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"See No Evil?" - Meet Jason Villalba: The Texas Rep. Who Wants To Criminalize Citizens Filming Police
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Something I hope to encourage readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg to become aware of is their civil rights. Although the situation seems to have improved in recent years, many citizens remain woefully ignorant of their individual rights. Rights that were intentionally enshrined in the U.S. Constitution specifically to prevent the emergence of tyranny.
In our ever-changing modern technological world, the application of the Bill of Rights from time to time has needed a bit of clarification from the court system. One example of such was the 2011 case of Glik v. Cunniffe, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit noted that: “videotaping of public officials is an exercise of First Amendment liberties.”
Apparently, this is rubbing certain Texas police officers the wrong way, and they found a willing lapdog to push their interests in Texas State Representative, Jason Villalba.
Mr. Villalba recently introduced bill HB 2918, which bans citizens unaffiliated with government licensed mainstream media outlets from filming police within 25 feet. It doesn’t take much thought to immediately recognize that this criminalizes filming an encounter with a cop who pulls you over, or any personal interactions with officers for that matter.
Many of the most popular videos shared on this site over the years have come from random citizens recording personal encounters with police. For example:
Extremely Powerful Video: Happy 4th of July from a Police State Checkpoint (5 million+ views)
Video of the Day – This is What Happens When You Try to Exercise Your Constitutional Rights in Illinois (100,000+ views)
Under Jason Villalba’s idiotic and authoritarian bill, it appears such recordings would become Class B misdemeanors. Breitbart covered this story comprehensively, here are a few excerpts:
Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Texas) has found himself at the center of controversy after filing a bill that would make it a crime for bloggers and independent journalists — as well as regular citizens — to film police officers. Despite the backlash from free speech advocates, Villalba is insisting that his bill “does not infringe on constitutional rights” or “limit liberty in any way.”
The bill, HB 2918, adds to the definition of what constitutes “interfering” with an officer’s duties, and would make it a Class B Misdemeanor to film, record, photograph, or document the officer within 25 feet while that officer is performing his official duties. That distance is extended to 100 feet if the person is carrying a concealed handgun. There is an exception for news media, but the current language of the bill does not include bloggers, independent journalists, or private citizens, and it is not clear whether online media outlets would be included in the exception either.
Specifically, the types of “news media” that would be exempt from the restrictions on filming police officers include only these three categories:
(A) a radio or television station that holds a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission;
(B) a newspaper that is qualified under Section 2051.044, Government Code, to publish legal notices or is a free newspaper of general circulation and that is published at least once a week and available and of interest to the general public in connection with the dissemination of news or public affairs; or
(C) a magazine that appears at a regular interval, that contains stories, articles, and essays by various writers, and that is available and of interest to the general public in connection with the dissemination of news or public affairs.
Publications such as Breitbart Texas or The Texas Tribune that are published only online could argue they should be considered “newspapers” or “magazines,” but it is far from clear. What is clear is that someone who runs an independent blog, or an internet radio station or podcast, would not be included. As newsrooms across the country have scaled back staff in recent years, independent citizen journalists have often stepped forward to fill that void, especially when it comes to covering local politics and issues of civil and constitutional rights violations that have not yet captured the attention of the mainstream media.
Villalba’s bill would also make it illegal for private citizens to record their own interactions with police officers. In fact, the language is so broad, in prohibiting “documenting” the police officer’s activities, that taking notes during a conversation with an officer, about what was being said, the officer’s badge number, etc., could be construed as a violation. Besides the fact that law enforcement agencies themselves have acknowledged the role that cameras can play in reducing both incidents and false claims of police brutality — as evidenced by the rising support for police body cameras — this bill directly contradicts established case law precedent allowing citizens to videotape police.
Breitbart Texas reached out to Villalba to get his comment regarding this bill, and spoke with him by phone Thursday evening. Villalba was adamant in his defense of HB 2918. “All we’re trying to do is get people to step back when the cops are doing their work,” he said, and “twenty five feet doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.”
“What is important to point out here is that a person without a camera, can be within the distance constraints as described in the legislation and will not be in violation of any law,” continued Syrmopoulos. “The camera, the record of police conduct is what is made illegal in this bill. To deny that it is not a direct attack on free speech is asinine.”
What’s even more interesting about this, is that parts of Texas are well known for being civil asset forfeiture capitals of the world. Recall the extremely popular post: Why You Should Never, Ever Drive Through Tenaha, Texas.
“Don’t mess with Texas.” Unless of course you are a thieving, violent cop; in which case Jason Villalba wants to make it open season on citizens by denying them their First Amendment rights.
