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You Can And Should Record Police Encounters: It's The Law

Personal Liberty Alerts

by Bob Livingston

December 3, 2012

Your best defense against abusive law enforcement officers is a video recorder. Almost everyone now has a recorder with them at all times, thanks to advances in smartphone technology. People should use them.

The recorder is bane to the abusive badge-wielding enforcers who resort to force, intimidation, Tasers or worse if their subject doesn't immediately comply with all demands, no matter how ridiculous or illegal. Because of this, many civilians who have recorded their own or other people's encounters with police have found themselves handcuffed and sitting in the back of a patrol car. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a citizen's right to record encounters with law enforcement by letting stand a Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling making the practice legal. It overturned an anti-eavesdropping law in Illinois that made it a class 1 felony - punishable by up to 15 years in prison - for anyone to record individuals performing their duties as law enforcement officers.

You Can't Legislate Morality or Common Sense

The Real Revo

by Kenneth

July 20, 2011

But that doesn't mean they won't try. Philly is now fining walkers that text while moving. I wish I was joking, but I am not.

I can understand a driver being fined for texting. If they don't pay attention to the road as they should, they can cause serious injury or death to others. It has been proven that texting while driving is actually more dangerous than drinking and driving. Well, sort of. It's only more dangerous while you're actually texting. As soon as you hit send and pay attention to the road, you go back to the same level of safety you enjoyed before. With drinking, you don't have that luxury.

You Can't Protect Your Private Property From The Surveillance State

Personal Liberty Alerts

by Bob Livingston

January 29, 2013

If you're looking for police officers who believe their job is to protect and serve, don't look to Naperville, Ill. There, officers support and help to enforce 4th Amendment violations.

The city, like many across America, is installing "smart" electric meters on homes. "Smart" meters are government surveillance devices designed to accumulate data that includes day-to-day activity in such detail that the "enforcers" are actually using power usage records to obtain search warrants on homeowners. Naperville homeowner Jennifer Stahl has long opposed the installation of a "smart" meter on her home. She was one of the last holdouts. But a locked gate, fenced yard and standing between power workers and her home did not prevent the totalitarian badge-wearing enforcement class from pushing her aside and installing the meter anyway. After cutting the lock off the gate, police arrested her and charged her with interfering with police officer and preventing access to customer premises. Her interference consisted entirely of standing in her own yard.

You Can't Read the TPP, But These Huge Corporations Can

firstlook.org

by Alleen Brown

May 12, 2015

The Senate today is holding a key procedural vote that would allow the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be "fast-tracked."

So who can read the text of the TPP? Not you, it's classified. Even members of Congress can only look at it one section at a time in the Capitol's basement, without most of their staff or the ability to keep notes. But there's an exception: if you're part of one of 28 U.S. government-appointed trade advisory committees providing advice to the U.S. negotiators. The committees with the most access to what's going on in the negotiations are 16 "Industry Trade Advisory Committees," whose members include AT&T, General Electric, Apple, Dow Chemical, Nike, Walmart and the American Petroleum Institute.

You Didn't Build That Lemonade Stand

The American Spectator

by Yogi Love

July 23, 2012

Oh, chill out. It's not like you built it yourself.

You don't expect electricity to be "always on" do you?

The Real Revo

by R.D. Walker

March 8, 2011

In Britain, you are going to have to get used to the end of that quaint little memory. Electricity is only for windy days.

Quit your fussing! You can't go sailing or fly kites on windless days and I don't hear you whining about that. This is no different.

You don't mess with the CIA

washingtontimes.com

by Joseph Curl

October 28, 2012

You know who doesn't like getting thrown under the bus? The CIA. You know what the CIA does when you try to throw it under the bus? They get even - quickly, quietly, and with fatal consequences.

That seems the most logical explanation for the torrent of information pouring out this week (unless Hillary Rodham Clinton - also thrown under the bus by President Obama - is scrapping any chance of ever running for president again and is simply setting the whole administration on fire, along with her legacy as secretary of state). The main lesson from Watergate (after the no-brainer that you should never hire a guy named "Tricky Dick") was this: The Cover-Up Is Worse Than The Crime. For some reason, Professor Obama seems not to know this crucial lesson. Or he's just arrogant enough to say, "Well, that doesn't apply to someone as brilliant as moi."

You dumb racist conservatives are dumb. And racist.

Hot Air

by Jazz Shaw

January 27, 2012

We've got a brand spanking new, rootin' tootin' study, fresh off the press from a distinguished group of scientists. (And I can tell they were scientists because I checked, and most of them were wearing white lab coats.)

In it, we find what we already suspected about the party that hates science, clings to their guns and their God, and disapproves of Barack Obama not because of his damaging policies, but because he's black. Yep... you guessed it. Turns out that conservatives are stupid. And racist.

You heard it here FIRST!

therealrevo.com

February 8, 2011

When I started talking about the "Popular Uprising" in Egypt being the work of Communists, some of them here in the good ole U.S.A. in fact, Chicago, Illinois and Washington D.C...

Does everybody here now understand how President Obama, a man known for is procrastination in making big decisions, was so lightning quick in throwing Hosni Mubarek under the bus?

You Knew It Was Coming...First Vaccine Announced For Autism

fracturedparadigm.com

April 26, 2013

A first-ever vaccine created by University of Guelph researchers to control autistic symptoms is here. The medical propaganda matrix has once again come full circle with their patented problem-reaction-solution.

Although there is no study which directly links vaccines as the cause of autism, there have been hundreds of others with correlations. Even if scientists are dismissive on the causation front, why do they continue to explore methods which are misinformed, misguided and completely ineffective? Constipation and diarrhea are common in autistic patients. So what's the solution? A vaccine of course.

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