I wonder if the mentioned RTDNA will start offering some kind of credential card with their “Online and Emerging Media News Professional” membership so one could assert themselves as an Authorized Member of the Press for those statists that insist on credentials. Only $145 per year for an unassailable claim on all sorts of protected activity that shouldn’t require any kind of membership fee to assert.
Maybe the NRA could offer a press credential card as a freelance stringer for NRA News free with an NRA membership.
Just be sure it streams live to YouTube or Liveleak or something like that and it has a passworded shutoff system and locked battery compartment. If you’re going to get the curb-stomp (AKA Resisting Arrest on the charge of Disorderly Conduct AKA Contempt of Cop) when they do find it, you want as much of it as possible to make it out.
As long as websites like this (http://www.dealextreme.com/c/spy-cameras-812) have decent quality, and very affordable gear available, the police are fighting a losing battle. Sure the guy with the camcorder running, or the cell phone up, are easy to pick out of the crowd, but how about the guy with a pen in his shirt pocket, or a watch on his wrist?
the arrest “Will Be ‘Nullified,’ huh?.”
That’s nowhere near enough. As usual, the cop, and whoever conspired with him to charge the citizen, are getting off scott free, while the reporter spent time in jail and is out both legal fees and lost revenue.
As Joe Huffman sometimes points out, Deprivation of rights under color of law is a violation of USCode Title 18,242–the penalty for which is “shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. “
August 3rd, 2011 at 11:29 am
I wonder if the mentioned RTDNA will start offering some kind of credential card with their “Online and Emerging Media News Professional” membership so one could assert themselves as an Authorized Member of the Press for those statists that insist on credentials. Only $145 per year for an unassailable claim on all sorts of protected activity that shouldn’t require any kind of membership fee to assert.
Maybe the NRA could offer a press credential card as a freelance stringer for NRA News free with an NRA membership.
August 3rd, 2011 at 11:35 am
I’m gonna have to get out some of the cameras you can’t see. They won’t even know it til it’s on youtube.
August 3rd, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Just be sure it streams live to YouTube or Liveleak or something like that and it has a passworded shutoff system and locked battery compartment. If you’re going to get the curb-stomp (AKA Resisting Arrest on the charge of Disorderly Conduct AKA Contempt of Cop) when they do find it, you want as much of it as possible to make it out.
August 3rd, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Cops say we have nothing to hide….unless you are guilty.
So what do the cops have to hid? Oh yea, everything.
August 3rd, 2011 at 1:49 pm
As long as websites like this (http://www.dealextreme.com/c/spy-cameras-812) have decent quality, and very affordable gear available, the police are fighting a losing battle. Sure the guy with the camcorder running, or the cell phone up, are easy to pick out of the crowd, but how about the guy with a pen in his shirt pocket, or a watch on his wrist?
August 3rd, 2011 at 2:02 pm
“Arrest of News Photographer While Filming Assignment Will Be ‘Nullified,’ Police Official Says”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/03/arrest-news-photographer-while-filming-assignment-to-be-nullified-police/#ixzz1TzRjs4mn
August 3rd, 2011 at 2:36 pm
And they wonder why crimes against cops keep rising? Because they’re fascist fuckwits, maybe?
August 3rd, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I have one of those keychain video cameras, MRS. It takes great video.
I like the pen camera. I should get one.
August 3rd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
the arrest “Will Be ‘Nullified,’ huh?.”
That’s nowhere near enough. As usual, the cop, and whoever conspired with him to charge the citizen, are getting off scott free, while the reporter spent time in jail and is out both legal fees and lost revenue.
As Joe Huffman sometimes points out, Deprivation of rights under color of law is a violation of USCode Title 18,242–the penalty for which is “shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. “