Posted on 27 February 2012
Who Is At Greater Risk in a "Routine Traffic Stop" — The Police or the Citizen?
by William Grigg
For police, there is no higher priority than "officer safety," and the FBI's recent propaganda about the supposed menace of "sovereign citizens" plays on the anxieties of police officers by grotesquely exaggerating the risks they confront during a "routine traffic stop." Reasonable people should understand that in any encounter between a citizen and an armed stranger wearing government-issued insignia and authorized to employ deadly force, it is the former who is threatened, not the latter — a fact amply demonstrated by this video.
In this January 2006 traffic stop captured by a South Carolina police officer's dashboard camera, a motorist is stopped for speeding. The officers put the driver through a battery of sobriety tests, all of which he passes easily.When one officer asks the driver how much he had been drinking, the motorist makes the unfortunate error of answering "not much" — rather than simply ignoring the question.
Always remember: The police are looking for an excuse to arrest you; they are trained to invent one, if necessary, and are authorized to lie in order to do so. Don't assume they're honest or honorable, because they don't have to be. While you shouldn't lie to them, don't assume that you will earn their favor by being honest. Don't help them by answering any of their questions, or consenting to a search of any kind.
From the beginning of this encounter, the police treat the driver as if he were a threat: within seconds of ordering the man out of the car, one of the officers reaches for his pepper spray canister and moves to flank him. This underscores another important tactical point: When confronted by multiple police officers, always keep them in front of you, if at all possible — don't let one get behind you, or position himself in such a way that he can blind-side you.
Understandably frustrated to be dealing with officious armed busy-bodies, the driver quietly and politely protests his innocence, which infuriates the cops. They have no evidence that he was impaired or involved in actual criminal behavior, but "Contempt of Cop" simply can't be allowed to go unpunished. So they call a group of their boyfriends for backup and form a six-officer thugscrum that swarms the unresisting driver — who is struck and tasered while on the ground, despite his utter passivity.
That spectacle understandably enrages the victim's elderly mother — and she, in turn, is set upon by the valiant bullies in blue, who gang up on her, slam her to the pavement, and treat her to a dose of weaponized capiscum spray as well.
"Having neutralized the threat of the completely passive driver, the cops turn their attention to the pressing matter of his elderly mother, who they pepper-spray into submission," observes the incredulous British narrator. "This is almost like a microcosm of America's foreign policy."
Whether at home or abroad, the Regime's armed enforcers treat even the most fleeting displays of resistance as a form of terrorism. According to Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, the prevalence of "sovereign citizens" means that any traffic stop "has a potential to go high and right very fast" — that is, each time a police officer stops a car, he should be prepared to escalate the encounter very quickly, because he never knows if he's dealing with the threat posed by a "sovereign."
As this video documents, that was the approach being followed by armed revenue farmers years ago — before the FBI and its allies in the SPLC devised the "sovereign citizen" pretext to justify such methods.
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