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Wednesday April 10th, 2013
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Man Faces Charges After Defending Himself from a Bear in His Own Yard
posted 04/09/2013, 2:13 AM (Reason) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Richard Ahlstrand, of Auburn, Massachusetts, faces criminal charges after encountering a bear in his back yard and shooting the damned thing to avoid being mauled or eaten. Specifically, as noted at Reason 24/7, he's charged with "illegally killing a bear, illegally baiting a bear, illegal possession of a firearm and failure to secure a firearm." All of these charges, once translated from Massachu... (more) |
Decorated Huntington police officer sued over arrest
posted 04/09/2013, 2:11 AM (West Virginia Record) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] HUNTINGTON – A Huntington police officer who has been recognized for his number of yearly DUI arrests twice in the last three years has had one he made last year called into question.
HPD Officer Joseph W. Koher is named as a co-defendant in a four-count civil rights suit filed by Nicholas Evans. In his complaint filed March 15 in U.S. District Court, Evans, 32 and of Huntington, alleges Koher stopped him without probable cause for DUI and later knocked him to the ground so as to ... (more) |
Fresno Police: "We Are Not an Occupying Force"
posted 04/08/2013, 12:48 AM (YouTube) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
FRESNO, CA -- Police are present "on every street corner," visibly carrying rifles through neighborhoods. Extra squad cars, including armored police vehicles, patrol the streets. The excess police presence prompted the police chief to remind the public, "We are not an occupying force." Residents may feel otherwise.
Source: ABC News |
The Crime of "Vice Enforcement"
posted 04/08/2013, 12:48 AM (Will Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] If a cop solicits the services of a prostitute, and then arrests her, shouldn't both parties to the transaction be prosecuted?
On March 22, Officer Ronald DePellegrin of Homestead, Pennsylvania allowed a prostitute to undress him and begin to perform a sexual act before he informed her that he was an undercover vice officer. DePellegrin had contacted the prostitute through an online advertisement. The two ag... (more) |
Man Charged With Terrorism For Criticizing School Security
posted 04/05/2013, 1:14 AM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] In post-9/11 America, mere words can get you thrown in jail with a felony terrorism charge poised to ruin your life and confine you to a cage for years on end.
Sandy Hook has amplified the insanity.
Brain Davis, disabled man from Iowa, made the mistake of telling his physical therapist that he believes security at his grand daughter’s school is lacking. Now he is in the slammer charged with felony threat of terrorism.
According to the people who rat... (more) |
Medical Marijuana Now On Sale in Czech Pharmacies
posted 04/04/2013, 3:22 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Medical marijuana became legal Monday in the Czech Republic and is now available for sale in pharmacies. Monday was part of the Easter holiday there, so it didn't actually go on sale until Tuesday.
Medical marijuana is available by prescription only and has been okayed for people suffering from cancer, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis.
Medical marijuana is being imported -- either from Israel or the Netherlands -- for the first year, while the ... (more) |
Shocking Video from Maine Prison Shows a Restrained Prisoner Being Tortured with Pepper Spray
posted 04/04/2013, 3:22 AM (ACLU.org) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] That's what Maine Correctional Center Captain Shawn Welch said to a prisoner who was strapped into a restraint chair, his face coated with pepper spray and his legs shaking in pain and fear. The entire ordeal was captured in a disturbing video that recently hit the internet. After Captain Welch pepper sprayed prisoner Paul Schlosser in the face, Captain Welch ignored Schlosser's plea that he could not breathe; at one point, Captain Welch responds to Schlosser's pleas for help with the taunt, "La... (more) I found this too disturbing to watch. - Chris |
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Wednesday April 3rd, 2013
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New York: Judge Rules Against Use Of X-Rays During Traffic Stops
posted 04/03/2013, 1:11 AM (TheNewspaper) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A motorist cannot have his car taken to a border station to be x-rayed based on a window tint violation, a federal judge ruled on Friday. US District Judge Richard J. Arcara allowed a lawsuit to proceed against the Niagara County, New York Sheriff's Department in the wake of an April 28, 2009 traffic stop where motorists who had done nothing wrong were detained by police for more than three hours.
Thaddeus Rougier was traveling to Canada with Beverly Henry in a 1995 Lexus carrying... (more) |
Mom Says NYPD Pepper-Sprayed Baby
posted 04/02/2013, 1:03 AM (Courthouse News Service) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
BROOKLYN (CN) - NYPD officers pepper-sprayed three little children, including 2-year- and 5-month old babies, because they thought the kids' mom jumped a subway fare, the family claims in court.
