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To: BGHater

This is a situation where you can be right, dead right, but be just as dead as if you had been all wrong. Officers have the ability, not necessarily the right, to arrest anyone anytime, anywhere. If you resist the situation just gets worse. Not only more charges, but possibly physical harm up to and including death.

Even you do go along quietly your problems are likely just beginning. It’s up to you to prove your innocence and you will have to bear the full cost of that personally. If you can even find an attorney who will take on the system. The government has virtually unlimited resources to mess with you. You, OTOH, are on your own, probably with limited resources at your disposal. And whatever you do, you will have to do it from jail unless you are freed on bond.

My wife has a cousin who was a retired army photographer. He went out to get his paper one morning and saw his the body of his neighbor hanging from a tree in her front yard. He went back in, got his camera and began taking pictures. The coroner accosted him and demanded the camera and or the film. He refused and was arrested and jailed. He could not find an attorney and had to settle for them quietly dropping the charges, after he had been booked and forced to post bail.

It might not be the law, but it’s certainly the outcome that you really don’t have the right to do anything an official doesn’t want you to do.


26 posted on 01/26/2009 8:08:21 AM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: jwparkerjr

Wouldn’t the officer be destroying evidence seizing by the cameras?


28 posted on 01/26/2009 8:14:46 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: jwparkerjr

I think it’s better to be alive than right or wrong. At least if you’re alive, you can keep telling people you were right...


41 posted on 01/26/2009 9:35:18 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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