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  1. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    You entirely missed my point. I said the only reason that involuntarily commuting people is justified is if they are violently insane. If they are insane, but not violent, it is not justified to force them to have their condition treated.
  2. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    I think you have one thing backwards here. The only situation where we should involuntarily commit people to a mental institution is when they are a danger to themselves and others. So it is not unknown how the person will react. We know they will react violently by the time we get to the point...
  3. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    The legal battle to access constitutional rights costs millions of dollars, on the off chance that you are even provided an appeal. Regular people don't have civil rights unless they can protect them at the end of the gun.
  4. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    We need the right to defend our constitutional rights with lethal force guaranteed by statute or constitutional amendment.
  5. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    Qualified immunity is completely contrary to US legal tradition. US law is built on the concept of Rule of Law, where the law applies to everybody, including the state. What US law does instead of qualified immunity is carve out exceptions for lawful actions into the causes of actions in...
  6. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    What we need is a criminal charge, probably constructed as a constitutional amendment: Obstruction of Constitutionality: Criminal charges and Torts based on violations of constitutional law may only be defeated under factual grounds. Any person, whether part of the Judicial, Executive, or...
  7. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    They are fundamentally a tool of violence. Here's the thing: there are some things that justify the use of violence; however progressive politics demands expanding the law into things where violence is not justified. Because these laws can only exist so long as they are enforce- that is police...
  8. Doomsought

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    The stuff Swat raids take care of are supposed to be taken care of by the militia, the effort needed to get the state militia deployed acted as a check against excessive usage. Instead we now have calling swat team on people being used as an instrument of murder.
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