I am one of those others James. The police overstep their mark all too often. The constitution protects against arbitrary search. The police know this and if you consent to be searched they can. If you do not consent they cannot. At the very least they need some probable cause. I have had a twenty minute standoff with 2 police vehicles and 4 police officers where they wanted to search me for no reason other than I walked up to their van and said hello. One of them Ontong new exactly who I was, yet still stood by and watched while the other one carried on trying to intimidate me. I made mention of this to then CPF chair Teun Baartman (I was also serving on the CPF at the time) and he ignored the matter completely and I left it at that for reasons you can deduce for yourself.
Wait till this happens to you and see how you feel. Its a slippery slope. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 He was right in 1759 and he is right now. Trev -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room ---------------------------------------------- 021-447-1066 072-063-1653 For all emergencies please dial 10111 ---------------------------------------------- ONW: 082 081 0142, ONW email: [email protected] WEB: www.obswatch.org.za ---------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
