‘Mark Steyn: Better not to tense up around police
At a time when over 4 million people have had their health insurance cancelled, it’s good to know that some Americans can still access prompt medical treatment, even if they don’t want it. David Eckert was pulled over by police in Deming, New Mexico, for failing to come to a complete halt at a stop sign in the Walmart parking lot. He was asked to step out of the vehicle and waited on the sidewalk. Officers decided that they didn’t like the tight clench of his buttocks, a subject on which New Mexico’s constabulary is apparently expert, and determined that it was because he had illegal drugs secreted therein. So they arrested him, and took him to Gila Regional Medical Center in neighboring Hidalgo County, where Mr. Eckert was forced to undergo two abdominal X-rays, two rectal probes, three enemas, and defecate thrice in front of medical staff and representatives of two law enforcement agencies, before being sedated and subjected to a colonoscopy – all procedures performed against his will…’
UPDATE: Francis Porretto seems to agree with Wabbit on the solution…either we take back our laws and our rights by force, or we resign ourselves to having lost them. There’s no “middle way”.
UPDATE 2 Francis Porretto has added a part 2 to the post linked to above.
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Even though the guy has a history of being arrested for drug possession, I note he hasn’t got that many convictions.
I don’t regard his history as important in the slightest, Michael.
The cops broke the law and violated the Constitution, and to tolerate those things “under certain circumstances” is to tolerate tyranny in any circumstances.
My point KG (probably not all that clear) is that it appears the cops have had it in for this guy for some time. Why I don’t know but the number of times the charges have been dropped is certainly open to scrutiny.
It seems very odd. I certainly get the impression that the violation was payback for something.
Without any inside knowledge or psychic ability, only a certain amount of intuition, I would suggest that it might be productive to examine a scenario wherein said potential felon had perhaps been (with encouragement) perhaps a little bit too familiar with one of the Cops…er, ladies?
Does anyone smell a lawsuit?
I sure hope so, Findalis.
But in the long run,it won’t do much good because it won’t happen often enough to send a message. Until vermin such as these are in real fear for their own health and welfare–and that fear may have to be instilled by making an example of some of them–nothing will change.
Lawsuits are all well and good-BUT it’s we the taxpayers that get punished when that happens.The cop just gets a desk job and a pension when he retires.
No,these f–kers need to be A-taken out the gene pool or B- Locked up in the same cage with the rest of the animals.
At the very minimum fired and black balled from ever having any sort of authority again.And that goes for everybody envolved who COULD have put the brakes on,but instead chose to remain silent.
Damn right.
Exactly right KG, i hope he does sue them but it’s just unbelievable that this could be legal. I have read of police abuse cases and it happens, however most cops and law enforcement authorities set out to do good and when such abuse occurs, it’s a given that it’s not legal to beat the shit out of a suspect or perform acts of sodomy and anal rape on them.
But apparently in this case it was perfectly legal for them to do all this and then send him a bill for the expenses.
This one made the headlines recently-
http://youtu.be/7dAyMuEsBl0
This sort of thing happens more and more often,or at least there are more cameras recording it now than before.Police abuse is one area where nearly everybody agrees that it must stop.Everybody from the Heritage Foundation to the ACLU as it can affect ALL Americans and visitors here.
We have all sorts of zero tolerance policies for everything from smoking in public buildings to nibbling out cookies in the shape of guns,but no zero tolerance policy for 240lb male cops shoving 110lb women into concrete benches.If that had been my wife,mother or girlfriend that cop would be in a wheel chair eating through a drinking straw
Had that woman been my beloved he’d have reached parity with ambient temperature and damn the consequences.
Fair enough,although I still think rotting in a wheel chair for 40 years would be more fitting.
A lovely quote from the linked post by Francis Porretto:
“..Though vigilantism has been savaged by those attached to the notion of “impartial justice,” there is no credible argument, whether based in theory or in history, that “official” mechanisms result in just outcomes any more often than “unofficial” ones. This is most especially the case when the thug in question shelters beneath a cloak of authority, trusting to that cloak and those who bestowed it upon him to shield him from the just penalty for his excesses. “
Bring it on. More, and faster please. I’ll take tyranny with a sneer over tyranny with a smile any day. Let the bastards reveal themselves and thicken the ranks of those who would do them harm.
The only difference between the Progressives who infest all the nations formerly Free World and the Communists are that the Progressives believe Communism can be enacted bit by bit by law over decades and not by a single violent revolution.
Did you see the part in the story about him getting a $6000 bill after all this?
I read a book recently – In Ishmaels house – about the plight of Jews living in muslim lands through the centuries. From what i read, it was a practise in muslim lands to convict Jews on false charges, hang them and then bill their family for the costs of the whole charade.
Imagine my horror when reading that apparently in the land of the free in 2013, it’s all ‘by-the-book’ to charge a fellow, do all this to him and then send him a bill for it. Makes me question everything i had come to believe about America.
Just as the KGB used to bill the families for the bullet in the back of the head down in the Lubyanka cellars…..not much different, is it?