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Ron Obvious

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22. Remember those stories you used to hear about the USSR?

Reply to avebury (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 03:39 AM

May 2013

Remember the stories you used to hear about the unlucky tourist in the USSR who, while taking pictures, accidentally took a picture of something he shouldn't have, like a strategic railway line or something like that? The story always ended with the poor guy arrested on the spot and put in prison.

I don't even know if these stories were true, but the moral of the story was always about how evil police states were compared to how free we were in the west.

In just a few years we have become the country that foreigners can legitimately tell stories like that about, in order to frighten their children from visiting.

Unreal.

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Man Might Face 75 Years is Prison for Videotaping Police [View all] avebury May 2013 OP

Disturbing. nt ZombieHorde May 2013 #1

this is a story that really should go viral - this is an outrageous human rights abuse Douglas Carpenter May 2013 #2

Is the ACLU on this? BainsBane May 2013 #3

Isn't this law unconstitutional? meow2u3 May 2013 #4

These laws are idiotic. Based on the laws of secretly recording someone. The prosecutors are..... Logical May 2013 #5

Isn't this a real old story? Here is a link saying the charges were dismissed..... Logical May 2013 #6

The charges against the police were dropped? burnodo May 2013 #10

The video also says the charges were dropped and the guy was elected as a representive... marble falls May 2013 #11

Where in the video does it say that? The end of the video says "Alison has a pre-trial hearing... Logical May 2013 #12

Crawford county appealed the 2011 dismissal. The appeal may still be pending struggle4progress May 2013 #16

so will the freedoms loving democratic party take a stand against this sort of thing? nt msongs May 2013 #7

My father and one of my brothers were police officers KinMd May 2013 #8

If only our Constitution prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. If only indepat May 2013 #9

As distrubing sulphurdunn May 2013 #13

Oddly enough there are people out their that will tell this guy he shouldn't be filming.... Let's midnight May 2013 #14

I remember 'Animal farm' Naijabizcom May 2013 #15

That quote is from Lord Acton when he was fighting against the "Doctrine of Infallibilty" SharonAnn May 2013 #19

WTF is with all the old news postings lately?. Check the dates on these things SpartanDem May 2013 #17

+1000, weird stuff going on. n-t Logical May 2013 #18

This is so wrong on many levels. Boudica the Lyoness May 2013 #20

Here's a new video of a man getting killed by the police.... Boudica the Lyoness May 2013 #21

Remember those stories you used to hear about the USSR? Ron Obvious May 2013 #22