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Last week, A.J. Marin was arrested in Harrisburg, Pa., for writing in chalk on the sidewalk. Marin was participating in a health care demonstration outside Gov. Tom Corbett’s residence when he wrote, “Governor Corbett has health insurance, we should too.” Authorities charged Marin with writing “a derogatory remark about the governor on the sidewalk.” The horror...............Cops are going nuts?
1 posted on 07/05/2013 10:55:51 AM PDT by mandaladon
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“I broke the law yesterday,” writes George Mason economics professor Alex Tabarrok, “and I probably will break the law tomorrow. Don’t mistake me, I have done nothing wrong. I don’t even know what laws I have broken. … It’s hard for anyone to live today without breaking the law. Doubt me? Have you ever thrown out some junk mail that … was addressed to someone else? That’s a violation of federal law punishable by up to five years in prison.” Tabarrok notes that lawyer Harvey Silverglate thinks the typical American commits “Three Felonies a Day” — the title of Silverglate’s book on the subject.........How has our country changed
2 posted on 07/05/2013 11:00:19 AM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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Cops are the muscles of the state. It’s unrealistic to expect cops to be any better than the state and the state has become worse and worse in the last sixty years . I expect the police to become no better nor any different from a street gang except better dressed and better armed.


3 posted on 07/05/2013 11:02:38 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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....Cops are going nuts?

Yes, I think so. They are the subject of a third amendment case!

5 posted on 07/05/2013 11:06:23 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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The the beginnings of the new Gestapo under Obama’s reign of terror.


6 posted on 07/05/2013 11:10:06 AM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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Thank God it wasn’t the SWAT-nazis with their black ninja suits on or those two girls, and any dog that may have been with them, would be dead. Disgraceful.


7 posted on 07/05/2013 11:11:19 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: mandaladon

I have asked this question on this and other threads... but so far no one can answer..
How would the ABC agents have any idea how old the young lady was at the time of purchase?


8 posted on 07/05/2013 11:13:24 AM PDT by Fully Awake DAV (Navy Vet when homosexuality was not tolerated)
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

9 posted on 07/05/2013 11:16:02 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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One cop could have handled the situation without incident, but a gang of cops are bound to act like a gang. They get thuggish. And then, when one of their superiors with a little common sense should have apologized and dropped the charges, procedure kicked in, and there wasn’t so much as a half a wit to be found. The whole department needs it butt kicked.


12 posted on 07/05/2013 11:24:06 AM PDT by pallis
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The agents’ excessive display of force is outrageously disproportionate to the offense ... no kidding. should have done a drone strike. /sarc
13 posted on 07/05/2013 11:24:57 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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The agents’ excessive display of force is outrageously disproportionate to the offense ...

no kidding. should have done a drone strike. /sarc

14 posted on 07/05/2013 11:25:25 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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“Cops are going nuts?”

Enough of them are that anytime I see a cop outside of my own county I am frankly afraid of them.

Park County, Wyoming Sheriffs’ deputies are uniformly polite and courteous to our family...even when they are deputies we do not personally know.

California cops, OTOH (and aside from the Highway Patrol) are almost all uniformly THUGS. They’re bullies who like to order people around and they love to destroy your stuff when they search things. When we were moving out of California we got stopped by Placer County sheriffs enough to realize that we were being targeted for some reason. Each time they made us unload our truck or trailer on the side of the road and then one time we had to wait several hours for them to get a drug sniffing dog to go over our stuff. They found nothing.

I will NEVER go back to California. It is a police state and they can keep it.


18 posted on 07/05/2013 11:48:13 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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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.

WTF are SEVEN armed cops doing at a shopping center waiting to rain down on little girls?

I guess this municipality is rich and all the bad guys are off the streets.

19 posted on 07/05/2013 11:48:30 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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Or you could have one of your late husband's 30-round magazines tucked away in a trunk and wake up one morning a felon. A neighbor of my brother's came to him with such a thing one fine day and asked if he knew how it could be "safely disposed of." She didn't mean she thought it would explode, she meant she thought she could get arrested. For a stamped metal box with a spring in it.

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.

These are laws passed by people who have zero (or less) technical knowledge of the subject of the laws and apparently not enough knowledge of law itself to keep them from conflicting. These are our self-styled "leaders". Dr. Guillotine, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

20 posted on 07/05/2013 11:55:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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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: 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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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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