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Anti Federalist
01-19-2014, 11:27 PM
Ummm...wut?

Am I addled here?

What country are these Canucks looking at?

Or could it be, glory hallejuah, that there is actually a push back starting?

That we, being too close to woods, don't see?



Contempt of cop, America's defiance revolution

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/contempt-of-cop-america-s-defiance-revolution-1.2498082

Increasingly, and openly, ordinary Americans are committing a legal act that some police nonetheless regard as among the most heinous of all offences: it's called contempt of cop.

It's otherwise known as asserting your constitutional rights.

Citizens, feeling empowered, are pointing smartphones, rather than just an accusing finger, at abusive authorities.

Civil libertarians with hidden cameras are challenging the so-called "suspicion-less" roadblocks that police set up to catch lawbreakers. Motorists and others are fighting back in the courts and online against police shakedown rackets on U.S. highways and elsewhere.

Everywhere, it seems, Americans are openly challenging arbitrary behaviour by those in authority.

Furthermore, they are winning. Not since the late 1960s have those in authority, from heavy-handed cops to the federal operatives sifting metadata in super-secret intelligence installations, been exposed to so much disinfecting sunlight.

It's marvelous to see such courage, and further proof that whatever the world might say about America, no other democracy takes the rule of law more seriously.

And while it is difficult to tell what's driving this new assertiveness, you have to feel it's part of a recovery from the almost supine attitude that most people here adopted in the years after 9/11.

........

Contempt of cop, as the practice is known in libertarian circles, provokes the same rage at checkpoints that Snowden's media interviews arouse in national security officials.

heavenlyboy34
01-19-2014, 11:42 PM
I would like to believe what he says here...but I need more proof.

phill4paul
01-19-2014, 11:52 PM
I would like to believe what he says here...but I need more proof.

Yup.

GunnyFreedom
01-20-2014, 01:07 AM
This. Is. Desperately. Needed.

Brian4Liberty
01-20-2014, 01:44 AM
Perhaps the violation of Justin Bieber will be the tipping point. Mundanes can be violated and beaten, no one cares. Can those with a high value be violated as easily?

GunnyFreedom
01-20-2014, 01:55 AM
Perhaps the violation of Justin Bieber will be the tipping pint. Mundanes can be violated and beaten, no one cares. Can those with a high value be violated as easily?

Only amongst pre-teen girls. Everyone else will celebrate. Even those outraged at police misconduct are liable to make an exception in that case. :p

Occam's Banana
01-20-2014, 02:05 AM
Ummm...wut?

Am I addled here?

What country are these Canucks looking at?

Or could it be, glory hallejuah, that there is actually a push back starting?

That we, being too close to woods, don't see?

I suspect that it's probably a case of "six of one, half a dozen of the other."

On the one hand, the increasingly widespread use of camera-phones and the ease of information dissemination must surely be contributing to greater awareness of (and angst over) such things.

On the other hand, this is coming from a Canadian perspective - relative to which the phenomenon may seem greatly magnified. (After all, Canada isn't exactly renowned as a hotbed of anti-authoritarian sentiment.)

Brian4Liberty
01-20-2014, 02:07 AM
Only amongst pre-teen girls. Everyone else will celebrate. Even those outraged at police misconduct are liable to make an exception in that case. :p

Had to fix my post. Tipping "pints" is a totally different thing. I prefer IPAs.

GunnyFreedom
01-20-2014, 02:29 AM
Had to fix my post. Tipping "pints" is a totally different thing. I prefer IPAs.

I am mad for hops, but some reason about 70% of IPAs give me blinding headaches, when hoppy lagers don't. So even though I love the flavor, I avoid IPAs like the plague knowing it's 70/30 I'm going to have a migraine before the glass is empty.

Scrapmo
01-20-2014, 02:53 AM
I predict contempt of cop will be an actual law in my lifetime.

tod evans
01-20-2014, 06:46 AM
Pictures?

Cell phone video?

The founding fathers would spit!

When shooting digital images is contemptuous this nation is beyond redemption.

kathy88
01-20-2014, 06:53 AM
Outta rep Tod...

aGameOfThrones
01-20-2014, 07:15 AM
Contempt of cop:

*When they offer help and you refuse
*When they are eating doughnuts and they get a call that you're bleeding to death
*When they are writing a ticket and you ask for help with your dying kid
*When you ask for their badge number
*When you look at them with a happy face
*When you don't look at them
*When you have dogs, cats and kids
*When you take a picture of your family and they're in the background
*When you are walking minding your own business
*When you're deaf
*When you're in a wheelchair and they ask you to get up
*When you follow their commands, but your body language says otherwise
*When you have a minivan full of kids while taking an educational trip
*When you use the 5th
*When you're a school teacher not doing anything wrong
*When you're defending yourself in your house and you're being attack by zombies in blue
*When you're homeless
*When you're not resisting, but they say you're resisting
*When you present evidence of them lying
*When you act as if you have freedom
*When you stand on your property and filmed them
*When you have a hose nozzle and they kill you for it
*When you're happy and you know it while walking to a friend's house with a toy gun
*When you're walking you dog

Travlyr
01-20-2014, 07:20 AM
Contempt of cop:

*When they offer help and you refuse
*When they are eating doughnuts and they get a call that you're bleeding to death
*When they are writing a ticket and you ask for help with your dying kid
*When you ask for their badge number
*When you look at them with a happy face
*When you don't look at them
*When you have dogs, cats and kids
*When you take a picture of your family and they're in the background
*When you are walking minding your own business
*When you're deaf
*When you're in a wheelchair and they ask you to get up
*When you follow their commands, but your body language says otherwise
*When you have a minivan full of kids while taking an educational trip
*When you use the 5th
*When you're a school teacher not doing anything wrong
*When you're defending yourself in your house and you're being attack by zombies in blue
*When you're homeless
*When you're not resisting, but they say you're resisting
*When you present evidence of them lying
*When you act as if you have freedom
*When you stand on your property and filmed them
*When you have a hose nozzle and they kill you for it
*When you're happy and you know it while walking to a friend's house with a toy gun
*When you're walking you dog

When you are dancing.

Occam's Banana
01-20-2014, 07:26 AM
When you are dancing.

And when you are NOT dancing ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciez9G4cADE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciez9G4cADE