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December 3, 2005
Home of the brave, land of the free
A woman in the States was trying to get to work. Her bus passed through a no-security zone federal center. The bus is stopped at the gates and a guard checks the ID of everyone on board. This is not to check any exclusion list or to check for our of date ID or anything of that sort, it is a simple compliance test.
Deborah refused to show her ID stating correctly that she was not required to comply with the demands of a police officer or even federal officer unless there was an emergency situation or that she was suspected of criminal behaviour - neither of these situations were applicable. The guard summoned a federal officer, she refused again and a second federal officer was summoned, she refused his demands also and then she was physically manhandled, brutally handcuffed and brought to a station to be charged - the officers took a long time deciding what she was to be charged with.
The US is becoming a police state. This will happen in England too, they are trying to force an ID card system there and where England goes Ireland's lawmakers are seldom far behind.
Posted by dottie at December 3, 2005 7:42 PM