Scott Warren to be tried for human compassion. Could get 20 years.
Makes you sort of proud to be part of a nation that "helps" prevent
people from suffering by allowing them to die.
*****
Scott Warren visits the site of now-closed copper mines outside Ajo,
Ariz., on July 10, 2018. Photo: Laura Saunders for The Intercept
04/Ryan-Devereaux_avatar_1524960779-1524960779.
Ryan Devereaux
May 4 2019, 5:00 a.m.
1A SLOW-MOTION DISASTER
SCOTT WARREN HAS a checklist he goes through every time he finds a
body in the desert. The earthly components are straightforward. Log
the GPS coordinates.
Take photographs and notes. Scour the brush for more bones and pull
together all the data pertinent to the investigation that local
authorities will, in
theory, initiate once they arrive. These elements are basic
evidence-gathering. But for Warren, the process doesn't end there.
Warren believes that these moments merit an acknowledgement of
humanity. And so, after years of recoveries, the 36-year-old has
developed a modest ritual
for the grim encounters. He goes quiet, lowers himself to the earth,
collects the dirt around him, and then lets the soil pour through his
fingers. The
point, Warren says, is to take a moment to reflect or, as he puts it,
"hold space." It may not sound like much, but for him, this process
and everything
that attends to it is as sacred as anything one might find in a
conventional house of God.
When a person dies, Warren believes, some extra-physical element of
them remains, dwelling in the place where they passed. In the last six
years, Warren
has communed with the dead no fewer than 16 times in the desert
outside Ajo, the tiny Arizona border town he calls home. Those bodies
and fragmented sets
of human remains have served as his window into the slow-motion
disaster unfolding in the borderlands, one in which U.S. government
policy funnels migrants
into the desert, creating a black hole of disappearance and death of
historic proportions.
In response, Warren has helped convene a network of Arizona
humanitarian aid volunteers with roots that go back decades. Through
sweat-drenched marches
deep into the Sonoran Desert, this collective has expanded access to
water and medical aid in one of the border's deadliest and most remote
corridors,
and fueled a historic increase in the number of bodies accounted for
there. Even for those who can't be saved, the finding of human remains
opens the door
for bodies to be returned to grief-stricken families, providing
answers to painful questions. In an alternate universe, one could
imagine the efforts of
Warren and his cohort being the kind of thing a society might actively
support, or even prioritize. But that's not what is happening in
Arizona right now.
Aid Worker Faces 20 Years in Prison for Providing Water and Shelter to
Immigrants
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Mindless Wednesday Wanderings
In response to a comment by another person on another list, regarding
term limits, it got my juices flowing. Why do we try to grab the
rabid rat by the tail, believing that we can control it from behind?
Term limits or no term limits is not the question. The question
should be: Why,all this talk about term limits when all of us are
working together for the good of all of us.
****
We share the same concern my friend, but with some differences.
In my humble opinion limiting the time in office does not accomplish
our goal of preserving our democracy. If the barrel has rotten apples
in it, tossing one out and replacing it with another merely gets you a
new rotten apple. I believe that we need to preserve our American
democracy, and as we do that, we need to find ways of improving it.
That means better education for our young, emphasis on teaching how to
live together, focus on quality education, improvement of living
conditions and job opportunities, and high on my list would be
developing an attitude that all of us must participate if the System
is going to represent all of us. And even higher is the need to
teach each American to think for themselves and to turn inward for
strength and leadership, rather than looking for some mythical
powerful leader. No such leader exists.
That's my short version. But it flies in the face of those who
believe that we must limit participation in our government, shrink the
federal government, remove safety regulations, keep out those who want
to take part in our great nation, keep the Working Class(most of
us)from knowing what the Ruling Class is up to, and blindly following
some swaggering big mouthed "Leader".
In my lifetime, starting with FDR, we have had no national
administration that stood up for the American Working Class. The laws
that have been passed have been done in order to preserve the control
by the Ruling Class. But each time the crisis is past, they begin
reeling us back in.
We, the Working Class, can force some temporary changes, but the
Ruling Class holds the Three M's: Money, Military, and Meanness.
Cordially, Carl Jarvis
term limits, it got my juices flowing. Why do we try to grab the
rabid rat by the tail, believing that we can control it from behind?
Term limits or no term limits is not the question. The question
should be: Why,all this talk about term limits when all of us are
working together for the good of all of us.
****
We share the same concern my friend, but with some differences.
In my humble opinion limiting the time in office does not accomplish
our goal of preserving our democracy. If the barrel has rotten apples
in it, tossing one out and replacing it with another merely gets you a
new rotten apple. I believe that we need to preserve our American
democracy, and as we do that, we need to find ways of improving it.
That means better education for our young, emphasis on teaching how to
live together, focus on quality education, improvement of living
conditions and job opportunities, and high on my list would be
developing an attitude that all of us must participate if the System
is going to represent all of us. And even higher is the need to
teach each American to think for themselves and to turn inward for
strength and leadership, rather than looking for some mythical
powerful leader. No such leader exists.
That's my short version. But it flies in the face of those who
believe that we must limit participation in our government, shrink the
federal government, remove safety regulations, keep out those who want
to take part in our great nation, keep the Working Class(most of
us)from knowing what the Ruling Class is up to, and blindly following
some swaggering big mouthed "Leader".
In my lifetime, starting with FDR, we have had no national
administration that stood up for the American Working Class. The laws
that have been passed have been done in order to preserve the control
by the Ruling Class. But each time the crisis is past, they begin
reeling us back in.
We, the Working Class, can force some temporary changes, but the
Ruling Class holds the Three M's: Money, Military, and Meanness.
Cordially, Carl Jarvis
Friday, May 24, 2019
Re: [blind-democracy] Re: Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts
Well, remember Manuel Noriega? If they can indict a foreign citizen and
head of state for supposedly breaking a U.S. law and then send a
military force to arrest him and bring him to the U.S. to serve a long
sentence in a U.S. prison then I suppose they can do the same to Julian
Assange.
---
David Hume
??? In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ???
??? David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
On 5/24/2019 11:33 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
> So now Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, is declared to be a non
> journalist and charged with 17 counts of Espionage. And we think that
> this isn't "1984"?
> That once proud Fourth Estate has turned out to be nothing but a
> toothless paper Tiger. Year by year the All White Male American
> Oligarchy has been reeling in its Working Class. We almost made a
> break for it, but the Empire still owns the Pentagon, Congress,
> Supreme Court, Federal Judges and now a confused and broken Media.
> We, those of us opposed to this murderous, ruthless, gang of greed
> driven traitors to our freedom, are in for some hard times. But
> remember, never in history has a corrupt ruling class endured.
> Eventually the Masses rise up and vent their wrath on their former
> Masters.
> It's a long proven formula for self destruction. Greed breeds
> contempt. Contempt breeds indifference. Indifference breeds abuse.
> And abuse breeds rebellion, overthrow and revenge.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
>
>
> *** Julian Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts
>> May 23, 2019
>>
>> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on Thursday under the
>> Espionage Act, the first time a journalist has been charged under the Act
>> for possessing and disseminating classified information.
>> By Joe Lauria
>> Special to Consortium News
>>
>> A journalist was indicted under the Espionage Act for the first time in
>> U.S.
>> history on Thursday when the Department of Justice charged WikiLeaks
>> founder
>> Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Act in a move that opens the
>> way for anyone who publishes classified information to prosecution.
>>
>> The 37-page indictment charges Assange under four sections of the Act,
>> including Section E for possessing and disseminating classified matter. It
>> charged him with acts common to any investigative journalist:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "(i)circumvent(ing) legal safeguards on information; (ii) provid(ing) that
>> protected information to WikiLeaks for public dissemination; and (iii)
>> continu(ing) the pattern of illegally procuring and providing
>> protectedinformation to WikiLeaks for distribution to the public."
>>
>> Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh prison for
>> skipping bail and seeking asylum in Ecuador's embassy in 2012 because he
>> feared onward extradition from Sweden to the United States and prosecution
>> under the Espionage Act. He was arrested on April 11 when Ecuador illegally
>> lifted his asylum and let British police onto Ecuadorian territory to carry
>> Assange from the embassy.
>>
>> John Demers, head of the DOJ's National Security Division, told reporters:
>> "Some say that Assange is a journalist and that he should be immune for
>> prosecution for these actions. The department takes seriously the role of
>> journalists in our democracy and we thank you for it. It is not and has
>> never been the department's policy to target them for reporting."
>>
>> Demers said Assange wasn't a journalist. "No responsible actor, journalist
>> or otherwise, would purposefully publish the names of individuals he or she
>> knew to be confidential human sources in a war zone, exposing them to the
>> gravest of dangers," he said.
>>
>> Assange's attorney in the U.S., Barry Pollack, said:
>>
>>
>> "Today the government charged Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for
>> encouraging sources to provide him truthful information and for publishing
>> that information. The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer
>> hacking has been removed. These unprecedented charges demonstrate the
>> gravity of the threat the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange poses to
>> all journalists in their endeavor to inform the public about actions that
>> have taken by the U.S. government."
>>
>> The Espionage Act carries a potential death penalty if the publication of
>> classified information takes place during wartime. Some of WikiLeak's most
>> prominent releases related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in
>> which prima facie evidence of U.S. war crimes was revealed.
>>
>> A key part of the indictment is that Assange published the unredacted
>> names
>> of informants and other persons putting their lives at risk. According to
>> a
>> WikiLeaks source, Assange was forced to reveal certain names to actually
>> help them escape when two Guardian journalists published a password to
>> material containing their names that only intelligence agencies could
>> access. Assange has repeatedly said that there is no known case of harm
>> coming to anyone whose names were revealed.
>>
>> Press Freedom at Risk
>>
>> The indictment under the Espionage Act demolishes a democratic pretense of
>> freedom of the press in the U.S. and makes all news organizations-indeed
>> any
>> citizen-liable for prosecution for disseminating classified information.
>>
>> "Notably, The New York Times, among many other news organizations, obtained
>> precisely the same archives of documents from WikiLeaks, without
>> authorization from the government - the act that most of the charges
>> addressed," the Times reported.
>>
>> "Though he is not a conventional journalist, much of what Mr. Assange does
>> at WikiLeaks is difficult to distinguish in a legally meaningful way from
>> what traditional news organizations like The New York Times do: seek and
>> publish information that officials want to be secret, including classified
>> national security matters, and take steps to protect the confidentiality of
>> sources," the Times report on the indictment said.
>>
>> In a tweet WikiLeaks called the indictment "madness."
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head of state for supposedly breaking a U.S. law and then send a
military force to arrest him and bring him to the U.S. to serve a long
sentence in a U.S. prison then I suppose they can do the same to Julian
Assange.
---
David Hume
??? In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ???
??? David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
On 5/24/2019 11:33 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
> So now Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, is declared to be a non
> journalist and charged with 17 counts of Espionage. And we think that
> this isn't "1984"?
> That once proud Fourth Estate has turned out to be nothing but a
> toothless paper Tiger. Year by year the All White Male American
> Oligarchy has been reeling in its Working Class. We almost made a
> break for it, but the Empire still owns the Pentagon, Congress,
> Supreme Court, Federal Judges and now a confused and broken Media.
> We, those of us opposed to this murderous, ruthless, gang of greed
> driven traitors to our freedom, are in for some hard times. But
> remember, never in history has a corrupt ruling class endured.
> Eventually the Masses rise up and vent their wrath on their former
> Masters.
> It's a long proven formula for self destruction. Greed breeds
> contempt. Contempt breeds indifference. Indifference breeds abuse.
> And abuse breeds rebellion, overthrow and revenge.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
>
>
> *** Julian Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts
>> May 23, 2019
>>
>> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on Thursday under the
>> Espionage Act, the first time a journalist has been charged under the Act
>> for possessing and disseminating classified information.
>> By Joe Lauria
>> Special to Consortium News
>>
>> A journalist was indicted under the Espionage Act for the first time in
>> U.S.
>> history on Thursday when the Department of Justice charged WikiLeaks
>> founder
>> Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Act in a move that opens the
>> way for anyone who publishes classified information to prosecution.
>>
>> The 37-page indictment charges Assange under four sections of the Act,
>> including Section E for possessing and disseminating classified matter. It
>> charged him with acts common to any investigative journalist:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "(i)circumvent(ing) legal safeguards on information; (ii) provid(ing) that
>> protected information to WikiLeaks for public dissemination; and (iii)
>> continu(ing) the pattern of illegally procuring and providing
>> protectedinformation to WikiLeaks for distribution to the public."
>>
>> Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh prison for
>> skipping bail and seeking asylum in Ecuador's embassy in 2012 because he
>> feared onward extradition from Sweden to the United States and prosecution
>> under the Espionage Act. He was arrested on April 11 when Ecuador illegally
>> lifted his asylum and let British police onto Ecuadorian territory to carry
>> Assange from the embassy.
>>
>> John Demers, head of the DOJ's National Security Division, told reporters:
>> "Some say that Assange is a journalist and that he should be immune for
>> prosecution for these actions. The department takes seriously the role of
>> journalists in our democracy and we thank you for it. It is not and has
>> never been the department's policy to target them for reporting."
>>
>> Demers said Assange wasn't a journalist. "No responsible actor, journalist
>> or otherwise, would purposefully publish the names of individuals he or she
>> knew to be confidential human sources in a war zone, exposing them to the
>> gravest of dangers," he said.
>>
>> Assange's attorney in the U.S., Barry Pollack, said:
>>
>>
>> "Today the government charged Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for
>> encouraging sources to provide him truthful information and for publishing
>> that information. The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer
>> hacking has been removed. These unprecedented charges demonstrate the
>> gravity of the threat the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange poses to
>> all journalists in their endeavor to inform the public about actions that
>> have taken by the U.S. government."
>>
>> The Espionage Act carries a potential death penalty if the publication of
>> classified information takes place during wartime. Some of WikiLeak's most
>> prominent releases related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in
>> which prima facie evidence of U.S. war crimes was revealed.
>>
>> A key part of the indictment is that Assange published the unredacted
>> names
>> of informants and other persons putting their lives at risk. According to
>> a
>> WikiLeaks source, Assange was forced to reveal certain names to actually
>> help them escape when two Guardian journalists published a password to
>> material containing their names that only intelligence agencies could
>> access. Assange has repeatedly said that there is no known case of harm
>> coming to anyone whose names were revealed.
>>
>> Press Freedom at Risk
>>
>> The indictment under the Espionage Act demolishes a democratic pretense of
>> freedom of the press in the U.S. and makes all news organizations-indeed
>> any
>> citizen-liable for prosecution for disseminating classified information.
>>
>> "Notably, The New York Times, among many other news organizations, obtained
>> precisely the same archives of documents from WikiLeaks, without
>> authorization from the government - the act that most of the charges
>> addressed," the Times reported.