Marilyn Taylor sued New York City, the NYPD and Officers Maripily Clase, Suranjit Dey and Jermaine Hodge in Federal Court, for herself, her three children and their father.
Taylor claims that she and her kids were preparing to board a Manhattan-bound L train on Aug... (more) |
An Idaho "Gun Violence" Story for the Huffington Post
posted 04/02/2013, 1:03 AM (William Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
"We're working on a project to document the nationwide impact of gun violence, and we need your help," explained the Huffington Post editorial collective in an e-mail to their "readers in Idaho." "If you or someone you know has ever been affected by gun violence, we want to hear your story."
Eagerly accepting their invitation, I sent them the following account of gun violence, which they will almost certainly decline to use.
Dear Huffington Post:
My n... (more) |
The UN Declares War on Katanga -- Again
posted 04/02/2013, 1:03 AM (William Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Fifty-three years ago, the United Nations created a multinational military force to carry out "peacekeeping" operations in the Republic of the Congo at the request of socialist president Patrice Lumumba. Residents of a small, mineral-rich province called Katanga, not eager to be ruled by the Soviet-aligned leftist government, declared their independence under the leadership of pro-western president Moise Tshombe.
With the backing of both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, UN military ... (more) |
SWAT Raids Home Over Hydroponic Equipment Purchase, Finds Tomatoes and Squash
posted 04/01/2013, 12:14 AM (Activist Post) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Did you know that buying hydroponic growing equipment is now being used as probable cause for the government to raid your house?
Neither did Bob and Addie Harte, a Kansas couple who were raided by SWAT without a warrant last April because the authorities took notice of their purchase of indoor gardening items.
The illegal raid turned up "just six plants -- three tomato plants, one melon plant and two butternut squash plants -- growing in the basement", and now the ... (more) |
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Thursday March 28th, 2013
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Welcome to Sulphur Springs, Where the Police Chief is a Murderer
posted 03/28/2013, 10:49 PM (William Norman Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Like many third-world countries, Arkansas is a beautiful place inhabited by lovely people who are burdened with an extravagantly corrupt ruling class. This helps explain, but by no means does it justify, the fact that the minuscule town of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas now has a convicted killer as its police chief.
In January 2010, Coleman Brackney, at the time an officer in the department that menaces nearby Bella Vista, murdered a man named James Ahern following a high-speed c... (more) |
Why Are Cops Acting Like Soldiers?
posted 03/28/2013, 10:48 PM (Independent Institute) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
From the early days of the United States to the post-Reconstruction era and beyond, Americans viewed the separation of the military from law enforcement as essential for the health of the republic. In recent years, however, the line between the police and the military has become increasingly blurred, with police departments across the United States employing "no knock" raids and other military-style tactics once considered off limits. What has caused this alarming trend?
Writing i... (more) |
Video: Vancouver Police Officer Punches Man in Face
posted 03/28/2013, 10:48 PM (YouTube) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Officer Bhabha, badge number 2703, caught on tape punching a man, claiming he was "resisting arrest".
Andi Shae Akhavan was biking home in Yaletown at around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday when two officers pulled him over and accused him of running a red light on Beatty Street.
This example of police brutality has resulted in the officer being put on leave. |
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Wednesday March 27th, 2013
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What Happens to Good Cops
posted 03/27/2013, 11:02 PM (Will Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Justin Hopson always wanted to be a New Jersey State Trooper. After graduating near the top of his academy class, Hopson was assigned to a training officer. Within a few days of beginning his patrol duties, Hopson was involved in a traffic stop in which his training officer carried out an unlawful arrest and o... (more) |
Groups Balk at Paying $1.3 Million Cop Killer Reward
posted 03/27/2013, 11:00 PM (ABC News) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] When ex-cop Christopher Dorner was hunting down Los Angeles police and their families, more than $1 million in reward money was raised for help in his capture and conviction.
Now that there are two sets of claims to the reward money, the groups that pledged the money are balking at paying because Dorner wasn’t captured or convicted. He died Feb. 12 when he shot himself in the head after being cornered by police and the subsequent gunbattle set fire to the house where he was barric... (more) Notice they're still lying trying to imply the police didn't purposefully set the house on fire. |
Repeal the "War on Terror"
posted 03/26/2013, 11:20 PM (Will Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] When Congress approved the post-911 “Authorization for Use of Military Force” on September 14, 2001, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California was the only member of the House to vote against it. In her address on the House floor explaining her vote, Rep. Lee warned that the measure would be used as an open-ended declaration of war against anybody the president – any president – designated an enemy.
More than a decade later, two administrations have vindicated Rep. Lee’s ... (more) | Previous Page . Next Page
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