Andrew wrote:
> You sound ripe for recruitment by the KGB.
KGB is not as kool as ISIS or Snowden.
I am also an originality freak and I like liberty which appears to
draw little attention these days as a reality worth cherishing.
Liberty is We the People and We the People need to be careful against
KGB no longer exists. It went away with the fall of USSR.
Replaced by another agency.. still rude, but less power.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> You sound ripe for recruitment by the KGB.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Mou
You sound ripe for recruitment by the KGB.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > Anybody watching The Americans on Bravo?
>
> I liked The Americans a while back when it was on hulu. Now hulu wants $$.
> There ain't nuthin'
Andrew wrote:
> Anybody watching The Americans on Bravo?
I liked The Americans a while back when it was on hulu. Now hulu wants $$.
There ain't nuthin' we can do - processes are too deep and there is
not enuf angst. We love our color tvs. We like china prices. So,
grin. Or be sure to keep out
e "rat out your friends" mentality.
> Stalin must have loved it.
> -Curt
> From: Scott Ritchey
> To: 'Curt Raymond' ; 'Mercedes Discussion List' <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 6:10 PM
> Subject: RE: [MBZ]
ty. Stalin must have
loved it.
-Curt
From: Scott Ritchey
To: 'Curt Raymond' ; 'Mercedes Discussion List'
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 6:10 PM
Subject: RE: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
Gulags and black listing aren't even close to being similar. In one
Un-American Activities Committee and Hoover's FBI files on people?
> -Curt
> From: G Mann via Mercedes
> To: Andrew Strasfogel ; Mercedes Discussion List
>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>
> A working
ogel ; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
A working example which we "free Americans" can look to is the files which
still exist, some of which are 70 years old, gathered by the USSR
government by the KGB
Just routine stuff around here, in amongst the murders by the young
(self-described) thugs and other random idiots.
The cops showed remarkable restraint on the woman, and her husband was
lucky he didn't get ventilated when he ran up on the cops with their
weapons drawn.
--R
On 1/29/15 4:04
I don't know how anyone can get any joy out of watching that sad spectacle.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Scroll down to the story with the vid and if you have a few minutes you
> can get some entertainment
>
> http://charlestonthuglif
Scroll down to the story with the vid and if you have a few minutes you
can get some entertainment
http://charlestonthuglife.net/2015/01/a-number-of-updates/
--R
On 1/29/15 12:57 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote:
But I'll reiterate my initial point: there is little to be gained by acting
PM
> To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>
> Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote:
> > It seldom pays to be confrontational with a cop in the field. If the
> > cop feels sufficiently threatened you could end up dead. If issues
> >
I was purposely being silly. Should have appended a "winkie" icon to my
post.
Surprisingly, I think there are broad areas of agreement across the
political spectrum on the need to control how "big data" is collected, used
and destoyed by law enforcement.
There is a HUGE debate over BIG data c
A working example which we "free Americans" can look to is the files which
still exist, some of which are 70 years old, gathered by the USSR
government by the KGB on soviet citizens. Based on that data collected,
Stalin is reported to have executed or killed by forced labor in Gulag,
some 20 millio
I was purposely being silly. Should have appended a "winkie" icon to my
post.
Surprisingly, I think there are broad areas of agreement across the
political spectrum on the need to control how "big data" is collected, used
and destoyed by law enforcement.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan
No, silly.
I think this whole situation is such that depending on how you view the role of
government, you either perceive these actions as protective or overreaching.
As I see it, much of what is happening today is a result of people trying to
control information, for whatever reason. In som
So will the "no right to complain" police arrest me for what I write in
this forum?
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> More from our friends at Techdirt:
>
>
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150127/18110029835/dea-collecting-massive-da
More from our friends at Techdirt:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150127/18110029835/dea-collecting-massive-database-your-driving-habits-secret-using-license-plate-readers.shtml
Here's something for Randy:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150128/07173529836/spying-sharing-canadas-intelli
But...but...how can he do that without waiting for the SWAT team to
break the door down and shoot the dog first?
http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/how-to-serve-a-warrant-1972-versus-today-by-lt-harry-thomas/
That is just sad, but it states the situation quite clearly.
__
Scott wrote:
> The fastest way to lose our liberty (and that of our descendants) is to
> demand the government supply...
>
Well, we love helicopter government.
See helicopter parents - modern term regarding parenting practices
that are vogue over the past 30 years. i.e. it is not my fault, it i
Roger wrote:
> Now if all of you will call or write your elected officials, at all levels,
> and give them a piece of your mind, it will accomplish nothing...
>
Totally sensible.
mao
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There's your marker Donald, see if you can beat $1.6M...
--
Max Dillon
Charleston, SC
>
>On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <
>mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> What about the guy in New Mexico they suspected of drugs, had him
>> illegally x-rayed numerous times, then ill
Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote:
It seldom pays to be confrontational with a cop in the field. If the cop
feels sufficiently threatened you could end up dead. If issues need to be
sorted, do it later in a controlled environment, like a police station or
court house. If you are carrying concea
ps bust in and you defend yourself you get
dead. Even worse when they do it to the wrong house...
