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Originally Posted by Feather
The officer stated that he stopped you because of your license plate light. The second the officer stated that your license plate light was okay, he had no reason to ask for your license and registration because the stop was unwarranted and you should not have been detained any further. Requiring you to show him your license and registration was a violation of your rights. I feel you should have declined to show him and asked if you were free to go. If he declined to let you leave, he would be in violation of Title 42 U.S. Code Section 1983 (federal Civil Rights law). I believe in standing up for one's rights; otherwise, they slowly get eroded and officers (and others) start taking them away. I don't want to give up any of my rights or liberties. There are too many Americans who gave up their lives so that I (and you) can have the freedoms and liberties that all Americans enjoy. Such things must be vigilantly protected.
You probably just wanted to cooperate and be a nice guy. I would have stood up for my rights.
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+1. If you notice he "asked" you if he could get your license. As soon as he said the reason he stopped you was unfounded you could have said "well that is good news that my vehicle is in proper working order and have a great evening"  His fishing method is going to get him and his dept in trouble one day IMHO
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Originally Posted by Libertarian: I carry a gun because I can't conceal a cop.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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