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Collection on cigarettes. this is just absurd. you know, people talk about the left, they want a big state, they want a powerful state. well, here it is. you've got to take all of it. if you want a powerful state, there's your police force acting on demands of authorities to go out and make sure every dime of taxes collected, particularly from tobacco. look how we stigmatize tobacco. to the point it's so despised and reviled that a guy loses his life from selling single cigarettes in new york city. it's absurd. >> you talk about the role of the federal government. attorney general holder has a...

The federal government is acting without warrant to intrude into a state business doesn't understand that the 14th amendment and laws passed pursuant to that, to protect emancipated african-americans from arbitrary state power and the reconstruction of the south. gives this the color of law. and the federal government is doing what the law -- the amendment and the laws are supposed to do, which is to, in this case, examine not whether racial discrimination was involved but whether, perhaps, for example, disproportionate force was involved. you have mr. garner accused of an utterly offense, whi...

With law. they have to do with anybody's, white, black, civil rights. have you to demonstrate willfulness that the officer intended to deny, to violate, in this case mr. garner's civil rights. >> well, it has to be intentional in the federal case, is what you're saying. >> yes. >> and in the federal case, again, coming back to what george will just explained to you, was clear deputy ra vags of your constitutional rights. the man's dead. i don't know that they can get a convictions, if that's your thinking, but i don't think that's the job of the prosecutor. and what we've seen in the local gra...

Without warrant to intrude into a state business doesn't understand that the 14th amendment and laws passed pursuant to that, to protect emancipated african-americans from arbitrary state power and the reconstruction of the south. gives this the color of law. and the federal government is doing what the law -- the amendment and the laws are supposed to do, which is to, in this case, examine not whether racial discrimination was involved but whether, perhaps, for example, disproportionate force was involved. you have mr. garner accused of an utterly offense, which shouldn't be an offense. he wa...

I've read in the media quoting police officials and those who train police saying that this was not a chokehold. it might have been carotid restriction but it was not a chokehold. what was eric garner doing? he was selling cigarettes, loose cigarettes. the police in new york, because they're so eager for tax collection, what is being done here with regard to taxes and the state's desire to collect them no matter what, how many cops were descended on that situation? for cigarettes. how many people smoking marijuana did the cops pass by and ignore on the way to eric garner? you've got $13 a cart...