Aparently you can’t celebrate the birth of one of the founding fathers by dancing at his memorial without getting dispersed by the National Park Police. Oh, and make sure you don’t ask why you’re not allowed to dance, or you might be arrested.
Sickening.
Thanks for the story Radley Balko

Women say that the only thing Nerdy Park Police pack are guns.

What happened to Americans?

Oh, that’s right. Americans suffer from conditioning-induced deep psychosis inculcated through TV and Public Educators.

“But I still think your way of thinking with regards to just thinking it’s OK to allow a police officer to pull you over for no other reason than you may look a bit suspicious is dangerous.

In bold was omitted for reasons of momentary incompetence. Or incontinence. I forget which.

The JM is open 24 hours a day.

I was in NYC on 9-11, preparing to fly home after spending a few days in DC as part of a First Amendment case, and I was criticized by some for saying that the government would use the attacks as an excuse to being removing citizen rights. Some even claimed they were willing to “temporarily” give up rights, having made the false assumption that once stolen they would ever be returned. It’s not one of the happier things I’ve been right about…

First off, let me apologize for what I said to you initially in comment #79. It was wrong. Well, I wrote it wrong. I reread it and could see a bit of heavy-handedness in this:

“You are the perfect example of indifference and how things are only going to get worse the more people that think like you are around.”

I did not mean to imply that you shouldn’t be around. Or anyone else who has the same thought you did, for that matter. It makes me no better (probably worse) than those who would strip us of our fundamental rights as human beings. Everyone’s opinion matters. So I am sorry if I sounded like a jerk. But I still think you’re way of thinking with regards to just thinking it’s OK to allow a police officer to pull you over for no other reason than you may look a bit suspicious. I do think that that way of thinking, the ‘hey just let them do their job even if it inconveniences me’, is a step further toward allowing other far more egregious offenses to the Constitution and BOR to be committed and eventually be signed into policy and law.

I am sure you think things through before committing to them. Most people here do. But I read and saw enough to make up my own mind. I also took 24 hours to ponder and read further, so I was not following anyone’s opinion but my own. It just so happens that a lot of people share that opinion. When something is wrong, it’s wrong.

The bottom-line is, and I said this above a bit differently as many others said it as well but it bears repeating . . . it is a sad state of affairs when you can be arrested for just questioning a police officer. Under ANY circumstances. It augurs the very great possibility of further freedom destruction in our future, as well as testament to the dying liberties in our present.

Good day, sir.

A few minutes of inconvenience? Try a few hours.”

No you are not required to submit to anything, and I’ve been stopped several times within the last several years for speeding and never been asked to submit to a search, of my person or of my vehicle. I’ve also been riding with others that were stopped and never had the experience with them. So sorry, from personal experience, I’d say that you’re way over exaggerating things.

Last Saturday night, a group of DC-area libertarians decided to celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s birthday by heading up to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and having a little harmless fun, dancing on the steps of the memorial for 10 minutes or so….

Don’t know about you, but I’d much rather have the police pull me for looking for suspicious, that means that they are stopping others that are looking suspicious. I might lose a few minutes for an inconvenience, but then again, maybe they have pulled people off the street that was not only looking suspicious, but actually does harm to others.

I don’t know when the last time was that you were stopped. But nowadays when someone is stopped, you are required to submit to a search of yourself AND your car. If you do not “voluntarily” submit to having your car searched, dogs will be called in to sniff for evidence of some crime. It WILL take several hours for the K-9 unit to arrive.

A few minutes of inconvenience? Try a few hours.

The above quote spoken by a True Sheep. Worried that the police have to protect them from criminals, but oblivious to the fact that maybe they need protection from the police too.”

Sheep eh? How it that I am a sheep when I actually have said several times that I take the time to see both sides of an issue before making a decision instead of blindly rushing in?

Sure there are cops that are idiots that get a power trip off of what they can do. There are far more cops though that are actually there to make a difference in the community and get blindly lumped together with the bad cops. To me blindly posting that the cops are nothing but stooges for a huge conspiracy to turn the US into a police state is blindly following someone who might actually be a whack job. Manson Family mean anything to you on that line of thinking?

Ironic statement seeing as it seems from what you said before you are perfectly willing to do so.”

Uhm no, I actually take the time to figure out what is going on with both sides of the situation and then decide an action. I don’t blindly listen to one side of a story and then go rushing off to defend anyone. You do know there are two sides to a story and generally the truth lies somewhere in between the two.