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If you don't think it's happening, ask around...right in our little corner of the country. -- rfh
-- Grover Whalen (1886-1962) New York City Police Commisioner
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If you don't think it's happening, ask around...right in our little corner of the country. -- rfh
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Imagine what our Founding Fathers would think and say about the 'Rise of the State' in America?
A Constitution is not made by a badge, a uniform, a gun in hand, from the end of a barrel ...upon pain of death. It is not American! -- rfh
From: Conservative Alerts Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 Subject: Burning the Constitution
Police Brutality: Who's Going to Save America?
Reading through the headlines, the United States is looking more like Syria-indiscriminant shootings and beatings by police officers, and 75-year prison sentences
for videotaping or recording law enforcement in public.
Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights are being usurped by municipalities and states that are dismantling the Constitution and establishing their own rule of Law.
On Sept. 1, Miami police shot and killed 57-year-old Earnest Vassell because he was carrying a toy gun. They didn't take the time to discern the fact that he was autistic, and only carrying a toy.
"They murdered him in cold blood for a toy gun!" the victim's sister, Claire Harding, said to reporters at Miami's NBC affiliate. "That's no reason for you to kill somebody!"
And with more and more people carrying cell phones that have video, picture taking, and recording capabilities, police departments are lobbying state legislatures to pass laws, which in effect, allow them to operate without public oversight.
Right now, citizens are being arrested for videotaping police in public, on their property, and even inside the vehicles and homes - can you believe this is happening?
"It's not right," Colorado Attorney General, John Suthers told Denver's FOX affiliate. "We think that allows police agencies, who are public employees, working for tax payers, to operate outside the First Amendment."
WE MUST POUND CONGRESS until they pass legislation that will protect Americans from encroachment on our First and Fourth Amendment rights and protections!
Police officers must be accountable to citizens and taxpayers, because they work for us, we don't work for them.
At no time should a citizen fear being arrested because they ask an officer for their name and badge number. Nor should citizens fear being prosecuted for taking pictures, video, or voice recordings of police in public.
If Americans continue to be prosecuted for taking pictures of police, then there will be no end to the power governing authorities will have to harass, intimidate, and to commit crimes against the public-citizens will be powerless against the police state.
Do you think this can't happen to you? Just ask Michael Allison, an Illinois resident who is facing a 75-year prison sentence for video recording law enforcement in public without their consent. (He's facing a prison sentence that is reserved for rapists and murderers!)
Allison has no previous record, and could spend the rest of his life in prison all because he videotaped police --- with their knowledge, but without their permission.
Do you think this can't happen to you?
Twelve states, including Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Colorado and Oregon, are applying old eavesdropping and wiretapping statutes to new technology, such as cell phones and audio equipment, in order to make videotaping law enforcement without their consent a felony crime.
Do you know what this means? By allowing these old statutes to stand, anyone who has a cell phone camera and uses it to record on-duty law enforcement in public can be arrested and charged with a felony.
At any time, your First Amendment rights can be ripped from your hands-and you, your son, daughter, or wife can be arrested and face a felony charge!
Americans must retain their First Amendment right to record the actions of law enforcement in public, which can be used to prove or disprove accusations of wrong doing, and protect citizens as well as officers. Ironically, the same state laws that bans the public from recording law enforcement, actually gives officers the right to record citizens without their knowledge or consent.
This is an effort to dismantle our Constitution. If we lose our First or Fourth Amendment rights, then we no longer have a Second Amendment --- losing one is the loss of all of our rights and protections.
Americans are in a battle whether they know it or not; and their rights are at stake. If Americans sit on the sidelines and allow their rights to be taken from them, then Michael Allison could spend the rest of his life in prison, and more innocent Americans will lose their right to defend themselves against harassment, intimidation and police brutality.
Reading through the headlines, the United States is looking more like Syria-indiscriminant shootings and beatings by police officers, and 75-year prison sentences
for videotaping or recording law enforcement in public.Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights are being usurped by municipalities and states that are dismantling the Constitution and establishing their own rule of Law.
On Sept. 1, Miami police shot and killed 57-year-old Earnest Vassell because he was carrying a toy gun. They didn't take the time to discern the fact that he was autistic, and only carrying a toy.
"They murdered him in cold blood for a toy gun!" the victim's sister, Claire Harding, said to reporters at Miami's NBC affiliate. "That's no reason for you to kill somebody!"
And with more and more people carrying cell phones that have video, picture taking, and recording capabilities, police departments are lobbying state legislatures to pass laws, which in effect, allow them to operate without public oversight.
Right now, citizens are being arrested for videotaping police in public, on their property, and even inside the vehicles and homes - can you believe this is happening?
