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Bill Would Criminalize Filming Police In Arizona

January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 Asa J 1230 Views Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Arizona, Arizona ACLU, attorney Dan Barr, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Dan Pochoda, film the police, Filming cops, Filming police, filming the police, first amendment, photography is not a crime, police accountability, recording cops, Senate Bill 1054, Senator John Kavanagh, Transparency, unconstitutional

An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill, that if passed, would criminalize filming the police in certain circumstances. Rationalizing that recording

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PC Insanity Turns University Of Missouri Into Mini Police State

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 Asa J 1845 Views ACLU, affirmative action, Campus police, campus speech codes, Chairman Mao, check your privilege, Chen Boda, chilling affect, chilling affect on speech, China's Propaganda Department, civil liberties, Code of Student Conduct, Communist China, communist party, Communist Party of China, Concerned Student 1950, copblock, copblock.org, CPC, cultural appropriation, Cultural Marxism, Cultural Revolution, David Kupelian, double-standards, Dr. Walter E. Williams, first amendment, free speech, Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, Halloween costumes, Harassment, hate speech, Hateful and/or Hurtful Speech, How Much Can Discrimination Explain?, institutional victimization, Jiang Qing, Kang Sheng, Little Red Book, Liu Shaoqi, Maj. Brian Weimer, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong on People’s War, Mao’s “Little Red Book”, Maoist, Maoist China, Maoist Red Guard, Milo Yiannopoulos, Missouri, MU Police Department, no victim no crime, Old Summer Palace, PC police, Peking University, People's Daily, Police State, Political Correctness, Political Correctness Means A Draconian Police State, poop swastika, protest, question authority, racial intolerance, racial slurs, Red Guard, Red Guards, safe space, swastika, swastika hoax, Tawana Brawley, Tim Wolfe, totalitarian, University of Missouri, University of Missouri Police, University of Missouri Police Department, Where Do Correct Ideas Come from?, Whistleblower Magazine, white male privilege, white privilege, Yale University, Zhang Chengzhi, Zhang Chunqiao

In an epic display of the totalitarian nature of political correctness, “protests” at the University of Missouri have culminated with

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Obscure Virginia Law Turns Activists, Bicyclists, and Other Innocents into Felons–UPDATED

November 5, 2015January 25, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2068 Views anti-klan statues, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Fairfax County, felony, first amendment, freedom, guy fawkes, Harassment, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, mask, masks, no victim no crime, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COPBLOCK, overcriminalization, police, police abuse, Police State, rights, Seth Christman, video, Virginia, virginia cop block, virginia mask law

11/29/15 update with the outcome of Seth Christman’s trial On November 5th, thousands of people will be donning Guy Fawkes

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Paying To Add Your DNA To a Government Database via Ancestry.com and 23andMe

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 4331 Views 23andMe, Accountability, Ancestry.com, big brother, big brother is watching, civil liberties, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crazy conspiracy, database, Dishonesty, DNA, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, filmmaker, freedom, Fusion.net, genealogy, government funded DNA databases, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Justice System, kelly patterson, Michael Usry, murder, new orleans, New Orleans Advocate, NYU law, police, Police State, Privacy, private genetic databases, Professor Erin Murphy, rape kit, rights, totally reasonable steps by law enforcement, Transparency, video, wild goose chase, Wired

Normally, Big Brother has to go through the hassle of getting a warrant and establishing some sort of probable cause

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Mass. Supreme Court Rules Police Cannot Make Stops For Marijuana Possession

September 24, 2015November 19, 2015 Asa J 1407 Views ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, Bay State Repeal, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, Drug war, Elivette Rodriguez, Justice Margot Botsford, Justice Robert Cordy, Lawyer John L. Calcagni III, Legal director Matthew Segal, marijuana, marijuana decriminalization, marijuana legalization, marijuana possession, Marijuana Stops, Massachusetts, Massachusetts constitution, Massachusetts Supreme Court, Matthew Segal, Medical marijuana, medical marijuana dispensary, New Bedford police, Supreme Judicial Court, victimless crime, victimless crimes

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot preform vehicle stops based solely on the suspicion that motorists are

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Industry Lobbyists Get Armed Police Drones Legalized In North Dakota

August 27, 2015December 18, 2015 Asa J 2430 Views ACLU, bill of rights, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, department of homeland security, DHS, drone lobbyist, drone manufacturers, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Department, Grand Forks Regional Economic Development Corporation, House Bill 1328, Illegal search/entry, journalist Sarah Nelson, Keith Lund, less-lethal weapons, liberty for security, lobbyist, MuckRock.com, north dakota, North Dakota Department of Commerce, police, police drones, Police State, Representative Rick Becker, rights, Rodney Brossart, rubber bullets, search warrant, Sheriff Bob Rost, sound cannons, Surveillance, Tasers, tear gas, the Daily Beast, The Guardian, University of North Dakota

North Dakota has become the first state in the nation to legalize the use of armed police drones equipped with

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Military Facial Recognition Tech Now In The Hands Of Local Police

August 13, 2015November 28, 2015 Asa J 1562 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, biometric program, biometrics, boston, chicago, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, department of defense, DNA profiles, facial recognition, facial recognition software, FBI, fingerprints, fourth amendment, intelligence agencies, iris scans, Lt. Scott Wahl, military, New York, New York Times, Next Generation Identification, Next Generation Identification biometric program, oakland, photographs, Privacy, privacy rights, san diego, San Diego police, software, Stasi, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, surveillance state, Technology, voice identification records

According to a new New York Times report, facial recognition software utilized by intelligence agencies and the military is currently

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CopWatch of East Atlanta Advances Videographer Safety

November 19, 2013January 1, 2014 CopBlock 640 Views abuse, Accountability, Activism, atlanta, civil liberties, gentrification, Georgia, interview, Introduction, know your rights, police, power, red dog unit, right to record, urban, vice squad

The Police Accountability Tour had the opportunity to meet with the creative individuals behind CopWatch of East Atlanta. Having been

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Promoting Social Consciousness (Murfreesboro, TN Public Forum)

September 21, 2013 CopBlock 462 Views adam g. house, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corruption, government infractions, militarized police state, murfreesboro, Murfreesboro TN, natural rights, peaceful change, peaceful evolution, positive change, Tennessee

Activist Adam G. House was a guest speaker in Murfreesboro, TN on August 22, 2013, where a community forum entitled

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Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten to Derail the Nation

November 8, 2012January 1, 2014 CopBlock 1158 Views Barack Obama, civil liberties, constitution, huffingtonpost.com, John W. Whitehead, law enforcement, Mitt Romney, NDAA, no victim no crime, Paul Craig Roberts, pentagor, prision population, secruity, surveillance society, swat raids, The Rutherford Institute, vipr strikes, war on terrorism, weaponized drones

This post was written by John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute and published to HuffingtonPost.com on Oct. 31st 2012.

Good Stranger: DoD Records Citizens’ Encounters with SFPD

July 2, 2012 CopBlock 729 Views artifical intelligence, big brother, brian lande, civil liberties, cop block, copblock.org, darpa, defense advanced research projects agency, department of defense, Featured, fred noland, geoffrey king, good stranger, jacob crawford, kate conger, michael andraychak, military, Privacy, san francisco police department, Surveillance

Planning on chugging down icy brews in Dolores Park this weekend? Recent crackdowns by the San Francisco Police Department have

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John Bush Arrested for Filming Police

December 4, 2011January 1, 2014 CopBlock 507 Views civil liberties, copblock, john bush, Matthew Medina, Texas

This man was clearly arrested for simply not following every arbitrary preference of this militant police officer. Good thing it