As of my writing this 896 people have been shot and killed by police in 2016. This data is based on news reports, public records, social media and other sources. 
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/ 
The year isn’t over yet, and police have already killed at least 896 people — many of whom were unarmed, mentally ill, and people of color. 

In 2016, several officers have gone to trial but none of them received jail time. 

We now live in a world where it is legal for police officers to murder not only animals, but innocent people, use the threat of force to coerce peaceful people into submission, and not only avoid punishment, but are ENCOURAGED to act this way. We live in a police state, and before we figure out how to fix it, we have to understand how this situation came to be. It’s easy to focus our anger only on the ones actually committing the violence, but cops didn’t just wake up one day and decide to start violently oppressing people. Injustice flows from the top down. What we’re seeing today is largely the result of the politicians WANTING the people living in fear of the police, WANTING the police brutality which causes so many people to quietly obey whatever arbitrary, oppressive legislation the politicians decide to enact. 

Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest 

“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.” 

“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621. 

“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1. 

“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903. 

For more info go to... 
www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm 

RESIST FOR YOUR LIVES!!

03 I Was 1 Of U (acoustic)

I came up with this little tune while sitting on my front porch. I was strumming around on a two string guitar that I built from and old jewelry box, some bicycle parts, some recycled guitar parts from the trash and a piece of hard wood I found while dumpster diving.

This album was created using trash. The instruments used to make the noise on this album were made from items found while riding bike through the alley ways of Bloomington, Indiana and dumpster diving, combined with old bicycle parts and recycled guitar components. 
Some of the instruments include; a two string "chugger" style acoustic guitar fashions from an old jewelry box, a "Cigar Box Guitar", and even an electric "Diddly Bow" (one string bass guitar). 
All of the above mentioned instruments were hand crafted by WiNgNuT. 
The noise that was made with these instruments and the vocals on this album were recorded using a microphone and laptop that were also found while dumpster diving.

02 412

The title says it all on this one.
lyrics
Grey cow, grey cow! 
Lisa, Lisa Bonet! 
Sock a monkey in the face! 
A sock monkey in your face!

This album was created using trash. The instruments used to make the noise on this album were made from items found while riding bike through the alley ways of Bloomington, Indiana and dumpster diving, combined with old bicycle parts and recycled guitar components. 
Some of the instruments include; a two string "chugger" style acoustic guitar fashions from an old jewelry box, a "Cigar Box Guitar", and even an electric "Diddly Bow" (one string bass guitar). 
All of the above mentioned instruments were hand crafted by WiNgNuT. 
The noise that was made with these instruments and the vocals on this album were recorded using a microphone and laptop that were also found while dumpster diving.

01 NonCentz

A preview single from the upcoming album from WiNgNuT. This track is heavily based on a mock-calypso song, written and performed by Tom Lehrer in 1960, chronicling the effects of industrial pollution on American city life.

Don't Drink The Water (single Version)

Based loosely on a song by "One String Sam". 
In 1956, an unknown street musician named "One String" Sam Wilson walked into Joe’s Record Shop on Hastings Street in Detroit, carrying a plank of wood containing a single string. The shop also had a recording studio in the back, and Sam proceeded to record two songs on his diddley bow, “I Need a Hundred Dollars” and “My Baby Ooh.”

01 I Need A Hundred Dollars

02 I Am A Horrible Person

This song is to YOU.
lyrics
Momma' said that she's never loved me, 
but that I should not take it personally. 
She said "Son I've never been able to love any one at all". 
But she did her best to take care of me. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when I opened my eyes to look around me, 
this world made me just want to give up and quit. 

My little sister still holds resentments. 
I can feel her animosity. 
Because when I left home, I left her. 
I'm pretty sure that she's never looked up to me. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when I opened my eyes to look around me, 
this world made me just want to give up and quit. 

I heard some kids arguing outside of my window. 
They all claimed to be Anarchists, 
but they couldn't agree long enough to get anything done, 
other than shout angry slogans and raise their fists. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when my eyes were opened and I took a look around me, 
this old world made me just want to give up and quit. 

Anjel, I know that you think of me as a monster from your past, 
and to you Ashfyre, I'm a mystery. 
James, my Son, I don't know what you think at all, 
because you never talk to me. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when the going got tough, 
I just gave up and quit. 

This song is not a cry for help, 
or an insincere apology. 
I'm not singing for redemption, 
or to ask for sympathy. 

These words are a confession, 
and I'm speaking truthfully, 
when I tell you that I've never been anything other than trash, 
and you were better off without me. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when my eyes opened to the truth around me, 
I chose to do nothing about it. 

When I had a chance to make a difference, 
when I could have made a stand, 
I didn't do anything at all. 
I buried my head in the sand. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when my eyes were opened and I took a look around me, 
this old world made me just want to give up and quit. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when my eyes were opened and I took a look around me, 
it just made me want to give up and quit. 

Some days I feel fantastic, 
but most days I just feel like shit. 
Because when I opened my eyes to look around me, 
this cold world made me just want to give up and quit. 

I know that this world does not love me, 
but I do not take it personally, 
because I have never been nothing more than trash, 
and this world is better off without me.

03 Confession Song

04 Thinking Of Stew

05 The Dumbing Down

Based heavily on an old song by Tom Lehrer. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
lyrics
Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
There's poison inside! 

If you visit an American city, 
and you find that the smiles there are pretty, 
just two things of which you must beware, 
don't drink the water and don't breath the air! 

Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
It's full of fluoride! 

They got smog and sewage and mud. 
Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud! 
You can use the latest toothpaste, 
and then rinse your mouth with industrial waste! 

Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
It's full of fluoride! 

There are lots of things there that you can drink, 
but stay away from the kitchen sink! 
The breakfast garbage that you throw out today 
gets drank at lunch not so far away! 

Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
There's poison inside! 

So go to the city, 
See the crazy people there. 
Like lambs to the slaughter, 
They're drinking the water 
And breathing the air! 

Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
Don't drink the water! 
It's full of fluoride!

WiNgNuT

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