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Before Trump became President, “open borders” Democrats like Chuck Schumer called for stronger border security
Post Date: 2019-01-05 17:51:27 by Deckard
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Democrats are so opposed to President Donald Trump’s push to build a border wall along most of the U.S.-Mexico border they are willing to deny his funding requests and allow the government to be shut down. But it wasn’t always like this. In fact, once upon a time when nearly all Washington politicians could agree on the benefits of border security, Democrats were on board supporting tough new barriers as a way of reducing illegal immigration and drug smuggling. And Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-.NY., was among them. In fact, as The Daily Wire notes, in 2009 Schumer said that building hundreds of miles of fencing along the border with Mexico made the U.S. “far more ...
Hero Cop Bullied, Intimidated, Forced to Move for Trying to Save Suicidal Man, Instead of Killing Him
Post Date: 2019-01-05 06:30:27 by Deckard
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Weirton, WV — As TFTP reported last year, former Weirton police officer Stephen Mader sued the city after he was fired for not killing a suicidal man who needed help. Mader received $175,000 in a settlement as a result of his unnecessary firing. But the successful settlement was the beginning of a dark road for this hero cop who was unafraid to show restraint. “My hope is that no other person on either end of a police call has to go through this again,” said Mader at the time. Sadly, however, this former Marine has since been forced to move because the intimidation and bullying has gotten so bad. West Virginia attorney and ACLU representative Timothy P. O’Brien helped ...
Rookie Cop Kills Dad as He Fixed His Daughter’s Truck While Open Carrying
Post Date: 2019-01-05 06:22:04 by Deckard
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Montgomery County, IN — A family is grieving and asking for answers after they say an Indiana state trooper shot and killed their beloved father as he worked on his daughter’s car that was broken down on the side of the highway. Now, authorities have identified the officer who shot the open carrying father, Glenn Rightsell, last Friday as rookie State Trooper Daniel Organ. Police claim that Rightsell “reached for a gun” when the trooper approached him. However, his family says that is impossible and if went for his gun in any manner it was to disarm himself for the trooper. Rightsell was known by his family and friends to open carry everywhere he went. They dispute the ...
Reporter Quits NBC Citing Network’s Support For Endless War
Post Date: 2019-01-04 09:48:51 by Deckard
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A journalist with NBC has resigned from the network with a statement which highlights the immense resistance that ostensibly liberal mass media outlets have to antiwar narratives, skepticism of US military agendas, and any movement in the opposite direction of endless military expansionism.“January 4 is my last day at NBC News and I’d like to say goodbye to my friends, hopefully not for good,” begins an email titled ‘My goodbye letter to NBC’ sent to various contacts by William M Arkin, an award-winning journalist who has been associated with the network for 30 years.“This isn’t the first time I’ve left NBC, but this time the parting is more ...
Daryl Dragon, Captain and Tennille’s Captain, Dead at 76
Post Date: 2019-01-04 06:47:57 by Deckard
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Rolling Stone – by Kory Grow Daryl Dragon, the keyboard-playing “Captain” of Seventies hitmakers Captain and Tennille, died at a hospice in Prescott, Arizona on Wednesday. Associated Press reports the cause of death as renal failure. He was 76. As Captain and Tennille, Dragon and his then-wife Toni Tennille scored a string of catchy, easy-rolling hits in the mid-Seventies, including the Grammy-winning, Number One hit “Love Will Keep Us Together,” “The Way I Want to Touch You,” “Lonely Night (Angel Face)” and “Muskrat Love.” Dragon was known for wearing a captain’s hat and playing multilevel keyboards, as Tennille ...
Disabled Veteran Ripped from Wheelchair, Pepper Sprayed for Questioning Walmart ID Policy
Post Date: 2019-01-03 10:39:06 by Deckard
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Muskogee, OK — An infuriating video was uploaded to social media this week showing multiple police officers attack a disabled veteran in a Walmart. The veteran was pulled from his wheelchair, thrown to the floor and pepper sprayed after asking for the store’s policy on showing identification to purchase alcohol. The victim, 36-year-old Jason Williams was attempting to purchase champagne for New Year’s Eve at the Muskogee Walmart when employees asked to see his identification as well as the identification of his family members who were with him. Because his family members were not purchasing anything at all, Williams asked to see the policy that required family members to ...
