Government Retaliation is Out of Control
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
- What can Americans do if the government retaliates against them for speaking out? Today we're going to discuss real world examples of governments retaliating against citizens for speech they don’t approve of. We are joined by IJ Attorneys Kirby Thomas West Ben Field.
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Just proves how right James Madison was. Unless the Constitution lives in the hearts and minds of the people and in the decisions of the courts, it is nothing but a parchment barrier to tyranny. And tyranny is what this is.
Well said❤.....
Lol always has just been a piece of paper you find magical. Keep believing others have "authority."
@@DonnieDarko727 Cynicism is the refuge of small minds.
@@DonnieDarko727agreed ..
@@DonnieDarko727 The paper is just a paper. If in the hearts and minds, with the WILL to defend it in any means necessary, then it has the power from those willing to defend it.
Monetary compensation will not stop this... The government will just tax more. There has to be criminal charges brought for these sorts of violations.
Right. When the government or their agencies are sued, they don't pay a dime.
Even if it is their insurance paying it, such settlements can only increase their rates which are also paid by taxpayers.
No pensions for our modern western Stasi as was started last time? The solution for a much government corruption is less spending and taxing.
"“We also proposed that Stasi collaborators and Stasi officers should not get pensions any higher than the average East German. This was even written into the unification treaty, and it was carried out for 10 years. They only got the average pension for East Germans. But then they went to the constitutional court in Germany, and this court decided that they should get pensions according to their salaries.
The Stasi continues to cast a long shadow over German reunification. But the shadow could have been much longer. “We never wanted to use the methods that the Stasi used against us,” Vera Lengsfeld told me. “We rejected the idea of pursuing them or killing them or something like that. So, we have to endure that they are among us. I think this was the right decision. You cannot come out of this spiral of violence if you use the same methods as your adversary, yes?”
-johnfeffer.com/2013/06/24/the-stasis-long-shadow/
But that's why when you do actually have access to hold these agencies accountable you say you want to make sure things like this and violations don't happen to others. No one should be subjected to retaliatory actions for speaking up or standing up for the right thing to do and your/others rights. It's quite important to take the legal system back so it works for everyone to access for a good quality of life and to participate in community safely/how they choose( again safely and for the right thing to do). Zero reasons why we all can't live in happiness the best way we can in congruent with support of our communities and nation.
Absolutely
Legal Settlements and the like are just bribes that have been made legal by those that need to hand them out. I find it insane that we the people must pay for the incompetence and inadequacies of our government while also paying for their mistakes.
We already are not receiving a good product from our taxes, it has been sub par across the board for a while now. More and more of it is going towards settlements... this is insolvent
Using color of law to injure someone is a crime, not just a lawsuit.
Title 18 Section 242
True and as a Targeted Individual I'm looking for a principled lawyer to sue the FBI/DHS/Infragard/State Fusion Centers. This has been ongoing for me for almost 15 years across 3 different states.
@@seancollins9745that’s the criminal statute and how the cops SHOULD HAVE been charged. Sadly they only were hit with the 42 USC 1983 civil lawsuit.
SHOULD be! Unfortunately, when ANY organization 'investigates itself' they will HARDLY find themselves culpable... Their first instinct is self defense... And when there's an overwhelming amount of criminality & wrongdoing, they're going to DEFAULT to cover up until it becomes a way of being & such is our current REALITY!
it needs to be charged. because town councils wont go to jail for the officers. code enforcement needs to be stopped. it is taking away home ownership. so squatters seem to have more rights than the home owner. they don't get charged for a flower box, lawn to long, or parking on the grass.
Every case of "Qualified Immunity" should go to a jury to decide. Institute for Justice, thank you for all of your hard work helping to keep governments accountable. ❤
Shouldn’t even exist.
Absent a statute, Quallified Immunity is a Judge created law. Think about that...a "Judge created law"? Only the legislature passes laws...Judges only interpret laws.
So.....what is the problem? Legislatures refuse to pass a lot of laws that would take powers away from the totally corrupt punks known as The Judiciary.
South Dakota has one of the worst court systems with the most stupid, mediocre, corrupt judicial filth. They are all cop suck asses.
Robert, out of interest what valid reasons do you see for qualified immunity where it should still exist at all?
Robert, that is a genius suggestion!😊
ATTACK ME, QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IS ERASED!
We have an out of control government in this country.
SATIRE is the most important and necessary form of Free Speech that must remain protected. It blows my mind that anyone working for any branch of government believes that they're feelings are important and the laws should be protecting them. 🙄🤯🤦♀️
It's not just the government, it's being funded by think tanks which are funded by Billionaires.
…at EVERY level.
Wrong people for the job. You should hire people who as a jjob,and not a lifestyle. People who thinks a blue line is on a sheet of paper not what separates them from us. Also, stop having the old guard train the rookies. Start the rookies at community service jobs and move them up from there. MY favorite cop told me that his 1st day on the job his training officer told him to for get everything he learned at the academy, and by the end of hisv1st shift he had watched the guy break many laws. Foremost, we have to stop letting police themselves. That is a joke. Every department should have civilian over watch with the authority to fire cops.
