bkmk
THAT video is flat out AWESOME!!!
bfl
Blatant tyranny bump
The motto of our modern police state is, “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.”
That has always been known as the voice of Totalitarianism.
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Is that whole video footage of various people resisting questions of citizenship at the US/Mexico border? I didn’t watch the whole video, it seemed to get repetitive after a while.
My lessons learned.
You only responses should be,
“Am I being detained?”
“What is your probable cause for detaining me?” (Challenge it with his/her next in charge.)
“Am I free to go.”
Along with me, many believe that if the officer turns away from you ^without further instructions^, you are free to go. If they call you back, YOU ARE BEING DETAINED and they will need to either explain or obtain a warrant for detaining you.
I’ve asked a LEO (in a semi-social setting) to paraphrase and interpret the 4th and 5th amendment for me. In his case, he couldn’t get past the “paraphrase” part.
Going to a Border Patrol checkpoint with the purpose of pissing off the agents is idiotic and accomplishes nothing.
I’m just not ballsy enough to do that...yet.
I still have a reputation even though it has been years. I was stopped by some dumbass borderpatrolman and I made him back off by threatening to call 911. I then wrote a letter to the editor describing what had happened and how furious I was, the idiot actually tried to pull his gun on me but he couldn’t get it unsnapped! His probable cause was that I was on a “known drug highway”. Except at checkpoints, I have never been stopped again.
Many years ago I was on a grand jury and the case was a guy who was stopped at a checkpoint and had agreed to let them search his car. Well, he obviously had something to hide and changed his mind and ran the checkpoint. They chased him for some miles and they said that he threw something out the window but they never recovered it. He was charged with reckless and careless driving but they wanted more so they wanted to indict him on “assault of a federal officer”.
The story was, when he took off an agent tried to run after him and fell down and tore his pants and scraped his knee!
I don’t doubt that the guy probably had contraband but they had no evidence of that and the assualt charge was cuz they were angry that they couldn’t charge him on anything worse than the driving citations. I argued for no indictment and I won. The AUSA was pretty mad, you could tell but we were in charge.
I have to say, I learned a lot about my rights in that GJ and I have educated others.
Now they have a drug dog pretty much 24/7 so if it alerts they already have probable cause.
• Add a secondary device covertly hidden in your vehicle in the event you are pulled over. Preferably, you’ll want it to be transportable when you go for a leisurely stroll, so a James Bond style spy pen may be your best bet. Most can record up to 6 hours of audio and video in high definition. If your camera is seized and the storage chip destroyed, your secondary device will not only prove your innocence, but show that evidence was purposefully destroyed.
Some MP3 players have a record feature for “note taking” and can be used, some of them even have 8GB-16Gb worth of recordable space and can be used to record literally DAYS worth of audio.
Some can be had for quite cheap price!
bkmk
At some point in the last couple of decades there was a shift in how the justice system deals with average citizens. No longer is there a presumption of innocence on the part of police or prosecutors. In the eyes of the government, we’re all guilty of something, a position that has left countless Americans imprisoned or dead for no other reason than the arresting officer or government attorney wanting to stroke their ego or increase their conviction rate.
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IMHO, another reason for these “countless” arrests, especially if they can be charged and convicted as a “felon” is to take away the 2nd amendment right to own a firearm, since a convicted felon cannot legally possess a firearm.
Bet that you had not thought about that....