RMHart

Lifelong activist dedicated to democracy, peace, and justice.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Because of the psychopath in the White House, the Strait of Hormuz will now be completely closed.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@DC_DeWitt Nothing says privacy and security more than puttung a copy of your ID in the hands of the postal service.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@DemocraticWins Dont know why as @SenSherrodBrown supports Trumps Iran war, supports Israel's genocide, opposes universal health care, and could care less about workers.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@gallo_ohio He'll vote a straight MAGA ticket, the rest is just gaslighting.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@TiffinOhioNews When protecting rapist Presidents, genocidal baby murdering Israel and the Epstein Class constutes your core values.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

Resistance lesson of the day.

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

This guy owned these troopers with his knowledge of his rights as well as is and is not a law.

​This traffic stop involving the Ohio State Highway Patrol is one of the most legendary examples of a citizen dropping that education bomb that you will ever witness. What started as a completely routine stop for an expired registration tag quickly devolved into a prolonged, high-stakes debate over constitutional boundaries, officer ego, and the exact limits of police authority.

​If you want to know how to stand your ground calmly, articulate your rights under pressure, and dismantle "contempt of cop" in real-time, this is the video to check out.

​The stop began lawfully—the driver had an expired tag. But the entire energy shifted the second the driver disclosed he was recording the interaction for his own protection.

​After exiting his vehicle, the driver placed his hands in his pockets. Citing vague "officer safety concerns," the troopers immediately ordered him to remove his hands and prepared to conduct a pat-down frisk for weapons. The driver openly consented to a limited weapons check just to clear the air, but what followed was an absolute clinic on why law enforcement cannot use "safety" as a blank check to violate your civil liberties.

​The absolute moral of this entire encounter is the profound legal education this citizen handed to these troopers. While the officers attempted to rely on intimidation and commands like "stop talking and listen," the driver consistently hammered them with actual constitutional law:

​Terry v. Ohio & Pennsylvania v. Mimms: Under Mimms, an officer can order you out of a vehicle during a lawful stop. However, as this citizen correctly pointed out, that doesn't mean they get a free pass to frisk you. Under Terry, a pat-down requires a distinct, articulable "reasonable suspicion" that you are armed and dangerous. Stepping out of a car and putting your hands in your pockets during a routine paperwork stop does not automatically strip you of your Fourth Amendment rights.

​Rodriguez v. United States (2015): This is where the driver completely shut down the escalation. The Supreme Court has ruled that a traffic stop cannot be prolonged beyond the time reasonably required to complete its initial mission (writing the ticket/warning and checking registration). Once the troopers issued the warning, the stop was legally over. By continuing to detain him, command his movements, and lecture him, they were operating outside the law.

​City of Houston v. Hill: The troopers repeatedly tried to silence the driver for challenging them. But under the First Amendment, citizens have an absolute, protected right to verbally criticize, oppose, and argue with police officers, so long as they aren't physically obstructing justice. Standing your ground and speaking truth to power is not a crime.

​The encounter ended with the driver leaving with just a warning for the expired tag, but the real victory was the massive precedent he set on that roadside.

​This wasn't an citizen being difficult for the sake of views; this was a citizen drawing a hard, intellectual line between what is actual law and what is just an officer's feelings. When law enforcement operates out of ego, they rely on compliance through fear. The only antidote to that fear is a rigid, unshakeable knowledge of your constitutional rights.

​Know your rights. Protect your rights. And never let someone abuse authority just because they wear a badge.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

People keep telling me that Graham Platner is anti war meanwhile this is him supporting NATO’s war against Russia

Every single “progressive” Democrat is pro NATO scum

[Daniel Fooks @DanielFooksArt]

Good morning.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The claim that Israel is not an apartheid state is not a position anyone needs to take seriously. It's crazy how Israel apologists have convinced the public to believe this is still a question up for debate when all relevant mainstream institutions regard it as a settled matter.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@ohiogop GOP just making shit up now to cover up their own unfair gerrymandering and election interference.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

Jacobin uses their “socialist leftist” platform to run ridiculous smear article on Amazon Labor Union founder, Chris Smalls.

@jacobin should be embarrassed by this trash; retract it and apologize to @Shut_downAmazon

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@AssalRad @NYMag providing cover for genocidal zionist baby killers.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@DispatchAlerts GOP guarding the GOP because a bunch of fraud happened while the GOP was in charge. But sure, blame the Chinese.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

Zionists are proud to be Number 1.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The West has normalized genocide, war, aggression, and ethnic cleansing. Trump and Netanyahu can level cities and launch unprovoked assaults, and Western journalists still frame this madness - this evil - as ordinary.

They are equally evil.

https://t.co/H8u9xEKDhD

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@VinodBhardwajUS President of the Dem Shepherds Union reminds all of the Dem cult members that now is the time to start rolling out false promises and grand "never-to-be-implemented ideas" to the masses to encourage them to vote for more genocide, permanent war, uber capitalism and corruption.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@DougWahl1 @Jim_Jordan protecting pedophiles then and now.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🚨Mexican President Sheinbaum shatters the wall of silence:

'I am against the American-Israeli war axis. Bombing schools full of girls is not self-defense; it is a full-fledged war crime.' 🇲🇽💀

'Whoever calls the killing of children self-defense is an agent of genocide... and whoever remains silent about it is an accomplice in the blood.' 🔥🇵🇸"

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@Republicans Says the party that has a convicted rapist as President.

[RMHart @hart_rm]

@MorganTrau @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal Ohio legislature holding up data centers in order to have the data center backers pay more bribes before they reauthorize the projects.