>>
>> "Though he is not a conventional journalist, much of what Mr. Assange does
>> at WikiLeaks is difficult to distinguish in a legally meaningful way from
>> what traditional news organizations like The New York Times do: seek and
>> publish information that officials want to be secret, including classified
>> national security matters, and take steps to protect the confidentiality of
>> sources," the Times report on the indictment said.
>>
>> In a tweet WikiLeaks called the indictment "madness."
>>
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>> WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristin Hrafnsson said he took "satisfaction" in
>> having correctly warned of the Espionage Act prosecution of Assange.
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Re: [blind-democracy] Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts
So now Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, is declared to be a non
journalist and charged with 17 counts of Espionage. And we think that
this isn't "1984"?
That once proud Fourth Estate has turned out to be nothing but a
toothless paper Tiger. Year by year the All White Male American
Oligarchy has been reeling in its Working Class. We almost made a
break for it, but the Empire still owns the Pentagon, Congress,
Supreme Court, Federal Judges and now a confused and broken Media.
We, those of us opposed to this murderous, ruthless, gang of greed
driven traitors to our freedom, are in for some hard times. But
remember, never in history has a corrupt ruling class endured.
Eventually the Masses rise up and vent their wrath on their former
Masters.
It's a long proven formula for self destruction. Greed breeds
contempt. Contempt breeds indifference. Indifference breeds abuse.
And abuse breeds rebellion, overthrow and revenge.
Carl Jarvis
*** Julian Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts
> May 23, 2019
>
> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on Thursday under the
> Espionage Act, the first time a journalist has been charged under the Act
> for possessing and disseminating classified information.
> By Joe Lauria
> Special to Consortium News
>
> A journalist was indicted under the Espionage Act for the first time in
> U.S.
> history on Thursday when the Department of Justice charged WikiLeaks
> founder
> Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Act in a move that opens the
> way for anyone who publishes classified information to prosecution.
>
> The 37-page indictment charges Assange under four sections of the Act,
> including Section E for possessing and disseminating classified matter. It
> charged him with acts common to any investigative journalist:
>
>
>
>
>
> "(i)circumvent(ing) legal safeguards on information; (ii) provid(ing) that
> protected information to WikiLeaks for public dissemination; and (iii)
> continu(ing) the pattern of illegally procuring and providing
> protectedinformation to WikiLeaks for distribution to the public."
>
> Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh prison for
> skipping bail and seeking asylum in Ecuador's embassy in 2012 because he
> feared onward extradition from Sweden to the United States and prosecution
> under the Espionage Act. He was arrested on April 11 when Ecuador illegally
> lifted his asylum and let British police onto Ecuadorian territory to carry
> Assange from the embassy.
>
> John Demers, head of the DOJ's National Security Division, told reporters:
> "Some say that Assange is a journalist and that he should be immune for
> prosecution for these actions. The department takes seriously the role of
> journalists in our democracy and we thank you for it. It is not and has
> never been the department's policy to target them for reporting."
>
> Demers said Assange wasn't a journalist. "No responsible actor, journalist
> or otherwise, would purposefully publish the names of individuals he or she
> knew to be confidential human sources in a war zone, exposing them to the
> gravest of dangers," he said.
>
> Assange's attorney in the U.S., Barry Pollack, said:
>
>
> "Today the government charged Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for
> encouraging sources to provide him truthful information and for publishing
> that information. The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer
> hacking has been removed. These unprecedented charges demonstrate the
> gravity of the threat the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange poses to
> all journalists in their endeavor to inform the public about actions that
> have taken by the U.S. government."
>
> The Espionage Act carries a potential death penalty if the publication of
> classified information takes place during wartime. Some of WikiLeak's most
> prominent releases related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in
> which prima facie evidence of U.S. war crimes was revealed.
>
> A key part of the indictment is that Assange published the unredacted
> names
> of informants and other persons putting their lives at risk. According to
> a
> WikiLeaks source, Assange was forced to reveal certain names to actually
> help them escape when two Guardian journalists published a password to
> material containing their names that only intelligence agencies could
> access. Assange has repeatedly said that there is no known case of harm
> coming to anyone whose names were revealed.
>
> Press Freedom at Risk
>
> The indictment under the Espionage Act demolishes a democratic pretense of
> freedom of the press in the U.S. and makes all news organizations-indeed
> any
> citizen-liable for prosecution for disseminating classified information.
>
> "Notably, The New York Times, among many other news organizations, obtained
> precisely the same archives of documents from WikiLeaks, without
> authorization from the government - the act that most of the charges
> addressed," the Times reported.
>
> "Though he is not a conventional journalist, much of what Mr. Assange does
> at WikiLeaks is difficult to distinguish in a legally meaningful way from
> what traditional news organizations like The New York Times do: seek and
> publish information that officials want to be secret, including classified
> national security matters, and take steps to protect the confidentiality of
> sources," the Times report on the indictment said.
>
> In a tweet WikiLeaks called the indictment "madness."
>
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>
> WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristin Hrafnsson said he took "satisfaction" in
> having correctly warned of the Espionage Act prosecution of Assange.
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journalist and charged with 17 counts of Espionage. And we think that
this isn't "1984"?
That once proud Fourth Estate has turned out to be nothing but a
toothless paper Tiger. Year by year the All White Male American
Oligarchy has been reeling in its Working Class. We almost made a
break for it, but the Empire still owns the Pentagon, Congress,
Supreme Court, Federal Judges and now a confused and broken Media.
We, those of us opposed to this murderous, ruthless, gang of greed
driven traitors to our freedom, are in for some hard times. But
remember, never in history has a corrupt ruling class endured.
Eventually the Masses rise up and vent their wrath on their former
Masters.
It's a long proven formula for self destruction. Greed breeds
contempt. Contempt breeds indifference. Indifference breeds abuse.
And abuse breeds rebellion, overthrow and revenge.
Carl Jarvis
*** Julian Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts
> May 23, 2019
>
> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on Thursday under the
> Espionage Act, the first time a journalist has been charged under the Act
> for possessing and disseminating classified information.
> By Joe Lauria
> Special to Consortium News
>
> A journalist was indicted under the Espionage Act for the first time in
> U.S.
> history on Thursday when the Department of Justice charged WikiLeaks
> founder
> Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Act in a move that opens the
> way for anyone who publishes classified information to prosecution.
>
> The 37-page indictment charges Assange under four sections of the Act,
> including Section E for possessing and disseminating classified matter. It
> charged him with acts common to any investigative journalist:
>
>
>
>
>
> "(i)circumvent(ing) legal safeguards on information; (ii) provid(ing) that
> protected information to WikiLeaks for public dissemination; and (iii)
> continu(ing) the pattern of illegally procuring and providing
> protectedinformation to WikiLeaks for distribution to the public."
>
> Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh prison for
> skipping bail and seeking asylum in Ecuador's embassy in 2012 because he
> feared onward extradition from Sweden to the United States and prosecution
> under the Espionage Act. He was arrested on April 11 when Ecuador illegally
> lifted his asylum and let British police onto Ecuadorian territory to carry
> Assange from the embassy.
>
> John Demers, head of the DOJ's National Security Division, told reporters:
> "Some say that Assange is a journalist and that he should be immune for
> prosecution for these actions. The department takes seriously the role of
> journalists in our democracy and we thank you for it. It is not and has
> never been the department's policy to target them for reporting."
>
> Demers said Assange wasn't a journalist. "No responsible actor, journalist
> or otherwise, would purposefully publish the names of individuals he or she
> knew to be confidential human sources in a war zone, exposing them to the
> gravest of dangers," he said.
>
> Assange's attorney in the U.S., Barry Pollack, said:
>
>
> "Today the government charged Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for
> encouraging sources to provide him truthful information and for publishing
> that information. The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer
> hacking has been removed. These unprecedented charges demonstrate the
> gravity of the threat the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange poses to
> all journalists in their endeavor to inform the public about actions that
> have taken by the U.S. government."
>
> The Espionage Act carries a potential death penalty if the publication of
> classified information takes place during wartime. Some of WikiLeak's most
> prominent releases related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in
> which prima facie evidence of U.S. war crimes was revealed.
>
> A key part of the indictment is that Assange published the unredacted
> names
> of informants and other persons putting their lives at risk. According to
> a
> WikiLeaks source, Assange was forced to reveal certain names to actually
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Re: [blind-democracy] Re: Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades as Hysterical
Hi Miriam and All,
Women's Rights is one of those topics I normally stay out of.
Although I am deeply moved and saddened by the direction we are
headed. But I feel about as out of place as a Priest counseling
teenage girls on the advantages of the Rhythm Method for birth
control. I recall far too clearly the horror stories of young
desperate pregnant Lower Income girls, visiting backroom "doctors",
who took away their ability to ever have a baby, if they lived.
In Seattle there was a Doctor Bamey(unsure of spelling)who defied the
law, and provided safe abortions despite threats by both the
government and by "kind, loving" Christian organizations crying for
his blood.
This was in the 1950's.
Here is a piece about Margaret Sanger:
Sanger_Fact_Sheet_Oct_2016.pdf
1
Margaret Sanger — Our Founder
A trailblazer in the fi ght for reproductive rights,
Margaret Sanger's history is layered and complex
Our founder, Margaret Sanger, was a woman of heroic
accomplishments, and like all heroes, she was also
complex and imperfect. It is undeniable that Margaret
Sanger's lifelong struggle helped 20th century
women gain the right to decide when and whether
to have a child — a right that had been suppressed
worldwide for at least 5,000 years (Boulding, 1992).
Anticipating the most recent turn of the millennium,
LIFE magazine declared that Margaret Sanger was
one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th
century (LIFE, 1990) — along with Jane Addams, Rachel
Carson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford,
Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King Jr., Alfred Kinsey,
Margaret Mead, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod
Bethune, Jonas Salk, and Malcolm X1 (Le Brun, 1990).
Motivated by a deeply held compassion for the
women and children whose homes she visited around
the world, Sanger believed that universal access to
birth control would:
• Reduce the need for abortion — a common and
dangerous method of family planning in her time;
• Save women's and children's lives;
• Strengthen the nuclear family;
• Lift families out of poverty;
• Increase the good health and well-being of all
individuals, families, and their communities; and
• Help women gain their legal and civil rights.
1 In the hope of building new alliances, former President Guttmacher
organized an informational meeting between the director of the Harlem
clinic and Malcolm X in 1962 (Lepore, 2013, 131)
Sanger was a true visionary. In her lifetime, she
convinced Americans and people around the
world that they have basic human rights:
• A woman has a right to control her body;
• Everyone should be able to decide when or
whether to have a child;
• Every child should be wanted and loved; and
• Women and all people are entitled to sexual
pleasure and fulfi llment.
2
MARGARET SANGER — OUR FOUNDER
Sanger's battle for family planning was unrelenting,
unyielding, and totally focused. Her crusade made it
legal to publish and distribute information about sex,
sexuality, and birth control. It:
• created access to birth control for, as she
saw it, poor women, women of color, and
immigrant women;
• spearheaded the development of contemporary
safe, effective, and affordable oral birth control
pills and other hormonal methods;
• became an early 20th century model for
nonviolent civil disobedience, empowering the
American civil rights, women's rights, anti-war,
gay rights, and AIDS-action movements (King,
2008[1966], 6, 7); and
• helped promote new ideas about volunteerism
and grassroots organizing in the U.S.
On 5/19/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> You're right. It's irrational and it's cruel. For me, it's not just
> theoretical. I remember life before abortion. My life was profoundly
> affected because abortion wasn't available to me. And I remember other women
> who suffered as well. I also remember helping someone obtain an illegal
> abortion when one of the social workers recommended a doctor for another
> employee at the agency where I'd previously worked. It was terrifying.
> That's what we're going back to.
>
> Miriam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
> <blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 10:47 AM
> To: blind-democracy@freelists.org
> Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for
> Decades as Hysterical
>
> Where do these people get off at?
> They are, to a man...and to a woman, the same people who scream their
> opposition to "government interference". They are the self same people who
> tearfully applaud as the drums and bugles play, and the banners fly as the
> cream of our youth march off to sacrifice their lives in another of our
> continuous wars.
> They are the same people who gather in their local churches and pray to a
> God of Forgiveness, and then demand that any doctor assisting in a woman's
> decision to abort a fetus, be sent to prison for 99 years.
> How is it that on the one hand we should down size government and allow
> people the freedom to conduct their own business, while on the other hand
> they want to post officials in every woman's bedroom with their noses
> between her legs?
> There's only one word which explains it. Insanity!
>
> Carl Jarvis
> On 5/18/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>> She omits Hillary who, I remember, in around 2005 or 6, was talking
>> about abortion being only a last resort and how the Democratic Party
>> should welcome people who are opposed to abortion and include their
>> voices.
>> Miriam
>>
>> Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades as Hysterical
>>
>> By Rebecca Traister, The Cut
>>
>> 18 May 19
>>
>>
>>
>> have been thinking, like so many people this week, about rage. Who
>> I'm mad at, what that anger's good for, how what makes me maddest is
>> the way the madness has long gone unrespected, even by those who have
>> relied on it for their gains.
>>
>> For as long as I have been a cogent adult, and actually before that, I
>> have watched people devote their lives, their furious energies, to
>> fighting against the steady, merciless, punitive erosion of
>> reproductive rights. And I have watched as politicians - not just on
>> the right, but members of my own party - and the writers and pundits
>> who cover them, treat reproductive rights and justice advocates as if
>> they were fantasists enacting dystopian fiction.
>>
>> This week, the most aggressive abortion bans since Roe v. Wade swept
>> through states, explicitly designed to challenge and ultimately
>> reverse Roe at the Supreme Court level. With them has come the dawning
>> of a broad realization
>> -
>> a clear, bright, detailed vision of what's at stake, and what's ahead.
>> (If not, yet, full comprehension of the harm that has already been done).
>>
>> As it comes into view, I am of course livid at the Republican Party
>> that has been working toward this for decades. These right-wing ghouls
>> - who fulminate idiotically about how women could still be allowed to
>> get abortions before they know they are pregnant (Alabama's Clyde
>> Chambliss) or try to legislate the medically impossible removal of
>> ectopic pregnancy and reimplantation into the uterus (Ohio's John
>> Becker) - are the stuff of unimaginably gothic horror. Ever since Roe
>> was decided in 1973, conservatives have been laboring to roll back
>> abortion access, with absolutely zero knowlege of or interest in how
>> reproduction works. And all the while, those who have been trying to
>> sound the alarm have been shooed off as silly hysterics.
>>
>> Which is why I am almost as mad at many on the left, theoretically on
>> the side of reproductive rights and justice, who have refused,
>> somehow, to see this coming or act aggressively to forestall it. I
>> have no small amount of rage stored for those in the Democratic Party
>> who have relied on the engaged fury of voters committed to
>> reproductive autonomy to elect them, at the same time that they have
>> treated the efforts of activists trying to stave off this future as
>> inconvenient irritants.
