Opinion Forum

The Media Trial of George Zimmerman Shows That We Don’t Need Courts

March 24th, 2012

By Dan Miller During Alice’s visit to Wonderland, she attended a trial. The queen demanded, “sentence first, trial later.” We can do even better! As just about everyone not comatose for the past several days now knows, twenty-eight year old George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed seventeen year old Trayvon Martin almost […]

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Tags: arrest, racial, racist, satire, shooting, Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman
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First Amendment Rights of Individuals Are Equal to those of Traditional Media

August 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller In Glik v. City of Boston, et al, a Mr. Glik had used his cellular phone to video and audio tape a police encounter with a man on the Boston Common. He was arrested for doing so but charges were thereafter dropped. He then filed suit in Federal District Court alleging violation […]

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Tags: arrest, Boston, filming, First Amendment, Glik, police, press, video
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Just Do Whatever the Police Say

May 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller Rights? You *#**#*% don’t got no stinkin’ rights. This tale from Philadelphia, A.K.A. the City of Brotherly Love, seems to fit neatly into the jigsaw puzzle with this piece about a recent Indiana Supreme Court decision and this one about an incident in Pima County, Arizona. It seems that a Mr. Fiorino, […]

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Tags: arrest, Fiorino, gun control, handgun, open carry, Philadelphia, police, rights
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