Baptist Pastor Beaten and Tazed By Border Patrol

"I told them I was a US citizen.
I told them I was on a business trip.
I told them I had no drugs or humans in the car.

That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th amendment rights.

I DID NOT RESIST OR FIGHT BACK. YET I WAS TAZERED REPEATEDLY AND SHOVED IN BROKEN GLASS REPEATEDLY!

I was IN the United States!!! I had crossed no international border!!!"
Sagemindsays...

Holy Crap..., I smell lawsuit!
I just don't understand humans, governments, politics and authority...
What is it in the human make-up that's makes creates aggression in some and compassion in others? What is it that makes people in authority overstep that authority and feel it is their right to degrade another humanbeing in the name of aggressive power? Literally makes me ill!

phelixiansays...

What was that clip from the border guard being stared down by a person recording it all? The one with "Am I resisting arrest? Am I being detained? Am I free to go?" Makes me think of that.

schmawysays...

Gee, It's hard to imagine how he'd run afoul of these goons with behaviour like this...




BUT I applaud him for challenging these uniforms and asserting his rights.

budzossays...

^ Perfectly within his rights there, although you can see the hot pepper of rage he lodges into the anuses of the border patrol, which apparently has come back around now.

schmawysays...

Some of the more conspiratorially minded would say that this is all about "conditioning" us to accept a more intrusive government. I think you'd only think that way if you lived in a border region and had to drive through that stuff every day. Budzos hit the nail on the head, this guy was obviously the talk of the doughnut counter. Which makes it all the more brutish and wrong.

Good lesson for this cat, 'cause I push my luck with TSA all the time. I recently told a security officer on a Segway that if he wanted to talk to me, "he should dismount that piece of two-wheeled faggotry".

poolcleanersays...

>> ^schmawy:
Heh. Gawker says "This is not the civil libertarian you were looking for".

I think we can conclude that this is a man who doesn't lack conviction.


You're such a cute kitty, but you keep posting these horrible things that reveal the world for what it really is. Stop being relevant and do cat stuff! Make me go "awwwwwww cute" and not "awwwww crap."

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