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- Jenadae, on 04/14/2008, -8/+614"They also refused to give their badge numbers."
Isn't it illegal to not provide proper identification of a officer of the law? - prompel, on 04/14/2008, -51/+588Well, the US haven't been the land of the free in a long time. More like the land of the world's biggest prison population. I'm not surprised.
- CSHYDRASHOK, on 04/14/2008, -32/+490"THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY" is a fantasy learned in grade school that is just untrue.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -39/+345"LAND OF THE FREE", MY ASS!!!!
Largest prison population per capita IN THE WORLD!! America is so far from a free country it isn't even funny. The corporate owned news networks, the wire tapping, the rigged elections...I could go on but won't. Just go ahead and believe the rhetoric about people 'hating freedom and democracy' fed to you by Bush and Fox News while the country continues its downward spiral into self-destruction. For your reference America has a conservative party with two right wings, known as the Republicans and Democrats. Neither one can provide long term answers when they focus on short term solutions to appease lobbyists..l
America builds more prisons than schools
America builds more prisons than ANY OTHER COUNTRY per capita.
America imprisons more of their citizens for non violent crimes than ANY OTHER COUNTRY per capita.
America manufactures and exports more weapons than ANY OTHER COUNTRY. Weapons are America's number one export
WHO are the "Terrists" again? I'm confused - Zarokima, on 04/14/2008, -5/+282Yes it is. All officers are required to give their name and badge number if asked for it.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -22/+283"What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!" - Zack de la Rocha
- mohsenxp, on 04/14/2008, -3/+202Yea it is illegal, but who's enforcing the law? The officer or the citizen? The officer isn't going to arrest himself is he?
- protogenxl, on 04/14/2008, -10/+170Dancing with the Stars has Patented "Physical actions to Express Emotion Syncronized to Music"
- hauntedchippy, on 04/14/2008, -2/+110I'll be pleasantly surprised if anything ever gets done about it though.
- waspinator, on 04/14/2008, -1/+102I don't think that would go over too well with the officer that's carrying a baton, pepperspray, a taser, and a pistol. Oh and he's got friends.
- SquashMaster, on 04/14/2008, -11/+106So she then deserved to be arrested cause she bitched about them breaking it up?
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -4/+85The dancing event was supposed to last for only 10 minutes and he came 10 minutes late... lol
- gothicform, on 04/14/2008, -3/+82You can always carry out a citizens arrest of the officer. Seriously.
- Kyrgizion, on 04/14/2008, -26/+105I don't live in the USA (luckily) but I strongly feel that it's people like you who are ***** it up for the rest. Okay, we get it, *YOU* don't care about free speech and your inalienable rights (lol) but that doesn't mean no-one does. But yeah, while people like you vote, the votes of those who have a clue go down the drain. GG.
If there is ever a passage in future history books about how the USA went from "the land of the free" to a neocon dictatorship, they will cite people like you (those too blind or too inert to see what's happening around them) as the reason. - jezsik, on 04/14/2008, -4/+72What an officer tells you is NOT the law. The police are NOT the law.
- Thrilltone, on 04/14/2008, -8/+71Have we learned nothing from Kevin Bacon's suffering?
- smacksaw, on 04/14/2008, -6/+68You know, you could read all of the links to other blogs in this article where everyone tells the same basic story. Did you even read the article? Let me sum it up for you. She asked WHY she was being forced to leave and the officer arrested her for not following a lawful order.
You have a right to ask the police both HOW and WHY to comply with their directions. It's in the Constitution of the country whose flag you use in your user icon. - plizard, on 04/14/2008, -2/+61they should have done the safety dance instead
- Sogui, on 04/14/2008, -46/+102Because this is a story being told through the friends of the 'arrested', I doubt we're getting an unbiased perspective here.
My take:
Officer: You're going to have to stop dancing, you're blocking the entrance here
Libertarian: ***** YOU FASCIST PIG /SPIT
Officer: Hey! You're coming with me.
