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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Drift Toward Despotism

Too many of our rulers and their enforcers reflexively see the citizenry as a threat.

At a time when over 4 million people have had their health insurance canceled, 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, N.M., 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 and without a valid warrant.

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3 comments:

ginn said...

And, you cops wonder why we despise you? Clean up your house first, if you want any change.

Cannot shoot all of us before we get to you said...

4 million people hitting the White House would make the papers...

Anonymous said...

I Hope Mr. Eckert enjoys owning the soon to be renamed "Eckert Memorial Hospital" after he wins his lawsuit...the so called warrant had expired AND was for another county...he will OWN those cops, doctors & hospital.