Right to Travel Arrest in Georgia

[Jeffrey]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8d_1413049025

Will update with any news articles if I find any.

[Judge Roy Bean]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8d_1413049025

Will update with any news articles if I find any.

News item: "Stoopidity results in arrest."

This idiot is going to spend time in jail for failure to obey a lawful order and resisting arrest, all because he believes in a fantasy.

[ArthurWankspittle]

Another one for sovereignsgettingtased.com. One comment summed it up: I watched videos now I are a lawyer.
One further thought. Sixty years ago this guy would have been shot for resisting arrest and become a diary entry in the local police records.

[Number Six]

How many "right to drive" jokers get caught? Apparently Timothy McVeigh was one of those, speeding away from the OK City event with an illegal vehicle. I have known those who try to get plates from a state with cheaper or more liberal licensing so at least when they get stopped they can equivocate about why they have plates far away from the issuing state. Then you have the insurance obligations with are almost universal in the states now without which the police in the toughest jurisdictions can call a tow truck. And for the super religious, driving with "kingdom of heaven" licenses are the way to go: http://pamphlets.embassyofheaven.com/li ... /index.php

[fortinbras]

I believe that TIm McVeigh was in a lawful vehicle but it may previously have been used by a SovCit-type (perhaps McVeigh himself) - because it was stopped because the license plate was held on by bailing wire which had let one end of the license plate dangle loose. If McVeigh's van had its license plate on in a normal way he probably would not have been caught!

As for the video that starts this thread: Is it a good sign that, in 2014, a black man dares to do this sort of stupidity against a white Georgia cop?

By the way, although the King of Heaven website offers its license, it neglects to mention that its courtroom victories are a very round number. I have at least a dozen court decisions trashing drivers who thought they were invisible to law enforcement because they carried licenses from the Kingdom of Heaven or the Embassy of Heaven (evidently two separate outfits, each dedicated to separating fools from their money).

[JamesVincent]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8d_1413049025

Will update with any news articles if I find any.

I think the officer displayed quite a bit of patience and actually answered the idiot. The fact that he said multiple times that he was issuing a lawful order meant, to me, that the officer knew what he was dealing with and countered any arguments said idiot had before he even made them. The only issue I had with it was that the officer preceded to try to remove traveling man before backup arrived. In this situation I would have waited for backup before I did anything beyond ask for license and registration. Too many LEOs have been killed or injured dealing with this type of stupidity without backup.

I will admit I had a good laugh at one point. When traveling man demanded the officer's first name and the officer replied, Lieutenant. Priceless.

[JamesVincent]

As for the video that starts this thread: Is it a good sign that, in 2014, a black man dares to do this sort of stupidity against a white Georgia cop?

What does that have to do with it?

[AndyK]

It has little to do with the topic at hand, but is is still insightful.

I'm well less than 100 years old, but I remember times when

- tried to swim the Savannah River with more cnain than he could carry
or
- shot while resisting arrest -- five times -- in the back

would have been possible outcomes of this confrontation

[JamesVincent]

It has little to do with the topic at hand, but is is still insightful.

I'm well less than 100 years old, but I remember times when

- tried to swim the Savannah River with more cnain than he could carry
or
- shot while resisting arrest -- five times -- in the back

would have been possible outcomes of this confrontation

Understood.

[fortinbras]

As for the video that starts this thread: Is it a good sign that, in 2014, a black man dares to do this sort of stupidity against a white Georgia cop?

What does that have to do with it?

My point was that, when I was young and dinosaurs walked the earth, a Georgia cop (white, of course) would not have hesitated to shoot any black person showing the slightest resistance to his authority. Was it a sign of racial progress that this black fool wasn't shot?