Behind The Woodshed Blogcaster – March 9, 2014.

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Living In A Terrortory When

Linking Action – This Website Would Be A Crime . . . But:

  • Barrett Brown: The Criminalization of Web Links  First, a quick recap of how the internet works. People from all over the world put stuff on the web (“posts”). In many cases you the viewer do not know who posted something, when they did it, where they live or where they obtained the information they posted. It is just there on your screen. If the info is of interest, you can link to it, sending instructions via chat, email, HTML, Facebook or whatever to someone else, telling them where to find the information. The significance of Brown’s case was made quite clear by the EFF:

    The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas today [March 5, 2014] filed a motion to dismiss eleven charges against Barrett Brown in a criminal prosecution that would have had massive implications for journalism and the right of ordinary people to share links. EFF has written extensively about the case and had planned to file an amicus brief on Monday on behalf of several reporters groups arguing for the dismissal of the indictment.

    Brown, an independent journalist, was prosecuted after he shared a link to thousands of pages of stolen documents in an attempt to crowdsource the review of those documents—a common technique for many journalists. The records came from the US government contractor, Stratfor Global Intelligence and documented discussions of assassination, rendition and how to undermine journalists and foreign governments. They also included thousands of stolen credit card numbers. Brown had no involvement in the hack, but was charged nonetheless with identity theft.

  • Appeals court overturns defamation award against blogger A federal appeals court unanimously overturned a defamation award against a blogger Friday, ruling that 1st Amendment protections for traditional news media extend to individuals posting on the Web.
    “The protections of the 1st Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant was a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities,” Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz wrote for a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
    The panel said its holding was the first of its kind within the 9th Circuit, though other circuit courts have held that individuals have the same free speech rights as the news media.

Incremental Governmental Encroachment

  • Supreme Court Makes Big Decision On When Cops Can Enter Your HomeThe Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police may search a home without a warrant when two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter, and the resident who refuses access is then arrested.
    The justices declined to extend an earlier ruling denying entry to police when the occupants disagree and both are present.
    Justice Samuel Alito wrote the court’s 6-3 decision holding that an occupant may not object to a search when he is not at home.
    “We therefore hold that an occupant who is absent due to a lawful detention or arrest stands in the same shoes as an occupant who is absent for any other reason,” Alito said.

Who Is The Landlord?

  •  Court Rules Off-The-Grid Living Is Illegal Living off the grid is illegal in Cape Coral, Florida, according to a court ruling Thursday.
    Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin ruled that the city’s codes allow Robin Speronis to live without utility power but she is still required to hook her home to the city’s water system. Her alternative source of power must be approved by the city, Eskin said.
    As previously reported in Off The Grid News, Speronis has been fighting the city of Cape Coral since November when a code enforcement officer tried to evict her from her home for living without utilities.

Go Ahead, Incriminate Yourself

  •   Tennessee Supreme Court Says Cops Can Ignore Sobriety Test Supreme Court of Tennessee rules that police may arrest an individual for drunk driving even after he passes all sobriety tests.
    The Tennessee Supreme Court decided on Thursday that the only use for roadside sobriety tests is to collect evidence against motorists, using them to convict individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). The high court justices overturned an appellate decision from 2012 that found a driver who passed six of the tests with flying colors should never have been arrested (view 2012 ruling). David D. Bell was arrested on May 13, 2009, even though the trial judge found no evidence of impairment in the sobriety tests when he reviewed the dashcam footage.

Even When You Didn’t Know You Could
– The Threat of 
Unaccountable Covert Surveillance

  • The Senate Is Sitting On A Devastating Report About How The CIA Avoided Oversight Of Unnecessary Torture Program The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer had a fantastic article revealing some details of a still-classified report put together by the Senate Intelligence Committee which apparently rips the CIA to shreds over its torture program, both in how ineffective the program was, but also in how the CIA tried to avoid any real oversight from Congress. At its core is a bitter disagreement over an apparently devastating, and still secret, report by the Senate Intelligence Committee documenting in detail how the C.I.A.’s brutalization of terror suspects during the Bush years was unnecessary, ineffective, and deceptively sold to Congress, the White House, the Justice Department, and the public.
  • CIA Accused Of Spying On Senate Intelligence Committee Staffers  While at times, it’s appeared that the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein, serves more to prop up the intelligence community than to handle oversight, it has actually clashed quite a bit with the CIA. We’ve discussed a few times how the Committee has been pushing to release a supposedly devastating 6,000 page report about the CIA’s torture program, which cost taxpayers an equally astounding $40 million to produce. However, the CIA has been fighting hard to block the release of the report, arguing that it misrepresents the CIA’s actions.

    However, things are getting even more bizarre, as the NY Times is reporting that the CIA is now accused of spying on the Intelligence Committee and its staffers in its attempt to keep that report from being released.

