Carefully executed Soddy-Daisy roadblocks nab no DUIs
Jeff Gann, acting chief of Soddy Daisy police, holds a hot pizza given his crew by a passing member of the public at a New Year’s Eve roadblock. (Photo David Tulis) The Soddy-Daisy police department runs a roadblock in full compliance with judicial rules requiring high visibility by use of signs, cones and lights. (Photo […]
Highway patrol, Red Bank reject public notice rule for roadblocks
If you avoided Highway 41 in Chattanooga along Raccoon Mountain on Friday, you avoided the only Labor Day roadblock in the Chattanooga area. But avoid Red Bank, as it refuses to reveal whether it plans roadblocks this long weekend. Public notice of roadblocks is essential, according to the two key Tennessee high court rulings on […]
Soddy-Daisy tries to make roadblocks avoid offense to constitution
Jeff Gann, acting police chief in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., says the town conducts six to 10 roadblocks a year. (Photo David Tulis) A Soddy Daisy roadblock July 2, a Friday night, was designed to comply with a court ruling and constitutional protections that seek to reduce the offense of roadblocks against travelers’ fourth amendment rights. The […]
Working around roadblocks; money by phone in Africa
These slum children in Nairobi, Kenya, are listening to gospel teaching. (Photo Englewood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., website) [Leave it to Africa to find a way around the government regulation that is strangling innovation in America. I’ve known Ken Griffith for nearly 20 years. He started a land development in Virginia for people looking […]
Marceaux rehearses career insisting on rights, defying cops, taunting courts
Cop watch activist Basil Marceaux is 66 years old and in ailing health. He has been arrested 27 times and attributes his courage in defying lawless public servants to his Marine Corps background and to a desire to preserve American liberties. Mr. Marceaux is the bane of Tennessee judges and clerks for his dogged dealings […]
Gentry slashes back at lawyer-senator’s bid to blight remonstrance petition
Petitioner John Gentry deals with a head-on rebuke by a practicing attorney and member of the state judiciary who is also a member of the legislature in the Tennessee senate. Mr. Gentry filed in state house and senate a petition of remonstrance that is an extraordinary stab at what might readily be called the Tennessee […]
Rhea County: Bad law
Rhea County commission weighs ordinance to suppress, harass, regulate free market trades and businesses under police power. A meeting is set Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Rhea County courthouse annex in Dayton to bring about these protections against so-called nuisances. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It
Go to hell, judges tell Hispanics, others seeking to use TN roads freely
Basil Marceaux of Soddy-Daisy, right, and Jay Hirsch of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., discuss the Hirsch gun and travel case after oral arguments in Nashville. Like Mr. Hirsch, Mr. Marceaux has been in court dozens of times, asserting constitutional rights to travel and to be free of state roadblocks. (Photo David Tulis) An impoverished independent businessman vows […]
Gangland in blue: Forced blood draws, cavity searches, colonoscopies
Nurse Alex Wubbels resists an unlawful demand for a warrantless blood draw of an auto accident victim by cop Jeff Payne in Utah on July 26. (Photo YouTube) The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity […]
Berke’s new police chief faces array of abuses, unfinished business
Chattanooga police acting chief David Roddy admires machine guns belonging to the federal military. Local base commander White is at left. (Photo, Fred Fletcher Twitter) Rochelle Gelpin of Hixson was arrested in her pajamas and groundlessly accused of “disorderly conduct.” Because she “sat on her rights” she was unable to sue for damages.(Photo David Tulis) […]