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OT: Standing Up For What's Right - Against Circuit City and the local Police
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<blockquote data-quote="Rick Kent" data-source="post: 731174" data-attributes="member: 55129"><p>Rich, </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> I agree, great post and explaination. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> However, the original post is from a blog, not a legitimate news story, some facts must be missing. If the loss prevention department is following the customer out of the store and asking for a receipt the obvious inference is shoplifting. The blog does not state that as the allegation but why would the store call the police otherwise. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> If we are to assume CC employees are alleging shoplifting then the cop asking for a drivers license is unrelated to the operation of the motor vehicle (which he wasn't anyway) but to ascertaining identification. Since we do not carry national ID cards (yet) this is the most common form of ID people carry. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> But since we do not know all of the facts it is hard to judge what is right or wrong. I don't think we should stand for the government trampling our civil liberties but I would pick and choose my battles more carefully. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> When I first read the post I suspected this had more to do with racial profiling and a customer getting fed up with getting hassled when he shops more so than someone consciously exerting the rights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rick Kent, post: 731174, member: 55129"] Rich, I agree, great post and explaination. However, the original post is from a blog, not a legitimate news story, some facts must be missing. If the loss prevention department is following the customer out of the store and asking for a receipt the obvious inference is shoplifting. The blog does not state that as the allegation but why would the store call the police otherwise. If we are to assume CC employees are alleging shoplifting then the cop asking for a drivers license is unrelated to the operation of the motor vehicle (which he wasn't anyway) but to ascertaining identification. Since we do not carry national ID cards (yet) this is the most common form of ID people carry. But since we do not know all of the facts it is hard to judge what is right or wrong. I don't think we should stand for the government trampling our civil liberties but I would pick and choose my battles more carefully. When I first read the post I suspected this had more to do with racial profiling and a customer getting fed up with getting hassled when he shops more so than someone consciously exerting the rights. [/QUOTE]
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