Comments on: Michael Righi’s Receipt-Check Story http://www.lies.com/wp/2007/09/02/michael-righis-receipt-check-story/ believe nothing... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: knarlyknight http://www.lies.com/wp/2007/09/02/michael-righis-receipt-check-story/#comment-66502 knarlyknight Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:54:30 +0000 http://www.lies.com/wp/2007/09/02/michael-righis-receipt-check-story/#comment-66502 There are 368 comments to that article already at the link provided. One of the later one re-butts the rwnj attitude of "so what if we have a police state developing here, I got nothing to hide... ": <blockquote> Gen-Xer Says: September 3rd, 2007 at 1:32 am Quoting Jorge: “Dude here wasn’t accused of shoplifting, he was only asked for his receipt. (His brusque refusal to show the receipt then gave them reason to believe that he was shoplifting.” Oh, my good Lord. Your statement is depressing. If a police officer shows up at your front door and asks your permission to search your home and you refuse, should that be grounds for obtaining a search warrant? This is the mentality I spoke of in a post above. For some reason, a large part of American society has been conditioned to believe that ANY refusal to comply with an authority figure is an admission of guilt. It’s ludicrous. Probably cause be damned. We should be patted down after they search our shopping bags. But maybe I slipped a CD into my underwear…better strip search me. What if I swallowed something? Better x-ray me, too. Or maybe I just vandalized something while in the store…maybe a blood test to look for elevated adrenaline levels, eh? Might knock $.15 off the cost of that shiny new TV. Ya know what…just in case, let’s get a DNA swab of everyone as they enter the store. Can’t be too safe, can we? Polygraph might be helpful, too. What? That sounds intrusive? If so, WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, CRIMINAL? </blockquote> There are 368 comments to that article already at the link provided. One of the later one re-butts the rwnj attitude of “so what if we have a police state developing here, I got nothing to hide… “:

Gen-Xer Says:

September 3rd, 2007 at 1:32 am
Quoting Jorge: “Dude here wasn’t accused of shoplifting, he was only asked for his receipt. (His brusque refusal to show the receipt then gave them reason to believe that he was shoplifting.”

Oh, my good Lord. Your statement is depressing.

If a police officer shows up at your front door and asks your permission to search your home and you refuse, should that be grounds for obtaining a search warrant?

This is the mentality I spoke of in a post above. For some reason, a large part of American society has been conditioned to believe that ANY refusal to comply with an authority figure is an admission of guilt. It’s ludicrous.

Probably cause be damned.
We should be patted down after they search our shopping bags.
But maybe I slipped a CD into my underwear…better strip search me.
What if I swallowed something? Better x-ray me, too.
Or maybe I just vandalized something while in the store…maybe a blood test to look for elevated adrenaline levels, eh? Might knock $.15 off the cost of that shiny new TV.
Ya know what…just in case, let’s get a DNA swab of everyone as they enter the store. Can’t be too safe, can we?
Polygraph might be helpful, too.

What? That sounds intrusive? If so, WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, CRIMINAL?

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