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Nomarchy
Btw, by all means "be proud to be White". Nothing wrong with that, per se.
inyerface
Arkansas cop uses Taser on 10-year-old girl
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/arkansas-cop-t...10yearold-girl/

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Ozark police argued that had the officer grabbed the girl, he could have hurt her. "If you grab somebody, you can slip an arm out of joint," the police chief added. "They can slip from you and fall on the ground."
Davis 2.0
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Innocent
Cop Went Wild With Taser, Diabetic Says

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(CN) - A suburban Chicago police officer Tasered a man 11 times while he was having a diabetic seizure, and the 56 seconds of needlessly inflicted electric shock, "inflicted ... while he was lying unresponsive on the floor of his bedroom, permanently scarred [him] and caused him neurological damage that has not abated," the man claims in Chicago Federal Court.

Prospero Lassi says he suffered a diabetes-induced seizure at home on April 9. His roommate called 911, and police from LaGrange Park and Brookfield responded, with EMTs from LaGrange Park.

Lassi says his roommate explained to police that he was having a diabetic seizure. Lassi "was not alert and could not move his body."

When the EMTs asked the cops to help them move Lassi from where he was lying on the floor, Lassi says, one of his "arms flailed during his diabetes-induced seizure, striking one of the LaGrange and Brookfield defendants. At no time did Mr. Lassi intentionally strike or offensively touch any of the LaGrange or Brookfield defendants."

Lassi says LaGrange Park Officer Darren Pedota responded by Tasering him 11 times, for nearly a minute, as he lay helpless.

He was hospitalized for 5 days, and was unable to work for 3 months because of the attack, "and his quality of life has suffered substantially," Lassi says.

"At no time did Mr. Lassi do anything to warrant the use of force against him. Mr. Lassi was never cited, arrested, or charged with any crime," according to the complaint.


He seeks punitive damages for battery, excessive force, and failure to intervene. He is represented by Arthur Loevy of Loevy & Loevy.


Things Police can taser you for now includes: being unresponsive due to coma.
Spot
Seems to me if the police lose the suit it proves it isn't something they can taser you for.
inyerface
is that what it takes to decide?
inyerface
33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/3...on-should-know/
Repub_Bub
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 3 2010, 11:06 PM) *
33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/3...on-should-know/

The Amazing Kreskin was able to predict the time twice a day ... as was Jean Dixon.
Arturo_Vandelay
Funny, all the conspiracies in the world and not one single one from the left. The USSR, China, Cuba etc have been hatching plots for decades and not one is worth mentioning.



inyerface
nice dodge
inyerface
How The Machine Creates Obedient Zombies

Media contrived “monkey see, monkey do” hive mentality leads Stepford Wives to cheerlead for their own enslavement

http://www.prisonplanet.com/how-the-machin...nt-zombies.html
Innocent
Police fight cellphone recordings

Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance

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Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.

Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs.

“One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,’’ Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, “my phone was seized, and I was arrested.’’

The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.

Jon Surmacz, 34, experienced a similar situation. Thinking that Boston police officers were unnecessarily rough while breaking up a holiday party in Brighton he was attending in December 2008, he took out his cellphone and began recording.

Police confronted Surmacz, a webmaster at Boston University. He was arrested and, like Glik, charged with illegal surveillance.

There are no hard statistics for video recording arrests. But the experiences of Surmacz and Glik highlight what civil libertarians call a troubling misuse of the state’s wiretapping law to stifle the kind of street-level oversight that cellphone and video technology make possible.

“The police apparently do not want witnesses to what they do in public,’’ said Sarah Wunsch, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, who helped to get the criminal charges against Surmacz dismissed.


Boston police would like to remind everybody that it is a felony to use your cell phone to record them roughing up a suspect.

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Repub_Bub
QUOTE (Innocent @ Jan 13 2010, 07:56 PM) *
Police fight cellphone recordings

Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance



Boston police would like to remind everybody that it is a felony to use your cell phone to record them roughing up a suspect.

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Or maybe they don't enjoy additional interference while they are doing their jobs...
Davis 2.0
QUOTE (Innocent @ Jan 13 2010, 08:56 PM) *
Police fight cellphone recordings

Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance



Boston police would like to remind everybody that it is a felony to use your cell phone to record them roughing up a suspect.

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(shakes head)
inyerface
"Calling it your job don't make it right"

Cool Hand Luke
Innocent
QUOTE (Repub_Bub @ Jan 14 2010, 06:58 AM) *
Or maybe they don't enjoy additional interference while they are doing their jobs...


If "interference" merely means reporting abuse, then you're probably on to something.

