E-Actions for Freedom

Help fund promotion efforts for "BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters"

My friend, Troy Dayton is working on the winter release of a controversial new instructional video called BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters. From what I know of Troy, if he's working on it, it's a good thing. It certainly sounds good -- if you've ever been subject to a less-than-ideal police encounter, you know that it's not as fun as it appears. This is a message Troy asked me to pass on, and I hope you'll act to help him and Flex Your Rights.

This film teaches people what the laws are and it exposes all the tricks and intimidation tactics that police use and how to legally avoid them. Believe it or not there are a few rights we still have in America. This movie shows you how to use them through realistically recreating the actual stress of real police encounters.

We’ve all had friends get busted for stupid things because they weren’t prepared to assert their rights or because they were unclear on specifically what their rights were. Especially when you’re not doing anything illegal, it’s our civic duty to not consent to warrantless searches to ensure that cops play by the rules and to be an example for others.

Check it out at www.flexyourrights.org. They’ve gotten some great testimonials from some big names and the website has screenshots, useful information about the laws, and a place to donate to the effort.

Flex Your Rights needs to raise $50,000 by January 1 to pay for media, distribution, advertising, and outreach efforts powerful enough to hit their goal of having 100,000 people view BUSTED in the first year. Anyone who donates $35 or more gets a free copy of BUSTED when it comes out this winter. There are other benefits for giving more. Because the work they are doing now is geared towards creating exposure around the winter release, $1 donated now is worth like $10 given four months from now. All donations are tax-deductible. Put “friend of Troy’s” in the notes field.

You can donate via secure server here.

Troy has been raising money for non-profits for years and he has never asked me to donate before. I can definitely see how this could go big and make a measurable difference in people’s lives.

BUSTED is a production of the Flex Your Rights Foundation made possible by a grant from the Marijuana Policy Project. It’s directed by award-winning director, Roger Sorkin and narrated by Ira Glasser, who was the president of the ACLU for 23 years.