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From the article:
That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes
But it wasn’t his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later — taken with his helmet camera — of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore.
In early April, state police officers raided Graber’s parents’ home in Abingdon, Md. They confiscated his camera, computers and external hard drives. Graber was indicted for allegedly violating state wiretap laws by recording the trooper without his consent.
Government, in general, is necessary. Police are necessary, and, in some cases, honorable and heroic. But government can be abusive, and cops thuggish. We’re citizens, not subjects, you jackasses. The growth of the surveillance state is bad enough, but the idea that you can’t videotape/record a cop (who’s probably videotaping and recording you) is absolutely bloody intolerable.
This will not be borne.
