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L. and I received this in the mail a couple of days ago. It’s the front side of an ad sent out by the DNC to convince us to get out and vote for Barack Be The Change,
We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
Community Organizer
Obama, and then, apparently, sit back and call it a day.
The final stop? Even hand-wringing state Leftist Progressives
used to know that you’re damned lucky if it’s even the first.
In Columbus, Ohio, local cops and judges have conspired to put together a series of No Refusal Weekends
for DUI stops. If you’re pulled over on suspicion of DUI, you have the choice to consent
to a breathalyzer test, or to be chained up by the cops, hauled off to a hospital, jabbed with a needle, and having your blood drawn against your will for BAC testing.
Please keep in mind, if you happen to be passing through Columbus, that the local police force believes that, on certain weekends of the year (notably, big football games and, natch, the Independence Day), they have the right to stop you, harass you, demand your papers, and then tie you down and take your blood against your will in order to try to find some incriminating evidence, based on absolutely nothing other than some cop’s vague suspicions and impressionistic judgments about your driving, and on the fact that you refused consent to an invasive search by other means.
(Story via Yury Tsukerman 2008-10-27.)
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The San Antonio police department recently adopted a perfectly reasonable policy restricting the use of tasers to situations in which there isn’t any risk that somebody will get killed. Here’s part of a reader’s comment in reply to the story about the policy in POLICE: The Law Enforcement Magazine:
I think the one officer at a time is a good policy, but to deny them the use of the Taser is WRONG! What are we supposed to do, go back to the baton or billy club? Once an officer is SCARED he will resort to whatever it takes to save him/herself.
–konaron @ 10/16/2008 8:04 PM
Translation: according to konaron,
cops are a bunch of twitchy, trigger-happy cowards who will resort to any kind of violence, no matter how excessive, in order to save their own skins. Therefore police department policies should indulge their violence as far as possible, even if it means letting them kill people with their non-lethal weapons.
And I’m the one who’s supposed to be running down cops?