Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
In Alaska, and a growing number of other areas, it appears freedom of speech will get you arrested. A man who attended the state fair was assaulted and caged for holding a sign with his political beliefs on it. The officers seemed conflicted on whether or not to arrest the man in the video but [...]
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
John Russell and his buddies have been busy with their video cameras in Reno, NV. They have submitted videos to Cop Block time and time again, even winning the first Video Contest. It’s been encouraging to watch John and his friends expand their Cop Blocking skills. They keep calm, engage police with logical arguments and of [...]
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
A poll on 760 AM talk radio, based in San Diego, asks its listeners the following:
During a time of war, should we register as many practicing Muslims as we can find in a national database?
No – it’s an invasion of privacy.
Yes - gun owners have to, why not Muslims?
The poll results currently are 75% in favor of [...]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Police brutality is often more than incidental--indeed, it's an integral part of a cynical, authoritarian culture that glorifies violence.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
A motionless body lay on the pavement. Perhaps 20 riled-up police officers milled around. On the shoulder of the road, an RTA bus was parked at a crazy angle, like a dislocated elbow. Nearby was a long white limousine, crashed into a pole. What had we stumbled upon?
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Ah, land of the free, home of the brave.
The land where you can’t do drugs, can’t drink on the beach, can’t jaywalk, can’t smoke in certain areas, can’t post signs critical of government on your own yard, could face up to life in prison for dealing marijuana, where more people are incarcerated (proportionally) than anywhere else in the [...]
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Radley Balko of Reason Magazine interviewed Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, for a recent article about police who arrest people for filming them. The FOP bills itself as “the world’s largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers, with more than 325,000 members in more than 2,100 lodges” and “the [...]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
You are free to hate President Obama, President Bush or President Clinton. You are free to hate the entire Democratic party for its wasteful spending, its terrible economic policies and nanny-state attitude. You are free to hate the entire Republican party for its antagonism to gay people, its shameless war-mongering and particularly irksome radio show [...]
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
I hear a lot of irrelevant considerations in the discussion regarding the Oscar Grant shooting. Some of these reasons include “because I like police,” “because without police, there would be anarchy,” “because police are racist,” or “because Oscar Grant was a thug.”
None of these opinions are relevant. Liking police has no bearing on what Mehserle [...]
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Penn Jillette did this Penn Point about our (Pete and I) wrongful arrest in Greenfield, MA from London. He mentions the Free State Project and our arrest. He sides with us, like most logical people.
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