Nuh-uhnnn! That's tin-foil hat conspiracy nut crap!
You must be with Al-CIA-da....spreading those kind of un-American lies. They got 188 new concentration camps for people like you!

Tenaha Mayor George Bowers, 80, defended the seizures, saying they allowed a cash-poor city the means to add a second police car in a two-policeman town and help pay for a new police station. "It's always helpful to have any kind of income to expand your police force," Bowers said.

Local police, he said, must take aggressive action to stem the drug trade that flows through town via U.S. 59. "No doubt about it. (Highway 59) is a thoroughfare that a lot of no-good people travel on. They take the drugs and sell it and take the money and go right back into Mexico," said Bowers, who has been Tenaha's mayor for 54 years.

Sounds like a right friendly little place.

"It's always helpful to have any kind of income to expand your police force."

So you can hire more officers to shake down passersby to get more money to hire more officers to shake down more passersby.

The old speedtrap ploy run amok.

From the article:
"The law, forbids a peace officer at the time of seizure to "request, require or in any manner induce any person . . . to execute a document purporting to waive the person's interest in or rights to the property."

Now, what law are these "peace officers" upholding?

Well, somebody has to pay for Barney's bullet.

"They took my bongs! And my weed! And my crack pipe... I mean 'a' crack pipe! That wasn't mine, I was just holding it for a friend..."

On a more serious note, this happens quite frequently to people guilty of no crimes at all, and I don't know how it can be stopped. They know that there's no evidence that a motorist or someone else could use to challenge the theft, and they know that their word as a cop carries more weight than joe off of the street. Some people have no morals, and they abuse the authority of their positions. I encountered one such person once, and I filed a police report that I'm sure went straight to the bottom of a fat stack of complaints which never get a second look.

The majority of cops don't have to be crooked, though. All it takes is one dude on the force in any town to create this problem. And then people distrust or disparage the police as a whole. If only ordinary cops were more aware of the backlash created by their corrupt colleagues...

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CWS

Copping while Stupid.

She has clearly been watch to many reruns of COPS.

Hurray for the constitution that they're all sworn to uphold

It's Texas for god's sake. don't try and hold them to any normal standard.

Like the comedian said, never answer the cop's quaestion "do you know why I'm standing her?" with "cause you got a lot of Cs and Ds in high school?"

Texas.

Who would have figured?

Texas?

Only two things come from Texas

Steers and Crooks..

And you dont look like you have horns boy.

I'll bet one of the Rethugs will find a reason to say this is all well and good.

Only two things come from Texas

Jobs, low cost of living

Damn sour-grapers LOL

I'll bet one of the Rethugs ...

The first of rasta's many daily and predictible knee-jerk "rethugs suck" retorts. *yawn*

And we want to give law enforcement more money so they can continue this kind of intrusive theft? No wonder people hate cops.

This is why the war on drugs will not go away ever: the dealers are not the only ones making tons of cash.

The first of rasta's many daily and predictible knee-jerk "rethugs suck" retorts. *yawn*

#15 | Posted by goatman

Goat with his usual rethug apologist post. Yawn yourself.

"GOATMAN"....Is there just anything that the so called Police in Texas do that would challenge your CONSERVATIVE VALUES??????? You ignorant piece of shit!!!!!

"Texas?

Only two things come from Texas

Steers and Crooks..

And you dont look like you have horns boy."

#12 | Posted by Valisk

Texas?

What's the best thing to come out of Texas?

An empty bus.

Texas, The only state where Louisana gangsters wanted to get out of... After Houston PD were done with them that is...

And it's not just in Texas this happens either. My husband was going to school in Boston and he had his truck there, with his Texas plates still on them.. Well he got stopped by a police officer in Somerville (I can't remember if he was speeding or not). The police officer did all the normal stuff, asking for license and registration. Well I can't remember what happened to provoke this, but the Police officer proceeded to try and arrest him, without cause. My husband doesn't do drugs so there was no paraphanelia and he doesn't own a gun so it wasn't that either. He was then handcuffed and put in the back of the police vehicle while the officer was trying to get him to allow him (the officer) to search the vehicle... Well, my husband knows the law and would not give him permission and kept demanding that he speak with the officer's supervisor... He eventually was released and submitted a complaint against the officer and got a suspension... but I think that if my husband didn't know the law as well as he does then he would have been in real trouble...

And it's not just in Texas this happens either.

At least in Massachusetts, they let him keep his truck.

Back in the good old days, when the war on drugs was a baby, if you had long hair the cops in East Texas would pull you over and break out a taillight with a nightstick so they could search your car.

If they came up empty they would haul you in front of a judge for a good old-fashioned wallet vacuuming just on general principles.

I know, it happened to me.

Sounds like they may have stepped up their game a bit since then.

"It's always helpful to have any kind of income to expand your police force," Bowers said.

Makes you wonder what "any kind of income" entails.....sounds like dukes of hazard to me....

See article for definition of a "pig".

[quote]Tenaha Mayor George Bowers, 80, defended the seizures, saying they allowed a cash-poor city the means to add a second police car in a two-policeman town and help pay for a new police station. "It's always helpful to have any kind of income to expand your police force," Bowers said.
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This is his defense? Gee I'll have to remember that when I decide to start robbing banks.

Has anyone else noticed that there hasn't been a Texas Chainsaw Massacre since they passed concealed carry laws? Those handgun permits are really keeping down the amount of frenzied-serial-killer-with- handheld-weapon attacks.

