This report is a continuance of a previous story regarding a young Native American boy in Kentucky. One day happily walking along playing with his toys on the way back from K-Mart and searched in a Terry stop, and only a few years later after a long string of similar violations to his liberties the below occurred. The incident more than tells the story of a police department out of control with their own power. Unchecked, unmonitored by the federal government, and completely out of control.

Though Americans versed in the civil liberties stated in the Constitution agree that we must stand and fight these infringements, there is no one enemy who flew a plane into towering buildings in a giant fireball such that we could identify the enemy and join forces in resistence. Instead there were many daily skirmishes such as the one here fought across the streets of America with the nation divided amongst itself and unable to join hands to fight the invisible aggressor. You did not stand beside this young man in court, and I doubt you will be there in the next encounter. He stands alone, patriot, commended for his attention to civic duty, and caught in a battle so fierce that you who say to stand up and fight cannot even imagine.

The young Native American by this time 18 years of age was at the home of a friend in the neighboring town 2 miles from his home (jurisdiction of  same police department that had frisked him in a Terry stop for playing with his toys). His friend's mom asks him as she had on many occasions to drive to the store around the corner and purchase some cigarettes for her. This the young man gladly did. He is known by all who know him well to be a very agreeable lad and is said to have a "good heart."

The young man drove about 3 blocks to the convenience store, purchased the cigarettes, and began to drive back. As he left the store parking lot and pulled out into the street, a police car passed him. He pulled out and waited at the stoplight looking in his rearview mirror to see what the police car would do. You see, he had learned over the years to fear the police and was extremely nervous when he saw them. As he expected, the car turned around and proceeded back toward him. The light changed and he turned left to drive the remaining two blocks to his friends house. The police car pulled up behind him as he turned into his friend's driveway.

As he got out of his car, the officer asked him why he was there and what he was doing. As he was explaining, another police car pulled up followed by yet a 3rd cruiser. Three policemen confronted him. One of the officers told him that he was not permitted to drive the side streets of the town. The young man said he hadn't done anything wrong and didn't think the officers could tell him he couldn't drive on the streets. Officer said yes he could. Officer says they have passed a new law in this town that one is not allowed to loiter. Officer says he is tired of this young man and his brother. The young man said he was not his brother and had not done anything wrong. Young man said he did not think the officer could forbid him to drive the streets and that he was going to ask his attorney. The young man asked the officer's name. The officer said again that he could tell him that and he was the night shift supervisor.

In summary, the young Native American was detained and questioned by officers completely without probable cause for a stop. The violation of civil liberties in stopping him was followed by abuse of power when the police made their own rules and forbade him to drive the side streets. There is no such law in the town that would forbid one from driving from a home to a convenience store and back. That would be ridiculous, would it not?

The young man followed up with his attorney who advised him to avoid the town because the police could easily search his car, plant a joint on him and arrest him.

This story ends there, but the officers are a tight group in Northern Kentucky. Once you are marked by them, you will not escape. It is only a matter of time. You see, Kentucky is a police state. The police make the rules and harass whom they will and there is nothing one will do about it. That is just the way it is. Kentucky is a Commonwealth and Federal Law does not apply here.

The young man sold his car several months later because he could not drive down the street without being stopped and the tickets and fees and charges continued. The young Native American is not free to walk the streets nor drive the streets. His civil liberties have been infringed in this and other stops to the point that his freedom is only a memory that existed before he lived in Kentucky. He just today said that one should not have to fear the state.

Wake up America! Is this the America for which our countrymen fought and died? Will you let the ideal slip away quietly while a million tiny battles such as these are lost every day?

Demand the office of civil liberties be reopened! Demand there be a reporting mechanism for gross violations to civil liberties! Demand that liberty be monitored by those who swore to us they would uphold our constitution! The time for mealy mouthed platitudes from government officials is long past! Deluge Representative Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, with letters demanding that they do their jobs! The House Judiciary Committee has civil liberties among their listed responsibilities, and they need to do the job for which we hired them! The million tiny battles will become one fierce battle once we have a common reporting system. We will win this battle if you but stand together and fight. It will not be lost. I am not willing to let that Constitution go!