34 responses so far ↓

• 1 Trent Hill // Sep 16, 2009 at 11:46 pm

  Apparently a former city councilman in Carrie, ID was just appointed Mayor and he is a CP member. More on this later.

• 2 Citizens For A Better Veterans Home // Sep 17, 2009 at 4:40 am

  Apparently not important enuf to post the same month as the Stop The Cameras rally ……..

• 3 Kimberly Wilder // Sep 17, 2009 at 6:32 am

  I agree with the specific issue of taking down the cameras and video surveillance. (Though, there are some Constitution Party issues that I strongly disagree with.)

  In Nassau (and maybe Suffolk) Counties in Long Island, they are using red light cameras, which are also wrong, result in tickets, and I bet can and will be used against people for other than red lights in the future.

  Also, New York City is heavily surveilled. Not sure if people in other parts of the country realize, but at Penn Station in NYC, they have military people in fatigues, carrying weapons, routinely wandering around Penn Station.

  There is a guard station in front of the LIRR waiting station, and there are often people with uniforms there (Guarding the best Ladies Room in the subway from terrorist homeless pee-ers?)

  I rarely go into the city, anymore. Who wants to be face to face with someone waving around an automatic weapon when you are simply trying find a bathroom, or on your way to go see a Broadway play?

• 4 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 8:49 am

  Apparently not important enuf to post the same month as the Stop The Cameras rally ……..

  Don is being a pest again.

  A) We did another article about it last month, which I linked.

  B) The CP does not put their press releases on their front page, unlike most other parties, so I just now saw it.

  C) This is not my job. I don’t get paid to write here. It’s a hobby. I do a hell of a lot, and you’ll get what you get.

  D) If you don’t like it, you can either

  1. Pay me. This would be much appreciated, especially right now, as I am about to run out of money in about a week or so and have no idea what I’m going to do about it. If anyone enjoys my writing and wants to make a contribution to keep me afloat but does not know how to get a hold of me, let me know and I’ll put you in touch.

  2. Start your own blog (it’s free), and show us how it should be done.

  Of course, critics like Don will probably only bitch from the sidelines.

  The results that can lead to are

  1. Me responding like this

  2. Me not responding at all; not likely due to my advanced case of responditis, but that’s what the complaint actually merits.

  or

  3. Me writing here less or stopping altogether if it really gets to me at some point – which it almost has a few times.

• 5 d.eris // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:05 am

  Everyone should join the Surveillance Camera Players.

• 6 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:21 am

  Awesome. They mention Tuscaloosa!

  http://www.notbored.org/stephanie.html

  “Recent events in Tuscaloosa, Alabama suggest that police officers are just as likely as landlords to use video cameras for inappropriate purposes.”

  http://www.notbored.org/tuscaloosa.html

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  a sarcastic open letter dated 17 September 2003 and addressed to all those involved in or ultimately responsible for the recent scandal involving egregious abuses of a government surveillance camera in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

  CC: Joe Robinson, Director of the Tuscaloosa Department of Transportation; D.J. McInnes, Director of the Alabama Department of Transportation; W.M. Coppage, Coomander of the Highway Patrol Division, Alabama Department of Public Safety; Terry Windam, Alabama State Trooper Association, Tuscaloosa.

  We are writing to thank you for the recent scandal involving egregious abuses of a government surveillance camera. We’re sure you know exactly what we’re talking about. The story was first reported by
  the University of Alabama on 12 September 2003, and then confirmed by the Associated Press on 15 September 2003. At around 3 am on Friday 12 September 2003, someone — someone with access to the control center in which Alabama State Troopers watch the live feeds coming from 31 wireless cameras installed above intersections by the Tuscaloosa Department of Transportation — used the remote-controls to change the direction in which one of the cameras was facing and zoom in on what the Associated Press referred to “the breasts and buttocks of several young women walking past.”

  Why are thanking you? Because, dear sirs, you have — in one fell swoop — confirmed everything that we have been warning people about for the last seven years. Ever since 1996, we’ve been reminding people that police officers aren’t angels and that, when they get bored — which happens very often to policemen assigned to “video patrols” — they do what other bored men do: watch TV, gawk at pretty girls, masturbate. We’ve also been warning people that so-called traffic flow-monitoring cameras aren’t “OK,” benign or impervious to abuse, just because they (supposedly) watch cars and not pedestrians. And we’ve been telling people that wireless cameras are not “secure,” and that their signals can easily be interfered with, intercepted or diverted. Though a great many people have taken us quite seriously, others have referred to us as alarmist, even paranoid. But, thanks to you, we’ll never be called “paranoid” again.

  You’ve given us something that we’ve lacked up until this point: i.e., a well-documented instance in which a government spy camera has been used by a police officer for thoroughly despicable purposes. And you’ve given it to us in such a thoroughly entertaining way, too. Did you hear that shots of “breasts and buttocks” were broadcast on a local cable TV station, one that broadcasts live feeds from DOT cameras as a public service? Do you know how many children were watching? Too many! Best touch: the police covering their asses by refusing to arrest and discipline the guilty party (one of their own), choosing instead to arrest the woman who showed her tits to the camera as a way of exposing and ridiculing the officer’s obviously inappropriate intentions.

