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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mitchell, post: 49957, member: 989&quot;]Unfortunately, the Supreme Court recently ruled that law enforcement cannot be held liable for false arrest.&nbsp; I do not know if the department cannot be sued, but it definitely means that the officers themselves cannot be.&nbsp; Which means the officer has nothing to fear, no accoutability.&nbsp;&nbsp; One more step toward a police state.</p><p><br /></p><p>The really bad part is, if they utilized the Patriot Act, and while he was being detained, they could have gone through is home, searched his computer, and prosecuted him for ANYTHING they found, regardless if they had probable cause for that specific item\area.&nbsp; There is a strong possibility that is what they were doing by detaining him so long; activating the &quot;sneek and peek&quot; portion of the patriot act that allows a search of home and property without the homeowner being told about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy is squeaky clean, or they would have found something to get him on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice how they fall back on the ol&#039; &quot;post 9-11&quot; crap that they feel justifies anything they do.&nbsp; It is too bad that most of the citizenry of this nation would support such behavior as being &quot;reasonable&quot; in the name of security. </p><p><br /></p><p>Benjamin Franklin said it best when he said:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll get off my stump now, it is just that more and more often our liberties are being ignored in the name of counter terrorism.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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