>>
>> This includes, of course, the Democrats (notably Joe Biden) who long
>> supported the Hyde Amendment, the legislative rider that has barred
>> the use of federal insurance programs from paying for abortion, making
>> reproductive health care inaccessible to poor women since 1976. During
>> health-care reform, Barack Obama referred to Hyde as a "tradition" and
>> questions of abortion access as "a distraction." I've spent my life
>> listening to Democrats call abortion a niche issue - and worse, one
>> that is somehow repellent to voters, even though support for Roe is in
>> fact among the most broadly popular positions of the Democratic Party;
>> seven in ten Americans want abortion to remain legal, even in conservative
>> states.
>>
>> You can try to tell these Democrats this - lots of people have been
>> trying to tell them for a while now - but it won't matter; they will
>> only explain to you (a furious person) that they (calm, wise,
>> knowledgeable about
>> politics) understand that we need a big tent and can't have a litmus
>> test and please be reasonable: we shouldn't shut anyone out because of
>> a difference on one issue. (That one issue that we shouldn't shut
>> people out because of is always abortion). Every single time Democrats
>> come up with a new strategy to win purple and red areas, it is the
>> same strategy: hey, let's jettison abortion! (If you object to this,
>> you will be told you are standing in the way of the greater progressive
>> project).
>>
>> I grew up in Pennsylvania, governed by anti-abortion Democrat Bob
>> Casey Sr.; his son Bob Jr. is Pennsylvania's senior senator now, and
>> though he's getting better on abortion, Jr. voted, in 2015 and 2018,
>> for 20-week abortion bans. Maybe my rage stems from being raised with
>> this particularly grim perspective on Democratic politics: dynasties
>> of white men united in their dedication to restricting women's bodily
>> autonomy, but they're Democrats so who else are you going to vote for?
>> Which reminds me of Dan Lipinski, the virulently anti-abortion
>> Democratic congressman - whose anti-abortion dad held his seat before
>> him. The current DCCC leader, Cheri Bustos, is holding a big-dollar
>> fundraiser for Lipinski's reelection campaign, even though it's 2019
>> and abortion is being banned and providers threatened with more jail
>> time than rapists and there is someone else to vote for: Lipinski is
>> being challenged in a primary by pro-choice progressive Democrat Marie
>> Newman. And still, Bustos, a powerful woman and Democratic leader, is
>> helping anti-choice Lipinski keep his seat for an eighth term. So I've
>> been thinking about that part of my anger too.
>>
>> Also about how, for years, I've listened to Democratic politicians
>> distance themselves from abortion by calling it tragic and insisting
>> it should be rare, instead of simply acknowledging it to be a crucial,
>> legal cornerstone of comprehensive health care for women, people with
>> uteruses, and their families. I have seethed as generations of
>> Democrats have argued that if we could just get past abortion and
>> focus instead on economic issues, we'd be better off. They never seem
>> to get that abortion is an economic issue, and that what they think of
>> as economic issues - from wages and health care to housing and
>> education policy - are at the very heart of the reproductive justice
>> movement, which understands access to abortion to be one (pivotal!)
>> part of a far broader set of circumstances that determine if, when,
>> under what circumstances, and with what resources human beings might have
>> and raise children.
>>
>> And no, of course it's not just Democrats I'm mad at. It's the pundits
>> who approach abortion law as armchair coaches. I can't do better in my
>> fury on this front than the legal writer Scott Lemieux, who in 2007
>> wrote a blistering rundown of all the legal and political wags,
>> including Ben Wittes and Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Cohen and William
>> Saletan, then making arguments, some too cute by half, about how Roe
>> was ultimately bad for abortion rights and for Democrats. Some like to
>> cite an oft-distorted opinion put forth by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who
>> has said that she wished the basis on which Roe was decided had
>> included a more robust defense of women's equality. Retroactive
>> strategic chin-stroking about Roe is mostly moot, given the decades of
>> intervening cases and that the fight against abortion is not about
>> process but about the conviction that women should not control their
>> own reproduction. It is also true that Ginsburg has been doing the
>> work of aggressively defending reproductive rights for decades, while
>> these pundits have treated them as a parlor game. As Lemieux put it
>> then, it was unsurprising, "given the extent to which affluent men
>> safely ensconced in liberal urban centers dominate the liberal pundit
>> class," that the arguments put forth, "greatly understate or ignore
>> the stark class and geographic inequites in abortion access that would
>> inevitably manifest themselves in a post-Roe world."
>>
>> Or, for that matter, that had already manifested themselves in a Roe
>> world.
>>
>> Because long before these new bans - which will meet years of legal
>> challenge before they are enacted - abortion had grown ever less
>> accessible to segments of America, though not the segments that the
>> affluent men (and
>> women) who write about and practice politics tend to emerge from. But
>> yes, thanks to Hyde and the TRAP laws and the closed clinics and the
>> long travel distances and paucity of providers and the economically
>> untenable waiting periods, legions of women have already suffered,
>> died, had children against their will, while columnists and political
>> consultants have bantered about the necessity of Roe, and litmus tests
>> and big tents. In vast portions of this country, Roe might as well not
>> exist already.
>>
>> And still those who are mad about, have been driven mad by, these
>> injustices have been told that their fury is baseless, fictional, made
>> of chewing gum and recycled copies of Our Bodies Ourselves. Last
>> summer, the day before Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation from
>> the Supreme Court, CNN host Brian Stelter tweeted, in response to a
>> liberal activist, "We are not 'a few steps from The Handmaids' Tale.'
>> I don't think this kind of fear-mongering helps anybody." When
>> protesters shouted at Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings a few
>> weeks later, knowing full well what was about to happen and what it
>> portended for Roe, Senator Ben Sasse condescended and lied to them,
>> claiming that there have been "screaming protesters saying 'women are
>> going to die' at every hearing for decades" and suggesting that this
>> response was a form of "hysteria."
>>
>> It was the kind of dishonesty - issued from on high, from one of those
>> Republicans who has inexplicably earned a reputation for being
>> "reasonable"
>> and "smart," and who has enormous power over our future - that makes
>> you want to pull the hair from your head and go screaming through the
>> streets except someone would just tell you you were being hysterical.
>>
>> And so here we are, the thing is happening and no one can pretend
>> otherwise; it is not a game or a drill and those for whom the
>> consequences - long real for millions whose warnings and peril have
>> gone unheeded - are only now coming into focus want to know: what can
>> be done?
>>
>> First, never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination
>> to fight on this account is invalid, inappropriate, or inconvenient to
>> a broader message. Consider that this is also what women and
>> marginalized people are told all the time about their anger in
>> general: that they should not express it, not let it out, because to
>> give voice to their rage will distract from their aims, undermine
>> them; that it will ultimately be bad for them. This messaging is
>> strategic. It is designed to get angry people to keep their mouths
>> shut. Because if they are successfully stifled, they will remain at
>> the margins, isolated, alone in their fury. It is only if they start
>> letting it out and acting on it and working in tandem with others who
>> share their outrage that they might begin to form networks,
>> coalitions, the building blocks of movements; it is when the anger is
>> let loose that the organizing happens in earnest.
>>
>> Second, seek the organizing that is already underway. In the days
>> since this new round of state abortion bans have begun to pass and
>> make headlines, secret Facebook groups have begun to form, in which
>> freshly furious women have begun to talk of forming networks that
>> would help patients evade barriers to access. Yet these organizations
>> already exist, are founded and run by women of color, have long been
>> transporting those in need of reproductive care to the facilities
>> where they can get it; they are woefully underfunded. The trick is not
>> to start something new, but to join forces with those who have long
>> been angry about reproductive injustice.
>>
>> "Abortion funds have been sounding the alarm for decades," said Yamani
>> Hernandez, who runs the National Network or Abortion Funds, which
>> includes
>> 76 local funds in 41 states, each of them helping women who face
>> barriers getting the abortion care they need, offering money,
>> transportation, housing, and help with logistics. Only 29 of the funds
>> have paid staff; the rest are volunteer-run and led with average
>> budget sizes of $75,000, according to Hernandez, who said that in
>> 2017, 150,000 people called abortion funds for help - a number up from
>> 100,000 in 2015, thanks to the barrage of restrictions that have made
>> it so much harder for so many more people. With just $4 million to
>> work with, the funds were able to help
>> 29,000 of them last year: giving abortion funds money and time will
>> directly help people who need it. Distinguishing the work of abortion
>> funds from the policy fights in state houses and at the capitols,
>> Hernandez said, "whatever happens in Washington, and changes in the
>> future, women need to get care today."
>>
>> And whatever comes next, she said, it's the people who have been doing
>> this work for years who are likely to be best prepared to deal with
>> the harm inflicted, which is a good place for the newly enraged to
>> start. "If and when Roe is abolished," said Hernandez, "the people who
>> are going to be getting people to the care they need are those who
>> have largely been navigating this already and are already well suited
>> for the logistical challenges."
>>
>> The fights on the ground might be the most current and urgent in human
>> terms, but there is also energy to be put into policy fights. In 2015,
>> California Congresswoman Barbara Lee authored the EACH Woman Act, the
>> first serious congressional challenge to the Hyde Amendment, which
>> came after years of agitation and activism, especially by All Above
>> All, a grassroots organization led by women of color and determined to
>> make abortion accessible to everyone. Those who are looking for policy
>> fights to lean into can call and write your representatives and
>> candidates and demand that they support the EACH Woman Act.
>>
>> Rage works. It takes time and numbers and a willingness to express it,
>> but it is among the most reliable catalysts of social and political
>> change.
>> That's the story of how grassroots activism can compel Barbara Lee to
>> compel her caucus to take on Hyde. Her willingness to tackle it, and
>> the righteous outrage of those who are driven to end the harm it does
>> to poor women and women of color, in turn helped to compel Hillary
>> Clinton to come out against Hyde in her 2016 primary campaign;
>> opposition to Hyde is now - for the first time since it was passed in
>> 1976 - a part of the Democratic Party's platform.
>>
>> In these past two years, fury at a Trump administration and at the
>> Republican Party has driven electoral activism. And at the end of
>> 2018, the Guttmacher Institute reported that 2018 was the first year
>> since at least
>> 2000 in which the number of state policies enacted to expand or
>> protect abortion rights and access, and contraceptive access,
>> outnumbered the number of state restrictions. Why? Because growing
>> realization of what was at stake
>> - and resulting anger and activism, pressure applied to state
>> legislatures
>> -
>> led representatives to act.
>>
>> Of course: vote.
>>
>> Vote, as they say, as if your life depended on it, because it does,
>> but more
>> importantly: other people's lives depend on it. And between voting,
>> consider where to aim your anger in ways that will influence election
>> outcomes:
>> educate yourself about local races and policy proposals, as well as
>> the history of the reproductive rights and reproductive-justice
>> movements. Get engaged not just on a presidential level - please God,
>> not just at a presidential level - but with the fights for state
>> legislative power, in congressional and senate elections, all of which
>> shape abortion policy and the judiciary, and the voting rights on
>> which every other kind of freedom hinges. Knock doors, register
>> voters, give to and volunteer with the organizations that are working
>> to fight voter suppression and redistricting and expand the
>> electorate; as well as to those recruiting and training progressive
>> candidates, especially women and women of color, especially young and
>> first-time candidates, to run for elected office.
>>
>> You can also protest, go to rallies. Join a local political group
>> where your rage will likely be shared with others.
>>
>> Above all, do not let defeat or despair take you, and do not let
>> anyone tell you that your anger is misplaced or silly or in vain, or
>> that it is anything other than urgent and motivating. It may be
>> terrifying - it is terrifying.
>> But this - the fury and the fight it must fuel - is going to last the
>> rest of our lives and we must get comfortable using our rage as
>> central to the work ahead.
>>
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Women's Rights is one of those topics I normally stay out of.
Although I am deeply moved and saddened by the direction we are
headed. But I feel about as out of place as a Priest counseling
teenage girls on the advantages of the Rhythm Method for birth
control. I recall far too clearly the horror stories of young
desperate pregnant Lower Income girls, visiting backroom "doctors",
who took away their ability to ever have a baby, if they lived.
In Seattle there was a Doctor Bamey(unsure of spelling)who defied the
law, and provided safe abortions despite threats by both the
government and by "kind, loving" Christian organizations crying for
his blood.
This was in the 1950's.
Here is a piece about Margaret Sanger:
Sanger_Fact_Sheet_Oct_2016.pdf
1
Margaret Sanger — Our Founder
A trailblazer in the fi ght for reproductive rights,
Margaret Sanger's history is layered and complex
Our founder, Margaret Sanger, was a woman of heroic
accomplishments, and like all heroes, she was also
complex and imperfect. It is undeniable that Margaret
Sanger's lifelong struggle helped 20th century
women gain the right to decide when and whether
to have a child — a right that had been suppressed
worldwide for at least 5,000 years (Boulding, 1992).
Anticipating the most recent turn of the millennium,
LIFE magazine declared that Margaret Sanger was
one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th
century (LIFE, 1990) — along with Jane Addams, Rachel
Carson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford,
Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King Jr., Alfred Kinsey,
Margaret Mead, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod
Bethune, Jonas Salk, and Malcolm X1 (Le Brun, 1990).
Motivated by a deeply held compassion for the
women and children whose homes she visited around
the world, Sanger believed that universal access to
birth control would:
• Reduce the need for abortion — a common and
dangerous method of family planning in her time;
• Save women's and children's lives;
• Strengthen the nuclear family;
• Lift families out of poverty;
• Increase the good health and well-being of all
individuals, families, and their communities; and
• Help women gain their legal and civil rights.
1 In the hope of building new alliances, former President Guttmacher
organized an informational meeting between the director of the Harlem
clinic and Malcolm X in 1962 (Lepore, 2013, 131)
Sanger was a true visionary. In her lifetime, she
convinced Americans and people around the
world that they have basic human rights:
• A woman has a right to control her body;
• Everyone should be able to decide when or
whether to have a child;
• Every child should be wanted and loved; and
• Women and all people are entitled to sexual
pleasure and fulfi llment.
2
MARGARET SANGER — OUR FOUNDER
Sanger's battle for family planning was unrelenting,
unyielding, and totally focused. Her crusade made it
legal to publish and distribute information about sex,
sexuality, and birth control. It:
• created access to birth control for, as she
saw it, poor women, women of color, and
immigrant women;
• spearheaded the development of contemporary
safe, effective, and affordable oral birth control
pills and other hormonal methods;
• became an early 20th century model for
nonviolent civil disobedience, empowering the
American civil rights, women's rights, anti-war,
gay rights, and AIDS-action movements (King,
2008[1966], 6, 7); and
• helped promote new ideas about volunteerism
and grassroots organizing in the U.S.
