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While randomly enjoying some random intertubes, a friend linked me this with a comment that this guy should be put in his place. I agree, but I don’t think that I have the ability nor position to do so, I just thought I’d run a little commentary on this nasty… I guess technically “article” is the descriptor.

This year will go down in history as the beginning of The Great Collapse Awakening. We have two great opposing forces, never seen before on this planet occurring at the same exact time. On the one hand we have a deepening global great depression, which is in reality a dismantling, or collapsing in disguise. On the other hand, we have at the same time, a great awakening, not only politically, but of the entire human potential emotionally, and spiritually. For the first time in history, humanity is waking up, in mass, to their enslavement by the international banking families. A monumental time in the history of mankind where fundamental choices of how we live will be made on both the international and individual level, by every single person. You will be forced to decide whether you will live in LOVE, or live in FEAR…????

Actually on one hand right now and for the last year, we have a recovering global economy, not a deepening one. The economy always fluctuates, this is normal. I completely disregard this false dichotomy and make the choice to live neither by love or fear but to live by rationality.

Whether you look at small towns, or large cities, across this nation, and around the world, people are waking up to their manipulation by government and corporate entities. One of the top political strategists for the Obama administration, Zbigniew Brezinski, in a 2010 speech before the world elite, said that for the first time in human history mankind is politically awake. I would agree with him, and I would also say that not only are people politically awake, but more and more people are becoming emotionally, and spiritually awake.

What does emotionally and spiritually awake mean? I’m sure it sounds good to some people, but it’s very meaningless without a definition. Does it mean that people can now experience their emotions? I hadn’t known that that had been a problem.

Are you trying to maintain a positive attitude on the inside while all around you your world is crashing down around you? There IS a reason that this generation is the first generation, in recent memory, that could have less than the previous one. The truth is you have been lied to, manipulated, and set up, your entire life. The game was set up way before you were even born. Your parents were lied to also, and their parents before them. While they toiled under these lies, it is only now, in this generation, that ignorance of this system will lead to total disaster. For the power elite that run the game are calling in their cards. This is the pivotal point in history that everything will change. You must wake up. You can regain your vision by learning how to see around their lies. You can be free from those who seek to control you!

Yes, you have been lied to, manipulated and set up by people you’re entire life, so why stop now? Become manipulated and lied to by this douche bag too! Or maybe exclusively if that’s your thing. This is an appeal to fear, which one must remember as it will be important later when this idiot tries to claim that he’s all about love and not persuasion by fear.

Since the dawn of time there has been an ongoing epic battle between the forces of all that is good, loving, and light; and the dark forces, which feed on fear, avarice and evil in men. I have long since chosen which I would stand with. Being on the side of light my heart is often filled with love and a desire to help others who have lost their way. I know, however, that there is an opposing force out there that works in the shadows, plots, and schemes to gather ever more power and control over others.

Such a bold claim should be backed by some heavy evidence, because it’s not a brute fact. Remember the previous sentence where I pointed out the appeal to fear? Well now this guy is putting himself on the “dark forces” side due to his “feed[ing] on fear.” So now he’s clearly against people who feed on fear, while he himself is feeding on fear…

The main objective of those on the darkside is power. The main tool of the darkside is money, not just weapons, and land acquisitions. They are only what money purchases them. You will soon see, if you don’t already know, that these people have long ago acquired all the money they or their families would ever need. Through out history the wealthiest people have been the people who control the money, originally called money changers. It was not long before they amassed greater sums of money than even kings and queens.

This is a very extraordinary claim, that requires extraordinary evidence.

Thus what we have occurring is an ongoing battle, or ( at a deeper level ) dance, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. By your actions, or in actions, you will aid one of these forces. The forces of darkness hope you will choose to be silent. They hope to discourage you, or out right scare you into acquiescence. They make it fineable or even criminal to speak out against them.

