Citizens rise up! Take back the law!

I am not the first to blog this stuff, but I figured that I would pass them on.

Here in Portland, we have one man (Eric Bryant, now complete with target on back!) who insists that the Police should be required to follow the same rules that they would happily enforce against us. I happen to agree with him.

Downtown Cop gets another ticket.

Sure it is nitpicky. But cops are bastards. Almost 100%. I have never met a cop who didn't have some sort of "power trip" especially here in Portland. The Portland Police Bureau is terrible. I know that I have written in the past about them, and that they are not my favorite people. But gosh darn it if they don't keep giving us reasons to dislike them. I am not going to go all investigative journalist on them - just Google a bit if you are interested.

Police should be held to a higher standard of the law.

They carry guns. They have the backing of the courts and their word is counted as more reliable or respectable than ours. It is this which makes it so much more important that they be held accountable, and that they live by the laws they enforce.

But parking tickets are small potatoes. Check THIS out:

Here is the Reason Magazine article on it:
Reason magazine: "Gotcha!"

Please pass this info along, because it is not likely to hit the mainstream media all that much unless it gets PUSHED out there!

Comments

Why shooting should be banned on public lands:

I don't need to say too much. The pictures speak for themselves. These pictures were taken at ONE spot on NF-45 forest road in Mt. Hood National Forest. The road is also known as "Memaloose" or "Maymaloose" road depending on which sign and map you read. It is maybe 50 miles outside of Portland, southeast on Hwy 224 - along the Clackamas river. The country up there is some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet. The ridge lines, and the deep jagged canyon from millions of years of raging water in the Clackamas river are something wonderful to behold. Driving up this road, we passed at least 5 spots that seemed to be popular with shooters, before we turned around. The road is a steep one lane paved road, and our GPS said we went from 700ft. at the river to 3000ft. almost instantaneously. At some points there are steep 1000 foot drops on either side of the road. It is breathtaking. Until you come across the shooting sites, which make you nauseous. I

Free Topographical Maps

The Libre Maps project has purchased and made available for free all of the USGS Topographical maps of the USA. All 50 states. The maps have always been free sort-of, there was just no where until now to actually GET them for free. The Libre Maps project raised enough funds to buy the many gigabytes of data and the Internet Archive is hosting them. These are great 24k scale topographical maps folks. The same types you pay for in sporting goods stores. And many applications on your computers can work directly with them and your GPS. You can get water and tear resistant paper and print them out.. All good stuff... For the lazy in the audience, here are Oregon's.

Not safer, just stupider.

The first definition of stupider is "Slow to learn or understand; obtuse." I think that there would be good cause to add to it "See American". Today, while passing through the security checkpoint at Portland International (PDX) I witnessed the TSA personnel sending people to the back of the line for not taking off their flip-flops. They shouted endlessly about removing liquids, regardless of size. And they generally treat every one of us like we were infants incapable of understanding simple instructions. But perhaps they might be on to something.

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