{"id":135166,"date":"2014-08-05T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=135166"},"modified":"2014-08-05T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:00:21","slug":"criminals-outlaws-eyes-american-police-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/criminals-outlaws-eyes-american-police-state-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John w. Whitehead<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd \u201cviolations\u201d as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room?<\/span><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Mind you, we\u2019re not talking tickets or fines or even warnings being issued to these so-called \u201clawbreakers.\u201d We\u2019re talking felony charges, handcuffs, police cars, mug shots, pat downs, jail cells and criminal records.<\/span><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Consider what happened to Nicole Gainey, the Florida mom who was arrested and charged with child neglect for allowing her 7-year-old son to visit a neighborhood playground located a half mile from their house.<\/span><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><span style=\"color: #111111;\">For the so-called \u201ccrime\u201d of allowing her son to play at the park unsupervised, Gainey was interrogated, arrested and handcuffed in front of her son, and transported to the local jail where she was physically searched, fingerprinted, photographed and held for seven hours and then forced to pay almost $4000 in bond in order to return to her family. Gainey\u2019s family and friends were subsequently questioned by the Dept. of Child Services. Gainey now faces a third-degree criminal felony charge that carries with it a fine of up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail.<\/span><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><span style=\"color: #111111;\">For Denise Stewart, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, whether or not she had done anything wrong, was sufficient to get her arrested.<\/span><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><span style=\"color: #111111;\">The 48-year-old New York grandmother was dragged half-naked out of her apartment and handcuffed after police mistakenly raided her home when responding to a domestic disturbance call. Although it turns out the 911 call came from a different apartment on a different floor, Stewart is still facing charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.<\/span><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><br style=\"color: #111111;\" \/><span style=\"color: #111111;\">And then there are those equally unfortunate individuals who\u00a0unknowingly\u00a0break laws they never even knew existed. John Yates is such a person. A commercial fisherman, Yates was sentenced to 30 days in prison and three years of supervised release for throwing back into the water some small fish which did not meet the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission\u2019s size restrictions. Incredibly, Yates was charged with violating a document shredding provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was intended to prevent another Enron scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2014\/august\/04\/we%E2%80%99re-all-criminals-and-outlaws-in-the-eyes-of-the-american-police-state.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John w. Whitehead Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd \u201cviolations\u201d as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room?Mind you, we\u2019re not talking tickets or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}