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HuffPo Reporter Describes Ferguson Cops Treating Him "Like An Enemy Combatant
Post Date: 2014-08-13 23:39:06 by Lorie Meacham
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Huffington Post Reporter Ryan Reilly tells Chris Hayes the harrowing account of his arrest while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Post Date: 2014-08-13 23:26:05 by Lorie Meacham
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Ferguson: Militarized police use force against protesters, arrest journalists
Post Date: 2014-08-13 23:03:23 by Lorie Meacham
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Go to link for tweets and 3 live feeds
I am Mike Brown Live from Ferguson, MO
Post Date: 2014-08-13 22:36:22 by Lorie Meacham
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http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930/videos/59166942
Obama Says the "T" Word.
Post Date: 2014-08-13 21:41:05 by Lorie Meacham
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Former Marine Warns Of “Terrifying” Militarized Occupation Of American Cities
Post Date: 2014-08-13 16:58:27 by Lorie Meacham
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In an article for Business Insider, Szoldra questions why police in Ferguson are wearing combat gear such as desert camouflage which is normally reserved for troops fighting in foreign war zones. “We looked intimidating, but all of our vehicles and equipment had a clear purpose for combat against enemy forces. So why is this same gear being used on our city streets?” asks Szoldra, adding, “When did this become OK?” The former Marine notes how police in Ferguson are armed with military-style rifles with scopes as well as body armor. “Their uniform would be mistaken for a soldier’s if it weren’t for their “Police” patches,” writes ...
St Louis Police Bring Out Military Vehicles
Post Date: 2014-08-13 16:27:14 by Lorie Meacham
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Over the weekend St Louis Police shot and killed 17 year old Michael Brown who was unarmed in the city of Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis. People took to the streets and began rioting in protest. St Louis police are turning to their new military vehicles given to departments across America through the 1033 program. The Bearcat is a bullet proof medical vehicle used to get wounded soldiers off the battle field. This should come as no surprise as local police have been acquiring all sorts of military equipment. A Wisconsin Sheriff even purchased a tank instead of upgrading out of date guns. Do military vehicles escalate the situation? How do these keep citizens safe? The internet has ...
THE ISIS THREAT WILL BE USED FOR HOMELAND REPRESSION
Post Date: 2014-08-13 05:27:12 by Lorie Meacham
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Obama administration will exploit domestic peril to vilify political opposition With ISIS militants now threatening to attack the United States, the huge domestic anti-terror apparatus that has been built over the last decade will inevitably be used as a tool of homeland repression not to eliminate ISIS terrorists but to target politically active Americans who are adversarial to the Obama administration. As we have exhaustively documented, domestic law enforcement in the United States has become increasingly militarized in recent years, with police departments across the country purchasing MRAP armored vehicles that were first used to fight against insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. A ...
FAA Implements No Fly Zone in Ferguson Amid Unrest Over Killed Teen
Post Date: 2014-08-12 22:09:31 by Lorie Meacham
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Police say their helicopter was shot at multiple times Sunday Ferguson St. Louis Missouri Police Shooting Riots Protests MORE The Long, Tangled Roots of the Michael Brown Shooting Obama Calls Michael Brown Death ‘Heartbreaking’ The Federal Aviation Administration issued a no-fly zone over Ferguson, Missouri, Tuesday at the request of the St. Louis County Police Department. The St. Louis County Police Department told TIME it asked the FAA for the flight restriction after a police helicopter was fired upon “multiple times” during civil unrest Sunday. Ferguson, located just outside St. Louis, Missouri, erupted in street violence amid demonstrations sparked by the death of ...
4 Very Real Ways A Jury May Call You A “Gun Nut”. (I Bet At Least 2 Describe YOU!)
Post Date: 2014-08-11 17:21:28 by BTP Holdings
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Ok, maybe just a few funny ones to get you started… You might be a “gun nut” if… ◾You can’t remember how many firearms you own ◾You spent your honeymoon at a gun show ◾You call out the names of guns in action movies ◾Your gun safe costs more than your living room set But did you know that there are some not-so-funny things you may be doing right now that really could make you out to seem like a real-life “gun nut” if you were ever forced to defend yourself in court after a lethal shooting? See If Any Of These 4 “Gun Nut” Legal Traps Describe YOU… Are You A Gun Nut? 1. You reload your own ammo for practice I ...
