PA Bill Number: SR77
Title: A Concurrent Resolution petitioning the Congress of the United States to call a Convention for proposing amendments pursuant to Article V of the ...
Description: A Concurrent Resolution petitioning the Congress of the United States to call a Convention for proposing amendments pursuant to Article V of the ...
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Man tells cops he's uploading video of them, gets arrested :: 11/12/2014
The arrest of a man who videoed police officers violently serving an arrest warrant across the street from his home indicates Americans no longer are masters of their own country, contends a leading constitutional lawyer.
“In fact, you’re not even the servant – you’re the slave,” said John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute.
Rutherford is representing Gresham, Oregon, resident Fred Marlow, 27, who is facing charges and fines of up to $5,000 after his Sept. 2 arrest.
“Clearly, when police officers cease to look and act like civil servants or peace officers but instead look and act like soldiers occupying a hostile territory, it alters their perception of ‘we the people.’ However, those who founded this country believed that we were the masters and that those whose salaries we pay with our hard-earned tax dollars are our servants,” Whitehead said.
“If daring to question, challenge or even hesitate when a cop issues an order can get you charged with resisting arrest or disorderly conduct, you’re not the master in a master-servant relationship. If fact, you’re not even the servant,” he said.
Gresham officials did not return a WND call requesting comment.
Marlow’s video shows what happened:
In a description of the video on YouTube, he said it was about 4 a.m. when the incident began.
“I was laying in my apartment sleeping an[d] I heard multiple bombs blasting and glass breaking and my entire apartment shook repeatedly. I grabbed my iPad and ran outside as fast as I could to see what was going on. There were 5 or more tank/military trucks just cruising through my neighborhood.”
“Read “Police State USA” and find out what’s really going on across the nation.
He said he was “assaulted multiple times, and I feel like it was Gresham police abuse, and my rights were violated.”
Whitehead said his organization decided to help when he discovered Marlow had been arrested, jailed and charged with interfering and resisting arrest for videoing the SWAT team raid.
Marlow argued he was on his own property, was not carrying a weapon and was not interfering.
He was threatened then arrested when he told the officers the video of their actions was being uploaded to the Internet.
The video reveals the officers saying: “Go inside right now. You are interfering right now. You need to go inside right now. It’s a lawful order.”
Marlow pointed out there was no curfew, he was unarmed and he was on his own property.
The Rutherford Institute said its first priority was to arrange legal counsel for Marlow.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/man-tells-cops-hes-uploading-video-of-them-gets-arrested/print/