Yes, that is why this guy is now behind bars and fined into the poor house… because the evil forces won’t let anyone speak out against them…

The events of this year clearly outline this dance between the forces of light and darkness

The Great Collapse is a force being set in motion by the international banking families. It is an attack they are launching on the masses. It is aimed at destroying us physically, mentally, and monetarily. What they call the Great Culling is at the foundation of the strategy. This is their incremental, but purposeful lowering of the world population by 80% – 90%, down to 500 million people. They believe that they can most efficiently control this number of people. Right now, they believe that our numbers are too high, and that eventually would get out of hand, and they would lose any control they might achieve.

Seriously, this is far too many extraordinary claims with no supporting evidence. The economy is getting better showing that the Great Collapse is not working. The banks lowered interest rates down to no gain for a while to help the economy recover, showing that the banks are willing to sacrifice temporary profit for long term stability… which hardly matches the evil doom inspired conspiracy banks as portrayed here. Unless the banks are so amazing that they hide their evil nature by helping and preventing exactly what this douche bag is claiming that they want. Don’t you see it? The very existence of opposing evidence is the evidence that the evidence should lead to the opposite of where the evidence actually leads.

They are carrying out attacks on us at many different levels. Biological attacks are being carried out through the use of vaccines, and the poisoning of our air, food, and water. Vaccines have had limited success, because they are voluntary, however the elite, like Bill Gates, are financing the development of vaccines that can be sprayed in the air, put inside mosquitoes, and inside of food. They will even be sold to people through the pharmaceutical industry as replacements for the costs of continually having to pop pills.

What was that about the “evil” and/or “bad” side using fear? Vaccines have saved billions of lives, to propose that they are being used to kill people is another one of those “evidence that opposes my conclusion is evidence for my conclusion” retarded, bullshit mess of nasty. The poisoning of the air is not from some massive global conspiracy, it’s from normal everyday things like eating, driving and wearing clothes. Bill Gates has donated millions of dollars to prevent the diseases that mosquitoes carry, again more opposite evidence.

Aerial spraying of aluminum, barium, corexit, and many other known toxins are being purposely sprayed on us. Genetically Modified Organisms ( GMO’s) are used in our food supply, often along with known carcinogens. The passage of the so called Food Safety Act will be used to tell us what we can and cannot eat, grow, and sell. It is part of a worldwide plan called Codex Alimentarius, which is part of Agenda 21, which is a UN plan to control the world. If the UN was truly a benevolent body of countries truly seeking to peacefully coexist, it might be one thing, but instead it was developed by a private group of international banking families, meant to centralize their power over the world, to push their agenda for their own interests.

What was that about the bad guys using fear… “[...]and the dark forces, which feed on fear[...]” So he is part of the dark forces trying to feed on fear, don’t trust him. The UN is very far being powerful let alone the one world power.

The amount and understanding of evidence goes up as the level of risk from the claim goes up. If it requires so much evidence just to put a good amount of your money down, imagine how much evidence it would take to believe someone about an eternal soul and eternal damnation. So I’m sorry, but as level of risk involved with being wrong about something increases, the amount and accuracy required of the evidence also increases. Pascal had his wager backwards.

If you’re going to risk your eternal soul, eternal suffering eternal magic man in the sky ass kissing… then you should require the as close to absolute proof as possible. Unfortunately the more you get into definitions for a creator, the farther you get from reasonable evidence.

Let’s say for some reason you’re playing poker and for some reason you put not only all the money you have and all the money from selling your assets on the table for this one hand, you also will end up owing a bookie your life or $10 million. You have no idea what is in your hand, and no idea what is in anyone elses hands. One of the people put all in, if you put all in you’re risking your life and everything you have, for the chance to at least double your money. Given that you have no evidence at all that you will win or even have a chance to win, do you go all in? Probably not. However if you had four kings the decision might be a little more difficult because the chances that someone can beat that hand is extremely low. There is evidence that shows that getting a getting four of a kind are extremely low. Let alone that even if someone else has four of a kind, they still won’t likely beat four kings. I think the decision would be difficult, but the odds of you losing a hand in a fair game with four kings is lower than the chances you’ll die in a car crash. You don’t base your evidence on that someone just said that the odds are extremely good, you base you evidence on what can be mathematically proven, and though you’re playing the odds, in the case of four kings, your odds are almost sure, as close as 99.9%. So: if you’re putting your own life on the line, you don’t trust anyone, you make sure you understand the risks completely and make sure the evidence is as accurate and sure as possible.

