Tumble DC 25: Illinois Judge Upholds Law Forbidding Taping of Police, Says Weakening It Would Appease "Snooping Bloggers"

manicchill:

This week, U.S. 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner ruled against a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, saying if an Illinois eavesdropping law prohibiting the taping of policy activity was weakened, “snooping” bloggers and gang members would “rejoice” at the…

(Source: manicchill)

  • September 16
  • , 2011
  1. rantingnraging reblogged this from jonathan-cunningham and added:
    say it with me: fuck the police.
  2. stfueveryone reblogged this from jonathan-cunningham and added:
    Sooooo, uhm, the judge is saying that police never do anything wrong?
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    IF you cannot monitor the Police then are we truly living in a just society? Shit like this is why I will never be able...
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    “This would be ridiculously good for the public but bad for the reputation of bad cops, so we have to disallow it.”
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    Quality writing in the click-through.
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    Nation supposedly built...individual liberties
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