Man facing 75 years in prison for videoing police -- a crime in 12 states

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

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[Smyg]

What.

[RedSonRising]

Ok this country is getting scarier by the day.

[Triple A]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Co8liL2umjM/TCjY_E2ENfI/AAAAAAAAAG0/p80_LC3PYio/s1600/seriously-guys.jpg

[Smyg]

What.

No, really. If it was me, I'd be in for life without the slighest chance of parole, given how much of this I've done.

[RadioRaheem84]

I thought the charges against this guy were dropped because a judge deemed the situation unconstitutional?

Still though, I think the incident was brought up in order to scare people from videotaping police brutality.

[IndependentCitizen]

Fascism has arrived in the U.S.

[Tovarisch]

This just shows that America is not truly the free and democratic land that it promises to be. 75 years for taping an act of cruelty? Sounds like fascism

[Ocean Seal]

Fascism has arrived in the U.S.
Nope, just capitalism.
On a second note: 75 years? Seriously, that's a life sentence?

[Zav]

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Capitalism, Fascism, and Stalinism. Difference? Not really.

[Jeraldi]

well the us created the groundwork for fascism when the courts used the amendment that freed the slaves to declare corporations people. also remember a lot of the us higher ups during ww2 supported the nazi party.

[tir1944]

Capitalism, Fascism, and Stalinism. Difference? Not really.
Yep except that fascism is capitalism(in decay) by definition.
You should really try to use these gray cells of yours...

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

This is plain old authoritarianism not fascism seeing as how the cops are not doing this supported by some unifying ideology or political party but this is merely the general nature of the system trying to protect itself. Fascism is a stronger and more evocative term than authoritarian though.


Yep except that fascism is capitalism(in decay) by definition.
You should really try to use these gray cells of yours...

The definition of fascism is having a charismatic central authority which unites enough of the feuding factions of a Capitalist society. The collapse of a Capitalist economy is merely a cause of fascism, it's not the "definition".

[Os Cangaceiros]

unfortunately for the local would-be tyrants in certain states, federal decisions trump their decisions:

http://technorati.com/technology/article/federal-courts-rule-it-is-not/