The burden of proof is essentially the responsibility of the party that claims something to be true to provide the evidence that led to that conclusion. It is also often said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think we can give a quick judgment as to whether the evidence satisfies the requirement by just evaluating how much the claim is useful to us.

On the low value end the burden and evidence requirements are almost unnecessary. If some one comes up to you and tells you that they had a tuna sandwich for lunch, you wouldn’t require evidence of any kind. Why not? Because it’s not important or useful. Even if the person were lying, it doesn’t affect you at all. Maybe a tiny bit if just the mention of the sandwich gives you a little craving for one. The point is: if the claim has little to no use to you, you require little to no evidence.

If someone comes up to you and says I don’t believe in unicorns, it doesn’t matter at all to you because whether the person believes in a mythological creature or not doesn’t affect your life. It affects it even less of the person doesn’t believe. It requires no evidence at all to say that you don’t hold a claim. The thing is that there are those that will try to claim that the lack of belief in a certain god (the one they irrationally believe in), causes harm and therefore should be fixed. The claim that no belief in something causes harm is a positive claim that requires evidence, while just saying that you don’t believe somethings requires no evidence.

Of course in the end, I have no problems and don’t demand any evidence of those that keep their beliefs to themselves. If I go around telling people they should believe in any god, you’d be damned sure that I’m going to be bringing in evidence and logic to the conversation, just as I demand of those that go around telling me that I need to believe in a god.

Some stupid new Pew poll shows that 80% of Americans distrust the Government, especially Republicans. All I can say is that it’s about time, it should be 100% don’t trust the Government all the time. I’m not saying that the Government is planning to abduct you to perform mind altering experiments on you to make you think that you’re a gerbil bent on happily paying taxes while being tracked by satellites through a tracking device implanted as a filling in your tooth that you got when you were 14… I’m just saying that you should never trust an authority to the point that you’re not questioning them and watching them. I’m also not saying that we should all rise up and take back the Government from the majority because some tea baggers think they know better than every one else. I’m saying prevent chaos by being skeptical.

You’ll notice that trust in the government almost consistently goes down when a Republican is the president of the country but goes up every time a Democrat is the president. I like how people distrust Republicans, I just think that the distrust should be equally applied to Democrats as well. Of course the problem here is that we don’t know the question that was asked of the people. If the question was, “Do you trust the Government to X?” it would mean something completely different than if it was, “Do you distrust the Government?” This is why I don’t like polls, especially polls that do not publish the questions asked and the raw stats (sans certain information that is not needed) for how the questions were answered. Sorry, my distrust is not just for the Government, it’s for everyone. It takes evidence to convince me that you’re telling the truth… at least when it matters.

A good measure for how cautious you should be in trusting something or someone is to determine how many chances you will reasonably have to fix it if something goes wrong and how much problems being wrong about trusting them could happen. If someone tells you they ate a swordfish sandwich for lunch, the consequences of trusting them are so minor that you can just trust them without a worry. However if the person is running to take the responsibility of representing you and thousands to millions of others in the U.S. Government, the consequences of trusting them are much more major and the chances to correct your mistake of voting in the wrong person are slim to none, so you should make sure that you are very sure to only vote for the best option. And whether you voted for the guy or not, you watch them like a child… because most of the time, they are.

So there have been about 200 companies that have boycotted advertising on Glenn Beck’s show including Apple. I can understand this, Glenn Beck incites hatred by using poor logic and tricking people into using common sense for things that require knowledge and understanding. Some companies may not like to associate their brand to him, and they have every right to spend their money how ever they choose to spend it.

