Torture/Murder a Federal Employee, Receive Verbal Warning

Really. No, wait, not really. 

It has been several months since I contributed to the Free Keene blog regarding my transition to liberty or my opinions about stuff that is happening in the government world. In fact, my second to last post here was about how I, for the first time in 30 years crawling this planet, got arrested.  I was arrested at the US/Mexico border in Nogales, AZ by United States Customs and Border Protection for exercising the 5th Amendment.

My blog was titled “I Sat in a Cage to Defend the 5th Amendment.”

Well, I finally got my “arrest report” from the feds (after 4-5 months of notarizing forms, mailing things back and forth, and begging) and it sure looks like they let me off easy for the pure evil I unleashed at the border station. It looks like I misled you in my July blog in that that I failed to mention that I, according to the federal officer who arrested me, murdered one of their co-workers.

Among the two things I “could have been arrested” for were 18 USC 111 and 18 USC 1114. That would be forcibly impeding and murdering a federal officer. Now verbal warnings are given out every day for things like speeding and rolling through a stop sign… but I never imagined I’d get a verbal warning for violating a law that I could get the federal death penalty for. I went straight from never having been arrested or convicted of anything to the lethal injection.

Here’s the report.  It is so ridiculous, I believe it deserved its own meme.

Now, having written a police report or two myself, I’ll point some things out that are happening in CBP Officer Aldrich’s weak attempt of a report he came up with.

1) It conveniently omits the fact that he grabbed me by the arm approximately 10-seconds once I was in the inspection line and refused to answer his questions.

Using physical force to effect a detention alone can constitute an arrest, and in my opinion in this situation, it did.  For a person to be arrested they don’t need to be told “you’re under arrest,” it hinges on the totality of the circumstances in each particular situation.  You could be “under arrest” if the police tell you to sit on a curb for an extended period of time.

2) It conveniently omits the fact that I was handcuffed.

Why would CBP Officer Aldrich leave out the fact that I was handcuffed?  Well, because handcuffing someone during a customs/immigration “inspection” surely proves the escalation from an “inspection” related detention (that CBP has the authority to do) to a full-blown criminal “arrest.”  I was unequivocally told “you’re under arrest” and CBP Officer Aldrich’s omission of this critical fact is, in my view, a purposeful lie.

3) It takes a personal jab at me:

I do take medication for depression and anxiety.  So do 27+ million Americans.

Truth is, I did nothing wrong.  He needed some sort of “negative” to put in the report about me.

4) CBP Officer Aldrich’s use of the word “inspection” at the end of the report:

This is another failed attempt to attempt to rewrite history of this incident. CBP Officer Alrdich wants history to reflect this incident to be a routine “inspection” when in fact he actually made a full-blown criminal arrest.  I am sure he is violating some DHS/ICE/CBP policy for failing to properly report on an arrest… or possibly even filing an intentionally misleading report.

So that’s my update in my quest to get the federal officials at the border to respect the 5th Amendment. I am represented by a civil rights attorney to whom I was referred to by none other than the amazing Ernest Hancock of Freedom’s Phoenix.  I’ll have a copy of the federal civil rights lawsuit posted here in .PDF format as soon as it files.

You’d better believe I will be flying to Arizona personally to take part in the depositions. I want to ask questions myself…  I’ve already got 34 ready.

UPDATE: The Nomad Lawyer’s blog (a great blog in itself, I highly recommend it) has ten great responses to why people shouldn’t answer questions at passport control.  I confer extensive credit to Attorney Lukacs’ blog for educating me on the legality of standing up for the Constitution at the border.