laid down by England were too onerous to be borne this nation’s founding fathers instigated the Revolution. You and your statist friends might want to think about that. I don’t think Hesse is exporting troops these days.

[Mojave]

Because the laws laid down by England were too onerous

No. Because they were applied differently in the colonies. Read a book.

[magslinger]

We (the founding fathers, most FReepers and I) believe that the people should control the government and not the other way around. Wouldn’t you be more comfortable in some totalitarian nation or at least a statist oriented site like DU?

[Mojave]

We (the founding fathers, most FReepers and I) believe that the people should control the government

The law you're denigrating was enacted by the people through their elected representatives. Nice foot shot.

[Sarajevo]

The law you're denigrating was enacted by the people through their elected representatives. Nice foot shot.

You must be a cop. You are continually defending them and their supposed "right" to claim that a bystanders property which is unrelated to the issue needs to be secured.

Since you're shilling for the cops in question, and a BS "law", I'll go ahead and throw in a straw-man argument- ObamaCare was passed by "the people through our legally elected representatives". Do you support that? Go ahead and shoot yourself in the foot.

[Erik Latranyi]

ObamaCare was passed by "the people through our legally elected representatives". Do you support that? Go ahead and shoot yourself in the foot.

I am sure Mojave fully supports the police who will arrest you for not signing up for healthcare.

[Mojave]

You must be a cop.

Just as you must be a perp.

their supposed "right"

Statutory.

bystanders property which is unrelated

The bystanders pose a risk while out in the open. She could film through the window to her heart's content.

a BS "law"

Longstanding law common to most jurisdictions. You can always write a whiny letter to your legislator suggesting a new law. I wonder how it might read?

[Mojave]

the police who will arrest you for not signing up for healthcare.

Which "police" are those?

[magslinger]

The law you're denigrating was enacted by the people through their elected representatives. Nice foot shot.

Want to explain why the comments about the law and how it was enforced are mostly against the police? Yeah, nice foot shot, need help with that bleeding?

[Sarajevo]

Just as you must be a perp.

In the eyes of some cops, everyone is a perp. That's why they consistently pile so many BS charges on anyone they arrest. Therefore, I am guilty as charged. Come and arrest me.

The bystanders pose a risk while out in the open.

You just made that up, didn't you. Define: Bystander. What is the distance to where you are no longer a bystander but an active participant in the crime? Is it spitting distance, rock-throwing range, or the maximum effective range of a 7.62 round? Maybe the focal distance of a cell phone camera?

You can always write a whiny letter to your legislator suggesting a new law.

Statist troll. There are enough "laws" on the books to put everyone in the country in jail, especially if cops are allowed to make up new ones as they please.

[supercat]

The police neglected to use their x-ray vision and crystal balls to determine that.

Do police need x-ray vision and crystal balls to know whether they will be committing brutality? It would seem that an honest cop would know that he wouldn't be committing any brutality; he wouldn't need any special super-hero or psychic powers to know that.

[Mojave]

Want to explain why the comments about the law and how it was enforced are mostly against the police?

Easy. Your ilk likes to rant.

[Mojave]

Define: Bystander.

Webster's definition of BYSTANDER

: one present but not taking part in a situation or event : a chance spectator

No charge for the English lesson.

[Mojave]

Do police need x-ray vision and crystal balls to know whether they will be committing brutality?

ACLU types love to piss and wail about "police brutality" every chance they get.

[magslinger]

In my case at least, I hate to rant. Unfortunately I feel it is my duty to speak up whenever your ilk try to suppress liberties. That woman was doing nothing but exercise her rights until that JBT gave what is clearly an un Contitutional order and arrested her for not obeying it fast enough to satisfy his bloated ego. If you can’t see that, you would be much happier in a country that has no constitutional limits to police powers.

[magslinger]

It would seem that an honest cop would know that he wouldn't be committing any brutality; he wouldn't need any special super-hero or psychic powers to know that.

I think you nailed it right on the head.

[Mojave]

suppress liberties.

Cop hating hyperbole.