What I don’t understand are the conservatives crying about it. Is not capitalism something that is a core conservative and Republican belief? Is not freedom something they are supposed be fighting for? A company choosing where, how and when their advertisement will be shown based on how much they’re willing to spend is just capitalism in action. So either support capitalism and shut the fuck up about how unfair it is… or revise your stance on capitalism.

I’m fucking sick of this shit. Have some integrity and either be for or against something, but this bullshit of only being for something when benefits you and against it when it doesn’t is just stupid. Just like the free speech “issue” they keep bringing up, they claim they have the right so anything they want under free speech but when someone happens to use the same kind of baseless speculation and questioning against Glenn Beck, he gets all upset and attempts to sue them. Which way do you want it? Free speech only for the people you agree with is not free speech. You either support free speech (including the people who you don’t agree with), or you support controlled speech… of course you could not care either way or not be informed enough to have an opinion but this is for the people that complain.

Anyway, if you want to support boycotting of Glenn Beck advertisements or if you want to support Glenn Beck, here are a few sites to check out:

Stop Glenn Beck
Defend Glenn Beck

I am unsure where I should begin, so I will start with this…  I am angry and frustrated. I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican; however I sway more to the older Republican ways. I am sure those of you that are educated know that those Republican ways did not endorse greed or a negative cognition as it is nowadays.

1. My daily drive to and from school is diluted with reruns in the main stream music world and I curse my self every time. Why on earth do I always forget one of “my few expensive devices given to me?” So in my own self defeat of the rerun radio stations in this “Republic” I turn to the radio station to one that airs none other than Rush Limbaugh and other “dare I say” jack ass sheep. Mind you, it is entertaining and sometimes humorous, though in my case very frustrating. Here I am, yes I was hopeful and still are for Obama‘s goals. Does this mean I am a liberal retard? I hear these insults day after day and yes I can turn it off, and I do often; BUT first let me remind those of you who would advise this; I am curious about what is driving the ludicrous mindlessness and hatred in this country.
2. I will start off with Bush, and yes I know most my friends and trusted ones claim to be republican but, I am wary. When Bush was in office there were people I called Sheeple, (NO that is not a misspell). Lets get to the point, short and sweet. Had anyone no matter what “cutsie party” they claim to belong to, questioned the man or administration they would have been condemned as anti-American and disrespectful of the president. I am sure it has come up often, I am not the first to bring it up. But the truth is there and the facts of that are there.
3. Growing up my Grandfather was not an American citizen, he fought along side America though in the Canadian regiments. He was a Canadian Navy Soldier (he left his home at the age of 14), then a paratrooper and a Leader a of a platoon in the Korean war (I am not ashamed to not know the terms off hand, I know the value). The only time I have seen this man cry was when a member of his platoons family contacted him to thank him for carrying their Dad/Grandads lifeless body to their camp. Mind you he excused me from the room during this moment of emotion with a short proud manner.

This man, who adopted me as his own daughter, swore America was great, left a country he fought for only to be scrutinized and made fun of as if Canadians don’t fight, aren’t strong, don’t have a military, but there have been many times where Canada fought along with America. My entire family takes this and laughs with it, but to the point: he struggled to become a citizen in this country, and finally happened when I was 16 years old… lets put that into perspective. I am 3^rd generation on American soil, he is now 82 years of age and so proud but still working 12 hour days, my grandmother (who is blind), can no longer work to help their business and my grandfather must drive her around and take care of her needs. I’m not attempting an appeal to emotion, I’m just trying to define the amount of responsibility this man takes on himself and takes care of. Their business houses and assists with Mentally developed disabled individuals. This includes mental retardation through injury at an early age, down-syndrome (boy do I have stories for Sarah Palin and TriG), hearing/visual impairment… and anything you can think of to hinder ones capability to function with the rest of us “normal people”.

