Brain Vander Lee is the latest victim of mindless violence by a violent cop. He was put in intensive care at a hospital in Minnesota after a Minneapolis SWAT team police officer sucker punched him in the face. Sgt. David Clifford (pictured left), a member of the Minneapolis SWAT team, attacked Vander Lee because he was talking too loud on his cell phone on the patio of a bar in Andover, Minnesota.
A cop "investigating" whether a woman was a victim of domestic abuse decided to abuse the woman himself, tasing her while she was handcuffed and hogtied in the back of his police car.
Richard Klementovich, the 42-year-old Clifton, New Jersey police officer who barricaded himself in the home of his ex-wife in nearby Doylestown and turned a quiet neighborhood into a free-fire zone, was apparently attempting to commit "suicide by cop." An admitted steroid user, Klementovich -- who was paid $114, ... (more)
I think there are really only two good reasons for having a significant amount of money: To maintain a high standard of living and to ensure your personal freedom. There are other, lesser reasons, of course, including: to prove you can do it, to compensate for failings in other things, to impress others, to leave a legacy, to help perpetuate your genes, or maybe because you just can't think of something better to do with your time.
But I'll put aside those lesser motives, wh... (more)
Roger Clemens was found not guilty of lying to the biggest pack of liars ever assembled -- Congress. God only knows the millions of dollars of taxpayer money that was wasted waging the drug war against this man.
When will Congress investigate steroid use among police? That will actually protect the public.
SOAP LAKE, Wash. - Six missing bags of marijuana plants, guns and ammo in evidence lockers without case numbers -- these are just a few of the problems highlighted in a report on the Soap Lake Police Department.
...Acting on complaints from citizens and other sources, Grant County Prosecutor D. Angus Lee initiated an investigation into the Soap Lake Police Depa
Under Utah state law, "object rape" consists of the involuntary "penetration, however slight, of the genital or anal opening of another person who is 14 years of age or older, by any foreign object, substance, instrument, or device…." This act constitutes a form of aggravated sexual assault for which the penalty is a prison term of no less than ten years, followed by lifetime enrollment in the sex offender registry.
As 22-year-old Utah resident Stephan Coo... (more)
This is not some Hollywood action movie – though the Pentagon runs both – but America 2012, only worse. If you are going to Tampa, take this video to heart. The killers will be in charge, and the are a bloodthirsty bunch. Give them no reason to target you with sound cannons, laser burning weapons, tasers, rubber bullets, or worse.
[4409 has some fun with domestic checkpoint police forces in Arizona.]
Don't forget to push the share button. My friend Renee makes another debut from our trip to California. This footage was shot with multiple cameras that had to be saved. Check out the new black 4409 Vader shirts at the 4409 store on the home page.
The mainstream and respected newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has published additional details to bolster its original groundbreaking (but ignored) story that the massacre in Houla was not carried out by Syrian government forces but by the rebels seeking to overthrow that government. ... (more)
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke continues to stand on a stack of Lord Keynes' General Theory and proclaim that the world needs low interest rates to fill the gap in aggregate demand and bring prosperity to our times.
"The reason to keep rates low isn't to accommodate congressional fiscal policy," Bernanke responded during a recent congressional hearing. Consumers benefit from cheaper mortgages and lower interest rates, which help to stimulate the economy, claims the Fed head.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) said Friday he backed a city council proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The council is set to vote later this month on an ordinance that would decriminalize the possession of up to 15 grams of pot.
Fifteen states, including Rhode Island, whose governor signed a decriminalization bill into law Tue... (more)
A revenue extraction agency in a tiny town in Utah which tourists are forced to travel through on their way to a local National Park has been accused of writing phony tickets to tourists and pocketing the cash.
Following some filings by Megaupload's lawyers in the US, the US Attorneys office has shot back, asking the court to deny all of the company's requests. And, it goes even further than that: seeking to deny Megaupload the ability to use the topnotch lawyers it hired. This part is not new. Back in April, it sought to block Megaupload from hiring Andrew Schapiro from Quinn Emanuel, argui... (more)
In November, voters in Colorado will decide whether to approve Amendment 64, a state-wide ballot initiative to end marijuana prohibition and regulate marijuana like alcohol. A new Rasmussen poll released Monday suggests the initiative could be well on the way to vict... (more)
Mark Dice tries to sell a 1 ounce solid gold coin for $25 outside of a coin shop in San Diego, CA. HINT- It's worth WAY more than $25, but does anyone want it?
Lew says accurately if you'd have listened to Rand during his first run you'd know he said specifically he wasn't a libertarian. He says there is only one Ron Paul, Rand is the best there is in the senate but he's not Ron Paul.
With minor defense budget cuts scheduled to kick in next year, the Pentagon is going into fear-mongering overdrive to prevent such a scenario from taking place.
According to a top U.S. General, slight reductions to the Pentagon's defense budget will pretty much lead to WW3.
(Please ignore the chart to the right, as acknowledging the U.S.'s insanely bloated military budget only gives aid to our enemies.)
Growing up in the Cold War, we tended to look at Russia as a nightmare slave society that was utterly and completely foreign to anything Americans knew or could possibly know absent some kind of invasion.
If I were to summarize the propaganda message of the time it would be this: We are free, they are not, and that's why we are rich and they are poor. And, man, did they look poor to our eyes. I could never understand it: How the heck does a once-great people put up with a governme... (more)
On Thursday, Eric Holder lied to Congress about DOJ's escalating attacks against medical marijuana:
Mr. Holder said federal officials are not going after those who are staying within the confines of their states' medical marijuana laws, but said some have "come up with ways in which they are taking advantage of these state laws."
"We limit our enforcement efforts to those individuals, organizations that are acting out of conformity with state law," Mr. Holder
Recently released documents detail the federal government's inability to pursue cybercriminals shrouded by the tricky anonymity tools used by the Silk Road marketplace and other darknet sites - tools which are funded in part by the federal government itself. In this particular case, a citizen reported stumbling upon a cache of child pornography while browsing the anonymous Tor network's hidden sites, which are viewable with specialized, but readily available, tools and the special .onion domain.... (more)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct surveillance without a warrant.
“I’m not against technology per se,” he explained on CNN. “What I am for are the constitutional processes that protect our civil liberties. So, you know, it’s not like I’m against the police using cars or against them using airplanes or helicopters or robots. But I am ... (more)
