2.16: Aren't these just your opinions? Aren't you are misquoting the Constitution?
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This article is from the Lawful Arrest/Search/Seizure FAQ, by Ahimsa Dhamapada ahimsa@mu.clarityconnect.net with numerous contributions by others.
2.16: Aren't these just your opinions? Aren't you are misquoting the Constitution?
Perhaps, but imagine for one moment that YOU get to design
a new country. Would you design a system of slaves and
masters with the expectation that YOU will get to be a
master? Or do you design a system where all creatures are
of equal right in the eyes of the law, and equal beauty
in the eyes of God?
Do you design a system where the Police detain anyone for
any reason at any time, or do you make them reactive to
a civilian complaint?
"She turned me into a Newt!"
-- A civilian complaint lacking probable
cause, from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_
And what of the complaint? Do you allow government agents
make the complaints? Do you allow someone to be
jailed for being ugly? Or smelly? Or being annoying? Or by
saying something unpleasant?
"Why 'you different? Why be that way?
If you don't get in line,
We'll lock you away..."
-- Dave Mathews Band, _Typical Situation_
...Or do you insist that there be some connection between the
accused and the victim's injury?
And what of the injury? Do you suggest that the police
be given the power to arrest or detain those for
"victimless crime"? Yes? Then which "actions which do
not cause injury" are crimes? Breathing? Thinking? Moving
about? Aren't we all guilty of "injuring no person" right
now? Do YOU want to be jailed for nothing at all?
The time for peaceable revolution is upon us. Let's make
the new system more fair, and the creatures more free.
How do YOU think it should be done?
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