Barney Fife trashes the Constitution

 Over and over his constitutional rights were violated and once again he was told the same thing so many of us have heard over and over: that we must sacrifice our liberty for safety.

Hmmmm........seems we've been hearing this same mantra from Bloomberg and company.  Do you consider them a bunch of "Barneys" as well?

The Supreme Court has ruled check points to specifically locate drugs is illegal.  The DUI checkpoints are more about revenue, than getting drunks off the road.  Only an avalanche of lawsuits and voting out sheriffs who specifically do checkpoints for revenue will change their ways. 

In the UK, if  LEO breaks the law, he may be sued, like the US.  However, if the state prosecutor does not change the LEO, a private citizen, if he can afford it, may prosecute the LEO on his own.  Law enforcement must give up all evidence.  Doesn't happen often, but does keep the constables on their toes.

There is no precedent to suspend constitutional rights, except habeas corpus. Even the Civil War was not sufficient reason to suspend that.

Well Dire, I agree, but what bothers me most is it seems that every day we are seeing some out of control cops proving they think they are above the law and that they are somehow gods.

Here is one from a couple of days ago about some little Barney who arrested a girl for buying water at a convenience store. Apparently he approached her car without any identification and she thought she was being mugged.
http://www.theblaze.com/storie...uying-bottled-water/

At least there is a little justice here on the students in California whose Constitutional rights were blatantly violated, but I think $1M is not nearly enough punishment, and I also think that cop should have to pay most of it himself, but that's just me.

http://www.reuters.com/article...dUSBRE88P1H320120926

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Hoob,

I direct you to the Patriot Act. Bloomberg is not making federal laws. Our constitutional rights have been being violating by that act since 2002. It was further trampled on by FISA amendments (which gave NSA its real power) in 2008.

Where you been? Bloomberg is the least of our worries.

I hope this young man sues. Every day we are seeing more and more videos of LEO overstepping and we have to put a stop to it.

If you pay low wages, you attract low quality

It is an insult to the memory of Barney Fife to associate this cretinous, blustering cop with him.

James O'Keefe, the right wing dude who set up the covert operation on Acorn and Planned Parenthood, should apply his talents to exposing these kinds of travesties of law enforcement activity. Or maybe Chris Hansen, of MSNBC's "To Catch a Predator," could build a new show around the theme "To Catch Cop Bullies."

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I do apologize to the real Barney Fife, but you gotta realize that this forum has an electrical nanny that will not allow what I think of those out of control cops to be posted withoug *******************.

 Or maybe Chris Hansen, of MSNBC's "To Catch a Predator," could build a new show around the theme "To Catch Cop Bullies."

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If he can't catch any real ones he can do what they always do at msnbc, make it up and put it out there as true.

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And depend on  know-nothing knee-jerks like you to absurdly and promiscuously employ the term "always."  

 I'm curious: Would you include AG Holder among these 'out of control cops'?

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No, I doubt if you, me , or anybody we know will have reason to come across AG Holder, as I (hope) that none of us are exchanging guns for drugs in Mexico. Of course there are two simple solutions to that entire problem - 1> end the "war on drugs" , 2> vote out Sessions and Shelby who BOTH voted to keep it easy for criminals and psychopaths to buy guns.  (if you voted for either, then YOU , my friend, are part of the problem)

> On the other hand, I have already had experience with out of control cops, and my bet is that most people you and I know either already have, will have, or know someone who has or will.

Cases in point : 

  If you happen to be on the way to buy a car in Tenn (maybe other places),and you are planning on paying cash (like most people sell one to one cars)  and the cops learn you have a lot of cash, they not only can , but will seize that money claiming it could have been used in a drug transaction . - That happened

If your underage daughter goes to buy some bottled water at a local convenience store, and a cop sees her , she may be arrested . - That happened

If you are sitting peacefully on a college campus in protest of something, you may be sprayed with pepper spray that is classified by the army as a chemical weapon - it happened

Worse yet, if you are peacefully, but loudly protesting on a college campus in Ohio, you may just be shot - it happened

If you are driving in a certain parrish in La, and you change lanes on the interstate, you may be pulled over for "improper lane change"  and your car seized by the police dept because it looks like it may have been used in transporting drugs. - it has happened, but last I heard the court made the county quit.

If you leave Sheffield at 2AM getting off of work, and cross the O'neal bridge , you may be picked up for "I thought I saw you swerve" and given an alcohol blow test. You pass, with 0.01  but the azzhole  cop, just fresh out of Iraq, decides to throw you in the Florence jail overnight anyway. - it happened

Before I end , I will say, I have no idea why, when I started to add to the first paragraph of this post, it decided to make the letters twice the size and in bold print. After 2 gin and tonics, I can't figure it out and for the most part don't really give a damm , but I apologize for it being that way.

And I direct you to go back and review words that have come out of the mouths of democratic politicians and powerful liberals regarding the abolishment of the 2nd amendment for "safety" reasons.  My question is valid and a honest one at that. 

Hoob,

I am not in favor of any law that denies my Constitutional rights. Regardless of what party those that would try and take them belong to. The problem I have with the kind of statement you made is that it seems to ignore the elephant in the room to point out the mouse in the corner. 

Wow, Im just reading about this bottle water arrest.  What a joke, officers are lucky they didnt get themselves run over acting like idiots.  Then they had the nerve to say this:

"This whole unfortunate incident could have been avoided had the occupants complied with law enforcement requests," 

How were those girls supposed to know they were actually law enforcement officers rushing their vehicle late at night - all out of uniform.  Heads should roll for this one as well......

http://www.dailyprogress.com/n...32-0019bb30f31a.html

All these officious idiots must be exposed to the public. Just as sunlight is the best disinfectant, exposure to the public of idiots wearing uniforms and waving guns around irresponsibly will cause dismissals and a re-assessment by their superiors. 

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As well as his lieing azz statement that the Democrats are trying to nulify the 2nd Amendment. Just make stuff up , tell enough lies to enough people and the simple minded will believe it.

I just watched that video a couple times-and yes, while the cop did walk all over the kid's rights-the kid most definitely DID provoke the cop or at least give the cop reason to be suspicious by making a federal case out of what was a simple instruction.  

I've been through plenty of checkpoints and if ya just do like the cop says (passing the attitude test), it only takes a couple minutes and you're on your way again.