coming up have you ever wonder what constitutes a citizen's arrest i was present for one last week and that was nation and learned a lot of former federal prosecutor will tell us just in case you happen to run into a room filled with cheney of a local bar after the break. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to didn't break through and through to people made who can you trust no one who is human view with a global missionary see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

well go back to the big picture and sharpen coming up in this half hour during the routine obama bashing this weekend republicans got their feathers ruffled when the tables were turned on them by their own hired comedian so what the republican reaction to jokes about their own candidates may be very telling and insulates of daily take i'll tell you how a six foot high wall is the only thing standing in the we have nuclear disaster right here right now in the united states.

over the weekend i attended a progressive net roots nation conference in minneapolis minnesota and thanks to lucy in fact for filling in for me while i was gone just down the street from net roots another about was being held the conservative right on line conference so needless to say with progress isn't right wingers commingling there was potential for some explosive confrontations and that's exactly what happened when a group of muslim women were in his jobs flash mob the right online conference the women showed up to protest an incident that happened the previous evening outside a local bar the place right up in to be at the time when a group of muslim women in traditional dress were harassed by a group of. men with ties to the right on line conference here's how one of the women described the incident. my thinking on them and harass them are even worse than just constantly wearing a he dons and that is it don't go back to your country how can you go back to my

country when i was born here i am an american and the interesting part of the story is these men who were harassing the women were arrested it was a citizen's arrest on lookers kept the men detained in the restaurant until police showed up to make the arrest which had me wondering how exactly does one go about making a citizen's arrest for more i want to susan's arrest actually means and how you can do it and drive by kendall coffey former federal prosecutor chair of the southern district conference of the florida federal judicial nominating commission and a welcome to the program and a thumping vesa to be sure i think so i was astounded we were sitting in the bar and you know with a group of people and over on the other side of the bar in there was this kind of. and then police showed up and then the police went around asking everybody the bar questions like you know they were for it because the three guys who were the i

don't want to say victims of citizen's arrest where the arrestees let's say refused to talk and so the police then had to find some witnesses to validate or corroborate what the people doing the citizen's arrest were saying and eventually they did it took a while and they hauled these three guys off in a police car so if i see something like you know these guys were you know harassing these women what i do how does a citizen do it arrest. well the first day you got a nose it's no place for amateurs and you usually do war things wrong to do things right in trying to make a citizen's arrest it does exist on the was of different states are different but the basic thing that it protects is briggs ample if you see a felony being committed you're right there you see it committed if you have knowledge after the fact of a felony would miss demeanors with a lesser kind of crimes most states make it something that has to be a breach of peace in other words if you can arrest somebody as a citizen for

a misdemeanor a lesser form of crime it better be something that's really disrupt is something that somebody really needs to intervene on because the law isn't exactly crazy about the idea of citizens pretending that they are police officers sometimes it's necessary sometimes it's good for society but most of the time it's a lot better to have professionals doing the arrests then amateurs so should if you witness something that you believe is a crime and you know beyond them i'm not talking about somebody walking up and shooting somebody but it's something like what we saw in minneapolis on thursday night if you see something like that instead of walking up and saying i'm making a citizen's arrest and asking a couple of people to help you. you know detain the guys until the police show up after you don't run is it better to simply tell nine one one call the police and say i saw a crime. well sure it is but sometimes there are situations that you think are very disruptive the you see something escalating right in front of you you see conduct

maybe push what you're saying but you do well first of all if you're going to make a citizen's arrest you've got to know the citizens don't have the same protection from civil liability lawsuits that police officers do that makes sense right so there's more risk if you get it wrong but if you get it right and there's for example a breach of peace which is acknowledged in most states you announce first of all that you're making an arrest and that you were arresting them for a particular crime because if you don't do that then you're just a private person trying to restrain somebody trying to detain somebody and if a private person without any legal right to do it tries to detain somebody that could be a crime in itself if you're detaining for example somebody who's a home invader to point a gun you could be protected into that you could make a citizen's arrest to keep them there even keep a gun on him but if you have a guest in your house you put it in you're not making good citizens arrest you just

