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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 and your 3 modders are clearly the idiot assholes here. by the way i love it how fuck twits like you blast away and quickly get smacked down in your place. stupid bitch.
Ironic you would make that argument attached to an article proving you wrong. Did you even read the article? Or even the article's title for that matter??? "Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police" What are you? Stupid? You must be. You also never mentioned what shit stain 3rd world country you were from. I'm guessing you're some troll raging on mommy's computer again.
Speaking as someone not in the USA, it's nice to see that the much hailed "Land of the free" has succumbed to the spread of Communism that is the New World Order.
You keep re-electing them.
Jews suck, alright. They know they won't be tolerated on these shores much longer.
The curse of the 7 digit crowd getting mod points, they are increasingly right wing nutters who attempt to craft a narrative that fits their idealogy.
I guess you DID manage to stay awake for at least one of Rev. Wright's sermons in the two decades that you attended his church!
And this is a perfect example of what the Tea Party movement is sick and tired of - a government that at all levels has forgotten that it exists solely at the pleasure of the citizens it rules. "Government is good - trust us" liberals have been telling us for years, ignoring the weight of all of human history that testifies loudly to the contrary. You twits forgot that liberty is the exception in the history of the world, and that oppression is the rule. And now you have the nerve to bitch about the size of the cage that you build around your own goddamned self? Fuck all you big-government apologist asshats.
That and negros winning elections.