Police State Update

[epicSocialism4tw]

In a move that sounds frighteningly similar to what happens when someone speaks out against the powers-that-be in an authoritarian regime — police and city prosecutors in Renton, Washington are excercising what is being called an “extreme abuse of power.”

The town’s city prosecutor wants to actually send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated online videos.

According to KIRO7, the animations parody officers having sex while on duty and undue staff promotions among other things. And while the city is seeking to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an “extreme abuse of power.”



http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cartoonist-faces-jail-time-for-mocking-police-in-animated-online-video/

[Requiem]

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Police State, huh? So, defamation cannot be litigated?

[epicSocialism4tw]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/03/health/03vitals.yawn.190.jpg

Police State, huh? So, defamation cannot be litigated?

I don't know...ask Saturday Night Live.

[baja]

This nation's people have been lullabied to sleep.

[Requiem]

I don't know...ask Saturday Night Live.

I do not watch that show. I finally watched cable for the first time in 11 months a few days ago. It sucks. Bai.

[cutthemdown]

I do not watch that show. I finally watched cable for the first time in 11 months a few days ago. It sucks. Bai.

Generally the law states that if something is obviously a parody, then its not slander etc etc. Sort of like how Howard Stern dress up as Micheal Jackson molesting kids, but its not like you really thought it was Jackson. A cartoon is generally considered something that can never be considered real, which is why you can even make child porn cartoons and its not illegal.

The police clearly fear the internet, and recording devices. They know tons of them are dirty and that they could not survive the lawsuits of too many bad videos getting out.

[epicSocialism4tw]

I do not watch that show. I finally watched cable for the first time in 11 months a few days ago. It sucks. Bai.

SNL is not on cable.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Sneak preview of what's in store for America?

Britain burns: Riots spread through UK cities

LONDON (AP) — A chaotic wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s.

In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting buildings, vehicles and garbage dumps alight, looting stores and pelting police officers with bottles and fireworks. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome reminder of London's volatility for leaders organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics in less than a year.

Police called in hundreds of reinforcements — and made a rare decision to deploy armored vehicles in some of the worst-hit districts — but still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol and the northwestern city of Liverpool.

The riots appeared to have little unifying cause — though some involved in the violence claimed to be motivated by government cuts to public spending, which will savage welfare payments.

Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his summer vacation in Italy — reversing an earlier decision to continue his break — and headed home for a meeting of the national crisis committee on Tuesday morning.

Cameron was likely to attempt to toughen the response against the violence on Tuesday, with some communities complaining that stretched police were simply unable to reach some centers of the fast-spreading violence.

Rioters were left virtually unchallenged in several neighborhoods and able to plunder from stores at will or attempt to invade homes. Restaurants and stores closed early across London, fearful of looting.

Violence flared throughout the night, from gritty suburbs along the capital's fringes to central London's famously glitzy Notting Hill neighborhood. London's Ambulance Service said it had treated 16 patients, of whom 15 were hospitalized. Police said 334 people had been arrested and 69 people charged with offenses.

Violence first broke out late Saturday in London's northern Tottenham district when a peaceful protest over the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four who was gunned down in disputed circumstances Thursday, turned violent.

Duggan's death stirred old animosities and racial tensions which prompted riots in the 1980s, despite efforts by London police to build better relations with the city's ethnic communities after high-profile cases of racism in recent decades.

A brief inquest hearing into Duggan's death will take place tomorrow, though it will likely be several months before a full hearing is convened.

As the unrest spread, some pointed to rising social tensions in Britain as the government slashes 80 billion pounds ($130 billion) from public spending by 2015 to reduce the huge deficit, swollen after the country spent billions bailing out its foundering banks.

In the south London district of Croydon, police said a 26-year-old man was shot and seriously injured Monday but were unable to say immediately whether the incident was linked to rioting there.

A massive blaze ravaged a 100-year-old family run furniture store in Croydon and sent thick plumes of smoke into the air, forcing nearby homes to be evacuated. In the Clapham Junction area of south London, a mob stole masks from a fancy dress store to disguise their identities and then set the building on fire.

Dozens of people attacked shops in Birmingham's main retail district, and clashed with police in Liverpool and Bristol — spreading the chaos beyond London for the first time.

In the Hackney area of east London, hundreds of youths attacked shops and set fire to cars, leaving a trail of burning trash and shattered glass. Looters ransacked a small convenience store, filling plastic shopping bags with alcohol, cigarettes, candy and toilet paper.

"This is the uprising of the working class. We're redistributing the wealth," said Bryn Phillips, a 28-year-old self-described anarchist, as young people emerged from the store with chocolate bars and ice cream cones.

Phillips claimed rioters were motivated by distrust of the police, and drew a link between the rage on London's street and insurgent right-wing politics in the United States. "In America you have the tea party, in England you've got this," he said.

Police acknowledged Tuesday that major new bouts of violence had flared in at least five locations, badly stretching their resources.

Continued: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-burns-riots-spread-uk-cities-013736610.html

[Garcia Bronco]

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Police State, huh? So, defamation cannot be litigated?

If it's parody or satire, this is a blatant violation of the first amendment and will mostly likely bankrupt the city in a law suit if it's small enough.

[Garcia Bronco]

Riots have to be put down.

[Garcia Bronco]

This nation's people have been lullabied to sleep.

**** like this has always happened. That's why we have the courts. It may be slow. It may not always work, but this is hardly something to profess that belief.

[baja]

**** like this has always happened. That's why we have the courts. It may be slow. It may not always work, but this is hardly something to profess that belief.
I was directing this response to a particular post not the issue in the OP.

[gunns]

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But they are our friends.