No, drafting a law that clearly puts untrained people in positions to hold someone without evidence of a crime is something we shouldn't do. Again, we have a policy in this country of innocent until proven guilty, under which there are only a limited number of things that can cause someone to be detained by law enforcement. This law extends those provisions too far, and opens the door for abuse too wide.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me try to understand your complaint.Enforcing the law can lead to > mistakes so we shouldn't do it? > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:22 PM, morgan l <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No, you missed the part where the authorities decided to not accept the > > papers (CDL drivers license) of a citizen, and detained him until someone > > showed up with further papers (birth certificate). This was a > natural-born > > citizen that was detained even though he had legal ID, because the > > authorities "thought" it wasn't his ID. > > > > This isn't speculation. This happened. This was ICE employees; abuse at a > > lower level of law enforcement is just going to be that much worse. > > > > I don't know anyone that carried their birth certificate on them, but if > > this is what's to come, we're all going to have to. And that's the > problem. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318972 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