On 5/19/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> You're right. It's irrational and it's cruel. For me, it's not just
> theoretical. I remember life before abortion. My life was profoundly
> affected because abortion wasn't available to me. And I remember other women
> who suffered as well. I also remember helping someone obtain an illegal
> abortion when one of the social workers recommended a doctor for another
> employee at the agency where I'd previously worked. It was terrifying.
> That's what we're going back to.
>
> Miriam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
> <blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 10:47 AM
> To: blind-democracy@freelists.org
> Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for
> Decades as Hysterical
>
> Where do these people get off at?
> They are, to a man...and to a woman, the same people who scream their
> opposition to "government interference". They are the self same people who
> tearfully applaud as the drums and bugles play, and the banners fly as the
> cream of our youth march off to sacrifice their lives in another of our
> continuous wars.
> They are the same people who gather in their local churches and pray to a
> God of Forgiveness, and then demand that any doctor assisting in a woman's
> decision to abort a fetus, be sent to prison for 99 years.
> How is it that on the one hand we should down size government and allow
> people the freedom to conduct their own business, while on the other hand
> they want to post officials in every woman's bedroom with their noses
> between her legs?
> There's only one word which explains it. Insanity!
>
> Carl Jarvis
> On 5/18/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>> She omits Hillary who, I remember, in around 2005 or 6, was talking
>> about abortion being only a last resort and how the Democratic Party
>> should welcome people who are opposed to abortion and include their
>> voices.
>> Miriam
>>
>> Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades as Hysterical
>>
>> By Rebecca Traister, The Cut
>>
>> 18 May 19
>>
>>
>>
>> have been thinking, like so many people this week, about rage. Who
>> I'm mad at, what that anger's good for, how what makes me maddest is
>> the way the madness has long gone unrespected, even by those who have
>> relied on it for their gains.
>>
>> For as long as I have been a cogent adult, and actually before that, I
>> have watched people devote their lives, their furious energies, to
>> fighting against the steady, merciless, punitive erosion of
>> reproductive rights. And I have watched as politicians - not just on
>> the right, but members of my own party - and the writers and pundits
>> who cover them, treat reproductive rights and justice advocates as if
>> they were fantasists enacting dystopian fiction.
>>
>> This week, the most aggressive abortion bans since Roe v. Wade swept
>> through states, explicitly designed to challenge and ultimately
>> reverse Roe at the Supreme Court level. With them has come the dawning
>> of a broad realization
>> -
>> a clear, bright, detailed vision of what's at stake, and what's ahead.
>> (If not, yet, full comprehension of the harm that has already been done).
>>
>> As it comes into view, I am of course livid at the Republican Party
>> that has been working toward this for decades. These right-wing ghouls
>> - who fulminate idiotically about how women could still be allowed to
>> get abortions before they know they are pregnant (Alabama's Clyde
>> Chambliss) or try to legislate the medically impossible removal of
>> ectopic pregnancy and reimplantation into the uterus (Ohio's John
>> Becker) - are the stuff of unimaginably gothic horror. Ever since Roe
>> was decided in 1973, conservatives have been laboring to roll back
>> abortion access, with absolutely zero knowlege of or interest in how
>> reproduction works. And all the while, those who have been trying to
>> sound the alarm have been shooed off as silly hysterics.
>>
>> Which is why I am almost as mad at many on the left, theoretically on
>> the side of reproductive rights and justice, who have refused,
>> somehow, to see this coming or act aggressively to forestall it. I
>> have no small amount of rage stored for those in the Democratic Party
>> who have relied on the engaged fury of voters committed to
>> reproductive autonomy to elect them, at the same time that they have
>> treated the efforts of activists trying to stave off this future as
>> inconvenient irritants.
>>
>> This includes, of course, the Democrats (notably Joe Biden) who long
>> supported the Hyde Amendment, the legislative rider that has barred
>> the use of federal insurance programs from paying for abortion, making
>> reproductive health care inaccessible to poor women since 1976. During
>> health-care reform, Barack Obama referred to Hyde as a "tradition" and
>> questions of abortion access as "a distraction." I've spent my life
>> listening to Democrats call abortion a niche issue - and worse, one
>> that is somehow repellent to voters, even though support for Roe is in
>> fact among the most broadly popular positions of the Democratic Party;
>> seven in ten Americans want abortion to remain legal, even in conservative
>> states.
>>
>> You can try to tell these Democrats this - lots of people have been
>> trying to tell them for a while now - but it won't matter; they will
>> only explain to you (a furious person) that they (calm, wise,
>> knowledgeable about
>> politics) understand that we need a big tent and can't have a litmus
>> test and please be reasonable: we shouldn't shut anyone out because of
>> a difference on one issue. (That one issue that we shouldn't shut
>> people out because of is always abortion). Every single time Democrats
>> come up with a new strategy to win purple and red areas, it is the
>> same strategy: hey, let's jettison abortion! (If you object to this,
>> you will be told you are standing in the way of the greater progressive
>> project).
>>
>> I grew up in Pennsylvania, governed by anti-abortion Democrat Bob
>> Casey Sr.; his son Bob Jr. is Pennsylvania's senior senator now, and
>> though he's getting better on abortion, Jr. voted, in 2015 and 2018,
>> for 20-week abortion bans. Maybe my rage stems from being raised with
>> this particularly grim perspective on Democratic politics: dynasties
>> of white men united in their dedication to restricting women's bodily
>> autonomy, but they're Democrats so who else are you going to vote for?
>> Which reminds me of Dan Lipinski, the virulently anti-abortion
>> Democratic congressman - whose anti-abortion dad held his seat before
>> him. The current DCCC leader, Cheri Bustos, is holding a big-dollar
>> fundraiser for Lipinski's reelection campaign, even though it's 2019
>> and abortion is being banned and providers threatened with more jail
>> time than rapists and there is someone else to vote for: Lipinski is
>> being challenged in a primary by pro-choice progressive Democrat Marie
>> Newman. And still, Bustos, a powerful woman and Democratic leader, is
>> helping anti-choice Lipinski keep his seat for an eighth term. So I've
>> been thinking about that part of my anger too.
>>
>> Also about how, for years, I've listened to Democratic politicians
>> distance themselves from abortion by calling it tragic and insisting
>> it should be rare, instead of simply acknowledging it to be a crucial,
>> legal cornerstone of comprehensive health care for women, people with
>> uteruses, and their families. I have seethed as generations of
>> Democrats have argued that if we could just get past abortion and
>> focus instead on economic issues, we'd be better off. They never seem
>> to get that abortion is an economic issue, and that what they think of
>> as economic issues - from wages and health care to housing and
>> education policy - are at the very heart of the reproductive justice
>> movement, which understands access to abortion to be one (pivotal!)
>> part of a far broader set of circumstances that determine if, when,
>> under what circumstances, and with what resources human beings might have
>> and raise children.
>>
>> And no, of course it's not just Democrats I'm mad at. It's the pundits
>> who approach abortion law as armchair coaches. I can't do better in my
>> fury on this front than the legal writer Scott Lemieux, who in 2007
>> wrote a blistering rundown of all the legal and political wags,
>> including Ben Wittes and Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Cohen and William
>> Saletan, then making arguments, some too cute by half, about how Roe
>> was ultimately bad for abortion rights and for Democrats. Some like to
>> cite an oft-distorted opinion put forth by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who
>> has said that she wished the basis on which Roe was decided had
>> included a more robust defense of women's equality. Retroactive
>> strategic chin-stroking about Roe is mostly moot, given the decades of
>> intervening cases and that the fight against abortion is not about
>> process but about the conviction that women should not control their
>> own reproduction. It is also true that Ginsburg has been doing the
>> work of aggressively defending reproductive rights for decades, while
>> these pundits have treated them as a parlor game. As Lemieux put it
>> then, it was unsurprising, "given the extent to which affluent men
>> safely ensconced in liberal urban centers dominate the liberal pundit
>> class," that the arguments put forth, "greatly understate or ignore
>> the stark class and geographic inequites in abortion access that would
>> inevitably manifest themselves in a post-Roe world."
>>
>> Or, for that matter, that had already manifested themselves in a Roe
>> world.
>>
>> Because long before these new bans - which will meet years of legal
>> challenge before they are enacted - abortion had grown ever less
>> accessible to segments of America, though not the segments that the
>> affluent men (and
>> women) who write about and practice politics tend to emerge from. But
>> yes, thanks to Hyde and the TRAP laws and the closed clinics and the
>> long travel distances and paucity of providers and the economically
>> untenable waiting periods, legions of women have already suffered,
>> died, had children against their will, while columnists and political
>> consultants have bantered about the necessity of Roe, and litmus tests
>> and big tents. In vast portions of this country, Roe might as well not
>> exist already.
>>
>> And still those who are mad about, have been driven mad by, these
>> injustices have been told that their fury is baseless, fictional, made
>> of chewing gum and recycled copies of Our Bodies Ourselves. Last
>> summer, the day before Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation from
>> the Supreme Court, CNN host Brian Stelter tweeted, in response to a
>> liberal activist, "We are not 'a few steps from The Handmaids' Tale.'
>> I don't think this kind of fear-mongering helps anybody." When
>> protesters shouted at Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings a few
>> weeks later, knowing full well what was about to happen and what it
>> portended for Roe, Senator Ben Sasse condescended and lied to them,
>> claiming that there have been "screaming protesters saying 'women are
>> going to die' at every hearing for decades" and suggesting that this
>> response was a form of "hysteria."
>>
>> It was the kind of dishonesty - issued from on high, from one of those
>> Republicans who has inexplicably earned a reputation for being
>> "reasonable"
>> and "smart," and who has enormous power over our future - that makes
>> you want to pull the hair from your head and go screaming through the
>> streets except someone would just tell you you were being hysterical.
>>
>> And so here we are, the thing is happening and no one can pretend
>> otherwise; it is not a game or a drill and those for whom the
>> consequences - long real for millions whose warnings and peril have
>> gone unheeded - are only now coming into focus want to know: what can
>> be done?
>>
>> First, never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination
>> to fight on this account is invalid, inappropriate, or inconvenient to
>> a broader message. Consider that this is also what women and
>> marginalized people are told all the time about their anger in
>> general: that they should not express it, not let it out, because to
>> give voice to their rage will distract from their aims, undermine
>> them; that it will ultimately be bad for them. This messaging is
>> strategic. It is designed to get angry people to keep their mouths
>> shut. Because if they are successfully stifled, they will remain at
>> the margins, isolated, alone in their fury. It is only if they start
>> letting it out and acting on it and working in tandem with others who
>> share their outrage that they might begin to form networks,
>> coalitions, the building blocks of movements; it is when the anger is
>> let loose that the organizing happens in earnest.
>>
>> Second, seek the organizing that is already underway. In the days
>> since this new round of state abortion bans have begun to pass and
>> make headlines, secret Facebook groups have begun to form, in which
>> freshly furious women have begun to talk of forming networks that
>> would help patients evade barriers to access. Yet these organizations
>> already exist, are founded and run by women of color, have long been
>> transporting those in need of reproductive care to the facilities
>> where they can get it; they are woefully underfunded. The trick is not
>> to start something new, but to join forces with those who have long
>> been angry about reproductive injustice.
>>
>> "Abortion funds have been sounding the alarm for decades," said Yamani
>> Hernandez, who runs the National Network or Abortion Funds, which
>> includes
>> 76 local funds in 41 states, each of them helping women who face
>> barriers getting the abortion care they need, offering money,
>> transportation, housing, and help with logistics. Only 29 of the funds
>> have paid staff; the rest are volunteer-run and led with average
>> budget sizes of $75,000, according to Hernandez, who said that in
>> 2017, 150,000 people called abortion funds for help - a number up from
>> 100,000 in 2015, thanks to the barrage of restrictions that have made
>> it so much harder for so many more people. With just $4 million to
>> work with, the funds were able to help
>> 29,000 of them last year: giving abortion funds money and time will
>> directly help people who need it. Distinguishing the work of abortion
>> funds from the policy fights in state houses and at the capitols,
>> Hernandez said, "whatever happens in Washington, and changes in the
>> future, women need to get care today."
>>
>> And whatever comes next, she said, it's the people who have been doing
>> this work for years who are likely to be best prepared to deal with
>> the harm inflicted, which is a good place for the newly enraged to
>> start. "If and when Roe is abolished," said Hernandez, "the people who
>> are going to be getting people to the care they need are those who
>> have largely been navigating this already and are already well suited
>> for the logistical challenges."
>>
>> The fights on the ground might be the most current and urgent in human
>> terms, but there is also energy to be put into policy fights. In 2015,
>> California Congresswoman Barbara Lee authored the EACH Woman Act, the
>> first serious congressional challenge to the Hyde Amendment, which
>> came after years of agitation and activism, especially by All Above
>> All, a grassroots organization led by women of color and determined to
>> make abortion accessible to everyone. Those who are looking for policy
>> fights to lean into can call and write your representatives and
>> candidates and demand that they support the EACH Woman Act.
>>
>> Rage works. It takes time and numbers and a willingness to express it,
>> but it is among the most reliable catalysts of social and political
>> change.
>> That's the story of how grassroots activism can compel Barbara Lee to
>> compel her caucus to take on Hyde. Her willingness to tackle it, and
>> the righteous outrage of those who are driven to end the harm it does
>> to poor women and women of color, in turn helped to compel Hillary
>> Clinton to come out against Hyde in her 2016 primary campaign;
>> opposition to Hyde is now - for the first time since it was passed in
>> 1976 - a part of the Democratic Party's platform.
>>
>> In these past two years, fury at a Trump administration and at the
>> Republican Party has driven electoral activism. And at the end of
>> 2018, the Guttmacher Institute reported that 2018 was the first year
>> since at least
>> 2000 in which the number of state policies enacted to expand or
>> protect abortion rights and access, and contraceptive access,
>> outnumbered the number of state restrictions. Why? Because growing
>> realization of what was at stake
>> - and resulting anger and activism, pressure applied to state
>> legislatures
>> -
>> led representatives to act.
>>
>> Of course: vote.
>>
>> Vote, as they say, as if your life depended on it, because it does,
>> but more
>> importantly: other people's lives depend on it. And between voting,
>> consider where to aim your anger in ways that will influence election
>> outcomes:
>> educate yourself about local races and policy proposals, as well as
>> the history of the reproductive rights and reproductive-justice
>> movements. Get engaged not just on a presidential level - please God,
>> not just at a presidential level - but with the fights for state
>> legislative power, in congressional and senate elections, all of which
>> shape abortion policy and the judiciary, and the voting rights on
>> which every other kind of freedom hinges. Knock doors, register
>> voters, give to and volunteer with the organizations that are working
>> to fight voter suppression and redistricting and expand the
>> electorate; as well as to those recruiting and training progressive
>> candidates, especially women and women of color, especially young and
>> first-time candidates, to run for elected office.
