Posts Tagged ‘justice’

Since when is a broken tailight “Probable Cause” for searching One’s car trunk?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The Department of Justice has a program (at least in South Carolina), called the “Cease Fire” project..

Sounds like a good thing if it helps prevent gun crimes. HOWEVER, ahem.. On their website, they have a very ominous poster that is not very constitutional in my opinion as an educated U.S. born citizen. In fact it’s wording is a bit scary to say the least.

It says: “Since when does a broken tail light lead to Federal Prison? Since we found an illegal gun in your trunk, that’s when.”

I have just a little teensy weensy question though..

Since when does a broken tail light alone lead to probable cause for a search of a person’s trunk?
Or is law enforcement doing courtesy tail light bulb changes that we didn’t know about? ;)

As a legal gun owner & advocate, I don’t want people having guns illegally either, but at the same time, DUE PROCESS is imperative to our Constitutional rights. Although motor vehicles have “less” protection under the fourth amendment, they are still protected against illegal or harassing searches. A broken tail light alone certainly does not justify rifling through a citizens trunk, or vehicle. Once police have validly stopped a vehicle, they “may”, based on articulable facts warranting a reasonable belief that weapons may be present, conduct a Terry-type protective search of those portions of the passenger compartment in which a weapon could be placed or hidden. The poster I linked should be changed to reflect a respect for constitutionality in law, & due process.

Just food for thought.. ~ Dan Lee

Time to start publicly hanging Gangsters (Domestic Terrorists)

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Jamiel Andre Shaw known to his friends as “Jazz” was the son of proud mother & Iraq war veteran Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, & her husband Jamiel Shaw Sr.

While Anita was returning from her fighting a war on her admirable second tour of Iraq, her son was fighting his own battle to survive the wounds he sustained after being shot by a couple poor excuses for human beings, outside his LA home. The shooting was nothing but cruel, cowardly, Gangster thuggery, & was without provocation or apparently any remorse.

Sadly Jamiel Jr. lost his fight for survival, & succumbed to his wounds. Now it’s time for us to fight to get him justice. If I had been in the vicinity of this violent occurrence, & saw what happened, I would have not thought twice about riddling that car with as many bullets as I could to stop them from getting away, but rarely do cowards like these strike in the presence of anyone other than unarmed people.

So we must now rely on the often flawed justice system & a litany of attorneys to bring these people to justice, & keep them off the streets so that they will never kill again. Unfortunately that will include unscrupulous defense attorneys who are more interested in their case record/resume, than in justice, as well as prosecutors who make deals with the devil.

Once again we see that if we take guns out of the hands of the people, only the criminals will have them, & they have no problem gunning down innocent people for no rational reason.

It’s high time we start hanging these domestic terrorists in the public squares of our cities, & leaving them to rot while Buzzards gnaw at them, so that their cohorts know what to expect should they choose the same path. Does that sound cruel?

Well see, I think it’s a lot less cruel then gunning down a 17 year old child in a random, unprovoked gang attack myself, so I’m willing to accept the criticism. I mean is it more cruel then shooting an innocent kid, & leaving him to watch himself bleeding to death in the street, knowing he’s dying?

Jamiel Andre Shaw was not only a good & productive kid who was righteously following a dream, he was minding his own business when he was brutally murdered by the lowest refuse of an underground Gangster Rap worshiping society.

Hardy Williams, football coach at Los Angeles High, said Jamiel was “a very special kid. Not only was he an outstanding athlete, he was a good person.”

And, Williams said, he was “a Houdini on the football field.”

Jamiel was an all-city first-team selection last season after he rushed for 1,052 yards, averaging more than 14 yards per carry, and scored 10 touchdowns. He also ran track.

In the past week, Williams said, Stanford and Rutgers universities contact him about Jamiel. “He was elated,” Williams recalled.

The criminals who took this boy’s life should again all be hung from thick unbreakable nooses in the city square, attached to thick sturdy steel beams. Yes I mean “Lynched” military style, on camera, until they are dead for everyone to see.. Forget the hoods, because they don’t deserve the dignity. Then we’ll see who wants to take wanton gunshots at peaceful citizens in our streets. My sincere & deepest sympathy goes out to the Shaw family, as well as the friends & all of Jamiel’s loved ones.

~Dan Lee

R.I.P. Jamiel “Jazzy” Shaw
Jamiel Shaw