You're a smart guy, Ghavrel. You can't seriously think you have to do *anything* the police say.
Tim Send a noteboard - 22/11/2011 03:05:06 PM
Obviously laws exist that say "If you are doing X, and fail to desist on being so requested by a police officer in uniform, you commit an offence". For example, where I live drinking in the street is legal, but you have to stop if the police ask you to. That of course is fine, and it may well be that all OWS arrests are for offences of this sort. But if a police officer happens to hate (say) baseball caps, they can't go up to you in the street and tell you to take off your baseball cap, then arrest you for not doing so, and then charge you with resisting arrest when you try to escape from your unlawful arrest. (If there is some specific law against baseball caps in NYC, replace them in my example with something equally innocuous and random.)
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
An Open Letter to Police Officers Across America
- 20/11/2011 03:27:46 AM
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Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
- 20/11/2011 03:59:42 AM
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I am forced to agree.
- 20/11/2011 04:37:07 AM
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You're right, but stuff like what just happened at UC Davis makes my blood boil
- 20/11/2011 05:52:11 AM
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As such things go, that does not seem too bad to me.
- 20/11/2011 06:14:54 AM
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I'm going to start a counter protest with "Bring back the Pinkertons" signs...
- 20/11/2011 05:19:19 AM
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*NM*
One of the most poorly written pieces of shit I've read in a long time. *NM*
- 20/11/2011 06:30:29 AM
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Declaring people "enemy combatants" means they get to treat you as such too.
- 20/11/2011 01:55:51 PM
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Don't cloud the propaganda with logic, Tim!
- 20/11/2011 04:16:05 PM
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That's the problem with a two-party system: it's practically impossible to form a new party. *NM*
- 20/11/2011 05:42:39 PM
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And implicit in my statement above is the following addendum
- 20/11/2011 06:14:40 PM
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I agree with that. However, many seem to think that means it's OK to beat them up.
- 20/11/2011 06:21:05 PM
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Only if they resist arrest, and then the force must be proportionate. *NM*
- 20/11/2011 09:52:39 PM
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If they resist a lawful arrest, sure. *NM*
- 21/11/2011 11:11:11 AM
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they are breaking the law so it is lawful to arrest them *NM*
- 21/11/2011 10:46:18 PM
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In what way?
- 22/11/2011 09:12:01 AM
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Resisting arrest. Duh. *NM*
- 22/11/2011 10:11:04 AM
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They have to be doing something else before you can lawfully arrest them.
- 22/11/2011 10:30:05 AM
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Then they should be doing what the police say. Because that's the law. *NM*
- 22/11/2011 02:28:00 PM
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You're a smart guy, Ghavrel. You can't seriously think you have to do *anything* the police say.
- 22/11/2011 03:05:06 PM
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*NM*
You are not allowed to just block sidewalks and camp wherever you want
- 22/11/2011 01:54:42 PM
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Most, if not all, of the arrests have been lawful.
- 22/11/2011 01:24:55 AM
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Can you tell me any more about this permit system? *NM*
- 22/11/2011 10:04:35 AM
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Thereby hangs the tale, indeed; I would also be interested in Toms elaboration on that.
- 23/11/2011 08:54:53 AM
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(OWS isn't anti-capitalism)
- 20/11/2011 06:39:37 PM
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It's almost impossible for you to say what OWS is when it refuses to define itself.
- 20/11/2011 08:44:12 PM
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Re: It's almost impossible for you to say what OWS is when it refuses to define itself.
- 22/11/2011 04:20:59 AM
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Why are liberals such whiners?
- 21/11/2011 01:51:03 PM
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There you go again.... 
- 21/11/2011 11:05:04 PM
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- 21/11/2011 11:05:04 PM
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it is a little hypocritical of the guy who called the Tea Party racsit to talk about broad brushes *NM*
- 22/11/2011 04:02:56 AM
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One of these days you should try responding to me with more than "that thing you just said? YOU!"
- 22/11/2011 06:11:20 AM
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one of these days you will respond without going into off topic rants
- 22/11/2011 02:02:46 PM
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A tangent is not a non sequitur, though in this case I do not feel guilty of either.
- 23/11/2011 08:12:09 AM
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oh and stop with the the stupid BS about the Fed veing threatened it is getting old
- 22/11/2011 04:05:10 AM
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Saying a person would not like what one did to him if he came to ones state is a threat.
- 22/11/2011 06:13:35 AM
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No it is just another pathetic attempt of the left to believe the right are bad guys
- 22/11/2011 01:50:32 PM
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Saying one will take an unpleasant action against another is a threat, any way you slice it.
- 23/11/2011 08:17:44 AM
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You've posted this, but you don't seem inclined to defend it, one might ask what the point was?
- 21/11/2011 05:16:13 PM
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