>>
>> You can also protest, go to rallies. Join a local political group
>> where your rage will likely be shared with others.
>>
>> Above all, do not let defeat or despair take you, and do not let
>> anyone tell you that your anger is misplaced or silly or in vain, or
>> that it is anything other than urgent and motivating. It may be
>> terrifying - it is terrifying.
>> But this - the fury and the fight it must fuel - is going to last the
>> rest of our lives and we must get comfortable using our rage as
>> central to the work ahead.
>>
>>
>>
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Friday, May 17, 2019
Re: [acb-chat] Gee, I feel so protected by the police - See guidance below
Hi William,
And besides all of that, I don't speak Russian or Chinese!
But I was talking about life in these United States. This is where I
live. My People have lived here since before the Revolutionary War.
Some came speaking English, some speaking German and some came
speaking a Scottish Brogue. They all were about as good and as bad as
were all other people who landed on these shores and shoved the native
population off their land.
My great great great grandfather John Jarvis was a landholder in what
is now Grafton, West Virginia, and he was 20 years old when we fought
the British, and he fought on the side of the Colonists.
On my mother's side, John Ludwig, my great great great grandfather,
came to America in 1752 at the age of 17. He began working as a cabin
boy and rose to the rank of Ship's Captain, during the Revolutionary
War. These men are considered American heroes. But they were Rebels
and, in the eyes of the King, they were Traitors. Had the Colonists
lost, these heroes would have been hung in shame. Looking back
through history gives us the advantage of playing Monday Morning
Quarterback. What motivated these men to stand against Good King John
III, is lost to us forever. But by fighting on the winning side, they
helped provide a land where my Great grandpa Jarvis was privileged to
sweat in the mines in Missouri and Oklahoma and die from "Black Lung",
and a land where my dad's grandpa Thomas Hickman owned a small
plantation along with four slaves. But mostly my people were Working
class folk, still struggling for their personal freedom. My dad was a
Marxist, and following the families rebel traditions, I am a Radical,
or on a good day, a Progressive. I continue the vain search for
Freedom, and abhor slavery of any sort; Spiritual, mental or physical.
But be certain of one thing before calling me names, it was My People
who stood their ground and sent the Cruel Redcoats running for their
ships. It was My People who did all the back breaking work of
building this nation. It was them who did all the good and all the
bad things that made us what we are today. And it is for this reason
that I believe I have the right...no, the duty to criticize this
nation of mine, and to work to make it a better Land, that Land of
Promise to whose shores my people came so many years ago.
So please, don't talk to me about Russia or China. Those nations have
their own histories, leading them to what they are today. While we,
the Russians and the Chinese and Me, are strangers, nonetheless, we
are connected as Human Beings. One day we will all find ourselves
fighting together for survival of this Human Species.
Cordially,
Carl Jarvis
On 5/17/19, William Grussenmeyer <wdg31415@gmail.com> wrote:
> If u think america is bad go live in russia or china. There u wont even get
> a lawyer and wont be allowed to sue.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 17, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Carl Jarvis via acb-chat
>> <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>
>> Once again, the System is working properly for those it is intended to
>> protect.
>> It's time Americans woke to the fact that we live in a Divided Nation.
>> There are two Americas. There is the long established White,
>> European, Male Oligarchy and those it protects, and there are the Rest
>> of Us.
>> The Oligarchy calls itself the United States of America, but actually
>> it is known world-wide as, The American Empire. The Rest of Us, is
>> everyone outside the American Empire, and we are actually a nation
>> within a nation.
>> Living within a Nation within a Nation is tricky at best. We must
>> live by the laws of the Empire, but in our daily lives we must live by
>> the laws of, "The Rest Of Us". I hope someone gets it all sorted
>> out, and lets me know.
>>
>> Carl Jarvis
>>> On 5/16/19, Demaya, Diego via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>> Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils Of Traffic Stops In The American
>>> Police
>>> State
>>>
>>> "The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary
>>> governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been
>>> shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim
>>> of
>>> every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail
>>> official<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thenation.com_article_how-2Dsupreme-2Dcourt-2Dcame-2Dembrace-2Dstrip-2Dsearches-2Dtrivial-2Doffenses_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=uOylvDUDcmEBiL4AA8qoku4xltRw2Xkd1K_irwO3fMA&e=>.
>>> The framers would be appalled.
>>>
>>> - Herman Schwartz, The Nation
>>>
>>> We've all been there before.
>>>
>>> You're driving along and you see a pair of flashing blue lights in your
>>> rearview mirror. Whether or not you've done anything wrong, you get a
>>> sinking feeling in your stomach.
>>>
>>> You've read enough news stories, seen enough headlines, and lived in the
>>> American police state long enough to be anxious about any encounter with
>>> a
>>> cop that takes place on the side of the road.
>>>
>>> For better or worse, from the moment you're pulled over, you're at the
>>> mercy
>>> of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to
>>> decide
>>> who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can
>>> deal
>>> with the citizens they were appointed to "serve and protect."
>>>
>>> This is what I call "blank check policing," in which the police get to
>>> call
>>> all of the shots.
>>>
>>> So if you're nervous about traffic stops, you have every reason to be.
>>>
>>> Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit
>>> like
>>> playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively
>>> unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights,
>>> but
>>> there's always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly.
>>>
>>> Try to assert your right to merely ask a question during a traffic stop
>>> and
>>> see how far it gets you.
>>>
>>> Zachary Noel was tasered by police and charged with resisting arrest
>>> after
>>> he questioned why he was being ordered out of his truck during a traffic
>>> stop<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.opposingviews.com_i_society_crime_cop-2Dtases-2Dman-2Dafter-2Dhe-2Dquestions-2Dwhy-2Dhe-2Dwas-2Dasked-2Dget-2Dout-2Dhis-2Dvehicle-2Dduring-2Dtraffic-23sthash.Gq8t3wTm.dpuf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=3Ps6omaqg71cFYq8n5uLM8LvNM9vtoDquApcm4nIAu8&e=>.
>>> "Because I'm telling you to," the officer replied before repeating his
>>> order
>>> for Noel to get out of the vehicle and then, without warning, shooting
>>> him
>>> with a taser through the open window.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, as Gregory Tucker learned the hard way, there are no
>>> longer
>>> any fail-safe rules of engagement for interacting with the police.
>>>
>>> It was in the early morning hours of Dec. 1, 2016, when Tucker, a young
>>> African-American man, was pulled over by Louisiana police for a broken
>>> taillight<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>.
>>> Because he did not feel safe stopping immediately, Tucker drove calmly
>>> and
>>> slowly to a safe, well-lit area a few minutes away before stopping in
>>> front
>>> of his cousin's house.
>>>
>>> That's when what should have been a routine traffic stop became yet
>>> another
>>> example of police brutality in
>>> America<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>
>>> and another reason why Americans are justified in their fear of cops.
>>>
>>> According to the lawsuit that was filed in federal court by The
>>> Rutherford
>>> Institute<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>,
>>> police ordered Tucker out of his vehicle, and after he had stepped out,
>>> immediately placed him under arrest for "resisting" (in this case, not
>>> immediately stopping) and searched his person and his vehicle. Tucker
>>> was
>>> then ordered to move to the front of the police vehicle and place his
>>> hands
>>> on its hood.
>>>
>>> Two more police officers arrived on the
>>> scene<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>,
>>> walked up behind Tucker, and grabbed his arms to restrain and handcuffed
>>> him.
>>>
>>> Then the fourth police officer arrived on the scene. According to police
>>> dash cam footage, Tucker was thrown to the ground and punched numerous
>>> times
>>> in the head and
>>> body<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>.
>>> The police also yelled repeatedly at Tucker to "quit resisting." Tucker,
>>> bleeding with injuries to his face, head and arm, was then placed into
>>> the
>>> back of a police vehicle and EMTs were called to treat him. He was
>>> eventually taken to the hospital for severe injuries to his face and
>>> arm.
>>>
>>> Mind you, this young man complied with police. He just didn't do it fast
>>> enough to suit their purposes.
>>>
>>> This young man submitted to police. He didn't challenge police authority
>>> when they frisked him, searched his car, handcuffed him, and beat him to
>>> a
>>> pulp.
>>>
>>> If this young man is "guilty" of anything, he's guilty of ticking off
>>> the
>>> cops by being cautious, concerned for his safety, and all too aware of
>>> the
>>> dangers faced by young black men during encounters with the police.
>>>
>>> Frankly, you don't even have to be young or black or a man to fear for
>>> your
>>> life during an encounter with the police.
>>>
>>> Just consider the growing numbers of unarmed people are who being shot
>>> and
>>> killed just for standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or
>>> holding
>>> something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or
>>> igniting
>>> some trigger-centric fear in a police officer's mind that has nothing to
>>> do
>>> with an actual threat to their safety.
>>>
>>> At a time when police can do no wrong—at least in the eyes of the
>>> courts,
>>> police unions and politicians dependent on their votes—and a "fear" for
>>> officer safety is used to justify all manner of police misconduct, "we
>>> the
>>> people" are at a severe disadvantage.
>>>
>>> Add a traffic stop to the mix, and that disadvantage increases
>>> dramatically.
>>>
>>> According to the Justice Department, the most common reason for a citizen
>>> to
>>> come into contact with the
>>> police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bjs.gov_index.cfm-3Fty-3Dtp-26tid-3D702&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=t-q8iCrhSBznt5iFsG24JLDtW9aDCqiYttGURBAWCqk&e=>
>>> is being a driver in a traffic stop.
>>>
>>> On average, one in 10 Americans gets pulled over by
>>> police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_blogs_wonkblog_wp_2014_09_09_you-2Dreally-2Dcan-2Dget-2Dpulled-2Dover-2Dfor-2Ddriving-2Dwhile-2Dblack-2Dfederal-2Dstatistics-2Dshow_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=7k_ATFjBo-ovLbz9DsAq-aOCIuKzutSKzJZZ1mU6H84&e=>.
>>>
>>> Black drivers are 31 percent more likely to be pulled over than white
>>> drivers, or about 23 percent more likely than Hispanic drivers. As the
>>> Washington Post concludes, "'Driving while black' is, indeed, a
>>> measurable
>>> phenomenon<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_blogs_wonkblog_wp_2014_09_09_you-2Dreally-2Dcan-2Dget-2Dpulled-2Dover-2Dfor-2Ddriving-2Dwhile-2Dblack-2Dfederal-2Dstatistics-2Dshow_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=7k_ATFjBo-ovLbz9DsAq-aOCIuKzutSKzJZZ1mU6H84&e=>."
>>>
>>> Indeed, police officers have been given free range to pull anyone over
>>> for a
>>> variety of
>>> reasons<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.latimes.com_opinion_op-2Ded_la-2Doe-2D0813-2Dkutz-2Dtraffic-2Dstops-2D20150812-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=RfDm2JQOLPvgX1dI_hDFgR1IzfnhtF235od7aIkssx4&e=>.
>>>
>>> This free-handed approach to traffic stops has resulted in drivers being
>>> stopped for windows that are too heavily tinted, for driving too fast,
>>> driving too slow, failing to maintain speed, following too closely,
>>> improper
>>> lane changes, distracted driving, screeching a car's tires, and leaving
>>> a
>>> parked car door open for too long.
>>>
>>> Motorists can also be stopped by police for driving near a bar or on a
>>> road
>>> that has large amounts of drunk driving, driving a certain make of car
>>> (Mercedes, Grand Prix and Hummers are among the most ticketed
>>> vehicles<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.forbes.com_2010_10_13_cars-2Dthat-2Dget-2Dticketed-2Dmost-2Dpolice-2Dspeeding-2Dlifestyle-2Dvehicles-2Dviolations.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=tZjmJZ6i9uazDotMo3CcjnsThwJENnnLFkQgIoiqqJY&e=>),
>>> having anything dangling from the rearview mirror (air fresheners,
>>> handicap
>>> parking permits, troll transponders or rosaries), and displaying
>>> pro-police
>>> bumper stickers.
>>>
>>> Incredibly, a federal appeals court actually ruled unanimously in 2014
>>> that
>>> acne scars and driving with a stiff upright posture are reasonable
>>> grounds
>>> for being pulled
>>> over<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__truthinmedia.com_federal-2Dappeals-2Dcourt-2Ddriving-2Dwith-2Dupright-2Dposture-2Dand-2Dacne-2Dis-2Dsufficient-2Devidence-2Dfor-2Dtraffic-2Dstop_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=T3p3DlafmdYOLt1H6lCZFDyNY-snE8Yhjc9QBXknuDs&e=>.
>>> The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that driving a vehicle that has
>>> a
>>> couple air fresheners, rosaries and pro-police bumper stickers at 2 MPH
>>> over
>>> the speed limit is
>>> suspicious<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thenewspaper.com_news_47_4750.asp&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=vK0g_m9S1K1O7-v1Mr81f7KG-FxY4ztKazyEkOjoj5E&e=>,
>>> meriting a traffic stop.
>>>
>>> Equally appalling, in Heien v. North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme
>>> Court—which
>>> has largely paved the way for the police and other government agents to
>>> probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip and generally manhandle
>>> anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance—allowed police officers
>>> to
>>> stop drivers who appear
>>> nervous<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.supremecourt.gov_opinions_14pdf_13-2D604-5Fec8f.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=pn5gqvUylfVnGabIKnVQeaXTaW7iodLovTqySBehU0Y&e=>,
>>> provided they provide a palatable pretext for doing so.
>>>
>>> Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the lone objector in the case. Dissenting in
>>> Heien, Sotomayor warned, "Giving officers license to effect seizures so
>>> long
>>> as they can attach to their reasonable view of the facts some reasonable
>>> legal interpretation (or misinterpretation) that suggests a law has been
>>> violated significantly expands this authority... One wonders how a
>>> citizen
>>> seeking to be law-abiding and to structure his or her behavior to avoid
>>> these invasive, frightening, and humiliating encounters could do
>>> so<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.supremecourt.gov_opinions_14pdf_13-2D604-5Fec8f.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=pn5gqvUylfVnGabIKnVQeaXTaW7iodLovTqySBehU0Y&e=>."
>>>
>>> In other words, drivers beware.
>>>
>>> Traffic stops aren't just dangerous. They can be downright deadly.