And the guy who caused this. Sherriff Mark Wood of Rapides Parish, got re-elected in 2023 with 60% of the vote. (The Judge is a moron)
They make it dangerous to become a concerned citizen.
That sounds like the plan.
That’s why idiots are always left to their own devices
That's because they're tyrants.
@arkive11 Hear! Hear!
As I was listening/watching this most recent IJ upload, my inclination went toward this : Even if such "govern - MENTAL" retaliatory cases involve a small percentage of IJ cases (and I think many of us know there are actually far more such cases in which the IJ is not involved), it seems to me one must ask : Are such retaliatory cases an extension of the wholly unconstitutional @[ _ P _ ] _ atriot @[ _ A _ ] _ ct and the thus codified yet wholly subjective "#[ _ W _ ] _ ar #[ _ O _ ] _ n #[ _ T _ ] _ error?"
Listening to the description of these cases, it is unconscionable the level of legal ambiguity, contortions and gymnastics "representatives" of "govern - ment" will engage in in order to quash any sort of demand by the public for just accountability, is it not?
Seems to me such "creative"(?) minds ought be put to better use than trampling on the inherent rights of fellow man, wouldn't you agree?
I also must agree with the first respondent to your comment, it most certainly does appear to be part of a plan.
I will argue, that "plan" began many, MANY, decades ago.
@arkive11 Hear! Hear!
As I was listening/watching this most recent IJ upload, my inclination went toward this : Even if such "govern - MENTAL" retaliatory cases involve a small percentage of IJ cases (and I think many of us know there are actually far more such cases in which the IJ is not involved), it seems to me one must ask : Are such retaliatory cases an extension of the wholly unconstitutional @[ _ P _ ] _ atriot @[ _ A _ ] _ ct and the thus codified yet wholly subjective "#[ _ W _ ] _ ar #[ _ O _ ] _ n #[ _ T _ ] _ error?"
Listening to the description of these cases, it is unconscionable the level of legal ambiguity, contortions and gymnastics "representatives" of "govern - ment" will engage in in order to quash any sort of demand by the public for just accountability, is it not?
Seems to me such "creative"(?) minds ought be put to better use than trampling on the inherent rights of fellow man, wouldn't you agree?
I also must agree with the first respondent to your comment, it most certainly does appear to be part of a plan.
I will argue, that "plan" began many, MANY, decades ago.
The government has forgotten they take their orders from the people. The people have forgotten they are meant to give the government their orders.
It's easy when they have half the population convinced cops never do wrong and back the thin blue line gang no matter what. The other half of the country thinks only cops should have guns. We are doomed.
Well said! 👍
Amen Wendy.
Yep that part, but what do we do about it🤔?
@@noconsentgiven There's a Constitutional amendment specifically designed for this purpose.
The illusion of freedom we've been taught we have quickly falls apart when put into practice .
The Boogie Man is real, this has never been a Theory.
Most people just point to other countries where the oppression and corruption is worse and say, "See how good you have it?"
David, I don’t believe it’s a matter of the illusion of freedom being Weaponized. It’s a matter of people recognizing that this is an illusion. It’s an illusion that covers the rough spots in reality not to say that there are those who, if given a small amount of power will not abuse it at the same time, though someone abuses their power it is up to the citizens to make sure that the trust put in to a government servant is reconciled.
Once the Left destroys what little we have left of the 2A, the rest of our "freedoms" will disappear along with them.
@@valentinius62 The police don't baet you with batons, those are "freedom sticks."
*_It's not so much_* that Government retaliation is out of control, so much as it *_is_* one of their forms of control. You're free so long as you Obey and don't question authority. 🤐
MonkeyMind 69 ; Like my Dad used to say, It's a Free country as long as you do as you're told.... Gday
@@user-nd8cs3qx1v Sounds like we may have had similar fathers. When I was in 7th grade, my Dad asked me _"Son, why is the worst kind of sIavery when sIaves think they're free?"_
All power hungry people want to control you so they get into government and as long as you are drunk on bread and circus they will naturally trample on your rights and enslave you. Enjoy your beer and football.
It's the voters that are out of control that keep voting these people into office.
I had a cop ticket me for being parked to far into the street because I gave him a hard time about his language he used on these kids who were playing kickball on the street. I went to court to dispute it and the DA. handling parking tickets could not believe the cop used a law that was amended 50 years ago. The local paper did an article about the case and the cop became the butt of jokes on the local radio shows. Fortunately I lived in a different town because every time the cop saw me, he tried to provoke me to arrest me. He was finally fired after being caught lying too many times on court. Then he went to worl as a security guard at a defense contractor, where he would use his flashlight to look in worker's cars looking for items they may have stolen from the contractor. The workers started calling him Flash Gordo. Too often the wrong type of person enter law enforcement for the wrong reasons.
