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Monday, July 30, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Your rights end when you cross the threshold
Arrest of dangerous photographer in New York City.
"I was standing next to Paul here when the NYPD took him down for filming an arrest..he did nothing other than point a lens at another futile arrest. The NYPD are a disgusting bunch of ignorant and corrupt fucks.
July11 Zuccotti NYC" (Quote from original caption.)
In April, 2012, Judge Stanley Sacks declared the Illinois Eavesdropping law unconstitutional in the case of People v. Christopher Drew. Drew recorded his own arrest for violating a Chicago city ordinance that required him and other artists to buy a license to sell art in public. The Chicago Police didn't bother with the peddler's license charge once they found his recording device. They charged Drew with felony eavesdropping - a class 1 felony that could put him in prison for up to 15 years. He decided to fight the charge rather than plead to a lower class misdemeanor as many others have done. During the fight, he was undergoing treatment for cancer. The basic question, "who works for whom?", applies to recording of our public officials as they are performing their duties in public.
I was in a waiting room at my auto dealer's shop and had a discussion with two folks who seemed to be completely bamboozled by Fox "News" when the topic of Obama and his illegal running of government came up. These two were convinced that we have to get rid of government because it has its own anti-citizen agenda. I suggested that we can eliminate government as soon as we have the right to elect the CEO and Board members of whichever corporation wins the war for control of our lives. One responded that we already have that right - we can vote as shareholders in that corporation. The response to such an idiotic position is to point out that we are already shareholders in the United States, and it does not cost anything.
Once you cross the threshold of a corporation's property, you have no guarantee of rights. Who wants to go back to the 1920s and give corporations absolute power over your life?
"To argue with someone who has abandoned the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine
"I was standing next to Paul here when the NYPD took him down for filming an arrest..he did nothing other than point a lens at another futile arrest. The NYPD are a disgusting bunch of ignorant and corrupt fucks.
July11 Zuccotti NYC" (Quote from original caption.)
In April, 2012, Judge Stanley Sacks declared the Illinois Eavesdropping law unconstitutional in the case of People v. Christopher Drew. Drew recorded his own arrest for violating a Chicago city ordinance that required him and other artists to buy a license to sell art in public. The Chicago Police didn't bother with the peddler's license charge once they found his recording device. They charged Drew with felony eavesdropping - a class 1 felony that could put him in prison for up to 15 years. He decided to fight the charge rather than plead to a lower class misdemeanor as many others have done. During the fight, he was undergoing treatment for cancer. The basic question, "who works for whom?", applies to recording of our public officials as they are performing their duties in public.
I was in a waiting room at my auto dealer's shop and had a discussion with two folks who seemed to be completely bamboozled by Fox "News" when the topic of Obama and his illegal running of government came up. These two were convinced that we have to get rid of government because it has its own anti-citizen agenda. I suggested that we can eliminate government as soon as we have the right to elect the CEO and Board members of whichever corporation wins the war for control of our lives. One responded that we already have that right - we can vote as shareholders in that corporation. The response to such an idiotic position is to point out that we are already shareholders in the United States, and it does not cost anything.
Once you cross the threshold of a corporation's property, you have no guarantee of rights. Who wants to go back to the 1920s and give corporations absolute power over your life?
"To argue with someone who has abandoned the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine
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