The news you're not supposed to know... http://www.informationliberation.com Thu, 16 May 2013 01:53:41 -0400 A Kentucky police officer staked out a suspected Oxycodone seller's home, then allegedly robbed him for personal profit under the guise of executing a search warrant. Via WSAZ: ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A former Ashland Police officer has pleaded gu... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43870 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43870 Thu, 16 May 2013 01:53:39 -0400 Ready or not, Lauryn Hill of Fugees fame has found herself sentenced to three months in a cage for extortion evasion. The extortionists call it "tax evasion", but calling it by another name doesn't change what it really is. This sort of ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43869 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43869 Thu, 16 May 2013 01:53:37 -0400 I'm not sure where vice president Joe Biden is getting his information, but he seems rather confident that a tax can be levied against "violent media." He may want to check with the Supreme Court, which has ruled against regulating violent video gam... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43868 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43868 Thu, 16 May 2013 01:53:32 -0400 If it weren't for crooked cops in the Land of Lincoln, this space would be blank this week. Instead, we have an Illinois corrupt cops twofer. Let's get to it: In Caseyville, Illinois, the Caseyville police chief was arrested last Wednesday on cha... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43867 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43867 Thu, 16 May 2013 01:53:29 -0400 Think Progress, the hilariously named "progressive" front group for the Democratic Party, recently penned one of the most hysterical pieces I've seen. That's really saying something in our age. The basic theory of the piece is that the Federal Res... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43866 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43866 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:24:52 -0400 Via TheRetrosoldier on YouTube: These officers do not believe in the Constitution or the rights it protects... The Backstory: Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggres... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43862 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43862 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:24:38 -0400 Apparently, the altercation sent the videographer to the emergency room, now he says he's being stonewalled in his attempt to press charges against the officer. Of course, he has every right to film the officer and the cop has no right to stop him... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43861 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43861 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:18:54 -0400 In November 2010, 17-year-old Utah resident Tamsen Reid was stopped by former Box Elder County, Utah, Sheriff*s Deputy Scott Womack. She and her two friends were told to get out of the car, stand barefoot in the snow, and submit to an invasive search... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43860 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43860 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:18:47 -0400 We've often heard stories of politicians passing legislation soon before they left office, only to have that very same legislation help them in their next job (coincidentally, we're sure). So it does seem interesting that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43859 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43859 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:18:43 -0400 The Cleveland Police Department took plenty of criticism when three girls that had been missing for a decade escaped captivity mere miles from their homes. Ariel Castro secretly held the girls hostage for years doing unspeakable things to them. In No... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43858 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43858 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:18:38 -0400 *If you*re not a terrorist, if you*re not a threat, prove it. This is the price you pay to live in free society right now. It*s just the way it is.**Sergeant Ed Mullins of the New York Police Department Immediately following the devastating 9/11 ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43857 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43857 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:18:16 -0400 An Antioch, California man under surveillance for a drug warrant was shot and killed by police as he fled after the vehicle in which he was a passenger struck a police vehicle. Charles Burns, 21, becomes the 12th person to die in US domestic drug law... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43856 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43856 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:17:59 -0400 TAMPA BAY, Florida -- A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida's rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines. The ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43854 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43854 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:17:07 -0400 There*s nothing quite so funny as the sight of the authoritarian functionaries of a dying order trying to suppress a revolution they don*t understand * and failing miserably. The State Department*s attempt to censor 3-D printable gun files from DE... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43851 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43851 Tue, 14 May 2013 21:16:04 -0400 The mark of any flunk economic thinker is the statement "we live in a capitalist system." Without a doubt, the United States, along with the rest of the West, is still gifted with a market-based economic system. But calling it capitalism * the uninhi... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43849 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43849 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:41:00 -0400 How many law enforcement officers does it take to subdue one intoxicated man? In Bakersfield, CA, it takes nine: seven sheriff's deputies, two CHP officers and a police dog. It also appears that being publicly intoxicated and resisting arrest in Ba... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43845 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43845 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:58 -0400 Shortly after 12:30 a.m. this morning a Volusia County Sheriffs deputy saw Marlon Brown driving without a seatbelt, and attempted to pull him over. When Brown kept driving, the deputy gave up pursuit while reporting a fleeing vehicle. Almost immediat... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43844 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43844 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:55 -0400 [Pictured: Midnight Knock - Bonner County Sheriff's Deputies invade the home of Rita Hutchens.] Sandpoint, Idaho resident Rita Hutchens is an opinionated 57-year-old quilt artist whose work has earned her international notoriety. Given that Hutche... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43843 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43843 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:50 -0400 In a speech last month about proposed gun control legislation, President Obama decried opponents* attempts to encourage *suspicion about government." "The government's us," he responded. "These officials are elected by you. They are constrained as I ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43842 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43842 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:33 -0400 Religion:*a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. Faith:*firm belief in something for which there is no proof. On the website Debate.org, the question of whether government is necessary or not was put up for debat... