Federal judge strikes down another Bloomberg police state policy

Federal judge strikes down another Bloomberg police state policy. He’s probably throwing a giant control-freak temper tantrum right now: federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that New York’s stop-and-frisk policy violates constitutional rights.

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J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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    • Why? I like law and order, but randomly stopping people on the sidewalk to search their persons is not the kind of thing I want happening in my country. Was their something technical she didn't like? I know she's a lawyer.

        • I wish the judge had ruled that the searches were illegal for general constitutional reasons, not for racial reasons. Seems to me this is an abhorrent practice and if you've ever talked to black men subject to these searches you will understand how onerous and insulting they are. All the people saying that these searches are effective at stopping crime are simply repeating the justification they used for Mussolini - remember how they defended him by saying he made the trains run on time? If we have reached a point where the only way to be safe is to allow armed men to roam the streets randomly stopping, harassing, and searching citizens, then we might as well admit we have lost ourselves permanently.

          • allow armed men to roam the streets randomly stopping, harassing, and searching citizens

            Sounds like Germany circa 1942.

          • Maybe we should read this and seriously consider what is happening.

            http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873:BlogPost:2617306&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

            There is also this.

            http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r153/poppajoe49/ImageProxy_zps84ff8859.jpg

            FEMA is secretly seeking out supplies from survival food companies like Wise Foods, who are major suppliers of extended shelf life foods. It smells alot like the ammo grab. If they hoarde ammo and food, we are going to be in real trouble.

            This is the email I got:
            Dear Survivalists,

            You may have missed this but FEMA is sending out multiple requests for a 24 hour turnaround time on emergency food supplies...
            They are trying to keep this hush hush...
            But what they are asking for could have a massive impact on YOU.
            They are trying to play it off as another "drill" but this seems eerily familiar.
            The DHS and FEMA are connected at the hip and I seem to recall the DHS suddenly requesting over a billion rounds of ammunition from ammo manufacturers...
            Now I can't even find ammo for my .22, let alone my 9mm...
            They stripped the shelves of our ammo, now they are after our emergency food supplies.
            By the time we figure out what is going on, it may already be too late...

      • I don't really get it. She wasn't very convincing.
        I think she just liked the part weher they said they were only doing this to "suspicious" people, but I want to know how long it will be before any and all conservatives are considered "suspicious".

  • Gulliani had the same kind of policy when he was mayor, I wonder what Bloomers did to screw it up? It must be that "reasonable suspicion" thing Bloomers didn't like.

  • Heard Bloomtard had a hissy fit when his Hitler-isk policy got shot down. That Constitution sure can be a real pain in the ass for all those aspiring dictators.

  • I wish I could be a mouse in the corner of Bloomturds office when he got the news...see those little veins on his forehead start popping out, yelling at his subordinates, throwing stuff around..in essence acting like any other "democrat" who does not get his way.......Perhaps to relieve the stress he can Spitzer to bring one of his girls over. He keeps issuing directives to the little people and the judges keep saying no, and Bloomturd does not like No for an answer....

  • At some point one of two things needs to happen- either these Constitution violating tyrants need to be thrown from office or the government needs to come clean about the nullification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.