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   Multi-Tenticled Creature from Planet X, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 9:49am

   
   

   lessons from the Feds.

   Selective prosecution is certainly nothing new, and the current oppressive blanket of laws makes it virtually impossible to live a normal life without fracturing one law or another. Ask any social activist who has been targeted by the FBI. Ask the attendants at this legal & permitted dance party in Utah. Or read this incident about a private citizen being arrested for having a protest sign two weeks ago.

    

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   Matt Bennett, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 10:05am

   
   

   Re: Lessons from the Feds

   I agree, we have too many laws, and it is all too easy to be in violation of Something, without actually doing anything most of us would consider wrong.
   
   Your first story is a good example of that. Your second one isn't, really, that's just a case of police brutality, plain and simple, and he should sue for false arrest.

    

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   Witty Nickname, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 10:29am

   
   

   Guy arrested for anti-bush sign

   I loved the comments underneath the article about the guy who was arrested for the Bush sign. I love armchair lawyers, especially when they start making up laws. (Protesting is like littering / Income taxes are illegal / The Supreme Court's ruling are irrelevant...)
   
   Reminds me of when I was a kid and I would call "TIME OUT" seconds before getting tagged.

    

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   Multi-Tenticled Creature from Planet X, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 11:26am

   
   

   Re: Re: Lessons from the Feds

   Yeah, I actually wanted to list some better examples that I remembered reading a while back, but I ran out of time. For example: the military officer who was prosecuted for having pornographic images on his laptop because none of the other charges would stick. Or the activists who were arrested by a swarm of patrol cars plus a police helicopter for "seatbelt violations" while they just happened to be on their way to a rally. The use of helicopters to arrest activists for seatbelt violations has actually occurred on at least two different occasions that I can remember. I just couldn't find the links that I was looking for.

    

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   Vincent Clement (profile), Sep 10th, 2007 @ 9:49pm

   
   

   Putin is slowly returning Russia back to the good old days where you don't dare criticize the government, for fear of being arrested for breaking some law or tax evasion. One only has to look at Yukos and now Rosneft at what happens when you criticize or challenge Putin.
   
   So while the US government congratulates Russia on it's crackdown on piracy, they turn a blind eye to the abuse of power against those that dare criticize the government. I guess it fits with the whole 'your either with us or against us' motto.

    

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   killer, Oct 14th, 2007 @ 7:08am

   
   

   kill

    

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