Sipsey Street Irregulars: Police recording bill presumes to authorize journalists, threaten gun owners

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Police recording bill presumes to authorize journalists, threaten gun owners

From David Codrea: As one of the two “mere” bloggers banging pots and pans to get that noticed, I take personal exception to government issuing de facto press licenses with criminal penalties should an independent upstart act like all he has rights, too -- probably because I was once threatened with arrest for daring to ask a question of a public figure at a public press conference. I was again threatened by a U.S. Marshal for reporting on ATF inspector harassment of a gun shop, and had to defy ATF when they complained to a judge and presumed to define who could cover their activities.

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PO'd American said...: Keep shining lights on the damn roaches and what happens...they all run for the cover of darkness.; March 18, 2015 at 6:30 AM
Anonymous said...: As I said on an earlier Mike V posting:

Ok. All you Texans out there. I think I see a way around Villalba's ass-hattery.

"This is how the bill describes “news media”:

(2)”News media” means:
(A)a radio or television station that holds a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission;"

All you amateur (ham) radio operators in Texas - This proposed crap doesn't say that you have to be a COMMERCIAL radio station. Just be licensed by the FCC. And a ham radio operator is just that.
SOOOO - - - print up some "credentials" for your cop-watching friends and acquaintances, as non-paid employees.

And then you can post those videos on a blog. Nothing there about having to broadcast them over the radio station airwaves (not allowed under current amateur radio rules).

I've done the heavy lifting. I leave the details to you. Good luck, and lotsa fun.

B Woodman
III-per
KC7JDS; March 18, 2015 at 8:44 AM
Anonymous said...: All about desperate attempts to control the message and by doing so the clear message is that there is LOTS to hide.

Keep digging. Keep watching. Keep recording.

III; March 18, 2015 at 4:15 PM
Anonymous said...: I am currently a HAM radio operator but my license expires in a few months. To renew my HAM ticket I have to provide my Social Security Number and that ain't gonna happen. I currently own 4 of the MARS Modified radios (capable of operating OUT of the Amateur Bands) so they will be reserved for Survival Communications since they won't be on any of the active HAM frequencies.; March 18, 2015 at 7:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you, B. Woodman, for some truly common sense.

Too often, those two words are indicative of collectivist malfeasance. Glad they can still be used for a downright useful idea. W1***; March 18, 2015 at 8:42 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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