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Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded

Posted by kdawson on from the ain't-nobody's-bidness-if-we-do dept.

linzeal writes "When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop. Judges, juries, and legislatures support the police overwhelmingly on this issue, with only a few cases where those accused of 'shooting' the cops being vindicated through the courts."

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  1. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues by alen · · Score: 0, Troll

    and almost everyone i know and have ever met has never been in trouble with the law. some people always get in trouble because they are idiots and refuse to follow the law. things like participating in bike rides with hundreds of people and disrupting traffic is against the law. so is selling crap on the street with no license. some of these laws go back decades if not hundreds of years

  2. try this in Italy? by alen · · Score: 0, Troll

    in the 1990's when i lived in Italy i saw the police beating some people bloody on TV. Turned out they were farmers demonstrating against something. I asked an Italian why the police beat them, and he said that they demonstrated without a permit. I think we need the same thing here in the US. Especially against Critical Mass

  3. Re:first amendment test needed by linzeal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not with the John Paul Stevens court now in session. We'll be lucky if we are not made a vassal state of the Vatican under pontifical law by the time he dies.

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    An Education is the Font of All Liberty
  4. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gee, I guess I didn't get caught for my murders, so I'm not going to burn in hell.

    Do you get paid to advocate the murder of children, or are you compelled by an inner corruption?

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    "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
  5. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 0, Troll

    By children, if you mean the 19 year old, that wasn't a child.

    19 isn't a child anywhere on the planet.

    If we are talking about killing children, well the "activists" on those ships and the people they were running a blockade for know all about that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_massacre
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avivim_school_bus_massacre
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maalot_massacre
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kuntar

    Oh and I was there for this
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadera_central_station_suicide_bombing