Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested For Flying an Upside Down U.S. Flag

this must be some of that freedom that those freedom hating terrorists hate so much...

Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested For Flying an Upside Down U.S. Flag
Police officer recently returned from Iraq smashed into Kuhn's home, choked husband and then claimed they assaulted him Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

A North Carolina couple who were terrorized by a police officer who had recently returned from Iraq are now fighting back, after sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough broke into their house, assaulted them and then arrested the Kuhns for the crime of flying an upside down U.S. flag.
Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina made headlines last week when they were arrested for flying an upside down U.S. flag, a commonly recognized sign of distress, in their backyard, after police claimed they were violating a statute for "desecration of the flag".
As is supported by the United States Flag Code as well as a similar incident in 2001, flying the flag upside down is not a mark of disrespect, and in fact is considered by many to be the highest form of patriotism.
However, since 9/11 there have been several cases where individuals have been harassed, intimidated and even arrested for inverting the flag, by those who confuse a love of government with a love of country.
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Buncombe County Sheriffâ??s deputy Brian Scarborough had just returned from Iraq and according to the Deborah Kuhn, was sent by his staff Sergeant from the local National Guard to "deal with" the Kuhns after a local resident complained about the flag, a fact that was later admitted on TV news. A National Guard soldier in military fatigues had also previously visited the Kuhn's to harass them about the flag.
"This is a distress signal, we're not trying to desecrate the flag," Kuhn told Scarborough when he told the couple they were violating a statute. Police claimed the messages attached to the flag were the problem, but the notes merely pointed out that the upside down flag represented a distress signal and a warning that the country was in danger.
Even though Kuhn took the flag down, the officer immediately demanded that the couple show their ID's and when they refused told them to put their hands behind their back and was about to arrest them before the couple shut and locked the door.
Scarborough then proceeded to kick the door in, "And the next thing we know, the glass is flying, he unlocks the deadbolt and he comes into our house after us," Kuhn told The Alex Jones Show.
The officer then pursued Mark Kuhn through the house before intercepting him in the kitchen and putting him in a choke hold.
Deborah Kuhn called 911 to report that the officer had broken into the home and was assaulting her husband.
The officer then pulled out pepper spray to which Mark Kuhn responded, "Are you going to spray me in my house?" before Scarborough whipped out his billy club and the Kuhn's ran out of the house into the street, pleading for help from their neighbors.
"Nine police cars showed up, they whipped out the Tasers, they said 'get down we're gonna Taser you' added Kuhn.
The couple were handcuffed, arrested and bundled into a squad car, to the protests of numerous neighbors who demanded to know why the Kuhns were being incarcerated, but were told to leave by police.
Contradicting the police's account of the incident, that Buncombe County Sheriffâ??s deputy Brian Scarborough was injured when the Kuhn's slammed the door on his hand, Deborah Kuhn vehemently maintains that Scarborough smashed the glass of their door with his bare fist before breaking in, a description which is backed up by three other eyewitnesses, one of which appeared on TV later that day.

The Kuhn's are now also being charged with "assault on a government employee" - meaning that the new definition of assault is if a police officer cuts his hand by breaking into your house and putting you in a choke hold - you have assaulted him.
Scarborough claims that Deborah Kuhn slapped him while she was on the phone to the police, but the audio file of the call (listen here) clearly contradicts this.
They each face over a year in prison.
The Kuhn's case is similar in many ways to that of Kelly Rushing, a man from Lyon County Kentucky, who was arrested and charged for handing out videotapes of Ron Paul videos to police officers. Rushing was later found not guilty of the offence of "terroristic threats" but continues to be harassed by police.
It also mirrors the case of an Alabama man, who was arrested in 2004 for displaying a sign in his yard that read "Our Courts System is a Joke," under the pretext that it was illegal to criticize the authorities.
We are encouraging our listeners and readers to call the following number and remind the officials concerned that this is not Russia or Nazi Germany, and that officer Scarborough's conduct was shameful and an insult to everything America is supposed to stand for.
Scarborough's experience in Iraq of kicking down doors and taking innocent people to camps is not something that should be brought back to America, and the charges against the Kuhns should be dropped immediately along with a formal apology issued.
Sheriff Van Duncan's Office: 828-250-4503
Click here to listen to the interview with Deborah Kuhn.

I hope that piece of shit police officer gets raped by a 500 pound Iraqi while he rots in prison.

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Originally Posted by onequestion

I hope that piece of shit police officer gets raped by a 500 pound Iraqi while he rots in prison.

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I just hope true justice is served, not our modern perverted version tailored towards the government.

It's amazing how we've let the police expand their powers in the last 30 years without so much as a whimper, all in the name of getting the bad guys off the street. There may be a few good cops,(I myself have met a couple out of the hundred or so I've had encounters with), but the majority are egomaniacal assholes, the school bullies, or worse the kids that were picked on by the bullies with giant chips on their shoulders. There is way too much power entrusted to the cop on the beat. Most people cannot handle that much power without abusing it, and abuse it they do. Even while being filmed (Cops) you can see extreme force being applied while the perp is being arrested, while the cops are yelling stop resisting to cover their asses, or when they taser a perp and then keep jolting him after he is down and docile, lord knows what they do when not on camera. On one cops segment I was watching just yesterday, there were 5- 200+ lb cops on this 160 Lb. guy, he was totally at their mercy and another 200+ lb cop was stomping him, his foot was out off sight of the camera behind another officer, but you could see him making a move like stomping and the poor victim being jarred by the force of the blow. The age of the police state is upon us, even keeping a low profile is getting harder every day. If you've had a run in with the police in the past, you are much more likely to have more run ins. Back when I was in my drinking phase, I aquired some DUIs. I know these asssholes followed me from my bar and stopped me for my third DUI, they knew that I'd be shitfaced after 3-4 hours in the bar and just waited in the parking lot, trying to get an easy DUI, needless to say, that ended my drinking career, at least my drinking and driving career. I've always wondered why the assholes didn't wait accross the street from bars and arrest the patrons as they drove off, I don't think that is against the law, and would be an easy bust. There was this Bar out in the cow country of Norco Ca. that was on my way home from work. I'd stop in there about twice a week and get hammered, never got busted from there but I always looked around good before I got in my car, it was only a couple a miles to my home from there. I must have at least 50,000 miles of drunk driving, and no accidents, hey I'm not recommending it, I was lucky. I haven't had a drink in 20 years, don't miss it at all.

Yeah man, dont get me wrong, there are a lot of good cops who just want to help the community and wont hassle anybody for stupid shit like weed, but generally they are just on a massive power trip.

Clearly a violation of the 1st amendment to the US Constitution.

I hate dictators. They always fall in the end. They can only touch your body, but never your soul.

sarcasm alert//re-left-over from the tilman thread......Just maybe, the couple were bullying the cops brother...yeah thats da ticket......