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Men Behind ‘Open Carry’ Demonstration in Texas Charged with Crimes Even Though What They Did Wasn’t
The Blaze ^ | 30 August, 2013 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 09/01/2013 6:50:49 PM PDT by marktwain

Edited on 09/01/2013 6:53:02 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The three men behind an

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; opencarry; sanantonio; secondamendment; tx
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Under this fascist, yes, that *is* what he is, police chief's theory, anyone can be arrested for anything if he makes one person feel "threatened" regardless of facts, the law, or common sense.

No one has the "right" not to be "uncomfortable" because that is an impossible standard to meet, being totally subjective.

To enforce such a standard is to give way to the subjective rule of men, and not of law.

That was what happened in Wisconsin, Virginia, Michigan, and other States, but the courts unanimoustly ruled that mere open carry of a gun is *not* disorderly conduct.

If it were, police would be in violation of the law all the time.

We will see if the Texas courts have any integrity. Open carry of long guns is directly protected by the Texas Constitution, though it has routinely been abused and ignored for decades, mostly for lack of use. If you fail to exercise your rights, this is what happens when you wish to use them.

I will have to research the "must be unloaded" comment.

Come and Take It Means to Restore Open Carry

1 posted on 09/01/2013 6:50:49 PM PDT by marktwain
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So the chief needs to be arrested because he makes me feel threatened.


2 posted on 09/01/2013 6:53:19 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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You are exactly correct. Under the Police Chief’s theory, anyone can be arrested anytime, if someone says they feel threatened... except of course, the police, because they get to decide which “feelings” get to be backed up by police guns.

(I sent the moderator a message that I forgot to check the excerpt box. There is a link to the video of the event at the original article)


3 posted on 09/01/2013 6:56:40 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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So the chief needs to be arrested because he makes me feel threatened.

Yeah, me, too. Let's take him to court for a bundle. It might help him start to commence to begin to understand the concept of arbitrary and capricious.

4 posted on 09/01/2013 6:59:23 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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Cops love to show their authority, even when they don’t have it.


5 posted on 09/01/2013 7:01:46 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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If nothing else he’d finally understand malicious and vexatious persecution.
Though I doubt that he’d figure it out without a picture book illustrating it.


6 posted on 09/01/2013 7:02:07 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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Doh!
That box does nail people.

Wonder if chief there would figure it out when complaints come in about him being threatening.


7 posted on 09/01/2013 7:04:33 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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He’s no friend of gun owners, trust me.

McManus has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement.

He previously served as the Chief of Police for the Minneapolis
Police Department where he rebuilt the departmental
infrastructure and provided new direction and leadership to a
1,200-member department. McManus also has served as the
Chief of Police in Dayton, Ohio, from 2001 to 2003. He started
his career in law enforcement in 1975 with the Metropolitan
Police Department in Washington, D.C., where he served in a
full range of patrol and investigative assignments that included
internal and criminal investigations, narcotics, and tactical positions.
McManus also served as Assistant Chief of Police for the
Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department from 1998 to 2001.


8 posted on 09/01/2013 7:18:00 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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Police Chief William McManus is a transplant from Minneapolis, where he showed his anti-Second Amendment bias.

Here is a quote from a Minneapolis gun turn in event in 2006:

"Police Chief William McManus was on hand for the kick-off and said those turning in guns need not fear law enforcement. "There's absolutely no one who will turn in a gun who will be fingerprinted, ID'd or questioned."

McManus added, "For every gun not turned in there's a possibility a life that will be lost on the street."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570231/posts

9 posted on 09/01/2013 7:18:04 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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FWIW, the Bexar County (San Antonio) Sheriff was a Tea Party supported Candidate, and she’s a Republican.


10 posted on 09/01/2013 7:19:35 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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He needs to go back home to “Minny apple a..”


11 posted on 09/01/2013 7:19:40 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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It is sad that the people of San Antonio are saddled with this authoritarian police chief.

But, San Antonio is a Democrat stronghold, I guess, and the people their voted for the administration that they got.


12 posted on 09/01/2013 7:20:24 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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two dudes ****ing makes me feel uncomfortable so why can’t we charge homos for disorderly conduct?


13 posted on 09/01/2013 7:20:53 PM PDT by RC one
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Looking at post 8 by sockmonkey, it appears that he spent most of his career in D.C.!

No wonder he is authoritarian. During that time people were not allowed to legally own pistols in D.C. That was the law that was overturned in Heller, by the Supreme Court.

This guy grew up in a legal environment that specifically ignored the existence of the Second Amendment.

14 posted on 09/01/2013 7:29:47 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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Yeah, and he has not gotten past it yet.
Never will either apparently.


15 posted on 09/01/2013 7:38:40 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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I truly believe most cops agree with the chief. They are not on our side.


16 posted on 09/01/2013 7:43:17 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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Looking at the reaction in Boston and Dorner’s California misadventure where uninvolved people “got the full service treatment”, it appears so.
The ones on our side are few and far between.


17 posted on 09/01/2013 7:47:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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If nothing else he’d finally understand malicious and vexatious persecution.
Though I doubt that he’d figure it out without a picture book illustrating it.

Fine. Fire his arrogant mug and replace him with a Texan.

18 posted on 09/01/2013 7:56:55 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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He’s no friend of gun owners, trust me.

NO cop is a friend of gun owners

19 posted on 09/01/2013 8:11:43 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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Under this fascist, yes, that *is* what he is, police chief’s theory, anyone can be arrested for anything if he makes one person feel “threatened” regardless of facts, the law, or common sense.

They better stop lockin up a whole of Police, FBI,Homeland Security and especially the damned TSA because they fit that description. Just ask yourself, when the police show up do you more often feel safer or anxious.


20 posted on 09/01/2013 8:12:02 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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