FIRED COPS WILL MAKE FUN TARGETS!
Imagine being arrested for not registering your vehicle and your ID is expired (only 3 days, even with 30 day and 60 day grace) paid 600$ went to jail for the night and had all my rights taken away and forced to do testing and exams/radiation without consent. Right to travel by any means and I get accosted
The problem is that the government side never pays personally. No charges no fine lawsuit payed by the people.
Court is the creditor!
The problem at all levels is a lack of personal consequences for misbehavior. You and I face prison and fines for improper conduct. Government personnel face reprimand, reassignment and retirement - basically two standards of justice. Violations of a citizen’s constitutional rights by a government official needs to be treated a a felony punishable by prison time or personal fine.
@@stephenblack8804 Most of the time they get a paid vacation.
No one fire for this level of stupidity! The cops had their feelings hurt.
the system is designed this way. it teaches everyone there is never any consequence to evil or unethical or illegal behavior. which massively promotes more of this same behavior.
Goes to show we no longer live in the land of the free at all.
No longer? It used to be worse.
Pres. Lincoln put journalists in jail for journalism during the Civil War.
Pres. Wilson and Congress put people in jail for free speech during WW1.
Pres. Roosevelt put Americans in prison camps for being Japanese-Americans during WW2.
....welcome to the land of the FREE !! (But I hope you have learned that those with guns make the rules.)
@@ChopperChad It's not better either. You don't have the right to privacy. You don't have the right to a fair trial(Fisa tries and convicts you with 0 due process or telling you you've been accused.) You barely have a right to bear arms. You don't have a right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. Cruel punishment is meeted out by the police daily. You don't have the right to speak freely. The only right you have left, is freedom from forced labor and the government can't house soldiers in your home. You don't have the right to choose what to do with your body. Either with drugs or a0rtion.
But hey we let gays get married so it used to be worse.
@@ChopperChad no doubt, considering Christ
We never really did. If you know history you know this.
Unfortunately, sociopaths are difficult to train. Best to keep them out of law enforcement!
Yes.
And yet . . . Sociopaths are attracted to holding positions of power in governments all over the planet.
Case in point: The banking system, the United Nations, the WHO, and the World Economic Forum, among many other organizations.
They're hired purposely.
And they're acting according to training methods.
That Sheriff's Dept. was accusing that man of doing what they were setting the example of.
Rules for thee but not for me
The biggest hypocrites you will ever encounter
Tyrants always project to increase and maintain their power.
MANY years ago I was pulled over on a John Deere at a rural, all dirt, intersection because I was pulling four empty hay wagons. The sheriff's deputy did let me off but said he could ticket me for pulling 'more than the legal limit of 2' He said I couldn't see behind four wagons so it was unsafe. In case you've never pulled a hay wagon, you can't see behind ONE of them if it's full. Several weeks later he pulled me over again for 'failure to come to a complete stop' also on a John Deere while pulling a single loaded wagon full of corn sileage. Said JD had a TOP speed, down hill, with a tail wind, of 13 (Thirteen) MPH. I likely made the turn at 4 or 5 MPH. Mind you this is a cabless tractor that can see clearly in every direction (except backward!) I had likely made that turn 200 times by then and except in the rare traffic case, had never stopped completely. Again the same deputy let me go after chewing me out. TURNED OUT this officer had been denied a zoning variance and my employer was on the zoning board. So he chose to hassle him, and also the other members of the board. In this case, the sheriff himself solved the problem by 'UN-Employing' said deputy. But that was 50 years ago!
It was like he was stalking you.
So, you're saying YOU WERE BREAKING THE LAW. Let's get that clear from the get-go. You were violating the law; you've admitted that much.
Then you got stopped by a cop.
Then the cop gave you breaks, repeatedly.
And you call this retaliation? Something wrong with your head, joebiden.
Please stop driving tractors. You're a hazard to yourself and everyone else on the road.
Look, I despise and revile cops more than the ordinary person but what you're describing here is a NICE cop, doing his job and smartly exercising discretion.
A woman who owned a bar was arrested for allegedly public intoxication in her bar after she let the unpopular with the police department candidate for sheriff put a sign in front of her business.
That’s is insane
Local cops would have so riety checkpoints , and , if they smelled booze , make everyone get out of the vehicle . Even if you had a sober driver , they would still arrest the passengers from public intoxication because they were not in the vehicle .
That got shut down hard but it went on for a decade before it did .
Beyond time for people raise up and
Hold all these Government Cartel Members actually accountable with real consequences.
If only…
Who will do it? Women actually love corrupt men, especially in government because they think they will get a benefit from them, and women outvote men so there is the problem with a fix. How on earth do you think the same corrupt politicians keep winning over and over? Look at the votes. 65% are women.
Democracy is our only defense until it's no longer permitted.