  Kudos, gentlemen! Kudos.

  Sincerely yours,
  The Surveillance Camera Players

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  Contact the New York Surveillance Camera Players

  By e-mail SCP@notbored.org

  By snail mail: SCP c/o NOT BORED! POB 1115, Stuyvesant Station, New York City 10009-9998

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  NOT BORED!

• 7 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

  Internal links only work at the original website;

  http://www.notbored.org/tuscaloosa.html

  Ah yes….Good ole’ T-town!

• 8 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:32 am

  Lots of good info at that site…

• 9 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:42 am

  Brian H. should be along presently to remind us that all of the information on that website has nothing to do with a police state, since most of the activities involved do not have any incarceration time attached, and many are not due to the “war on drugs.”

  See discussion in the comment section at

  http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/09/tom-knapp-what-individuals-should-do/

• 10 Brian Holtz // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:42 am

  Paulie, please ignore the electronic slings and arrows of outraged Monday-morning quarterbacks who can’t figure out how to click the About link to see the story-submission link for IPR.

• 11 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:45 am

  Thanks, Brian!

  I was mainly using it as an excuse to bleg for money (blog + beg).

  On a related note, see also

  http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/rrndfnd-bleg.html

• 12 Peter Orvetti // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:59 am

  I really don’t know why Don and a few others keep picking on Paulie, who has repeatedly made it clear that he’s not even the editor of this site. Why not pick on me, or one of the other writers?

• 13 d.eris // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:07 am

  Kimberly, if you absolutely must come into Manhattan, there are many resources that will help you take the “path of least surveillance.”

  See the NYC Surveillance Camera Project.

  And also the Institute for Applied Autonomy’s i-See Project, which has interactive maps that can help chart the path of least surveillance.

• 14 Trent Hill // Sep 17, 2009 at 1:10 pm

  Or me! It’s my site, and im the editor. And, I’d be happy to tell any reader who isn’t being productive or happy–to screw off =)

  As for Don starting his own blog–YES PLEASE. I can barely read a sentence of his writing, it’d make for fun translation exercises.

• 15 Citizens For A Better Veterans Home // Sep 17, 2009 at 1:38 pm

  Don ?????? Donald Raymond Lake ??????

  As this is a group [Constitution Party] has a veterans groups that does nothing to, for, or about veterans issues ……

  So Trent or dhl or paulie do not like me. So what! Wanna shut me shut? Plz tell me where I am being non factual!

  The dismantling of the Establishment Duopoly is a big job, while paulie jokes about getting a string to ‘100′. Is it his childishness and non seriousness or my spot lighting the obvious ????? [Semen as a rhino virus remedy ........]

  I take a lot of flack, which is perfectly fine, but [surprise, surprise] given enough time, lots of neutral folks repeat my complaints in an over whelming objective, sincere manner!

  Are you a sincere Report of Independent Politics throwing spit balls at the Democans and the Republicrats and leaving at least a paper trail of protest, or a forum of kindergarten jokes ?????????

• 16 Trent Hill // Sep 17, 2009 at 2:33 pm

  We’re both =). If you don’t like it, don’t read the blog. I can’t ever tell what you’re writing anyway.

• 17 Citizens For A Better Veterans Home // Sep 17, 2009 at 4:44 pm

  But, Trent, you don’t act happy!

  As I tell Dems and GOP:

  “say what you mean and mean what you say!”

  —– Donald Raymond Lake, truth teller

• 18 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  Me @#4 I am about to run out of money in about a week or so and have no idea what I’m going to do about it.

  p2: Problem solved.

• 19 libertariangirl // Sep 17, 2009 at 7:23 pm

  where ya going?

• 20 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 7:32 pm

  Lake,

  So Trent or dhl or paulie do not like me. So what! Wanna shut me shut? Plz tell me where I am being non factual!

  Hmmm, let’s see, where to start.

  You seem to have an entitlement attitude as if I owe you all the news you want, as soon as you want it, and then on top of that to police the comments to get the mix of views to your liking, or some such nonsense.

  In reality, I don’t owe you jack shit. There are many things that I don’t have time to cover. If nobody else does either, tough luck. This isn’t the VA and we don’t owe you squat. You are getting more than you pay for; be happy with what you get, or you might get less.

  If it so happens that the CP does not put their press release on the front page of their website like other parties (and it so happens to be that way) and I don’t take the extra step of checking their press release subpage until months later, too bad. If you want to take it upon yourself to check their website every day and let us know about it, there’s a greater chance it will be posted here, but there are no guarantees.

  And each article will get whatever reactions it gets. Don’t like it? Feel free to fuck off, or call our complaint department at 1-900-EAT-SHIT.

  
  The dismantling of the Establishment Duopoly is a big job, while paulie jokes about getting a string to ‘100?.
  

  All work and no play makes Paul a dull boy. I do plenty to dismantle the duopoly. Not enough for you? No reply at 1-900-EAT-SHIT? Email the complaint department at signmeup@spam.com.