-Curt
From: Mitch Haley via Mercedes
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>
Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Bubba says "shut up, get in the car". Bubba drives for a few minutes, pulls up at a
seemingly random house and up their drive way. "Stay in the car!" says Bubba, then he
toots the horn once.
Someone peeks out the door, goes back inside, a few minutes later a
Isn't the whole point of today's toy guns to make them look REAL?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Meanwhile, http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150128/PC16/
> 150129397/1177/charleston-police-officer-who-was-under-
> investigation-c
Meanwhile,
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150128/PC16/150129397/1177/charleston-police-officer-who-was-under-investigation-committed-to-psychiatric-hospital
A day or two ago this guy went off on a kid who had a toy gun and the
mother got pretty upset about it. I forget the details, th
day, January 28, 2015 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
These are outliers that get all the headlines. I have never been beat up by
police but each time I wasn't beat up it never made the news.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
wrote:
What
-settlement/Turns
> out I was wrong about the details, it was worse...
> -Curt
>
>
> From: Curly McLain via Mercedes
> To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>
> >If you want
/16/justice/new-mexico-search-settlement/Turns out I
was wrong about the details, it was worse...
-Curt
From: Curly McLain via Mercedes
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>If you want to read ab
: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 2:03 AM
> To: Donald Snook; Mercedes Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>
> Go get 'em, Donald!
> --
> Max Dillon
> Charleston, SC
>
> On January 27, 2015 7:03:30 PM EST, Donald Snook via Mercedes <
> mer
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 2:03 AM
To: Donald Snook; Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
Go get 'em, Donald!
--
Max Dillon
Charleston, SC
On January 27, 2015 7:03:30 PM EST, Donald Snook via Mercedes
wrote:
>If you want to read about police problems
I was trying not to say anything. ;<)
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: "Curly McLain via Mercedes"
To: "Rich Thomas" ; "Mercedes
Discussion List"
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>He could
If you want to read about police problems you can read about the
large numbers of police shootings in Wichita. Since 2010, wichita
has had more fatal police shootings Detroit and Chicago!
Here is an interesting story:
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article2629463.html
I just entered i
He could have done that then had his and his department's @$$e$ sued
for false arrest, imprisonment, etc. That would have been fun to do.
See, the thing is by acting like a dick he deserved no respect, and
was clearly trolling with no probable cause whatsoever to stop me, a
citizen going abou
To all in this discussion,
I'm glad to see so many concerned citizens. Now if all of you will call
or write your elected officials, at all levels, and give them a piece of your
mind, it will get better. It's nice to discuss on this list, but that
accomplishes nothing but making you feel
Wilton,
The reason this mass surveillance gets my hackles up is because of the data
base aspect.
Keeping a record of everywhere I go in my car could be easily abused. Given
the Louis Lerner / IRS abuses of conservative non-profits, one can easily
imagine a day when those in power decide that
Go get 'em, Donald!
--
Max Dillon
Charleston, SC
On January 27, 2015 7:03:30 PM EST, Donald Snook via Mercedes
wrote:
>If you want to read about police problems you can read about the large
>numbers of police shootings in Wichita. Since 2010, wichita has had
>more fatal police shootings Detroit
The fastest way to lose our liberty (and that of our descendants) is to demand
the government supply what we want without scrutinizing and approving the costs
and means. It is a slippery slope, as they learned in the late Weimar
Republic. If you don't know already, you should research the terr
ry 27, 2015 5:47 PM
> > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
> >
> > Some years ago I had driven from Texas to take my son to school at
> > Villanova. My wife and I were going to some hotel not very close to the
> > school, in
gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:47 PM
> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>
> Some years ago I had driven from Texas to take my son to school at
> Villanova. My wife and I were going to some hotel not very close to the
> school, in Philadel
Randy, I have to disagree with you.
Good police work doesn't require mass surveillance, it mostly boils down to
keeping tabs on the bad guys you already know about.
One of our local police officers told this story. Shortly after he went
through and passed the state police academy, he was hired
Curt wrote:
> The US puts more people in prison than anywhere else on the planet...
>
And, this is a high dollar earner for investors, so... they lobby for
greater over reach which equals greater funding. When We the people
can afford sacrifice of our time and treasure and skin, perhaps we can
as
Donald wrote:
> Since 2010, wichita has had more fatal police shootings Detroit and Chicago!
>
lrn.fm had a recent show where they were on police over reach and
killings - ABQ was #3 in the nation. I wonder where Witchita is in
that list?
mao
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RB wrote:
> Technology has made that the cheap way to police many areas.
>
Cheap?
Are we back in the tyre thread?
Where's Jaime's warning about putting price and cost at the top of all
concerns? - Jaime?
Leave the cost and price high and we might have better interest in
exploring how it is that f
, who cares about the Jews and homosexuals. Then it
all went wrong...
