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Originally posted by The Sword
Anti-immigrant behavior is a DISTRACTION used to rile up the sleeping masses.
Don't ever call yourself enlightened when you're readily conditioned to hate illegal immigrants.
Before there were borders, people moved freely. The concept of borders is a tool of CONTROL.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by Xcathdra
Let's see, a cop can pretty much make up any reason they want to after the fact for the rape of a person's 4th Amendment right. So basically this new law gives cops carte blanche to pillage the 4th Amendment rights of every single citizen in Arizona.
Way to give police absolute authority Arizona!
So it works like this, they will just go around and whomever they feel like they will pat down and take the ID off of. If you happen to be illegal, they will of course justify the stop somehow and deport the illegal, if you are a citizen, they will make up whatever reason they have to in order to get your ID off of you.
Don't worry though, the right wing hates that particular Constitutional Amendment anyway.
Originally posted by jambatrumpet
no human being is illegal...
I wonder what kind of documentation our ancestors had when they showed up at Ellis Island? Mithinks they showed up with luggage and the clothes on their backs...
I am SO tired of the discriminative/racist/propagandist titles like 'Illegal Aliens' that are used to describe undocumented immigrants...
The majority of all Americans are citizens only because of the welcoming policies of our immigration system towards our great great grandparents...
And now we change the rules, and make hard working people, trying to better their lives, into criminals...
BTW the only true legitimate American citizens are the Native Americans- we stole the place from them in the first place...
And if you haven't figured it out... Demonizing immigrants-
(specifically brown skinned immigrants- I don't hear anyone complaining about the undocumented European immigrants in our midst)
is just another technique used by the 'Powers that Be' to keep our focus, and anger, away from the real criminals and injustices of our society...
[edit on 25-7-2010 by jambatrumpet]
I don't have any problem with federal authorities enforcing the federal law. Fact is, I do wish they would put the national guard on the boarder, and secure the boarder.
I don't like the agenda of Arizona. I don't like the politics of the people who wrote the law, I don't like the scope and lack of training the local law enforcement is receiving.
But apparently there is something wrong with me not liking the neo nazi agenda. I guess I must be wrong for not goose stepping in line with the rest of the heard down in Arizona. Sure the law was written by white supremacists, but dang it, I am a white guy, so I must just go along with it and support it.
Still, doesn't it shock anyone else that people that are so down on cops here on ATS are the same ones cheering them in the wake of this law?
Doesn't that seem a bit hypocritical?
Also, In any other country, you are asked by police constantly where you're from and if you're in that country legally. You're often asked for your papers / passports. Are we supposed to be special now? This isn't about "Police State", so quit crying like a little girl. Your little wishy washy rights jive doesn't fly straight.
There are signs everywhere in Spanish, not because of Africans, Not because of Asians or anyone else.
In the cheap housing communities around here there are more Hispanics than any other culture.
Let's see, a cop can pretty much make up any reason they want to after the fact for the rape of a person's 4th Amendment right. So basically this new law gives cops carte blanche to pillage the 4th Amendment rights of every single citizen in Arizona.
So it works like this, they will just go around and whomever they feel like they will pat down and take the ID off of. If you happen to be illegal, they will of course justify the stop somehow and deport the illegal, if you are a citizen, they will make up whatever reason they have to in order to get your ID off of you.
Don't worry though, the right wing hates that particular Constitutional Amendment anyway.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by EnkiCarbone
Also, In any other country, you are asked by police constantly where you're from and if you're in that country legally. You're often asked for your papers / passports. Are we supposed to be special now? This isn't about "Police State", so quit crying like a little girl. Your little wishy washy rights jive doesn't fly straight.
That's a crock of BULL!
I have been to England twice in my life, not a single time other than the person at customs has anyone EVER asked to see my paperwork.
As for your little experiment. Hell no, I live in Michigan, if I quit my job, there's a good chance I WONT get another job for a very long time, doesn't matter that I am a white guy, the economy and job market here suck!
I mean if you want to give up your 4th Amendment protection against unwarranted searches and seizures that's fine, don't ask me to do the same.
You want to live in a police state, you want white supremacist groups writing your laws, that's on you, but don't blame me when all of a sudden you aren't in the group they find acceptable anymore.
You want to live in a police state, you want white supremacist groups writing your laws, that's on you, but don't blame me when all of a sudden you aren't in the group they find acceptable anymore.