Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

Re:Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracki... by panny on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:22AM (#21602927)

>Is that our only metric for success now? Putting people in prison? Might as well shred the constitution

You just threw that straw man straight down a slippery slope.

>apparently we're ready to burn everything it stood for to prevent people from getting high

This falls under "punching Nazis". Do you want some guy going around punching people? No, of course not. But if he's punching Nazis, then hey, let him do his thing, man. Same logic here, except it's "tracking meth dealers".

>I know I sound dramatic

I was thinking "moral grandstanding"

I'm okay with the police catching a meth dealer and putting him away. Good job. Keep up the good work.

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Re:Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracki... by jakelazaroff on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:56AM (#21603157)

What straw man? What slippery slope? That's literally what's happening here, and it's the argument you're making: "this man is a meth dealer, so the ends justify the means".

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Re:Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracki... by catalogia on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:46AM (#21603391)

If we permit police to develop a taste for abusing meth nazis, they might turn it into a hobby and start abusing people like you and me too.

There can't be any exceptions when it comes to holding law enforcement accountable.

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Re:Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracki... by x220 on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:09AM (#21603760)

Punching that Nazi makes him go viral and gives his movement clicks.

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