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Re: Baptist Preacher Beaten & Tazed By Border Patr
I agree, Michael. I don't find it funny.
For his own sake, the pastor should have just cooperated, BUT it's a sad day when we have to fear these various agencies to the point that we can't even expect our basic rights to be recognized. The bottom line is, these agencies have been given too much power, too little supervision, and no one seems to care about the constitution.
It's kind of like the case of the guy in the airport from a few weeks ago, who was detained because he had money in his suitcase. To protect himself from harrassment, he could have just went along with them, but the truth is, he should have been able to assert his rights, and have them recognized. Instead, these various law enforcers (and I use that term VERY loosely) act confused when you make reasonable requests.
A government that can't be questioned is a very dangerous entity.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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