Thread: Infringed Again: Police to Partner with FaceBook to Prevent Protest Organization

Infringed Again: Police to Partner with FaceBook to Prevent Protest Organization [Video]

Posted by: Michelle Wright Posted date: October 29, 2013




Organizing protests or rallying the troops through FaceBook or other social media outlets may quickly become a thing of the past if law enforcement has anything to say about it. Apparently recent protests have the boys in blue worried about how efficient the social media giant is for gathering the masses. A Philadelphia convention last week pressed for allowing officers to keep anything they deemed criminal off the internet, this included stopping people from organizing protests. So now your 1st amendment right is a criminal act?

A high-ranking official from the Chicago Police Department told attendees at a law enforcement conference on Monday that his agency has been working with a security chief at Facebook to block certain users from the site “if it is determined they have posted what is deemed criminal content,” reports Kenneth Lipp, an independent journalist who attended the lecture.
Lipp reported throughout the week from the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, and now says that a speaker during one of the presentations suggested that a relationship exists between law enforcement and social media that that could be considered a form of censorship.
According to Lipp, the unnamed CPD officer said specifically that his agency was working with Facebook to block users’ by their individual account, IP address or device, such as a cell phone or computer. – RTNews

“Is Facebook really working with the police to create a kill switch to stop activists from using the website to mobilize support for political demonstrations?” the PrivacySOS blog asked. “How would such a switch function? Would Facebook, which reportedly hands over our data to government agencies at no cost, block users from posting on its website simply because the police ask them to? The company has been criticized before for blocking environmentalist and anti-GMO activists from posting, but Facebook said those were mistakes. Let’s hope this is a misunderstanding, too.”

“95.9 percent of law enforcement agencies use social media, 86.1 percent for investigative purposes,” Lipp quoted from the head of the social media group for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

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[Watch] Texas State Troopers Illegally Came And Took It


Austin, TX- The “Come and Take It” rally was a big success. However Texas State Troopers may have illegally came and took it. We were told by most sources that only four people were arrested and it was mainly due to the Star Buck’s ordnance. Now it seems coming to light that some Texas State troopers answered the challenge by illegally arresting two participants.
According to Austin law it was illegal to carry a pistol openly in the city limits. However that would not be a legal reason to arrest these two. The weapons they carried were antiques and produced in 1898. They would have been grandfathered in under the long barrel and black powder clauses and the pistol definition would not be applicable.
So then the officers state that they were given opportunity to leave and didn’t so they arrested them for criminal trespass and failure to identify themselves.

“The men were openly carrying suspected deadly weapons and were given the opportunity to leave the area, but refused,” Vinger wrote in an email. He said no other information about the arrest was available~Dallas Morning News

However this contradicts several, and I do mean several, videos of the incident.

Leaders of the gun-rights group Open Carry Texas said their members did not provoke troopers and were within their legal rights to carry the pistols. Victoria Montgomery, a spokeswoman for the group, described the weapons as black-powder revolvers made before 1899.
Montgomery said the group doesn’t go looking for trouble but instead wants to educate the public that the kind of antique weapons carried by the men arrested Saturday can legally be open carried. Long guns can also be openly carried, though Texas law prohibits open carrying of handguns.
“We’re proud of us educating the public. We thought it was an admirable endeavor,” Montgomery said. “But DPS obviously has an issue with that.”
C.J. Grisham, the president of Open Carry Texas who said he originally wanted to bring an assault rifle to the rally, scoffed at authorities’ description of the pistols as a deadly weapon.
“We had flagpoles that we could’ve beat people with too,” Grisham said. ~Dallas Morning News

A copy of the video was obtained for your viewing. Warning does include some strong language:



Published on Oct 26, 2013
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Brandon Walker

Licensed Preacher and Journalist from Texas. Veteran of the US Army, medically discharged under honorable conditions. Seventeen year veteran of law enforcement that worked for such organizations as the Massachusetts State Police, Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America (Administrator), and Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Christian Constitutional Conservative with degrees in Business and Criminal Law.
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