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Author Topic: Attorney General Holder: Due Process Doesn't Necessarily Mean a Courtroom [Locked]
Yukishiro1  4 stars
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Well, maybe, maybe not. If you are still an obvious danger to society they have a right to shoot you. If you just threw down the weapon that's probably a sign you arn't a danger, but it really depends on the situation.


In general the cops are allowed to shoot a fleeing violent felon who is a continued danger to society if they have to to prevent him escaping.
MatrexMistwalker  1 star
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I dont shed tears over his death... im appaled at the process that led to it... "cliche here" slippery slope and all that..
Bonzoboy1  3 stars
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Yukishiro1 posted:

Well, suppose you've got some guys fortified in some bunker with machine guns up in the appalachians refusing to submit to valid arrest. Are you really saying the police or the military arn't allowed to go blow up the bunker if they have to? Suppose you know for a fact that if you try to make a non-deadly arrest you're going to be greeted with machine gun fire and it's pretty much guaranteed multiple officers are going to die. I am as pro civil liberties as the next guy but in that situation I don't see how you can tell the police they have to die to safeguard the suspect's rights when the suspect is pointing a machine gun at them and clearly is not going to go quietly.



That has some eery similarities to Ruby Ridge where the feds shot and killed a 12 year old boy and an unarmed woman holding a newborn, all because they were afraid of serving a warrant for selling a sawed off shotgun.

 

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Koneg  3 stars
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Bonzoboy1 posted:

That has some eery similarities to Ruby Ridge where the feds shot and killed a 12 year old boy who was shooting at them with a rifle and had just helped kill a US Marshal

Fixed that for you.

 

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sweeny_comodore  4 stars
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it is time to take up arms against a tyranical government that no longer upholds the law of our land.

 

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the_great_intex  4 stars
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AG Holder should be in prison for numerous things. Being a total lying asshole should be chalked right up there too

 

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Bonzoboy1  3 stars
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Koneg posted:

Bonzoboy1 posted:

That has some eery similarities to Ruby Ridge where the feds shot and killed a 12 year old boy who was shooting at them with a rifle and had just helped kill a US Marshal

Fixed that for you.



He shot an unidentified man in camouflage who had just killed his dog with an M-16, he was then shot in the back as he ran away.

 

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