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Larry

wrote in news:1172537043.893649.213760@
8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com:

It is just not critical that that woman get out of her car at that
particular instant.

I'll second that motion. She should have never been tased unless they
threatened to harm the officer, not just for his convenience.

Similarly, it is just not critical to Florida's boat registration
statutes that an officer use that as a lever to press himself on any
and every vessel registered elsewhere than Florida.

I've never figured out why the CONSTITUTION guarantees against
unreasonable search and seizures against the citizens of the United
States of America do not apply to those same citizens once they board
even the smallest open boat, the cops' usual victims for an illegal
"traffic stop". A cop cannot stop you in your car just because he wants
to look inside your vehicle on some "fishing expedition" WITHOUT DUE
CAUSE. Why doesn't this same CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE apply to a 14' Jon
boat with 9.9hp Evinrude outboard full of fishing gear? That's just
bull****! Wanting to look at my fire extinguisher is NOT a reason to
force me over for inspection and harrassment.

Larry
--
I have a new strategy to protect the Mexican border. From the border
to inside the USA, 1 mile, we turn it into our OPEN PIT nuclear
waste dump, turning it into a no-mans-land for tens of thousands
of years. Anyone attempting to cross will simply be eaten alive
by neutrons! Problem solved!