CasaZaza: Everybody Shoot the Police

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Everybody Shoot the Police - with a Camera

picture from Britain's no-photographing-cops law: even the cops hate it

Can I take pictures of the police?

Yes. They’re public figures in public places—they shouldn’t expect privacy.

Can a police officer take my camera and/or force me to delete my photos?

No. For a police officer to take your camera he or she either has to have a warrant or reasonable suspicion that it was used in an offence. (Stop beating people with your cameras.) If that’s the case, it would be considered evidence, and deleting your photos would be counter-productive. They can ask you to delete your photos, but you have the right to refuse and, in most cases, the police have no legal recourse. They also can’t take your notes, tape recorders or film. If you are close to a crime scene (and not a part of the crime) the police’s right to search you is no different from any other day, any other place.

Am I obstructing justice by taking pictures?

Maybe, but probably not. Ask yourself, did my photography impede the officers’ ability to do their jobs? If yes, was it intentional? If your intentions are benign, precedent dictates that you’re not committing a crime.

What do I do if I’m arrested?

Our right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned is enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. First, don’t put yourself in a position where you could be arrested for other reasons—if you’re drunk in public, violent, or destroying property, you are actually doing something illegal, and it weakens your case substantially.

If you are going into a situation where you’re worried about being unlawfully arrested, leave a trail of evidence documenting the situation. Bring reliable witnesses and tell them to take notes right away if something happens. Call yourself on your cell phone—that way you’ll have an audio recording of what was said stored in an offsite location. If you didn’t have the foresight to do this planning, go about collecting evidence as soon as you can after you’re released—the longer you leave it, the less persuasive things become.

And always follow it up—file a complaint, call a lawyer. If you turn the other cheek no one will know what happened, and there will be no fair process to determine if abuses took place. by Joe Rayment

excerpt from: Police vs. photography

In Britain, they even passed a law against taking pictures of the police:

London cops declare war on photography

Of course the police don't want you taking pictures of them - because it denies you the opportunity to provide proof of their illegal activity.

Solution - Everybody grab your cameras and cell phones and take as many pictures as you can.

"THE BATTLE IS NOT BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT"

this excerpt taken from the full Henry Makow Ph.D. article:

Conspiracy Too Monstrous To Conceive

In the 1960's British-born Dr. Anthony Sutton was a Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute when he discovered that, in spite of the Cold War, the US was supplying the USSR with its technology, including weapons used against American soldiers in Vietnam. Sutton dug deeper and discovered that Wall Street had sponsored both the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Nazi Germany. The resulting books which are on line cost Dr. Sutton his academic career.

Dr. Sutton believes the "left" versus "right" split is fraudulent and used to control the debate and condition citizens to think along certain lines. Left-wing magazines like the "The Nation" and "The New Republic" and right-wing magazines like "The National Review were "artificially set up." The former were financed by Whitney money while the latter by Buckley. Both are "The Order."
Dr. Sutton states: "Sooner or later people will wake up. First we have to dump the trap of right and left. This is a Hegelian trap to divide and control. The battle is not between right and left; it is between us and them."

Similarly, in the international field left and right political structures are artificially constructed and collapsed in the drive for one-world synthesis, i.e. authoritarian socialism controlled by monopoly capital.
Dr. Sutton believes The Order has many weaknesses resulting from an inbred gene pool, a shallow power base and a limited worldview. In any future conflict between the authoritarian state and the individual, he believes opposition will take "a million forms."
" No one is going to create the anti-The Order movement. That would be foolish and unnecessary. It could be infiltrated, bought off, or diverted all too easily. Why play by the rules set by the enemy?

The movement that will topple The Order will be extremely simple and most effective. It will be ten thousand or a million Americans who come to the conclusion that they don't want the State to be boss, that they prefer to live under the protection of the Constitution.

"They will make their own independent decision to thwart The Order and it will take ten thousand or a million forms." - Antony Sutton