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Miami Police Return $20K in Glittery Cash Illegally Seized from Stripper
Post Date: 2018-07-08 10:37:18 by Deckard
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The Miami-Dade Police Department must return nearly $20,000 in cash to a woman after prosecutors admitted that officers illegally searched her car and seized several lawfully owned guns. The Miami Herald reports that the department will also pay $3,000 in legal fees to Lizmixell Batista, a dancer at the local Cheetah Gentleman's Club, and her husband, Ras Cates. The case is textbook example of how asset forfeiture laws and the drug war incentivize constitutional violations and bad police work. Batista and Cates were arrested following a traffic stop in May. Police allegedly smelled marijuana in their car, and a subsequent search turned up six guns, several large bottles of what cops ...
County disagrees with ACLU opinion on ICE agents in jails
Post Date: 2018-07-07 11:39:37 by Gatlin
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An ACLU attorney whose opinion on ICE agents operating within the county jail complex was shredded by a Pima County staff attorney has dismissed the counter opinion as “political” and non-binding. American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Billy Peard argued in a May 7 memo that the Pima County Board of Supervisors can legally bar U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from operating within the county jail. Peard’s memo stated that the county could be held liable for jail operations deemed as “tortious acts committed by its sheriff.” Under this tort — a wrongful act or infringement of a civil right — the board can control how the sheriff operates a ...
Real Coke and Car Tariffs
Post Date: 2018-07-06 22:56:14 by Deckard
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Real Coke – the most American of sodas – comes nowadays from Mexico. I mean of course the stuff made with sugar and put into glass bottles, the way Coke was once made and sold here – as opposed to the high fructose corn syrup sweetened sludge (in aluminum cans and plastic bottles) currently sold here. Interestingly, this is the case because of tariffs. On cane sugar, which costs artificially more here in the U.S. thanks to them – in order to punish the manufacture of “cheap” sugar outside the U.S. It is why American-made soda – not just Coke – is generally sweetened with HFC instead of cane sugar. Almost everything else, too. The soda ...
Mom Horrified After Cops Mistake Her Son’s Autism for Drug Use, Attack and Taser Him
Post Date: 2018-07-06 22:37:01 by Deckard
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Untrained police officers mistook an innocent teen’s autism as drug use and subsequently attacked and tasered him for it. Graham, TX — Officers with the Graham police department are currently under investigation by the Texas Rangers after they handcuffed a teen with autism and then tasered him outside of his home. Cops reportedly mistook his autism for drug use. According to police, the incident happened on June 26 when officers were responding to a call about a teenager throwing rocks at a fence. Michael Moore, 19, was the teenager and the fence was his own. When officers arrived, they did not recognize his behavior as a person with autism. Instead they “investigated” ...
'Warlords Will Take Over' and Other Lines Libertarians Are Tired of Hearing
Post Date: 2018-07-06 22:23:25 by Deckard
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Venezuela didn't try real socialism. Bitcoin is a tool for criminals. Without big government, warlords will take over. We traveled deep into the woods of New Hampshire to ask the libertarians at the 2018 Porcupine Freedom Festival, a.k.a. PorcFest, what lines they're most tired of hearing. Organized by the Free State Project, the annual festival is a week-long campout for libertarians, anarchists, and other self-identified fans of freedom. They gathered to attend workshops, purchase cannabis-infused coffee with cryptocurrency, and talk philosophy around a raging bonfire. There was plenty of ideological diversity, but the attendees seemed united by the reactions that their ...
What’s the Matter with Libertarianism?
Post Date: 2018-07-06 13:16:56 by Gatlin
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Its models of human nature and society are terminally deficient. Who can object to the libertarian principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, and the right to hold property - at least in the abstract? The problem is that the real world is never "abstract." All philosophies must ultimately confront reality, and the more radical versions of libertarianism (there are many, from extreme anarchism to limited government "minarchism") rely on terminally deficient models of human nature and society. Let's (very briefly) take a look at the problem. The libertarian model of individual psychology is grounded in the utilitarian, neo-classical economics model of ...
Inside the A.C.L.U.’s War on Trump
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:50:51 by Gatlin
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“We stepped up our involvement in Mecklenburg County after that,” Shakir told me, referring to the Democratic primary for county sheriff in Mecklenburg County, N.C., in which the incumbent, Irwin Carmichael, had signed an agreement to help ICE locate undocumented immigrants. The A.C.L.U. paid for a radio ad that aired in the weeks leading up to the primary. “Sheriff Carmichael works for Trump’s deportation force,” it said, “detaining people for deportation, tearing families apart.” Carmichael’s challengers, it went on to say, “pledge to stop working with Trump’s deportation force.” Carmichael, a strong favorite who had raised ...
Meet Hadrian, The Brick Laying Robot That Will Make Construction Workers Obsolete
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:44:02 by Deckard
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Across the US, cities are independently passing measures to implement a $15 minimum wage - or mandating higher wages with an eye toward one day achieving that goal. But low-wage workers who are celebrating their fatter paychecks should enjoy the feeling while it lasts...because the more expensive workers become, the faster employers will work to replace those human workers with robots who can do the same job for a fraction of the cost. Already, the first burger restaurant run entirely by a robot has opened in San Francisco. But progress in robotics hasn't been confined to the food service industry. Last year, we introduced SAM (Semi-Automated Mason), a bricklaying robot that can do the ...