"It's not right," Colorado Attorney General, John Suthers told Denver's FOX affiliate. "We think that allows police agencies, who are public employees, working for tax payers, to operate outside the First Amendment."WE MUST POUND CONGRESS until they pass legislation that will protect Americans from encroachment on our First and Fourth Amendment rights and protections!
Police officers must be accountable to citizens and taxpayers, because they work for us, we don't work for them.
At no time should a citizen fear being arrested because they ask an officer for their name and badge number. Nor should citizens fear being prosecuted for taking pictures, video, or voice recordings of police in public.
If Americans continue to be prosecuted for taking pictures of police, then there will be no end to the power governing authorities will have to harass, intimidate, and to commit crimes against the public-citizens will be powerless against the police state.
Do you think this can't happen to you? Just ask Michael Allison, an Illinois resident who is facing a 75-year prison sentence for video recording law enforcement in public without their consent. (He's facing a prison sentence that is reserved for rapists and murderers!)
Allison has no previous record, and could spend the rest of his life in prison all because he videotaped police --- with their knowledge, but without their permission.
Do you think this can't happen to you?
Twelve states, including Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Colorado and Oregon, are applying old eavesdropping and wiretapping statutes to new technology, such as cell phones and audio equipment, in order to make videotaping law enforcement without their consent a felony crime.Do you know what this means? By allowing these old statutes to stand, anyone who has a cell phone camera and uses it to record on-duty law enforcement in public can be arrested and charged with a felony.
At any time, your First Amendment rights can be ripped from your hands-and you, your son, daughter, or wife can be arrested and face a felony charge!
Americans must retain their First Amendment right to record the actions of law enforcement in public, which can be used to prove or disprove accusations of wrong doing, and protect citizens as well as officers. Ironically, the same state laws that bans the public from recording law enforcement, actually gives officers the right to record citizens without their knowledge or consent.
This is an effort to dismantle our Constitution. If we lose our First or Fourth Amendment rights, then we no longer have a Second Amendment --- losing one is the loss of all of our rights and protections.
Americans are in a battle whether they know it or not; and their rights are at stake. If Americans sit on the sidelines and allow their rights to be taken from them, then Michael Allison could spend the rest of his life in prison, and more innocent Americans will lose their right to defend themselves against harassment, intimidation and police brutality.
Unfortunately, incidents of police brutality are not rare. In California, Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man who was described by Fullerton residents as ?gentile" and ?polite," was tasered and beaten to death by police.
According to the Daily Mail, eye witnesses say that ?Thomas was unable to put up any resistance and was lying on the ground on his front when the attack took place. His screams and cries for his father were heard amid the tasering noises. ... six officers' tasered him five times and beat him beyond recognition. Mark Turgeon, who was there, said: 'They kept beating him and tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn't even moving. ... he wasn't resisting.' Speaking about his son's death, Thomas's dad, Ron Thomas, a former sheriff's deputy, said: 'His death was gang-involved, the way I see it. A gang of rogue officers who brutally beat my son to death. The only thing we have left of our son is the blood in the gutter, that's all we have left.'"
This is why citizens must have the right to videotape the conduct of law enforcement officials in public.
Fortunately, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit agrees. On Aug. 29, the court ruled that the public has a right to videotape law enforcement officials in public. But this rule only sets a precedent, it does not change states' laws or change national laws.
How much longer will you remain silent and continue to be pushed around before you tell every member of Congress to stand up and protect your First and Fourth Amendment rights?
According to the Daily Mail, eye witnesses say that ?Thomas was unable to put up any resistance and was lying on the ground on his front when the attack took place. His screams and cries for his father were heard amid the tasering noises. ... six officers' tasered him five times and beat him beyond recognition. Mark Turgeon, who was there, said: 'They kept beating him and tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn't even moving. ... he wasn't resisting.' Speaking about his son's death, Thomas's dad, Ron Thomas, a former sheriff's deputy, said: 'His death was gang-involved, the way I see it. A gang of rogue officers who brutally beat my son to death. The only thing we have left of our son is the blood in the gutter, that's all we have left.'"
This is why citizens must have the right to videotape the conduct of law enforcement officials in public.
Fortunately, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit agrees. On Aug. 29, the court ruled that the public has a right to videotape law enforcement officials in public. But this rule only sets a precedent, it does not change states' laws or change national laws.
How much longer will you remain silent and continue to be pushed around before you tell every member of Congress to stand up and protect your First and Fourth Amendment rights?
Members of Congress need to hear from you...TODAY! Sincerely, Tony Adkins, Conservative Action Alerts at www.Conservative Action Alerts.com
P. S. Municipalities and states should never attempt to usurp Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights by using old wiretapping and eavesdropping statutes against their citizens.
P. S. Municipalities and states should never attempt to usurp Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights by using old wiretapping and eavesdropping statutes against their citizens.
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