Texas, do yourselves a favor and vote this clown out of office.
In case you need an additional reminder on why it’s so important to film police, watch this one minute video of several police officers stomping a Bridgeport, Connecticut man as he lay motionless on the ground:
The cops were recently found “not guilty.”
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For related articles, see:
Caught on Video – LAPD Guns Down Homeless Man in Broad Daylight
Protecting and Serving – Florida Police Raid 90-Year-Old Woman’s Home; Find No Drugs but Wreck Home
Video of the Day – This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops
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Texas, do yourselves a favor and vote this clown out of office.
amen
...keeping in mind that real Texans don't vote with ballots when they "take out the trash".
So much for that meme pushed by many on here (and everywhere else for that matter) that Texas is some kind of last bastion of freedom in the increasingly tyrannical ussa that respects people's constitutional rights. Practically the civil forfeiture capital of the world and now this.
Well, give us a chance here. It is only a bill, and the chances of it passing as is, are pretty damned small.
In Texas we lack the power and wisdom of Obama's pen and phone to just decree policy as law. And we have plenty of big government liberals here. Fortunately we typically keep them in the minority but republicans are marginally better. Our true conservatives are as maligned here as anywhere else. If you are white, you are racist. The only difference is if you are a repentant progressive.
He seems to have pissed some critters off bad on something called "Home Rule" (re: public schools) I don't believe in public schools personally, so .... good read though
http://www.disdblog.com/2014/09/03/texas-state-representative-jason-vill...
As of Sep. , 2014 ...
Contact and Phone Numbers
Capitol Office:
E2.702
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0576
Capitol Fax: (512) 463-7827
Website
District Map
Contact via Email: Jason.Villalba@house.state.tx.us
District Office
10210 North Central Expressway
Suite 220
Dallas, TX 75231
(214) 363-8700
Fax: (214) 363-8701
Two hundred years of importing idiots like this is why the US is the opposite of how it was founded.
The individualists were swamped by a flood of parasites.
According to some, human eyes are ok because they are fallible. Cameras are should be banned because they show an objective truth. THEREFORE, carbon based eyes are ok, silicon based eyes are bad. Stupid. And you are stupid for going along.
Hey Texass, how's open carry coming along?
Faggots.
Yeah keep carrying those guns around, youre doing the world wonders! Start shooting you fucking morons
Meet Jason Villalba:
Just your average ordinary everyday Nazi.
How about we criminalize Elected Public Servants voting for anti Constitutional laws, and the punishment being public lynchings and ending in public hangings.
Swing of the whip, 1-100 going to the highest bidders, $$ going to pay off debt incurred by these assholes.
Highest highest bidder gets to pull the lever in the final act.
Could make for a great 'reality show'. Hell, if "Ow My Balls" can win an Oscar, this one could hit it out of the park.
Congressional approval rating is something like 6%. It's been in the single digits for well over a decade under three different administrations.
Furthermore, with this dismal approval rating there is a 96 percent re election rate.
This shows both that the people have lost their voice and that the polls are rigged.
1840 voter turnout 80%, 1872 voter turnout 70%, 1912 voter turnout 60%, 20th century: 50% give or take.
In some sense, these fucktards get into office because you let them, but we need more alternative parties, less gerrymandering pronto, and campaign contribution reform before anything else in this fucked up country will ever get addressed (primarily because the fucking up is generally beneficial to one or more entrenched interests who golf with the siamese twin nazi party we face today).
greed and lust for power know no racial boundaries, i've met a lot of good hispanics (Texicans) in my tenure in TX, this guy does not appear to be that kind
Truth ^^
My "stereotype" of hispanics is that of hard-working, family-centric people who know how to live well while spending little and how to get along by sharing more than most people in the US know how.
When you start mingling with oppressive regime like Saudi, you start becoming one. No, not USSA. It's USaudi.
USlessA's
Email to aforementioned traitor:
ToJason.Villalba@house.state.tx.us
Today at 2:52 AM Shame!!! Do you remember taking an Oath to the Constitution of the United States when you were sworn into office?? Assuming yes, then, did you understand what the Constitution states in both letter and spirit?? Any secret proceedings by public officials were abhorrent to the Founding Fathers as they realized that this could only prepare the path for Tyranny. You, sir, are a traitor and as such have no honor to do the honorable thing and resign your office. Hopefully, your constituents will have more sense and recall you from office before you can attempt to do any more damage to' the application of the Bill of Rights in Texas. Disgusted, Carl Hopkinson
Should we include the Carl Hopkinson part?
I think we can safely say that you are on the No Fly List.
