More examples of police arresting people for filming them

Police commonly arrest people for filming them. In fact, there are websites that exist to document this, such as Photography is Not a Crime. Arrests happen daily across the nation. Here are a few cases.I. Louisiana sheriff's deputies arrest a man for filming a traffic stop,...

Illegal conviction for investigating police wrongdoing

In New Hampshire recording another person in a phone coversation without their consent is a misdemeanor. A Ademo Mueller recorded a phone conversation he had with a police officer ( a very short one) asking the officer about what seemed to be clearly an unnecessary use of...

More cases of police abuse including in Milwaukee

More examples of police violating our civil rights. This is one of the most abusive cases. Andrew Henderson is a man who while legally filming outside of his apartment residence in Little Canada (by St. Paul, Minnesota) videotaped a person being taken away by local...

Judge lies to get man arrested, and is still on the bench

A judge, Edward Burke, in this video on the left, lies to police and states that a citizen named Ademo Freeman, who was asking him questions in a courthouse that the judge obviously didn't like, threatened him. I didn't have to watch the video more than once to know it was an...

Boy Scouts quasi-ends ban on gays and gays oppressed in Russ

The Boy Scouts are allowing local Boy Scout councils to decide if they want to keep bans on gay scouts and scoutmasters. Of course, they continue to ban atheists like me in their ranks, as is their right. The Girl Scouts on the other hand don't discriminate based on sexual...

Police abuses once again including 12 year old in handcuffs

Here are more examples of police violating the basic liberties of their fellow citizens. I wish that there came a time when there weren't more examples, but sadly I can't even write about all of them, unless I devote my column to just police abuses, and no other issues. In...

Why is atheist speech constantly censored and vandalized?

As an atheist I am well aware that people often detest it when I speak, no matter how moderately, about my beliefs when it comes to religion. These are also the exact same people who get enranged when the government isn't actively promoting their own personal religious...

More police abuse videos, to start off 2013

Happy new year, or I hope you had a happy old year, based on if you are reading this in 2013 or 2012. Well, a topic of mine has been police abusing their authority and yes, once again, this will be one of those columns. In this video police in Chicago are writing a guy a...

Couple arrested for reporting found drugs to the police

The War on Drugs is stupid and stupid cops like to enforce it. Yes, there stupid cops, and they never seem to be fired. A couple in Clayton County Georgia (the Atlanta area) who owned a property were arrested for "tampering with evidence" after reporting to police illegal...

Police take away anti-Romney yardsign from man's lawn

Can the government suppress your speech anytime it wants? I ask this because an Officer Short of the Keene, New Hampshire Police Department, illegally took a Romney campaign sign from a James Walters. The sign, which Walters wrote over to mock Romney, was on his property....

Politican targeted for being gay and police violence at Occupy

Thoughts on a few different stories: Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, is running for the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race against former governor Tommy Thompson. Thompson's campaign, though campaign senior adviser and spokesman Brian Nemoir, stated in an e-mail...

Man illegally arrested for exercising freedom of speech rights

It disgusts me when the police actively violate the First Amendment rights of individuals, even if I don't agree with a darn thing they believe. For example, anti-abortion protestor Peter D'Attilio of Massachusetts, who I probably won't agree with on pretty much anything....

How the marijuana war is killing people

New York City Police officer Richard Haste is about to go on trial for the shooting of Ramarley Graham. Haste had suspected Graham was a drug seller. Graham went back into his apartment. Haste had followed him to his bathroom. It seems Graham was about to dump the marijuana...

How police violate freedom of the press

In this case out of Denver, CO, a man offers to be a witness for a driver stopped by the police. He offers to testify that the driver did in fact, stop at a stop sign. Frankly, I don't know if the driver did or not, but I am more interested in the reaction by the police. The...