Ontario Liberals petition Supreme Court for right to push around black kids

by rjjago | March 31, 2008 at 08:29 pm
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Ontario’s recently re-elected Liberal government is asking the Supreme Court for the ability to conduct random searches in high crime areas.  Which in effect means that the Ontario Liberals are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to create a new crime: breathing while black.

“In the context of community-based policing, the police have the right and duty to approach any citizen and ask potentially incriminating questions provided those questions are not accompanied by a “direction or demand” to remain or accompany the officer for the purpose of answering,” states the Ontario Crown.

“By overemphasizing individual liberty interests, the court applied a legal analysis that would turn most, if not all, inquiries by police officers into detentions.”

While individuals have the right to refuse to answer an officer’s questions, the “governing principle” should be that “crime prevention is a collective responsibility,” the Ontario Crown writes.

It urges the Supreme Court to endorse a case-by-case approach to the issue and “to avoid overly-critical second-guessing” of decisions made by police.

The Ontario government doesn’t want courts to second guess the police, it doesn’t want to respect individual liberties, it wants to push around black people, push around natives and push around the poor.  They make the preposterous claim that if you are young and black and swarmed by a posse of large, armed, uniformed men you have the full freedom to say no.

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