Nice “Prison Planet” photos
A few nice Prison Planet images I found:
New Law in the UK May Make it Illegal to Photograph the Police After February 16th
Image by Thomas Hawk
I was disappointed to read a post that Paul Buchheit posted on FriendFeed today regarding recently passed legislation in the UK which might make it illegal to photograph the police there. The article, from Prison Planet, cites the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 as containing the relevant legislation:
From Prison Planet:
"According to the British Journal of Photography, the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, which is set to become law on February 16, “allows for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.” The punishment for this offense is imprisonment for up to ten years and a fine.
However, even before the passage of the legislation, police in Britain have already been harassing and arresting fully accredited press photographers merely for taking pictures of them at rallies and protests."
In the UK, the section of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 that deals with this is in section 76, where it states that it will now be a crime to "Elicit, publish or communicate" information about members of armed forces etc.
From the legislation:
"(1) A person commits an offence who—
(a) elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is or has been—
(i) a member of Her Majesty’s forces,
(ii) a member of any of the intelligence services, or
(iii) a constable,"
While I’m still not exactly 100% sure what "ellicting and publishing information" about members of the police might entail, I could certainly see the issue being raised where an officer was identifiable, perhaps even with their name on their uniform. In any event, it certainly would seem to give the police more ammunition, so to speak, to be able to use when asking photographers not to photograph them.
This legislation would appear to be yet another chilling move by the UK in encouraging harassment of photographers. Last year you might remember that the London Metropolitan Police launched a very public advertising campaign asking people to turn in "odd" looking photographers.
Retaining our rights to photograph the police is important. Whether the Rodney King case or the more recent case of BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle’s killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, it is important that as citizens we be allowed to record the day to day activities of our police officers. Police officers wield an incredible amount of power over the general citizenry in our day to day lives. Being able to record their activities (as certainly they record ours) is an important right and power in ensuring that they handle their own power with the responsibility with which they should.
This law in the UK is unfortunate. It further muddies the water for what photographers can and can’t photograph with regards to the police and further paves the way for police officers to harass photographers. While the law seems to be targeted towards people who would photograph the police with the intention of using it for terrorism, I could easily see how it could be used by any police officer to try and stop photographers from photographing them. I would much rather have seen wording in this legislation that specifically said that regular citizens have every and all rights to photograph the police at any time.
I’ve taken a lot of photographs of the police here in the U.S. You can see my photoset "Cops" here.
One flat, black, beetle
Image by cotinis
Penthe pimelia, the "Velvety Bark Beetle". I found this at my kitchen window light, as I have found almost all my specimens. I see one or two per year, in the late spring or in fall. This thing looks like a Tenebrionid (Darkling) beetle, but is not. Sometimes placed in Melandryidae, it seems, currently, to be placed in Tetratomidae, the Polypore Fungus Beetles. The genus name Penthe is Greek, "to mourn", no doubt referring to the dark color. Star Trek fans will perhaps, recognize this from the name of the Klingon prison planet, Rura Penthe, no doubt a mournful place. Who knew that Greek and Klingon were related? (The explanation is simple–the writers behind Star Trek often borrowed from non-English human languages for their "alien" words.)
