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Liberty Maniacs Reveal the Real Maniacs are NSA Agents
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/nsa-crushes-free-speech-on-t-shirts/
Sheriff Arrested for Defending 2nd Amendment
SWAT Hijacks, Terrorizes School Bus
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For years, http://LibertyManiacs.com has been producing comical t-shirts with political messages. Recently, the site had some of its products pulled from http://Zazzle.com where Liberty Maniacs sells its merchandise. The reason? The NSA complained to Zazzle that LibertyManiacs had infringed on a copyright-protected image owned by the federal government. But is that true?
The image in question is the official NSA logo. Does the NSA own it? Well, maybe. But parody is legal in the US, and according to both the Electronic Freedom Foundation and the American Bar Association, quote ‘parody is recognized as a type of fair use, like other commentary and criticism, and courts recognize that a parody must often take recognizable elements from the work it comments upon.
In other words, any attempt by the federal government to interfere with the free exercise of parody is illegally interfering with first-amendment-protected free speech. The government is breaking its own rule.
But who ever said the government has to follow its own rules? Americans learned in July that NSA agents have been reading their emails, listening to their phone calls, and searching through their internet histories. And while it turns out that Liberty Maniacs is *not* engaging in copyright infringement, it turns out the NSA is.
The NSA’s official PRISM logo was ripped from a presenter named Adam Hart-Davis. The image is free for use, as long as there’s acknowledgment of the source and a link to the material online, but the NSA didn’t do any of that, hence, they have done something else illegal. But who’s keeping score?
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Sheriff Nick Finch was arrested, charged with a felony and suspended without pay. His crime? Upholding the 2nd Amendment.
The events began when Floyd Eugene Parrish, a Florida resident, was arrested and detained by one of Finch’s deputies for carrying a firearm without a permit. In the state of Florida, carrying a firearm without permission from the government guys is a 3rd degree felony. Sheriff Finch released Parrish because, in his assessment, Parrish was not a violent criminal and was acting innocuously.
In past months, several complaints had been filed against the arresting deputy for overstepping his authority. Sheriff Finch decided to launch an internal investigation against the deputy. When the deputy found out that an investigation was going to be launched against him, he resigned to keep the investigation from occurring. Then the deputy, who was no longer employed, took out his hard feelings by filing a complaint in bad faith against Finch for the Parrish arrest.
Florida governor Rick Scott stepped in and had Finch arrested and appointed a new sheriff. Asked by Ben Swann how long he plans to fight this case, Finch replied, quote, “I’ll fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if I have to. The State already made me an offer that if I resign they will drop the charges. To me, this means they do not have a case and it seems there are political motives to push me out rather than seek justice.”
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A SWAT training exercise that took place in Rossford, Ohio, last week appears to be just the latest example of the state working to familiarize American citizens with terror and heavy-handed police-state responses.
Students on a classic yellow school bus en route to a local school were terrified when a man stood up and proceeded to hijack the vehicle. The hijacker, carrying what appeared to be a functional firearm, tied up some of the students and told them to keep their heads down.
The bus was rerouted to a local emergency management facility where it was stormed by heavily armed first responders and SWAT teams.
While preparedness is always a good policy, parents are disturbed that neither they nor their children were informed of the drill, although it had been planned for months. The students onboard the bus had no idea that their lives weren’t in immediate danger. Who are the *real* terrorists?
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