Posted on 02/04/2003 9:06:18 PM PST by LawAbidingCitizen
In response to a posting by Flyer on 02/03/03.... As I see it, a Police Officer that is "fishing" may drive any vehicle with or without emergency lights. Their oath to protect and serve makes them an Officer not the vehicle. No law says, "thou shalt not drive in someone's blind spot", so that doesn't sound so awful to me. Officer's have the right to ask you to step to the rear of the vehicle for their safety and yours. You mentioned "two prior arrests". You failed to mention the nature of those arrest. Care to explain those arrests? Maybe the officer saw reason for concern. You also mentioned that after refusing consent to search your vehcile, you should have been sent on your way. Now let's just assume that same officer stops a drug dealer with a huge load of narcotics. Narcotics that may eventually make it's way to your children or grandchildren's hands. If that dealer refuse consent to search should the officer send him on his way with a hand shake and a hope that the narcotics he sells don't kill to many children before he gets caught. As a law abiding citizen, I welcome any officer to search my vehicle or house at any time. I feel that if they are searching my belongings then they are making an attempt to get some narcotics off the street and away from my children. I have nothing to hide. I respect any person attempting to make this world a better and safer place for my children to grow up in. I am sorry that you were detained for an hour and a half for that effort of safer and better. I would gladly pay that price to see children not killed every day by drugs.
As a law abiding citizen, I do not welcome the police to search my home without a signed warrant by a judge. They may search my car to the extent that the law allows and no more.
Your choice.
Do you think officers should be required to have a warrant to search people's homes?
That's you, maybe some us other law abiding people feel that what we have in our cars and houses is none of there concern.
True.
LawAbidingCitizen signed up 2003-02-05.
Back in Ancient Athens, there was a old law on the books against exporting figs. The law was ignored by everybody and the authorites made no effort to enforce it.
However it did give the opportunity for Athenian lower life to practice sycophantein: To lay information against another for exporting figs, and so to demonstrate their own willingness to toady to the authorites in the most menial matters. From this we get the word sycophant.
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