He runs it alone, and I feel guilty because they hoped I could help and I intend to after I finish the money sucking machine called college. I am sure any student calls it that. It is true though, I would have been finished with college four years ago if I didn’t have to worry about making it on my own. And even now I have to work full time with 1-2 classes per semester, and when I started with the opportunity to actually obtain a degree I was as excited as a kid is in a candy store as to what I wanted to be. So be it, it took me time to decide. My grandparents did not want me to or think I should go to school for a higher education. Now that is beyond the point I am trying to get across but much of that is the driving point for my thoughts of what is occurring now in society and the hatred and division in this country. That division and hatred did not exist as much as is does now prior to my grandfathers incessant need and want to be a part of it.

It’s amazing a man who is from Canada knows so much more about the laws and constitution and pays attention to politics and the finances than the average hoser that calls these radio shows and bitches about things they have yet to suffer or never had. Yes my grandfather or as I refer to the man “my dad,” lived the fable tale of the “American dream” but now he is also suffering it. Funding cut to help mentally developed disabled homes, and him paying 60 grand out of his pocket alone in 2009 to maintain the business and still paying 40 grand in taxes to a government that doesn’t know whether its coming and going. Social Security are my parents source of funds and the retirement that dwindles away paying for helping their kids in hard times and the business they want to maintain because they’re GENUINELY dedicated and care for these people. I know a few and I’m sure there are a few more families suffering like this.

My point is, he knew enough and paid attention enough prior to obtaining his official citizenship that he was well aware to answer my curiosity when I asked, “why hasn’t the new president fixed the crap people wanted him to, two weeks, months or even 6 months into the new term of the new pres.?” His answer was plain and clear… It takes time, most often two years to pass any new bills, law or even small changes to appear.

Here comes my beef with society now, and further more I would like to state I did vote for Obama, so yes that makes me a weenie. I was scared of all the antics of him being an anti-Christ and I really had to think, “how logical is this.” The birth certificate BS, the Muslim crap and associating him with his crazy pastor. How many people know what their pastors, priests or clergymen harbor in their privacy waiting for the moment of publicity, of course in reverend Wrights case it worked. Say the most outlandish BS at the appropriate time and you’ve got $$. Whatever the case I am NOT a pure Democrat, I am for the people and I am for responsibility, but you can’t be responsible if the benefit of expressing that attribute is held in front of you like a carrot on front of the tortoise

I am tired of hearing that this is the melting pot of cultures and beliefs when so many people spend so much energy to silence and control other cultures to such a crazy level. There is so much negativity it’s disgusting. During the Olympics I was so excited for Lysacek to win the Gold however while on the Olympic stat site, face book ran amok with negative remarks and insults toward others (mostly U.S citizens insulting other countries). We’ve become the playground bully. I wish I was going back to Canada, and I am sure by my saying that, most people would say “please go.” Point being, U.S citizens don’t only divide themselves within their own country with outlandish crazy almost laughable accusations and politics, but they do it on the citizen level with other countries when the Olympics are supposed to be a time of coming together. It’s disgusting, and insulting that I am in this mesh. As a Canadian/American I know that Canadians only wish well and congratulate. As it was said in the Olympic opening Canadians are defined by, “Please and Thank you”.

I hear Glenn Beck from time to time say he is a Constitutionalist and moans about changes or anything acting outside of his own beliefs or his self interests, but does he realize the Constitution is a living, evolving and growing document as proclaimed by our founding fathers? There is so much nonsense I cannot comprehend how anyone could spend the next three years of Obama’s first term listening to the news as the fish wife bickering continues.

