Posted on 05/17/2011 5:32:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Just one: Why is a trained, experienced scientist posting retarded garbage on FR?
The field test was use as a screening test and not as a definitive test as you claim.
The officers in the field performed the field test, they obtained a (false as it turned out) positive result, so they arrested the suspect and sent the substance off to the lab for the definitive test. That result came back negative and so here we are.
Why is this so hard for you to understand?
Did you read any of the previous articles?
Please tell me that you don’t really think that the article linked by the OP is a complete description of this case.
Because there are other tests they could run in the field to minimize false-positives.
But you jackboots get raises based on the number of arrests you make, so might as well pump up the numbers.
If an innocent person spends a few days in jail because of your laziness, they probably deserve it for something they did, eh?
That may be true but I am certainly not assisting the leftists in destroying our country by posting irrational and dishonest criticisms of law enforcement officers on a conservative discussion board. So at least I’ve got that going for me.
“Accents (regional and foreign) do funny things with the English language. “
There’s a large family of Chinese at a local market who learned to speak English with a heavy southern drawl.
Combined with the residual Chinese inflections it causes me to snicker every time I hear it.
No, you're helping them by trying to make the government and their bureaucracy above reproach. The cops are not little tin gods.
You are too busy being a genius to say anything intelligent.
So now your charge is that the arresting agency deliberately issued to their officers an unnecessarily faulty field test (when better ones are readily available) in order to increase the number of (false) arrests they conduct?
Are you speaking now as an educated, experienced scientist or as a dishonest, bloviating, cop-hating fool?
(The fact that you imply that I’m a cop in such a way as to clearly indicate that you intend this as an insult argues for the latter explanation, doesn’t it?)
What you say here is simply false.
Nothing I have said on threads regarding this case has the effect you claim here. I am often critical of government at all levels including law enforcement agencies.
But it is a fact that leftism is predicated, more than anything else, on a culture of mindless, snide, sneering, sarcastic criticism of all institutions of our Civilization. And one of the sustaining lies of this culture of mindless criticism is that anyone who defends any institution in any particular case is attempting to quash all criticism.
So in saying what you did you have acted as a made-to-order tool of the leftists.
I've watched civil asset forfeiture laws, no-knock raids, and union rules and CYA turn metropolitan police departments from "peace officers" into bounty hunters and pension pimps that actively oppose RKBA for the average citizen.
Therefore what?
Therefore, I have reason to question their actions and accounts of events that in the past I would have taken at face value.
he was acting disoriented, he refused to pull over, they finally stopped him with puncture strips,
Do you have a link for this “report”?
There is a huge difference between intelligently questioning the particular actions of specific officers in an individual case and making false statements about some particular case.
What you have done on this thread is to make false statements about this particular case.
I called you on it. You said additional stupid things, you got mad, and now you’re making excuses.
But the plain, simple fact of the matter is that you stated at Reply #36 that the arrestee had done nothing wrong. I think that this is false and I have stated why.
Your previous experiences or observations change nothing.
Google the words Antonio, Hernandez, and Asheville, read a bit, then come back.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2717585/posts
There is a previous FR thread just in case you are intelligent and honest.
As far as whether I intelligently questioned the actions of these specific officers, I looked at the evidence and decided that the proposition that someone was trying to smuggle cocaine by mixing it into tortilla dough should have struck those officers as very unlikely at the time, given that once you did it would be virtually impossible to get it back out.
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