There’s an old meme going around saying that if you don’t break the law, you don’t have to worry about getting beat up. Unfortunately that’s not true. The standing army of “law” enforcement routinely harass, beat, arrest and murder people who aren’t breaking the law.
Here’s just another example of a college kid who was filming police as they arrested someone and was beaten to the point of having broken bones in his face, spent the weekend in jail, yet was never charged. He’s settling for $100,000 from the Seattle PD, but that seems low to me. I know my facial bones are worth more than $100,000 to me.
I reported on this civil asset forfeiture conference among New Mexico police and attorneys about a year ago. I haven’t followed up on it, but someone has and is. Legislators in New Mexico are doing something about it.
1. Being a cop isn’t that dangerous. Here is a list of the most dangerous jobs in America. Cops don’t even make the top 10.
1. Fishing
2. Logging
3. Pilots
4. Trash Collection
5. Roofing
6. Structural iron workers
7. Construction
8. Farming
9. Truck Drivers
10. Mining
2. Cops enforce the unjust, unconstitutional and unbiblical laws of a nation under God’s judgment. Unless you’re some kind of socialist/fascist (which Christians cannot be, even though it seems most Americans are socialist/fascist) that loves the direction this country is going, I don’t see why you would thank those who unflinchingly enforce unjust laws.
3. If you support police, do you support your county clerk who is almost certainly issuing same-sex marriage licenses? Cops make sure that county clerks issue those licenses. Kim Davis wasn’t hauled off to jail by the judge, but by police.
4. Police forces are funded by money taken by force. No one consults me on whether I agree to pay these taxes. I would like to unsubscribe to many government services, and investigate free-market alternatives (including security services), but that is rarely ever an option. I’m forced to pay for the monopolistic government option whether I like it or not.
5. There shouldn’t be any group of people who have special rights in this country–people who aren’t held to the same standard as everyone else. This is unbiblical and unconstitutional.
6. It has been my personal experience and abundant anecdotal evidence points to the fact that all too often police don’t know the law–even laws they ought to know. It would be one thing if they were humble about their ignorance, but they seem to become beligerant when people don’t blindly follow their orders, even when the cops are clearly in the wrong.
7. More than 1000 people per year are killed by police. It’s hard to tell how many of these killings are murder and how many are justified. I also think that a certain percentage that are technically justified could be prevented if cops weren’t so trigger happy. However, I think many of those 1000 killings per year are murder. It doesn’t matter how much the laws favor cops and their use of deadly force. The Bible defines murder and cops may be cleared by a human judge and yet stand before the perfect Judge as murderers.
When a cop tells someone to continue doing what they’re already doing, that means when they continue doing it that they’re obeying and submitting to police authority. It seems like a shallow ego trip, but if that’s all this cop can get, apparently, he’ll take it.
So, this guy on a bike is videotaping people running the stop sign, which is perfectly legal. I’ll admit I generally don’t like being videotaped. But we have to start thinking twice before calling the cops on people. At this point, it’s the citizens versus the cops, and I’m not going to call the cops on people unless I have a good reason. I hope my fellow citizens will do the same for m.
You can flip through until the 6 minute mark where this lying, blustering, power-tripping cop comes up to this guy and threatens to arrest him. But, this guy knows the law, probably better than the cop, and he gets the cop to back off. It is beautiful. We need to learn the law of the land. We need to teach our children the law, and what their rights are. This cop thinks he can get away with intimidation, because Americans don’t stand up for themselves and don’t know the law.
Conservatives have a bad case of cop worship. They also have a bad case of soldier worship. The soldiers (supposedly) are standing for our rights, shedding their blood to defend the Constitution. The cops are trampling the Constitution. I think this contradiction shows the inherent contradiction in conservative thinking. Conservatives are supposed to be in favor of limited government. Cops are big government.
What kind of brain washing must that guy have received to think he can grab other people’s stuff? Biblically, the government has no more right to grab stuff than a normal citizen.
The Nazis were just doing their job when the executed Jews. That isn’t a valid excuse. Police need to start thinking about what is right and wrong, and stop harassing people needlessly. They should conscientiously object to enforcing unjust laws.
The nanny state wherever this video takes place cares about tires enough to inspect every car on the road. There are plenty of places where no such inspections take place. Right and wrong don’t have jurisdictions. There is a law above the laws of men. And in fact, unbiblical laws are codified lawlessness.
This cop should be ashamed of himself, and it looks like his conscience was pricked.
At 50 seconds, the cop said, “When an officer asks who you are, you have to provide identification.”
That power-tripping woman actually believes that people have to identify themselves to her. It’s amazing.
I don’t know what state that happened in, but most states have laws similar to 16-3-103 of the Colorado Revised Statutes:
A peace officer may stop any person who he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a crime and may require him to give his name and address, identification if available, and an explanation of his actions. A peace officer shall not require any person who is stopped pursuant to this section to produce or divulge such person’s social security number. The stopping shall not constitute an arrest.
At 55 seconds, the other cop says, “You’re not allowed to record without asking.”
The First Amendment says that Americans have freedom of the press. She thinks she can bluster her way around the First Amendment.
Thank God the guy was recording.
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