Comments on Pro Libertate: "For Your Own Protection"

"....Then they would have met the local magic...

2013-03-24T14:34:22.888-06:00

"....Then they would have met the local magic dog"

LOL! That's a keeper. This is that mystical canine gifted with psychic powers and the neural link with the one handling the transmitter leash.

Why? This is why market anarchists find minarchist...

2013-03-07T23:45:58.053-07:00

Why?
This is why market anarchists find minarchists naive: you're making up some ptolemaic system to try and get the praetors judged for the illegal acts they commited.

I do hope everyone reading this realizes, it WILL ...

2013-03-06T11:39:07.167-07:00

I do hope everyone reading this realizes, it WILL CONTNUE until either WE kill THEM, or WE are dead.
Long past time to retaliate. Our Revolution started over less.

Thank you for your work, Will. Knowledge is power...

2013-03-06T07:56:24.755-07:00

Thank you for your work, Will. Knowledge is power, and if we know how the pigs are behaving, we can act appropriately. I believe that the only way we are going to stop this police abuse is to make it a crime for a cop to arrest or search without a warrant, and then, far more importantly, figure out a way to pry the judges positions out of the hands of the politicians.
One way that I am thinking of is to require all who want to practice law in the state, and who have passed the bar exam, to randomly serve "judge duty". Judge duty would be similar to jury duty, except only lawyers would be subject to it. A lawyer selected (at random as in jury duty) for judge duty would serve a year on the court as a judge, and would receive compensation equivalent to his last year's salary. A judge would only serve one year, and be ineligible to serve for another term of years (four? five?) All judge positions would be filled in this manner. Prosecutors and lawyers who are employed by government would be exempt.
Let's see a cop try to sneak a case like this past a practiced defense attorney who has been randomly chosen to be the judge in this case.

"Once the victims were handcuffed, of course,...

2013-03-06T05:44:51.805-07:00

"Once the victims were handcuffed, of course, they had no choice but to grant “permission” for their abductors to paw through their vehicles. What if they had withheld consent?"

Then they would have met the local magic dog. The four-legged shaman would have preformed a ritual walk around each vehicle before giving the enforcers permission to search. It's possible the enforcers would be extra destructive in their search, to teach the proles a lesson.

"What if they had refused to endure the indignity and injury of being handcuffed in the first place?"

That would be when they meet the electric whip and an eyeful of pepper. Followed by mass arrest for one of the bs charges that translate as 'contempt of cop'. If enough arrestees were respectable-looking types, it may have prompted national outrage and calls for reform. More likely, talking heads on the news would make it sound like a bunch of occupy kids got arrested.