Aaron Russo – Architecture Of A Prison Planet (Pt. 4)
Part 4 Aaron Russo gives Alex Jones a historic interview about the direction of America including inside information from his personal relationship with Nick Rockefeller. This discussion about the Federal Reserve central banking system, the 9/11 cover-up, and much more should be seen by everyone. RIP Aaron Russo For more information on the topics discussed in this interview, watch Aaron Russo’s own documentary “America: Freedom To Fascism” for free on google video: video.google.com freedomtofascism.com http www.republicmagazine.com http Alex Jones websites: www.truthnews.us http www.infowars.com http I strongly suggest supporting Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential elections to put an end to the private Federal Reserve central banking cartel. After seeing this interview you should know how important that is to the state of the world. www.ronpaul2008.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Aaron Russo – Architecture Of A Prison Planet (Pt. 6)
Part 6 Aaron Russo gives Alex Jones a historic interview about the direction of America including inside information from his personal relationship with Nick Rockefeller. This discussion about the Federal Reserve central banking system, the 9/11 cover-up, and much more should be seen by everyone. RIP Aaron Russo For more information on the topics discussed in this interview, watch Aaron Russo’s own documentary “America: Freedom To Fascism” for free on google video: video.google.com freedomtofascism.com http www.republicmagazine.com http Alex Jones websites: www.truthnews.us http www.infowars.com http I strongly suggest supporting Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential elections to put an end to the private Federal Reserve central banking cartel. After seeing this interview you should know how important that is to the state of the world. www.ronpaul2008.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
White House Attacks Prison Planet.com Report On Blackouts – Alex Jones Tv Sunday Edition 1/5
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv February 5, 2011 – Lies about Texas not being affected by draconian EPA rules on greenhouse gases. – Deception about clean burning coal-fired plants producing “carbon pollution”. – Spin in denying EPA and Obama administration have publicly stated and openly embarked on mission to destroy coal industry by blocking construction of new power plants. The White House has publicly responded to the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s agenda to bankrupt the coal industry and its connection to this week’s blackouts across the country, by attempting to deny the link in a rebuttal that amounts to nothing more than a tissue of lies, deception and spin. In a blog that appears on the front page of WhiteHouse.gov, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer begins by claiming that the story came from a “questionable” source and is “unquestionably false,” without even naming the source. Frightened that Americans might actually read the source and make their own minds up based on the facts, Pfeiffer fails to provide a link to our original article that was subsequently picked up by the Drudge Report, Fox News and numerous other media outlets. Pfeiffer then oversimplifies the debate by building a straw man argument based around the premise that “the Obama Administration is somehow responsible for the rolling blackouts in Texas,” before blaming the outages on cold weather. By framing the argument to make …
Part 2 Aaron Russo gives Alex Jones a historic interview about the direction of America including inside information from his personal relationship with Nick Rockefeller. This discussion about the Federal Reserve central banking system, the 9/11 cover-up, and much more should be seen by everyone. RIP Aaron Russo For more information on the topics discussed in this interview, watch Aaron Russo’s own documentary “America: Freedom To Fascism” for free on google video: video.google.com freedomtofascism.com http www.republicmagazine.com http Alex Jones websites: www.truthnews.us http www.infowars.com http I strongly suggest supporting Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential elections to put an end to the private Federal Reserve central banking cartel. After seeing this interview you should know how important that is to the state of the world. www.ronpaul2008.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Prison Planet – PROOF
Desteniproductions www.desteni.co.za
video Rating: 4 / 5
Is it possible that the leaders of the world are working together to create a “prison planet?”?
Question by O’Ryan: Is it possible that the leaders of the world are working together to create a “prison planet?”?
What do you say. I have been indifferent about various theories but I don’t know…it kind of seems as if this can’t be completely ruled out.
Note: I don’t listen to Alex Jones but have seen his movies and just about every other one in that genre so I don’t need a history lesson from bias points of view. I pay attention to what is going on and try my best to keep an open-mind.
IDK, but you have probably heard of the RFID chip that will be in your ID soon, you have to have a passport to leave the country, there are more survelience cameras popping up each and every day, the dollar is (questionably intentionally) being shrunk to nothing, we have all sorts of global organizations that many countries are part of, habeus corpus was loopholed over the years as the police can use militaryesque equipment.
I’m not saying that this is a sure thing by any means but shouldn’t an open-minded individual at least be open to this as a possibility?
Oh yeah, also there have been way too many laws created for the government to protect itself from a revolt. You really can’t even joke around about such a thing.
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Answer by Über (Tree Hugging)Liberal! Lola
no
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