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Worth mentioning that Chelsea is being moved to solitary confinement.

But don't worry, the government has recognized national whistleblower's day!!

Govt/industry worked very hard to destroy his career...

Over my dead body feds.

Shooting cops tends to be...unproductive in the medium term. Their initial performance is likely to be underwhelming; but after that, you'll be lucky if they just empty a dozen magazines into your corpse, since that will at least keep you out of SuperMax Forever Fun Time.

The response will be rather reminiscent of MiB, when "Edgar" gave the alien "Bug", in the fresh impact crater on his farm, a similar response when told to drop his weapon.

"Your proposal is acceptable."

LE officers these days no longer accept nearly as much personal risk to avoid injuring/killing subjects. The amount of time, risk, and effort to try and defuse & deescalate situations before tasers and/or firearms are used against subjects has dramatically fallen over the last 25-35 years.

This is largely due to extreme militarization coupled with the "officer safety first" and "*I'm* going home tonight!" mentality culture and training. Also, it seems like the psych-screening and attitude/demeanor suitability culling processes have suffered greatly, judging by the tsunami of YT videos available recording a huge and ever-growing number of over-the-top LE behaviors and actions.

Besides, as long as they don't kill you, you can hurt them much worse and for far longer with paper than with bullets, as long as the court system and rule of law means anything at all. I'll leave that for you to judge.

Check out what DHS will do to one of their own who tries to do their duty. They used a freaking Blackhawk and a military style 27-man SRT to raid her and her husband's house. The 24-year-old neighbor who video-recorded the raid and Blackhawk was found dead in his house of unknown causes. If they'll do that to one of their own, what are they willing to do to you or I if we should happen to attract their anger over something we said, or something we have no clue would have any connection to anything government or cause any kind of reaction by anyone at all?

http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1181

http://youtu.be/3LHC-C-ODO0

Strat

It's just one component of civil liberties, but the number of whistle-blower prosecutions by the Obama administration seriously disturbs me. Remember, this is the guy that promised a new level of transparency in government.

What happened to “look forward, not backward”?:
http://www.salon.com/2010/04/15/prosecutions_10/

What the Whistleblower Prosecution Says About the Obama DOJ:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/16-3

Stop the Criminal Prosecution of Whistleblowers!:
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=731&Itemid=81

WikiLeakers and Whistle-Blowers: Obama's Hard Line:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2058340,00.html

Obama Admin: Immunity for Torturers, Prosecution for Torture Whistleblowers:
http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-admin-immunity-for-torturers.html

Found this and it looks like a court found enough evidence to say the vest failed due to heat, moisture, and light. Also, the vest was made of Zylon and the company stopped using it 4 months after the cop was killed.

http://www.whistleblowers.org/Cop_s_widow_wins.htm

LoB

With the Republican government persecuting whistleblowers by stripping their protections, I expect people publishing stories of government ripoffs on YouTube to be sent to jail for "leaking".

This rule, combined with Bush's recent victories stripping government whistleblowers of protections, lets Bush fry anyone he wants to intimidate, especially if they've been leaking.

"These days it's all secrecy, and no privacy."
- The Rolling Stones, from "Fingerprint File"

go public and you are on your own.