But what happens when the police are the criminals?

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We are at a point in this nation where cops have nearly absolute power. And we wonder why there’s so much corruption.

The problem is that the American people are sheep. We curse and scream and cry and yell, but in the end we don’t do anything to actually make cops pay for their actions. For being bullies.

Our founders gave us the right to bear arms knowing that respect comes with an equilibrium of power. And that government would only respect the people if the people had power against the government. Our power has been suppressed, regulated, stripped, eliminated, destroyed. Therefore government agents have no need to respect us.

If that man’s wife had tasered the officer in response to his aggressive attack on her husband, she would have gone to prison for years. The police would have swarmed down on her like killer bees, but there would have been no citizen power to check and balance their power. No uprising, no protection, no safe haven, no one to help her. Lawyers are officers of the court. The court is employed by the same government as the cops. For all intents and purposes the government has all the firepower in the nation, vested in the cops and the military. You may own a gun or a taser or pepper spray. But you can’t, in any situation or context, use your weapons to defend yourself or a loved one against government abuse of power. If you do you will die. Period. They will hunt you and kill you without remorse. They will enjoy making an example of you. There will be no citizen militia to save you, no impartial court to help you, no place safe from their wrath.

Had she tasered the cop and gone to prison, she would have been abused, raped, and destroyed as a human being. And the cops who watch the prisons would have done nothing to protect her. They probably would have raped her themselves. We wonder why prison does not solve crime. Read about your prisons America. Our prisons are among the worst torture chambers in human history. They make criminals harder, not better. They produce monsters. They do not rehabilitate.

So what is a citizen to do? They can beat you at will. If you try to defend yourself it’s “resisting” and they can kill you. They have all the weapons and the legal authority to use them. You have the pitiful weapons they allow you to have, and no right to use them. They have all the money they can steal through taxes. You can barely make your bills much less pay the attorneys who only seek to make more money. No matter what a lawyer tells you, they work for and must ultimately obey the courts. If they find an excuse to send you to prison, you will suffer in ways you cannot imagine. Beatings, rapes, disease, torture, even death. Those who are supposed to “protect and serve” will laugh while you are destroyed.

And it’s not just the cops. Governors selling Senate seats. Senators selling America. Presidents who disregard the law and the Constitution, and I’m talking about the Democrats to, not just Bush. Bailouts for filthy rich who donate to political campaigns while struggling citizens lose everything. The cops? They’re just one branch of a much larger problem.

I love the Constitution and I love the America that our founders wanted us to have. But the America we live in is not that place. Not even close.

And I don’t even begin to know how to fix things.

I can only hope that the cop in this video finds himself in a foreign country one day facing an officer who treats him the way he treated this man. That would be justice. That’s a video I would pay to see.

Just act like adults and do what they tell you to do. If you choose to play it tough, then don’t cry about it when you get slammed.

To those bashing the cop, you need to watch the video again.

Instead of complying with the officer, the driver is reaching for something in his pocket. The officer faced a potentially life threatening situation and was more than justified in using the taser under the circumstances.

If you were the officer, perhaps you would have waited to see if the driver pulled out a box of mints or a deadly weapon – I sure wouldn’t, especially considering the driver’s combative and argumentative demeanor from first encounter.”

You need to watch the video again, Charlie. The guy was obviously walking away to avoid being tased. Bet you’ve never been in a position like him. I’ve had weapons pointed at me, Self preservation overrides all other thoughts and in a position where the brain realizes attack is futile the body tries to flee. It’s a scientifically proven thing called the “fight or flight reflex”. Look it up.
I have seen lots of people use the term idiot on here, you deserve that name more than the cop.

http://highwaypatrol.utah.gov/

Salt Lake Tribune
…Under Utah law, when a motorist refuses to sign a ticket, a police officer can do things the easy way, or the hard way. He can make an arrest and jail the offender, or he can simply write “refused to sign” on the dotted line. Either way, the motorist has to pay the fine or show up in court to fight the ticket. Either way, justice will be served.
The law needs to be changed to prevent these needless confrontations. Nobody should be taken into custody for a traffic violation. It’s a waste of a trooper’s time, and the taxpayers’ money. Where possible, police should be made to do things the easy way.

Which brings us to Gardner. Did you notice that he did not accurately relate the incident to the second officer? After only about three minutes he had already began to twist the events in his own mind. Thank goodness for video! By the time this got to court I wonder if he would have tased because he saw a weapon coming from the pocket. He did a lousy job as he completely neglected to explain to Massey what his rights were, how the system works, and what would be likely alternatives given various courses of action. He turned the most simple, benign infraction of the law into a life threatening event, and one that may ultimately cost him his job and the tax payers of Utah a huge sum in attorney fees and damages.

We citizens of Utah, I’m afraid, will spend more on this case in attorney fees, court time, and damages than the entire Highway Patrol staff of the state of Utah earns in a year.

My heart goes out to these guys when I see one of them on a rainy day helping someone on the roadside with a flat tire, or pulling someone over that was speeding past traffic at 15mph over the prevailing rate. But I sure get sick and tired of the egos and the idiots that pull people over in rush hour, delay traffic for miles, and seem to operate at the speed of fog as they clear a routine fender bender from a lane of traffic. If it were up to me I would fire half of them and triple the pay of the ones I kept. Guess which list Gardner would be on!

I call out to those that will be dealing with this issue and this officer to pay attention to the this tape, it’s value for what happened here and what will happen the next time. I think this is good proof we need video tape everywhere to protect both the public and the officers we all need to trust. I ask all of us to calm down, try not to argue, be polite. If you feel your not getting a “fair deal” ask for the officers supervisor, ask if you can call 911 to prove they know you have been stooped and by who, sign the ticket and write your side of the story or any issues on it. Please don’t waste everyone’s time and energy if you truly know you did whatever OWN UP TO IT! I feel for this driver and his family but we also can’t know what was the very first thing that made the officer decide to stop the car. It couldn’t have been just the moment that the patrol car was by the 40 MPH sign we see on the tape. (Or at least I hope not as the car only traveled a few hundred feet after the sign and it only took a few feet to stop after the brake lights came on, so he was not going very fast at that point)

WE HAVE FAR MORE “GOOD” COPS THAN “BAD” ONES!! I’m sure this one has had better days that this. . . .I hope he never has one like this again. . .The driver even told you to calm down after you tasered him, I think that suggests you might want to rethink things and talk more than shoot, what was your rush not to talk before you “tricked him” to get out of the car???? When you tricked him out of the car and then pulled your weapon you put both of you into a no win event over speeding. . .Speeding????

Folks don’t let traffic tickets give law enforcement a bad name, it is such a small part of what law enforcement is about. . .

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