Reply #39: Yes, it is a dillema [View All]

This whole issue is way more complicated than people are making it out to be.

When the arrest clause was proposed, it was out of fear that enemy political factions could use the cover of sheriffs, police or other authority figures to IMPEDE political rivals from doing the WILL of the PEOPLE that, that REPRESENTATIVE/SENATOR represents.

Thus, when the Capitol Police were brought into existence much later, Their mission is to PROTECT Congressmembers and congress and the capitol grounds.

These two things run into each other in the hyperparanoid atmosphere of today.

This is why McKinney cannot be compared to you and me, when it comes a police confrontation while going about the peoples business.

If you look at DC code, it talks about justification and excuse when it comes to assualting police. In DC you are not automatically guilty of a crime if you have a reflex action to police force....I know there are tons of COMPLETE IDIOTS trying to push that meme here on DU, but it is tinfoil hat lunacy on their part and I suggest people completely ignor any of the balance of their post if they insist on that line of poppycock.


Now, the capitol police are EXTENSIVELY trained to identify congressmembers for EACH and EVERY session of congress before that particular session begins. They even have special places for this EXTENSIVE training; Georgia, and New Mexico.

So something is obviously broken or is being PURPOSELY abused.
The question is, how does it get fixed? Preserving congressional authority, while making it so police can be free to go about the job of protecting congressional authority. Authority that is well over their own police authority. Right that is beyond their own right to be on the same premises.

Any type of electronic measure or technology can be rigged against potential rivals, so that is out of the question.

Or is a solution to change the way our government is designed, and place congress below the goonsquads, by eliminating the spirit of arrest clause, and let the goonsquads make the rules?

I think America so loves enslavement that it is for the latter, at least from what I've seen as of recent. Make the government itself, lick the boots of the police like the rest of us have to.

Even better, why don't we just let the military run everything and make the overthrow offical.