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professional liberty pissers

last night at a paid WiFi hotspot i was again surrounded by multiple cop cars and harangued by career gun-toting morons under the sick delusion that whatever bullshit fantasy spills from their mouths is "law". as usual, their feathers were ruffled by a freeborn man refusing to produce "justify your existence" papers while sitting in a parked car. this one ended slightly differently though.

seeing that the badged children were suffering from lack of supervision, i requested that they call their watch commander for a site visit. the difference in this case is that the watch commander remembered me from last year (we had a 30-min phone conversation where i bitched about his "officers"), and apparently told them over the phone that if they didn't have anything on me they should leave me alone and clear the fuck out. didn't hear this from them, of course.

in a rare fit of sensibility (after speaking with the watch commander via phone), one of the cops came over and asked if i could demonstrate that i was logged in to the service in question. i did so, and also offered to log out and log back in as he observed. he declined. i asked for an ETA on the watch commander and was told that he wasn't going to show; they were leaving. then they ran away talking the usual trash about how they weren't going to stick around and argue with me (regarding their pile of manifestly false allegations of "law"), to which i responded correctly that they didn't want to argue with me because they know they're wrong.

the watch commander did show up by himself a bit later, and he told me that while he didn't agree with my claim that his subordinates were lying, he acknowledged without reservation that they were misinformed, he needed to review procedures/law with them, and in light of the admissions from them that i was free to go and they suspected me of no crime, they were out of line sticking around hassling me in a pissing contest — precisely why he'd told them to get lost. he said that they must remember there are liberties they may not cross. he even said that they need to be more familiar with the constitution. ha! he said the C word.

shocked. when's the last time you heard a cop say that?

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posted by saltypig @ 02:31