Arm up!
"So basically this guy made an edgy joke online, so they got a dozen people together and pulled up on his house."
The only thing they didn't do was burn a cross in his yard. You know it was hard for them to resist, though
2A solves these sorts of dilemmas.
@@jasonshults368 That just makes the popo more trigger happy, and we all know how much LEOs like to murder law adjacent people given the chance
I guess, but dying because you pulled a gun when surrounded by police doesn't sound like a good solution.
@@jasonshults368 How? Are you John Rambo?
Should have been a MILLION DOLLARS, not 2 hundred thousand. Paid out of the PAY CHECKS OF THE COPS AND THE JUDGE!
i wonder if the $200,000 even covered his attorney fees after going through all those appeal courts. He might of won but still lost.
Should've been paid out of the pension plan.
The term thick as thieves fits here and the large majority of employees within federal, state and local judicial systems stick together regardless of right or wrong. For them, it’s not about guilt or innocence of an individual. It’s about winning and they will stop at nothing!
The government is just plain out of control. Qualified immunity has had its day, needs to be ended/restricted. Government needs to be held accountable for their oversteps in violating our Constitution and constitutional rights. Thank you for your work in keeping the government in line.
Overturned the case ...terry v ohio
@@global_Jesus One case, and most need to be done one at a time it seems, keeps the politicians happy to keep going, not being held accountable.
@@bradmaas6875 agreed
Read Saucier v Katz and pearson v callahan. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Dude wake up this is just the beginning. They already have hard plans to copy China. Only a full rebellion will stop it. You are not going to vote your way out of this or protest your way out of it or claim you have constitutional rights. Buckle up buttercup.
Better government is less government.
Just the bad parts, got it... I think they have that covered, actually.
Better government is a checked government and we don't have that. The US Corruption between Corporations and government is out of control and they are building a militarized police force.
Why is a small corrupt government better than a large corrupt government ? The problem is usually the money behind the government or the pursuit of money by people who should never have been put in power to begin with.
Not always true. We need to amplify the good parts and cancel the bad parts.
The smaller the government is, the BETTER.
"Consent By The Governed."
Our rights are not privileges. No government can revoke our God given natural rights.
That's why there is a 2nd Amendment. To protect the people from tyranny.
we really need to start treating arresting people as a form of kidnapping and if anyone makes false statements to the police to cause somebody to be arrested intentionally or even if a police officer intentionally uses his power to arrest somebody as a form of retaliation without cause should be a criminal crime or even the police officer or the person can spend time in jail significant time in jail
Not a bad idea at all. The common sense majority of this country needs to step up because they've got the far left/right morons more than ready to snap on each other.
It's proxy violence that we need to recognize as a crime.
@@postmodernmining this isn't a new problem. it's been around for ages but me too. movement has made it very difficult where men who are completely innocent but women who want to just protect their reputation have destroyed men and they get a slap on the hand and just get arrested for making false report. got the men were facing 25 years plus. plus the reputation is destroyed because people don't go back and re-educate themselves on what they heard. to verify it's just not human nature
100%
It is already a crime: Deprivation of rights under color of law. It is from US Code 18 subsection 242. The problem is that law is almost never prosecuted, since the prosecutors are part of the same protected group as the cops and the judges and the attorney's general and the three letter agencies. All of them consider it good relations to protect each other from accountability.
I love how cops have intimate knowledge of hundred year old laws, but not the Rights of citizens, or modern laws
It’s not a government retaliating,it’s the people in the government !
Sadly, it's the taxpayers who pay not only the lawsuit awards but also the legal fees for both sides. There should be a way to pierce the government veil (similar to piercing the corporate veil) in order to make those who abuse their official powers pay at least come of the costs.
And yet when it comes election time the same people get voted back in. Voting the same way and expecting a different result is pure madness.
Government is corporate.
it's corrupt power-hungry individuals in government with grossly self-assumed egotistical authority using intimidation by retaliating against ANY and ALL the individuals questioning, "Why are you lawfully having a different opinion than me?"-essentially, it's "Rude KARENS Bullying" of everyone else.
When the biggest employer in the United states is the federal government and not private free Americans we have a problem, government doesn't create revenue it takes. And we the people let the government grow out of control by not keeping them in check by letting a person makes a career out of being a professional politician we need term limits and do away with qualified immunity and special treatment of government all government officials. I could go on and on but I think you get the point .ps stop the nanny and police state disgraceful
This is by design, Qualified Immunity is the standard and used as cover for everything from legitimate mistakes to gross negligence, so gov't just does whatever they want knowing they can investigate themselves and find they did nothing wrong and the courts will grant them cover. With no accountability, the process IS the punishment.
Exactly.
Add to it that employers can get access to _arrest_ records.
Truth is, the joke was not even pointed at them. It was pointed at the federal government.
