Alec Baldwin Arrested Over Wrong-Way Bicycle Ticket
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 15th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Alec Baldwin Arrested Over Wrong-Way Bicycle Ticket
Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested by two police officers who stopped him for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a New York City street Tuesday. Police said that when Baldwin, 56, refused to show his ID and was belligerent, they handcuffed him and impounded his bike. Baldwin disputed their account in a series of posts on Twitter, writing, “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign. … I think handcuffing someone for riding a bicycle in the wrong direction is ridiculous. Report of disorderly conduct is a distortion by [Officer] Moreno.”
Frontline: United States of Secrets
A new PBS Frontline documentary, United States of Secrets asks the question, “How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?” The NSA turned its eye on ordinary American citizens after 9/11, creating a massive surveillance dragnet to collect and monitor the communications of millions