Proserpina
Senior Member
Im sick and tired of cops thinking they have more rights. The Supreme court has already ruled that one can defend oneself against an illegal arrest. In California you dont have to ID if the requirements for Penal code 148 are not met. Lets face it cops for the most part because there are exceptions are just a bunch of C average high school graduates. They feel the need to bully people and intimidate. Well I say we need to start fighting back, the supreme court ruled “Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
These idiots with shields need to get a grip, most people are fed up. If they were to ask me for my ID I would tell them to take a hike, In addition Supreme court Justice Joseph Story wrote “Story affirmed the right of self-defense by persons held illegally. In his own writings, he had admitted that ‘a situation could arise in which the checks-and-balances principle ceased to work and the various branches of government concurred in a gross usurpation.’ There would be no usual remedy by changing the law or passing an amendment to the Constitution, should the oppressed party be a minority. Story concluded, ‘If there be any remedy at all ... it is a remedy never provided for by human institutions.’ That was the ‘ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice.’” (From Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987, an account of the reading of the decision in the case by Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court.
You didn't even try to get the facts right, did you?
I'll now invite you to make like a tree and leaf.