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Holt asks you to get local legislators behind bid to ban traffic cameras

This dunning letter purports to seek compensation from someone who is photographed having run a stop light. (Photo Andy Holt) Rep. Andy Holt says traffic tickets not personally delivered by an officer are unconstitutional and unenforceable. (Photo Guns.com) If you happen to be one of the countless people who have received one of these in […]

Diabetic inmate denied access to special shoes, legal materials

Robert Whipple has sued state government at least four times over abuse within its prison system. (Photo David Tulis) The following is a letter sent Dec. 17 to Neysa Taylor, spokeswoman for the Department of Correction. In a reply Dec. 19, Mrs. Taylor says the following: At this time it would be improper for TDOC […]

Harmer says meds restored, but cell kept chilly

Grenda Ray Harmer, serving a state servitude in Morgan County by Sharon Rondeau / The Post & Email On Monday morning, The Post & Email reported that TDOC inmate Grenda Harmer, #88710, had informed us in a letter received last week that one of his medications, “Antivert,” had been discontinued by MCCX prison staff without […]

Common law society vs. statutory, state-centered society; which is freer?

Chattanooga police officers close off a street after having investigated a suspicious package left in a neighborhood, one that proved harmless. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 In my pursuit of understanding local economy in the Chattanooga area, I have explored the idea of common law versus statutory systems such as Tennessee […]

‘Talking while black’ defendant yields to courageous cops

Talking-while-black victim Cameron Williams, a hip hop musician called G-Grimey, wants to make the most of his bad experience with cops in which he stood in a public place, addressed an officer for a seeming abuse of his authority, and was arrested under the vague disorderly conduct statute and charged, and his girlfriend gassed while […]

Authority ex nihilo; trooper agency seems to exert power apart from law

A Tennessee highway patrol trooper takes part in a little PR with a boy, who enjoys sitting on his transportation enforcement motorbike. (Photo department of safety and homeland security) I reveal here a fascinating problem that the corporate state makes for itself, that is creating policies and procedures that go beyond the scope of statute. […]

With loud thump, Rhea tables ‘police powers’ bill

George Thacker, the besuited county executive, stands among critics of a Rhea County police powers bill tabled by the county commission, with Mr. Thacker’s strong blessings. (Photo David Tulis) More than 70 people throng a Rhea County Commission meeting room Tuesday, most all of them angry at a sweeping plan to give county government harassment […]

Rhea plan would ‘define, prohibit, abate, suppress, prevent, regulate’

A law to regulate much innocent activity as a nuisance in Rhea County, Tenn., is under consideration by the county commission. (Photo Tnvacation.com) The Rhea County commission is considering a proposal to seize power against the people under authorization of a state law that gives broad authority to cities and counties with token language about the […]