don't want to believe because you're argue with them that's a crime in most states of kidnapping so point number one is announce your authority have out authorities say i'm making a citizen's arrest say what it's for and then where it goes from there is is very uncertain because what can you do what kind of force can you use if the person says the heck with you your insurance salesman you're a lawyer i don't have to listen to you i'm out of here and what can you do. well you can use some force to detain the person in fact you can physically block them in terms of liberty. in most states i mean everything i say tom asked me you know how much you love lawyers hearing i was telling you it depends you can look at the law but different states do have different rules in another state there's not of why a royal knows there's not a federal citizen's arrest statute. changes hawaii's yeah for example why is going to very broad citizen's arrest power any crime in wyoming you can do it for cattle

rustling but i mean different states have different rules florida florida and most states have what they call merchants privilege for shoplifting offenses a security officer for example sees you trying to steal something in a store can walk over and detain you and insist that you do not lead but using force is a wild card if somebody is properly arrested and they walk out on you that could be a crime in itself in many states that is to say they're they're fleeing prom on a rest but most of the time you could you should use the minimum force necessary time you almost never want to go anywhere near firearms although it can be done in dangerous situations the burglar this breaking into your house that could be a situation to use a gun but in the in the bar room scene we talk about well what i would say is if you're going to make an arrest announce it's a citizen's arrest announce what it's for you can try to block them try to get the police on the phone right away so you get somebody there and try to basically without calling to anybody to call the local authorities. and i'm sorry i

interrupted you identify yourself to the police when they arrive you give us some of these points before and it seems like this is what it absolutely because you know you don't want the police thinking you're the troublemaker that you're out of line so you didn't fire yourself as a citizen is made what you consider to be a lawful arrest turn it over to police of course and then provide one hundred percent cooperation for anything down the line and you may have to show up in court for an appearance if it's requested after the after the after the arrest. yeah you have made yourself part and parcel of the charge so you're certainly a witness but i want to come back to sometimes there's a fine line between acting responsibly in making a lawful citizen's arrest and being a vigilante in effect and going across the line so if there's any doubt about whether what you're doing is is proper stand back grab your cell phone call nine one one and get the police there as quickly as possible you go kendall thank you so

much for the information hey tom thanks for inviting me it's a pleasure i really appreciate knowing this now that we know what it takes to make of the citizen's arrest useful information if you ever run across a row. i don't know one minute here. on the shelf when you hear i am working hard and i have to do it. fast the season the reference reason. i can hope can't i. it's the good the bad of the very very fair sickly oddly first the good but they were all over what he wrote republican former republican governor of louisiana turned some heads at the at the republican leadership conference over the weekend chock full of republican presidential hopefuls like michele bachmann conference was mostly a parade of right wing talking points that was until roemer

a little known republican candidate for president took the stage and the rail of republican politics he went after the banks strips. on a banking c.e.o. gets travel the world. argentina brazil. to let them know. i'm no one will be taking advantage. and i know that our own corporate giants have never been more profitable than they are right now because they keep sending. american jobs overseas. wall street near our. unemployment should manage our nine point one the last three banks are reedy is there. no one's going to change. we need more politicians on both sides of the aisle talking like that horse is now one of the roller finds himself an unknown in the republican presidential field there's really no room for

truth tellers and not hurting anyone so. the bad i don't republican state senator john mccain i did state senator mcgee spent his weekend try getting wasted on a golf course stealing a tractor trailer jackknifing the tractor trailer and then wandering the streets in a drunken stupor police found senator mcgee he said he was in search of but. it's unclear if you will resign from his post but as long as he didn't tweet photos of his drunken self it's unlikely that the republicans was to step down. and a very very ugly jack kimble that answer republican party chairman attended a picnic last week in honor of flag day but instead of bringing people together to honor our nation's flag campbell was more interested in bashing president obama and laying out the dire consequences facing us all if the president is reelected referring to all the soldiers who have been wounded fighting for our war in our many wars in the middle east campbells. look at how we put the white house if they

go about that and we realize the profound responsibility we have this time in my view if we realize the span all of it all the people who fought and died for is completely in vain. yikes let me guess that because president obama won't just take the oil with the iraqis allow us whatever it is it's very very. after the break details of how republicans ripped our commander in chief over the weekend but couldn't excuse repeating themselves. go through. and get.

into the only military mechanisms and do the work to bring justice and accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. what i would characterize obama as the care was met a version of american exceptionalism. the republican leadership conference was held in new orleans over the weekend and was the best way to make a room for conservative politicians laugh racist jokes directed at the president of course reggie brown a guy who's made a living impersonating president obama most in fox news spoke at the event and

wasn't as of at all commenting on the president's race or what. my favorite month is stuff you were like history month this is michelle she celebrates the full month and you know. the republicans proved they could dish it out of the conference bashing president obama's skin color as soon as reggie brown turned his jokes on them and sort of poking fun at republicans the crowd proving couldn't take it and he was kicked off stage. it's unfortunate that template he could make it here but cut him some slack he's having his book surgically removed from his no. i don't know what luckily for him it's covered under obamacare. so yeah there's a lot along with spinal transplants.

