Hey, I'm dying for somebody to come here and prove me wrong about those two photos. I will be genuinely happy to hear if those two men in the photos had outstanding warrants or otherwise did something to deserve the treatment they got. If that was the case, I will be the first one to apologize to the law enforcement officials of Virginia for thinking they did something wrong. But if these two men were law-abiding good citizens and they forced out of their vehicles at gunpoint and ordered face-down to the pavement and handcuffed simply because they happened to be driving a white van that night...then I feel very sad about the state of our country. This is not the America I know and this is not the America I spent four years of my life defending in the United States Marine Corps.
I'm all for catching these snipers and then giving them the ultimate penalty. But if we trash the Constitution to do it, it is only a pyrrhic victory.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20021020-014456-2207r.htm
An FBI spokesman told United Press International that the area's sniper task force and FBI agents were quickly sent to the scene.
Motorists were questioned aggressively up and down I-95, in ONE case temporarily handcuffed. But no one among the MANY HUNDREDS of drivers questioned was arrested.
Mr. Adams, don't you have to ask yourself what this ONE guy did to warrant kissing the pavement?