I know I am being Captain Obvious by saying this but filming the police keeps them honest. In times when police are prone to abusing their authority, there needs to be a check to their power. Police don't like it for obvious reasons but a film could potentially exonerate a police officer wrongfully accused of a crime.
Actually, yes you can get killed for political activism. I guess you've not been reading the newspapers. There have been four cases recently just in our region.
"Perhaps eyeglass-mounted cameras and a video-in connector on the cellphones."
That doesn't help the contact wearers, or lasik people....or even those rare people with normal uncorrected vision, unless they happen to be out in daylight wearing shades.
Just as it once was, asking a person if they were a cop will turn into the police asking if you are recording this interaction. The only difference being, if an undercover police officer says no, so what, try to prove entrapment in a court of law. On the other hand, if you say no to an officer, you are obstructing justice. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, with the police, add a firearm. Hint: Many officers carry a concealed throw away firearm. In my humble opinion, concealed throw aways should carry an automatic death penalty. This does not mean the officer should not be permitted to carry a concealed registered firearm, one that is traceable to that officer in addition to the holstered one.
But, but... According to Jim Pasco, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, police misconduct is "so rare it might as well not exist."
The only way to keep the numbers low is to view every action as an infraction. Besides, the on duty police officer views everyone as a potential criminal, if only for self-preservation. Quis custodiet ipsos custodet
Mr. Burns: This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
...ok, you know there is a difference between a lockout and a strike, right? The employer initiates a lockout, the workers/bargaining unit initiates a strike.
So you're saying the plant management should be declared terrorists? I just want to make sure I, and possibly you, understand what you're typing.
That won't happen until there is a release of fissionable materials to the environment ala Deepwater Horizon. Somehow I believe that Haliburton will be implicated.
I'm one of the locked out workers. We have been reaching out to the national media outlets since June. If it weren't for sites like the HuffPost, and this one, we would just be forgotten about.
Read the summary. Temp workers were brought in. Incompetent temp workers, who haven't been working there long and don't have the institutional knowledge of how to run things. Leading to exactly the problem described.
Obligatory RAH quote: I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -RAH
I never thought I would live to see the day when the military would be learning something useful from Barbara Streisand.
Believe me, they haven't. When the enemies of this government can view classified documents while the taxpaying populace cannot, whose (the voting and/or taxpaying people) side are we on?
Nutjob and liar. What a great combination. It is a shame because he tackles issues that do deserve some attention, and then he invalidates the discussion his his bullshit.
These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along.
Does the EPA really control wild boards running through spinach fields? Or indeed have ANYTHING to do with that situation?
The EPA is a rubber stamp for the Oil Industry, just as the FDA is a rubber stamp for Big Pharma. The EPA just whitewashes their mistakes, or they run and hide just like that asshat who quickly "retired" when the oil rig blew up in the gulf. Whats up wit dat? The marketing of prescription drugs and their disclaimer caveats show that the whole system is out of control. Substances like marijuana and coca leaves have a history of thousands of years with little or no detrimental side-effects. Poppies are still being grown for morphine. The illicit manufacturing of drugs is in the eye of the beholder, namely the US government. And we all know their proverbial batting average. A majority of the illegal drugs on the DEA hit parade alter perceptions, perceptions that the US government doesn't want altered. One perception that comes to my mind is: Who the fuck put you in charge of trashing the American dream or the American landscape?
They say one bad apple spoils the bushel. Well Washington seems to be an orchard in need of a severe pruning.
One more example of how Bush and his greedy incompetent Republican asshats have screwed everybody.
The Democratic asshats aren't any better, as this past election has shown. Even though you critically name the puppets, the men behind the curtain still hide like the vermin they are.
I work in seed enhancement, fortunately, I don't order clothianidin (Poncho) from Bayer Crop Science. However I do order Thiram, Captan and Allegiance (aka Apron FL) from Bayer. Most of these chemicals are used to control pythium, however I've always wondered if these were responsible for the bee hive die offs.
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I know I am being Captain Obvious by saying this but filming the police keeps them honest. In times when police are prone to abusing their authority, there needs to be a check to their power. Police don't like it for obvious reasons but a film could potentially exonerate a police officer wrongfully accused of a crime.
Your argument is invalid. Here!
Name one, please.
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King
"Perhaps eyeglass-mounted cameras and a video-in connector on the cellphones."
That doesn't help the contact wearers, or lasik people....or even those rare people with normal uncorrected vision, unless they happen to be out in daylight wearing shades.
Just as it once was, asking a person if they were a cop will turn into the police asking if you are recording this interaction.
