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You & the Police!
Until now, the average American has lacked a simple, up-to-date summary of constitutional law regarding confrontations with the police. More and more peaceable, law-abiding folks are being caught up in the widening police dragnet of roadblocks, checkpoints, searches, intrusive questioning and civil forfeitures. Americans have long needed a clear explanation of exactly where our rights end and executive power begins, especially if you travel or lawfully carry a gun for protection.
More than a legal handbook, You & The Police! explains precisely how to win police confrontations sample dialogue, & what-if scenarios, and practical tips. Armed with this book, you will know just how to avoid traffic tickets, bogus searches, roadside delays, and general harassment. Probably 90% of erroneous civil forfeitures from honest folks could have been avoided had they known about this book. There is no reason for us to be bluffed or intimidated by the police any longer.
This new 2009 edition is a greatly revised, revamped, and expanded version since the original of 1996 and revision of 2005.
Covers nearly a dozen newer Supreme Court decisions, as well as the so-called USA PATRIOT Act. A new chapter regarding your lawful firearms was also included.
If you were stopped for a broken tail-light, and then the officer asked to search your trunk, what could you do? What should you say or not? Where do your rights and his powers meet?
Reviewed by several practicing attorneys, you can rely upon the quality information and ideas inside.
This is still the only book of its kind, and a must read for every American in this increasingly regulatory age.
More than a legal handbook, You & The Police! explains precisely how to win police confrontations sample dialogue, & what-if scenarios, and practical tips. Armed with this book, you will know just how to avoid traffic tickets, bogus searches, roadside delays, and general harassment. Probably 90% of erroneous civil forfeitures from honest folks could have been avoided had they known about this book. There is no reason for us to be bluffed or intimidated by the police any longer.
This new 2009 edition is a greatly revised, revamped, and expanded version since the original of 1996 and revision of 2005.
Covers nearly a dozen newer Supreme Court decisions, as well as the so-called USA PATRIOT Act. A new chapter regarding your lawful firearms was also included.
If you were stopped for a broken tail-light, and then the officer asked to search your trunk, what could you do? What should you say or not? Where do your rights and his powers meet?
Reviewed by several practicing attorneys, you can rely upon the quality information and ideas inside.
This is still the only book of its kind, and a must read for every American in this increasingly regulatory age.
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First published February 15, 2005
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About the author
Boston T. Party
16 books18 followersAmerican author known for his libertarian stances on privacy and arms.
He is also one people behind the Free State Wyoming project whose goal is to bring people of "demonstrably ethical character" to the state of Wyoming in the western United States to encourage "political liberty, free trade and voluntary cooperation."
He is also one people behind the Free State Wyoming project whose goal is to bring people of "demonstrably ethical character" to the state of Wyoming in the western United States to encourage "political liberty, free trade and voluntary cooperation."
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November 22, 2007
There's useful information in here, but you have to sift it from a lot of pointless ranting. I want to know my rights during an arrest; I don't particularly need them introduced with a lengthy warning about the rising police state.
As a liberty-loving leftist, I found myself wanting to pick fights with BTP, a member of that family of right-wingers who identify as libertarian. Hasn't it been the neocons, not the liberal nanny state, who've proven themselves the chief enemies of domestic freedom? (This edition is updated to address the USA PATRIOT act, which I want to call "the Orwellian USA PATRIOT act," but not only has doing so become cliche; it undersells the point). Isn't it Antonin Scalia who's always been the Supreme Court Justice most hostile to civil liberties?
Like all of us, though -- like me, too -- BTP seems to have come to his politics by way of cultural issues. So it bugs him a lot more that "the left" (whoever that is anymore) wants to take his guns away than it does that the right wants to legislate his sex life, and criminalize dissent, and ban porn and weed and turn the public airwaves over to private profiteers. After all, he wasn't using any of that stuff anyway.
But, like any fanatic, BTP sees the whole world through the lens of his chosen issue -- and the lens is sufficiently wide-angle to take in some of my fellow leftists too. (He quotes from my beloved NATION!) Indeed, in selectively reading a wide variety of texts to support his own personal worldview, he's performed the same trick I performed by reading HIS book and making it apply to MY liberal ideology!
We could get along, though, BTP and I. Even though I'm a registered New York City Democrat and a member of the ACLU, I don't care at all how many guns he has unless one gets used in a crime. We'd just want to start the conversation on common ground -- our shared interest in living free and defending the rights that extend to the point at which they'd infringe someone else's. The best parts of this book are his side of that conversation.
As a liberty-loving leftist, I found myself wanting to pick fights with BTP, a member of that family of right-wingers who identify as libertarian. Hasn't it been the neocons, not the liberal nanny state, who've proven themselves the chief enemies of domestic freedom? (This edition is updated to address the USA PATRIOT act, which I want to call "the Orwellian USA PATRIOT act," but not only has doing so become cliche; it undersells the point). Isn't it Antonin Scalia who's always been the Supreme Court Justice most hostile to civil liberties?
Like all of us, though -- like me, too -- BTP seems to have come to his politics by way of cultural issues. So it bugs him a lot more that "the left" (whoever that is anymore) wants to take his guns away than it does that the right wants to legislate his sex life, and criminalize dissent, and ban porn and weed and turn the public airwaves over to private profiteers. After all, he wasn't using any of that stuff anyway.
But, like any fanatic, BTP sees the whole world through the lens of his chosen issue -- and the lens is sufficiently wide-angle to take in some of my fellow leftists too. (He quotes from my beloved NATION!) Indeed, in selectively reading a wide variety of texts to support his own personal worldview, he's performed the same trick I performed by reading HIS book and making it apply to MY liberal ideology!
We could get along, though, BTP and I. Even though I'm a registered New York City Democrat and a member of the ACLU, I don't care at all how many guns he has unless one gets used in a crime. We'd just want to start the conversation on common ground -- our shared interest in living free and defending the rights that extend to the point at which they'd infringe someone else's. The best parts of this book are his side of that conversation.
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