Category: Free people vs. police state

TVA cops use TN statute to harass Highway 153, other travelers

TVA claims law enforcement jurisdiction as against the people in seven states, the authority to chase people down in traffic stops under the Tennessee code annotated even though expired or mismatched car tags do not endanger the public safety nor the operation of coal-fired electricity plants. (Photo Wikipedia) Tennessee law appears to allow for TVA […]

TVA roadside traffic stops, arrests ‘provide value’ for people

TVA cop Scott E. Stone has used an LPR to seize a family traveling in Chattanooga to question them about a mismatched motor vehicle tag on their car July 22, 2017. (Photo David Tulis) A woman explains why a tag on the back of her car is mismatched on state records to an officer (barely […]

TVA arrests family in traffic stop as agency claims total TN jurisdiction

TVA officer Scott E. Stone gestures to an eyewitness at a “traffic stop” of a family sedan in Hixson on Saturday. (Photo David Tulis) Members of a family are let go after a “traffic stop” by a TVA cop near Chickamauga Dam on July 22. (Photo David Tulis) In this unmarked cruiser, TVA police officer […]

Double whammy: Hirsch rips gun law, says cops act outside law in traffic cases

Jay Hirsch after arguing his right-to-travel and right-to-bear-arms case before a three-judge panel of the Tennessee criminal court of appeals. (Photo David Tulis) NASHVILLE, July 18, 2017 — A criminal court of appeals today hears arguments from a 65-year-old laborer in Middle Tennessee who says that the gun statute is unconstitutional because it is vague […]

Gladden, Coonrod traffic stop typifies commercial enforcement

Anthony Gladden speaks to an officer from behind the wheel of a car. (Photo Times Free Press / Chattanooga police department) A traffic stop June 24 involving a car owned by city councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is a picture of commercial government and its enforcement by police. The encounter on M.L. King Boulevard that night, city […]

Judges hear claim that TN’s racist anti-gun law unenforceably vague

Appeals court judges in the supreme court building, center right, in Nashville will hear arguments from a commoner about the state’s long abuse of constitutional liberties. (Photo Google Earth) A Christian man with a ministry to shut-ins and jail inmates is challenging as unconstitutional Tennessee’s racist ban on weapons ownership. Arthur J. Hirsch, known as […]

Gun-toting free traveler argues biggest TN liberty case in 80 years

Arthur J. Hirsch may be the first appellant in 80 years to correctly understand the lawlessness of commercial government. (Photo David Tulis) A Republican governor and his attorneys have marshaled technical arguments against an appeal by a defendant whom a jury criminally convicted for exercising his “God-given, constitutionally guaranteed rights” to travel by car and […]

Tear gas, guns, riot squads: The police state’s answer to free speech is brute force

Three men are finalists to be police chief in Chattanooga. The last military encapsulation of a protest in Chattanooga was the April 2014 national socialist protest downtown. No injuries were reported. None of the three candidates are reputed to have police reform leanings. “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority […]

Melvin sues cop Campbell, city for ‘outrageous’ arrest

Hanson Melvin is in a cheerful mood outside the Hamilton County courts building in Chattanooga after Judge Don Poole dismisses his criminal case on a phony charge of disorderly conduct. (Photo David Tulis) The conduct was intentional or reckless, and was so outrageous that it is not tolerated by a civilized society. *** [T]he city […]