MUST READ: Court trip next stop for bus rider

http://www.denverpost.com/harsanyi/ci_3253063

I just heard about this on Thom Hartmann and googled it up. This is one of those Wow, just Wow things that are going on in this country under Bush.

excerpts:

Two months ago, this 50-year-old mother of four was reading a book while riding to work on RTD's Route 100. When the bus rolled up to the gates of the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, a guard climbed on and demanded Davis, as well as everyone else on board, produce identification.
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According to Davis, the guard proceeded to call on federal cops, who then dragged Davis off a public bus, handcuffed her, shoved her into the back seat of a police car and drove off to a police station within the Federal Center.
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Gail Johnson, a volunteer ACLU lawyer who practices at a prominent Colorado criminal defense firm, will defend Davis without charge. She expects the government to arraign Davis on two federal criminal misdemeanors, if not more.

The first states that citizens must "when requested, display Government or other identifying credentials to Federal police officers or other authorized individuals." The second says that citizens must comply with "the lawful direction of Federal police officers and other authorized individuals."


entire article at link above

Cant afford to get busted, busted.
then come those flashing lights.
Seems as though we've lost our rights.

and an example to us all.

wonder if the "request" was at gunpoint . . . as is customary in the "compassionate" 'murica of GWB . . .

when they were passed? Are they a part of the Patriot Act?

I've always known its not a good idea to not comply with such police requests, but I never thought it was illegal. Particularly something as vague as "Federal police officers or other authorized individuals." How can we know that whoever is "authorized"? Their own say so? What is their jurisdiction? Wherever they say?