How War Propaganda in the Film Industry Really Works
Post Date: 2019-01-03 09:57:37 by Deckard
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As the co-authors of National Security Cinema, we have become known — rather inaccurately — for encouraging two major ideas: 1. That the government is really important in making movies more militaristic. 2. That Hollywood doesn’t produce dissenting films. While the first of these is somewhat true it is a simplification, the second is a falsehood. The government is involved in as wide a range of entertainment projects as you can imagine, from video games to chat shows to blockbusters to docudramas. While many of these were militaristic from conception, before the government got involved, there is no doubt the Department of Defense (a.k.a. the Pentagon) has ...
Texas police made more than $50 million in 2017 from seizing people’s property. Not everyone was guilty of a crime.
Post Date: 2019-01-03 09:44:25 by Deckard
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Source: Texas Tribune Ben Hasson/The Texas Tribune This story is part of a collaborative reporting initiative supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. All stories can be found here: https://taken.pulitzercenter.org/In February 2016, prosecutors in Houston filed a lawsuit against a truck: State of Texas vs. One 2003 Chevrolet Silverado.Houston police had seized the vehicle after surveilling its driver, Macario Hernandez, and pulling him over after he left his house. They took the truck to court, hoping to keep it or sell it at auction to fund their operations, claiming the vehicle was known to be involved in the drug trade.But the truck’s owner, Oralia Rodriguez, ...
D.C. Police Bragged About Busting an 'Illegal Narcotics Pop-Up Operation.' Or As You Might Call It, Some People Selling Weed.
Post Date: 2019-01-03 06:15:27 by Deckard
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"Must've taken some real investigative prowess to pull this off."The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is "#HeretoHelp" by busting an "illegal narcotics pop-up operation." Sounds ominous, until you realize it just means they kept some weed off the streets of D.C., where pot is legal for recreational use anyway. The story starts with a December 18 post from the department's Twitter page. I missed it at the time, or else I would have included it in my roundup of the worst overreactions to weed in 2018. As you can see from their photos of what they confiscated, their big haul consisted of various marijuana-related items, including bags of weed, edibles ...
It’s war: Rand Paul hits ‘Big Government’ Romney, Trump an ‘actual conservative’....
Post Date: 2019-01-02 11:34:22 by A K A Stone
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Washington is already taking sides in the battle between President Trump and incoming Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, with Trump ally Sen. Rand Paul slamming the 2012 GOP presidential nominee. Paul tweeted that Romney is a “Big Government Republican” and faux conservative. In reacting to Romney’s attack in the Washington Post on Trump, Paul also made clear that he does not think Romney, who is still to be sworn in as a new senator, has any affinity for former President Reagan. Paul tweeted this morning, “Like other Big Government Republicans who never liked Reagan, Mitt Romney wants to signal how virtuous he is in comparison to the President. Well, I’m most concerned and ...
New Documents Suggest The Steele Dossier Was A Deliberate Setup For Trump
Post Date: 2019-01-02 11:23:22 by A K A Stone
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A trove of recently released documents sheds further light on the scope and logistics of the information operation designed to sabotage an American election. Players include the press, political operatives from both parties, and law enforcement and intelligence officials. Their instrument was the Steele dossier, first introduced to the American public two years ago. A collection of reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, the dossier is now engraved in contemporary U.S. history. First marketed as bedrock evidence that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, the dossier’s legitimacy took a hit after reports showed the Hillary Clinton campaign paid ...
US Military Apologizes For Posting Uncomfortably Honest Tweet
Post Date: 2019-01-02 05:34:22 by Deckard
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US Strategic Command (or “Stratcom” if you’re trying to make a nuclear-capable arm of the US Defense Department sound cool) has issued an apology for a poorly received New Year’s Eve tweet which has since been deleted.“#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball…if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger,” the offending tweet read, with an attached video featuring B-2 stealth bombers flying all stealth bombery and causing gigantic explosions with bunker buster bombs while words like “STEALTH”, “READY”, and “LETHAL” flashed across the screen. The tweet concluded with the ...
Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted
Post Date: 2019-01-02 05:24:00 by Deckard
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Donald Trump’s lawyer said on Monday that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted and he compared WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers.By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium NewsRudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, said Monday that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange had not done “anything wrong” and should not go to jail for disseminating stolen information just as major media does.“Let’s take the Pentagon Papers,” Giuliani told Fox News. “The Pentagon Papers were stolen property, weren’t they? It was in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Nobody went to jail at The New York Times and The ...
Marine shot and killed on duty at Marine Barracks in Washington, DC
Post Date: 2019-01-01 20:23:06 by Hondo68
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(CNN)A US Marine was shot and killed while on duty at the Marine Barracks in Washington, DC, early Tuesday morning, the Marine Corps said in a news release. The fatal injury was not self-inflicted, Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Jackson said. DC police responded to the incident. The circumstances of the shooting are unclear and the killing is under investigation, the release said. The Marine, whose identity has not been released, was shot at 5 am. The shooting was determined not to be a threat to local residents because it occurred on the grounds of Marine Barracks, the release said. CNN has reached out to DC police for comment.
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REPORT: DA Never Interviewed Cop Before Justifying Murder of Innocent Dad in Raid on Wrong Home
Post Date: 2019-01-01 13:05:01 by Deckard
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Wichita, KS – In December of 2017, police responded to a prank call, also known as a “swatting,” at the home of Andrew Finch. When the entirely innocent and unarmed father answered the door during the raid, Officer Justin Rapp was recorded on video killing him in cold blood. After the coverage died down in the press, and as TFTP accurately predicted in January, the Wichita District Attorney quietly announced that there will be no charges. Now, we are learning that this decision was made in spite of the fact that the DA reportedly never even interviewed Rapp. “It’s one year later and the leadership of Wichita and the WPD have failed to take any ...
County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle
Post Date: 2019-01-01 10:13:23 by Deckard
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from the someone-good-with-math-help-me-justify-this deptWhen all you have is a war hammer, everything looks like a war. That's how Wisconsin law enforcement viewed the task it was given: collection of an $80,000 civil judgment from a resident of Marathon County. What should have been a deputy or two approaching the resident and apprising him of his legal options, the Marathon County Sheriff's Department chose to handle it this way: When officials in the tiny Town of Stettin in Marathon County went to collect a civil judgment from 75-year-old Roger Hoeppner this month, they sent 24 armed officers.And an armored military vehicle.This decision made national news in 2014. In the wake ...
Man Owns Undercover Cop Trying to Bust Him for Weed, Sells Him Flowers Instead of Pot
Post Date: 2019-01-01 06:05:09 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist Troy, OH — It is a sad fact that in many states — in the land of the free — police still use taxpayer resources to hunt down, kidnap, and even kill people for attempting to sell a plant to willing customers that has never killed anyone, ever. Illustrating the insanity of the drug war, cops in Troy, Ohio, who appear to be addicted to waging a war on this plant, recently spent taxpayer dollars to bust a man they thought was selling weed, but who actually sold them flowers because he knew the cop was undercover. A video was uploaded to YouTube recently which was taken by a man who knew he was being set up. In the video, a ...
Meet NYC’s ‘Muslim Community Patrol,’ complete with its own squad cars
Post Date: 2018-12-31 18:50:54 by buckeroo
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There’s something different about those new police cars patrolling the streets of New York City. They look a lot like your standard NYPD cruisers. They are Ford Tauruses painted white with blue trim. They have the same departmental insignia, followed by the same familiar blue lettering. But there is still something amiss. If you study hard, you notice it: Instead of NYPD spelled out on the front doors, these cars have the letters MCP. And in place of the CPR acronym on the rear doors, standing for “Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect,” these cars again have MCP, this time fleshed out to read “Muslim Community Patrol.”
Muncie mom arrested after leaving kids home alone speaks out
Post Date: 2018-12-31 11:37:27 by Deckard
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MUNCIE, Ind. – Taylor Cumings' kids love the movie “Home Alone,” but when the 25-year old mother left her 4 and 7-year-old sons on their own while she went to work, police arrested her for neglect of a dependent. Friday, Cumings shared her side of the story with FOX59. She said one of her kids was sent home from school with a fever just a day prior. She had already missed a lot of time from her job working with at-risk youth. "They had a phone, they had a safety plan which they followed. They were safe. They ate, they were checked on. They weren't just here all day running around crazy," Cumings said. So when Cumings said she couldn't find someone to ...