It was an insane interpretation and abuse of a terrorism law that started the Oregon Wildlife Refuge standoff. An accidental brush fire that did no damage was charged as terrorism, and forced a judge to sentence two men to 5 years in jail for a petty accident. This in turn led to the protest where they took control of the vacant Wildlife Refuge offices, which in turn led to the government assassination of LaVoy Finicum.
I’m dealing with a narcissist in power who thinks the rules don’t apply to him, but he’s not above being willing to state with absolute confidence he has the law behind him. He simply looks for sentences out of context and uses them.
Humans can't be in law enforcement for long durations of time without the power corrupting them.
I could if I was physically able to do so. I was a hospice healthcare worker for over a decade with a genetic disability I had no idea I had for a long time. Power can never corrupt me bc I do what I do out of love and bc it is my passion. I also started in facility/cbrf ect for many not just elderly/memory or end of life care and have never needed a weapon to de escalate any situation. Yep even scary ones and I'm 4'10 so it's not like I'm menacing over anyone lol as long as you believe the person you are interacting with us human, you respond in humanity. Period- pretty sure Dr. Rashad Richey said that.
Cops don't become psychopath. Psychopath become cops.
We shouldn't have law enforcement in the first place, we need peace keepers and protectors.
@@soconoha8495 that's your neighbor. They are the peacekeepers and protectors. You are also. Cops only make situations worse
Does it sound crazy/hectic/bureaucratic to have jobs like police, sanitation workers, etc be done in rotation? Like jury duty but as a regular part of your citizen duties (instead of paying taxes for them)?
I own a commercial building in a small town 100 miles away. The city manager wants the building cheap. They hired a consultant to “reinterpret” the zoning regulations to create a violation, then they asked me if I would reduce the price of the building by the amount of the fine. They then requested that the county building inspector red tag the building. I have not yet received any notice listing any items out of compliance, or any notice of required corrective actions.
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What I really don't understand is the pattern, they get sued and then immediately retaliate in the pettiest way. Do they really think no one is going to notice.
They don’t notice
Town of Lagrange NY councilman created a lawsuit for $10 million dollars against me for posting audio video of his own statements. His attorneys sent a fake subpoena to youtube for all of my personal information. All because the Town is refusing to allow us to farm on the farmland we purchased in 2020.
But IJ won't take the case in NY state.
SLAPP suite
1st amendment
5th amendment regulatory taking
False arrest
4th amendment
Malicious prosecution
This is @Institute for Justice bread and butter
@Institute for Justice wouldn't touch this...
@@LagrangeCommunityNews Never gonna happen
@@TownofLagrange Stalking him on youtube now? Fucking pathetic.
UN-PERMITTED (FLOWER BOX!) OMG! 😱 What a CRIME!
We the people are pissed off
I and many others need help badly from an organization such as this. I have recently found that justice can not be had without the ability to hire a lawyer or a whole team. I chose a life of service never thinking that descion would keep me from being able to protect my kids and myself, legally that is. Now that I have had this realization, I see the miscarriage of justice everywhere. God bless the work you do and I pray for the cases you represent. How can I help?
Keep up the great work, IJ. Remember, it's not only about your clients. It's about everyone!! If the government can use it, they will use it against everyone!!
Lllllll
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The skills required to be a City Attorney appear to be heavily weighted toward not getting fired by successive elected groups of officials, and less toward keeping the duty toward their resident employers (taxpayers) in mind. They should say no, but do their best to say yes by figuring out how.
Hard to go wrong by enabling graft of the protected class .
The entire DoJ under Merrick Garland is now indistinguishable from a crime syndicate. The Attorney General and most of his staff belong in jail.
Next time watch the video. These were state level DA's and town councils featured.
@@bukka6697 You watch it again fool, his point is well taken, there's no difference between small towns and big cities when constitutional rights are violated. Ignorant Democrat troll no doubt.
And they used to think the Mafia was bad. They are making the Mafia look like Charity.
Next time read the comment... He's not talking about the people in the video.
@@soconoha8495 Ah ok, he's just randomly using a video on a completely different topic to spew personal political bias. Got it.
Ammon Bundy is a great example of the government retaliating not only with their agencies but also with private sector which happen to financially support the government officials that are retaliating. The hospital sued him for using his free speech, but they did this law suit to support the governor of Idaho. He is now homeless. The hey took everything from him. Even his kids college funds. It’s so disgusting how the retaliation from gov agents and their buddies use law fare to destroy lives
Excellent point! 👍 💯
I wish the Institute for Justice would take on this case and pursue it to the end and find justice for the Bundy's, the Anderson's, and the Rodriquez's.
At least they are still breathing and didn't get Weavered .
@@kaboom4679 I think that’s only the case because he left the state of Idaho because I know they really would’ve liked to
@@kaboom4679 Thank God!
@@EndNuclearAgenda21 Rodriquez is suing St Lukes in Federal Court now.
Thank you IJ! What you do gives voice to all of us in the silent majority.
