Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest
originally put together and sent to my Sheriffs Office
By the writings of all our founding documents, our laws, and case law as we see here, it not an unreasonable conclusion that the tree of liberty is to be watered continually with the blood of tyrants at every level one may find himself. I now understand and can see how our National Liberties have eroded away by the lack of patriots exercise of this timeless necessity that was once a never ending ordeal for Americans everywhere. Everyone these days opposes such action without reason given as if there is somehow a noble reason to let Liberty offend and be offended.
The following case law, will show and prove without ambiguity that the death of a person is a lesser evil than the seemingly tolerant death of Liberty for all, and not to be an abhorrent notion to a free society.
“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
Officers are not privy to any special privilege of inconsequence of unprofessionalism in the midst of their Duties! A Citizen is not required to suffer the belligerent/ignorant/unprofessional actions and performance of an Officer. And a Hostile stance such as from Officer Harless of the Canton Police http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDP8YLCKj4&feature=related can be construed as life threatening and any action taken by a citizen cannot be held to account if that Citizen happens to take that Officers Life while acting to protect their own!
“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.
“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.
“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.”Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.
“An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery.” (State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260).
“Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self- defense.” (State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).
“One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance.” (Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910).
“Story affirmed the right of self-defense by persons held illegally. In his own writings, he had admitted that ‘a situation could arise in which the checks-and-balances principle ceased to work and the various branches of government concurred in a gross usurpation.’ There would be no usual remedy by changing the law or passing an amendment to the Constitution, should the oppressed party be a minority. Story concluded, ‘If there be any remedy at all … it is a remedy never provided for by human institutions.’ That was the ‘ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice.’” (From Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987, an account of the reading of the decision in the case by Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court.
As for grounds for arrest: “The carrying of arms in a quiet, peaceable, and orderly manner, concealed on or about the person, is not a breach of the peace. Nor does such an act of itself, lead to a breach of the peace.” (Wharton’s Criminal and Civil Procedure, 12th Ed., Vol.2: Judy v. Lashley, 5 W. Va. 628, 41 S.E. 197)
It is without argument as seen on TV, youtube and alike that many accounts can be given showing sworn Officers of the Law from across the country putting at peril our Constitutionally Recognized and Protected Rights together with there own careers and lives. It is in the spirit of peace that I tender this remedial to you that your offices to refrain from emotional reactions that lead to unprofessional results. You must which is your due diligence divulge full disclosure to your deputies the full right and power of an unjustly engaged Citizen by an unprofessional Sworn Officer.
I know and understand your department may from time to time get training from various agencies or companies “specializing” in Police work. However I am not aware of the type of education of the grave and sober subject matter the American Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest. Ignorance of the Law is coequally applied to both Officer and Citizen, and the Citizen is seldom respected as such as he or she is due. Understand that an Officers Life can only come into peril by an act of nature, chance/accident, or an unlawful act. That unlawful act can be the fault of the Officer as easily as a Citizen! It is the sworn Officer who the Citizen depends on to buffer them from unjust and unlawful legislation from either the State, County, or Federal Legislative bodies. It is not the job, or duty of a sworn Officer to blindly enforce whatever “law/regulation/code” that comes down the pike. Our Judges have said and ruled before, that a right cannot be construed or twisted to be a crime, and blind enforcement is an unprofessional act, and engagement which threatens both Liberty, and lives. Unfortunately, only the occasional loss of life in defense of Liberty is Liberty maintained whos value is far higher than life its self.
jimcolomas 