ol' thunder-thighs, the Midwest's answer to Sasquatch.
He seems clueless to what the future holds for him.
Wonder when Soetoro, or whatever he goes by these days gets to open his first gulag.
Wonder when Soetoro, or whatever he goes by these days gets to open his first gulag.
Selling art without a permit? WTF???
How about putting a rider into the next law-enforcement block-grant legislation coming out of Congress making any state with a law forbidding the recording of public officials engaged in their public duties (executive sessions of deliberative bodies and judges in chambers excluded) ineligible for any money?
Until something is done to stop the use of this tactic — tying Federal grants to State actions — by Congress in toto (which would be a good thing), our side might as well use it to advance liberty.
These laws aren’t about us, they are about protecting big brother, just like the recent secret Senate hold to prevent a vote on a law to encourage whistle blowing.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01/11/2762059/devine-senate-hold-on-whistle.html
These laws applied to LE and public officials are designed to suppress public knowledge about corrupt practices. The FOP response is classic:
Mark Donahue, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said his organization “absolutely supports” the eavesdropping act as is and was relieved that the challenge had failed. Mr. Donahue added that allowing the audio recording of police officers while performing their duty “can affect how an officer does his job on the street.”
Citizen recording will expose corrupt practices. Why should a LE officer or public official fear recording of their work? The answer is obvious. They do not want the public to see some corrupt primarily among weak members.
Jury nullification.
I can’t think of a single situation where recording, audio and/or video, of a public official doing his or her job, police included, could be considered a threat to them. Period. Maybe someone here can come up with one. Granted, I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about it, but I just can’t see anything that can be hurt by recording any contact with public employees.
Sadly, this is yet another example of the stacked deck the citizen faces in dealing with government. It was situations like this that led to the Declaration of Independence. I have to wonder if we’re not awfully close to needing another one? Precious few of these egregious abuses of power are ever corrected. The path to correcting one of them is long and expensive, involving a felony arrest and conviction and then a complicated trail of appeals.
Welcome to the USSA, comrade.
selling art without a permit ... As a charge that is insanity or it is communism dug in.
Liberal New York Times alert.
>>Tiawanda Moore, 20, a former stripper, <<
And no comments?
Precisely. That is why it needs to be allowed.
I bet it does, thug.
The only police affected by a citizen recording their activities are the ones doing something they shouldn't be doing.
On duty or when acting in an official capacity no police officers should have an expectation of privacy. like the motorcyclist who was vindicated.
Update to the Tiawanda Moore case here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2768743/posts
She was acquitted.