I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over.
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:37:15 by no gnu taxes
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“Should I stay or should I go now?” That question, posed by the eminent political philosophers known as the Clash, is one that confronts any Republican with a glimmer of conscience. You used to belong to a conservative party with a white-nationalist fringe. Now it’s a white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe. If you’re part of that fringe, what should you do? Veteran strategist Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, is the latest Republican to say “no more.” Recently he issued an anguished Twitter post: “29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of the Republican Party which was founded ...
As Americans Celebrated “Freedom” on July 4, Here’s Proof We Are NOT Free
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:35:22 by Deckard
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Every year on July 4th, Americans celebrate their “freedom” by remembering that the United States of America began as an uprising, intent on ending the overburdens of taxation, tyranny, oppression, and the pilfering of our country’s natural resources. So what has changed since 1776? Absolutely nothing. In fact, it has gotten worse. Today in America, citizens regularly make payments to the Internal Revenue Service of the U.S. Federal Government because they are too poor to pay their taxes in one lump sum. Those payments also have interest and fees applied and keep such citizens, it seems, permanently indebted to a government which has no problem spending its revenue (taxes) on ...
The Debt Clock Keeps Spinning
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:20:39 by Deckard
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Federal debt now equals 78 percent of gross domestic product.In 1989, a New York businessman who was worried about chronic federal budget deficits erected the National Debt Clock in midtown Manhattan to keep a running tally of how much the U.S. government owes. The total had reached $2.7 trillion, and Seymour Durst wanted "to call attention to the soaring debt and each family's share of it." For a long time, it kept rising. In 1998, though, the clock abruptly stopped working. "The computer couldn't take it anymore," said Douglas Durst, who had succeeded his late father as head of the Durst Organization. "The numbers were too high." But eventually, ...
Judge: N.D. deputy's unreasonable search negates huge pot bust that snared St. Paul man
Post Date: 2018-07-06 07:12:40 by Deckard
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FARGO, N.D. — A North Dakota judge refused to consider as evidence nearly 500 pounds of marijuana seized during a vehicle stop because he said a county deputy did not have a good reason to be suspicious.Bee Thor of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and Nhia Lee of St. Paul, Minnesota, were both charged with possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia after the Jan. 21 bust on Interstate 94 near Jamestown. Authorities seized 476 pounds of pot as well as other items.The state argued that Stutsman County Deputy Matt Thom suspected the defendants of transporting illegal drugs because the vehicle was going 2 mph under the speed limit, the suspects were from St. Paul, the driver, Lee, was sitting too ...
Want to Defend Civil Liberties? Don’t Look to the ACLU.
Post Date: 2018-07-06 00:02:10 by Gatlin
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Wendy Kaminer is actively engaged in an unusual mission for a former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): warning the public that the ACLU has abandoned its commitment to defending free speech. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on June 20, Kaminer notes that a recent internal ACLU memo on “case-selection guidelines” explicitly says that the cases the organization takes up may be influenced by “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values.” As Kaminer notes, “factors like the potential effect of the speech on ‘marginalized communities’ and even ...
The ACLU's Membership Has Surged and It's Putting Its New Resources to Use
Post Date: 2018-07-05 19:02:34 by Gatlin
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has seen a spike in membership in the Trump era. ACLU membership grew from 400,000 to 1.84 million in the 15 months following President Donald Trump’s election, according to the New York Times. The group’s online donations used to run between $3 to $5 million annually, but in the year after Trump took office, it raised $120 million online. “Until Trump, most of our support came from people who have been with us since we challenged Nixon,” Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, told the Times. “Now we’re kind of cool. Cool’s not a word generally associated with us.” Since 1920, the ACLU has been a ...
Another Police Accountability Miracle: Five Officers, Zero Body Cam Footage, One Dead Body
Post Date: 2018-07-05 11:21:16 by Deckard
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from the back-the-blue...-into-a-corner dept We know body cameras haven't been the police accountability godsend some imagined they would be. (I admit I saw a far rosier future when they first started being put into service.) So far, the research jury's still out on the effectiveness of cameras in deterring misconduct and excessive force deployment. And, so far, they've been far more useful to prosecutors than plaintiffs in civil rights lawsuits. You can put a camera on a cop but you can't change the system that leads to abusive behavior and practices. Nothing's changing much for officers other than the attachment of a lightweight ride-along. Policies may require ...
I can hear the fireworks display from my house now
Post Date: 2018-07-04 21:26:24 by no gnu taxes
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It sounds great. It will probably last another 20 minutes. Then my wife will spend an hour getting out of the parking lot with our daughter. Meanwhile I am relaxing at home. Am I an asshole? Maybe.
