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MORE ON THAT SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY CASE, from the Washington Examiner. ?

By Glenn Reynolds

MORE ON THAT SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY CASE, from the Washington Examiner.

But to arrest someone who is unmistakably on their own property, and doing nothing remotely illegal, is an abuse of power pure and simple. Even if it were true that Gibson was endangering herself by witnessing the traffic stop from the confines of her front porch, how could that possibly be construed as ?resisting arrest? or ?obstructing the police? without eviscerating everything that the concept of private property (not to mention plain old individual rights) stands for? Taking such a risk is not illegal. Doing it while occupying one?s homestead should be recognized as unassailably within one?s rights.

Since it appears that neither the police nor the district attorney?s office can be shamed into refraining from such power abuses, perhaps it will take a fat lawsuit for violations of Gibson?s (et al.) constitutional rights to get their attention.

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 28, 2010 (boomark / email).