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From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Comments on the Libertarian Platform
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 12:55:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 12:55:38 1984
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> >>  GOV: You owe us $1,000.
> >>  YOU: No I don't, and I'm not going to pay it.
> >>  GOV: Since you didn't pay your taxes, we'll give you a last chance to
> >>       pay the $1,000 plus penalty and interest.
> >>  YOU: I didn't owe you the money in the first place.
> >>  GOV: Very well, you're going to jail.  Report first thing in the
> >>       morning.
> >>  YOU: I will do no such thing.
> >>  GOV: OK, we'll send some men to take you to jail.
> >>  YOU: I will resist them, since I never owed any money.
> >>  GOV: BANG!
> >>  YOU: 
> >>  
> >>  The record will show that you were killed for resisting arrest.  This,
> >>  however, is only the last in a chain of increasing punishments.  So the
> >>  question is, at what point do you give up?  Most people give up before
> >>  being killed, because they know that the consequences only get worse as
> >>  you go along.
> >
> >  You left out the part where the police officer is arrested and charged
> >  with murder. It may come as a shock to you, but the police (or anyone
> >  else, for that matter) can't legally execute someone for resisting arrest.
> >  
> >  I hope I didn't ruin your day by introducing a little reality into your
> >  paranoid fantasies.  			-- Scott McEwan (mcewan@uiucdcs)
> 
> I hate to ruin your note by introducing a little reality, but there is
> virtually no chance that the police officer will be arrested and charged
> with anything.  You don't have to take my word for it.  Pick any big city,
> say Los Angeles or Chicago.  Find out how many people were killed by police,
> then see how many of these cases resulted in criminal charges against the
> police officers.

Of course, another conclusion might be that police don't shoot people for
reasons like this... Police brutality does take place, but I'm sure that
they would just get some big people to drag you to jail instead of shooting
you.

	Wayne