Copblockers Content Featured on Stossel’s “Illegal Everything”

March 3, 2012January 1, 2014 Pete Eyre 448 Views abraham mckenzie, Ademo Freeman, Alex Hodge, copblock.org, greenfield police department, james atkins, john stossel, jones county sheriffs department, Motorhome Diaries, occupy wall street, Pete Eyre, Police State, Todd M. Dodge, Transparency, Update, wiretapping

Last week Ademo posted about John Stossel’s special “Illegal Everything” as it included footage of our unjust arrests when passing through Jones County, MS in May of 2009 and when attempting to bail out friends in Greenfield, MA in July of 2010. Also included in the Stossel segment was a clip from an interview shot in September of 2011 in New York City (that evening and the following day this Occupy Wall Street-related content was captured).

Though much of the strike-the-roots comments I made didn’t make the segment, it’s still good to know that many, in this case Stossel, aren’t ignoring this issue: transparency of claimed double-standards by some who wear badges. Below is the related six-minute segment about the transparency (or the lack thereof) of public servants that includes a few comments and points of information.

The entire 42-min long “Illegal Everything” special addresses many other actions that, despite having no victim, sometimes result in strangers wearing badges initiating force based on claims of “just doing my job.”

The sooner each of us individually conclude that no one has extra rights (and vocalize and act accordingly) the sooner such institutionalized rights-violations will cease.

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Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.