Cops are never to be trusted. Prudent citizens watch the cops. Cops need careful control. When ever possible record what cops do. You could be the next victim. Cops' conduct is always "newsworthy" to quote many court cases. A long established duty of Americans has long been their right keep close track of what the cops are doing. As a group cops are by far the worst gang of street thugs in the county. Cops are dangerous. Cops have much too much power. Cops are much too arbitrary. Cops are much too arrogant. As Pennsylvania has become more and more a police state, cops have become more and more oppressive, more and more secretive. Pennsylvania's cops are especially sensitive about being video recorded. They've seen what's happened in other states. Cops caught on video can't lie their way out of their abuses. Cops rely on their lies. Cops rely on other cops lying for them. Lying is a way of life for cops. In Pennsylvania's police state the solution to being recorded was easy. The cops simply arrest citizens who record them! Intimidation has always been part of cop mentality. To hide what they're doing, to keep you from finding out about their abuses, Pennsylvania cops have gone a step farther. They arrest citizens who record them abusing citizens. Brian Kelly is a case in point. The young man videotaped cops in Carlisle seat of Cumberland County in Central Pennsylvania. As they typically do, cops were harassing a young man. He happened to be one of Mr. Kelly's friends. It was during a traffic stop. The charge (likely trumped up) was for supposedly speeding. Mr. Kelly video recorded part of the incident. The cops didn't like having their harassment recorded. They apparently knew how bad it made them look. How could they lie if it was on tape? We can't discover who the cops were. At one point about a dozen of them were bullying around the incident intimidating the citizens. The cops' identities are protected in a police state. The citizen is exposed. The citizen is humiliated. That's how a police state is. Avoid Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The cops seized Mr. Kelly's camera. The cops seized the evidence against them. The cops seized unrelated recordings. The cops had no warrant. The cops arrested Mr. Kelly. The cops charged him with violation of Pennsylvania's overly broad wiretapping law. Instead of protecting the rights of the citizen, Jaime Keating, of the District Attorney's office elected to prosecute the citizen and protect the cops from exposure. That's how a police state operates. In most of the United states, the Constitution protects citizens. The general rule is that "what's done in public is public and may be recorder or photographed." If you're in a public place and you can see something or can hear something, you are free to record it. Hundreds of thousands of video systems do it all the time. Even the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rulings to protect that principle. In the 1989 case of Commonwealth v Henlen, 564 A2d 905, 522 Pa 514, the Supreme Court found that a cop's oral conversation with a suspect was not privileged and could be recorded. The Court ruled: the "conversation was not protected 'oral communication' in that the officer possessed no reasonable expectation of privacy while interrogating the suspect." Constitutional protections have little significance in Pennsylvania, especially in Carlisle. In a police state like Pennsylvania, the cops are above the law. The cops are above the Constitution. It really got bad under Pennsylvania's far"right-wing Republican governors. First there was the malicious Richard Thornburg, an extremist of police power. When the MUCH worse Tom "Swastika" Ridge was governor things became much more oppressive. Ridge was/is a truly evil person. Ridge is one of George W. Bush's cronies; birds of a feather! Pennsylvania's extremist Republican legislature cares nothing about a citizen's rights. Republicans care only about money, big business and holding down the citizens so they'll be obedient drones toiling for the wealthy. Republicans love the police state. It holds the drones in order. Mr. Kelly is a young citizen. He's been intimidated out of his rights. He's learned the lesson that the police state wanted to impress upon him, you have no rights. What you're allowed to do is left up to the caprice of the bullies in the uniform. As we've done repeatedly, we urge everyone to avoid Pennsylvania. It's a bad place. To that general warning, we add a special caution, avoid Carlisle. It's a bad place. Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "A big, hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup" Raymond Chandler, 1949 You are welcome to use or re-publish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the News Items Menu. 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