More laws, regulations and police mean more chances to run afoul of them. Extremely helpful video that details how to deal with a police encounter, which is always stressful. Video is 44 minutes long and narrated by narrated by Baltimore trial attorney Billy Murphy from HBO’s The Wire.

EXTREMELY USEFUL VIDEO

A new film by FlexYourRights.org

From the Cato Institute’s 10 Rules for Dealing with Police.

If a free society depends upon an informed citizenry exercising oversight of its government, then more people need to know how to handle themselves in a police encounter. Is cooperation always the best course of action? Or are there times to assert the constitutional right to refuse consent to a search of one’s home or belongings? A new documentary film answers those questions and more in an informative and entertaining series of skits narrated by Baltimore trial attorney Billy Murphy (from HBO’s The Wire). Learn how the safeguards of the Bill of Rights operate outside of the courthouse and on the street. Learn how to make smart decisions and respond effectively to police misconduct.

A few notes:

1-The video itself is 82 minutes;
2–the film itself starts at the 5:10 mark and is approximately 44 minutes long; and,
3- a premiere Q & A session afterward.

Some of the rules are common sense: stay cool and calm. But one thing that this film does is separate some facts from fiction. It also is helpful to know that info you may have heard is correct or not.

Some of the rules are common sense, but hard to practice. Such as, keeping your mouth shut.

It’s long–but worth the watch. It’s so helpful, you might want to watch it in parts. The film itself starts around the 5:15 mark.

video h/t: Instapundit

A new video production fom the hands and mind of RidesAPaleHorse:

RAPH: “I re-edited Kid Rocks “Warrior” video. Took out all the NASCAR stuff, overlaid the lyrics and used a better sound track.”

It shows.

by RidesAPaleHorse
video: RAPH

THOSE IGNORANT OF HISTORY LIKELY TO VOTE DEMOCRAT/PROGRESSIVE

WHO WERE THOSE ANGRY MOBS?

The Washington Post’s Colbert King provided a partial history lesson while desperately trying to fan the flames of the “Tea Party is dangerous” meme.

Ed Kaitz, American Thinker, Listen to the Panther:

A Washington Post columnist by the name of Colbert King recently compared the “Tea Party supporters and their right-wing fellow travelers” to the angry mobs who used threats, intimidation, and even murder to prevent the “landmark civil rights laws” of the 1960s. According to King,

“The angry ’50s and ’60s crowds threatened and intimidated; some among them even murdered. That notwithstanding, Americans of goodwill gathered in the White House to witness the signing of landmark civil rights laws.”

What Colbert didn’t provide us was the identity of those angry mobs.

Just who were they?

Democrats occupied almost all positions of power in the states where the “angry mobs” and their enablers operated. “The Solid South” was solid Democrat. Republicans from the North had won the Civil War and freed the slaves. The South remained solidly Democrat for decades afterward.

In fact, the ‘landmark civil rights legislation’–the 1964 Civil Rights Act–was the object of the longest filibuster in Senate history: by the Democrats. They didn’t kill it because over 80% of Congressional Republicans supported the measure.

At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays

After 160 years of slavery, Jim Crow and filibustering Civil Rights legislation, the Democrats today routinely receive 90% of the black vote.

How’s that worked out for them?

Next time, Colbert King might be a bit more accurate. In time, he might even be able overcome the label “Mainstream Media writer.”

image: http://www.yamansalahi.com/

Want to gauge the mood of the country?

Don’t turn to MSNBC’s spittle-laced tirades of dangerous Americans. Don’t turn to the Mainstream Media where the “dissent = patriotism” meme died on January 20, 2009.

Check out James P. Gannon’s American Spectator piece.

From America’s Quiet Anger:

There is a quiet anger boiling in America.

It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans — and see their government reward those who do not.
[...]
They are not reaching for guns or for pitchforks. They are holding their anger within, waiting for their time, watching those in power over-reach and over-indulge.

Their wound is deep, and it will not be salved by more presidential speeches, Congressional hand-outs, or promises of wonderful things to come. They no longer believe any of that. Their quiet rage abides, waiting till it can be expressed in that silent place behind the curtain where the ballot lists the names that they have now committed to an angry memory.

216 days until Americans have a chance to speak. If they don’t take advantage of that one day to speak with their ballots, this Congress and President will ignore and circumvent their will for the next two years.

As an angry friend once said, when it was remarked that his anger might lead to a heart attack: “I’m okay. It’s a cold rage.”

Anderson Cooper does that rare thing: he gets a story right.

Cooper will be presenting a four-part series on the Church of Scientology–the only religion founded by a science fiction writer and in which the more you contribute, the ‘holier’ one becomes–this week.

