LLQchasm wrote:The entrapment BS has got to stop. Such a practice says that the ends justify the means, that one can break the law to enforce it. It throws the golden rule out the window. If a cop asks for drugs they should be considered as breaking the law and should be subject to prosecution. So how do they get around this? By making possession illegal and asking not? What does that say about the ethics of the police? If they can lie to get a confession out of you, shouldn't the spirit of the law be the same as when under oath in court? In the latter case it is perjury, but the former "just doing your duty". One can murder people too, just join the military and do it in the name of Uncle Sam and they might even pin a medal on you justifying your psychotic mass murdering impulses and they call it bravery, but do it in your own name and it becomes murder, just ask Tim McVeigh.
CapSmashy wrote:LLQchasm wrote:The entrapment BS has got to stop. Such a practice says that the ends justify the means, that one can break the law to enforce it. It throws the golden rule out the window. If a cop asks for drugs they should be considered as breaking the law and should be subject to prosecution. So how do they get around this? By making possession illegal and asking not? What does that say about the ethics of the police? If they can lie to get a confession out of you, shouldn't the spirit of the law be the same as when under oath in court? In the latter case it is perjury, but the former "just doing your duty". One can murder people too, just join the military and do it in the name of Uncle Sam and they might even pin a medal on you justifying your psychotic mass murdering impulses and they call it bravery, but do it in your own name and it becomes murder, just ask Tim McVeigh.
You should seriously consider medication.
LLQchasm wrote:oneeyeddick wrote:That is like believing that they have to tell you that they are a cop if you ask them, there are already naked cops out there undercover, with or without britches makes them no less of an officer.
The entrapment BS has got to stop. Such a practice says that the ends justify the means, that one can break the law to enforce it. It throws the golden rule out the window. If a cop asks for drugs they should be considered as breaking the law and should be subject to prosecution. So how do they get around this? By making possession illegal and asking not? What does that say about the ethics of the police? If they can lie to get a confession out of you, shouldn't the spirit of the law be the same as when under oath in court? In the latter case it is perjury, but the former "just doing your duty". One can murder people too, just join the military and do it in the name of Uncle Sam and they might even pin a medal on you justifying your psychotic mass murdering impulses and they call it bravery, but do it in your own name and it becomes murder, just ask Tim McVeigh.
This is one of the reasons why Denmark has greater freedom than the USA.
stretch80 wrote:LLQchasm wrote:oneeyeddick wrote:That is like believing that they have to tell you that they are a cop if you ask them, there are already naked cops out there undercover, with or without britches makes them no less of an officer.
The entrapment BS has got to stop. Such a practice says that the ends justify the means, that one can break the law to enforce it. It throws the golden rule out the window. If a cop asks for drugs they should be considered as breaking the law and should be subject to prosecution. So how do they get around this? By making possession illegal and asking not? What does that say about the ethics of the police? If they can lie to get a confession out of you, shouldn't the spirit of the law be the same as when under oath in court? In the latter case it is perjury, but the former "just doing your duty". One can murder people too, just join the military and do it in the name of Uncle Sam and they might even pin a medal on you justifying your psychotic mass murdering impulses and they call it bravery, but do it in your own name and it becomes murder, just ask Tim McVeigh.
This is one of the reasons why Denmark has greater freedom than the USA.
In order to entrap some one, the cops would have had to encourage you to get or sell drugs. Just asking you if you have them and your admitting is an indication of stupidity on your part...
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