Another Justice Like Gorsuch, Please
Post Date: 2018-07-04 16:35:45 by Gatlin
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Contrary to what his critics say, this "narrow-minded elitist" stands up for the little guy. We have to STOP the next Trump nominee!" says a pop-up solicitation on People for the American Way's website. Before you rush to "donate now," you might want to consider the organization's assessment of Trump's last Supreme Court nominee. "Far from being a fair-minded constitutionalist," PFAW says, Neil Gorsuch "has proven to be a narrow-minded elitist who consistently votes in favor of corporations and the powerful." The gap between that description and Gorsuch's actual performance on the Court speaks volumes about the blind ...
Facebook now banning users for criticizing gay indoctrination video targeting children as young as five years old
Post Date: 2018-07-04 08:39:36 by Deckard
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Natural News – by Ethan Huff Comments that contain anything even remotely critical of the cultural bulldozer known as the LGBT agenda are apparently no longer permitted on Facebook, which recently banned a former university professor for “hate speech” after he raised honest concerns about a controversial LGBT video for children that encourages pre-pubescents to become homosexuals and transgenders. Robert A.J. Gagnon, Ph.D., a former associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, had his Facebook account suspended for 24 hours simply for pointing out that the video in question has nothing to do with “sexual diversity,” as ...
Report Shows Legal Weed in Nevada Made Drivers SAFER as Crashes Dropped Significantly
Post Date: 2018-07-04 08:33:00 by Deckard
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Statistics show that traffic deaths decreased significantly in multiple states after cannabis was legalized for recreational use.According to a recent report from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, deaths from traffic accidents in Nevada have dropped by over 10 percent in the first year that marijuana was legalized in the state for recreational use. Prior to legalization in Nevada, between July 2016 and May 2017, 310 people died in traffic accidents, but in the year since legalization took effect, between July 2017 and May 2018, that number was reduced to just 277. Similar numbers have been seen in other states that have implemented legalization. A study published by the American ...
Civil War?
Post Date: 2018-07-04 08:23:56 by Deckard
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Police State in Slo-Mo
Post Date: 2018-07-03 11:35:26 by Deckard
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For many years, I’ve forecasted that the US will evolve into a police state; that it will begin slowly; then as more and more freedoms are removed, the creation of the police state will accelerate. We’re now seeing that acceleration, as more and more Americans are detained, questioned, and having their property confiscated than ever before. As an example, in 2016, some 20,000 travellers in and out of the US were stopped, often at random. Typically, their baggage was searched, their documents photocopied, access codes to their electronic devices demanded and their files copied. In most cases, no explanation was given, but they were advised that if the search was refused, they would ...
Cops Shoot, Kill ‘Good Samaritan’ Father and Veteran for Trying To Break Up Fight
Post Date: 2018-07-03 09:04:00 by Deckard
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Portland, OR – A community is outraged after a father and U.S. Navy veteran was shot and killed by police while witnesses claim he was trying to break up a fight, but when his handgun fell out of its holster and he reached to pick it up, police did not hesitate to open fire on him. Jason E. Washington, 45, will be remembered as a beloved father of three daughters who married his high school sweetheart, served in the Navy, and was working as a U.S. postal worker. He was also the only one who attempted to break up a fight that broke out on a street corner in downtown Portland while nearby police did nothing to help. Witness Keyaira Smith began filming the encounter, and she told Oregon ...
Check Whether You Can Buy Cheap No Down Payment Car Insurance Policy
Post Date: 2018-07-03 08:17:24 by nicolawest
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Car insurance companies with no down payment do exist but only some states allow insurers to provide car coverage without requirement of any deposit or down payment. Currently, only some states have this service in place. Car insurance companies with no down payment do exist but only some states allow insurers to provide car coverage without requirement of any deposit or down payment. Currently, the below mentioned states have this service in place. 1. Arizona 2. Georgia 3. Florida 4. New York 5. Oklahoma 6. Washington State Hence, if you are resident of any one of the above states, you will have the opportunity to get your car insured without paying any money upfront. But for identifying ...
Trump's Case for Tariffs Is Unraveling
Post Date: 2018-07-03 07:13:40 by Deckard
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Automakers, motorcycle manufacturers, the stock market, and even the White House's own analyses are telling Trump to change course.It's been an enlightening economic experiment, but the Trump administration's plan to use tariffs to reshape global trade is now unraveling before our eyes. Each day seems to bring fresh evidence of exactly how wrong the president was to declare trade wars "good and easy to win." Unfortunately, each day also brings evidence that the White House is determined to stay the course, consequences be damned. The big news Friday was that several major automobile manufacturers told the administration that planned tariffs on imported cars and car ...
GOP mega-donor will stop hush-money payments to mistress
Post Date: 2018-07-02 19:42:10 by Jameson
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he Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Broidy, a venture capitalist who stepped down from his post at the Republican National Committee (RNC) in April, agreed to pay former Playboy model Shera Bechard $1.6 million. Broidy will reportedly stop making payments to an ex-mistress who signed a hush-money agreement that was orchestrated by Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer. Avenatti said that he would neither confirm nor deny "what information I have about this, whether it’s all been disclosed yet, or where I learned it. But I would encourage Ms. Bechard to disclose everything she knows about this situation to the public.” Click for Full ...
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