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Anyone remember way back in the dusky mists of last month when National Review writer Ed Whelan outed an anonymous blogger because said blogger criticized him? Well, now, an anonymous blogger at the National Review who is also an LA cop has advocated shooting people who assert their Fourth Amendment rights.

Ed Whelan eventually apologized for the outing, but it strikes me that someone in a position to enact an agenda of state-sanctioned execution for invoking the Constitution should maybe have their cloak of anonymity debated a bit more strenuously than a guy who said mean things on the Internet? Perhaps, Rich Lowry?

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 11:46 AM • (6) Comments

Ughh, I hope that cop get found out and fired.

Comment #1: HonestB on 07/30 at 12:13 PM

I can assure you the officer is not all that concerned with trying not to offend you. He is instead concerned with protecting his mortal hide from having holes placed in it where God did not intend. —“Jack Dunphy”

I hear this sentiment often, and I bristle every time. It’s part of the whole mentality, so prevalent in the age of the War on Drugs, that the police are at war with the citizenry. They seem to see themselves as a benevolent occupation force that is under constant threat from the insurgent locals, and that their first priority is protecting themselves.

I know police are humans, but that attitude is completely backwards. They are agents of the state and of the law, and their own well-being cannot come before the integrity of the law and the welfare of those under its jurisdiction. That’s why it’s a dangerous job, and why they deserve to be paid well.

Comment #2: Cris on 07/30 at 12:14 PM

“They seem to see themselves as a benevolent occupation force that is under constant threat from the insurgent locals, and that their first priority is protecting themselves.”

...I don’t know about “benevolent”, but they definitely act like an occupation force.

I get the feeling too many of them may like humanity in the abstract, but they don’t really like individual examples…

Comment #3: MikeEss on 07/30 at 12:41 PM

The police are an agent of the state. The state is an agent of bourgeois domination. So yeah, technically, they ARE an occupation army, no matter what liberals think they *should* be. The right-wing are just better aware of that fact and consider it GOOD. We far left types are aware of it and consider it BAD.

Comment #4: BlackBloc on 07/30 at 12:54 PM

Anyone surprised that this is an LAPD officer? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Comment #5: Mnemosyne on 07/30 at 01:31 PM

Fuck this shit.

You cannot be arrested for execising your Constitutional rights. No part of poice work gives them the right to ignore the law/Constitution.

Correction, you cannot be LEGALLY arrested.

This Crowley stuff just makes me so mad. It gets even worse when you hear that the 911 caller said that it might not be a break-in. Crowley didn’t have anything approaching probable cause.

and instead of being discipolined for being a fuck up, he’s getting to have a beer at the White House.

This country is officially completely fucked up. I’m not sure Obama is even interested in fixing it anymore. He’s a Constitutional scholar, and he’s keeping up the Bush secrecy, breaking his campaign promises of transparency, and he’s acting like there’s no difference between a citizen being grumpy or even rude and a police officer ignoring his Constitutional rights and enticing him into an arrest.

Comment #6: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes on 07/30 at 07:52 PM

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