Sergeant Anthony Graber of the Maryland Air National Guard, is facing 16 years in prison, for daring to post a Youtube video after receiving a speeding ticket.
The video, filmed with a camera mounted on Graber's motorcycle helmet, shows a plain clothes officer jumping out of an unmarked car and pointing a pistol at Graber.
After he posted the video on Youtube, police raided Graber's home, seized computers and put him in jail. They can do his because America is a police state.
Graber is being charged with illegal wiretapping and is being threatened with 16 years in jail.
Various foreign media have covered the case. The U.S.' own media could care less. As is typical in police states, the media works hand in glove with the police and suppresses news unfavorable to them. In the U.S., sometimes an incident is too explosive to suppress the news entirely, so the media distorts the facts, minimizes and omits the most damaging info, and thus blunts the negative impact on the police. This helps manipulate public opinion, and maintains the media's credibility better than enitrely ignoring a matter of common knowledge would.
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Other states, including Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts, have used similar laws in repressive ways against citizen journalists. For example, in 2007, police in Florida arrested Carlos Miller, after the journalist photographed the arrest of a woman.
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