>>>
>>> Remember Walter L. Scott? Reportedly pulled over for a broken
>>> taillight<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_04_08_us_south-2Dcarolina-2Dofficer-2Dis-2Dcharged-2Dwith-2Dmurder-2Din-2Dblack-2Dmans-2Ddeath.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=jBuoxW3agITwMT0Dol40n99jI50I0R-cIlNg0aR2nGs&e=>,
>>> Scott—unarmed—ran away from the police officer, who pursued and shot him
>>> from behind, first with a Taser, then with a gun. Scott was struck five
>>> times, "three times in the back, once in the upper buttocks and once in
>>> the
>>> ear — with at least one bullet entering his
>>> heart<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_04_08_us_south-2Dcarolina-2Dofficer-2Dis-2Dcharged-2Dwith-2Dmurder-2Din-2Dblack-2Dmans-2Ddeath.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=jBuoxW3agITwMT0Dol40n99jI50I0R-cIlNg0aR2nGs&e=>."
>>>
>>> Samuel Dubose, also unarmed, was pulled over for a missing front license
>>> plate<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nbcnews.com_news_us-2Dnews_prosecutors-2Drewiewiung-2Dofficers-2Dfatal-2Dshooting-2Dunarmed-2Dcincinnati-2Dman-2Dn396116&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=bJ4ILUV3ifEtgrgT4BcMQ0HKEBqxvVw5SGGoag4kjM4&e=>.
>>> He was reportedly shot in the head after a brief struggle in which his
>>> car
>>> began rolling forward.
>>>
>>> Levar Jones was stopped for a seatbelt
>>> offense<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.people.com_article_south-2Dcarolina-2Dpolice-2Dofficer-2Dshoots-2Dunarmed-2Dsuspect-2Ddashcam&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=_Q8Y_mW1OOLC6P0QFhHYkP5MuuJMQjRfoDmVmIrpIC0&e=>,
>>> just as he was getting out of his car to enter a convenience store.
>>> Directed
>>> to show his license, Jones leaned into his car to get his wallet, only to
>>> be
>>> shot four times by the "fearful" officer. Jones was also unarmed.
>>>
>>> Bobby Canipe was pulled over for having an expired
>>> registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dailymail.co.uk_news_article-2D2579654_Police-2Ddashcam-2Dshows-2DSouth-2DCarolina-2Dcop-2Dshoot-2D70-2Dyear-2Dold-2DVietnam-2Dveteran-2Dman-2Dreached-2Dtruck-2Dcane-2Droutine-2Dtraffic-2Dstop.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=B1SpDF20SdRyctbcVzU4Mmtjys8VsCsQR8lteImYRR8&e=>.
>>> When the 70-year-old reached into the back of his truck for his walking
>>> cane, the officer fired several shots at him, hitting him once in the
>>> abdomen.
>>>
>>> Dontrell Stevens was stopped "for not bicycling
>>> properly."<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.chicagotribune.com_news_nationworld_chi-2Dflorida-2Ddeputy-2Dshoots-2Ddontrell-2Dstephens-2D20150424-2Dstory.html-23page-3D1&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=A4UAr3dZUZgRLbveaLC96dzUWRFQpNR8U5uHuIdftnQ&e=>
>>> The officer pursuing him "thought the way Stephens rode his bike was
>>> suspicious. He thought the way Stephens got off his bike was
>>> suspicious."
>>> Four seconds later, sheriff's deputy Adams Lin shot Stephens four times
>>> as
>>> he pulled out a black object from his waistband. The object was his cell
>>> phone. Stephens was unarmed.
>>>
>>> Sandra
>>> Bland<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2015_07_23_us_sandra-2Dbland-2Darrest-2Ddeath_index.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=InCrHlVb3-pzlycamtWPMAJ224GVLog1PHjyIqV0kjI&e=>,
>>> pulled over for allegedly failing to use her turn signal, was arrested
>>> after
>>> refusing to comply with the police officer's order to extinguish her
>>> cigarette and exit her vehicle. The encounter escalated, with the
>>> officer
>>> threatening to "light" Bland up with his taser. Three days later, Bland
>>> was
>>> found dead in her jail cell. "You're doing all of this for a failure to
>>> signal?<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2015_07_22_us_texas-2Dsandra-2Dbland-2Darrest_index.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=6Ae00n_2N7lEuT-H5L_m0wM3v_LuSrjL8cl9GWz5oFA&e=>"
>>> Bland asked as she got out of her car, after having been yelled at and
>>> threatened repeatedly.
>>>
>>> Keep in mind, from the moment those lights start flashing and that siren
>>> goes off, we're all in the same boat. However, it's what happens after
>>> you've been pulled over that's critical.
>>>
>>> Survival is key.
>>>
>>> Technically, you have the right to remain silent (beyond the basic
>>> requirement to identify yourself and show your registration). You have
>>> the
>>> right to refuse to have your vehicle searched. You have the right to
>>> film
>>> your interaction with police. You have the right to ask to leave. You
>>> also
>>> have the right to resist an unlawful order such as a police officer
>>> directing you to extinguish your cigarette, put away your phone or stop
>>> recording
>>> them<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newsnet5.com_news_state_heres-2Dwhat-2Ddrivers-2Dpolice-2Dare-2Dallowed-2Dto-2Ddo-2Dduring-2Dtraffic-2Dstops&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=RGizuRhljSYLgdYffv3RllE8b0JCSM7T8YskUV42Zqo&e=>.
>>>
>>> However, there is a price for asserting one's rights. That price grows
>>> more
>>> costly with every passing day.
>>>
>>> If you ask cops and their enablers what Americans should do to stay
>>> alive
>>> during encounters with police, they will tell you to comply, cooperate,
>>> obey, not resist, not argue, not make threatening gestures or
>>> statements,
>>> avoid sudden movements, and submit to a search of their person and
>>> belongings.
>>>
>>> The problem, of course, is what to do when compliance is not enough.
>>>
>>> After all, every day we hear about situations in which unarmed Americans
>>> complied and still died during an encounter with police simply because
>>> they
>>> appeared to be standing in a "shooting
>>> stance"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_news_morning-2Dmix_wp_2016_09_28_police-2Dshoot-2Dblack-2Dman-2Din-2Dsan-2Ddiego-2Dsuburb-2Dsparking-2Dprotests-2Dcircumstances-2Dremain-2Dunclear_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=gdFgqoa_-sEtkyOb3DgzJIGTPUahJ-dNAA2SqMgKoII&e=>
>>> or held a cell
>>> phone<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lasvegassun.com_news_2015_dec_31_metro-2Dpolice-2Dinvestigating-2Dofficer-2Dinvolved-2Dshooti_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=8WnOff9fOBXV5MTZGBv-w7oUXhR2eRSarEfPAcyHVQs&e=>
>>> or a garden
>>> hose<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__articles.latimes.com_2013_apr_04_local_la-2Dme-2Dln-2Dwater-2Dnozzle-2Dshooting-2D20130404&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=-tZqvasUYj1xwdA0h3iifVr8uC6_u7JUt_X53wMIODU&e=>
>>> or carried around a baseball
>>> bat<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_12_27_us_chicago-2Dpolice-2Dfatally-2Dshoot-2D2-2Draising-2Dnew-2Dquestions-2Dfor-2Da-2Dforce-2Dunder-2Dscrutiny.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=sXxetfdGn-IEEuyJnzrWS3Q_tVkFi6RkUXVPHIkP1jg&e=>
>>> or answered the front
>>> door<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_12_27_us_chicago-2Dpolice-2Dfatally-2Dshoot-2D2-2Draising-2Dnew-2Dquestions-2Dfor-2Da-2Dforce-2Dunder-2Dscrutiny.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=sXxetfdGn-IEEuyJnzrWS3Q_tVkFi6RkUXVPHIkP1jg&e=>
>>> or held a spoon in a threatening
>>> manner<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nydailynews.com_news_crime_alabama-2Dman-2Drushed-2Dofficer-2Dspoon-2Dfatally-2Dshot-2Darticle-2D1.2336281&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=EmyD8WHjDWx03cjuYb0VjbvwMqSFk15hXMmHxBQ3gDE&e=>
>>> or ran in an aggressive
>>> manner<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__patch.com_georgia_cartersville_new-2Ddetails-2Dreleased-2Dbartow-2Dofficer-2Dinvolved-2Dshooting-2D0&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=c8RoiyZ9613aKgY57JtuGLYfKyxssDc5hLyfTyR65mk&e=>
>>> holding a tree branch or wandered around
>>> naked<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cbs46.com_story_28301956_naked-2Dman-2Dshot-2Dby-2Dpolice-2Dofficer-2Dat-2Ddekalb-2Dcounty-2Dapartments&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=zNXqEAReHbGeCOQmSK86VMLRzJl39FH3rsWgHY5TGvs&e=>
>>> or hunched over in a defensive
>>> posture<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_local_crime_man-2Dinjured-2Din-2Dpolice-2Dinvolved-2Dshooting-2Din-2Dbaltimore-2Dsuburb_2015_06_25_84be9f36-2D1b26-2D11e5-2Dab92-2Dc75ae6ab94b5-5Fstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=0yGh79vl5o5rD4XQ5qQIq8rmrjmPQc4bXfxKJ0T-CQ4&e=>
>>> or made the mistake of wearing the same clothes as a carjacking
>>> suspect<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.latimes.com_local_lanow_la-2Dme-2Dln-2Dsheriff-2Dshooting-2D20160809-2Dsnap-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=2SlR3kTb74Wvc_AiYvydz0Hhd_jvcyofLl3Adn601QU&e=>
>>> (dark pants and a basketball jersey) or dared to leave an area at the
>>> same
>>> time that a police officer showed
>>> up<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.11alive.com_news_local_da-2Dofficer-2Dinvolved-2Din-2Dfatal-2Dmidtown-2Dshooting-2Dfaces-2Dmurder-2Dcharges_274709357&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=WPCJE_OgY2xJjmW1Y-524x1anlGqboWi-Z2uP0Bp_MY&e=>
>>> or had a car break
>>> down<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__abc7.com_news_tulsa-2Dpolice-2Dshoot-2Dkill-2Dunarmed-2Dblack-2Dman-2Ddoj-2Dinvestigating_1517880_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=bexx-2ntHpFM2UbnvNw7RjxlpIGCDDfnu3Ts1Jm2usg&e=>
>>> by the side of the road or were
>>> deaf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2016_08_25_us_nc-2Dtrooper-2Dbeing-2Dinvestigated-2Dfor-2Dshooting-2Dof-2Ddeaf-2Dman.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=Dl8ar3GFNSfDZrRa3nwp_-P-uN6nICvpy8SnCxCGnqE&e=>
>>> or
>>> homeless<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.latimes.com_local_lanow_la-2Dme-2Dln-2Dcastic-2Ddeputy-2Dshooting-2D20160803-2Dsnap-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=rlnfniFBt5nKFwOZMqmi5WTSDsofFUX6HHtDa1mZdXw&e=>
>>> or
>>> old<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.chicagotribune.com_news_columnists_kass_ct-2Djohn-2Dwrana-2Dtextbook-2Dpolice-2Dforce-2Dcase-2Dkass-2D0111-2D20150111-2Dcolumn.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=aWLeeQ7i6wtKbbNXhXf1gtDQroCTUjK68pzJGZsQhQQ&e=>.
>>>
>>> Now you can make all kinds of excuses to justify these shootings, and in
>>> fact that's exactly what you'll hear from politicians, police unions,
>>> law
>>> enforcement officials and individuals who are more than happy to march
>>> in
>>> lockstep with the police.
>>>
>>> However, to suggest that a good citizen is a compliant citizen and that
>>> obedience will save us from the police state is not only recklessly
>>> irresponsible, but it is also deluded and out of touch with reality.
>>>
>>> To begin with, and most importantly, Americans need to know their rights
>>> when it comes to interactions with the police, bearing in mind that many
>>> law
>>> enforcement officials are largely ignorant of the law
>>> themselves<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__reason.com_blog_2014_10_06_today-2Dat-2Dscotus-2Dpolice-2Derrors-2Dvs-2Dthe-2Dfou&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=Vr84lSLLhxLn7joLOhvHF0g4ED9EDKlidjRhP8jNoNw&e=>.
>>>
>>> In a nutshell, the following are your basic rights when it comes to
>>> interactions with the police as outlined in the Bill of Rights:
>>>
>>> You have the right under the First Amendment to ask questions and
>>> express
>>> yourself. You have the right under the Fourth Amendment to not have your
>>> person or your property searched by police or any government agent
>>> unless
>>> they have a search warrant authorizing them to do so. You have the
>>> right
>>> under the Fifth Amendment to remain silent, to not incriminate yourself
>>> and
>>> to request an attorney. Depending on which state you live in and whether
>>> your encounter with police is consensual as opposed to your being
>>> temporarily detained or arrested, you may have the right to refuse to
>>> identify yourself. Presently, 26 states do not require citizens to show
>>> their ID to an officer (drivers in all states must do so, however).
>>>
>>> Knowing your rights is only part of the battle, unfortunately.
>>>
>>> As I make clear the hard part comes in when you have to exercise those
>>> rights in order to hold government officials accountable to respecting
>>> those
>>> rights.
>>>
>>> As a rule of thumb, you should always be sure to clarify in any police
>>> encounter whether or not you are being detained, i.e., whether you have
>>> the
>>> right to walk away. That holds true whether it's a casual "show your ID"
>>> request on a boardwalk, a stop-and-frisk search on a city street, or a
>>> traffic stop for speeding or just to check your insurance. If you feel
>>> like
>>> you can't walk away from a police encounter of your own volition—and
>>> more
>>> often than not you can't, especially when you're being confronted by
>>> someone
>>> armed to the hilt with all manner of militarized weaponry and gear—then
>>> for
>>> all intents and purposes, you're essentially under arrest from the moment
>>> a
>>> cop stops you. Still, it doesn't hurt to clarify that distinction.
>>>
>>> While technology is always going to be a double-edged sword, with the
>>> gadgets that are the most useful to us in our daily lives—GPS devices,
>>> cell
>>> phones, the internet—being the very tools used by the government to
>>> track
>>> us, monitor our activities, and generally spy on us, cell phones are
>>> particularly useful for recording encounters with the
>>> police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2014_07_16_nyregion_suit-2Dseeks-2Dto-2Destablish-2Dright-2Dto-2Drecord-2Dnew-2Dyork-2Dpolice-2Dofficers.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=hIL3UxsRyvMEEQqbL7yHL4EGiczwf1tGqlnjHgqBnKQ&e=>
>>> and have proven to be increasingly powerful reminders to police that
>>> they
>>> are not all powerful.
>>>
>>> A good resource is The Rutherford Institute's "Constitutional Q&A: Rules
>>> of
>>> Engagement for Interacting with
>>> Police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rutherford.org_files-5Fimages_general_Rutherford-5FQA-5FRulesOfEngagement.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=5l2chxTAD3KeicV_Si9wW7u21fCV20PQzjiEnn3ij_M&e=>."
>>>
>>> Clearly, in the American police state, compliance is no guarantee that
>>> you
>>> will survive an encounter with the police with your life and liberties
>>> intact.