Tony Abbott dumps controversial changes to 18C racial discrimination laws
Post Date: 2014-08-08 20:50:44 by Deasy
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Tony Abbott dumps controversial changes to 18C racial discrimination laws Heath Aston Published: August 5, 2014 - 7:43PM Michael Gordon: A welcomed 'leader's call'. Will there be more? The Abbott government has backed down on controversial plans to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it was a ‘‘leadership call’’ to bin the proposed changes to Section 18C of the act, which had been roundly criticised by ethnic community leaders and was unpopular with the wider public. "Leadership is about preserving national unity on the essentials and that is why I have taken this position," Mr Abbott said. Mr Abbott said it ...
The scourge of small-money politics
Post Date: 2014-08-07 09:07:25 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... The most corrupting force in politics, we are repeatedly told, is big money — super PACs, corporate lobbyists, rapacious oligarchs. And there’s plenty of evidence to support the claim. But let’s be clear: It wasn’t big money that drove Republican House members, before they left town last week, to approve the first-ever Congressional lawsuit against a sitting president, when they should have gotten serious about a pressing border crisis. And it wasn’t big money that had gleeful Democrats doing backflips in the streets at calls from the conservative fringe to impeach Barack Obama. What’s really fueling the hyperbole and dysfunction in Washington now ...
Undercover Cop Tricks Autistic Student into Selling Him Weed (Full Length)
Post Date: 2014-08-07 02:25:54 by Lorie Meacham
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THE GOVERNMENT IS BREAKING THE LAW BY FAILING TO PROSECUTE TORTURE
Post Date: 2014-08-05 08:29:53 by Ada
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Preface: This is not a partisan issue. As shown below, Democrats are complicit in high crimes as well. President Ronald Reagan signed a treaty legally requiring the U.S. to prosecute everyone who authorizes torture. Specifically, the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (signed by the U.S. under Ronald Reagan) provides: Article 2 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public ...
NYPD Raids Wrong Apartment, Pulls Naked Woman Out of her Shower
Post Date: 2014-08-04 21:11:06 by Lorie Meacham
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“Oxygen, get my oxygen,” the mother of four can be heard saying to the cops, as they dragged her naked body down the hallway. The Free Thought Project Matt Agorist August 3, 2014 Denise Stewart was just finishing up a shower when NYPD cops barged into her apartment. At 11:45 pm, she was yanked out of the shawer and pulled into the hallway, naked. The video shows a chaotic scene and an apparently excessive show of force by NYPD as over a dozen cops participated in the raid. Kirkland Stewart, Denise’s son, is brought into the hallway in handcuffs describing how a 4 year-old child had just been pepper sprayed. “Oxygen, get my oxygen,” the mother of four can be ...
Fixed Bayonettes Used: Lessons of "Little Rock Nine" Still Linger
Post Date: 2014-08-02 15:55:51 by Deasy
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What are the odds I would be lucky enough to see, firsthand, the same ugly sense of entitlement -- the same "get to the back of the bus" disrespect that left the struggle for equal rights an unfinished task even 100 years after the slaves were first set free - and to see all of this, no less, at an event organized to honor one of the icons of civil rights history? Most of us, at one time or another in our lives, have had a chance to meet "famous people," whether those people are from politics, entertainment or sports. Rare is the chance to meet a genuine hero up close and personal. Rarer still is the opportunity to meet a hero like Ernest Green who is an indelible ...
Obama Signs Executive Order to Detain Americans With ‘Respiratory Illnesses’
Post Date: 2014-08-01 15:51:50 by Lorie Meacham
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As the Ebola outbreak continues to cause concern, President Barack Obama has signed an amendment to an executive order that would allow him to mandate the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of “respiratory illness.” The executive order, titled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amends executive order 13295, passed by George W. Bush in April 2003, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.” The amendment signed by Obama replaces subsection (b) of the original Bush executive order which referred ...
Woman Sues After Becoming Unwitting Hostage In Unannounced Active Shooter Drill
Post Date: 2014-07-31 22:06:13 by Lorie Meacham
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A Colorado woman has filed suit against her former employer and the Carbondale Police Department after she says she was taken hostage during an unannounced active shooter drill. The training exercise, which occurred last October, allegedly resulted in Michelle Meeker being held at gunpoint by a police officer disguised as a mass shooter. Meeker says she was confronted by the officer while working at the Heritage Park Care Center, an assisted living facility for senior citizens, and forced towards a vacant room. Convinced the situation was real, Meeker says she refused to enter, prompting the officer to flash a firearm on his waist. That is when Meeker says she began begging for her life, ...
