Even worse then this are laws banning filming around oil drilling. Which means if another BP spill happens, and you film the oil spill, the oil company can get the state to prosecute you for filming oiling spilling all over the place and damaging the environment.

We see here the obvious solution to the public backlash issue: publicity. If only it were possible to keep the arrest secret (perhaps by classifying photography as a terrorist activity), then this reversal of the arrest would not have happened.

Perhaps some will learn a lesson from this. What lesson? Who will learn? Left as an exercise for the reader.

the law was implemented to stop the truth from coming out. the case was dropped because the truth would have come out and broadcast everywhere. that would really not have done certain industries much good but i bet it would have done a certain person and a certain office a whole lot of harm!

It’s amazing how prosecutors abuse their prosecutorial discretion to go after mostly poor and defenseless defendants breaking victimless laws that threaten big giant business entities but that big corporations and monopolists (that often benefit from govt granted monopoly power) and the government can basically do whatever they want with little fear of being prosecuted by the govt.

Something needs to change. I do not want the govt prosecuting every joe blow because they did something as harmless as infringe copy’right’ and this hurts the bottom line of big corporations. I want the government to criminally prosecute those at Bayer responsible for knowingly delivering A i d s (sorry, moderation problems) tainted blood to others and I want these criminals to go to jail for a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4absF7ykstc

There’s an article in this month’s Harper’s Magazine (Ted Conover, “The Way of All Flesh: Undercover in an Industrial Slaughterhouse”, Harpers, May 2013, pp.31-49), about conditions in a meat-packing plant. Mr Conover got a job as a federal meat inspector. The federal civil service system is extremely fair, much more so than any private employment system. There is no such thing as “over-qualified” in the federal system (*). If you are an American citizen, have a clean police record, one or more good college degrees, the ability to ace standardized tests without difficulty, and the willingness to ship out to wherever there is an opening, even if it is in a small town a couple of thousand miles away, in short, if you are an exemplary applicant, you can basically have a commonplace job such as mail carrier or meat inspector for the asking. Since Conover is Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU’s Journalism school, and has written several books, he qualifies, obviously. Equally obviously, the USDA doesn’t have to ask nicely about putting meat inspectors into a meat-packing plant, and it’s none of the meat-packing company’s damm business if one of the meat inspectors seems to be a sometime college professor. Most of the meat inspectors are former plant workers, who went to night school to qualify for a better federal job.

Here is the USDA job sheet:

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Careers/How_to_Apply_Food_Inspector/index.asp
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/318165500

(*) One time, I was eating in McDonald’s, and two people from the head office were conducting employment interviews for a manager position in the next booth, which gives you an idea how McDonald’s operates. At any rate, they interviewed a candidate who was an engineering student, and then, after he had left, decided against him, on the grounds that they could not see why someone like that would want to work for them– they didn’t want someone who would quit the day he got his degree. They wanted someone who would be their slave.

-Dr. Ron Paul

Only an evil government would make laws against truth.