The Eye of the Storm - Part 1 of 2

It's SHAMEFUL that they threw that man to the ground and arrested him, even talked to him in the 1st place. It's on tape..what can you say?? This is going on all over the country now, and getting worse.

I want to side with the narrator only because I hate police...Equal only to weak, whiny, fat, Portlanders. All I can say is you don't hear the police coming up with paranoid conspiracy theories as to why everyone carries a cell phone with a camcorder on it.

This narrarator is certifiably nutty

That system is set up to monitor financial and communications traffic moving in and out of the country, it's not some dude videotaping a crowd of protesters.  England is much better at this anyway with the CCTV they use throughout the major cities. It's all digital, and all hardwired into their systems as opposed to a handheld video camera that would have to be downloaded into a computer database.

According to whom? This police officers video could be used for facial recognition scans and keeping track of who is protesting the government. The idea that "If you're not doing anything illegal, then you shouldn't have anything to fear." Does not make this okay. That same logic does not make it okay for the police to randomly search my person, why should it apply differently to surveillance?

I may have missed something, but since it's a public place, all parties involved have the right to videotape whom they choose. Also since both protesters and the police have cameras I don't see much of a difference. Additionally the protesters don't need facial recognition software to figure out who the police are, nor do the police need it to figure out who to watch out for. The idea that your face is in a gov't computer awaiting your mock trial and execution is ridiculous.

All I can say is wow. What an insult to the victims of true police states.

By dictionary defintion, we live in a Police State:

a nation in which the police, esp. a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.

So the secret Oregon state police force shut down the protesters organizing against the federal government? ROFL!
Again....what an insult.

The government keeps tabs on anyone that they think could be dangerous to them, not just conservatives. The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act gives them the right do so. Anyone attempting to change government policy can be watched. It's in the law now.