From the creators of the classic, BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters (2003), Flex Your Rights releases its new achievement, 10 Rules for Dealing with Police.

The 40-minute docudrama is the most sophisticated and entertaining film of its kind. Narrated by the legendary trial lawyer William “Billy” Murphy, Jr. (from HBO’s The Wire), 10 Rules depicts innocent people dealing with heavy-handed policing tactics used every day in the United States.

Through extensive collaboration with victims of police abuse, legal experts and law enforcement professionals, we’ve developed a powerful multi-language (English, Spanish & Arabic) resource that provides proven survival strategies for dealing with racial profiling and police abuse.

Do you know what your rights are if you’re stopped by police? Most people don’t, and the consequences can be severe. From simple misunderstandings to illegal searches and excessive force, a bad police encounter can happen to anyone. But after watching 10 Rules for Dealing with Police, you’ll be more confident and better prepared to handle every kind of police situation.

Created by Flex Your Rights and narrated by retired ACLU director Ira Glasser, BUSTED realistically depicts the pressure and confusion of common police encounters. In an entertaining and revealing manner, BUSTED illustrates the right and wrong ways to handle common police encounters and pays special attention to demonstrating how you, the viewer, can confidently protect your rights and yourself.

“Our constitutional rights are worth only the paper they are written on unless we understand and exercise them. BUSTED makes an important contribution toward transforming the Constitution’s paper promises into real rights for real people.”
Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union

BUSTED teaches that people have precious inherent rights under our Constitution and should never feel guilty when exercising these rights during police encounters.”
Joseph D. McNamara, Retired police chief of San Jose, CA. Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

“Most non-violent drug offenders would have avoided my courtroom if they had seen BUSTED.”
Robert W. Sweet, New York City District Court Judge

“Chronic disregard for civil rights is tearing apart the fabric of America. Flex Your Rights has hit the nail on the head in this hard-hitting instructional video.”
Mike Gray, Drug Crazy author and Chairman of Common Sense for Drug Policy

“As a journalist covering the war on drugs, I’ve often been surprised at how readily people consent to searches. By clearly explaining and vividly illustrating the dynamics of encounters with the police, BUSTED should help people keep their calm — and their freedom.”
Jacob Sullum, Reason magazine senior editor and author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use

“One of the tragedies of the Drug War is that it alienates otherwise law-abiding people from the police. BUSTED shows how drug users who often feel powerless when confronted by ‘the law’ can reclaim the power vested in them by the Constitution, which protects them much more than many people realize. BUSTED should be shown in all school drug education courses, since being arrested is the greatest harm from smoking marijuana that most users will ever experience.”
Rick Doblin, Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

“BUSTED is the only video I know of that is providing clear and candid information about how to ‘just say no’ to intimidating police searches. Parents, teachers, and concerned citizens across the U.S. should use BUSTED to protect young people, who are often targeted by police, from the greatest harm of using marijuana — arrest.”
Robert Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project

“BUSTED is a concise, simple lesson in how citizens can give us lawyers a fighting chance.”
Daniel Dodson, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Board Member

“Every police encounter carries the potential to ruin a life. BUSTED arms Americans with the information they need to minimize that risk. It should be required viewing in every school in America as part of a basic course in civics.”
Roger Pilon, Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies

“Until police are no longer ordered to wage a War on Drugs — a policy that requires officers to constantly violate people’s constitutional rights — BUSTED is a film that should be viewed by everyone.”
Jack A. Cole, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

“BUSTED contains important survival skills for millions of Americans. Seeing this film could make the difference between living a productive life or being saddled with a drug conviction and spending the rest of your life trying to overcome it. BUSTED should be shown in every high school in America!”
Nicolas Eyle, Executive Director, Reconsider: Forum on Drug Policy

“BUSTED deserves a wide audience. It reflects awareness of the need for citizens to exercise their rights and refuse ‘voluntary’ searches in the face of police power. Well done!”
Arnold S. Trebach, Ph. D. Professor Emeritus, American University, author, Heroin Solution and Legalize It?, founder and former Executive Director, Drug Policy Foundation.

“BUSTED is a particularly timely and powerful means of conveying increasingly important, often urgent, information.”
Lester Grinspoon, MD, psychiatry professor, Harvard Medical School and author, Marihuana Reconsidered and Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine

“Since the end of the Carter Administration the drug war has been undermining the basic rights of citizens in the name of the War on Drugs. This video will teach people to know and exercise their rights — which are the first steps toward regaining lost rights. BUSTED is required viewing for all citizens.”
Kevin Zeese, Executive Director, Common Sense for Drug Policy

“If enough people see BUSTED, it will alter the balance of power on America’s streets forever.”
Nora Callahan, Executive Director, November Coalition

“BUSTED delivers clear and concise legal information that viewers can use to successfully invoke their rights and protect themselves during police encounters.”
Richard Glen Boire, author, Marijuana Law and counsel for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics.

The Panama Deception documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; the events which led to it; the excessive force used; the enormity of the death and destruction; and the devastating aftermath. The Panama Deception uncovers the real reasons for this internationally condemned attack, presenting a view of the invasion which widely differs from that portrayed by the U.S. media and exposes how the U.S. government and the mainstream media suppressed information about this foreign policy disaster. The Panama Deception includes never before seen footage of the invasion and its aftermath, as well as interviews with both invasion proponents like Gen. Maxwell Thurman, Panamanian President Endara and Pentagon spokesperson Pete Williams, and opponents like U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY.), Panamanian human rights workers Olga Mejia and Isabel Corro and former Panamanian diplomat Humberto Brown. Network news clips and media critics contribute to a staggering analysis of media control and self censorship relevant to any news coverage today, particularly during times of war.

The Road to Iraq and Afghanistan (and maybe Iran and Pakistan) started with the invasion of Panama under the direction of George H.W. Bush, the father.

The “surgical strike” designed to remove CIA partner Manual Noriega from office, killed an estimated 10,000 civilians.

Deemed a “narco-terrorist,” Noriega was the main banker for the cocaine trade.

This involved him in Bush’s Iran-Contra program, a triangular trade which involved selling arms to Iran (for a private profit), importing cocaine into the US (for a private profit) and delivering arms to the Contras (for a private profit.)

After the invasion, billions of dollars were removed from the Panamanian banking system by federal mandate, just in time to help bail out the failed S & L industry which collapsed under the weight of corruption and “deregulation.”

This year (2009)  is the 20th anniversary of the invasion.

Canadian police remove over 1,600 tasers because of safety concerns. They don’t perform efficiently enough and therefore a strong willed person could power out of one. 99% of you citizens will still cringe in pain from it but that don’t matter to them. Only the officers matter.