Video of a “Live Free or Die” Suspicion-less Checkpoint

June 19, 2010 by Bradley Jardis
Filed under: Copwatch, Issues

As promised:

I’d appreciate it if you would digg this for me (only if you dig it, of course).

Bradley Jardis

Woopsie. I got the date wrong. I used today's date instead of yesterdays… when I filmed it.

I'm too lazy to fix it
Paul

Love it!
Bradley Jardis

Hey, thanks man.

My second crack at putting something together.
bil

Nice work.A good finished product instead of raw video.I like it. —bil
Bradley Jardis

Thank you Bil.

Please bear in mind I have absolutely no training on either taking video or using editing software
http://thecasualactivist.blogspot.com BigMike

I'm glad you took the time to do this Brad.
http://www.nolanchart.com/author677.html Chaz Munro

Give yourself some well deserved credit, Brad. This is really good stuff, timely, and very informative.

Someday this will payoff when some kid is goofing around on youtube, recognizes his/her parent needlessly stopping motorists, and asks "why do you do this to people? My friends will see you doing this."
KBCraig

Great videos, Brad.

If you keep up this learning curve, you'll be in line for an Emmy next year.
bil

Don't worry,brad-I didn't either,and now I have to deal with it all the time! For a first effort,that is good work! —bil
Mark

I like the music. I even liked it when you changed the tune to.. was that INXS? At first I thought the Mellencamp (sp?) was good and that it would contrast with the police state video because ain't that America?

Like the lyrics:

And there's winners and there's losers

But they ain't no big deal

'Cause the simple man, baby

Pays for thrills

The bills the pills that kill

But anyways thanks for doing this. Your product looks like it is approaching professional. Do you think the folks who got hauled away incriminated themselves by giving up their 4-6th ammendments?

Another question though, why didn't you keep your job as cop and buck the trends of tyranny from inside the system? Silly question I know. I wouldn't stay a cop if I was one. But it's a fundamental question I ask myself a lot when I consider withdrawing from the system.

Mark
Bradley Jardis

I like the music. I even liked it when you changed the tune to.. was that INXS? At first I thought the Mellencamp (sp?) was good and that it would contrast with the police state video because ain’t that America?

Thanks. That's what I was trying to do.

Yep, INXS. I thought the song was appropriate.

But anyways thanks for doing this. Your product looks like it is approaching professional. Do you think the folks who got hauled away incriminated themselves by giving up their 4-6th ammendments?

Hey, thanks

Absolutely. The 5th Amendment is the one I'm most concerned with giving up.

Another question though, why didn’t you keep your job as cop and buck the trends of tyranny from inside the system? Silly question I know. I wouldn’t stay a cop if I was one. But it’s a fundamental question I ask myself a lot when I consider withdrawing from the system.

I did for a while. They tried to fire me… and I got my job back.

I couldn't continue to do the job though. The police use violence against non-violent people. That is immoral.
Bradley Jardis

I added a link to digg this video… I'd appreciate it if you fine folks would digg it for me.

I kind of wanted it to be a quasi-FSP recruitment video
Lauren

Where is the part where you are standing in the middle of the checkpoint? Everything is so far away. Where's the part where we can hear the interrogations?
Bradley Jardis

Lauren,

I couldn't get close enough to the officers to record their voices. I was standing in the middle.