Land Of The Chained Home Of The Cowed

TJIC...  Just, wow.

His plight does illustrate something I learned in Ames a long time ago.

Once the cops start to harass you, move.  It will not end until you're gone for good, prison is a respite if you're foolish enough to come back to the same place after release.

My story with the cops is here.

It just keeps coming up over and over again...

If most cops are the good guys, why is this issue so widespread?

Percolate on that.

What we're seeing in the Nevada case is an extension of it too.

Words are supposed to mean things, but you can get trapped in the details of the definition.  Want to bet that since the police aren't the military that their behaving in a manner consistent with a Redcoat will not matter if it goes to court?

When you get to define the terms, you don't lose in court.  Grab a law sometimes and look at the definition pages.  They have reams of definitions so that you can't walk by saying it was a 30 shot flingersoffer instead of a magazine.

But they've changed the definition of soldier sufficiently in the eyes of the law that they've worked around the third amendment as surely as they've eliminated the 9th and 10th.

1st is dead.  Been dead a long time.  If the first was still active then I could tell off color jokes at work and not fear for my job.

2nd is on life support.  I want a brand new M1918A2.  I can't just buy one.  But since I can still get a semi-auto clone then we'll call it a persistent vegetative state.

3rd just got stabbed in the heart.  All because we've entertained the idea that armed government agents with a specialized day to day job aren't a standing army.

4th is dead.  There a so many weasel routes around this right it's been decades since it was more than a facade.

5th is dead.  Pleading the fifth is de facto admitting guilt to a jury and there's Kelo stinking up the place.  Plus explain to me how if I am innocent of a crime I can still be sued for it; but if I am guilty I cannot.

6th is OK, I guess.  Except the defense you get from a public defender is sure to see you in prison unless the arresting officer will testify that you weren't there and didn't do it.

7th?  Did it ever exist?  Just watch suit after suit after suit go on and on and on until the desired verdict is finally reached or one side flat runs out of money after the nth appeal.

8th is dead.  All you need is to look at the Zimmerman proceedings.  Basically bail shall be set to ten percent more than you could ever hope to assemble and will be revoked should we discover it was set below what you actually could scrape together.

9th and 10th are dead because we have been reduced to just the 8 previous rights, as predicted by Hamilton.  Ever hear that driving is a privilege?  Do you accept that you don't have a right to drive your car?  Dumbass!  Show me where Congress is empowered to require licenses to drive.  You buy lunch because you're going to be a long time in finding it, and if you do it's likely justified under a tenth amendment shattering precedent.