Emailed:
To
I pray for the day that you are unceremoniously voted out of office. Your stance on some issues (home rule, police video taping, among others) are so repugnant and unconstitutional that they merit strong condemnation. I'm not sure whose interests you are serving, but they are not the interests of your law-abiding and freedom-loving constituents.Jason.Villalba@house.state.tx.us
Good day,
[mvsjcl]
and the asshole Villalba has an educstion ..... He is the proof of a failed education system. Did he everr learn about human rights ?
P.S. I'm donating to your opponent's PAC :p
Go check out his biography page: http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=114
Once you read it, it becomes obvious why he is trying to do this. Hint, it is definitely NOT for citizens safety.
Being the sharp lawyer that he is perhaps he is trying to bring into legislation practices learned from other institutions he's related to.
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=114
"He currently serves on the development committee of the Dallas Zoo"
He's trying to turn Texas into a zoo. So much for the practice of postmodern law. Works for him though.
Oldwood,you did read the article? Villalba (R-Texas)
How is that marginally better?
I actually listen to him speak about it on the radio this morning. He is getting plenty of heat from conservatives here. He has some rational points....as all abridged liberties of our constitution typically do. All of these moderates think their job is to compromise...to legislate, so as to be appearing to do something. Few recognize they are in the bottom of the whole with a shovel.
They don't want to see the head shot? I don't understand. My else not be in charge...
Here's some more info relevant to the bills in the Texas Legislature relating to the videoing of police encounters:
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/easy-call-rep-eric-johnsons-bill-and-not-jason-villalbas-governing-videos-of-police.html/
Apparently Villalbas wasn't the only bonehead in the crowd, though his bill would preclude a citizen from taping his own encounter with a police officer, (due to Villalbas's bill's requirement of a 25ft circle distance requirement).
Something to remember here, folks. Getting elected to public office does not automatically imbue one with wisdom or sound judgment. And just because said representatives make errors does not warrant lambasting them with abuse. If you do write, always be respectful. Make your mammy proud she hadja'.
When seeking a nice place to live, choose wisely among your 57 states....it is a choice from among the least stinking turds.
I don't mean to be indelicate but...what a fuckin' asshole.
Politicians make an oath to support the constitution, but in reality they vow to represent those who can best support them. Many of us demand that they take note of our demands and act accordingly but that really isn't their job. They are supposed to support our interests as in accordance to the constitution. In best cases they instead represent those with he loudest voices, unfortunately those loud voices usually represent special interest groups who can create the loudest, most focused voice. The constitution remains silent as it can make no demands. It requires voluntary obedience.
Politicians make an oath to support the constitution...
The day will come when they take home schooling away. The writing is on the wall...spelled backward and with poor grammar and graded by a gay bi-racial couple.
Home schooling is as irrelevant has hetero marriage. We stopped the truly important home schooling years ago. Teaching values and integrity. We subbed it out to the schools and government as we were led to believe that we were unqualified to do such things. The few left that would actually teach these things is few and those who would actually endeavor to home school proper, are minute. we are always fighting the last war, the lost battles, rather than actually seeing where we are headed.
my roomate's step-mother makes $79 hourly on the laptop . She has been fired for 10 months but last month her pay was $18694 just working on the laptop for a few hours. see here... www.globe-report.com
Your roomate's step-mother makes $79 hourly, selling her basement donkey show videos on her laptop.
GTFOH, You spammer.
How much did the donkey make?
Bob, your roommate's step-mother is a filthy slut who takes it in every sweaty orifice for that $79/hour.
She deserves every penny she gets. It's hard work.
Texans: Do us a favor and secede.
Somewhere somebody's got somethin' spesshul on this boy.
Shoot first. Record on your phone later.
Texas is largely becoming a pussified blue state. Been seeing this since Katrina. Although once THE Shit hits, its still the best state.
Well, you ARE kinda a pussy. But I won't hold that against other Texans.
A larger more powerful government is the only answer to chaos, regardless of the fact that the very same larger and more powerful government is DIRECTLY responsible for creating the chaos. Deliberate? I think so...Chaos is largely a perception, and government's number one occupation is creating perception.
Red State or blue state. There ain't no difference. Just divide and conquer horseshit.
I was hoping that wasn't the case when I moved here. It's extremely disconcerting what's going on here. Still glad to be here though.
Listen here cop ball licker! If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. Obviously this is because you love to do fucking wrong, thus were here to keep you honest. FUCK PIG is a useful expression you know. What connotation or definition applies here representative Dudley Do Wrong?!
