Posted on 04/18/2009 8:37:39 AM PDT by kellynla
An Arizona pastor – Tasered, bloodied by broken glass and sporting 11 stitches in his head – claims his injuries came from being stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint 75 miles inside the U.S. and then being battered by police for refusing to allow agents to search his vehicle.
The incident earlier this week highlights tension between constitutional rights, the issue of border security and a controversial Supreme Court ruling that grants an exceptional level of police authority near the Mexican border.
Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe claims he did nothing to deserve his eventual arrest and believes that when he refused to allow the search of his car he was simply standing up for his Fourth Amendment rights, which protect him against unreasonable search without a warrant.
Anderson further questions why the Border Patrol is allowed to stop and search cars at a checkpoint along Interstate 8, 75 miles inland of where the highway nears the Mexican border at Yuma, Ariz.
"I was in the United States! I had crossed no international border!" writes Anderson in commentary accompanying a video he made about his experience.
"I didn't have any drugs; I didn't have a human beings in my car," he claims in the video itself. "Why is this happening in the United States of America?"
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
If he didn’t have anything to hide, what his problem? /s
The pastor has a valid point!
Them filming you, Okay. You filming them, Not Okay. Imagine broken stuff, erased, confiscated then lost. Maybe a broken finger or some bruising from when you “fell down”.
Here’s the you tube video I didn’t see it posted
“Looks like his papers weren’t in order, so they had to face plant him on the asphalt. Could’ve had a Bible on the front seat too.”
Dont’t be naive, silly, “He fell”. A couple of times.
gibe the dog to me. It’s probably still a good dog and I will take good care of him, give him lots of love and take him on longs walks.
They love that attention.
But, if he is a butt sniffer, forget it.
“reducto absurdum”
I like that, smart ass.
I am going to use that in the future. LOL
Be sure to use it wisely. It’s a blunt force instrument.
Yeah and I gotta learn to spell my posts “gibe the dog to me”
I wouldn’t recommend that. Poeple might take offense with your misspelled words.
Hey, you’re preaching to the choir. But those exceptions do mean a lot. They mean they can beat a church pastor up.
Not me. I lived through the '60's in Tucson. There's a fat pig cop out there, probably worm food now, who was lucky his pea-sized testicles weren't trapped in my power window one fine day.
Something smells bad here, that guy is a drama queen, he intentionally picked a fight with the BP. This is going to be used in an attempt to shut down the check points, while the “safety checks” and DUI checkpoints around the country continue.
I don’t like the BP check points but they are a necessary evil, to correct a problem that the government created. You don’t have problems at the check points if you don’t create the problem yourself, I’ve been through the BP checkpoints many times, and never had a problem.
My suggestion to folks like the drama queen, “you know the checkpoints are there, if it is such a big deal to you don’t live or travel near the border.”
The pastor gets no pity from me, he REFUSED to obey the police and that is the results. He could have complied to what they asked and be on his way, but no he has to make a POINT!!!! He is a so called Pastor who should know to Render unto Ceasar, now he wants to WHINE about his own misdeeds. Stop it already.
Jesus never Whined about his abuse, pastor take lessons. Teacher teach tyself.
Me thinks he has other motives for all this.
LOL
I’d like to hear the details of that encounter.....
Those BP agents are lucky they picked an innocent to harass. If they’d done this to an actual criminal they’d be in the slammer by now.
You are correct, but they are using the dog to establish probable cause. What if the residual smell is on your money? I would want to know how often the dog falsely alerts.
Actually, they do not mean that. The pastor will get his day and will probably prevail.
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