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43841 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43841 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:39:51 -0400 Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most important criminal justice rulings of the Supreme Court. On May 13, 1963 the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the case of Brady v. Maryland. The case stands for the proposition that t... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43839 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43839 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:39:46 -0400 Obama says some Americans are paranoid, fretting about an imagined tyranny lurking behind the corner. Progressives cheer as he mocks his lowly subjects. Yet some among them embrace one of the most despotic state powers imaginable: the draft. The d... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43837 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43837 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:39:37 -0400 College Students Want Black Backpacks Banned After Boston Bombing. Other Colors Are OK Though. ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43835 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43835 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:39:15 -0400 While taxes are often seen as the price to pay for living in a civilized society, many believe the amount people have to stamp up is not distributed fairly.... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43831 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43831 Sun, 12 May 2013 20:10:51 -0400 After a student blows a .018 on a breathalyzer, an LAPD officer tells the student he blew double the legal limit of .08. The student, who is a physics major, tells the cop .018 is not double .08, .16 is double .08. "Not the way the machin... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43830 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43830 Sun, 12 May 2013 17:04:46 -0400 'Merica's wars are good wars, not like them stinkin' Muslims and their dirty Muslim wars, or so says Bill Maher. Glenn Greenwald was itching to expose Bill Maher's hypocrisy on this issue to his face, and he finally got his chance last night, ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43829 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43829 Sat, 11 May 2013 05:03:38 -0400 In his quest to gain compliance from a high school student, a Minnesota cop felt it proper to mace a student in the face. As the cop moves in to attempt to take the wincing student down, the student shoves the cop to the ground, a second cop respo... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43828 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43828 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:56:10 -0400 Texas cops ordered a woman to ID herself at her own door, then entered her home without a warrant because she failed to ID herself. While police are defending the officers' actions, a legal expert says no such legal obligation exists. Via KHOU: ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43827 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43827 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:56:08 -0400 We've been dealing with the New York police department lately, thanks to the mayor and the police chief using the recent Boston bombing as an excuse to increase surveillance efforts and enact other policies to further encroach on New Yorkers' civil l... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43826 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43826 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:56:05 -0400 Something is still rotten along Utah's Wasatch Front, a DC cop gets popped for money-laundering, a Detroit-area cop pleads to running protection for traffickers, and a South Texas cop heads for prison for shipping guns to Mexico. Let's get to it: ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43825 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43825 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:56:01 -0400 A shocking video of Rio de Janeiro police in a helicopter firing on a moving car in a populous slum has sparked a probe. Footage emerged of the high-octane chase a year after it happened, raising concerns over the excessive use of police force.... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43824 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43824 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:59 -0400 Earlier this year, men wearing black ski masks whipped out their guns and raided the home of 62-year-old Cathy Jordan, a medical marijuana patient and activist in Florida. They seized 23 of her plants, two of which were mature enough to be used for ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43823 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43823 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:56 -0400 The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer. The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law, comes just days after the world's first ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43822 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43822 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:44 -0400 ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. - A Commerce City police officer pleaded not guilty on Monday to a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals in the shooting death of a dog last year. Chloe was a pit bull mix who got loose from a dog sitter on Nov. 24. Police r... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43819 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43819 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:07 -0400 ORLANDO, Fla. * Channel 9 has learned a man who was struck by an Orlando police officer's cruiser spoke with Internal Affairs about the incident. Tetris Nunn said he believes Officer Michael Fiortentino-Tyburski hit him on purpose, saying he made... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43817 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43817 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:05 -0400 A student who was arrested and beaten for falling asleep at school is now suing an Alabama city, its police department and some school employees for civil rights violation, battery and negligent supervision and hiring. The Courthouse News Service r... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43816 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43816 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:54:35 -0400 ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43814 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43814 Thu, 09 May 2013 12:55:49 -0400 I forgot it's also standard operating procedure for dispatchers to stay on the line with victims. Yahoo's The Lookout reports: Cleveland officials are investigating the handling of a call from kidnapping victim Amanda Berry to 911 on Monday. B... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43811 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43811 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:50 -0400 After a dispute at a bar for alleged underage drinking, 20-year-old Rodolfo Lopez Castaneda, who police have not yet confirmed was involved in the drinking incident, was offered a ride home by Lee County sheriff's deputy Michael J. Ronga. Rather t... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43810 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43810 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:48 -0400 The problem with government granted monopolies is the quality of service they provide reflects the fact they don't have to compete for dollars in the marketplace. They get money regardless of the quality of the "service" they provide. Here's a... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43809 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43809 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:25 -0400 The horrific Boston bombings already have led to irrational calls for more security cameras and more police officers, with some Democrats absurdly using this tragedy as a reason to stop the slight sequester-mandated cuts in federal spending grow... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43808 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43808 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:21 -0400 Although cops delete footage or dispose of memory cards on a regular basis to prevent evidence of their wrongdoings to see the light of day, they rarely get disciplined for it. Until today, that is, when a Nebraska prosecutor filed criminal charge... