IP: Re: I find this outrageous!!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:16:52 -0400
>From: Ray McFarland <rimcfar@lts.ncsc.mil>
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>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Re: IP: I find this outrageous!!
>
>Dave,
>
>Re: "Maybe if some senators get arrested we will get this fixed or would
>they get away with it"
>
>If you weren't aware, members of both houses of Congress are immune from
>arrest or prosecution when in the performance of their elected duties.
>
>Thus, I think in the 80s, a Representative caused an accident while
>driving drunk in a Md county, and caused injuries. The person could not
>be cited nor arrested because the claim was he was returning home from a
>Congressional function, and thus covered by Congressional immunity!!! So
>don't hold your breath on them getting arrested.
>
>If you weren't aware, Congress exempts themselves from a lot of laws
>that normal citizens, and in the Federal workplace, Federal workers
>(Members of Congress are also Federal employees) must follow. Example,
>none of the protections of even Federal workers, to my knowledge,
>applies to any Congressional staffer (would impinge on the rights of
>their managers - the Members of Congress).
>
>Ray
>
>
>Dave Farber wrote:
>>
>>  I find this outrageous and think our congress should get off their rear
>>  ends and change the law or have we become a police state where police will
>>  stop and throw you in jail and then you fight it. Maybe if some senators
>>  get arrested we will get this fixed or would they get away with it.djf
>>
>>  April 24, 2001
>>
>>  Court Allows Arrest for Minor Violations
>>
>>  By DAVID STOUT
>>
>>  WASHINGTON, April 24 ? In a decision that could affect drivers and police
>>  agencies across the country, the Supreme Court ruled today that the police
>>  can handcuff and arrest people even for minor offenses, like failure to use
>>  seat belts, which are normally punished by fines.
>>  I find this outrageous
>>  The Court ruled, 5 to 4, against a Texas woman who was arrested, handcuffed
>>  and taken to jail because she and her two small children were not buckled
>>  up in their pickup truck. The justices rejected her claim that her Fourth
>>  Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures had 
>>been violated.
>>
>>  <snip>
>>
>>  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/national/24CND-SCOTUS.html
>>
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