Libertarian: Come and see the violence inherited in the system, HELP!!! HELP!!! I'm being repressed! - Minarchian, on 04/14/2008, -13/+68^ So says one of the American sheeple who blindly follow orders from their masters
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -21/+76Dancing can lead to being waterboarded! So be careful out there!
- bosssmiley, on 04/14/2008, -9/+57Poor dancing angers the vengeful spirit of Thomas Jefferson (Founding Father, diplomat, scientist and 3 times All Virginia B-Boy Champion). The DC Boogie Police did what they had to to protect everyone there from his unholy supernatural wrath.
- AndrewJC, on 04/14/2008, -3/+51Now, I'm certainly not denying that there's another side to the story, but I have one simple link that will debunk your claim:
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/was ...
(Who knows whether that link will work, but if it doesn't, go to Google Images and do a search for Jefferson Memorial and look at the pictures.)
The entrance is like twenty feet wide.
Given the whole idea these days that anything out of the ordinary is inherently suspicious, I don't doubt for a second that they were simply dancing and the Park Police broke them up simply for that one thing.
Yes, of course going to to the Jefferson Memorial and dancing silently is a political statement. That was the whole point. The person who made the comment earlier about being able to celebrate his birthday with a dance party at home is completely missing the point. But the fact that it IS a political statement in no way makes it illegal—in fact, it makes it all the more legal. Being arrested for it is just one more sign of the times. - sat0shi, on 04/14/2008, -8/+56Just because you made money spreading a message doesn't make that message any less meaningful.
- obzidian, on 04/14/2008, -12/+60Stories like this make me glad I'm Canadian.
- RAEP, on 04/14/2008, -3/+51Just because we have it good compared to a third world country doesn't mean we can't have it better.
- reginaldino, on 04/14/2008, -10/+56people like BassMastr usually end up being a stereotypical rent-a-cop
- dazparkour, on 04/14/2008, -4/+48Yes, BassMastr, you DO still have to follow the speed limit. However, if you are pulled over you are allowed to ask WHY you were pulled over, how else can you correct your behavior, without being told what exactly you did wrong.
I'll demonstrate by digging you down and not saying why. - waspinator, on 04/14/2008, -3/+41Laws should only exist to protect our freedoms and liberties. So it should only be illegal to do something if it takes away someone else's freedom or liberty.
- thorie79, on 04/14/2008, -5/+43It's sad but the founding fathers put too much faith in the idea that Americans would always love their freedom and remain involved enough to keep their government in check. It would seem to be natural to assume that Americans would always desire freedom, but the incredible forces of sheer lazyness, ignorance, and passive disinterest were stronger than the founders probably imagined. We may have failed the founders, but their design was ingenious, because we will get what we deserve. Out of the rubble that was once a great free country - burned down by the tyrants and capitalist crusaders - will appear some people who reclaim their freedom by putting their lives at risk and they will create a fresh new country.
It's kind of like what the soliders in Iraq are supposed to be fighting for. Except it happens within the US. And they are actually fighting for it.
How bad does it have to get before people start getting angry? - gothicform, on 04/14/2008, -2/+39However it does have the backing of the Supreme Court :) O.k you might have been shot before then but you know... the law says you can, not that the police care about the law these days.
- jerrycan, on 04/14/2008, -8/+44It IS a free country. You get what you pay for.
- andystrummer, on 04/14/2008, -0/+35Yes, as an officer of the law, everyone around them is being served by their work, therefore anyone, no matter what, is permitted that right. It's like filming a police officer, he's on duty, to serve citizens, so filming is granted.
- roodammy44, on 04/14/2008, -8/+43There's no point in everyone thinking they are living in freedom when they're not.
It's damaging and removes progress that can be made to obstacles of freedom. - twistaspliff, on 04/14/2008, -8/+42So, assuming this went down the way it was written, I would be trying to organize a nightly dance session at the memorial with plenty of cameras on the scene, and document the hell out of this on Youtube if I was one of the people who was there. Luckily, I don't live in the Land Of The Free (to do what you're told), so I can only watch as it continues to spiral into this Orwellian nightmare, shaking my head as I try and figure out how much more the American people are going to keep taking before they finally turn off their propaganda machines (TVs) and take their country back.