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Repub_Bub
QUOTE (Innocent @ Jan 14 2010, 06:46 PM) *
If "interference" merely means reporting abuse, then you're probably on to something.

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I doubt you would enjoy someone coming to your workstation and begin recording your activities...how do you think the average officer feels when his exposure to distraction is far riskier than yours?
inyerface
straw dog
SpaceCowboy
QUOTE (Innocent @ Jan 13 2010, 08:56 PM) *
Police fight cellphone recordings

Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance



Boston police would like to remind everybody that it is a felony to use your cell phone to record them roughing up a suspect.

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“The police apparently do not want witnesses to what they do in public,’’





No, no they don't.










Innocent
QUOTE (Repub_Bub @ Jan 15 2010, 05:43 AM) *
I doubt you would enjoy someone coming to your workstation and begin recording your activities...how do you think the average officer feels when his exposure to distraction is far riskier than yours?


Everything I do is recorded. Everything. And if I were beating people in my cubicle, uh, yeah, recording is in order. Duh.
Repub_Bub
QUOTE (Innocent @ Jan 15 2010, 07:36 PM) *
Everything I do is recorded. Everything. And if I were beating people in my cubicle, uh, yeah, recording is in order. Duh.

Not the same thing...police are often recorded by their own cameras.

I was referring to some stranger, an outsider, someone posing a distraction for reasons undetermined...Duh, indeed.
inyerface
no witnesses
inyerface
Easily Hacked Diebold Systems to Decide 'Toss-Up' U.S. Senate Special Election in MA on Tuesday

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49300
SpaceCowboy
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 03:09 PM) *
Easily Hacked Diebold Systems to Decide 'Toss-Up' U.S. Senate Special Election in MA on Tuesday

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49300


Time for some preemptive stink when it looks like Coakley may lose.





inyerface
time to dump the machines

way past time

they've been hacked live on the news

give us a break already

if I programmed them and hid the source code would you want to use them?

Repub_Bub
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 02:50 PM) *
time to dump the machines

way past time

they've been hacked live on the news

give us a break already

if I programmed them and hid the source code would you want to use them?

You use Microsoft products without access to the source code...
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Repub_Bub
QUOTE (SpaceCowboy @ Jan 16 2010, 02:24 PM) *
Time for some preemptive stink when it looks like Coakley may lose.

Move the election to Chicago ...
Arturo_Vandelay
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 02:50 PM) *
time to dump the machines?


Most of the cheating is done by humans with absentee ballots.
inyerface
not at all

do some research on Ohio '04
inyerface
QUOTE (Repub_Bub @ Jan 16 2010, 03:35 PM) *
You use Microsoft products without access to the source code...
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so you would have no problem with my machines counting the vote
SpaceCowboy
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 06:00 PM) *
so you would have no problem with my machines counting the vote


Your're not working for Cheney are you?


inyerface
who would admit it if they were?
Repub_Bub
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 05:00 PM) *
so you would have no problem with my machines counting the vote

What makes you think your machines would actually work?
inyerface
as well as the usual ones don't
Arturo_Vandelay
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 04:59 PM) *
not at all

do some research on Ohio '04


Do some research on Washington State.
inyerface
sounds like doublespeak to me

Arturo_Vandelay
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 06:56 PM) *
sounds like doublespeak to me



Anything that doesn't benefit Dems does.
inyerface
Ohio tipped it for bushie, barely

you won't touch it and it shows

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/104...election_stolen
Arturo_Vandelay
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 07:04 PM) *
Ohio tipped it for bushie, barely

you won't touch it and it shows


It's been touched. Unfortunately nothing gets fixed because Dems only care if they lose. They don't even bother to wait until elections to start complaining about why they lost. Set up the accusations first, then look for anything they can later.

Meanwhile more people are voting for Hillary than are eligible. SOP.
inyerface
you won't touch it

the reps cheated so bushie won
Arturo_Vandelay
So it's only a problem if Reps win?
inyerface
only when they cheat to win

it takes huge crowds like Obama had to insure no cheating

you can't delete or ignore the mob
Arturo_Vandelay
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 08:19 PM) *
only when they cheat to win


But Dems get to cheat. Seems fair enough....
inyerface
dems have to have a mob so the cheating from the reps is obvious and won't work

if its close diebold picks up the slack
Arturo_Vandelay
QUOTE (inyerface @ Jan 16 2010, 09:00 PM) *
dems have to have a mob


That's why I own a shotgun. Y'all stand close together now, ya'hear?
inyerface
you'll go down shootin'
inyerface
The Diebold electronic voting machines to be used in more than 90% of the state's districts are the same demonstrably unreliable ballot scanning systems that were seen being hacked in the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. The rest of the machines used in the Bay State are made by Sequoia Voting System, Inc., the same manufacturer whose machines were "misconfigured," to switch votes in Erie County, NY's Nov. 3, 2009 election and which have failed, and even been hacked, in a number of cases around the country.

