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I guess married mothers, non-sick people and secular bands would all be fair game. Shouldn't this just be "Citizens robbed by police". In India at least they
by SixSigma 10y ago
I guess married mothers, non-sick people and secular bands would all be fair game.
Shouldn't this just be "Citizens robbed by police".
In India at least they have the decency to say "Do you have a gift for me?" so you know what's happening.
My dad would pretend to be hard of hearing and deliberately misunderstand ad nauseum until waved on his way, this would happen about once a month while going about his lawful business.
He even gatecrashed a police function and got himself a picture shaking hands with the Chief of Police. He kept the photo in the vehicle so he could produce it and attempt to start up a conversation as though they were great friends.
This is a country where the guards of the police armoury were bribed with $5 to allow weapons to be removed.
- Roboprog 10y agoI'm pretty sure the speaker was trying to point out a few examples which he thought the audience would sympathize were unlikely to be threats or otherwise engaged in criminal activity. Of course all of these forfeitures stink of illegality, regardless of the victim. Forth Amendment? Never heard of it, apparently.
- SixSigma 10y agoYes, undoubtedly that was the idea. But "Vulnerable person exploited" is really less of a story than "police rob citizens". You could add "at gunpoint" to bait it.
- jandrese 10y agoI'm sure they're going to use that bullshit legal reasoning that because the money committed the crime, the money itself can be held responsible and seized, and money doesn't have 4th amendment protections because it's not a person.
- tremon 10y agoYet if it's not a person, it can't be convicted of a crime either. Has a dog ever been charged for biting, instead of its owner?
- jandrese 10y agoWhat makes you think money can't be put on trial? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U.S._Currency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...
- tremon 10y agoOh I'm aware of that. I was pointing out the logical inconsistency between "not a person, so no 4th amendment" and "not a person, so no case"
- cmdrfred 10y agoThere is no logic here. The 4th amendment clearly states papers are protected, cash is paper. It's protected no matter what retarded logic you use.
- SixSigma 10y agoLots of times, plenty also found guilty, including a swarm of crickets who were excommunicated. http://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-europes-insane-history-putting-animals-trial-executing/ http://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-europes-ins...