- FreeStater, on 04/14/2008, -17/+50Don't know how you're sure about all that but, so what? What's your point? Maybe she illegally spoke her mind and that wasn't a designated free speech zone, right? Are you sure she deserved to be arrested?
- govsucks, on 04/14/2008, -9/+40Well we obviously need bigger government to stop things like this from happening, perhaps one that controls whether we live or die. /Sarcasm
- BlacklabelSAR, on 04/14/2008, -1/+29Asking why is grounds for arrest? ***** that. Not giving badge numbers? But this is the Land of the Free, right? Police commanding anyone they see to do whatever the police say? THAT is America Land of the Free? Wrong, that's a police state. Don't be too stupid to know the difference.
- appletoapple, on 04/14/2008, -3/+30I can't back up any of what dildoolielly said.....but, did anyone catch the piece on 60 Minutes last night about Iraq? According to that story, the corruption in the Iraqi government is so bad, that money being spent in the county by the U.S. is being funneled into Iraqi ministries under the control of terror organization. So, American dollars are being used to fund terror.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 04/14/2008, -16/+42Rage Against the Machine That Made Us Millionaires!!
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -2/+28I suggest these people organize another dance party at JF memorial in a week.. bring another 400+ people with their iPods and dance. Have some people dressed as tourists and film the entire event :)
- PhineasPoe, on 04/14/2008, -0/+25The problem is, I've never had a good experience with a cop. I've never had a theft solved or a crime against me prevented by a cop. I have, however, had police officers harass me when I was doing nothing wrong. I'm not a "cop hater" but I have been conditioned by past experiences to be afraid and distrusting of police officers.
- CaptMonkey, on 04/14/2008, -13/+38Can you cite a source on your "Weapons are America's number one export" claim?
I found something that said we export $10-13 billion in military sales, but considering that our total exports were just over $1,054 billion last year, it's certainly not #1. - A11YND, on 04/14/2008, -6/+29BassMastr, When was yelling about rights guaranteed under the Constitution of The United States of America, the highest governing laws in our land qualify for arrest? Last I checked our country was founded on the principal that you can say anything anywhere and you shall not be prosecuted or arrested for saying such things. The Constitution also guaranteed us the right to assemble and protest or celebrate anywhere we feel its necessary..
- Matt2k, on 04/14/2008, -2/+24Staging a dance party at the Jefferson memorial at midnight to celebrate a president's birthday is admittedly a thin excuse
for staging a dance party at midnight at the Jefferson memorial (Let's be honest here, the act alone is fun enough reason to do it)
But even still, there's no part of that that warrants an arrest. I think the bigger picture here is that we actually find ourselves questioning these things (Hmm, can I photograph this government office? Can I dance in front of a building? Will I get in trouble if I ..) and actually *accepting* them with nothing more than a little resignation. - juniorb, on 04/14/2008, -1/+23The point isn't that someone got arrested. She probably was being verbally combative, I won't argue that. The point is that 20 people aren't allowed to dance harmlessly on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial.
I honestly think most people have forgotten what freedom means. It means you can't stop someone from doing something harmless just because it annoys you. - inactive, on 04/14/2008, -3/+25Sure there is freedom more now then ever before!
Freedom for the cops to arrest you for whatever they like.
Freedom for corporations to rip you off, injure or kill you with no consequences.
Bushco has done very well spreading freedom. - cryptomystic, on 04/14/2008, -4/+25Not in a Police State.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -3/+24I could name at LEAST two dozen other countries that are equally if not more "free" (whatever that realy means) than the u.s. The fact that you still believe 'merica is the last bastion of liberty goes to show how well the government-owned media has you right where they want you. I bet you still believe that just anyone can grow up to be president too?
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -4/+25---------"whats a "Terrists""-----------------
If you don't get it by now, you will never get it -
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