Thank you for saving America one case at a time.
Unpermitted flower box? What is wrong with people?
Weak, small world cowards. They are pathetic
Power minus accountability equals tyranny.
What kind of power and money grabbing jerk thought it appropriate to require a permit in the first place?
@@juliafox52 because they think they own your property. This started with old money that owned all the land and after they sold it they still wanted to control it. It's all nepotism.
"Show me the man I'll show you the crime." was literally Letitia James and Alvin Bragg's campaign promises.
Literally a play right out of Joe Stalin's handbook.
Prosecutorial misconduct isn't unseemly, it's slimy! Thank you IJ, it's a shame you're so needed.
If you're looking for a good term to use, I suggest the word "fascism'. When a government (or governmental agency) retaliates against someone who voices dissenting opinion.
If I ever become wealthy IJ will be on the top of my donation list.
Freedom isn't free, and we need lawyers who fight for our rights or we won't have any rights left. GJ IJ TYSVM
Thank you for, and each and every member of your team. Answering phones, opening envelopes, renting office space, ordering supplies, researchers, legal clerks, attorneys and directors.
One reason the US Constitution is as robust as it is because of the willingness of those individuals to stand up and say no.
To ask for help and those who have the skills to help do so.
Lawyers as dedicated, staffers as dedicated could turn a small for profit business into a Fourtune 500 company. But no they fight for the individuals against the state thereby ensuring more freedom for everyone! Kudo!
Unfortunately other countries have not had thier laws tested or rights fought for as often for as long.
One day hopefully more people will take up the fight in other countries. IG is also a example of what is possible when people stand together. IG helps other people in other countries indirectly.
Oh last thing.
Thank you to everyone who donated. Be a little or a lot.
Thank god for I.J
Suing criminals so that taxpayers can pay the lawsuit doesn't solve anything. These people aren't solving the problem.
@@jasonshults368 Without IJ the Government would be doing much worse things to the citizens. There is NO Accountability, NO Fee Shifting statute in 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and NO Mandatory Minimums for Government violating your "Rights". IJ is our Patrick Henry standing up to our King George.
Title 18 USC 241 Conspiracy Against Rights & 18 USC 242 Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law both sound good, but you never hear of anyone in Government being charged with them. If I am not mistaken one of the penalties under these codes is DEATH.
As a resident of Rapides Parish, I am happy that the 5th Circuit overturned the silly District Court decision. I hope that the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office has learned its lesson but I doubt it.
A system that decides it is right because it once decided it was right leads to an awful lot of corruption.
The Constitution says... You have Due Process & Rights.
The Government says... You are Due to be Processed, Right this way to your CAGE!
Government does any damn thing they want with NO Accountability for their Actions.
Your only remedy to Sue them. If you can find a lawyer it cost you a fortune and a lot of time.
That is not the only remedy. Read the writings of the Founding Fathers, starting with the Declaration of Independence and Common Sense.
I think our government needs a special division of the legislative branch whose soul purpose is to review law books and remove outdated invalid or abusive laws to prevent retaliatory use. Preferably one that allows people to directly challenge the spirit of a law and put things to a popular vote to get unpopular legislation quickly struck down. Very useful for fighting special interests snuck into popular laws
Excellent idea. I never understood why “once a law, always a law” was a thing. If it’s not working or flawed, fix it.
When I was in the Navy, the Chiefs' mess retaliated against me for going against them sleeping with young Airmen. They told me they would ensure I would never make a first class, and they were right. What hit me hard was that even my branch Chief turned a blind eye. I worked hard for my Chief, and I thought he had my back when I did the right thing. I guess I was wrong. The sad part is that my case is not uncommon. You know what I am talking about if you were in the Navy.
Look into the battle of Athens Tenn. Aug. 1&2 1946. How a stolen local election caused a 6-hour gun battle & then a use of dynamite at a police station, to retrieve stolen ballot boxes & brought justice in 1946 TN & America!!
I once fought a speeding ticket and appealed the judgment. It was an insanely difficult task and I lost in the end as the judge was corrupt (judge wrote and changed the officer’s brief/testimony). Thank you for all that you guys do and for fighting for the avg citizen who often doesn’t have time or resources to fight these battles.
It’s hilarious how _some_ certain people are easily able to simply get an attorney and sue for their wrongdoings, even if they are minor.
Yes, the Justus system.
Child welfare is the worst! They need to be put in check
The Institute of Justice is so needed. Thank you!!!
It largely boils down to professionalism. The less disciplined, knowledgeable, and emotional you are the more likely you are to break rules for your needs. In my experiences those crossing the line think they are not crossing a line at all and believe they are acting with in the scope of their authority which is also why they fight so hard when called out. Finding these people and bringing more oversight and guidance to them tends to alleviate these issues. Simple legal penalties only make people sullen and more likely to be covert in their future attacks.
You guys perform a great value in ensuring rights of the people are upheld !! You are invaluable to this republic !!