From Scientology: A history of violence:

This week we begin a four-part investigation into allegations made by a number of former high ranking members of the Church of Scientology. The allegations are about physical abuse they say took place within the Sea Organization, the international management branch of the church.

These former members, many of whom dedicated their lives to Scientology, allege that the leader of the church, David Miscavige, has used physical violence against a number of Sea Organization members. The church adamantly denies these allegations, and back up their denials with numerous affidavits and testimonials defending Mr. Miscavige and attacking those who are speaking out.

Cooper also reveals that his upcoming series has not gone unnoticed.

I have already received a number of emails from church members complaining about the series, and accusing me of attacking the church, its beliefs, its membership, and its activities. Given that the emails are all very similar in content, I assume this is some sort of organized email campaign.

Other MSM outlets have tested the Scientology investigative waters recently, most notably The St. Petersburg (FL) Times.

As a famous proponent of a rival religion once said: The truth shall set you free.

NOTE: DBKP has published many articles on the group Anonymous and their battles against the Church of Scientology: Anonymous Vs. Scientology: DBKP Library of Stories and Videos

by Mondo Frazier
h/t: Michael

“Anger is not a platform.”

ANGRY AL AND HIS GLOBAL WARMING PALS

The former vice-president was at a fundraiser for Senator Harry Reid last week when he espoused his new “lamb-laying-down-with-the-lion” theme.

“Anger is not a platform.”

Gore also “condemned voices who rail “against everything without any kind of sensible policy prescription” for alternatives.”

A trip back memory lane reveals that VP Al didn’t always feel that anger wasn’t a platform. In fact, it’s a platform that Gore’s been on frequently during his many, many public pronouncements about just about everything.

From Can Al Gore Please Get as Angry at North Korea as He Is at George W. Bush?

We know Al Gore can get angry. We remember his denunciation of “digital brownshirts” and his furious bellowing that President Bush “played on our fears!” Addressing MoveOn.org a few years back, Gore asked, with ever-growing fury and intensity “How dare they?”

Al sounds a bit put off. But that was then.

Here’s Al’s senate buddy, John Kerry on Gore’s favorite subject, climate change:

“I want you to go out there and start knocking on doors and telling people this has to happen,” Kerry said during a conference hosted by labor, farming, military veteran and environmental groups. “You know if the Tea Party folks can go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God’s sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they’re being killed and our planet is being injured by what’s happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices we have. That’s something worth getting angry about.”

The above was posted on Algore.com, so we suppose that Gore himself endorses Kerry’s anger.

There’s more, but time is precious in the digital age.

It appears that anger is okay–as long as Al and his pals are the ones feeling the fury. But, if its Sarah Palin and Tea Party protesters?

That’s not only not a platform; that’s probably downright dangerous.

WHO ARE THE REAL REVOLUTIONARY CRIMINALS?

Rasmussen finds that the Mainstream Media slander campaign against regular folks who comprise the Tea Party protests against big government, crushing debt and intrusive federal control is working.

Fifty-three percent (53%) of U.S. voters now are at least somewhat concerned that those opposed to President Obama’s policies will resort to violence, up 10 points from last September.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of voters don’t share that concern.

Those figures include 28% are very concerned and 13% who are not at all concerned.

The Mainstream Media doesn’t have the space or honesty to report on issues like ClimateGate, but it has lots of spleen for regular people who disagree with the Obama administration.

The progressive slanderers in the Mainstream Media would not report on the established fact that Barack Obama ran as a member of the Socialist New Party. But they will report that no longer is “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”–now that a Democrat occupies the White House.

It is disgraceful. It is also why their business model is on a death spiral to oblivion.

The demise of the New York Times, Washington Post and MSNBC can’t come quickly enough. The MSM has moved from being a reliable DNC mouthpiece to a dangerous collection of revolutionary criminals.

UPDATE: The man who threatened Rep. Eric Cantor(R-VA) has been caught by the FBI. Document drop: FBI charges anti-Semitic nutball with threats against GOP Rep. Cantor & family

Wonder if he read Paul Krugman? Wonder if the MSM will add that to their “the Tea Party protesters are dangerous” meme?

UPDATE #2: Actually, Rasmussen also reveals that the Tea Party More In Touch With Issues Than Congress. (via Ace).

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of U.S. voters believe the average member of the Tea Party movement has a better understanding of the issues facing America today than the average member of Congress. Only 30% believe that those in Congress have a better understanding of the key issues facing the nation.

When it comes to those issues, 47% think that their own political views are closer to those of the average Tea Party member than to the views of the average member of Congress. On this point, 26% feel closer to Congress.

Yet, even though the Tea Parties better express our views than Congress, we’re afraid they’re going to commit violence?

Maybe “afraid” isn’t the word I’m looking for.