>>>
>>> So if you're starting to feel somewhat overwhelmed, intimidated and
>>> fearful
>>> for your life and the lives of your loved ones, you should be.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
And besides all of that, I don't speak Russian or Chinese!
But I was talking about life in these United States. This is where I
live. My People have lived here since before the Revolutionary War.
Some came speaking English, some speaking German and some came
speaking a Scottish Brogue. They all were about as good and as bad as
were all other people who landed on these shores and shoved the native
population off their land.
My great great great grandfather John Jarvis was a landholder in what
is now Grafton, West Virginia, and he was 20 years old when we fought
the British, and he fought on the side of the Colonists.
On my mother's side, John Ludwig, my great great great grandfather,
came to America in 1752 at the age of 17. He began working as a cabin
boy and rose to the rank of Ship's Captain, during the Revolutionary
War. These men are considered American heroes. But they were Rebels
and, in the eyes of the King, they were Traitors. Had the Colonists
lost, these heroes would have been hung in shame. Looking back
through history gives us the advantage of playing Monday Morning
Quarterback. What motivated these men to stand against Good King John
III, is lost to us forever. But by fighting on the winning side, they
helped provide a land where my Great grandpa Jarvis was privileged to
sweat in the mines in Missouri and Oklahoma and die from "Black Lung",
and a land where my dad's grandpa Thomas Hickman owned a small
plantation along with four slaves. But mostly my people were Working
class folk, still struggling for their personal freedom. My dad was a
Marxist, and following the families rebel traditions, I am a Radical,
or on a good day, a Progressive. I continue the vain search for
Freedom, and abhor slavery of any sort; Spiritual, mental or physical.
But be certain of one thing before calling me names, it was My People
who stood their ground and sent the Cruel Redcoats running for their
ships. It was My People who did all the back breaking work of
building this nation. It was them who did all the good and all the
bad things that made us what we are today. And it is for this reason
that I believe I have the right...no, the duty to criticize this
nation of mine, and to work to make it a better Land, that Land of
Promise to whose shores my people came so many years ago.
So please, don't talk to me about Russia or China. Those nations have
their own histories, leading them to what they are today. While we,
the Russians and the Chinese and Me, are strangers, nonetheless, we
are connected as Human Beings. One day we will all find ourselves
fighting together for survival of this Human Species.
Cordially,
Carl Jarvis
On 5/17/19, William Grussenmeyer <wdg31415@gmail.com> wrote:
> If u think america is bad go live in russia or china. There u wont even get
> a lawyer and wont be allowed to sue.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 17, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Carl Jarvis via acb-chat
>> <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>
>> Once again, the System is working properly for those it is intended to
>> protect.
>> It's time Americans woke to the fact that we live in a Divided Nation.
>> There are two Americas. There is the long established White,
>> European, Male Oligarchy and those it protects, and there are the Rest
>> of Us.
>> The Oligarchy calls itself the United States of America, but actually
>> it is known world-wide as, The American Empire. The Rest of Us, is
>> everyone outside the American Empire, and we are actually a nation
>> within a nation.
>> Living within a Nation within a Nation is tricky at best. We must
>> live by the laws of the Empire, but in our daily lives we must live by
>> the laws of, "The Rest Of Us". I hope someone gets it all sorted
>> out, and lets me know.
>>
>> Carl Jarvis
>>> On 5/16/19, Demaya, Diego via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>> Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils Of Traffic Stops In The American
>>> Police
>>> State
>>>
>>> "The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary
>>> governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been
>>> shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim
>>> of
>>> every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail
>>> official<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thenation.com_article_how-2Dsupreme-2Dcourt-2Dcame-2Dembrace-2Dstrip-2Dsearches-2Dtrivial-2Doffenses_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=uOylvDUDcmEBiL4AA8qoku4xltRw2Xkd1K_irwO3fMA&e=>.
>>> The framers would be appalled.
>>>
>>> - Herman Schwartz, The Nation
>>>
>>> We've all been there before.
>>>
>>> You're driving along and you see a pair of flashing blue lights in your
>>> rearview mirror. Whether or not you've done anything wrong, you get a
>>> sinking feeling in your stomach.
>>>
>>> You've read enough news stories, seen enough headlines, and lived in the
>>> American police state long enough to be anxious about any encounter with
>>> a
>>> cop that takes place on the side of the road.
>>>
>>> For better or worse, from the moment you're pulled over, you're at the
>>> mercy
>>> of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to
>>> decide
>>> who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can
>>> deal
>>> with the citizens they were appointed to "serve and protect."
>>>
>>> This is what I call "blank check policing," in which the police get to
>>> call
>>> all of the shots.
>>>
>>> So if you're nervous about traffic stops, you have every reason to be.
>>>
>>> Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit
>>> like
>>> playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively
>>> unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights,
>>> but
>>> there's always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly.
>>>
>>> Try to assert your right to merely ask a question during a traffic stop
>>> and
>>> see how far it gets you.
>>>
>>> Zachary Noel was tasered by police and charged with resisting arrest
>>> after
>>> he questioned why he was being ordered out of his truck during a traffic
>>> stop<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.opposingviews.com_i_society_crime_cop-2Dtases-2Dman-2Dafter-2Dhe-2Dquestions-2Dwhy-2Dhe-2Dwas-2Dasked-2Dget-2Dout-2Dhis-2Dvehicle-2Dduring-2Dtraffic-23sthash.Gq8t3wTm.dpuf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=3Ps6omaqg71cFYq8n5uLM8LvNM9vtoDquApcm4nIAu8&e=>.
>>> "Because I'm telling you to," the officer replied before repeating his
>>> order
>>> for Noel to get out of the vehicle and then, without warning, shooting
>>> him
>>> with a taser through the open window.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, as Gregory Tucker learned the hard way, there are no
>>> longer
>>> any fail-safe rules of engagement for interacting with the police.
>>>
>>> It was in the early morning hours of Dec. 1, 2016, when Tucker, a young
>>> African-American man, was pulled over by Louisiana police for a broken
>>> taillight<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>.
>>> Because he did not feel safe stopping immediately, Tucker drove calmly
>>> and
>>> slowly to a safe, well-lit area a few minutes away before stopping in
>>> front
>>> of his cousin's house.
>>>
>>> That's when what should have been a routine traffic stop became yet
>>> another
>>> example of police brutality in
>>> America<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>
>>> and another reason why Americans are justified in their fear of cops.
>>>
>>> According to the lawsuit that was filed in federal court by The
>>> Rutherford
>>> Institute<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>,
>>> police ordered Tucker out of his vehicle, and after he had stepped out,
>>> immediately placed him under arrest for "resisting" (in this case, not
>>> immediately stopping) and searched his person and his vehicle. Tucker
>>> was
>>> then ordered to move to the front of the police vehicle and place his
>>> hands
>>> on its hood.
>>>
>>> Two more police officers arrived on the
>>> scene<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>,
>>> walked up behind Tucker, and grabbed his arms to restrain and handcuffed
>>> him.
>>>
>>> Then the fourth police officer arrived on the scene. According to police
>>> dash cam footage, Tucker was thrown to the ground and punched numerous
>>> times
>>> in the head and
>>> body<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rutherford.org_publications-5Fresources_on-5Fthe-5Ffront-5Flines_rutherford-5Finstitute-5Fsues-5Fpolice-5Fover-5Fbroken-5Ftaillight-5Ftraffic-5Fstop-5Fthat-5Fre&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=mwtkmMvx9OvC1oojZadiCZ-XmlPYq2V4i-1wmdhoxH8&e=>.
>>> The police also yelled repeatedly at Tucker to "quit resisting." Tucker,
>>> bleeding with injuries to his face, head and arm, was then placed into
>>> the
>>> back of a police vehicle and EMTs were called to treat him. He was
>>> eventually taken to the hospital for severe injuries to his face and
>>> arm.
>>>
>>> Mind you, this young man complied with police. He just didn't do it fast
>>> enough to suit their purposes.
>>>
>>> This young man submitted to police. He didn't challenge police authority
>>> when they frisked him, searched his car, handcuffed him, and beat him to
>>> a
>>> pulp.
>>>
>>> If this young man is "guilty" of anything, he's guilty of ticking off
>>> the
>>> cops by being cautious, concerned for his safety, and all too aware of
>>> the
>>> dangers faced by young black men during encounters with the police.
>>>
>>> Frankly, you don't even have to be young or black or a man to fear for
>>> your
>>> life during an encounter with the police.
>>>
>>> Just consider the growing numbers of unarmed people are who being shot
>>> and
>>> killed just for standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or
>>> holding
>>> something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or
>>> igniting
>>> some trigger-centric fear in a police officer's mind that has nothing to
>>> do
>>> with an actual threat to their safety.
>>>
>>> At a time when police can do no wrong—at least in the eyes of the
>>> courts,
>>> police unions and politicians dependent on their votes—and a "fear" for
>>> officer safety is used to justify all manner of police misconduct, "we
>>> the
>>> people" are at a severe disadvantage.
>>>
>>> Add a traffic stop to the mix, and that disadvantage increases
>>> dramatically.
>>>
>>> According to the Justice Department, the most common reason for a citizen
>>> to
>>> come into contact with the
>>> police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bjs.gov_index.cfm-3Fty-3Dtp-26tid-3D702&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=t-q8iCrhSBznt5iFsG24JLDtW9aDCqiYttGURBAWCqk&e=>
>>> is being a driver in a traffic stop.
>>>
>>> On average, one in 10 Americans gets pulled over by
>>> police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_blogs_wonkblog_wp_2014_09_09_you-2Dreally-2Dcan-2Dget-2Dpulled-2Dover-2Dfor-2Ddriving-2Dwhile-2Dblack-2Dfederal-2Dstatistics-2Dshow_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=7k_ATFjBo-ovLbz9DsAq-aOCIuKzutSKzJZZ1mU6H84&e=>.
>>>
>>> Black drivers are 31 percent more likely to be pulled over than white
>>> drivers, or about 23 percent more likely than Hispanic drivers. As the
>>> Washington Post concludes, "'Driving while black' is, indeed, a
>>> measurable
>>> phenomenon<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_blogs_wonkblog_wp_2014_09_09_you-2Dreally-2Dcan-2Dget-2Dpulled-2Dover-2Dfor-2Ddriving-2Dwhile-2Dblack-2Dfederal-2Dstatistics-2Dshow_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=7k_ATFjBo-ovLbz9DsAq-aOCIuKzutSKzJZZ1mU6H84&e=>."
>>>
>>> Indeed, police officers have been given free range to pull anyone over
>>> for a
>>> variety of
>>> reasons<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.latimes.com_opinion_op-2Ded_la-2Doe-2D0813-2Dkutz-2Dtraffic-2Dstops-2D20150812-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=RfDm2JQOLPvgX1dI_hDFgR1IzfnhtF235od7aIkssx4&e=>.
>>>
>>> This free-handed approach to traffic stops has resulted in drivers being
>>> stopped for windows that are too heavily tinted, for driving too fast,
>>> driving too slow, failing to maintain speed, following too closely,
>>> improper
>>> lane changes, distracted driving, screeching a car's tires, and leaving
>>> a
>>> parked car door open for too long.
>>>
>>> Motorists can also be stopped by police for driving near a bar or on a
>>> road
>>> that has large amounts of drunk driving, driving a certain make of car
>>> (Mercedes, Grand Prix and Hummers are among the most ticketed
>>> vehicles<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.forbes.com_2010_10_13_cars-2Dthat-2Dget-2Dticketed-2Dmost-2Dpolice-2Dspeeding-2Dlifestyle-2Dvehicles-2Dviolations.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=tZjmJZ6i9uazDotMo3CcjnsThwJENnnLFkQgIoiqqJY&e=>),
>>> having anything dangling from the rearview mirror (air fresheners,
>>> handicap
>>> parking permits, troll transponders or rosaries), and displaying
>>> pro-police
>>> bumper stickers.
>>>
>>> Incredibly, a federal appeals court actually ruled unanimously in 2014
>>> that
>>> acne scars and driving with a stiff upright posture are reasonable
>>> grounds
>>> for being pulled
>>> over<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__truthinmedia.com_federal-2Dappeals-2Dcourt-2Ddriving-2Dwith-2Dupright-2Dposture-2Dand-2Dacne-2Dis-2Dsufficient-2Devidence-2Dfor-2Dtraffic-2Dstop_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=T3p3DlafmdYOLt1H6lCZFDyNY-snE8Yhjc9QBXknuDs&e=>.
>>> The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that driving a vehicle that has
>>> a
>>> couple air fresheners, rosaries and pro-police bumper stickers at 2 MPH
>>> over
>>> the speed limit is
>>> suspicious<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thenewspaper.com_news_47_4750.asp&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=vK0g_m9S1K1O7-v1Mr81f7KG-FxY4ztKazyEkOjoj5E&e=>,
>>> meriting a traffic stop.
>>>
>>> Equally appalling, in Heien v. North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme
>>> Court—which
>>> has largely paved the way for the police and other government agents to
>>> probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip and generally manhandle
>>> anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance—allowed police officers
>>> to
>>> stop drivers who appear
>>> nervous<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.supremecourt.gov_opinions_14pdf_13-2D604-5Fec8f.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=pn5gqvUylfVnGabIKnVQeaXTaW7iodLovTqySBehU0Y&e=>,
>>> provided they provide a palatable pretext for doing so.
>>>
>>> Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the lone objector in the case. Dissenting in
>>> Heien, Sotomayor warned, "Giving officers license to effect seizures so
>>> long
>>> as they can attach to their reasonable view of the facts some reasonable
>>> legal interpretation (or misinterpretation) that suggests a law has been
>>> violated significantly expands this authority... One wonders how a
>>> citizen
>>> seeking to be law-abiding and to structure his or her behavior to avoid
>>> these invasive, frightening, and humiliating encounters could do
>>> so<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.supremecourt.gov_opinions_14pdf_13-2D604-5Fec8f.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=pn5gqvUylfVnGabIKnVQeaXTaW7iodLovTqySBehU0Y&e=>."
>>>
>>> In other words, drivers beware.
>>>
>>> Traffic stops aren't just dangerous. They can be downright deadly.
>>>
>>> Remember Walter L. Scott? Reportedly pulled over for a broken
>>> taillight<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_04_08_us_south-2Dcarolina-2Dofficer-2Dis-2Dcharged-2Dwith-2Dmurder-2Din-2Dblack-2Dmans-2Ddeath.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=jBuoxW3agITwMT0Dol40n99jI50I0R-cIlNg0aR2nGs&e=>,
>>> Scott—unarmed—ran away from the police officer, who pursued and shot him
>>> from behind, first with a Taser, then with a gun. Scott was struck five
>>> times, "three times in the back, once in the upper buttocks and once in
>>> the
>>> ear — with at least one bullet entering his
>>> heart<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_04_08_us_south-2Dcarolina-2Dofficer-2Dis-2Dcharged-2Dwith-2Dmurder-2Din-2Dblack-2Dmans-2Ddeath.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=jBuoxW3agITwMT0Dol40n99jI50I0R-cIlNg0aR2nGs&e=>."
