[Peace-discuss] Democracy Now (not Onion) headline

E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Tue Dec 16 18:20:40 EST 2014


More correctly --
"I read it through twice,
just to make sure I had it right.
Then I leaped to the steering wheel,
stepped down hard on the accelerator,
and got the hell out of Ohio. "

On 12/17/2014 07:07 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss wrote:
> "I got the hell out of Ohio."
>
> -Lo, the Former Egyptian,
> H. Allen Smith, 1947.
>
> On 12/17/2014 06:36 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> Supreme Court Lets Cops Stop People Based on Ignorance of Law
>> *The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled police officers can conduct illegal 
>> traffic stops based on wrongful interpretations of the law.* The case 
>> involved a man who was pulled over in North Carolina for having a 
>> broken tail light, even though a single broken tail light is not a 
>> violation in North Carolina. Police searched the man’s car and found 
>> cocaine, resulting in a cocaine-trafficking conviction. In an 8-to-1 
>> decision, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction, saying the 
>> officer’s mistake was "reasonable." In a lone dissent, Justice Sonia 
>> Sotomayor wrote, "One wonders how a citizen seeking to be law-abiding 
>> and to structure his or her behavior to avoid these invasive, 
>> frightening, and humiliating encounters could do so."
>>
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