The only difference being, if an undercover police officer says no, so what, try to prove entrapment in a court of law. On the other hand, if you say no to an officer, you are obstructing justice.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, with the police, add a firearm. Hint: Many officers carry a concealed throw away firearm. In my humble opinion, concealed throw aways should carry an automatic death penalty. This does not mean the officer should not be permitted to carry a concealed registered firearm, one that is traceable to that officer in addition to the holstered one.
9 out of 10? Wow, is that a real statistic?
No, 78.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
There are lies, damn lies and statistics. - SLC
But, but... According to Jim Pasco, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, police misconduct is "so rare it might as well not exist."
The only way to keep the numbers low is to view every action as an infraction. Besides, the on duty police officer views everyone as a potential criminal, if only for self-preservation.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodet
Mr. Burns: This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you. Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
...ok, you know there is a difference between a lockout and a strike, right? The employer initiates a lockout, the workers/bargaining unit initiates a strike.
So you're saying the plant management should be declared terrorists? I just want to make sure I, and possibly you, understand what you're typing.
That won't happen until there is a release of fissionable materials to the environment ala Deepwater Horizon. Somehow I believe that Haliburton will be implicated.
I'm one of the locked out workers. We have been reaching out to the national media outlets since June. If it weren't for sites like the HuffPost, and this one, we would just be forgotten about.
Sounds like you're being ENRON'd.
Read the summary. Temp workers were brought in. Incompetent temp workers, who haven't been working there long and don't have the institutional knowledge of how to run things. Leading to exactly the problem described.
No habla eenglays.
There is no labour contract in force, so those jobs are not the union workers any longer.
It's so much cheaper to hire Abullah and Al Kaida to work for half of what the unions wanted.
The MPAA has no business dictating state policy. When your right to vote has no meaning, look to the MPAA to lookout for your interests.
If you believe that helping the homeowners with mortgages would have magically helped stop the recession then you are woefully ignorance of economics.
Yeah, the money is in investing in both sides of any available armed conflict.
Both denied working with the FBI.
But did they deny working for the FBI, directly or indirectly?
Rules and regulations are for the weak.
Obligatory RAH quote:
I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -RAH
However, if the Air Force allows reading other news sites from Air Force computers, this move is very petty and immature.
Question: What's the difference between the military and the Boy Scouts?
Answer: The Boy Scouts are run by adults.
I never thought I would live to see the day when the military would be learning something useful from Barbara Streisand.
Believe me, they haven't.
When the enemies of this government can view classified documents while the taxpaying populace cannot, whose (the voting and/or taxpaying people) side are we on?
Nutjob and liar. What a great combination. It is a shame because he tackles issues that do deserve some attention, and then he invalidates the discussion his his bullshit.
These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along.
Having a successful Hollywood producer with a track record of successfully embarrassing big companies and governments as a supporter can't hurt.
Also a front row seat for another political assassination, definite Oscar material.
Does the EPA really control wild boards running through spinach fields? Or indeed have ANYTHING to do with that situation?
The EPA is a rubber stamp for the Oil Industry, just as the FDA is a rubber stamp for Big Pharma.
The EPA just whitewashes their mistakes, or they run and hide just like that asshat who quickly "retired" when the oil rig blew up in the gulf.
Whats up wit dat?
The marketing of prescription drugs and their disclaimer caveats show that the whole system is out of control. Substances like marijuana and coca leaves have a history of thousands of years with little or no detrimental side-effects. Poppies are still being grown for morphine. The illicit manufacturing of drugs is in the eye of the beholder, namely the US government. And we all know their proverbial batting average. A majority of the illegal drugs on the DEA hit parade alter perceptions, perceptions that the US government doesn't want altered.
One perception that comes to my mind is: Who the fuck put you in charge of trashing the American dream or the American landscape?
They say one bad apple spoils the bushel. Well Washington seems to be an orchard in need of a severe pruning.
Here's a site that will open your eyes.
One more example of how Bush and his greedy incompetent Republican asshats have screwed everybody.
The Democratic asshats aren't any better, as this past election has shown. Even though you critically name the puppets, the men behind the curtain still hide like the vermin they are.
If you are getting your seed enhanced, the load from your mind isn't the relevant one.
Hitler tried to do the same thing, look what it got him.
I work in seed enhancement, fortunately, I don't order clothianidin (Poncho) from Bayer Crop Science. However I do order Thiram, Captan and Allegiance (aka Apron FL) from Bayer. Most of these chemicals are used to control pythium, however I've always wondered if these were responsible for the bee hive die offs.
Maybe this will satisfy your curiosity.
Growers of organic food still use pesticides (if you try growing crops without any pesticides you'll realize why).
Towing the Monsanto party line, I see.
Integrated pest management.
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The site's dead Jim.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Sysadmin.