FBI Reportedly Has Fake Green Cards Given to Undocumented Immigrants Working at Trump Golf Course
Post Date: 2018-12-31 10:15:53 by Deckard
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Supervisors at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, provided fake green cards and Social Security numbers to undocumented employees, according to a report in the Washington Post. Anibal Romero, a lawyer representing five immigrants who were undocumented while working at the Trump property, told the newspaper that he turned the fraudulent documents over to the FBI. “I’m confident that federal and state authorities will conduct a complete and thorough investigation,” Romero told the New York Daily News in an interview. Romero first contacted Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor investigating the president, but Mueller told him it was not within ...
17 Times People Freaked Out Over Weed in 2018
Post Date: 2018-12-31 05:35:22 by Deckard
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These people have no chill.All things considered, 2018 has been a pretty good year for weed in the United States. As Reason's Scott Shackford noted yesterday, Michigan and Vermont both legalized marijuana for recreational use, while Oklahoma, Utah, and Missouri all approved medical marijuana use. Plus, many places are working on expunging the criminal records of those convicted for marijuana-related crimes. And according to a Gallup poll from October, 66 percent of Americans support marijuana legalization. But it hasn't been all good, man. Around the country, there are policymakers and law enforcement officials who want to keep arresting cannabis users, growers, and sellers, and ...
Kasich Accused of Flipping Key Senator To Murder The 'Heartbeat' Anti-Abortion Bill
Post Date: 2018-12-28 19:33:10 by Hondo68
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>Outgoing “Republican” Ohio governor John Kasich stands accused of flipping a state senator who cast the decisive vote to uphold Kasich’s veto of the “Heartbeat” bill banning the aborting of unborn children with heartbeats in the state of Ohio. The Republican-controlled Ohio House rebuked Kasich by overriding the governor’s veto Thursday. But in the state senate, Kasich’s veto held on by one vote, much to the delight of Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates. The vote was 19-13, one vote shy of the 20-12 split that conservatives were aiming for. However, pro-life activists are still optimistic that they can get rid of Kasich’s veto in the ...
Handcuffed for Homeschooling? Paperwork Dispute Gets Ugly
Post Date: 2018-12-28 09:50:56 by Deckard
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A school system in Massachusetts is proving to be malicious, incompetent, or maybe both. Of course, we suspected that already. But the latest example comes from a lawsuit from a woman who pulled her 8-year-old son from Worcester Public Schools to homeschool him last January. Josilyn Goodall is suing the Worcester School Committee, Superintendent Maureen Binienda, and the state Department of Children and Families after police entered her home, handcuffed her, and arrested her over what amounted to a paperwork dispute. According to the lawsuit, Goodall is seeking unspecified compensatory damages for the violation of her Constitutional rights and for the “mental pain and suffering” ...
Mom Arrested, Jailed for Letting 7-Year-Old Watch His 4-Year-Old Brother at Home Alone
Post Date: 2018-12-28 06:26:04 by Deckard
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Ironically, the kids were watching the movie "Home Alone" when the cops showed up for no good reason.Last week in Muncie, Indiana, two boys—ages 7 and 4—were home alone watching, of all things, the beloved movie Home Alone, when their mom had to leave for work and couldn't find a babysitter. But unlike Kevin McAllister's mother in the film, this mom was thrown in jail. Her children were placed under the supervision of a relative, and she faces a neglect charge and a $10,000 bond. What, exactly, happened? The mom, Taylor Joann Cumings, had to go to work and struck out on a sitter, so she kept her older son out of school to watch her younger son, who was feeling ...
Trump Takes Steps To Prevent Catastrophic Forest Fires, Including More Logging
Post Date: 2018-12-27 05:36:53 by Deckard
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President Trump issued an executive order allowing agencies to do more to prevent massive wildfires.The order came one day after Trump signed GOP-backed wildfire legislation.Wildfires have burned more than 8.5 million acres this year.President Donald Trump moved forward with policies aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires while the media breathlessly covered the government funding battle. Trump issued an executive order Friday to allow for active management of forest and rangelands, including thinning and removing debris from millions of acres of federal lands. The order also calls on federal officials to streamline regulations and permitting processes to allow the harvest of at least ...
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