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Friday, July 30th, 2010- More evidence debunking the claim that illegal immigrants make border towns dangerous. They’re among the safest cities in the country.
- Catalog living.
- Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Cal.) introduces bill that would double federal penalties for medical marijuana dispensaries that bake pot into brownies and other edibles.
- I remember watching that North Korea-Portugal game and worrying about what would happen to the North Korean players. Here’s what happened.
- Of all superheroes, you’d this one would wear a hood.
- Minnesota appeals court says avoiding cops, without breaking any actual laws, is enough reasonable suspicion for them to pull you over.
“S. 258, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act”
How about an act entitled “Saving Kids from cunts like Diane Feinstein”
Think of the children we’d save!
“A motorist who avoids a police car is inherently suspicious, according to a ruling handed down by the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday.”
Wow, we really ARE all criminals now aren’t we? I haven’t met a single person who doesn’t avoid the police like the plague.
So does that mean if I drive through a speed trap and a cop clocks me at 55 (or whatever the limit is there), I can be pulled over for trying to avoid being pulled over? I mean, nobody would actually drive the limit if they weren’t trying to avoid police, right?
Bad mouthing Diane Feinstein and the border-wall-builders? You’re not fitting into a nice little political box like you should be.
I’ve actually had the “pulling over twice while having a cop behind you” result in me getting checked out.
I was headed home from work, and my engine started misfiring real bad. Pulled over into a parking lot to check it out, without knowing there was a cop behind me. He continued on down the road after giving me the hairy eyeball. I opened the hood and looked around for a minute, to see if I could find any loose wires. Engine started running better, so I closed the hood and got back on the road. Started misfiring again so I pulled into another parking lot. I didn’t notice that the cop had hidden himself behind a building until I went by, and had then jumped into traffic behind me.
This time he pulled in behind me with lights going just as I was opening the hood again. I asked him if there was a problem and he said “The problem is that you keep pulling over every time I get behind you!”
He craned his neck all over looking inside the car to see if there was anything at all in plain view (there wasn’t), but I have to give him credit that he didn’t just go on in, and he didn’t ask either. After a few minutes of him giving me the third degree, we parted ways.
But, but, but, it’s for the chiiiiildreeeeeen! Fuck you Feinstein.
Re: the Minnesota decision. Everytime I think this country can’t get more fucked up, I read crap like this. I hate stinking, fucking cops. I avoid having any contact with whatsoever. It ALWAYS turns out badly. So yes, I do what I can to avoid having that contact. I really, really try not to ruin my day. I guess that makes me a suspicious person every time I walk out my door. I got to get outta here.
Senator Feinstein, in the interests of protecting the children, maybe we should just skip ahead a few steps in this incremental process and authorize police SWAT teams to randomly conduct forced entry raids into the little tykes bedrooms to look for contraband.
This November, California will (probably? we hope?) make marijuana legal, you’d think FineSwine had more sense. But wait: She’s Fineswine. Enough said.
The great thing is that one day the cop will testify that a person acted suspiciously based on their refusal to make eye contact with the officer, the next day he will testify that someone else was acting suspiciously by constantly watching him.
If you look your suspicious. If you look away your suspicious.
I video’d a policewoman driving her patrol car and talking on her cell phone a few minutes ago. When she noticed my camera trained on her she gave that look I give when I notice a radar gun trained on my car . It felt good.
So “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about” is official policy in MN now?
+ eleventy million Dave W.!
On the Minnesota ruling:
Aw, the vaguery. There are two ways to get to destination “C.” You have to take either Route “A” or Route “B.” There is a DUI checkpoint happening on Route “A.” So, everyone traveling on Route “B” must be avoiding cops and therefore there is enough “reasonable suspicion” to pull any of them over.
Re: #9, #11
Since it was a cop, Dave W had a “reasonable, articulable suspicion” of illegal activity.
Not that it’s saying much, but actively trying to avoid cops is probably more suspicious than half of the reasons they pull people over (i.e. being the wrong color, driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong neighborhood, driving by on the last of the month when they need to fill their quota, etc.).
Because, of course, the fact that the cops can pull you over and waste your time for absolutely no reason at all isn’t enough reason in and of itself to avoid the bastards in the first place.
