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In reply to the discussion: Senators CLAIM Their Votes On Key Issues Are "CLASSIFIED" [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)45. If you get stopped by the police
for being the wrong skin tone and your papers are not in order, you are going to have a rough time.
Daniel Chong, who was rounded up along with eight other people in an April 21, 2012, drug raid at a San Diego area home, has said that he was forced to drink his own urine and nearly died after being placed in the cell and apparently forgotten.
After the ordeal, the 24-year-old student of the University of California, San Diego, spent five days in a San Diego hospital, three of them in intensive care.
Chong's lawyers have said that he was arrested at the home of friend during a raid by a drug enforcement task force investigating an ecstasy trafficking ring that included DEA agents, sheriff's deputies and San Diego police officers.
Iredale said that once authorities determined Chong was not part of the ring, a San Diego police officer put him in the 5-foot by 10-foot cell with his hands cuffed behind his back, telling him, "We'll come to get you in a minute."
Instead, Chong remained in the cell for four and a half days and by the time he was found he was suffering from severe dehydration, muscle deterioration, hallucinations, liver and kidney failure and extremely high levels of sodium, according to his attorneys. He lost 15 pounds during the ordeal.
http://www.businessinsider.com/student-jailed-without-food-water-settlement-2013-7
Also, if you count "proxy" searches and check points where the Fatherland/Motherland/Homeland Stasi uses private corporations to do its searches, we are constantly running into "check points"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/tsa-car-searches-airport-fourth-amendment
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As long as we do not have Check Points at major intersections or on streets crossing
RC
Jul 2013
#32
Police repression exists in varying degrees dependent upon and highly correlated
HardTimes99
Jul 2013
#57
What I'd like to see is the Detroit Police Department arrest Orr on the charge
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#120
You are correct. Why have actual check points when one person sitting at a A/C console miles away
RC
Aug 2013
#128
When our elected representatives are not allowed to tell us how they voted on important
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#88
The pieces are all in place, I don't think they're efficiently connected yet, though
MNBrewer
Jul 2013
#13
Secret government, secret laws, secret courts, secret spying ... what a democracy.
Scuba
Jul 2013
#5
Even Reagan is to the LEFT of the Democratic Party leadership on some BIG issues.
bvar22
Aug 2013
#125
They may be doing a lot in secret because it is illegal -- CIA stuff, working around the laws
Coyotl
Aug 2013
#126
I think there's enough money floating around DiFi & her mobster husband
Jackpine Radical
Jul 2013
#46
She's worth about 70 million and still takes her salary and that is relevant
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#105
What would happen to a US Senator if he or she openly discussed classified information?
Gidney N Cloyd
Jul 2013
#24
I've read that they are told it's treason to divulge info from closed top secret hearings.
bobduca
Jul 2013
#25
If what you've done is so shameful you have to hide behind "it's classified"
NuclearDem
Jul 2013
#33
Hmm. I guess we shouldn't worry about matters that are none of our business....
midnight
Jul 2013
#62
Scary and indefensible. Secret laws, secrets prisons, secrets votes, secret courts. Some democracy.
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
#71
Sorry, you're not allowed to know how your public servants serve you. That's private.
tclambert
Aug 2013
#98