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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:35:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 27, 2025 at 2:27:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> On 2025-04-27 4:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>  On Apr 27, 2025 at 12:48:23 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>>  wrote:
>>  
>>>  On 2025-04-27 1:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>    On Apr 27, 2025 at 9:46:55 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>>    On 4/27/2025 9:33 AM, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      Toss her in jail and throw away the key.  When judges pick and choose
>>>>>>      the laws they will follow while dictating laws for everyone else, we
>>>>>>      are officially in a Constitutional crisis.
>>>>> 
>>>>>    But would you want a system giving judges no discretion whatsoever?
>>>>    
>>>>    With regard to judges choosing which laws they will follow and which they
>>>>    won't?
>>>>    
>>>>    Absolutely, I'd want to take 100% of that 'discretion' away from them.
>>>> They
>>>>    shouldn't have it in the first place.
>>>>    
>>>>    
>>>  As long as police don't face the requirement to enforce every law in the
>>>  book! With the millions of laws at the local, state/province, and
>>>  national levels, we'd ALL be in jail or broke from fines in very short
>>>  order.
>>> 
>>>  Just imagine everyone who went 1 mph over the speed limit or who
>>>  jay-walked getting a ticket or even jail time if they are a repeat offender!
>>  
>>  Just so long as the cops themselves are held to the same standard.
>>  
>>  
> A friend of a friend was travelling in the USA and got stopped by the 
> highway patrol for doing 56 in a 55 mph zone. He got a ticket for it. 
> Ironically, Steve was a police officer at the time although obviously 
> off-duty and out of uniform. I asked him about "professional courtesy", 
> where LEOs give each other breaks for small indiscretions but he didn't 
> answer directly. I got the impression it would never have occurred to 
> him to ask.

I always identified myself and if the cop asked why that would matter, I'd
say, "Because I have a loaded handgun on my hip and for your safety and mine,
I wanted to make you aware of it and the reason why I'm authorized to have
it."

Not much they could say to counter that. Cops use "officer safety" on the
public at every turn. They can't very well claim officer safety suddenly
doesn't matter when it's inconvenient for them.

It's a valid way of putting it out there that you're a cop without directly
suggesting you want special treatment. If you get off with a warning or a
"have a nice day", great. If not, oh well.