We're doomed.

Courtesy of Balko, this example of our Brave Boyz in Blew just doin' their jobs:

EL PASO- A man in West El Paso is claiming he was thrown in jail last week in retaliation for warning drivers about a nearby police checkpoint for speeding.
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Escobar says he was jogging back and forth at this intersection in West El Paso, giving people a heads up about a speed zone when the officer handcuffed him.

I remember when I was young, it was considered simple driver etiquette to flash your lights at oncoming cars after having passed unscathed through a speed trap. Never got arrested for it - not that I hung around to ask the officer's opinion. In this brave new world, of course, any activity that might arouse the ire of Officer Friendly is likely to get you arrested - if not tased and beaten up. So at first I paid little attention, for any police story that doesn't involve blood, broken furniture and dead dogs is just another day in the life of a citizen.

Alas for me, I made the mistake of reading some of the comments. Here are just the first pertinent three:

The police officer had every right to throw him in jail, it's called "Interference with public duties." And for the people that are justifying his actions- I know you think you're above the law and all, but if you would rather the police go easy and let people do whatever they want and get away with it, maybe you should go back to Mexico.

I seriously dont understand people now a days. I think all of this is money hungry and specially this man. Funny how this man is running in a residential area and if he had wittnessed a kid getting runned over, his complaint would have been that they are always speeding and there is never a police unit there to slow traffic down. Maybe him being taken to jail for that was a little to much but then again, what hes still doing right now shows how bright he is thinking his case is going somewhere

I sincerely hope that next time this stupid fool is "jogging" in his neighborhood he gets run over by one of his arrogant, above-the-law fellow Westsiders. Then he is probably going to sue the Police Department for not doing their job and protecting his lousy hide.

Yeah - this isn't going to end well.

One wonders if all the lamppost decorations are going to be former government employees, and feels a bit less sorry for all those Tories who were abused in the late unpleasantness between the colonies and the Crown...