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Sometimes I love the ACLU.

Interesting video, but I knew most of it from reading Boston T. Party’s “You and the Police!”

Valuable advice indeed for surviving in our present day police state, especially as our government masters outlaw more and more activities and behaviors.

I enjoy how the movie doesnt try to hide that its goal is to protect criminals from the law. (Of course, none of these things should be crimes.)

I see this more as protecting the innocent from the law; the glass half full way of looking at it.

I don’t plan on smoking pot any time soon, but I still plan on using my rights if ever nessecary.

Besides, isn’t one innocent until proven guilty?

Becaue that’s how they are.

Excuse me Leeon, can you explain your opinion on either?

man; this video is really cool and everything but i’m afraid it wouldn’t work in my country; over here the cops are the ones that plant the evidence to incriminate you; especially if you resist any kind of search. anyhow it seems to be balanced out since parallel to the cops planting evidence is the fact that you can buy the police off. most of the times when they stop you over here they just want like $20 or $50 now if they find something incriminating or they plant it, then you really gotta pay a lot of cash.

even so…., my car got stolen once; and luckily i recovered it the same day through a tracking device; when the cops arrived they blackmailed me to pay to get my car back. otherwise they threatened to keep the car for ages until they completed an investigation to see if the car had been used in any kind of crime which would have cost me lots of money just for their parking. when the law clearly states that any car that has been recovered in less than 24h can be returned to the owner withouth any kind of investigation

Last night I was eating dinner with my wife friend and her husband.Her husband is a Georgia state patrol officer.We have a famous DUI lawyer in Atlanta that tells people something close to this video and to give them a card with their rights on it. The lawyers tells the people not to talk but just hand the cop the piece of paper with your rights on it.The state patrol told me when he is handed this paper he will make sure he finds away to give them a ticket.I sat on the grand jury last it is amazing how many
people gave up thier righs to a search.
http://www.crazyforliberty.com

Wow ACLU is a buncha of monkey fucking shit eaters! im glad some of you “love the ACLU” because youre a child rping FUCKTARD WITH NO BASIS ON UNDERSTANDING THE ACLU, LIKE did you know theyre trying to leaglizeChild pornography? wow….you should love them.

It should be clear that whether or not they are “helping people get away with breaking the law” or not, even if you are innocent, you can wind up in trouble. I thought that the art student example illustrated that perfectly. Actually, all three did. In the two pot examples, people who didn’t use drugs got arrested too. Not only that, but even if you are “guilty” and beleive people who commit such offenses, you will almost assuredly receive a sentence that is asymetrical to the offense.

There is no magic bullet to prevent the police from trashing your rights or planting evidence, but if you follow these suggestions your chances improve dramtically and best of all you get under the worthless hogs skin. The police despise your rights, and hate it even more if you know, respect and assert said rights. That’s why that worthless hog patrolman somone had supper with would find a way to give you a ticket. Because he wants to punish you for reserving the rights he swore an oath to protect.

I saw this vid earlier at Reason, thanks for posting it here. it’s sad how so many people suppport abusive policing and the whole “police should be allowed to do whatever they want, break in your house, shoot your dog, slam your grandmothers head against the wall- and if you arent doing anything wrong you shouldn’t have a problem with it” mentality. Regardless of the people in the vid committing any “crimes” ( and the only one that should be a crime at all is the vandalism and even if the kid did it, there was no probable cause to search a kid waiting for the bus) even the guilty have rights. personally, I do not use any drugs, and probably would not have anything illegal (who knows they can probably find something or fabricate smething if they want).However that does not mean I want to be violated, groped, assaulted, have my stuff ransacked for no reason,etc. No one should have to worry about beng assaulted by police as a routine condition of breathing.

Ftheaclu your government masters are very proud of you. You’re one hell of a boot licking fascist.

Funny how anyone would be against an organization that helps you exercise and protect your American civil liberties that are constantly being eroded in this day and age.

The more freedom you give away, the less control you have over your own life.

That’s not to say that I am an advocate of child pornography, but in my opinion, bringing that up is wayyyy of topic to begin with.

The movie is about police encounters, not banging kiddies, lets keep that staight for the neo-cons.

Did he just threaten him with jail?

I assure you, one night in jail, is people sleeping.

Noone is “marking their ground” in jail There is a big difference between prison and jail. People don’t get rap*d and beat up in jail.

Thanks for making all cops look like a**holes you dbag.

I’m very liberal, but this is a joke. This is a project done by 16 year old twats that wear scarves year round and drink starbucks for every meal.

I encourage people to learn their rights on their own not by this biased shit that makes all cops look like shit.

this video only teaches you how to hide pot from cops and be smarta**es.

no digg. please die. learn your rights from unbiased sources.

God I hated this so much.

God, this is so retarded.

This video is about HOW to deal with NEGATIVE police encounters, is it not sensible that the cops dealt with would be acting badly, as this is the entire purpose of the eductation of THE VIDEO?

What’s in the water? Where are all these idiots coming from on HOT lately? Atleast Julian had his moments of clarity.

Spencer, there are no unbiased sources, lots of cops are assholes, I’ve seen it, everyone I know has seen it hell my grandma has seen it.

I for one appreciate such a simple informative tool as this video, as I don’t have the time or energy to waste reading through a bunch of legal crap in order to determine how to stand up for myself in an unfairly leveraged situation like a police encounter.

Police intend to intimidate, regularly. It’s common, this is a tool for those of us who don’t enjoy it to defend ourselves. What can you possibly have against that?

For all those people that say there are more bad people than bad cops, remember this: Our legal philosophy of innocent until proven guilty is based on the idea that it is a far greater crime to imprison the innocent than to free the guilty.

Good information – wish I had it a year ago when I was illegaly stopped and harrassed, but this would have done no good for me when my home was illegaly entered and contained for 8 hours whithout a warrant, even though I did NOT consent to the search. They lied to get the warrant, and they took our computer under the suspicion that my ex’es son (who was only visiting us) was looking on the internet for certain things, and they found nothing because there was nothing to be found. They ripped apart my own son’s bedroom who was not inovolved at all in their accusations. The cop who ran the bogus operation was fired, and the DA took the case away from the bafoons and returned our computer, but we were still left traumatized, especially my daughter who was only 5 at the time. The ACLU wouldn’t even return my calls when I searched for help. I just wish they could put their words into action a bit more…

I was relieved to find that this is NOT an ACLU video because it is flawed, and giving bad advice. The most serious of which, is implying that when have committed an ARRESTABLE offense (20MPH over is arrestable in many areas), then they don’t have to have consent to search the car (or you). The passengers have more leeway with their rights, but the driver is “done for” if he has committed an ARRESTABLE offense and encounters an asshole cop. “Flex your Rights” seems to have their heart in the right place, but this video is dangerous if you don’t want to go to jail. Further more, why on EARTH are they advising you to be a smart ass with an asshole cop when you have marijuana in the car? As much as we hate it, you HAVE to kiss their ass and treat them like they can have you legally jailed at any moment when you have something to hide. I say all this because I am and ACLU member, and a cop. I’ve paid the price in my job for being “rights conscious” from co-workers (i.e., asshole cops).