What a fucking crock.
That is my favorite super hero evah! Fighting the on going genital mutilation of males.
Safe in a BORDER TOWN……
Yep, here in California just go to Calexico and things are safe. Then go up the road to Coachella or Indio and things are a little scary. One is a true Border Town and one is where the Border Town Syndrome is real.
I don’t know if it’s just me or what, but Kim Jong-il seems to be half assing it these days. I think it’s the lack of competition. Back in his father’s day North Korea didn’t have a monopoly on the paranoid, isolated, secretive, impoverished communist country with maniacal absolute ruler market. Albania under Enver Hoxha had also cut itself off from the rest of the world in the name of uncorrupted ideological purity, and keeping out virtually all foreigners, especially journalists, was part of that crusade. The New York Times and the BBC could be reliably counted on to run a few stories a year about the latest insane pronouncement from Hoxha, and the occasional defectors always had bizarre and tragic details about life in what seemed to be an alternate reality.
When there’s another country in the game it takes some creativity to really bring the crazy, and these guys took it to Bond villain levels. North Korea today seems as cruel and repressive as ever, and considerably less interesting when viewed from outside.
How about DUI check points being unconstitutional.
So Sen Feinstein is trying to encourage smoking?
Re: The MN Ruling. The guy who was stopped obviously was pulling over because he knew that the police were just looking for some bullshit reason to mess with him. Too bad buddy! We’re going to fuck with you either way!
No. Official policy in NM now is: “You have something to worry about regardless of whether you’ve done anything wrong.”
It’s a sub-section of the policy that says: “If you haven’t done anything wrong, cops can make a bunch of shit up”.
And it’s all under the subtitle “Anything” under the main title of “What cops can do to little people”.
Hmm. Time magazine article says 1 murder last year in El Paso, but I see other sources that say it was 13, and El Paso’s own web page says 4 for just the first 6 month of the year. http://www.elpasoredco.org/ElPaso-Crime.aspx
So, whom to believe?
The El Paso page says that for 2008 they were at 96% rate for violent crime compared to the rest of the USA, and 2009 was at 73%, but just for the first 6 months. Back in 2005 they were at 117%.
What percentage of illegals (not immigrants as a whole, just the illegals) stay in border towns anyways? You’d think that they would not want to hang around a place that has a lot of border patrol agents looking for people like them.
+ eleventy million
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXefPoq6w0
if Bloomberg finds out about Feinstein’s great idea, he’ll build in bigger penalties for people who bake brownies using trans fat, sugar, and egg yolks. Brownies are a gateway food- they could lead to ice cream…
Nice Dave W.!
Feinstein is a member of the oligarchical class and she likes prohibition of cannabis because it gives an excuse for her paid thugs to harrass, arrest, and jail ordinary people and keep them subservient.
Let’s be honest about the Marie Antoinette’s in our midst. Only Feinstein says “Let them eat shit”.
I recall reading about a traffic stop in Canada that led to the discovery of contraband drugs. The vehicle was deemed suspicious and pulled over because it was being driven at exactly the speed limit.
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Sen Feinstein sure is actively shitting on the potheads this year. But she isn’t up for reelection until 2012. I’ll bet she thinks all the unlikely voters that come out this year to support Prop 19 aren’t likely to show up again in future elections. But those Democrats that would vote no on Prop 19 this year will also be voting in 2012. Senator Feinstein may regret this attitude if Prop 19 fails as the people who sponsored it have promised to be back in 2012 if the need arises, as well as several other reform groups who are only not promoting Prop 19 because they think it premature and/or a better idea in a year with the election of the POTUS. From the current polls I have to say that the latter reform groups that think Prop 19 premature are likely correct. Jerry Brown seems to have taken the same position in his gubernatorial campaign. Hey if you don’t like Jerry Bown’s position just wait 10 minutes and he’ll probably change his mind.
It’s simply amazing that with all the rhetoric conflating the smoking of cannabis that there are those who would seek to criminalize safer delivery methods. No Ms Feinstein, the goal of improving the overall health of our society is more important than adding more time to the already beyond the pale list of charges that for which you can find yourself arrested.
Vote Green not Brown!