First Amendment? Not in America
I’d really like to know how these policemen sleep at night. Seriously. What can they possibly be thinking? The only way I can imagine them thinking is, “Gee, we were told to do this by someone in charge, so we have to because it’s our job.”
A man was preaching on a street at a street party. Others were talking and using microphones and amplifiers. The policemen forcibly took the man’s megaphone, then shoved a person filming them. They then arrested the man, handcuffed him, and took him off to jail. The police ignored others using megaphones. This man was arrested because he had a religious message. Wow.
Seriously, what do these police think? We have no freedom of speech — none at all. Zero. And the policemen enforce rulings of those above them “because it’s their job.” That’s absolutely disgusting. I hope the guy sues the city for civil rights violations — those policemen should be fired and the person giving the order should be fired, too. But this is police state, USA — I bet the policemen get commendations instead.
These incidents still shock me, but I guess they shouldn’t. I cannot name one right that we have as citizens that the police won’t violate if they want to. Can you?
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So, they “were just doing their job.”
Just following orders?
That argument didn’t go over very well in Nuremburg, if I remember right.
I keep thinking that over and over again. I understand the need for order, but when policemen blindly follow all orders, there’s a problem.
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