Reply #215: It's the Authoritarians. [View All]

Seriously. Anyone reasonable would glean a few things from this article:

1) the article doesn't state that the policy was posted. In my experience, stores NEVER post search policies because they deter customers from even entering the store. Who wants to shop somewhere where they could be searched at any time while in the store?

2) The guy was arrested after he provided the receipt to the officer.

3) Not Mirandized, according to him.

4) Ohio law apparently doesn't require him to give the cop any information beyond his name, address, and date of birth.

And YET, we have people:

1) Assuming the Authority is right, even though their assertions on agreeing to a store policy are NOT founded, because it isn't stated the policy was posted,

2) Siding with an officer who should have ended the incident at the moment he received the guy's receipt, and who then violated state law by unlawfully arresting a person who had NOT committed a crime and who was themselves complying with Ohio law,

3) Completely ignoring- which I find astonishing on this board- the lack of reading the man's rights at the time of arrest, and

4) Ignoring the section of state law he mentioned (which others are actually arguing doesn't apply because of a SCOTUS decision).

This thread is being driven by the people who believe Authority is never to be defied, never to be questioned, and always to be obeyed.

:banghead: is right.