You mean to tell me that I get some downvotes because ball lickers want to give these cops a free pass to get away with more murder, more mayhem, more shit, more lawbreaking, and you're okay with that. Remember cops are public servants, not the other way around. If you're doing your job with legal authority you have nothing to fear, but hiding behind another law to protect your asses is tyranny, especially if you think your indiscretions should be covered up. In that case fuck you and the steer you rode in on.
The Judge will be the decider of that. Neither you nor me.
The judge owes Shylock.
When you live in a police state, the cops are not "servants" to anyone but themselves and their political masters.
Expect it to get alot worse before it gets better and remember they can move the goal posts on you whenever they want.
Did I just hear the sound of a can of worms being opened?
It's a slippery slope. and as soon as citizens loose the right to film police in public. you are sliding head first down that Slope into the Abyss
Yes, worse, but we're already there.
Cops are state sanctioned gangbangers that do a hell of a job pretending that they are not.
The real relationship between crime and law enforcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80UC34SH8c
In most jurisdictions, police IQ is limited to below 100 [below normal you fail the test with too high a score] because those folks are apparently better at following unconstitutional orders and just doing what they're told to their sub human subjects.
I can't even swear outloud at this asshole in my bedroom without my smartphone, TV and laptop recording every fucking thing I say and do and sending it to god knows who
But you can do it here...
FUCK Jason Villalba!
;)
We find ourselves in the middle of yet another war being driven by our government. The government trains and indoctrinates the police to be in constant fear for their lives and incentivizes them to act first and as questions later. At the same time they are openly condemning and instigating racial conflict at every instance that this policy results in a shooting, before proof and fact are available. It is obvious to me that this is all deliberate and is but another part of the same agenda of instigating unrest and instability around the world. They will create chaos and demand for order simultaneously and use it to establish every greater tyranny.
The people who propose these types of legislation either 1) don't recognize what they're actually proposing (idiots) or 2) are in league with the people that will be exposed by the activity being outlawed. Again if they're doing nothing wrong then they have nothing to hide. Crowds have always been a source of problems for police, but this legislation attacks a particular type of crowd activity, one that could expose law enforcement to greater scrutiny, and that's what the real issue is here.
People who "serve" in government only have one tool in which to save humanity from itself and that is through law and policy. And they just keep piling them on and still can't figure out why things are only getting worse.
They have cameras on us but we can't have cameras on them?
What does that tell even a casual disinterested observer?
Certainly nothing to do with the rights of the individual!
Chengate verga.
Wrong thread I know, but incase you were wondering why Goldman is continually bearish on oil
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/business/dealbook/goldman-seeks-to-rai...
A fourth-generation Texan, Villalba graduated from South Grand Prairie High School in Grand Prairie in the Mid-Cities section of Dallas, Ellis, and Tarrant counties. He then studied economics and finance at Baylor University in Waco and subsequently received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.[4] At Haynes and Boone, Villalba specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, private securities, and general corporate law.[5]
That's right..an economist and a lawyer. Where could he get all these crazy fucking ideas?
Everyone should send him a message...you know, to tell him how you feel about this.
TELEPHONE: T +1 972.739.6944
EMAIL: jason.villalba@haynesboone.com
Um, No..........
Let's criminalize Rep. Villalba.
Bad boys bad boys
Watcha gonna do?
Watcha gonna do when we can't film you?
Follow the money.
I would be willing to bet this scum sucking politician is either getting a nice fat kick-back from his local Fraternal Order of Piggie, or he is setting himself up for a cushy job with them after he gets his azz voted out of office.
Why is it that the people who work overtime to rape the Founders are ALWAYS filthy fucking lawyers?
I just checked out Jason's background on Linked In and was disappointed to learn we're somehow only three degrees removed.
Of all the skeletons in my closet, this one is a doozy. Must have frequented the same crackhouse..
nazi
Save it. You haven't seen anything yet.
Hope you are just talking out your ass, suspect you are correct.
yup, the pendulum blade has long since hit flesh and most still don't get it... the foreign banks are defecting, talk of secession... UN fangs are growing, new world bank is about ready to go (same players who destroyed this country designed it and are well positioned), subjegating all nations. majority of the populace is not "needed" in the new paradise, and they google and gawk at kardashian's backside, or step daddies bolt ons??
i hope to enjoy a few more bacon cheddar cheeseburgers before it's over, glad i didn't bring children into this world -- i like beer too, somebody loan me a dime
Why don't the cops just start carrying giant foldable cardboard privacy shields in the trunks of their cruisers alongside all their other non-lethal weapons?
