Increasingly, and openly, ordinary Americans are committing a
legal act that some police nonetheless regard as among the most heinous
of all offences: it's called contempt of cop.
It's otherwise known as asserting your constitutional rights.
Citizens, feeling empowered, are pointing smartphones, rather than just an accusing finger, at abusive authorities.
Civil libertarians with hidden cameras are challenging the so-called
"suspicion-less" roadblocks that police set up to catch lawbreakers.
Motorists and others are fighting back in the courts and online against
police shakedown rackets on U.S. highways and elsewhere.
Everywhere, it seems, Americans are openly challenging arbitrary behaviour by those in authority.
Furthermore, they are winning. Not since the late 1960s have those in
authority, from heavy-handed cops to the federal operatives sifting
metadata in super-secret intelligence installations, been exposed to so
much disinfecting sunlight.
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Dennis Fetcho, aka "The Fetch", is an American ex-patriot living in Amman, Jordan. He is the author of the Illuminatus Observor, a blog regarded by many as simply the finest Hermetic Qaballa blog in all of blogdom. The Fetch also has a second site called"Inside The Eye Live.com"
