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Some people just don't like to be exposed. It's not always a matter being oggled. It may be perceived or real inadequacies. http://cbs4.com/local/tsa.screener.arrest.2.1681203.html

In most any democracy there has been a history of cheating. Disenfranchising and harassing minority voters, gerrymandering voting districts, outright bribery of voters, it's a long list. But it becomes impossible to have transparency and verifiability if the voting methods are hinged on private company secrets and an obfuscated (or absent) transaction trail. Having a paper tape inside the voting machine is not transparent.

If your voting experience is like the one reported by CBS News, or if you are an official who has to verify the vote, you don't want this: "Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them [the voting machines] on the spot, essentially to realign the video screen with the electronics inside. The 15-step process is outlined in the poll-workers manual."

What a transparent system needs is for a voter to cast a ballot, then deposit in a box a human readable version of the vote. Recounts are done from the box contents even if the first count is done by machine. Once that is uniformly provided to every voter, work on the other abuse of the electorate problems.

FTFA in your link
he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard of his Cadillac
he was masturbating himself going down that street.

Dude ... you're an NBA player making millions of dollars a year ... buy a girlfriend!

not nearly as bad as this dude tho.

I've lived and traveled in both Canada and the USA and I can say that the RCMP are much, much better than what passes for a police officer in the states, probably because the training and selection process is quite good and there is a standardized program that they have been refining for quite some time.
In many smaller towns in the states (and I'll have to say that this is much, much more common in the south), you can become a police officer without spending all that much time in school - a criminal justice certificate from a correspondence college and a pistol qualification will work just fine (an honorably discharged armed forces MP is pretty much a guaranteed acceptance).
Smaller towns have virtually no oversight either - it is very, very, very rare for the feds to get involved - which makes it quite easy for a culture of corruption to take root.
Because of this lack of oversight, you see disgusting stuff like this. Now, sure, you'll have the occasional bad apple in Canada, but nothing like that. Nobody bats an eye here either when a defendant arrives in court mysteriously beat to a pulp.
And besides, with the RCMP, there is always someone on a higher level who you can take a complaint to. In the average US small town, you can try to go to the mayor, but the buck stops there.

Big cities are usually a bit better, although, again, the level of training isn't really standardized and oversight varies.

A South Florida newsteam did an expose like this as well.

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.h tml

Out of 38 police departments, he was able to obtain complaint forms from THREE departments. On officer ran him out the office and actually threatened him by putting his hand to his gun.

Nowadays, I wouldn't call the police to ever settle a dispute.

most americans have never experienced fascism and oppression in their life time

Uh, yeah, right.

The problem isn't that they have never experienced fascism and opression, it's that they've been brainwashed into thinking that it's not happening.

this is the same county who's police intimidated, threatened, and were just plain jerks to an undercover journalist attempting to find a "police officer complaint form":
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.h tml (watch part 1 and 2, videos on the right)

and then retaliated against the journalist after the piece aired:
http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_086232143.html

this is the same county who's police intimidated, threatened, and were just plain jerks to an undercover journalist attempting to find a "police officer complaint form":
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.h tml (watch part 1 and 2, videos on the right)

and then retaliated against the journalist after the piece aired:
http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_086232143.html

I find it interesting that someone who seems very adamant about the 'rightness' of the UN and the 'wrongness' of Israel knows so little about both. So how about a history lesson? You can confirm all I say below with a little research. Get your parents to help you if you must.

The United Nations began with the London Declaration in 1941. The declaration was signed by Britain, Canada, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and the exiled governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia. Charles de Gaulle also signed. The US signed after we went to war with Germany and Japan, and the Soviet Union later signed as well.

In 1944 Roosevelt began campaigning for the UN to become a strong international body and to have actual power. In September 1944 representatives of the Soviet Union, Britain, the US, and China, setup the basic parameters of the UN. This was cemented at the Yalta conference where it was decided that the controlling members of the UN would be US, the Soviet Union, Britain, China, and France.

The UN charter was created by 50 member nations (too numerous to list, I suggest you use the Internet). The Palestinians and Jews had been fighting from 1920 to 1947 over territorial control. In 1948 the British asked the UN to intervene; a special UN committee decided that a separate Jewish state should be created.

On May 14, 1948, Israel became an independent state. Immediately Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt launched attacks on what they refused to recognize as Israel. You might be interested to know that your precious Soviet Union actually supplied the arms to Israel to fight this war - precisely because they expected to be able to expand their influence to Israel!

Since its creation the UN has ballooned into 190 countries, many of which have substantial Arab influence (including the original states listed above). 54 of the countries are Arab or Muslim, and vote unilaterally. The Third World bloc tends to vote against Israel because they see it as a "colonial state". You state that the UN is against Israel because "Israel fucked up", but this simply is not the case. Arab nations were against its creation and have wanted to annhialiate it since its inception. They have simply gained backing. Nearly two-thirds of all General Assembly and Security Council resolutions passed since the founding of the UN in 1945 have been anti-Israel. Additionally, Israel is the only UN member that is never allowed to hold a seat on the Security Council.

This is the most audacious high-flying mis-representing bullshit ever conceived. One had to do with nearly every Palestinian child living in poverty under occupation and the other with an attempt to portray Israel as a victim

And that certainly sounds like a level-headed, objective evaluation of the proposal.

No. They pulled it when it became obvious that it would pass when only the part about "protecting children from violence" was left and not the "we Israeli are poor innocent victims of Evil Palestinians" one tied skillfully to the other. It is a classic stunt of pro-Israel dis-information and deceit, you surely were not expecting me to take your bullshit at face value, were you?

Well, then, why don't we look at the original resolution. This is an almost exact copy of the earlier approved resolution to protect Palestinian children. The Israeli resolution was killed by the Non-Aligned Movement. To summarize the changes:

The list of amendments, cosponsored by Bahrain, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, included deleting of the phrase "Israeli children" from the text and replacing it with "Middle East children," and inserting references to Israeli "military assaults," "occupation" and ""excessive use of f