john king served him up. then barney franks back. because you can people are asking me. when am i going to explain the details of my health care plan and i've got three work for you so am i. you notice that the end there they even cut his mike so just how much racism is too much racism for republican leadership conference and why the thin skin when it comes to self depreciating humor here to offer some more insight of his issues tommy christopher a media correspondent by house reporter at media ite dot com johnny welcome don thanks for having me do you think that the people in the room you know i watched the whole thing i'm assuming you did too and this was those little clips i don't think actually represented it all that well the first part seemed actually kind of

funny in a general way you know and then the last part when you started picking on the republicans all of them got quieter and quieter and it was strange the way the tide turned it was and it was weird but do you think that the racial jokes at the beginning were perceived as racist by the crowd well you know that when i first saw this there are a lot of liberals going about it you know i watched the clip and i thought well the guy's jokes i didn't think was going on with his jokes i could see the discomfort with the way the crowd was reacting but i you know i don't know how unfair that is even i can see how someone from our point of view would think well you know these are people who have tremendous animosity for president obama so they're not laughing with him there i forgot him and he's a racial jokes and laughing at his skin color so i understand it's comfort it seemed to me that the you know some of that was just. a guy making a joke about a guy who was the same race and it wasn't about race it was about i don't like this but i thought that when he pulled out the sanford and son or the or whatever it was clip you know that but that was what but in

a little it will start to talk about the larger political context here you know historically you go back like you know four hundred years ago five hundred six seven eight hundred years ago in the history of the kings of europe the one person who could speak the truth to the king was the court jester by law i mean it was to the court jester could not be beheaded could not be imprisoned the court jester would and kings actually wanted the court jester to speak the truth because that was the little keyhole through which they were able to see what was really going on in the world not has and i think that you know for example jon stewart plays this role so brilliantly with comedy central he speaks truth that you know in ways that other people can't even say it and not just not just him but comedians in general why why are the republicans so thin skinned when it when it comes to talking about their own folks well you know i think in that case and it just seems to have caught them off guard you know i've noticed that i've attended a lot of these. three c. pacs now a couple of liberal conferences and there's

a lot of this preaching to the choir you know a lot of you know i think they were just surprised and really taken aback by i think i thought of materials funny and one of the ones i saw the jokes made about the republicans i thought oh well this guy he's doesn't you know he's not here to trash or mommy's just an entertainer and. so yeah it was good was kind of strike i thought was strange the way you write when they show the picture of barbara bush one hundred washington yes it's the whole thing just turned and you know i don't pick on the bushes yeah it's like you know in a republican congress don't pick on the bushes and that unless one of them said some bad about sarah palin i don't know if you saw it we're going to offer barbara to the more snow well you know he went off on john boehner is crying and that didn't get a laugh and he said his new slogan is i killed obama and everybody was like you're right that's going to be the president's new slogan. i mean it was like there was a bunch of uncomfortable truths that he laid out there and i'm wondering and then you know the polygamy jokes about romney i actually i cringed with it if i was that over the top i thought so so where if you were advising the republicans

you know humor for their conference would you say stay away from the soft appreciating humor orbits the liberals for their own you know for liberal conference by would say have a sense of humor you know learn to laugh at yourself but the audience didn't isn't going to you and i was i was a little bit surprised by that. because i you know the conservatives i've met at places like the fact you know more and more of the great people great sense of humor. they really did surprise me thinking about you know i've done my show from seat back for five years in a row now i think and. i think you know on both sides it we're all people here you know what i was really surprised with last week fox news is eric bolling made some racially tenuous comments about president obama as well take a look at it. he's coming to dinner dictator mr obama shares a laugh with one of africa's joke rats the first time he said. so what's with all the hoods in a his e

