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So yesterday Ry emailed me another incident from Seattle PD.  I didn’t get around to blogging it and forgot about it until today.

There was at least a reprimand from this incident, though there are some serious questions this brings up.

Now we’ve found a chilling case that started as a simple traffic stop that could happen to any one of us. Only this time the dash cam video of the incident was shown to a man’s boss, jeopardizing his very livelihood.

Now why is that so significant, they showed the video to his boss and then did the following.

KOMO 4 News is suing the Seattle Police Department after the department denied our requests for other videos similar to Miller’s stop. Citing privacy laws, the department has denied us copies of any videos less than three years old. Yet the officer who stopped Miller didn’t hesitate to show damaging video to Miller’s boss at school, jeopardizing his job.

Think about that for a second, they’re more than willing to attempt to use that evidence in their favor to ruin your life, but the second they might be held accountable they will refuse citing privacy.

Go read the story, my only real comment is this:

Never, get you of your car during a traffic stop unless you are instructed to do so.  That said, the reaction by the officers was a bit over the top, especially given the number of them on scene.  Overall this was just a bad incident, though this statement right here is telling about the attitude from Seattle PD.

Seattle Police Department Spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said officers respond to over 1,000 calls a day and get 99.99 percent of them right.

And the law exists Mr. Whitcomb to protect the innocent and when you screw up it’s a big freaking deal because you have violated the rights of someone.  As such you should have a boot put up your ass.  If you can’t take the time or be bothered to strive for 100% accuracy you’re in the wrong damn line of work.

So there have been a meme running around on how different subjects are viewed.  I saw one for women and firearms but I didn’t see one for gunnies in general.  I decided to fix the deficiency.

I thought about having a a frame from Tombstone in the “What the Media Sees” but that frame I think worked better.  Spread it around!

If you want to spread it on Facebook, here it is.

*Yes that’s me in the bottom right, I felt that picture was quite fitting since as always, nothing happened!

**Thanks to Caleb for the Picture of Bob Vogel at the 2011 IDPA World Championship.

I had a conversation recently with a friend regarding WiFi, phones, automated discovery and mapping, along with oh so many other things you could do.

We’ll these guys cranked the whole thing to 11.

I see so many opportunities, especially with regards to another project I’ve got in the background that I’m looking into doing the mechanical design for.  One of these years I’m going to have to get to Defcon, however in doing that I’d also like to have something to present if I went.

I stumbled across this one today.

President Obama’s border enforcement officials prevented over 13,000
dangerous hair dryers from entering the country, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) trumpeted today.

They can find some hair dryers that are oh so dangerous, but they’re completely oblivious to the guns being run across the border.  Yeah, way to stop those oh so dangerous weapons there.  I don’t know what we would do if those horrible hair dryers got onto the street.  Imagine all that improperly blown hair.  It would choke and kill all those people.  It’s a good thing they found them now.

*If you didn’t notice, I was being completely sarcastic and here’s why.

Yeah, you can find hair dryer’s and not the guns involved in your own damn sting operations, wonder why that is.  NOT, I know exactly why!

So earlier this month Joe was informed about some particular anti-rights bigots using video he shot and I edited without permission and outside the bounds of fair use. Joe has asked nicely and it appears that Ladd intends to ignore him.

This is a single frame, being used as a still image without commentary, out of context, and in no way is being used in a manner that can be considered “Fair Use”.  They do not own the rights to the image, they are not using the image for a derivative work, they stole it to use it in a manner to show us as intimidating and threatening, and they have not licensed the use of the image either.  They have not cited or credited the source of the original work either.  It is not even in a manner as they did previously where it was obvious that the still was associate with a video.

So, there’s a new game of chess, the question is what’s the next move.  Joe is the rights holder for that frame as he shot it, I think if there’s another volley prior to a formal DMCA request it needs to focus on rights and usage.  A DMCA request can also be issued to Blogger without the necessities of a lawyer and let Blogger remove the material.  If Blogger refuses to, then more force may be required.