Million of illegal aliens routinely entering illegally, while your government offers them prizes, coupons, free healthcare, welfare etc, laugh in your face.
Top 5 ways to avoid arrest:
1) Obey the law
2) Obey the law
3) Obey the law
4) Obey the law
5) Obey the law
Obeying the law doesn’t matter when interpreted by a moron with a gun and authority. FHP searched my car two weeks ago. Nothing found and my rights were violated. Nowhere to go... im ex-leo and still say f the police...
1) Obey the law
Tell that to George Zimmerman.
I’ll say it first.
Histroy has proven you wrong, just look upthread, and keep reading FR, there are countless situations showing otherwise.
From Charles Kesler, published in the Claremont Review of Books 3/21/10
Can you have a bill, a single law, that is almost 3,000 pages long? In the old days, that would have constituted a whole code of laws. When our founders thought about law, they often thought along the lines of John Locke, who described law as a community’s “settled standing rules, indifferent, and the same to all parties,” emphasizing that to be legitimate a statute must be “received and allowed by common consent to be the standard of right and wrong, and the common measure to decide all controversies” between citizens.
This phonebook-sized law that would control a sixth of the U.S. economy cannot be a law by that definition. If you rummage through the text of, say, the House of Representatives’ version of the bill, you find scores of places where power is delegated to administrative agencies and special boards, which are charged to fill the gaps in the written legislation by promulgating thousands, if not tens of thousands, of new pages of regulations that will then be applied to individual cases. Voters sometimes complain that legislators don’t read the laws they enact. Why would they, in this case? You could read this leviathan until your eyeballs popped out and still not find any “settled, standing rules” or a meaning that is “indifferent, and the same to all parties.”
In fact, that’s the point of such promiscuous laws. They operate not by setting up fences to protect each man’s liberty. They start not from equal rights but from equal (and often unequal) privileges, the favors or benefits that government may bestow on or withhold from its clients. The whole point is to empower government officials, usually unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, to bless or curse your petitions as they see fit, guided, of course, by their expertness in a law so vast, so intricate, and so capricious that it could justify a hundred different outcomes in the same case. Faster than one might think, a government of equal laws turns into a regime of arbitrary privileges.
A “privilege” is literally a private law. When law ceases to be a common “standard of right and wrong” and a “common measure to decide all controversies,” then the rule of law ceases to be republican and becomes despotic. Freedom itself ceases to be a right and becomes a gift, or the fruit of a corrupt bargain, because in such degraded regimes those who are close to and connected with the ruling class have special privileges.
paging ayn rand. ayn rand, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Would that things were so simple.
Obey the law doesn’t always work. Ask Mr. Zimmerman about this.
Ask the guy shot down in Costco parking lot.
Ask the many many people who have had cash or vehicles or boats seized without trial.
Ask the hundreds of people subjected to no knock raids based on informants bad info.
Ask the guy who’s dog was shot in his own front yard while playing with a Frisbee when a cop f’d up an address.
Ask 6 million Jews rounded up and cooked. They were following the law. The people rounding up the Jews where following your hallowed law as well.
So let’s all just follow the law.
Congratulations for winning my “Most Clueless Post of the Week” Award.
You forgot 6) Pray that everybody who looks like you also obeys the law.
1. Obey the Law
2. Use common sense
3. Stop immediately
4. Turn that **** off.
5. Be polite
6. Shut the **** up.
7. Get a white friend.
8. Don’t ride with a mad woman.
Million of illegal aliens routinely entering illegally, while your government offers them prizes, coupons, free healthcare, welfare etc, laugh in your face.
“Top 5 ways to avoid arrest:
1) Obey the law
2) Obey the law
3) Obey the law
4) Obey the law
5) Obey the law
“
It may reduce your chances.
Anyone can be arrested at any time. All they need is suspicion, or a desire to arrest you/screw with you.
You certainly lower your chances of arrest by obeying the law, but it won’t necessarily protect you.
Now tell me, do you know all the laws? There is no way on earth. There are too many laws to keep track of. I would bet that every one of us violates some law or other multiple times per week and don’t even realize it.
There are so many laws on the books you cannot go a single day without committing at least one felony. It is IMPOSSIBLE to “obey the law” completely, period.
Wrong. You can still be arrested w/o charges filed just on mere suspicion of not obeying the law. And how the H are you supposed to defend against that? Thankfully the prosecution still has to have a case to convince a judge or jury. But for how much longer? And a bogus arrest doesn’t save you from the arrest record, detention or legal fees.