Why don't they just start wearing masks instead. They don't even have to pass this thuggery law, shit they can wear their blue costumes and dead presidents masks and just shoot everyone up they want. No difference between them and any other criminal out there than.
Why are you afraid of people filming you, you ass wipes?!?
I get the impression that most of the commenters on this thread don't live in communities with a high percentage of people on PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. You people don't have a clue what we working class people, yes, that includes our public safety officers, have to deal with. As an elected official in my home town, I'm all for police body cameras. Matter of fact, I want to post the videos on our city website. If it is good for the goose then it is good for the gander. Eat that you communist children. Why don't you take a look at some of the videos on Liveleak? Maybe then you would realize what we poor working class, law abiding taxpayers have to deal with on a daily basis. Have you ever considered the concept of accepting your lot in life? Living within your means? Educating yourself and improving your economic status? Earning your own way in life? Our whole federal system has become a progressive nanny state, unsustainable nightmare. I was raised to love my fellow man. You people have made me aware of the flaw in my parents lesson. Now I'm angry and I no longer accept the concept of compromise. As a wise man once stated: There is no left or right, there is only an up or down. Our nation is going down and your progressive ideology is leading the way.
Are people on public assistance less liable to be protected or have the right to liberty as opposed to those not on public assistance?
Toxicosis, Where do you live and what do you do to support yourself? I made an honest observation based on PERSONAL experience as an elected official. Although my position is considered part time, I do my job on a full time basis and provide the LAW ABIDING taxpayers 24/7 assistance with their neighborhood issues. I, on the other hand, have to make prudent decisions based on the LAW ABIDING taxpayers ability to pay for things such as union affiliated law enforcement/municipal employees, maintaining the public infrastructure, and maintaining community standards. On top of that, I have to make choices based on what our state and federal governmental bureaucrasies dictate to we at the local level. You seem to be unaware of the pecking order in government and that is the battle that the common man is faced with today. A growing number of Americans are now beginning to understand the root of our societal/economic problem. Peace
So are you in favor of everyone having access to the cameras? Because if you are, then we agree. If not, you have not made it clear in your posts why the citizens should not have them and use them up close.
Still doesn't work because then you will just "think" you are being given access to everything when reality may be entirely different.
Government is the problem.
Monitoring it is our duty and right.
Fuck off, you are just another fucking creepy slimy fuck wit holier than thou sanctimonious asshole
You even talk like a fucking poncing bureaucrat.
Damicol, You don't even know me personally. I am a recently retired private sector union tradesman, who is worried about the future. Have you ever had to worry about making a bi-weekly payroll funded by working class taxpayers at the bottom of the economic pay scale? Your response doesn't indicate that reality. If you have anything to contribute that would enlighten me I would be interested.
Union. Wow.
I'll just step aside and watch the action.
Good luck.
MsCreant, I am in the last days of my first term as an elected official. I am running for reelection. To tell you the truth, I am worn out. The most satisfying part of my job was working with the residents in my ward. The most depressing part was dealing with the unionized, malcontent. police and fire, sworn personnel, and the portion of city employees represented by the Service Employee International Union, and trying to balance our city budget Most of our employees come to work everyday and perform their duties admirably under very adverse conditions. I'm not some fucking idiot who blindly supports government. I regularly tour my area and interact with the residents. I always answer or promptly return constituent phone calls, I take late night bicycle rides through every street and alley in my ward, and I make sure that our police officers and code compliance officers do their jobs within the law and don't fudge the rules for insiders. Explain to me what your problem is with my daily execution of my duties as an elected official?
You randomly raged at me upthread. I asked you this level headed question:
So are you in favor of everyone having access to the cameras? Because if you are, then we agree. If not, you have not made it clear in your posts why the citizens should not have them and use them up close.
You have not answered. The cameras are the topic of this post. I am having a hard time understanding your initial response to my post or the rest of where you are coming from.
MsCreant, I've been drinking a little this evening, but I don't understand your question of everyone having access to whose cameras? I said I was in favor of police body cameras and I would like to post the videos for public viewing on our city website. If everyone has the right to film police activity and post it on youtube, or whatever, should not government have the right to do the same? I think, no, I know the taxpayers don't have a clue what their Peace Officers face on a daily basis. We obviously don't live in demographically similar communities. I have been a much longer reader of this website than my official membership states. Thank you for your reply.
Both sides with cameras is fair. No problems. Cops with cameras could shame some folks into good conduct perhaps.
I do not have a problem with you doing your job. If you were a regular to this site, you knew what I meant by the union crack. You cannot be ignorant of how folks generally view unions these days.
If you really do that for your constituents, I'd vote your ass in faster than Hillary can delete emails.
