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Valley Hearing For Recording Police Case (Man faces 75 years for recording police)
WAWV (Terre Haute) ^ | August 18 2011 | Patrick Fazio

Posted on 08/31/2011 11:18:30 AM PDT by markomalley

It's a court case that could affect anyone who uses a cell phone or any other recording device.

It involves a local man, Michael Allison, who faces prison time for recording law enforcement in public.

The state of Illinois considers it so serious, that an assistant from the Attorney General's Office appeared at Thursday's court hearing in Robinson.

(NB: The video report at the link has a lot more information and is well worth watching)

(Excerpt) Read more at mywabashvalley.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: govtabuse; liberalfascism; lping; policestate; rapeofliberty
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This story was linked from Drudge but the drudge link points to a source not allowed on FR. So this story comes from a local TV news story on the same subject.

There were two previous reports on this from back in June. Both of the text articles have the broadcasted news stories at the links, below, which should be watched.


1 posted on 08/31/2011 11:18:34 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

I’m sure a lot of you here will blame the cops for this situation that has ultimately little to do with the police.


2 posted on 08/31/2011 11:22:17 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: markomalley

Its just some more of that CHANGE we were promised.

Fascism, the double standard of government.

Now, when they enforce this law fully, every policeman who does not have wire tapping paperwork from the judge will do hard time for all their dash cameras.... Right?

Or is this selective enforcement of the law to punish the citizenship. You know, what we had a problem with the old kings of england for a long time ago.


3 posted on 08/31/2011 11:24:41 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: thefactor

If it’s illegal to record the police in action.....how soon will it be illegal to watch the police in action?


4 posted on 08/31/2011 11:25:02 AM PDT by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: American in Israel
"You know, what we had a problem with the old kings of england for a long time ago."

The Declaration of Independence needs to be dusted off and re-applied now!

5 posted on 08/31/2011 11:27:28 AM PDT by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: markomalley
The state of Illinois is going to lose big.

A taste of things to come.

6 posted on 08/31/2011 11:27:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: thefactor
I’m sure a lot of you here will blame the cops for this situation that has ultimately little to do with the police.

Do you support not being allowed to film public officials in performance of their duties (undercover operations, of course, excluded)?

If so, could you please provide a rationale for that?

7 posted on 08/31/2011 11:28:50 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

Jury nullification is the key here. Use it.


8 posted on 08/31/2011 11:28:50 AM PDT by texmexis best
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To: thefactor

I blame the cops and the prosecutors.


9 posted on 08/31/2011 11:31:21 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: thefactor

Who filed the report?
Who arrested this man?

THE POLICE.
Fully complicit, fully willing.


10 posted on 08/31/2011 11:31:41 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: markomalley
the drudge link points to a source not allowed on FR.

Why is the source not allowed on FR?

11 posted on 08/31/2011 11:32:28 AM PDT by giotto
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To: PALIN SMITH

has more to do with the politicians trying to protect their laws and precedent so that no citizen records them in conversations with their mafia bag men


12 posted on 08/31/2011 11:35:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The state of Illinois is going to lose big.

Particularly since the federal First Circuit just ruled that taping police is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment in another case in New Jersey.

13 posted on 08/31/2011 11:38:55 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: giotto
Why is the source not allowed on FR?

First, because the source is not reliable.

Second...if, hypothetically, you were to try to post something from that source, you would get the following response:

Source is Blocked, article not posted

xxxxx.com material not wanted on FR.


14 posted on 08/31/2011 11:43:29 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: thefactor

Can you provide an argument supporting the notion that this case has nothing to do with the police? You think that the cops had no choice but to arrest him —that they REGRETTED arresting him, maybe?


15 posted on 08/31/2011 11:51:52 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin
Moreover, the article says that it's OK if the police officer gives consent for the recording. I imagine that could be done after the fact without any fuss. So this police officer is FORCING THE ISSUE and is willing to severely punish this man by carrying through.

My brother is a police officer and there are many great ones. But this is a bad, bad law. What is even the rationale for keeping such a law on the books? Why hide truth?

16 posted on 08/31/2011 12:08:40 PM PDT by Liberty1970 (Proud to be a bitter, clinging hobbit)
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To: PapaBear3625
"another case in New Jersey" Ditto for the DPRM - Democratic People's Republic of Maryland. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/09/motorcyclist_wins_taping_case.html
17 posted on 08/31/2011 12:17:19 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Liberty1970

And by extension a very bad cop. So just where is “the factor?” I guess he’s back over at DU, just like his worthless alter ego, Bill O’Gasbag!


18 posted on 08/31/2011 12:17:39 PM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: markomalley
First, because the source is not reliable.

And yet FR allows posts from NYT, CBS News, CNN, etc.

Interesting.

19 posted on 08/31/2011 12:22:44 PM PDT by giotto
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To: markomalley
If so, could you please provide a rationale for that? He wants privacy because he is special.
20 posted on 08/31/2011 12:27:29 PM PDT by Ratman83
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