Making matters worse, the company who sells, services and programs the Diebold optical-scan paper ballot systems to be used next week, LHS Associates, has a disturbing criminal background, and has admitted to tampering illegally with voting systems during past elections.


Easily Hacked Voting Systems to be Used in MA Special Election for the U.S. Senate
http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/st-lawrence...-us-senate.html

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The machines and cards are often accessed by both election officials and the private vendors who program and maintain them. In Massachusetts, as in most of New England, an outfit by the name of LHS Associates services the machines.

The company has, to put it generously, a dubious record.

In 1990, Ken Hajjar, the Director of Sales and Marketing for LHS Associates - a childhood friend of company owner John Silvestro - was arrested and pled guilty to charges of selling narcotics. He was given a 12-month sentence, according to documents received via a public records request by the non-partisan election watchdog organization, BlackBoxVoting.org (BBV).

LHS Associates programs "every single voting machine in New Hampshire, Connecticut, almost all of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine," BBV founder Bev Harris reported after releasing the documents.

Despite the dangers posed by accessing memory cards, LHS staff members have admitted to regularly opening up voting machines and swapping memory cards, during actual elections.
underhi2p
the Brown Shirts are here in The Marx in an attempt to force Cookley to win via iron-fisted intimidation.

The Revolutionaries are fighting back.

Davis 2.0
So why should we trust these people again?


FBI got 2,000 phone records with fake terrorism emergencies: report

The FBI illegally collected 2,000 phone records between 2002 and 2006 invoking nonexistent terrorism emergencies, according to a report in The Washington Post.


Later this month, the Justice Department is expected to issue a report that will find the FBI violated regulations many times with its terrorism-related phone record requests. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III did not know about the problems until late 2006 or early 2007 when they were brought to light by an inspector general investigation, reports the Associated Press.

The memos do not reveal whose phone records were collected by the FBI, but Bureau officials say that nearly all instances were related to terrorism cases. They added that agents were working under the stress of trying to stop potential terror attacks and did not intentionally violate the law.

The FBI, which previously admitted to illegally collecting phone records in 2007, has begun to publicly acknowledge this latest phone record collection abuse. In an interview with The Washington Post, Valerie Caproni, general counsel for the FBI, said that the bureau had violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in collecting the 2,000 phone records in question.

"We should have stopped those requests from being made that way," she said. The after-the-fact approvals were a "good-hearted but not well-thought-out" solution to put phone carriers at ease, she said. In true emergencies, Caproni said, agents always had the legal right to get phone records, and lawyers have now concluded there was no need for the after-the-fact approval process. "What this turned out to be was a self-inflicted wound," she said.

The FBI never obtained the content of telephone conversations through the program. Additionally, the Bureau has already taken steps to ensure that nothing similar will happen again, FBI spokesman Michael Kortan told Reuters. He added that no one in the FBI had used these methods to for “reasons other than a legitimate investigative interest.”

Previously, FBI agents required a grand jury subpoena or a “national security letter” related to a terrorism or espionage case to collect phone records. However, after Sept. 11, the Patriot Act loosened the restrictions required to obtain phone records. Lower-level FBI officials were given the authority to request phone records, but the Press Trust of India reports that the program soon expanded beyond the intent of the loosened restrictions with phone records possibly unrelated to terrorism cases being collected by the FBI.

Main Justice, a news agency devoted to covering the Department of Justice, reports that although this is not the first time the FBI’s improper collection of phone records has come to light, the e-mails and memos collected by The Post reveal the internal controversy behind the program.




http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-s...rgencies-report
Innocent
Jefferson Memorial Dance Suit Dismissed

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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who was arrested in April 2008 for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial.

U.S. District Judge John Bates stated in the court’s decision that the Park Service prohibits all demonstrations in the interior of the Jefferson Memorial, in order to maintain an "an atmosphere of calm, tranquility, and reverence,"

The lawsuit stemmed from an incident with Mary Oberwetter and friends at the Jefferson Memorial on the evening of April 12, 2008.

U.S. Park Police officers approached Oberwetter and others who were listening to music on headphones and dancing, and told them to stop.

Oberwetter refused to stop and was arrested. Charges were eventually dropped.

Oberwetter alleged that the arrest violated her right to free expression while the Park Service argued that the government has rights to regulate activities inside national memorials.


For the Gods sakes don't dance to the music on your Ipod at the Jefferson Memorial. You will so go to jail.

What a stupid charge....

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