From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 15:00:54 MST
--- Christopher Whipple <crw@well.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.latimes.com/la-na-miranda24nov24,0,1038975.story
>
>A rough story, indeed. Here, a man was scared and did a not-too-bright
>thing. That is, he tried to run from the police. He was tackled and
> as one officer tried to handcuff him, the other shot him multiple
> times. At the hospital, writhing in pain, the man was interrogated
>and it seems that the police were "leading the witness" as it were.
>They obviously weren't very concerned for his well-being, emotionally
>or physically.
The argument of the officers, that Miranda rights only disqualify
coerced statements from being used against the victim in court, is an
interesting one.
It is, though, in keeping with the Ashcroft DOJ policy of not
recognising corrollary rights (i.e. that for every right you have, you
also have the right to the converse (i.e. to speak or not speak, to
live or not live, to be armed or not armed, etc)). This is certainly
where I and many other Libertarians part company with the likes of
Ashcroft, but then, if I know I'm committing no crime and a cop treated
me like that, I'd treat him as the criminal he would be for doing so.
It's just one of the reasons I and many others go armed. I certainly
wouldn't run from the police, and its the running that makes them go wild...
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