a month after the white house hosted the rapper common who glorifies violence on cops the president opened its doors to one of africa's most evil dictators so he was he also said the president was chugging forty's i mean yeah you know what's what's the deal you know what you know what i wrote columns about both those incidents the forty ounce thing and then who's in the hazy and you know at first i thought yeah this is this guy is trying to appeal to you know he's whistling to a certain segment of the audience. but i had a discussion with him on twitter and you know. i think he may have a genuine misunderstanding of why it is people were offended by that i try to explain to him and he did apologize for it and i'm hoping that the conversation we had sort of because that you know some people just don't understand how you know the context that you say something and changes it you know where you know if a white guy says one thing and i says the same thing if they capture you for

meetings if it's about one of these but actually i want to especially about race one of the things that he brought up was that was gone maher and jon stewart they do the same thing and it's ok because they're liberals and you know i think he had a great a good point there and i think there's a more jesters right but i think this goes we're going to be a news guy someone yeah well you know he does opinion to that that part i don't really have a problem with but i think the point he had is that i think liberals sometimes get away with things because they're liberals but maybe they shouldn't i don't think that means that we should also then let their probably going to have something that's greatly offensive. more he said this thing about president obama being a black ninja gangster president and other times that i was expecting him to lift up her shirt and show his gap like the more i think she's funny maybe that he's constantly present and. but it's the same thing they're both marginalizing him as a stereotype except that bill maher is a comedian and this is going he's our nominees are i mean i'm going to try to you know you're ok we've got

a real time i disagree with you just saw you were at it thanks for being here with us i sure haven't seen a lot of food for thought there are also when republicans can't laugh at jokes about their own candidates doesn't reveal an underlying truth about just how weak they may really be. after the fukushima nuclear catastrophe in japan a lot of people wondered out loud just what the hell the japanese were doing build a nuclear power plants along the coast of an area prone to earthquakes and tsunamis it's as though they were just asking for this to happen oh good it's a stupid surely here in the united states we're a lot more careful with where we build our nuclear power plants right. now this is the fort calhoun nuclear plant just outside of risk just outside omaha

and in the press and no it's not supposed to be completely surrounded by water. i suppose that's what's happens when you build a nuclear plant right in the middle of the floodplain of the missouri river floodwaters from the rising missouri river have settled at a foot and a half above where the plant sits and the only thing stopping fort calhoun from flooding just like focus shima flooded is a six foot high rubber wall surrounding the plant that's not the only nuclear power plant in danger just down the river in southeast nebraska the cooper nuclear plant is also on the verge of flooding out that plant sits at nine hundred three feet above sea level but on sunday floodwaters from the missouri river peak at nine hundred and a half feet meaning just two and a half feet stood between nebraska and a fukushima like disaster so yeah we almost lost nebraska over the weekend and yet

no one seems to know about back on june seventh when the floodwaters first started threatening the fort calhoun plant the nuclear regulatory commission received a notification of an unusual event the lowest level warning on the n.r.c. is for stage disaster classification system no big deal he said he no droids in this car but it does seem a little odd that since june sixth the f.a.a. has been enforcing a no fly zone above the crippled plant when asked about the no fly zone the f.a.a. responded by saying it was put in place for security reasons that we can't reveal just like the no fly zone over the b.p. oil spill which successfully stopped both news reports and scientific analysis of the water over the spill you know whatever's going on in nebraska this is a warning that fukushima could happen here in the united states with very little

warning. not only do we operate nuclear plants in flood basins and brasco but we also have plants built on fault lines in california and in the path of tornadoes in the american midwest and for those who are more superstitious there's the diablo canyon power plant in california it's not only named after the devil but it also sits on top of an indian burial ground so is it really that our nation's nuclear plants are more secure than japan or are we just so far really really lucky frankly i think it's time to stop rolling the dice with nuclear power in the last decade germany built the equivalent of ten nuclear power plants by putting solar panels on the roofs of hundreds of thousands of homes and with that renewable power germany has announced that they were completely closed down every single nuclear plant in their nation just last week voters an italy took to the polls to reject by

a ninety five percent to five percent margin a plan to build nuclear power plants in that nation and in denmark a country that as far back as one nine hundred eighty eight banned the construction of nuclear power after chernobyl more than twenty percent of their electricity is generated through wind power and within a decade that will be a half fifty percent japan has just announced that they're ditching nuclear power fairly obvious reasons the swiss have announced no new no more new nukes even china has suspended the construction of all new nuclear power plants there but here in the united states we're building rubber walls around our submerged nuclear plants and just praying that the waters don't keep rising and in an environment that's growing increasingly volatile with more flooding and more tornadoes thanks to global climate change that strategy is almost certainly destined for failure. it's time to ditch in clear power here in the united states like what's going on in

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