I must say that I am uncomfortable with the idea that we should die if we ever resist the Police.
I would suggest these people would also be uncomfortable with that idea.
President of Congress
1. John Hancock (Massachusetts)
New Hampshire
2. Josiah Bartlett
3. William Whipple
4. Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts
5. Samuel Adams
6. John Adams
7. Robert Treat Paine
8. Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island
9. Stephen Hopkins
10. William Ellery
Connecticut
11. Roger Sherman
12. Samuel Huntington
13. William Williams
14. Oliver Wolcott
New York
15. William Floyd
16. Philip Livingston
17. Francis Lewis
18. Lewis Morris
New Jersey
19. Richard Stockton
20. John Witherspoon
21. Francis Hopkinson
22. John Hart
23. Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania
24. Robert Morris
25. Benjamin Rush
26. Benjamin Franklin
27. John Morton
28. George Clymer
29. James Smith
30. George Taylor
31. James Wilson
32. George Ross
Delaware
33. George Read
34. Caesar Rodney
35. Thomas McKean
Maryland
36. Samuel Chase
37. William Paca
38. Thomas Stone
39. Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia
40. George Wythe
41. Richard Henry Lee
42. Thomas Jefferson
43. Benjamin Harrison
44. Thomas Nelson, Jr.
45. Francis Lightfoot Lee
46. Carter Braxton
North Carolina
47. William Hooper
48. Joseph Hewes
49. John Penn
South Carolina
50. Edward Rutledge
51. Thomas Heyward, Jr.
52. Thomas Lynch, Jr.
53. Arthur Middleton
Georgia
54. Button Gwinnett
55. Lyman Hall
56. George Walton
He was arrested over 30 times previously for the same offense and survived. Why did he decide to resist arrest this time? The majority of these crooks know what they are doing is against the law, yet continue in the same pattern of law breaking. And then they have the audacity to wonder why the cops are back to arrest them.
When the cops are doing their jobs by trying to enforce the laws, the perps are whining they're being "harassed." I listened to their whining behind bars for 25 years as a correction officer. Of course none of them were ever guilty, all of them had been framed. Write a disciplinary report, or put them in the box for misbehavior, and they'd get one of their homies to call their Mommy, who in turn would call the prison demanding to know why her little boy was locked up. What a bunch of pussies.
Indeed. What happens when the police are wrong? Like when they open fire on your truck because it vaguely looks like a truck they're looking for?
Is it now the case that we're obligated to submit to summary execution because 'resisting' even deadly force will upset those who like licking boots?
My take-away from all of this is to treat every interaction with law enforcement as a dangerous and potentially deadly interaction. I'll be prepared to defend myself and my family because, like the jack-boot-lickers like to say, the only thing that matters is that I get to go home at the end of the day.
See, if it's just peachy for the police to use excessive force in the name of protecting themselves then it's just peachy for me to do the same.
Is that what we've come to? Or maybe we might want to dial down the ridiculous laws and the absurd enforcement practices that have a growing number of people looking at police as an occupying force.
I agree. The criminal law is a bad way to police the police. But there has to be accountability when the cops screw up.
Why would you resist the police?