Judge approves ACLU lawsuit against ATF
We read:
"ACLU Director of Communications Brandon Hensler says the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida received an early victory today when Senior Federal Judge Lacey A. Collier denied the ATF's motions for summary judgment in Kilpatrick v. U.S.
The ACLU filed the case on April 18, 2006, on behalf of Karen J. Kilpatrick, who claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) violated her Free Speech rights.
Kilpatrick was driving her blue van in Pensacola on April 19, 2004, with the slogans "Remember the Children of Waco" and "Boo ATF" written on some of the windows when she was pulled over by police for questioning by the ATF.
The ACLU argues in the lawsuit that her First Amendment Rights to Free Speech and her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure were violated when officers detained her for an hour, searched her car without consent, and ordered her to remove the writing on the side of her van.
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Rare though it is, I think the ACLU is on the right side in this one. Most gun owners see the BATF as tyrants and loathe them accordingly. And never forget Waco!
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It should be noted that the ATF and police said the woman gave consent for the search, and that she had made threats against agents earlier in the day. It was not the writing on her van that prompted the stop, but rather the vocal threats against ATF agents.
The judge denied summary judgement on some of the issues, and granted summary judgement on others. The threshold for getting past summary judgement is extremely low - only that the assertions of the plaintiff when viewed in the most favorable light may be true.
As for remembering Waco, we should remember it. We should remember how a bunch of nuts fired and killed agents who were serving a legal warrent for illegal weapons.
The ACLU needs to be complely destroyed stamped out smashed stompped into the dust of history and the judge should be disbarred for life
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