So what do we have here.
A guy who has been arrested a crazy number of times in his adult life including four times in 2015. But that rap sheet exposes two problems that nobody has addressed but I have written about several times over the years.
First, the huge majority of these “busts” are for consensual adult acts that nobody complained about. That is, drug offenses. They’re simply a matter of control of others and a “negative mandate” imposed on other people because you don’t like that person’s particular choice of intoxicant. Other intoxicants, however (beer anyone?) are perfectly fine and in fact taxed. What sort of thuggish crap is this sort of so-called “law”?
The second problem is arguably worse. How does someone get arrested and accused of all these serious criminal acts and yet is either convicted of none or, if they were convicted, are not incarcerated? At what point do such “arrests,” which fail to lead to convictions and incarcerations, turn from “law enforcement” to an act ethically and morally indistinguishable from extortion and even kidnapping?
A few years ago I wrote on a story of a federal marshal that was shot trying to serve a summons on a convicted felon here in Florida. But not just any convicted felon; this guy had first decided that carjacking was his means of employment, was caught and sentenced to prison. Then, being released, he decided that sexually assaulting a minor (the common name for that would be “rape”) was his second calling. He got caught a second time and the people of this state let him out again. Being out he was able to shoot said marshal when he came to serve him papers (for a purpose that was not disclosed in the paper at the time.)
This situation appears to be even more-egregious, given the length of the rap sheet. But unlike the three-time loser in Florida who was committing felonies against other people, and serious ones at that, this guy was committing crimes against himself.
In other words but for the pronouncement of someone who was unaffected by his conduct he was committing no offense at all.
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Way too many victimless crimes on our books. Time to change that.
ReplyDeleteI have been saying this all along and have tried to get people to see the light... They are just to stupid and you can't fix stupid....
ReplyDeleteEspecially those clown knuckleheads who advocate that being shot by cops is ok BC you have a past record... Even is they can be lies or cops harrasing someone or trying to ruin someone's life or to extort money.... Everyone, commits a crime at least once a day and either doesn't realize it or know it exists with all these laws we have....
Legalize pot federally
ReplyDeleteCops will just have to understand this is a lifestyle culture, and arrest after arrest will never change the lifestyle. That lifestyle is a result of Democrat programs and rule for the last 50+ years that pay to perpetuate it for generation after generation.
ReplyDeleteArrests and confrontations will do nothing. Hell, you don't even have room for him in the jail, so you are really just extorting money out of his drug sales.
And we wonder why anger builds in these people. Police just keeping a time bomb going.
Want to practice some more exciting cop work? F- one of them up unjustly for "eye contact and running".
Now you have the chance to see really cool rioting and go get your military toys and play with them on TV.
Salisbury cops do this alot,arrest people for no just cause and the courts let them go.I dont understand this policy.
ReplyDeletewhy are you blaming the cops? The politicians are the ones passing these laws! you want change then change the idiots you keep electing! I actually feel bad for most of the cops. Decent guys doing an awful job. Sure their are some bad ones just like doctors pastors teachers etc. But if you want to make a change then change the way you vote!
ReplyDeletevote, schmote.
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