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gluegun wrote:
First link does contain the whole thing. I showed it to 4 teens and pre-teens. Also showed them "Busted."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA
My only problem with BUSTED, is that in at least two of the situations, the people really are doing something wrong. The content of the video is still good, though.
Whether you're law abiding or not, you still have rights. If the cop in "busted" wasn't such a tool he could still have gotten a dog to show up and sniff the car, then he'd have had PC to search it. He wanted a quick and easy bust (first scenario) and when presented with someone that knew his rights didn't want to go the extra distance and get his PC so he let them go (second scenario).
Any one of us can commit a crime or infraction any day of the week from going over the speed limit, missing a stop sign, having your prescription medications in one of those monday/tuesday/wednesday partitioned boxes instead of the bottle the pills came in (yes that is a crime). There are way too many "crimes" on the books and it doesn't make anyone safer it just gives the "government" more chances to deprive you of your liberty.
The Libertarian in me says that crimes need an injured party to be crimes, if the "state" is the injured party then in my opinion it's not a proper crime.
It made me laugh (on the inside) when I fought a traffic ticket, the case was called "The people of the state of Connecticut versus me" I thought, "I bet if you polled the people of the state of Connecticut the majority of them would not wanting you to pursue a case against me for going 75mph on the Merritt"
