75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police

[Swede]

Run time: 07:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DbxSZ_FB8   Posted on YouTube: September 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: THESPIRTOF1776 Views on YouTube: 21567   Posted on DU: December 02, 2011 By DU Member: Swede Views on DU: 2587

 

[izquierdista]

1. In order to storm the Bastille, there need to be prisoners in the Bastille.

Go ahead, Powers That Be, set it up again. The calendar will return to 1789.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Completely insane.

How does this not interfere with freedom of the press?

[lumpy]

3. We are evolving into a fascistic police state, fellas', what with

the response to peaceful demonstration, pepperspraying innocents etc. I hope this man gets all the support he needs to fight this ugly law against freedom.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. this is truly Orwellian

[Xicano]

5. JURY NULLIFICATION!

"The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy." -- John Jay, First Chief Justice

Source: Georgia v. Brailsford, 1794

"If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states, then the juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty." -- Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice

Source: 2 Elliot's Debates, 94, Bancroft, History of the Constitution, p.267, 1788

"An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law; and any man may be justified in his resistance. Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his fellow-citizens can convict him; they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation." -- Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice

Source: Massachusetts Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, January 23, 1788

"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts." -- Samuel Chase, Supreme Court Justice

Source: United States Supreme Court, 1796

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held
to the principles of its constitution." -- President Thomas Jefferson

Source: 1789 in correspondence to Thomas Paine

[stlsaxman]

6. this was posted to YouTube in September of '11 but i KNOW this news article is older than that.

[Kaleko]

8. So?

Are you saying it's no longer relevant?

[stlsaxman]

10. no, sorry- i just woner if there's any update to his case...

(forgot to include that part)

:shrug:

[Kaleko]

11. Gotcha.

:hi:

[votesparks]

7. Could we get a thousand man and woman camera march going

in Illinois?

This is the opposite of what our troops supposedly fight for.

[MarkCharles]

12. A good idea, 10,000 years might be a better strategy, all of them

under 18, would help get the message across.

10,000 teens arrested video cams of police.

Clog the courts for years, and have any pre-trial settlements make the name, address and phone number of the police appearing in the video become part of some Youtube video, together with a full state college scholarship for any 16-17 year old arrested on such charges.

Would make police a bit more ethical in every area in the state, if not 99% of the nation.

The way to reject a police state in the USA is to screw it up, "nip it in the bud"!
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[midnight]

9. Facts get in the way...