Pastor gets the fear of God tasered into him by Arizona Border Police

**Terminator** · 05-14-09, 08:20 PM

This is the actual footage from Pastor Anderson's camcorder as well as from the surveillance cameras at the Border Patrol Checkpoint.

"I was NOT crossing a border! I was approximately 50 miles from Mexico traveling on a highway from west to east! JOIN US ON SATURDAY MAY 23 (Memorial Day Weekend) FOR A PROTEST RALLY AT THIS CHECKPOINT! The check point is located within a few miles of mile marker 75 which is about 75 miles east of Yuma, AZ on Interstate 8."

**10-42Adam** · 05-14-09, 08:48 PM

I hate that guy. He has tons of videos on youtube and all he does is purposely go around trying to stir shit up. He should be deported to a third world country where maybe he'd be happy...

**Xiphos** · 05-14-09, 08:54 PM

Crappy job of articulation. Obstruction of justice, duh. I hope his report was better than, "Because I said so."

The driver is an asshat.

**Xiphos** · 05-14-09, 08:56 PM

I think I'm going to use the audio of that taser for my new ringtone. I've been using "Don't taze me bro!" but that guy squeeling like a stuck pig with the taser clicking is just priceless.

**pgg** · 05-14-09, 09:15 PM

With any luck the AUSA will prosecute his ass and put him away for a while

**CTR man** · 05-14-09, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Xiphos

I think I'm going to use the audio of that taser for my new ringtone. I've been using "Don't taze me bro!" but that guy squeeling like a stuck pig with the taser clicking is just priceless.

He did squeal like a little girl, didn't he? This dumbass needs to look up the lyrics to the hymn provided for the surveillance video and follow them. If he had complied, then wouldn't have had to go through the pain. But no, he had to be a dumbass. He got what he deserved. His soul is definitely not still.

**Sgt. Slaughter** · 05-14-09, 09:41 PM

***Keep in mind this is a blog and not an actual news article.***

LewRockwell.com Blog: Martial Law in Microcosm:The Beating of Pastor Steven Anderson

May 13, 2009
Martial Law in Microcosm:The Beating of Pastor Steven Anderson
Posted by William Grigg at May 13, 2009 12:02 AM

"I'm a police officer; I'm ordering you out of the car," snarls a uniformed tax-feeder in the newly released video of the April 14 beating of Pastor Steven Anderson near Yuma.

"What am I being arrested for?" asks Anderson.

"For failing to obey me right now," huffs the armed parasite.

In addition to being a splendid specimen of the martial law mind-set (a guy in a uniform barks, and the rest of us timidly submit), this is a museum-quality example of something far too many* uniformed goons do far too well: Manufacturing a "crime" to justify beating down a civilian who fails to render proper subservience.

Anderson had prompted the ire of the Border Patrol by refusing to submit to an unconstitutional search at a "border enforcement" checkpoint well north of the border with Mexico. The Boyz in the Brown Shirts initially created a pretext by claiming -- dishonestly -- that one of their dogs "alerted" to Anderson's car after the Pastor refused to permit a search.

That pretext was abandoned entirely after knuckle-draggers arrived from the Arizona State Police. After vandalizing Anderson's car, they tased him -- despite the fact that he put up no resistance and posed no threat to the platoon-sized mob of law enforcement personnel -- and ground his face into the shattered glass of his ruined car windows.

Note well that the tasers were out before Anderson had time to put up any violent resistance. This provides an example of yet another crime routinely committed by police nation-wide: The use of the Taser as a "pain compliance" instrument (that is, an implement of electro-shock torture), rather than a less-lethal alternative to a firearm. The pitiful screams of the unresisting Baptist pastor attest to the Taser's barbarous effectiveness in that role.

It's interesting and appropriate that the last part of the video is set to the strains of the Christian hymn Be Still My Soul, which takes its melody from Finlandia, composed by the heroic Jan Sibelius. At once patriotic and proudly subversive, the Finlandia Hymn was a protest against the political repression of the Finns by the Russian Empire.

We've clearly reached the point at which any authentic American patriot is going to be treated as a subversive by the armed enforcers of Washington's empire.

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*No, not every police officer does this kind of thing. Many of my acquaintance are just as alarmed as I am over the growing militarization of law enforcement, and the pathological arrogance of the rising crop of uniformed enforcers.

**Five-0** · 05-14-09, 10:30 PM

"Armed Parasite" I like that.

**Morris** · 05-15-09, 11:09 AM

This pastor is well known for being a fringe whackjob in the name of the Christian god. I take what he has with a grain of Arizona sand.

**Sgt. Slaughter** · 05-15-09, 11:21 AM

Luckily, he won't understand the enforcing the law is not done through negotiations. We don't "plea bargain" on the side of the road. I'm sure the report is written much better than what was articulated by the DPS officer on scene. Many times, I may not be able to cite specific case law when I'm getting my dander up, but I know what I'm permitted to do by law and can articulate it later on in my report.

I hope to see more of this moron in videos like this.

**Five-0** · 05-15-09, 11:36 AM

I'm sure you are right Slaughter. My favorite is when people get "their attorney" on the cell phone and say that they want to talk to me. "Tell him I'll see him in court. I have a camera on me for just about any action that I take. The fact that this nut job had one would not have concerned me in the least. If I give you a lawful command(s) when I have PC to arrest and you don't follow them you will experience OC, controlled force, or other reactions that are useful and in line with my SOP, state law, and federal law. This attitude that cops can't do things when people show their ass is really starting to get on my nerves.