On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote:
So we were standing there at a bit of an impass, me saying "no, you cannot search me." Then he says, "Well, for my own safety, I have a right to search you for a weapon." I really, really, wish it had been some other time, so I could have forced the issue and made him call for reinforcements, because it would have been obvious to all and sundry that what this was really all about was the big 3 foot tall lighted 24/7 peace sign on the roof of my house and the bumper stickers on my truck and perhaps my hair, but -- ah well, maybe I'm getting old -- so I let him do it. And, of course, instead of just patting me down, he went thru all my pockets. Then he went over to the truck with my keys, and I thought he was going to search that too, but then he must have realized he was stepping into some real shit,
FYI: Under the SCOTUS ruling of a few weeks ago, that guy *can* search your parked car, "for his own safety", of course :-(
So what am I ranting about? I'm not sure -- mostly, I guess, about how far things have gone. That some young skinhead pig thinks he can do something like this and get away with it.
No, he doesn't "think he can do something like this and get away with it", he *KNOWS* he can do this and get away with it.
You know, there really are a lot of useless eaters, far too many oxygen thieves, in this country. But it's not the welfare mothers and poor that Tim always ranted about -- it's the pigs and those morons with the flags on their cars and imprinted on their brains.
Amen Lord! Pass the Zyklon! -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden