here i post another item from my documents file about law enforcement. its something i saved years ago thinking it was relevant to those times, and believe to be even more so today. i have no idea where i found this so its parentage is unknown;

“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God” Thomas Jefferson

If law enforcement continues to treat the citizenry as their enemy they should not be surprised if the citizenry comes to believe them.

The people who wrote the laws were thinking about citizens and not government, which, somehow, can’t be a terrorist, so it’s OK for “our government” to ignore the law. The Supreme Court was intended to be an institution to protect you from government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. Americans can’t count on courts for justice. In the police state being erected around us, police and other government agents can probe, poke, Taser, search, seize, strip and generally shove anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance, with the courts blessing.

The Supreme Court’s rulings over the past 10 years reveals a steady trend towards pro-police state rulings concerned with keeping order, protecting government agents and not about keeping Constitutional rights protected.

The Court said that police officers who needlessly used force by shooting multiple times at a man and his passenger in a stopped car, killing both individuals have immunity. Police using the excuse of “reasonable suspicion” can stop cars and question drivers based only on anonymous tips, no matter how dubious, and without witnessing any troubling actions.

The Court granted “qualified immunity” to Secret Service officials who relocated anti-Bush protesters, despite the protesters’ First Amendment right to freely speak, assemble, and petition their government leaders.

The Supreme Court ruled that persons who aren’t under arrest must clearly raise their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to avoid having their refusal to answer police questions used against them in a criminal trial. A unanimous Court said police may use unreliable drug-sniffing dogs to conduct warrantless searches of cars during routine traffic stops.

A divided Court said that a person arrested is presumed innocent until proven guilty but must submit to forcible extraction of their DNA. The Supreme Court said that police have broad authority to stop, search and question individual’s and any arrested person, who is processed in jail, can be strip searched by police or jail officials.

The Supreme Court placed their trust in the judgment of police officers, rather than in the Constitution, when they gave police greater leeway to break into homes or apartments without a warrant even if it’s the wrong home.

A majority of the Supremes agreed that refusing to answer when a policeman asks “What’s your name?” can rightfully be considered a crime. The Supreme Court confirmed that the President and the military can arrest and indefinitely detain individuals, including American citizens.

Justices refused to hear the case of a Texas man who was shot by police through his closed bedroom door when his home was subject of a no-knock, SWAT raid based solely on the suspicion that there were legally-owned firearms in his household.

Police who don’t know their actions violate the law aren’t guilty of breaking the law. The Supreme Court allowed police who clearly used excessive force when they repeatedly tasered a pregnant woman during a routine traffic stop to have immunity from prosecution.

If you aren’t polite or somehow “disrespect” an officer, he may arrest you on a trumped up charge or even physically abuse you.  The stories of this are too many to count. What these court rulings show is an official government attitude that interprets the Constitution one way for the elite and a second way for the underclasses: you and me. Historically the complicity of the courts was the final piece to fall before the totalitarian beast stepped into the light. If history is a guide, then our future is frightening.

You’ll need to use all your abilities to defend your Constitutional rights against the SWAT thugs that are only ‘doing their job’. The number of SWAT team raids in America every year is significantly greater than it was 25 years ago when there were approximately 3,000 SWAT raids in America.  There are now more than 80,000 SWAT raids each year in America mostly on private homes. Usually “a battering ram, boot, or some sort of explosive device” is used to force entry into a home. SWAT raids search for drugs and in at least a third of these raids, no drugs of any kind are found. In cases where it’s suspected that there’s a weapon in the home, police only find one a third of the time.

More than 100 American families are attacked by SWAT teams at home every day. Less than 10% of SWAT assaults are for “hostage, barricade or active-shooter scenarios”. Even small towns are getting SWAT teams now.  30 years ago few small communities had a SWAT team.  Now many do. When you start arming the police and training them like military units, eventually they start acting like military units and with frightening results.

“Consumers” would say, “The law is the law. People have to obey the law.” Segregation was the law, as was slavery and apartheid. The law required the round-ups of Jews in Nazi Germany. When laws violate God’s laws, man’s laws aren’t deserving of respect or compliance. “Consumers” would say Stormtrooper raids that leave wounded infants are the price we must pay to be protected from whatever “threats” our rulers imagine. We’ve yet to find a way around letting power hungry idiots decide everything.

A little-known tactic allows cops to secretly enter private residences, search, seize property, and then leave without notifying the homeowner. These searches, known as “sneak and peek” warrants, have been rapidly increasing since 9/11. Secret searches reduce/eliminate the privacy and freedom of those targeted in the investigations that are legally innocent until proven guilty. The risk of police barging in on unsuspecting people despite investigators’ best efforts to avoid contact could create dead or wounded.

When police enter without notice, they will appear identical to criminal home invaders. Violent confrontations may arise, as they often do with the use of standard “no-knock” warrants. Clandestine “black bag jobs” are a perfect environment for corrupt government agents. If their objective is to stage a robbery, they can steal property for their own benefit and never report it. Pocketing cash and valuables would be quite easy for state-sanctioned burglars operating without any witnesses. Officers also have an unchecked ability to plant evidence and incriminate anyone. The secrecy and lack of witnesses in these situations makes it incredibly difficult to hold police accountable for any wrongdoing.