[maine yankee]

Do I still live in the USA ?

[SpeakerToAnimals]

No.

[will of the people]

wouldn’t that eliminate the protection from lawsuits since they are not government agents, but private employees?

[UCANSEE2]

SO... next time they raid the wrong house, sue them into oblivion.

[gaijin]

“A *corporation* neutralized your attack pug, sir —we can’t help you.”

[SIDENET]

Doesn’t seem like it.

[boycott]

Private corporations using public funds? That’s not how it works.

[HMS Surprise]

If this is true, why can’t I start my own SWAT team?

[tumblindice]

Sounds like they’ve opened the door to a claim that they don’t share the state’s `sovereign immunity’.

[SampleMan]

They can’t be agents of the state and not agents of the state at the same time.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Does their funding come from taxpayers?

If it does, we have a big problem if this is allowed to stand.

[Pearls Before Swine]

What a bunch of absolute fascist crap!

[Myrddin]

They disclaim being agents of the government? Then they are private citizens with no authority to act on behalf of the government. Paid mercenaries. Rent-a-cops roving the streets with high powered weapons and no accountability. No special protection from state laws directed to exempt government law enforcement officers from weapons laws that are more restrictively applied to "ordinary" citizens. Seems like lots of opportunity for the legal community.

[Slings and Arrows]

Head —> Desk

[thorvaldr]

But apparently they are private corporations that can bust down your door, shoot your dog, handcuff you and force you to watch him bleed out. Since when is that a thing?

[Texican72]

I’m having flashbacks to WKRP in Cincinnati when Johnny Fever destroyed a phone, heard sirens and went running out of the room screaming about the phone cops coming to get him.

[Dick Bachert]

[Theoria]

'The ACLU is now suing NEMLEC. It’s worth noting that in addition to receiving taxpayer funding from its 51 member police agencies, NEMLEC has also received significant federal funding over the years, particularly from the Byrne Grant program. In fact, just last April, NEMLEC made a series of drug busts across the state in an investigation funded at least in part with Byrne Grants. (NEMLEC seems to be involved in a lot of drug raids.) In 2010, NEMLEC received an $800,000 Byrne Grant earmarked by then-Sen. John F. Kerry.'

[TheThirdRuffian]

If they are private companies, then neither they, nor their “employees,” have governmental immunity for their actions.

[Joe Boucher]

I am a law abiding redneck. I don’t even speed.
No way i care to spend Any of my dimes in Mass.

[Nachum]

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