Title: Ferret Mike's friend Videotaped While educating police dumb enough to stop him Source:
You Tube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KHd6eAUjGM Published:Sep 27, 2008 Author:Tim Lewis Post Date:2008-09-27 18:23:18 by Ferret Mike Keywords:None Views:1227 Comments:89
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5 EPD vehicles pull over a car in the Whiteaker neighborhood and the cops handcuff the wrong person while they get a ear full.
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Henry and I go back a long way. He is a hard working woods worker who owns his own home and has spent many years planting trees, doing pre-commercial thinning of tree stands, fire bossing twenty man single resource wild land fire crews, and has been a political activist for many years.
He won a large settlement when railroad dicks slammed him to the ground on tracks near his home accusing him of trespassing the right of way while retrieving his dog so he could go to work.
He also had a memorable moment in Salem with a fellow activist who had hung a dummy of the Children's Service Department director in effigy on the State Capital grounds protesting heavy handed interference in people's lives when they pulled kids, usually because they objected to the parent's political and social outlook on life.
The legislature was in session and the Republicans then and they heard about the dummy, so they came out directly from the House chamber to scream at him and "how dare him" because the then director was an African American woman.
That made the papers at that time, and Henry and I go a long long way back having worked and run together for decades.
His parents were college professors before retiring, and Henry is very politically informed.
Tim Lewis has been the Cop Watch organizer for a long time and has restarted the organization. One I have been arrested doing work observing and videotaping for. The police were very much irritated and intimidated by the camera and this helped convince them to take the cuffs off as you see them do.
Shine On, the woman with the pulled back dreads is a very close friend of mine as well. This is also my neighborhood. We will be producing and posting more Cop Watch videos as we get the organization back up to speed.
Yes, it can be bad here. You have to understand that Eugene is an Oasis of a metro area where the counterculture and many political activists enclaved when the free wheeling 1960s and early 1970s was winding down.
The FBI consider it one of their 'happy hunting grounds' and sends new agents in to do their final field training before becoming agents.
The police is very well armed and equipped. They also have ratcheted up their presence greatly this past week and seem to be everywhere.
The police is very well armed and equipped. They also have ratcheted up their presence greatly this past week and seem to be everywhere.
I wonder what's up with this.
I think you'll find this trend is nationwide. IMHO, the authorities are anticipating a lot of very serious civil unrest in the very short term, most likely due to a massive economic implosion. Rather than build up infrastructure to support and care for people, they're investing in more tools to repress and control people. All things considered, I think we're in for some ugly times coming soon.