Cops Say Camera Caught Driver Smoking Pot

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-camera12.html ^ | 8-12-03 | Frank Main

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Smoking weed in public pre-dates the hip hop culture by many, many decades."

true. its made a comeback.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Really.

"Sitting in a car smoking reefer sounds innocent enough, but you don't know what he plans to do from there."

Great logic. Let's keep going with it...

"Sitting in a living room cleaning a gun sounds innocent enough, but you don't know what he plans to do from there."

"Sitting on a porch drinking a beer sounds innocent enough, but you don't know what he plans to do from there."

"Working on the farm using diesel and fertilizer sounds innocent enough, but you don't know what he plans to do from there."

"Buying nitromethane for a model airplane sounds innocent enough, but you don't know what he plans to do from there."

"Browsing an 'anti-government' website like Freerepublic sounds innocent enough, but you don't know what he plans to do from there."

I agree, the guy is an idiot. But you don't have the right to arrest someone based on your impressions of what he "might do". As you said, what's next?

[Old Professer]

You know, we could collect you guys like catching flies around honey.

[Old Professer]

Don't tell me, you interned at the local zoo in the summer, right?

[Mr. Mojo]

Especially this kind of honey

[Pro-Bush]

But you don't have the right to arrest someone based on your impressions of what he "might do".

Exactly. Really appreicate you perspective on this. These police tactics were the same ones used by Nazi Germany.

[Monty22]

Ah christ, they went and made using pot illegal.. And driving on it too.

What a world.

[optimistically_conservative]

“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.”

Justice William O. Douglas, dissenting in Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341, 87 S.Ct. 429 (1966). Justice Douglas was commenting on a series of cases involving the government use of agents to pose, infiltrate, or secretly tape record conversations with unsuspecting individuals in order to obtain convictions for certain federal crimes.

[kkindt]

I am sorry. WHat do you mean I interned at the local zoo in the summer? Is this an attempt at satire or some kind of irrational emotional criticism?

[Old Professer]

Maybe you were playing with the flaming ducks?

[kkindt]

I don't know about flaming ducks?