Well you certainly ruffled the feathers of someone with downvote shell accounts. Here's a +1 for a good post.
"progressive ideology" do you mean fascisim? I am guessing you love bankers too. All for corporate welfare as well? Please let us know...
ClassicalLib17
YOU like cameras. WE like cameras. Cops should use them. People who want to, should use them. It just keeps everyone honest and empowered. So what's your problem? Because it sounds like you are crying about Zero Hedgers being stupid meany-pants. And I'm pretty fucking sure WE ain't the problem here.
Hengem high!
I nominate Jason Villab for scumbag of the weak.
I hope someone drags Jason behind their truck.
This monkey should be swinging from a tree in Texas.
Why is he still breathing my oxygen?
Be funny to watch a video of someone kicking Villalba's ass in a back alley for an hour or so. Stupid Fucking Lawyer !!!
With this kind of endorsement the triaiterous turd is on the fast track to Congress.
Something tells me this disgusting fuck is up to no good. We need a flash mob to follow him around all day with camera phones in his face and send this filthy rat back to the sewer.
Miffed
What a great idea. With actual flashes too.
"Something tells me this disgusting fuck is up to no good."
Yes. If passed, this law, "no cameras within 25 feet" would mean the victim's camera evidence would be inadmissable as the victim is usually within 25 feet.
Room E2.404
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
(512) 463-0576
(512) 463-7827 Fax
District Address:10210 North Central Expressway, Suite 220
Dallas, Texas 75231
(214) 363-8700
(214) 363-8701 Fax
Perhaps Senor Vallalblah should just propose a bill allowing all Police State officers the option to wear ISIS style head coverings while performing their duties. This would both alleviate the need for camera bans and provide whichever corporation providing the head coverings to ISIS another market to fill.
In my opinion the few bad officers that opted for the ISIS style head coverings would be looking for new jobs as campaign helpers for Senor Vallalblah.
That motherfucking 'politician' wants to make something illegal, how about making that kind of police brutality a shoot-on-sight offense? I bet more than a few would step up and have a go. Thugcops. The rule of law is breaking down. Make your list.
That's exactly what those driving this shit want. They create an impoverished yet entitled and "oppressed" society and a militarized and deliberately vilified police, KNOWING it will lead to a spiral of violence. There are no good sides here....deliberately.
If that is what 'they' want, they make a serious miscalculation. I like my odds against the average armed criminal, particularly if I can get into an enfilade position. Imagine the guy filming the clip has a semi-auto rifle chambering steel-core 7.62 x 51. Imagine he witnesses a criminal felonious assault, and decides the victim's life is in danger, and he is going to shoot to kill the assailant. The axis of fire provides the criminal felonious assailant no cover. There is no time to draw a firearm. . . There is no time to ascertain where the fire is coming from. I figure that 'cameraman' could easily take 10 shots at each assailant (and reload) before the 3rd assailant even gets the scene.
You can grab the soap in the shower or shovel corpses into the furnace. I ain't goin out like that. . .
He went to Baylor. That explains it all. . .
On the other hand... http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/27788056/2015/01/07/activist-critical-of-police-undergoes-use-of-force-scenarios
I guess I am wasting my time trying to explain what the average, productive, law abiding citizen, expects from their tax dollars At least this community activist admitted that he learned something.
I've got an idea! Why not have people involved (cops, victims, bystanders, accused) use recording devices commonly found on cell phones or body cams to RECORD the incident, thereby providing a factual account that could be used to protect and empower both sides? OMFG that would be sooo awesome!
Seriously ClassicalLib17, why are you still pouting?
People are both virtuous and corrupt. They are kind and cruel. They are heroes and they are vermin.
The first time we ever called a cop was when the alarm went off in my Granddad's boarded up BMX shop. Some kids had broken in. The two responding officers stole more merchandise than the kids did. They didn't take anything of real value, but they totally looked more like criminals than cops.
One asked if he could take some tubes for his bike. I said sure. And less than 10 minutes later they were quietly loading tires, tubes, grips and pedals into the trunks of their cars. One even took a skate scooter. (A skateboard with handlebar.) They thought they were so smooth too!
I'm going to fight a cop over a 1990's skateboard from my deceased Grandfather's closed shop!? Nope. But what if my Grandfather sold gold watches instead of bicycles? I'd WANT a fucking camera recording every second police officers were on the property!
Somebody call the police. There's a fascist in Texas.
Wanna call one of their own to help you?
Seriously?
Just one?
Another piece of shit, so called, representative.
Fuck off Villalba!