You don't have freedom of speech until you can afford to bond out of jail and hire an attorney.
Please help us with the corrupt NC courts. Over four years later and the Rockingham County prosecutor’s office is still pursuing the charge of resist delay obstruct against Mike from Blind Justice because he said the word, “no” to a cop.
The case is still going? Have it dismissed on grounds of denial of a speedy trial.😒😒😒
Can the state ACLU offer any ideas? A law school class project if there's a college in the State?
@@MichaelKurse that requires them to hear motions. Motions have been filed in the case for years, but they won’t hear them. The judges also won’t grant ADA accommodations to allow Mike to attend hearings.
The money I contribute monthly to IJ has been some of the best money I have ever spent. Keep up the excellent work and the fight against injustice!
Ignore anyone who believes they have authority over your life.
My city has been trying to force their way into my apartment for 3 years without a warrant. I have been threatened with "police action", fines and trying to have me evicted. Pretty sure you guys have already taken this to court and I have read both the U.S. Supreme Court and MN Supreme Court cases that cover these rental inspections and both have held that I have a constitutional right to insist on a warrant. The city has threatened to with hold the rental company license to rent if I don't let them in without a warrant, trying to force the rental company to evict me. While the rest of the country is trying end veteran homelessness, my city is trying to throw one out on the street for insisting on his rights.
They need the space for illegal aliens.
ij.org/report-abuse/
@@InstituteForJustice I just did a new report, I had done one a couple months ago but never heard from you.
I hope disabled people have access to this kind of justice. The authority and city I live in has absolutely violates many constitutional rights. Daily..widespread. . Multiple agencies. Literally no one cares until someone gets hurt or their lives are ruined. Go figure I live in Wisconsin.. Multiple issues I'm sure and I'm similar to Erica and speak up as well. Now I'm technically homeless, can't speak up for my safe and accessible existence in anything at this point.
Thank God for IJ and all of you attorneys that commit yourself to this cause.
Defund the government. Power to the people.
@ the 12:40 mark where he's describing what he hopes the Sheriff will do in the future, none of that is happening, they could give two sh!ts. As long as tax payers are on the hook for their wrong doing, not even mistakes but complete and total wrong doing and retaliation, the police will continue to retaliate when ever they want period full stop. I'd be willing to bet not one person in that Sheriffs office got any kind of rebuke or reprimand or fired or any corrective action at all. Go ahead and do a FOIA and ask for any IA investigations into this or any kind of disciplinary actions taken as a result of this law suit and I bet you come back with a token paper trail at best. What's the old line, "We investigated our selves and found no wrong doing". The bottom line is that Police are NOT HELD ACCOUNTABLE for their actions, so it will not stop. Paying a fine or judgment settlement with tax payers money is zero threat to the police.
I have been similarly active in local small town governance and was told by one councilmember that another councilmember "hates your guts".
This was after I won a first amendment claim invalidating the zoning oridinances that were being enforced against me.
Explain how this is a violation of 1A with the zoning ordinance's I'm having a issue with a small town code enforcement D:ck. Says I'm violating a zoning ordinance.
Pernicious, spot on. I have paid thousands in losses, fees, and fines, two yrs. of probation, and a class e felony in 2024. I'm 45, white non-drinker that's has been at the same job for 25 yrs (with no prior criminal record to speak of, supposedly. Drug Court Diversion successful within proficient timeframe 20 yrs ago ).
watching from Quakertown, Pennsylvania USA
The problem here is that it was the sheriff's office who were the ones shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater by the tactics of their arrest and publication of the targeted victim of their tactics.
I wish I had known about your organization 2001 to 2006. 2001 I called the police on a Wierd creep coming into the restaurant I was working in. The creep had a meeting with the Pizza Hut manager and she arranged a meeting later that night in which he gave me a speech telling me that he wasn’t doing what he was doing, he used to be a county officer and that “his friends” (police officers) will be watching me. Over the following years I was pulled over for nothing multiple times and was threatened with arrest once, towing my vehicle another time, plus they got people in the Minnesota DMV in it too, not filing my vehicle tabs. I came close to losing my drivers license in 2005 after an officer lied saying I didn’t have car insurance when I was in an accident in which the other driver was at fault. I finally contacted the county attorney to complain. He had me detail it all in a letter and that’s when everything stopped. A follow up call to him he said we had an internal investigation and found that none of our officers broke the law. This was Stillwater Minnesota. If I didn’t still live here I’d have a video about it on my RUclips channel.
I have a phrase that I use about our Government misbehaving:
“This is more of the Government doing whatever it wants to, to whoever it wants to”.
The government is people- people uses personal biases and pettiness to use the law to punish their “enemies”
Love what you guys do. 🤘🍻⚖
Help iv got this going on! In mulvane kansas. 4 case's now and a contempt for this youtube channel.
