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The police do not like to be photographed. They take away the offender’s camera. They say it’s illegal to make a record of what they are doing. Then they get sued. The city or county usually loses the case. The city or county pays money to the “criminal.” This is good. Bureaucracies change only when [...]
Continue reading →The Department of Justice wants to be legally authorized to track anyone, at any time, by means of his cell phone. The DoJ adamantly resists the suggestion that a judge should be required to issue a warrant in order for the DoJ to do this. Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department [...]
Continue reading →The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested an 80-year-old man who had the audacity to stand in front of a federal building and hand out a pamphlet on jury nullification. Jury nullification is better described as “hang the jury, not the criminal” when the law is wrong. The jury system under British and American common law, [...]
Continue reading →Why does the government use small town streets to train troops for crowd control in Iraq? Why are U.S. troops still in Iraq? In early 2011, an article ran in the local newspaper in Crookston, Minnesota. Bravo Company Minnesota National Guard personnel based at the Crookston Armory will conduct exercise drills in town beginning Friday, [...]
Continue reading →Here is another story about a police officer who did not want a reporter to use what might have been incriminating evidence against him. So, she took the reporter’s video and erased it. That is the contention of the reporter, who is suing. What are the legal issues? The first, fourth, and fourteenth amendments, she [...]
Continue reading →The public has smart phones. Smart phones can record video. The police are beginning to be told by courts that they may not confiscate cell phones and pocket video camcorders. Still, it you have your unit confiscated and erased, your case against the police will be weakened. Once a video is on YouTube, the police [...]
Continue reading →President Obama is running scared. His supreme welfare state law — rammed through by Nancy Pelosi — is going to be struck down, 5 to 4, by the Supreme Court. He is desperately trying to stop them. He is using the only real skill he has: rhetoric. He has a law degree. The old rule [...]
Continue reading →It looks as though Obamacare is going down. Five Supreme Court members will declare it unconstitutional. Anyway, that’s what the pundits think. Why will they do this? Justice Scalia’s broccoli argument. If the government can force us to buy health care, why can’t it force us to eat broccoli? I love this. It shows the [...]
Continue reading →The FBI published a training manual. In it, a bonehead author wrote that the FBI sometimes bends the law. This is obvious. Every bureaucracy bends the law. But the rule is this: “Don’t admit this officially.” This was leaked, as documents usually are these days. Now the FBI is in damage control. Yes, the manual [...]
Continue reading →Private property? Only at Obama’s discretion. He just signed an executive order. Congress can overturn it in 15 days. It won’t. I choose not to comment. Here are highlights. For the full order, click the link at the end of the extracts. * * * * * * * * * * * * * [...]
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