How did this piece of scum Jason Villalba become a "representative" in the first place.
Does Texas have that many brain dead voters to elect their own oppressors??
Pathetic state indeed.
They have the entire city of Austin, and Houston ain't much better.
Breitbard covered this story....and he is dead today.
bans citizens unaffiliated with government licensed mainstream media outlets from filming police within 25 feet.
does it reminiscent only me to compare it with Jewish commissaries in Bolshevik Russia?
This POS should fear for his life when stepping out in public. I suppose he'll have private security alongside a public security designate at all times and thus feels brave/brazen enough to propose a bill that is so contemptuous of joe public's rights.
Will someone put a bounty on his head, please, dead or alive but preferably dead.
"How dare you plebs film us raping your rights and show to the world us violating every single amendment of The Constitution" -- Fucktard Villalba
Banana republic.
It's the same as their foreign policy - BULLY.
Now I ain't pointin' fingers, but somma ya'll puttin' on puppet shows upthread.
Very wrong indeed.
It goes against everything logically and morally just. If independant citizens can't use consumer electronics to defend themselves in any event, then why would it be logically or morally just to have the electronics industry manufacture surveillance apparatus to watch what people do? If the case is to be made that if one has nothing to hide, so we are all in the same boat.
The law enforcement can't have it both ways. That's just really unjust, indoctirinated doublethink.
Appauling.
Just look at this fucking brainstem. I'll bet his head weighs 35 pounds, mostly bone.
Now for the law making it a crime to listen to "Rep.'s".
don't worry this bill will probably pass and villalba will be re-elected. and the sheeple will say "thank you may I have another"
The litmus test of legislation is the Bill of Rights.
Those with the ability to read test strips have been overrun by the free shit army.
How quickly they turn on those who voted them in office. Shiittttt
the rule of law simply means the law rules. My wife and I were driving our two vehicles with daughter, son-in-law and four grand kids to a huge dairy farm in NW indiana. She was in the lead on the interstate and I was pulled over by a state trooper. She pulled over in front of us and backed up. I was told he had me on radar and was ticketed for ten miles over speed limit. When my wife walked back to us along the shoulder he aske her who she was and she told him she was my wife. He wrote her for ten over as well. I asked him if he had her on radar and he said he didnt need her on radar.
I told him I would see him in court. I paid my ticket. I was speeding. In looking at my wifes ticket he had an incorrect vehicle make and model. He had an incorrect license plate number and in fact even the wrong state listed as state of origin of the license plate. We live in Illinois. We went to late afternoon court. When we entered we were asked to approach the procecutor table. No judge in the courtroom but plent of people and some lawyers. My wife showed him the ticket and all the wrong information and explained why we were pleading not guilty. I E. not on radar. He asked us to have a seat and kept the ticket.
The judge entered and a number of cases were heard. Then my wifes name was called she stood and plead not guilty. There were still over a dozen people in the courtroom including some obvious attorneys. When she plead the judge asked her why she was pleading not guilty. She explained wrong make/model car, wrong license plate number/state etc and no radar to the judge. He asked to see the ticket. She said the man at the table there has my ticket. The judge looked at him and asked for the ticket. The state officer whoever was working that table and I am not sure of his title to this day looked right at the judge and said, "I took nothing from her." I stood up and the baliff asked who I was. I said i was her husband ant told the judge i saw him take the ticket. I was told to sit down or be removed from the courtroom.
I left the courtroom and went and introduced myself to the police officer manning the metal detector. I told him my wifes rights were being trampled and there was a good chance that he would be being called to the court room to arrest me in the very near future. I told him I would go into handcuffs in peace and that no tazer would be needed. He listened to me explain the situation and told me i had to do what i had to do.
I returned to the courtroom but my then as it was quite a walk out to the security area cop I spoke with my wifes had alreay been found guilty and fined and met me returning in the hallway. She was pissed. No one in that courtroom stood up when I did and said your honor we sat that man take her ticket from her.
I wrote a letter to the judge. I told him a state employee lied to his face in his courtroom. I told him I am sure it is on your video security film. I told him America wasn''t founded on the rule of the government with iron fists and lies.
Guess what I heard back from "his honor.?" Crickets. Nothing. Not a peep. This was 2009. We have lost the war people. Wake the hell up. We are tax donkeys. My home is worth the same amount I paid for it in 1998. However since then I have paid 124,000 in property taxes. I have paid 289,000 in mortgage interest. So who do we work for?
America is broken. Is it beyond repair. I didn't use to think it was. My thinking has changed. We work to support the machine. That machine includes the librarian working at your local public library making 65K a year with full medical, dental, vision insurance and 85% of her average last two years salary until the day she dies when she retires.