This is my conclusion, the Rush Limbaugh people, the Bush people and super semantic individuals who refuse to reason need to remember this is a democratic republic. The parties were built as a means for various ideas to create the best of solutions, to create opposing scenarios and realistic objectives to each others ideas, to obtain the best of the best plans for our future. Obama is trying and we won’t know how well he can do unless the negative Nancys stop their bickering and work it out… without the crazy slander, high school BS. Until a true effort is given from both sides of the fence, NO ONE can place blame. Things take time, he is not a miracle worker but he is a positive person, that is it. I am NOT saying he is the means to an end or all that, but he has a better outlook than most of the American people listening to Fox or calling Rush to bitch about the working poor (look up working poor before bitching me out). Those who backed Bush should not be hypocrites and respect it and of course question authority but not with insults. If you have no constructive value to bring to the table than don’t vote, and don’t complain. Show intelligence and integrity; acting ignorant is embarrassing to the thinking population.

It is a sad situation now, were not doomed, but our attitudes are doomed. Money can drive a country to its knees but all in all how do the people act? Religions and mainstream thought and the over exaggeration of freedoms that people express in carrying fire arms, protesting being taxed with representation, letting children die because medical help is against their religion and many other ridiculous concepts. These are scary thoughts, I thought America as a whole lost one reason to hate and filled that gap by finding some other ridiculous thing to hate (Obama). Yeah I may hear others say “Think about how awful it would be to live in those other countries”, older ones… “the old country”… my answer is this. They have had hard times, tribulations, wars, famine, political turmoil but they are still here, and they look out for each other and they are friendly and welcoming. If everyone wants to just sit there and bitch, argue and bicker instead of doing what is needed to fix this country then I want no part in it.

If this seems emotionally charged, I apologize. I am trying so hard not to be affected but its hard not to since my family fought to be in this country and this is the landscape. This is four years of pent up BS that I sat back, soaked in, observed and now I am sort of not happy. Don’t hide behind insults, bring something positive to the damn table or shut the hell up.

–Anonymous

Hate, ignorance and hypocrisy… I’ll just label this as stupidity.  So how does one fight such a powerful foe? How does one defeat such a resilient enemy? If you don’t think stupidity is a prevalent and dire disaster in a bottle, just try to talk to some people, watch TV and/or listen to the radio. There are people that listen and believe these public personalities just because they’ve been brought up to never question certain things. People will fight you hand, tooth and nail defending the most ridiculous ideas spawned from mere speculation and confirmation bias just because it’s said with confidence.

How does anyone fight confidence? The biggest problem is that these radio personalities are bluffing… bluffing that they know what their talking about, bluffing that the majority of people will call it out and bluffing with a big bank against small fries. Of course they can fail many hands while the greater public goes all in and loses. You want change? You want things to stay the same? You want us all to jump into a time machine to find a long lost past that only truly existed in your diluted memories from infancy? Well it takes more than “I want the country the way it was when I was growing up” and other appeals to emotion. It takes reason well founded on the best evidence available, obtained without a course of action derived before researching.

Of course I’ve said nothing to help this problem. Seeing the world for what it is, throughout all known history… we as a human race have come far, so I have no doubt that we won’t reach the lofty goal of enlightenment, reason and peace one day… I just think we all can speed it up a little. Question authority. That is all it really takes… well that and listening.

Of course merely questioning authority isn’t enough just as that, there are some guidelines. Question all authority, it’s not enough to question the authorities you don’t agree with, the most dangerous authority is the authority you don’t question. Remember authorities should be authorities because they know what they’re talking about. Questioning someone who knows what they’re talking about should never be a problem (unless they have clearly answered the question several times), they should be able to explain it… if they can’t, then they’re not an authority worth shit. Not only should any trustworthy authority be able to explain their reasoning, they should be able to provide examples and in most cases cite research and/or facts that support their conclusions. I’ve seen too many times where some jackass will say they’ve “done the research” but fail to provide any kind of reasonable source for that “research” and more pathetically: fail to provide the points of data that lead them to that conclusion.

You don’t have to be rude, you don’t have to be nice, you don’t have to be neutral… you just have to be there. Don’t try to fight stupidity with fire, fight it with questions. There isn’t a liar around that can clearly explain their reasoning through many questions and there isn’t a question that an authority shouldn’t be able to clearly explain.

