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Hinkle: Commit any felonies lately?
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 5 Jul 2013 | Barton Hinkle

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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To: stephenjohnbanker

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....


21 posted on 07/05/2013 11:55:19 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

cORRECT.


22 posted on 07/05/2013 11:56:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Billthedrill

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....


23 posted on 07/05/2013 11:57:25 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: mandaladon

Why did you take the first five paragraphs from the article and jam it all into one?


24 posted on 07/05/2013 12:03:07 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: GraceG

Given all that and the Police state we find ourselves living in, you’re lucky to be alive :)


25 posted on 07/05/2013 12:05:23 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: mandaladon

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’.


26 posted on 07/05/2013 12:07:26 PM PDT by GOPJ ((MSNBC?)... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: mandaladon

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’.


27 posted on 07/05/2013 12:07:27 PM PDT by GOPJ ((MSNBC?)... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: DesertRhino
Where’s that quote from? (please lord,, just this once, please don’t let it be from the posted article I didn’t open and read)

You're safe this time... It's from "Atlas Shrugged."

Mark

28 posted on 07/05/2013 12:08:02 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: AAABEST
Rain, reign or rein? Still, your question is valid. Unless the selling of beer to minors is a huge problem, seven is overkill. Wait for the real threat, the training of a special police force, Homeland Security Police, is happening now. They are trained as military units but with powers to arrest. At present, only the US Coast Guard has powers to arrest. The other branches cannot arrest.
This DHSP force is Obama’s dream of an army he can control, (through DHS Secretary).
29 posted on 07/05/2013 12:22:18 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
If all laws were enforced, everyone would be in jail.

That's the goal.

30 posted on 07/05/2013 12:27:59 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Bullish
The the beginnings of the new Gestapo under Obama’s reign of terror.

Obama has escalated it, but Nixon started it and every POTUS after that expanded it.

31 posted on 07/05/2013 12:29:20 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: muir_redwoods

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.


32 posted on 07/05/2013 12:29:23 PM PDT by GOPJ ((MSNBC?)... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: Fully Awake DAV

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.


33 posted on 07/05/2013 12:40:04 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: GOPJ

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


34 posted on 07/05/2013 12:49:17 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: mandaladon

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.


35 posted on 07/05/2013 12:49:38 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: MeganC

“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.


36 posted on 07/05/2013 12:55:04 PM PDT by Owl558 (Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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To: Fully Awake DAV

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.


37 posted on 07/05/2013 1:10:52 PM PDT by relictele (A community vigilant in enforcing economic, racial and social equality. It was called Jonestown.)
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To: elkfersupper
That's what's frustrating. These deluded people tell themselves it's all Obama’s fault. Then, probably donate to MADD or the Fraternal Order of Police.
38 posted on 07/06/2013 1:38:40 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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