A First Amendment right to record the police

[myhightechsec]

Again and again and again the public wins on this issue in the courts and the government loses. Yet, somehow these police avoid being held responsible because they had "qualified immunity" for being ignorant of the law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-to-record-the-police/?utm_term=.d01e4ab6d83c

 

[gregr]

We are a police state my friend.

 

[jbombelli]

If we were a police state the government would be winning these cases, not the other way around.

 

[gregr]

If we were a police state the government would be winning these cases, not the other way around.

Only in a police state would this even need to go to court. If you`re clamping down on constitutional rights, why not do what you please, and see if you get challenged in court. With the activist judges we see today, there`s a better than good chance the courts will uphold it. And hey, maybe you get even luckier, and the citizen can`t afford to go to court to fight for a right they shouldn`t have challenged in the first place.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Only in a police state would this even need to go to court. If you`re clamping down on constitutional rights, why not do what you please, and see if you get challenged in court. With the activist jusges we see today, there`s a better than good chance the courts will uphold it. And hey, maybe you get even luckier, and the citizen can`t afford to go to court to fight for a right they shouldn`t have challenged in the first place.

C'mon... we're not a police state.

 

[Route 45]

We are a police state my friend.

I'm betting you have never set foot in an actual police state.

 

[Denny347]

We are a police state my friend.

Hardly. Police State "a nation in which the police,especially a secret police,summarily suppresses any social,economic,or political act that conflicts with governmental policy."

 

[KellyinAvon]

If we were a police state the government would be winning these cases, not the other way around.

There are a number of significant cases that say this. Glik v Cuniffe is the one I remember because a guy was arrested even though he was on private property IIRC. It looks like the citizenry has been winning these cases since 1999.

 

[gregr]

There are a number of significant cases that say this. Glik v Cuniffe is the one I remember because a guy was arrested even though he was on private property IIRC. It looks like the citizenry has been winning these cases since 1999.

And again, if we were truly free, there`d not be a need for court cases regardless. It`s not freedom when it takes a citizen with the means to fight a legal battle in court to be free. Freedom would be not allowing the event to occur in the first place.

 

[jbombelli]

And again, if we were truly free, there`d not be a need for court cases regardless. It`s not freedom when it takes a citizen with the means to fight a legal battle in court to be free. Freedom would be not allowing the event to occur in the first place.

You really don't know how society works do you?

 

[jamil]

We are a police state my friend.

Wait. I thought we are the government. Holy ****! We're both?

 

[jbombelli]

Wait. I thought we are the government. Holy ****! We're both?

Lol. Consistency can be a pain.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

This case involves retaliation.

As one experienced with governmental retaliation I can say . . . "ya think?"

 

[gregr]

You really don't know how society works do you?

You really have no clue how freedom works, do you...

 

[gregr]

Lol. Consistency can be a pain.

Reading comprehension and a grasp on reality is what apparently can be painful, Lol.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Hardly. Police State "a nation in which the police,especially a secret police,summarily suppresses any social,economic,or political act that conflicts with governmental policy."

Denny just Denny'd an outbreak of INGOtarianism . . . and he didn't even have decency to allow me to bring the pain to the INGOtarians.

"kicks rocks, crosses arms*

 

[jbombelli]

You really have no clue how freedom works, do you...

Reading comprehension and a grasp on reality is what apparently can be painful, Lol.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

As Commandant Supreme of the Police State, i order you to cease your discussion of said Police State.

 

[Route 45]

You really have no clue how freedom works, do you...

Nobody who thinks that we are a police state, yet are the government at the same time, has any clue about much of anything.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

As Commandant Supreme of the Police State, i order you to cease your discussion of said Police State.

I'm telling Ron Paul!