Now the recent Subprime Court Decision may have made more than a few people angry and/or worried. I’m saying don’t worry about it, if you are worried, then you’re not thinking of things the right way. Since corporations will be seen as people they will have certain rights that human people won’t, but instead of taking those rights away from the corporations, I say give those rights to the people.

Corporations can dissolve then incorporate with the exact same people under a different name absolving them of all responsibilities and duties of the previous name. How sweet would that be for a human person? Just change your name and all previous debts, marriages, child support payments, contracts and credit are wiped clean. Think about how well big businesses will do when the people that owe them money suddenly don’t owe them that money anymore… the economy will be awesome!

Polygamy is something that is currently illegal, however instead of preventing corporations from merging with more than one other corporation, how about we just allow people to “merge” (in a legally binding way) with other people.

Slavery was abolished because of stupid human rights idiots, but now that corporations are people too, instead of giving corporations freedom from other corporations, let’s just bring back slavery where all the money one corporation makes must be given to the corporation that owns it… or “people” if you will.

Let’s say you want what some other person has, when big businesses want what another corporation has, they can buy them out and just take it. So you can buy out your neighbor, then you get his wife, kids, dogs, cats, cars, house, debt, boat and well all his stuff. Yeah! I’m going to buy out my neighbors because I want all their stuff!

And the coolest thing that you could do if we’re given the same rights of corporations: We can be part of other people. Think about owning stock in several other people thereby giving you the right to control what another person does, now think about getting the stock of thousands of people… you could have your own army of money makers that will have to pay you part of what they’re making and you can even give yourself bonuses for the hard work of owning stock in the people that are working!

So some 22 year old woman maliciously recorded 3 minutes of Twilight: New Moon during her sisters birthday party. Apparently the surprise party planned for her sister was just a facade to cover up her real intentions to record the movie and sell it on the street. She had no prior convictions of pirating movies, but that doesn’t disprove her intent…

Seriously though, here are the facts:

• She was 22 years old
• This was a surprise party for her sister
• She was recording her sister’s birthday
• Approximately three minutes of the film was recorded on the digital camera
• She was arrested and held for two days
• She may face three years in prison

Let’s examine this from a few different angles: She is completely innocent and the film getting recorded was not intentional, she decided to record a little bit of the movie and lastly that she intentionally recorded the movie to later sell for cheap on the street.

It is normal for people now days to record things like birthday parties, someone not as paranoid as I wouldn’t think that a little bit of footage of a film getting recorded would be cause for such an extreme punishment. So she likely would not be paying much attention to where the camera was pointed. This shouldn’t result in any kind of punishment at all.

Now, given the same previous situation, but instead she intentionally pointed the camera at the movie to record a little bit of it… maybe her favourite part. Recording three minutes of a 2 hour and ten minute movie is nothing major. Hell it should be covered under fair use of the DMCA. This should not have resulted in any kind of punishment other than maybe taking the recording.

Now let’s say she was intentionally recording the movie and was going to record the whole movie to sell on the streets. There is no evidence of her intent even if it was her intent. In order to prove that someone intends to sell the movie there would need to be DVD copies made, copied to a computer in a distributable format or saying that she will sell it or her selling it. Because there is no reason for anyone to think that she was going to sell it, so this should not have resulted in any kind of punishment.

Now let’s say there is a law that says you can’t record things like movies. What the fuck is wrong with that? Are we going to ban all recording devices like DVRs? No, the consumer has rights as well. This may not always be the case any more, but I still believe that people are innocent until proven guilty, so if there is a law that says you cannot record something because you may pirate it later goes against this ideal. There’s a little thing that I agree with called the Bill of Rights and specifically the fifth amendment where it states that “nor [shall any person] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” which I hope would still apply. Now what was the reason that she was detained? Was she a threat to any one? Was she a flight risk? No and no, so in short, this is unconstitutional and I really hope that the judge of this case just throws it out and the woman sues the fucking shit out of the movie theater company for unreasonable imprisonment.

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