Posted on 10/20/2002 7:48:19 AM PDT by SamAdams76
The photos above currently on the Drudge site concern me. I followed the link and the article clearly stated that nobody was arrested last night.
Why then, do we have drivers of white vans, innocent civilians, evidently being pulled out vans at gunpoint and treated like dangerous criminals? One photo shows a man on the ground, evidently in handcuffs, with police officers standing over him as though they have just captured Whitey Bulger. When I first saw the photo, I figured the man was obviously a wanted criminal that police just so happened to come across during their search. But since there were no arrests last night, this man was obviously released and was no criminal after all.
The other photo shows a man by another white van with his hands in the air and a police officer has a gun drawn on him. Again, this was evidently just another innocent civilian who had the misfortune to be driving a white van on I-95 last night.
Now I understand the need for these roadblocks and for the police to be very thorough in their search for the sniper(s). But I cannot see the point of innocent people dragged out of their vehicles at gunpoint with no pretext other than the fact that they happen to be driving a white van.
Now maybe somebody here has an explanation why these two individuals were treated like criminals. Maybe they tried to evade the police or maybe they were driving stolen vans. But again, there were no arrests made last night. So what is the deal with our citizens being treated like Jesse James just for driving a white van?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly, Nov. 11, 1755
Of course, governemnt always returns civil liberties after the populace has dropped trou' and bent over for the sake of their own paranoid fears . . . right?
It doesn't matter what you "want". What you want is irrelevant. What's legal and proper is what counts.
You "luvtheconstitution" my ass.
ESSENTIAL being the operative word. You have no essential right to not be inconvenienced in an emergency situation.
Essential liberties?
Funny to you removed. Not so funny to those directly related.
Out comes the cult mantra.
So every time someone is murdered in this country, some 25,000 times a year, it's an emergency situation requiring suspension of due process and civil liberties?
Excuse me? - The ladies of this thread who support law enforcement's efforts to catch this sniper argued with reason and patience all day against those who seemed to be responding much more emotionally to the sight of cops and blue lights flashing than a murder that took place nearby.
Your post at 678 is word salad, but one thing I got from it was that the wimmin are acting like victims and we just don't understand the role manhood dictates. Men have to resent the cops, because to do less would show weakness to the MAN. You then, I think, explain to men how to cooperate to the cops without seeming like a wuss.
And this is a highly reasoned opinion we should make law enforcement work around to not deflate your egos?
Oh - and Howlin, turns out the blue wear indicator on my toothbrush was very nearly halfway gone and it is time to replace it. Sure glad I checked.
The sniper situation isn't funny to anyone here. What is funny is someone sitting at their computer getting apeshit hysterical. Lighten up.
Hey! If it can just save one life . . . Right?
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