We Have a Problem Here

  • Obama: If People ‘Can’t Trust’ Government, ‘We’re Going to Have Some Problems Here’ Without any sense of irony whatsoever in the aftermath of the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the administration’s stonewalling on Benghazi, the Department of Justice’s targeting of reporters, the Department of Health and Human Services’ leveraging of private organizations for Obamacare public relations cash, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s secret email addresses, Obama unloaded this line:
    “If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.”

Knowledge – Learning How to Deal With The Encroachment

  • Oro Expedition ’14 And Then Some…  I‘m Scheduled to be a guest Tuesday Night 5 PM to 7PM
  • United WE Strike EVERY 15th:

    1) DON’T BUY – ANYTHING You don’t research for yourself, reject multinational globalist retailers. Work within your community, bartering and cooperating while we get through this in order to begin our true jobs: Good Stewardship of OUR Families and World.

    2) DON’T COMPLY – THINK for YOURSELF. REFUSE IMMORAL ORDERS!

    3) ASK WHY???!!! WHY are WE here, and am I part of the problem or SOUL-ution???

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    Real News About Real Liberty

    Grimnir breaks down the latest news stories to expose the truth hidden within, by the lies of the Corporate media. RLM News is the fastest, most jam packed, one hour news

Because They Can Be Too Smart and Psychologically Stable To Be A Cop.

  • Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphone Battery And Attempts To Get YouTube To Pull The Incriminating Video Recording a police officer in public isn’t a crime. Well, it isn’t anything a cop can cite or arrest you for doing. Instead, a bunch of vague infractions are listed in hopes that something will stick and deter future citizen recordings.

    Shawn Randall Thomas, a New York photographer, was approached by NYPD officer Efrain Rojas when he noticed Thomas filming another officer’s interaction with a turnstile jumper in a subway station. “Approached” is putting it mildly. Rojas confronted Thomas and got physical when the photographer refused to stop filming. (via Techdirt reader Tony Loro)

    A New York City cop beat up and arrested a man for video recording him inside a subway station from 30 feet away Saturday night, walking up to him and getting in his face all while claiming the man was invading his personal space…

    Thomas also obtained footage from another man who had recorded Rojas with his knees on Thomas’ back as he lay face down on the sidewalk just outside the sub station, seconds after Rojas had bashed his face into the pavement, busting his lip.

    The injury was so bad that they had to transport him to the hospital twice during his 24-hour incarceration where doctors described him as a victim of assault.

    As if the impromptu “use of force” wasn’t enough, Thomas was also charged with the following:

    [Thomas] is still facing charges of resisting arrest, trespassing, disorderly conduct and obstructing government…

  • [Watch] Cop Tells Citizen Slave – You Have Lost Freedom of Speech The citizen videographer in this instance is recording the arrest of persons not known to him in the middle of a public street in Maryland.
    One officer comes over and tells him to stop, who then goes back and reports to another one that the camera man refused. That brings the second cop over, who informs the camera man of the new crime of “diverting my attention” and that he needs “to get the Hell out of here, LEAVE!” Cop number two gets physical and abusive with the insolent citizen slave.
    A third officer comes over and warns the videographer, reminding him of the police presence around and telling him “do not disrespect us and do not not listen to us. Now walk away and shut your f**king mouth or you’re going to jail.” The cameraman pushes it a little more asking if he had done something wrong. The cop didn’t like that, and returns, getting physical and telling the videographer, “Do not open your mouth.”  The cameraman responds saying, “I thought I had freedom of speech here.” The cop replies, “You don’t, you just lost it.”
  • CT Cop to Gun Owning Patriot: “I Cannot Wait to Get the Order to Kick Your Door In”  Last weekend, I reported on Connecticut John Cinque’s 2013 warning to lawmakers that he would not comply with their attempts to force the citizens of Connecticut to register their semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines. Since that time, the video, though a year old, has gone viral. However, in a recent video between Mr. Cinque and Connecticut gubernatorial candidate Joe Viconti, Cinque reveals that a Branford, Connecticut police officer told him, “I Cannot Wait to Get the Order to Kick Your Door In.”

Sufficiently Unintelligent and Insane to KILL YOU

  • Horror: Cops tackle, beat, pepper-spray, pin, suffocate, kill innocent man

    Disturbing video of a police incident in an Oklahoma parking lot shows a man who had committed no crime dying after being roughed up and violently restrained by four cops–all while his grief-stricken wife watched in horror.

    The man, 44-year-old Luis Rodriguez, died in a Moore, Oklahoma movie theater parking lot. Police were responding to a reported domestic disturbance. Rodriguez’s wife admitted to slapping the couple’s 19-year-old daughter in the face over a disagreement about the girl’s behavior. Rodriguez, however, was not involved and had not done anything wrong, according to local news reports.

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