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So here we have the case of Jason Baez of NYC. An honest working family with three kids. One night three people forced their way in, tied them up, and proceeded to robbed them. He reported it and police suggested he move until they find the perps. So without breaking his current lease, he takes on another appt and a mountain of debt until they find the people involved. They get a security camera, and Jason also gets a gun. Now NYC has some of the strictest firearm laws and “ordinary people” aren’t allowed to own them. It’s felt people should be the “only ones” armed.

But five months after the robbery, as Mr. Baez was visiting their Manhattan apartment to collect the mail, a police officer stopped him in the lobby and frisked him, he said. Finding nothing, the officer asked him if he had any drugs or weapons on him. Nervous, he decided to confess: “I just got home-invaded in September and I have a weapon for my protection,” Mr. Baez recalled telling the officer.
He was arrested, and despite having no criminal record, he faced up to three and a half years in prison. Prosecutors offered him a deal of one year if he pleaded guilty, and he accepted. He is to be sentenced Jan. 27.

This is why feel so many of the firearm laws in this country are bogus and the politicians don’t care about you or I. After all, why should they? They usually have protection that carries automatic weapons…

Hey I know who we can all call!!!

Here in NH, some of the free staters have started recording their police encounters. I am not a supporter of the free staters, but I am a supporter of this practice as IMHO (in my humble opinion), there is no reason why a public encounter with police should only be recorded by the officer. It also puts them on notice that you do care so they’ll perhaps exercise more thought before they act.

Down in the progressive state of MA, even Martha Coakly is telling local LEOs to NOT use the state’s wiretapping law as a justification for arresting people. Here we have the case of Simon Glik who after walking down the street, observes some LEOs pulling a plastic bag out of the mouth of a suspect being a bit on the rough side. I am not saying they were, but he thought so, so he decided to record this event with his cell camera. This promptly landed him in handcuffs and under arrest for illegal electronic surveillance.

“One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,’’ Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, “my phone was seized, and I was arrested.’’
The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.
Jon Surmacz, 34, experienced a similar situation. Thinking that Boston police officers were unnecessarily rough while breaking up a holiday party in Brighton he was attending in December 2008, he took out his cellphone and began recording.
Police confronted Surmacz, a webmaster at Boston University. He was arrested and, like Glik, charged with illegal surveillance.

What do you think about this? Should the “only ones” accumulating evidence be the police? I am not saying we should all be detectives, or put comprehensive camera systems in our cars, but how many of the legal slip ups by people could be avoided if they had another eye on it?

OK I just got my Open Beta key for STO. I’m going to be around but *cough* occupied. If you have been living in a hole someplace and never spoken to me, check out STO here! I’ll post a quick review after I have had a chance to absorb it.