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Originally posted by Harry P. Knuckles:
I have no idea who you are. I don't care who you are. I'm not from here , so it doesn't matter. This is nothing but the opinion of a street smart kid from Brooklyn. I wonder if the investigators had done their job you would have been indicted. If you got close enough to be involved there must be a question. Unless they pulled your name out of a phone book and decided to conspire against you. I give you the benefit of the doubt like I'm supposed to. I also beleive if you give someone enough rope they will hang themselves. Believe or not I'm on your side. I have already edited myself. Let it go.
Wow, Knuckels, just when I think I've heard it all, someone comes out and impresses me with another bonehead thought.
I guess you thought that if someone was pulled over because they were black or hispanic, they must have been hanging out with the wrong crowd or were just the wrong race.
I don't guess you have ever figured that our lawmakers, in all their infinite wisdom, might have passed a law that would give LEO the ability to make broad assumptions based on little fact. Ohh, like you buy too much cold medicine, you must be making meth. Thats like saying just because someone is speeding on the interstate, they must be running from an LEO somewhere. See how insane that is?
How about, instead of arresting someone for buying too much allergy medicine, we use that information to investigate those we suspect and then, if during the investigation, we find more evidence, we arrest those that are committing the crime? Right now all LEO has to have is the fact that you bought too much allergy medicine to arrest you. Some LEO's use the law as a tool and follow up with some investigation and some use the law to make 'round ups' and arrest everyone that has bought too much allergy medicine.
We have to be careful who we give the power to. I would guess Harry would not make a good candidate.
Kirk