Posted on 07/05/2013 10:55:50 AM PDT by mandaladon
Elizabeth Daly went to jail over a case of bottled water. According to the Charlottesville Daily Progress, shortly after 10 p.m. April 11, the University of Virginia student bought ice cream, cookie dough and a carton of LaCroix sparkling water from the Harris Teeter grocery store at the popular Barracks Road Shopping Center. In the parking lot, a half-dozen men and a woman approached her car, flashing some kind of badges. One jumped on the hood. Another drew a gun. Others started trying to break the windows. Daly understandably panicked. With her roommate in the passenger seat yelling “Go, go, go!” Daly drove off, hoping to reach the nearest police station. The women dialed 911. Then a vehicle with lights and sirens pulled them over, and the situation clarified: The people who had swarmed Daly’s vehicle were plainclothes agents of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The agents had thought the sparkling water was a 12-pack of beer. Did the ABC’s enforcers apologize? Not in the slightest. They charged Daly with three felonies: two for assaulting an officer (her vehicle had grazed two agents; neither was hurt) and one for eluding the police. Last week, the commonwealth’s attorney dropped the charges. The agents’ excessive display of force is outrageously disproportionate to the offense they mistakenly thought they witnessed: an underage purchase of alcohol.
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If all laws were enforced, everyone would be in jail.
If all laws were enforced equally, there would be far less stuipid legislation, there would be far less legislation and regulation.
If millions of “enforcement droids” were to drop out of the sky and started enforcing every law on the books starting at sunrise, before lunch everyone would be in jail....
cORRECT.
Or not even that. I was sitting on my deck one summer day when a kestrel smacked into the window at full stoop, breaking its little neck. Beautiful little bird. So I called a taxidermist to see if I could get it stuffed and was told that (1) I couldn’t own such a thing without a permit, (2) I couldn’t donate it to a school or museum or library unless they had such a permit, (3) I couldn’t be in possession of it, and (4) there was no legal way to get rid of it. “Just bury it in the backyard and forget we ever had this conversation,” is what she told me, and what I did. I hope the NSA doesn’t flag this post for that. Now, there are also eagles hereabouts, and so when I picked up an interesting-looking feather from that same backyard, I became a criminal - can’t be in possession of such a thing unless you’re a registered member of a Native American tribe. I suspect even having it laying in my backyard was technically in possession.
Another consequence of those who write the laws not having to deal with situations that involve the laws....
Why did you take the first five paragraphs from the article and jam it all into one?
Given all that and the Police state we find ourselves living in, you’re lucky to be alive :)
The Obama people are attempting to create a unified federal police force... well, more like a unified federal police army.
It’s part of the totalitarian bullsh*t Obama’s Chicago goons are attempting to pass off as ‘security’.
The Obama people are attempting to create a unified federal police force... well, more like a unified federal police army.
It’s part of the totalitarian bullsh*t Obama’s Chicago goons are attempting to pass off as ‘security’.
You're safe this time... It's from "Atlas Shrugged."
Mark
That's the goal.
Obama has escalated it, but Nixon started it and every POTUS after that expanded it.
It’s not so much the ‘police’ that are the problem - it’s a liberal totalitarian mindset that’s changing based on influence from the FBI, Homeland Insecurity and Southern Poverty Law Center for PC hatred. An attempt is being made to create a ‘secret police’ for the benefit of one political group... You know how it works if you think about third world hellholes run by ruling elites. Every banana republic has goon squads.
Excellent question, and also, even if it had been beer, would the infraction merit the response appropriate to a bank robbery or the abduction of a child?
When I was 18, my friends and I weren’t buying beer.....it was a whole bunch of other stuff - but I don’t recall the cops being like that in the East Village or Haight Ashbury where people smoked reefer openly in the street.
My comment indicated who, in my opinion, is to blame but the cops who accept this role are not blameless. Many, if not nearly all, enjoy being JBTs
I was thinking. If those cops would have blown those girls
away, what would their report say and what evidence would
have been planted? It is by the grace of god these girls
are still alive.
“California cops, OTOH (and aside from the Highway Patrol) are almost all uniformly THUGS.”
In my experience living here, MY county sheriffs are great. The Highway Patrol, wardens and rengers are professional and fair. It’s other county’s sherriffs and city cops that you have to watch out for.
Doesn’t matter to the police. They have watched far too many films and all think of themselves as Eddie Murphy or Steven Segal.
The appalling standard of baseline knowledge for high school and college graduates isn’t just about literature and history; it’s also about a lack of perspective.
In other words, they aren’t really adults so expecting adult behavior is futile.
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