Abuse of the Law by Authorities

When police enforce a law that seems ridiculous to enforce, sometimes they will try to justify themselves by saying "the law is the law".But what the police are really doing in situations like that is not enforcing the law, but abusing or misusing the law.

This is what happened to a couple of teenagers in Georgia who were operating a lemonade stand in front of their house in a attempt to raise money for a trip to a water park.

According to the story police chief Kelly Morningstar said "... police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it" That statement is a half-truth being used as an excuse to justify her own dishonesty and deceit. You don't know what's in most of what you buy at the local grocery store.

Here in Texas, according to some Organic Gardening radio shows, such as Bruce Deuly's Organic Matters at 5 pm on Saturdays on KTSA-AM 550, many farmers, both organic and non-organic really don't like Monsanto. And even some of those who agree with Monsanto on GMO's (Genetically Modified organisms (aka food) would prefer for it to be labeled as such, but Monsanto does not what you know which foods are Genetically Modified, so they would rather you, the consumer, not have a choice.

Who cares what's in the lemonade or how it's made.? With GMO's I want to know, with teenage girls it doesn't matter. If I die from teenage lemonade, that's when you investigate. Closing down a lemonade stand run by teenage girls is neither serving or protecting. It's abusing an otherwise legitimate law. Technically, the police are right in that the "law is the law". If you do not take into account situations and circumstances then so called law-enforcement, or enforcement of the law becomes abuse of the law and this is what happened to the teenage girls in Midway, Georgia.

If they really cared about the law, why didn't they help these girls get a permit? One where they could operate year round and be entrepreneurial?. Even if the girls had had a permit, the police here would of shut them down anyway for operating in a residential neighborhood.

When police use the law to pull dirty, deceitful tricks like Kelly Morningstar and the other officer did in Midway, Georgia, that is not legitimate law-enforcement, that is abuse of the law to justify twisting the intent of the law. That is why people often no longer trust police officers. Would the Midway PD shut down the girl scouts for selling cookies without a permit? My guess is that would.