He's lucky he was not in Russia or Iran he would have been shot on spot for not stopping when flagged. He looks like your typical liberal sissy boy and a blatant liar .
************************************************************************************************************************* On Dec 12, 8:12 am, "M. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > The Regime’s Heroic Border Guards in ActionPosted byWilliam Griggon December > 11, 2009 05:36 PM > Crossing the border of a totalitarian state in either direction is an > experience fraught with visceral anxiety. > Finding himself in the unwanted company of humorless, heavily armed goons of > dubious competence and abysmal intelligence, the traveler is vividly aware > that he can be arrested, imprisoned, beaten, or even shot at whim. > The best thing to do in such circumstances, travelers are told, is to assume > a posture of utter servility, meekly and quietly enduring whatever indignity > inflicted on them until they are safely through the border checkpoint. > Judging by the recent behavior of the valiant cadres of the heroicBorder > Guards Directorate, it becomes clear that the U.S. is rapidly descending into > undisguised totalitarianism. > Last Tuesday (December 8),Dr. Peter Watts, a Hugo-nominated science fiction > author from Toronto, was severely beaten, pepper-sprayed, arrested, > interrogated, and otherwise abused by Border Patrol agents. > “If you buy into the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics, there > must be a parallel universe in which I crossed the US/Canadian border without > incident last Tuesday,”writes Dr. Watts. “In some other dimension, I was not > waved over by a cluster of border guards who swarmed my car like army ants > for no apparent reason; or perhaps they did, and I simply kept my eyes > downcast and refrained from asking questions.” > “Along some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was > going on,” Dr. Watts continues: > “I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and told to get back > into the vehicle. In that other timeline I was not punched in the face, > pepper-sprayed, sh*t-kicked, handcuffed, thrown wet and half-naked into a > holding cell for three f*****g hours, thrown into an even colder jail cell > overnight, arraigned, and charged with assaulting a federal officer, all > without access to legal representation (although they did try to get me to > waive my Miranda rights. Twice.). Nor was I finally dumped across the border > in shirtsleeves: computer seized, flash drive confiscated, even my f****g > paper notepad withheld until they could find someone among their number > literate enough to distinguish between handwritten notes on story ideas and, > I suppose, nefarious terrorist plots. I was not left without my jacket in the > face of Ontario’s first winter storm, after all buses and intercity shuttles > had shut down for the night.” > “In some other universe I am warm and content and not looking at spending two > years in jail for the crime of having been punched in the face,” he > concludes. “But that is not this universe.” > In the universe we’re sentenced to live in, Dr. Watts, like many, many other > innocent people, has been charged with “assaulting” the sacred personage of a > federal officer for the offense of being on the receiving end of a criminal > assault by that officer and his cohorts (remember, the bold and brave “men” > in law enforcement always operate in packs). > This kind of arbitrary, lawless violence can occur anytime anyone including a > U.S. citizen encounters the Border Patrol. And the danger is not limited to > the border: Witnessthe experience of Pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe, > Arizona, who was tased, beaten, and arrested by Border Patrol agents at a > checkpoint set up dozens of milesinsidethe southern border with Mexico.Iris > Cooper of Patagonia, Arizonarecently had an unpleasant if less violent run-in > with the Border Patrol. While driving to school at the Pima Medical Institute > in Tucson, she realized that she had forgotten her books. Spying a Border > Patrol checkpoint in the near distance, Cooper decided to take the risk of > turning around to retrieve her books, knowing that this action might provoke > suspicion. > Stop and think about what it says about our circumstances that avoiding a > warrantless checkpoint is considered “probable cause” for the purpose of > conducting a search. > Sure enough, Border Patrol agents and police pursued and stopped Cooper. She > was pulled from her car, handcuffed, and detained for a half an hour while a > K-9 unit conducted a warrantless search of her vehicle. > Despite being handcuffed and forbidden to leave, Cooper was told that she > wasn’t under arrest. The handcuffs, she was told, were “part of the > procedure.” This was a lie, of course:An arrestoccursany time a citizen is > detainedby any law enforcement officer.This includes traffic stops. > According to the Border Patrol, the increasingly theoretical protections > offered by the Fourth Amendment are subject to “exceptions” for the purpose > of border enforcement. This creates what some have called a > “Constitution-free zone” within a 100-mile-wide strip surrounding the > continental U.S.As the ACLU has pointed out, two-thirds of the U.S. > population resides within that formal “Constitution-free zone.”As I’ve noted > before, the border enforcement regime supposedly intended to keep > foreignersoutcan also be used to pen usin. Many conservatives > includingsomewhoapparently despise foreigners more than they cherish > freedomforgot that principle during the reign of Bush the Dumber. Perhaps > their perspective will change now that Barack the Blessed is on the throne, > and the walls are closing in. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
