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NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police
macinrack writes to mention a story about a New Hampshire man who was arrested for videotaping police on his doorstep, using a fairly standard security camera system. He was officially charged with 'two felony counts of violating state eavesdropping and wiretap law by using an electronic device.' From the article: "The security cameras record sound and audio directly to a videocassette recorder inside the house, and the Gannons posted warnings about the system, Janet Gannon said. On Tuesday night, Michael Gannon brought a videocassette to the police department, and asked to speak with someone in 'public relations,' his wife said and police reported. Gannon wanted to lodge a complaint against Karlis, who had come to the family's house while investigating their sons, Janet Gannon said. She said Karlis showed up late at night, was rude, and refused to leave when they asked him."
Police instead arrested Gannon, charging him with two felony counts of violating state eavesdropping and wiretap law by using an electronic device to record Karlis without the detective's consent.
Doesn't he know that the President is the only personl legally allowed to wire tap?
The law cannot protect you from the police.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Yes, but the summary did not say a $5 sign ... I'm sure Gannon's signs were the cheap ones from WalMart ... for about $1 ... and you know those just don't hold up in court.
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>> arrested for videotaping police
I can imagine the Muppets' skit now, "Piiiiggggggs onnnnn Taaaaaappppe".
Huh? There's plenty of Libertarian hippies. Not quite as many as gun-nuts or anarcho-capitalists, but they're in there.
in prison for videotaping it.
They would have to stop spinning first.
Did you really just source the Onion to try to prove a point?
Really?
No... you didn't.... did you?
My home town is Simi Valley, home of the Rodney King trial. Think of all the rioting that was caused by someone videotaping police brutality. Mercifully this will never happen in New Hampshire. Pass the soma, please.
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This authority is vital to national security, possibly to our very survival, and the only thing that could possibly void that power would be the election of a candidate from the Democratic party. If that unlikely event were to come to pass, then yes, the President would be capable of committing an illegal act by authorizing actions in violation of written law. In, and only in, a Democrat-run White House is the President capable of authorizing or committing an illegal act.
Woah, how'd I get to digg?
Both sound and audio eh? Funny, I kinda thought they were the same thing
...or, as my mother used to say while she was beating me, "Two wrongs don't make a right!"
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So, if the police try to bust down your door without a search warrant, you should have every right to kill them. Let the courts sort it all out later (and, of course, be prepared to fry if you claimed a right you in fact did not have).
Of course, the killing of police officers will certainly bring about reinforcements. That's when you bring in the heavy artillery, and remotely detonate all the explosives you had stashed in strategic locations, like the dumpsters beind city hall, all the while broadcasting an amplified voice requesting that your constitutional rights be respected. Personally, I prefer kilowatt CO2 IR lasers on a turret in the attic to keep the engagement local and minimize collateral damage, but powering them is a bit hard.
Naturally, the state has more resources than you do, and you will likely be apprehended or, more likely, killed, but not before you remotely detonate the dirty nuke you had hidden in a cargo container in one of the many ports -- what's it cost to buy an old Russian nuke these days? $40k? It's not like you need an ICBM to deliver it. You did plan ahead, didn't you?
If the result of one cop acting like an asshole was a good chance of tens or hundreds of thousands of people killed in the collateral damage of your retalliation against the state for violating your constitutional rights, you can be sure there would be a hell of a lot more restraint on the part of the state, regardless of the morality of such a response. (Innocent people? Bullshit! "They" clearly are standing by while the Constitution is erroded to the point where you have to use such force, and are most definitely part of the problem.)
The bottom line is you have no constitutional rights unless you are willing to fight and die for them. And frankly, if you don't have them, you might as well be dead. And if you're going to die, might as well have company.
I've often thought that homegrown "terrorists" like McVeigh had somewhat of a legitimate complaint against corrupt goverment. His big mistake was in the premature use of excessive force before a standoff escalated to the point where it might have been justified (i.e. you send rocket grenades into my compound without a warrant, I blow up your government building).
I would love to see someone who's constitutional rights are being clearly violated not take it lying down, but stand up and fight back to a degree that leaves the corrupt government scared shitless, all the while broadcasting the events as they unfold.
Of course, that requires planning (and expense) for a confrontation that one hopes never happens.
So he destroyed that verb too?