Shirtless Wade McCree May Be Heading To The Supreme Court
Post Date: 2014-07-29 06:44:00 by noone222
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Judge of the Millennium Wade McCree has a special place in our hearts here at Above the Law. The former Wayne County circuit judge had a penchant for disrobing for shirtless selfies and sex in his chambers, and was consequently disrobed by the Michigan Supreme Court. On Monday, the Sixth Circuit correctly (if you mean “applying the law as it currently exists,” and “incorrectly” if you mean “adopting the better policy”) held that Judge McCree is immune from a civil suit brought by a man McCree slapped with a tether and high child support payments. The man’s complaint is that while Judge McCree was coming down hard on him, Judge McCree was also coming down ...
Farage responds to Clegg: "I'm sick to death of this country getting involved in foreign wars"
Post Date: 2014-07-26 14:00:13 by Deasy
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Sick to death of foreign wars. List of corrupt officials including former communists and other assorted travelers. Who are you Rompuy? EU Nationalism: where you never take no for an answer. Poster Comment:This is what the Ukrainians crave?
Federal Judge to Camera-Shy Austin Cops: People Have a Right to Record You. Deal With It.
Post Date: 2014-07-26 01:50:36 by X-15
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As my colleagues and I frequently note, Americans have a well-established constitutional right to record police officers as they publicly perform their duties. Yet cops across the country continue to harass and arrest people for exercising that right, using bogus charges such as wiretapping, resisting arrest, and interfering with police. Yesterday yet another federal judge issued a clear message to those cops: Cut it out. The case was brought by Antonio Buehler, an Austin, Texas, activist who has had several run-ins with camera-shy cops. The first incident occurred on January 1, 2012, when Buehler pulled into a 7-11 in Austin to refuel his truck and observed a traffic stop during which ...
Massachusetts police chiefs rally for right to control long-gun permits (!!!!!!!)
Post Date: 2014-07-25 01:17:32 by X-15
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Police chiefs in Massachusetts are blasting state lawmakers for shooting down a provision that would have given them sole discretion over who can get hunting rifle or shotgun permits, regardless of criminal records. The Bay State, which has some of the nation's toughest gun laws, has long left it up to a community's top cop to sign off on handgun permits. Lawmakers were considering extending that to include the Firearms Identification Card, or FID, needed to possess long guns. But lawmakers, leery of the constitutionality of the law, which critics say can result in law-abiding citizens being denied their Second Amendment rights, have stripped a proposed bill of that provision. This ...
Confederalism
Post Date: 2014-07-24 10:09:50 by Deasy
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When our Constitution was ratified, there was no debate about the purpose of government. The words of the Declaration of Independence are clear: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men[.] The purpose of government was to secure liberty; the founders did not argue about that point. Rather, they argued about the best way to do that. Our first government was a confederation, and the mission of the men in Philadelphia was not to end that ...
The U.S. Supreme Court Is Marching In Lockstep With The Obama Police State
Post Date: 2014-07-18 14:22:00 by Itistoolate
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See if you can read this without weeping for America we’ve become “If the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can ‘seize’ and ‘search’ him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full debate by the people of this country.”—U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. DouglasThe U.S. Supreme Court was intended to be an institution established to intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. Yet as I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The ...
4 reasons a jury could call you a "gun-nut".
Post Date: 2014-07-17 17:57:30 by BTP Holdings
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4 Very Real Ways A Jury May Call You A “Gun Nut”. (I Bet At Least 2 Describe YOU!) Jeff Anderson Are You A Gun Nut? Ok, maybe just a few funny ones to get you started… You might be a “gun nut” if… ◾You can’t remember how many firearms you own ◾You spent your honeymoon at a gun show ◾You call out the names of guns in action movies ◾Your gun safe costs more than your living room set But did you know that there are some not-so-funny things you may be doing right now that really could make you out to seem like a real-life “gun nut” if you were ever forced to defend yourself in court after a lethal shooting? See If ...
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