"My husband doesn't do drugs so there was no paraphanelia and he doesn't own a gun so it wasn't that either. "

Maybe it was the hooker covered in duct tape.

Maybe it was the hooker covered in duct tape.

#28 | Posted by LetUsPrey

Hmm... could be... But that would have been a waste of duct tape.

don't phuck with Tenaha TX -- what a shithole excuse for a town. I got pulled over there last year on my way to a business meeting in Shreveport slowing from a 45 mph to a 35 mph. the cop that pulled me over was wearing blue jeans. we had an interesting conversation.

Next time I'm going to Shreveport via Omaha.

Goat with his usual rethug apologist post.

???

I apologize for no one. How you see my post 15 as an apology for anyone is beyond me

GOATMAN"....Is there just anything that the so called Police in Texas do that would challenge your CONSERVATIVE VALUES??????? You ignorant piece of shit!!!!!

What day would be complete without the DR's own little ray of sunshine, celery, shining down upon us?

Texas, The only state where Louisana gangsters wanted to get out of

Too bad the yankees who move there and bitch, bitch, bitch about the place don't want to get out, too.

When the Sopranos do this the legal term is "Racketeering"!!!

amen goatman...

i've lived in texas most of my life. while ill defend this state against most criticism; east texas is on its own. wanna see one of the most backwoods, segregated, racist places in the u.s. (it cuts both ways there too)? go there. any small town will do. I've never been to louisiana though. I can't imagine it being any better.

anyone put this together yet? the 80 year old mayor has held that position since he was 26! talk about entrenched. I'm pretty sure that even beats robert byrd's & thurmond's records!

Huh...
and all this time, I thought Roscoe and Boss Hogg were fictional characters.

Too bad the yankees who move there and bitch, bitch, bitch about the place don't want to get out, too.

#33 | Posted by goatman at 2009-02-10 07:27 PM | Reply | Flag

My my--so full of hate for people who have different points of view. Why don't you start your own hate filled country---I'm sure the people of Texas would b glad to join you---and kick those peopleout instead of just wishing them away? They have more than their share of hate to blend in with yours.

My my--so full of hate for people who have different points of view. Why don't you start your own hate filled country---I'm sure the people of Texas would b glad to join you---and kick those peopleout instead of just wishing them away? They have more than their share of hate to blend in with yours.
#38 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob

lol, you're funny bob. this comment followed by your own hate filled prejudice. you're cracking me up. how about another one? whatcha got?

EDB

Post one thing I have ever said that is filled with hate filled prejudice. Can't do it? Here--have a nice cold bottle of STFU, you can share it with Moomanfl.

My my--so full of hate for people who have different points of view.

???

Who mentioned hate, bOoB? My point was that if you don't like someplace -- leave. Don't whine about it. But leave it to you to weave hate into it.

Why don't you start your own hate filled country---I'm sure the people of Texas would b glad to join you---and kick those peopleout instead of just wishing them away?

Simple: Because I love my country, that's why.

Besides, how does one 'start a country'?

Post one thing I have ever said that is filled with hate filled prejudice.

LOL This has to be one of your best ones yet, bOoB.

Who mentioned hate, bOoB? My point was that if you don't like someplace -- leave. Don't whine about it. But leave it to you to weave hate into it.

#41 | Posted by goatman at 2009-02-11 05:00 AM | Reply | Flag

Which is exactly what I tell people--yet when I do it, I am somehow full of hate---when you say the exact same thing---you are not full of hate? You are full of something, and it's not hard to see what it is.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us

As an East Texan, I can attest that many of the small-town cops are crooked. Tenaha is already well known here. There are many other cities known for "creative financing." One such small burg (less than 1000 people) near Corsicana is a major speed trap. Motorists who get speeding tickets and do the traffic school thing have a strict deadline to turn in paper work, with $560 fines for being even one day late. Rockwall is infamous for stopping anyone, everyone. It is a fast-growing city in a very small county; traffic fines account for a major portion of revenue. Tyler is well-known for maximum sentences, even for first time offenders. Far southeast Texas? As crooked as any Louisiana swampwater village. Everyone should also check out the history of New Rome, OH for an example of extremely-small-town abuses of power.

And of course, we have Goatman and the IdiotFormerlyKnownAsBushLover2
. More than enough reasons to move.

"Too bad the yankees who move there and bitch, bitch, bitch about the place don't want to get out, too."

Yankees? Why some southerners insist on living during the civil war is beyond me.

Yankees are the people who forced basic human decency on southerners at the point of a gun. "Yankees" should be revered by southerners as the saviors of their souls.

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#6 | Posted by JeffnDenmark

Jeff,

I believe in fate.

First of all. I think the guy should sue and he WILL win. Thank God they put video cameras in the cop cars. The guy did exactly what he was supposed to do.

This is why I believe in fate. Moronic cops like this woman will eventually either be taken off the street and put in a desk job or fired. She should not be allowed to have a gun after this incident. Stupid bitch! My sister and brother-in-law were arrested in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Both of them are you regular peaceful pacifists who only questioned the cops what they might be doing wrong. They were beaten. Long story, short, The bad cop in the group eventually was forced to "retire", started selling drugs and disappeared. Probably in pieces in the Gulf of Mexico.

What goes around does eventually come around.