They don't like being called out on the laws or court procedures for corruption they are involved in. Also the city owes a casino $19million bucks in Federal judgment against them in which Boyd Gaming 1 and was ordered to pay 19 point something million dollars
Yeah, that town has a court that's delusional idea what rights are. Evan as simple as the right to a lawyer ... don't Evan start on the ridiculous cops! Leave that town dude! Be safe! #Mulvane #Kansas❤
@user-bv1xn7um6k yeah I appreciate the advice. I've made complaints to every Department from the Department itself all the way up to State Attorney and doj civil rights to be any for Washington DC and the kbi and FBI.
@global_Jesus no help in kansas! Good luck bro. Appreciate what you do. Stand up for yourself and community. Be stern. Don't back down.
@@user-bv1xn7um6k you too my man thanks! And I won't and you're right there is what seems like no help or oversight board that overlooks the allegations being sent to them or even evidence being sent to them of judicial process being violated. I've been trying to find a lawyer for a while about a year now appreciate your comments thanks man
Compensation doesn't matter when qualified immunity shields individuals. If LEOs can argue, "I'm a human, we make mistakes", then the state can show it's an individual decision that requires recompense. That way our tax dollars aren't wasted covering the asses of tyrants.
Feelings!
Nothing more than feelings!
And they get so mind blocked they can’t think reasonably.
Equilibrium?
Atlas Shrugged - ""Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr.
Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a
bunch of boy scouts you're up against- then you'll know that this is not the
age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it.
You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get
wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any
government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there
aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who
wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But
just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor
objectively interpreted- and you create a nation of law-breakers- and then you
cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and
once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
33:00 I remember around 2010, I was watching Annapolis local TV talking about banning food trucks in area for what seemed to be similar reasons of competition. I remember at the time feeling they were violating the unalienable rights of food trucks owners.
38:35 - Their duty is to unalienable natural rights. Amendment IX and Jefferson, ALL unalienable rights are protected, not just Constitutional rights. - "but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’; because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
You need to help @DeleteLawz aka Chille DeCastro in Las Vegas from that tyrannical judge Ann Zimmerman
Yeah they really are doing him Soviet style, super bulls%=×.
He can just sue her. That's what he does, he sues people. Untouchable because of it...
I hope when people say government is out of control, they aren't just thinking of the opposite side of the political compass but understand this is an issue everywhere.
The reason small towns are so quick to retaliate, I think, is that the politicians in small towns expect the jury to be those who voted for them, or they know people on the jury and they expect to control who is on the jury. A bunch of good-ol'-boys in government just think that, especially working together, they're not just above the law; they are the law.
Remember folks on J6 there was a peaceful protest and everyone was arrested and labeled a terrorist.
Is it freedom of speech if I walk into a crowded proctologist's office yelling, "Butt Cancer!"?
It's not a public forum. But otherwise I would say you're fine. Just not the darling of the crowd probably.
Thank you IJ for all that you do!
Imagine all the folks who can't afford an attorney who never receive justice of government overreach or retaliation.
Who is the Terrorist
They usually call themselves democrat or republican or blue line mafia
Government club feudal lords
The Gubberment
The police that claim they are above the law
Municipal Mafia, state Mafia and Federal mafia
My Doctor told me not to take the covid shot. Who is your doctor?
None of your business would be my answer.
the reason they apply frivolous charges is because they have nothing to lose . the worst consequence they will receive is they lose in court. the tax payer pays their salary, the tax payer pays for the court time and expenses, the tax payer pays for the settlement. it needs to have the pensions of the officer that arrested the citizen at stake and I guarantee it would stop. My 1st boss (37 yrs ago) had a saying "are you willing to bet your paycheck on it ?". From that moment on I was always willing to bet my paycheck on the decisions I made.
I am increasing my monthly donation to Institute for Justice. These stories are stunning !
Even if it’s not the government itself you “retaliate” against, they will do things against you.
I turned in an employer that was stealing wages from me and nearly the whole crew.
Over five k I’m less than two years!
After that, I could NEVER get any sort of justice when people committed FELONY crimes against me!
THEY EVEN HELPED SOME OF THE PERPS!!!
This is exactly what I need right now!! I’m about to give up this fight but I know if I do this municipality will then feel like they passed through a door and many more people in this community and surrounding others will suffer.
I know a bit about that. They prey on people that don’t have the means or the time to defend themselves in court. They do that so often that all parties involved like judges,lawyers,reporters,elected officials get used to that being just the way things are done. What are you supposed to do? Spend thousands of dollars,miss days of work,or pay a fine of a couple hundred dollars and move on? I personally know of cases where a LEO lied but there was a legit non biased witness that stepped up and they still didn’t want to drop it. That witness ended up being a retired LEO himself and had to threaten to bury the whole department legally for them to finally let it go. That’s why there’s a lot of resentment out there. You can prove you’re right but nobody cares. Not even judges.
Nothing in this universe is as fragile as a cop's ego.
Thank you IJ we love you!!