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43807 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43807 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:17 -0400 WeAreChange recently got a chance to meet up with Alex from Federal Jack and Hack Miami, to get the full story of his arrest and destruction of evidence by the Miami Police Department. Alex was arrested for merely filming the police in Miami, the p... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43806 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43806 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:21 -0400 In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration crafted a legal theory and detention policy to handle accused terrorists. Nowhere was the policy more conspicuously problematic than at Guant**namo, where a total of 779 detainees were hel... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43804 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43804 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:14 -0400 PERRY COUNTY, Mississsippi * A Mississippi police officer is under fire from the community after accidentally leaving his K-9 officer in a police cruiser overnight. Some have called for his job while others have called for charges to be filed. Rou... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43802 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43802 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:12 -0400 Nashville, TN Police Officer Sean Heath slashed a homeless man's tent.... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43801 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43801 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:06 -0400 ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43800 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43800 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:03 -0400 We crossed another milestone in industrial history last week. Over the weekend of May 4-5, 2013, the world*s first handgun was printed on a 3-D printer. It was fired and it worked. The implications are dazzling for people all over the world. The prin... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43799 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43799 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:58 -0400 ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43798 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43798 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:56 -0400 ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43797 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43797 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:50 -0400 Obama's volunteer Civilian National Security Force doing random searches of backpacks on campus at San Diego State University to look for bombs. Part 2: ... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43796 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43796 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:45 -0400 Luke Rudkowski asks Chevy Chase about his thoughts on Barack Obama's broken promise of closing Guantanamo Bay. Chase then justifies his support for Obama regardless of this by stating that even though he doesn't agree with torture, a lot of other c... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43795 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43795 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:43 -0400 At a gala event in Washington D.C, Luke Rudkowski got a chance to talk to Obama supporter and advocate, Stevie Wonder. In this interview Stevie Wonder explains his justification for Obama's continuation of Bush's policies such as illegal wars and k... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43794 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43794 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:17:15 -0400 "What does it hurt," asked Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Florida*s Palm Beach County, "to have somebody knock on the door and ask, *Hey, is everything OK?*" The answer to that question obviously depends on the identity of the "Somebody" who i... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43790 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43790 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:17:13 -0400 "They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices." If you believe, like Obama says in this clip, the government is "the people," then you have to also believe the Jews in Nazi Germany elected to... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43789 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43789 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:16:31 -0400 Idaho is officially not a marijuana-friendly state. Although it is bordered on most sides by medical marijuana states (Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Montana), it so far refuses to accept the medicinal use of the herb. And even though one of those s... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43788 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43788 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:16:28 -0400 San Antonio Park police violently beat a woman who had walked into the wrong room at a gas station, then arrested her brother for trying to video record the altercation. They also deleted the footage from her brother*s camera while charging the wo... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43787 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43787 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:16:25 -0400 When discussing NYPD Police Chief Ray Kelly's assertion that "privacy is off the table" as a result of the Boston bombing, I mentioned I hadn't heard any public outcry demanding the government and law enforcement step in and do something (i.e., curta... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43786 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43786 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:16:08 -0400 3D Printing's First Killer App. Download at DEFCAD.org... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43785 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43785 Sun, 05 May 2013 15:02:53 -0400 "Hi I'm a twelve y/o boy named Jeremy who has found a cop disobeying."... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43782 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43782 Sun, 05 May 2013 15:02:51 -0400 "Think what you want. This is wrong. This was in Kodiak Alaska at 4:30 on April 29th. This is to spread awareness. This happens everywhere and people are directed into thinking that these men were just doing their job. They weren't. She asked h... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43781 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43781 Sun, 05 May 2013 15:02:49 -0400 Stefan Molyneux talks to Jeffrey Tucker about his recent Lymphoma diagnosis, chemotherapy treatments, the drive to hide, shame, support, friendship, half of a doughnut, and the experience of telling the world that you have cancer. Donat... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43780 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43780 Sun, 05 May 2013 15:02:44 -0400 The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingl... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43779 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43779 Sun, 05 May 2013 15:01:40 -0400 In 2011, Westpoint Graduate and Iraq Veteran Antonio Buehler was arrested for taking pictures of two cops abusing a woman they had pulled over in Austin, TX. He was accused of spitting in one of the cop's face and charged with a felony. Luckily for... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43776 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43776 Sun, 05 May 2013 15:01:30 -0400 "What would an enemy want to do to the people of Hawaii during war time?" asks Ken Schoolland, professor of economics at Hawaii Pacific University and scholar at the Grassroot Institute. "They would want to cut us off from international shipping. W... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43773 http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=43773