-Curt
From: WILTON via Mercedes
To: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
I can freely drive anyw
w? It will happen, just wait.
-Curt
From: Hans Neureiter via Mercedes
To: Mercedes Discussion List ; Scott Ritchey
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
If one lives a clean life. Who cares?
Cameras or not.
Bitch_bitchier
ur world is for the most part (some inner city hell holes
excluded) safer than its ever been...
-Curt
From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes
To: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Reader
"
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>Hear, hear!
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
This sort of thing has been common in England for a long while.
It does go against t
m: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott
Ritchey via Mercedes
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:31 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
After a recent double murder in nearby Granville County NC on New Year's
Day, the alleged p
If one lives a clean life. Who cares?
Cameras or not.
Bitch_bitchier_bitchiest.
On Jan 27, 2015 2:30 PM, "Scott Ritchey via Mercedes"
wrote:
> After a recent double murder in nearby Granville County NC on New Year's
> Day, the alleged perps were apprehended in West Virginia after an automated
> l
2015 3:37 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
Yeah, no.
What happens if they say anybody who sells drugs is a terrorist? Or
homosexuals? Or Jews?
Oh sure, that can't happen anymore. How long ago was it the Canadian government
stopped pulling children
He could have done that then had his and his department's @$$e$ sued for
false arrest, imprisonment, etc. That would have been fun to do.
See, the thing is by acting like a dick he deserved no respect, and was
clearly trolling with no probable cause whatsoever to stop me, a citizen
going abou
ent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
This sort of thing has been common in England for a long while.
It does go against the grain to have the authorities spying on one all
of the time but if we want the police to catch the bad guys, we
sometimes ha
PM
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
Some years ago I had driven from Texas to take my son to school at
Villanova. My wife and I were going to some hotel not very close to the
school, in Philadelphia proper, and I get stopped by a cop. Guy gets out,
shaved head,
I would suggest you are lucky he did not haul you in and detain you for
a bit just to show you he could do so.
Be nice to the cops. They don't (at least at the patrol car level) get
to choose what the uniform looks like.
He was just doing his job. He saw you, had a basic excuse to check you
ou
gt; Greg
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott
> Ritchey via Mercedes
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:31 PM
> To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Subject: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
>
> After a recent dou
Some years ago I had driven from Texas to take my son to school at
Villanova. My wife and I were going to some hotel not very close to the
school, in Philadelphia proper, and I get stopped by a cop. Guy gets
out, shaved head, black military pants and combat boots, thigh holster,
swagger, the
lf Of Scott
Ritchey via Mercedes
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:31 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: [MBZ] OT License plate Readers
After a recent double murder in nearby Granville County NC on New Year's
Day, the alleged perps were apprehended in West Virginia after an automated
lic
On 27/01/2015 3:17 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
"Unreasonable search" referenced warrrantless searches of one's home, which
is different from the use of red light or surveillance cameras.
Red light cameras are purely about the money. Just another easy form of
taxation.
RB
_
On 27/01/2015 3:32 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote:
Hear, hear!
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
This sort of thing has been common in England for a long while.
It does go against the grain to have the authorities spying on one
"Those who give up liberty for security have neither"
Founders of this country understood that concept so well they wrote
protection into the founding documents of Constitution, now known as 4th
Amendment.
Just because it has been abused by the current government, it has not been
revoked. The Ri
Hear, hear!
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
This sort of thing has been common in England for a long while.
It does go against the grain to have the authorities spying on one all of
the time but if we want the police to catch the ba
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:12:41 -0700 G Mann via Mercedes
wrote:
> "Those who give up liberty for security have neither"
Hear, hear!
> Founders of this country understood that concept so well they wrote
> protection into the founding documents of Constitution, now known as 4th
> Amendment.
>
> J
"Unreasonable search" referenced warrrantless searches of one's home, which
is different from the use of red light or surveillance cameras.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:12 PM, G Mann via Mercedes
wrote:
> "Those who give up liberty for security have neither"
>
> Founders of this country understood
"Those who give up liberty for security have neither"
Founders of this country understood that concept so well they wrote
protection into the founding documents of Constitution, now known as 4th
Amendment.
Just because it has been abused by the current government, it has not been
revoked. The Rig
Hear, hear!
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> This sort of thing has been common in England for a long while.
> It does go against the grain to have the authorities spying on one all of
> the time but if we want the police to catch the b
This sort of thing has been common in England for a long while.
It does go against the grain to have the authorities spying on one all
of the time but if we want the police to catch the bad guys, we
sometimes have to give up some of our liberties to help them do it.
RB
On 27/01/2015 2:30 PM,
After a recent double murder in nearby Granville County NC on New Year's
Day, the alleged perps were apprehended in West Virginia after an automated
license plate reader flagged the victim's stolen car.
See:
http://abc11.com/news/911-call-shows-desperate-scene-at-murder-victims-home/
462397/
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