>>>
>>> Samuel Dubose, also unarmed, was pulled over for a missing front license
>>> plate<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nbcnews.com_news_us-2Dnews_prosecutors-2Drewiewiung-2Dofficers-2Dfatal-2Dshooting-2Dunarmed-2Dcincinnati-2Dman-2Dn396116&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=bJ4ILUV3ifEtgrgT4BcMQ0HKEBqxvVw5SGGoag4kjM4&e=>.
>>> He was reportedly shot in the head after a brief struggle in which his
>>> car
>>> began rolling forward.
>>>
>>> Levar Jones was stopped for a seatbelt
>>> offense<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.people.com_article_south-2Dcarolina-2Dpolice-2Dofficer-2Dshoots-2Dunarmed-2Dsuspect-2Ddashcam&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=_Q8Y_mW1OOLC6P0QFhHYkP5MuuJMQjRfoDmVmIrpIC0&e=>,
>>> just as he was getting out of his car to enter a convenience store.
>>> Directed
>>> to show his license, Jones leaned into his car to get his wallet, only to
>>> be
>>> shot four times by the "fearful" officer. Jones was also unarmed.
>>>
>>> Bobby Canipe was pulled over for having an expired
>>> registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dailymail.co.uk_news_article-2D2579654_Police-2Ddashcam-2Dshows-2DSouth-2DCarolina-2Dcop-2Dshoot-2D70-2Dyear-2Dold-2DVietnam-2Dveteran-2Dman-2Dreached-2Dtruck-2Dcane-2Droutine-2Dtraffic-2Dstop.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=B1SpDF20SdRyctbcVzU4Mmtjys8VsCsQR8lteImYRR8&e=>.
>>> When the 70-year-old reached into the back of his truck for his walking
>>> cane, the officer fired several shots at him, hitting him once in the
>>> abdomen.
>>>
>>> Dontrell Stevens was stopped "for not bicycling
>>> properly."<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.chicagotribune.com_news_nationworld_chi-2Dflorida-2Ddeputy-2Dshoots-2Ddontrell-2Dstephens-2D20150424-2Dstory.html-23page-3D1&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=A4UAr3dZUZgRLbveaLC96dzUWRFQpNR8U5uHuIdftnQ&e=>
>>> The officer pursuing him "thought the way Stephens rode his bike was
>>> suspicious. He thought the way Stephens got off his bike was
>>> suspicious."
>>> Four seconds later, sheriff's deputy Adams Lin shot Stephens four times
>>> as
>>> he pulled out a black object from his waistband. The object was his cell
>>> phone. Stephens was unarmed.
>>>
>>> Sandra
>>> Bland<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2015_07_23_us_sandra-2Dbland-2Darrest-2Ddeath_index.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=InCrHlVb3-pzlycamtWPMAJ224GVLog1PHjyIqV0kjI&e=>,
>>> pulled over for allegedly failing to use her turn signal, was arrested
>>> after
>>> refusing to comply with the police officer's order to extinguish her
>>> cigarette and exit her vehicle. The encounter escalated, with the
>>> officer
>>> threatening to "light" Bland up with his taser. Three days later, Bland
>>> was
>>> found dead in her jail cell. "You're doing all of this for a failure to
>>> signal?<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2015_07_22_us_texas-2Dsandra-2Dbland-2Darrest_index.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=6Ae00n_2N7lEuT-H5L_m0wM3v_LuSrjL8cl9GWz5oFA&e=>"
>>> Bland asked as she got out of her car, after having been yelled at and
>>> threatened repeatedly.
>>>
>>> Keep in mind, from the moment those lights start flashing and that siren
>>> goes off, we're all in the same boat. However, it's what happens after
>>> you've been pulled over that's critical.
>>>
>>> Survival is key.
>>>
>>> Technically, you have the right to remain silent (beyond the basic
>>> requirement to identify yourself and show your registration). You have
>>> the
>>> right to refuse to have your vehicle searched. You have the right to
>>> film
>>> your interaction with police. You have the right to ask to leave. You
>>> also
>>> have the right to resist an unlawful order such as a police officer
>>> directing you to extinguish your cigarette, put away your phone or stop
>>> recording
>>> them<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newsnet5.com_news_state_heres-2Dwhat-2Ddrivers-2Dpolice-2Dare-2Dallowed-2Dto-2Ddo-2Dduring-2Dtraffic-2Dstops&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=RGizuRhljSYLgdYffv3RllE8b0JCSM7T8YskUV42Zqo&e=>.
>>>
>>> However, there is a price for asserting one's rights. That price grows
>>> more
>>> costly with every passing day.
>>>
>>> If you ask cops and their enablers what Americans should do to stay
>>> alive
>>> during encounters with police, they will tell you to comply, cooperate,
>>> obey, not resist, not argue, not make threatening gestures or
>>> statements,
>>> avoid sudden movements, and submit to a search of their person and
>>> belongings.
>>>
>>> The problem, of course, is what to do when compliance is not enough.
>>>
>>> After all, every day we hear about situations in which unarmed Americans
>>> complied and still died during an encounter with police simply because
>>> they
>>> appeared to be standing in a "shooting
>>> stance"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_news_morning-2Dmix_wp_2016_09_28_police-2Dshoot-2Dblack-2Dman-2Din-2Dsan-2Ddiego-2Dsuburb-2Dsparking-2Dprotests-2Dcircumstances-2Dremain-2Dunclear_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=gdFgqoa_-sEtkyOb3DgzJIGTPUahJ-dNAA2SqMgKoII&e=>
>>> or held a cell
>>> phone<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lasvegassun.com_news_2015_dec_31_metro-2Dpolice-2Dinvestigating-2Dofficer-2Dinvolved-2Dshooti_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=8WnOff9fOBXV5MTZGBv-w7oUXhR2eRSarEfPAcyHVQs&e=>
>>> or a garden
>>> hose<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__articles.latimes.com_2013_apr_04_local_la-2Dme-2Dln-2Dwater-2Dnozzle-2Dshooting-2D20130404&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=-tZqvasUYj1xwdA0h3iifVr8uC6_u7JUt_X53wMIODU&e=>
>>> or carried around a baseball
>>> bat<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_12_27_us_chicago-2Dpolice-2Dfatally-2Dshoot-2D2-2Draising-2Dnew-2Dquestions-2Dfor-2Da-2Dforce-2Dunder-2Dscrutiny.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=sXxetfdGn-IEEuyJnzrWS3Q_tVkFi6RkUXVPHIkP1jg&e=>
>>> or answered the front
>>> door<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_12_27_us_chicago-2Dpolice-2Dfatally-2Dshoot-2D2-2Draising-2Dnew-2Dquestions-2Dfor-2Da-2Dforce-2Dunder-2Dscrutiny.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=sXxetfdGn-IEEuyJnzrWS3Q_tVkFi6RkUXVPHIkP1jg&e=>
>>> or held a spoon in a threatening
>>> manner<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nydailynews.com_news_crime_alabama-2Dman-2Drushed-2Dofficer-2Dspoon-2Dfatally-2Dshot-2Darticle-2D1.2336281&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=EmyD8WHjDWx03cjuYb0VjbvwMqSFk15hXMmHxBQ3gDE&e=>
>>> or ran in an aggressive
>>> manner<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__patch.com_georgia_cartersville_new-2Ddetails-2Dreleased-2Dbartow-2Dofficer-2Dinvolved-2Dshooting-2D0&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=c8RoiyZ9613aKgY57JtuGLYfKyxssDc5hLyfTyR65mk&e=>
>>> holding a tree branch or wandered around
>>> naked<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cbs46.com_story_28301956_naked-2Dman-2Dshot-2Dby-2Dpolice-2Dofficer-2Dat-2Ddekalb-2Dcounty-2Dapartments&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=zNXqEAReHbGeCOQmSK86VMLRzJl39FH3rsWgHY5TGvs&e=>
>>> or hunched over in a defensive
>>> posture<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_local_crime_man-2Dinjured-2Din-2Dpolice-2Dinvolved-2Dshooting-2Din-2Dbaltimore-2Dsuburb_2015_06_25_84be9f36-2D1b26-2D11e5-2Dab92-2Dc75ae6ab94b5-5Fstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=0yGh79vl5o5rD4XQ5qQIq8rmrjmPQc4bXfxKJ0T-CQ4&e=>
>>> or made the mistake of wearing the same clothes as a carjacking
>>> suspect<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.latimes.com_local_lanow_la-2Dme-2Dln-2Dsheriff-2Dshooting-2D20160809-2Dsnap-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=2SlR3kTb74Wvc_AiYvydz0Hhd_jvcyofLl3Adn601QU&e=>
>>> (dark pants and a basketball jersey) or dared to leave an area at the
>>> same
>>> time that a police officer showed
>>> up<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.11alive.com_news_local_da-2Dofficer-2Dinvolved-2Din-2Dfatal-2Dmidtown-2Dshooting-2Dfaces-2Dmurder-2Dcharges_274709357&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=WPCJE_OgY2xJjmW1Y-524x1anlGqboWi-Z2uP0Bp_MY&e=>
>>> or had a car break
>>> down<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__abc7.com_news_tulsa-2Dpolice-2Dshoot-2Dkill-2Dunarmed-2Dblack-2Dman-2Ddoj-2Dinvestigating_1517880_&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=bexx-2ntHpFM2UbnvNw7RjxlpIGCDDfnu3Ts1Jm2usg&e=>
>>> by the side of the road or were
>>> deaf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2016_08_25_us_nc-2Dtrooper-2Dbeing-2Dinvestigated-2Dfor-2Dshooting-2Dof-2Ddeaf-2Dman.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=Dl8ar3GFNSfDZrRa3nwp_-P-uN6nICvpy8SnCxCGnqE&e=>
>>> or
>>> homeless<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.latimes.com_local_lanow_la-2Dme-2Dln-2Dcastic-2Ddeputy-2Dshooting-2D20160803-2Dsnap-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=rlnfniFBt5nKFwOZMqmi5WTSDsofFUX6HHtDa1mZdXw&e=>
>>> or
>>> old<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.chicagotribune.com_news_columnists_kass_ct-2Djohn-2Dwrana-2Dtextbook-2Dpolice-2Dforce-2Dcase-2Dkass-2D0111-2D20150111-2Dcolumn.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=aWLeeQ7i6wtKbbNXhXf1gtDQroCTUjK68pzJGZsQhQQ&e=>.
>>>
>>> Now you can make all kinds of excuses to justify these shootings, and in
>>> fact that's exactly what you'll hear from politicians, police unions,
>>> law
>>> enforcement officials and individuals who are more than happy to march
>>> in
>>> lockstep with the police.
>>>
>>> However, to suggest that a good citizen is a compliant citizen and that
>>> obedience will save us from the police state is not only recklessly
>>> irresponsible, but it is also deluded and out of touch with reality.
>>>
>>> To begin with, and most importantly, Americans need to know their rights
>>> when it comes to interactions with the police, bearing in mind that many
>>> law
>>> enforcement officials are largely ignorant of the law
>>> themselves<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__reason.com_blog_2014_10_06_today-2Dat-2Dscotus-2Dpolice-2Derrors-2Dvs-2Dthe-2Dfou&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=Vr84lSLLhxLn7joLOhvHF0g4ED9EDKlidjRhP8jNoNw&e=>.
>>>
>>> In a nutshell, the following are your basic rights when it comes to
>>> interactions with the police as outlined in the Bill of Rights:
>>>
>>> You have the right under the First Amendment to ask questions and
>>> express
>>> yourself. You have the right under the Fourth Amendment to not have your
>>> person or your property searched by police or any government agent
>>> unless
>>> they have a search warrant authorizing them to do so. You have the
>>> right
>>> under the Fifth Amendment to remain silent, to not incriminate yourself
>>> and
>>> to request an attorney. Depending on which state you live in and whether
>>> your encounter with police is consensual as opposed to your being
>>> temporarily detained or arrested, you may have the right to refuse to
>>> identify yourself. Presently, 26 states do not require citizens to show
>>> their ID to an officer (drivers in all states must do so, however).
>>>
>>> Knowing your rights is only part of the battle, unfortunately.
>>>
>>> As I make clear the hard part comes in when you have to exercise those
>>> rights in order to hold government officials accountable to respecting
>>> those
>>> rights.
>>>
>>> As a rule of thumb, you should always be sure to clarify in any police
>>> encounter whether or not you are being detained, i.e., whether you have
>>> the
>>> right to walk away. That holds true whether it's a casual "show your ID"
>>> request on a boardwalk, a stop-and-frisk search on a city street, or a
>>> traffic stop for speeding or just to check your insurance. If you feel
>>> like
>>> you can't walk away from a police encounter of your own volition—and
>>> more
>>> often than not you can't, especially when you're being confronted by
>>> someone
>>> armed to the hilt with all manner of militarized weaponry and gear—then
>>> for
>>> all intents and purposes, you're essentially under arrest from the moment
>>> a
>>> cop stops you. Still, it doesn't hurt to clarify that distinction.
>>>
>>> While technology is always going to be a double-edged sword, with the
>>> gadgets that are the most useful to us in our daily lives—GPS devices,
>>> cell
>>> phones, the internet—being the very tools used by the government to
>>> track
>>> us, monitor our activities, and generally spy on us, cell phones are
>>> particularly useful for recording encounters with the
>>> police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2014_07_16_nyregion_suit-2Dseeks-2Dto-2Destablish-2Dright-2Dto-2Drecord-2Dnew-2Dyork-2Dpolice-2Dofficers.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=hIL3UxsRyvMEEQqbL7yHL4EGiczwf1tGqlnjHgqBnKQ&e=>
>>> and have proven to be increasingly powerful reminders to police that
>>> they
>>> are not all powerful.
>>>
>>> A good resource is The Rutherford Institute's "Constitutional Q&A: Rules
>>> of
>>> Engagement for Interacting with
>>> Police<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rutherford.org_files-5Fimages_general_Rutherford-5FQA-5FRulesOfEngagement.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=51kb6N5zZ6MIxw-Qn_UhqGRChQakeIMV6Dn_O-KAaMI&s=5l2chxTAD3KeicV_Si9wW7u21fCV20PQzjiEnn3ij_M&e=>."
>>>
>>> Clearly, in the American police state, compliance is no guarantee that
>>> you
>>> will survive an encounter with the police with your life and liberties
>>> intact.
>>>
>>> So if you're starting to feel somewhat overwhelmed, intimidated and
>>> fearful
>>> for your life and the lives of your loved ones, you should be.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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