You've completely lost me I know that Constitutional Law can be tricky, but I would expect someone with your intelligence to be able to keep up.
It really seems as if you're on some sort of personal vendetta where race is concerned I have no such thing. If anyone has a vendetta, it is you granting rights of American Citizens to non-US Citizens.
I just don't think you should put a lot of emphasis on what cops *should* do versus what actually transpires, Here is where we fundamentally disagree. I think that emphasis should be put on what a officer of the law should do vs. what does happen. Law is Codified for a reason: to have a list of things that should and shouldn't transpire and the reward and punishment for following this code. If an officer engages in discrimination, that can then be sued by the person discriminated against.
This is the basis of Anglo-Saxon law: to judicate offenses between people over the breach of rights, not for the State to be all-powerful and turn its citizens into criminals. Furthermore, we have a Democratic-Republic. We elect representatives to make our laws but we also have ballot referendums and due process by which new laws are judged. Our system is not one of mob rule, it is the rule of law.
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I know that Constitutional Law can be tricky, but I would expect someone with your intelligence to be able to keep up.
It really seems as if you're on some sort of personal vendetta where race is concerned
I have no such thing. If anyone has a vendetta, it is you granting rights of American Citizens to non-US Citizens.
I just don't think you should put a lot of emphasis on what cops *should* do versus what actually transpires,
Here is where we fundamentally disagree. I think that emphasis should be put on what a officer of the law should do vs. what does happen. Law is Codified for a reason: to have a list of things that should and shouldn't transpire and the reward and punishment for following this code. If an officer engages in discrimination, that can then be sued by the person discriminated against.
This is the basis of Anglo-Saxon law: to judicate offenses between people over the breach of rights, not for the State to be all-powerful and turn its citizens into criminals. Furthermore, we have a Democratic-Republic. We elect representatives to make our laws but we also have ballot referendums and due process by which new laws are judged. Our system is not one of mob rule, it is the rule of law.