It includes the cops, fireman, water works, snow plow drivers, tollway workers. It includes the state cops that milk us as we drive on toll roads we pay for per mile dying by a thousand cuts as we are being bombarded by our need to diversify. My city is importing spanish speaking teachers now from Columbia and Nicauraga because the hispanics here dont like the white bilingual teachers in our schools because thier spanish usage is upsetting to them. Something about accents.
WE ARE BROKEN. IT IS NOT FIXABLE. THE STATE RULES AT ALL LEVELS. IF YOU DOUBT ME ATTEND A BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING AND OBJECT TO THEIR APPROVED BOOK LIST. YOU WILL BE REMOVED.
Folks. Look around. Down arrow me if you wish. Last night on a major interstate someone pulled alongside a semi tractor trailer and opened fire sending bullets through the passenger sided door. Road rage. Truck drivers should just sit home for a week I think.
WE ARE BROKEN. Live your lives accordingly. There is no knight in shining armor. Folks the likes of Breitbart, et all wont be allowed to voice their opinions. It isn't paranoia if it is true. Pick your friends wisely. Always have a plan.
Good day all.
The court is a bank. The judge has a retirement plan that consists of 20% "financials", aka bank stock. The court is to enforce corporate rights of the fascist entities.
We have lost our right to redress.
Actually, your wife deserved the ticked. You admitted you were following her, therefore she was speeding too. Your statement was the testimony against her.
All the incorrect information on the ticked is irrevant.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Love reading your stuff. Even though the shit is totally broken it is somewhat cathartic to know there are like-minded folks. Very few actually understand the world to the degree you just expressed. Thanks.
As for the video, part of me wonders what this guy did that led to the cops kicking his ass. Im a bit old school. |Guy was probably a POS. Nothwithstanding, in this day and age, this cannot be allowed to happen. As a constitutional law researcher, I would argue that thses prohibitory statutes would be diametrically opposed the the very purpose of the States police powers.
First, innocent until proven guilty. Second. Punishment in whatever form is unconstitutional before guilt is established through due process. Hence, the actions of the police fall outside the context of legitimate government actions. Under these conditions, the shield of sovereign immunity is VOID. The video is clear evidence of assault. |Switch the positions and kick a cop in the head and watch the LAW justify the use of deadly force to defend.
|It has already been proven that eyewitness testimony is not universally reliable. Video doesnt lie. Soooo the proposed statute would criminalize the establishment of clear and convincing evidence of a possible crime. And this promotes the health, saftey, and fundamental rights of the public how???
Can someone shed some light here? In substance, what is the difference between the destroying of evidence of an action that falls outside the context of legitimate governmental purpose ( crime) and the criminalization of creation and possesion of the evidence of a crime as a legitimate supporting element of due process?
He looks like a Dumb Fucker. Nuff said!
Americans need to all carry a gun. Not only for thugs but for Thug-Cops. You have the right to defend yourself at all times. However, be polite and courtious. If you did something wrong then fess-up. If a cop gets in your face for no reason, that's a DIFFERENT Story...
I was brought up to respect Law Enforcement; not Dip-Shits with a badge. Big Difference.
Looking at his awards on his website, he's a favorite with the police. I'm sure some crooked cops put him up to it.
"HB 2918, which bans citizens unaffiliated with government licensed mainstream media outlets from filming police within 25 feet. "
Wouldn't that ban the cops' own dashcam too?
This dirty mex is being lobbied, plain as day. They can pass a local law but this always gets overturned in the higher courts as a violation of rights. Sure it will cost you your life savings but it does not stick. You notice there is no explaination as to why this is neccessary. My run in with THP was first hand account of lawless law enforcers. Borders wide open, 100 miles in they are looking for their revenue.
That video makes me sick.
Those fuckers should be publicly tortured to set an example.
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Unaccountable police are the biggest terrorist threat the public will ever face. So instead of making them accountable so no one is a criminal for filming police, especially filming police breaking the law and breaking faces, this asshole wants everyone made a criminal for proving police are acting like criminals.
SOKKOMB
The day is coming
From his bio:
"Additionally, several law enforcement groups invited him to deliver keynote addresses to their members at major events. These groups include the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the Texas Municipal Police Association, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, and the National Latino Peace Officer Association of Dallas."
You can read right into that.... his pockets are lined by these law enforcement / police state organizations.
The genius of this, of course, is that if you maintain a 25ft distance from "police activity", and a cop walks up to you while you are recording - *poof* - you are in violation of the law.