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Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police
krou sends this snip from the Maine Civil Liberties Union: "The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who faces as much as sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. ... Once [the Maryland State Police] learned of the video on YouTube, Graber's parents' house was raided, searched, and four of his computers were confiscated. Graber was arrested, booked, and jailed. Their actions are a calculated method of intimidation. Another person has since been similarly charged under the same statute. The wiretap law being used to charge Anthony Graber is intended to protect private communication between two parties. According to David Rocah, the ACLU attorney handling Mr. Graber's case, 'To charge Graber with violating the law, you would have to conclude that a police officer on a public road, wearing a badge and a uniform, performing his official duty, pulling someone over, somehow has a right to privacy when it comes to the conversation he has with the motorist.'" Here are a factsheet (PDF) on the case from the ACLU of Maryland, and the video at issue.
You are not the employer and they are not your employees- even if you are a tax payer of that state. They are employees of the government not you. You can't tell them what to do, you can't tell them when to show up to work or leave, you can't tell them what their pay is or what their benefit packages will be, you can't even tell them where to do their jobs. They are not in any way your employee and you are not in any way their employer. Public servant does not mean working for the public, it means working for the government. Public in this sense has no direction to the public in general, it's meant to denote the sector in which work is duplicated as in Private verses Public and has no bearing concerning tax payers at all.
Between a victim and an innocent victim. What the GP is saying is that yes, the wiretapping charge is BS and he's a victim in that way. However the guy was wildly and dangerously breaking traffic law. It isn't as though the police just found a guy at random and said "Let's pick on him!" The guy is a victim, but not at all innocent.
The way the story is reported you would think this guy was recording someone ELSES traffic stop, or at most that it was a non-sense traffic stop like a routine stop where they stop all motorists for an alcohol test.
NOT that this guy was seriously speeding and pulling stunts on a public road with total disregard for everyone elses safety.
Somehow, that tells me that there is FAR more going on. I never trust anyone who tells only HALF of a story. They always got something to hide. So since they hidden that this guy is an asshole, what more are they hiding?
ACLU and every other privacy nutgroup, learn that if you expect people to take you serious, you got to be more honest then everyone else. Because I personally think speeders should be locked up for life, I do not give a shit if this person goes to jail. what next, Amnesty complaining Hitler never got a fair trail? Cry me a river!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Like the freedom to be videotaped everywhere you go, like the UK?
No fucking thanks.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Because if you're not a troll, then that means you actually believe there are times when you have 'the right to shoot someone in the face.'
Sorry, if they are paid for by tax money, then they are my employees. Maybe not under my direct supervision or authority, but I pay their salary, therefore they are my employees. And unlike employees of private companies, who are not my employees, because their salaries are paid by the corporation they work for, who I do not have to support if I hose not to. Police officers are paid for with money taken from me, without my consent. They are my employees, faggot.
and it's pedantic stupid comments like yours that are leading this country straight into the shitter. instead of commenting/adding something to a real debate, you'd rather go off on, "oh shiny" and let the brave smart leaders take care of you and yours. i wonder if you'd not be paying attention to the real matter if it was your son/daughter/self being faced with 16 years in prison for doing NOTHING. fuck you'd probably not notice because you'd be too busy reading the badge to notice the cell door slamming. fucking idiot.
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