  
  Is it his childishness and non seriousness or my spot lighting the obvious ????? [Semen as a rhino virus remedy ........]

  Did you take your dose today? If the oral doses aren’t working we’ll write you a prescription for a suppository.

  PS: I’m out of my current situation where I have access to a computer as of tomorrow. I do not know when I will be online again after that. If no one else picks up the slack, you can complain at 1-900-EAT-SHIT, signmeup@spam.com, or send us postal mail c/o Barry O., 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.

• 21 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm

  where ya going?

  Texted ya.

  Don’t want it out on the blogs quite yet.

• 22 Trent Hill // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08 pm

  It’s Uranus, isnt it?

  Paulie–thanks for what ya do, pal.

  Don–take Paul’s advice. The number above is my personal line.

• 23 The Last Conservative // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:22 pm

  Great rant, Paulie. Agree 100%!

  I am friends with Catholic Trotskyist and he completely agrees also. But he is on a mission for the Vatican for the next few months and won’t be here, most likely not until December. If Paulie, CT and Milnes are no longer here, this brings Don Lake closer to his goal of completely dominating the comments section of this site. Trent and the fabulous brigade of libertarians and the less fabulous brigade of greens, will have a fight on their hands to stop this. It looks like Ballot Access News almost succumbed to Don Lake domination, but they have been rescued at least temporarily by the Constitution Party insiders writing about John Rarick.

• 24 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:26 pm

  It’s Uranus, isnt it?

  Yeah. Uranus, Pluto, Pluto’s anus – someplace like that.

  Don’t know if I’ll have the energy to post these before I hit the road.

  PSL: Afghan translator killed during rescue attempt

  PSL: Wall Street to make profits betting on life insurance of the ill and elderly

  http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1078

  http://www.independenceminnesota.org/blog/posts/286-10th-amendment-solution-to-healthcare-crisis

  http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1083

  http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/09/17/get-rev-billy-on-bill-maher/

  http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/09/17/green-partys-invitation-to-van-jones-makes-waves/

  http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/sotomayor-v-corporate-personhood.html +
  http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=4960

  http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/2009/09/socialist-webzine-to-carry-live-reports.html

  http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/2009/09/socialist-candidate-at-connecticut-town.html

  http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/2009/09/socialists-take-on-astroturfs-at.html

  http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/2009/09/automation-socialism.html

  http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/2009/09/christianity-and-socialism.html

  http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/2009/09/commemorating-upton-sinclair-born.html

  http://www.bobbarr.org/default.asp?pt=newsdescr&RI=1183

• 25 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:51 pm

  Trent and Last Con,

  Thanks! BTW is there a Last Con Party, website or blog yet?

• 26 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:12 pm

  http://JoeKennedyForSenate.org

  Libertarian Joseph Kennedy of Boston has announced he will actually seek the vacant U.S. Senate Seat in Massachusetts. Kennedy is a national party member, but is registered Unenrolled, so he is running under independent/party designation rules.

• 27 paulie // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:13 pm

  Above is from Phillies.

• 28 Cody Quirk // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:20 pm

  AMEN Paul and Trent!

  There is no logic, or grammer, to his posts at all.

  Don, I do recommend calling that number!

  LOL!

• 29 The Last Conservative // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:44 pm

  Thanks Paulie. I have not even established a party yet. It definitely won’t be called The Last Conservative Party, because our goal of course is to become the first of many true traditional conservative parties around the world (true meaning completely abolishing the liberal, libertarian, neoconservative and socialist political establishment that we now have). I have to come up with a better name, but haven’t decided yet. My friend, Catholic Trotskyist, is trying to convert me to his way of thinking. We have a lot of similarities, but the main differences are that I don’t believe in world government, I want absolute monarchism to come back, and I want to completely abolish liberty while CT wants to have a censorship-free Internet, complete freedom of speech and press and religion, and no war on drugs.

• 30 The Last Conservative // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:46 pm

  No, I have not even established a party yet. It will not be called the Last Conservative Party though; that’s not a very inspiring name, is it? Right now I am trying to get Catholic Trotskyist to convert to my way of thinking, but he refuses to abandon his ideas of a world government, his anti-monarchism, and his belief that some liberties need to be kept intact when the true society arrives.

• 31 Cody Quirk // Sep 17, 2009 at 11:59 pm

  Yeah Trent, when you get more info, do a story on that ASAP.

  Or if you don’t want to cover it, then give me the source and I will.

• 32 Citizens For A Better Veterans Home // Sep 18, 2009 at 1:12 am

  One more time:

  Donald J. Grundmann ?????

  Donald R. Lake ??????

• 33 The Last Conservative // Sep 18, 2009 at 3:44 am

  Don Lake, noon has mentioned Grudnman in this thread at all. He has nothing to do with anything related to what we are talking about. the big question is, would Grundman support spy cams if they would catch Alan Keyes in corrupt activities? What about if they would catch Barack Obama in corrupt activities?

• 34 citizen1 // Sep 18, 2009 at 4:56 am

  IPR is the best resource out there for 3rd party news if the was a better one I would check it every day.

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