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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Police Dept Caught Giving Preference to Job Candidates who Said they Wouldn’t Arrest Fellow Cops
Post Date: 2015-07-16 13:27:58 by Deckard
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Methuen, MA — In what can only be described as a “see, I told you so” moment for those in the police accountability sector, a police department in Massachusetts has been caught in a perfidious hiring scheme. They were giving preference to job candidates who said they wouldn’t arrest fellow cops. In other words, the Methuen police department was only hiring cops who promised to be corrupt and cover for their fellow corrupt officers. According to the Boston Globe, A Civil Service Commission official wrote that he was dismayed to learn that the city gave higher points to applicants who said they wouldn’t arrest a family member or an officer they knew, while ...
Cops Illegally Break into Innocent Woman’s Home While She’s Naked, Assault and Arrest Her [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-16 05:51:34 by Deckard
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In March, Esmeralda Rossi was in the shower when two cops came to the door. “I was in the shower,” Rossi said. “My daughter came to the shower and said there are two officers at the door. So I just grabbed a towel.” Rossi had committed no crime, the police had no warrant, and they were only responding to a call about an argument between her and her estranged husband. However, these cops acted like they were raiding the home of a mass murderer. Upon answering the door, Rossi was met by two police officers as she stood there in a towel. Not wanted to be gawked at while naked by two strangers, Rossi turned around to go put on some clothes. “It made me very ...
Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z
Post Date: 2015-07-16 05:43:00 by Deckard
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Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded. All the while, the nation’s citizens seem content to buy into a carefully constructed, benevolent vision of life in America that bears little resemblance to the gritty, pain-etched reality that plagues those unfortunate enough to not belong to the rarefied elite. For those whose minds have been short-circuited into believing the candy-coated propaganda peddled by the politicians, here is an A-to-Z, back-to-the-basics primer of what life in the ...
Obama Scolds Reporter for Asking Tough Question: 'You Should Know Better'
Post Date: 2015-07-15 17:46:20 by Rufus T Firefly
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Barack Obama scolded a reporter at his Wednesday briefing after getting a critical question about the nuclear deal with Iran. CBS News's Major Garrett pressed the president on the imprisonment of Americans in Iran. "As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran—three held on trumped-up charges, according to your administration, one whereabouts unknown. Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content, with all the fanfare around this deal, to leave the conscience of this nation, this strength of this nation, unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?" Garrett asked. "I've gotta give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions," ...
Comedian Takes Out Full Page Ad In Local Paper After Being Ticketed For 'Parking The Wrong Way'
Post Date: 2015-07-14 21:15:27 by Deckard
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Comedian Eugene Mirman took out a full page ad in a local New Hampshire paper after he was ticketed by police in Portsmouth for "parking the wrong way." We covered a similar incident earlier this month where a cop told a woman there's "no excuse" for parking the wrong way, then proceeded to get the law wrong himself telling her it's "illegal" to film him, which is evidently perfectly excusable. If you can't see the image above, here's the full text: Dear Portsmouth, NH, and Especially the Parking Clerk’s Office, Last June I had a wonderful day walking around your historic downtown with my girlfriend. I bought two puppets, who turned out ...
Dem judge orders psych counseling for D’Souza
Post Date: 2015-07-14 13:27:44 by Rufus T Firefly
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NEW YORK – At a hearing Monday in Manhattan in which he ruled filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza must continue community service for four more years, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said he considers D’Souza’s violation of federal campaign-finance laws to be evidence of a psychological problem and ordered further counseling. D’Souza’s defense counsel Benjamin Brafman provided evidence to the court that the psychiatrist D’Souza was ordered to see found no indication of depression or reason for medication. In addition, the psychologist D’Souza subsequently consulted provided a written statement concluding there was no need to continue the consultation, ...
$2,446,920,000,000: Federal Taxes Set Record Through June; $16,451 Per U.S. Worker—Feds Still Run $313B Deficit
Post Date: 2015-07-14 11:20:27 by Deckard
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The federal government raked in a record of approximately $2,446,920,000,000 in tax revenues through the first nine months of fiscal 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014 through the end of June), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. That equaled approximately $16,451 for every person in the country who had either a full-time or part-time job in June. It is also up about $178,156,270,000 in constant 2015 dollars from the $2,268,763,730,000 in revenue (in inflation-adjusted 2015 dollars) that the Treasury raked in during the first nine months of fiscal 2014. Despite the record tax revenues of $2,446,920,000,000 in the first nine months of this fiscal year, the government spent ...
SWAT Team Raided Off-Grid Garden And Destroyed Legal Crops, Suit Says
Post Date: 2015-07-14 11:18:30 by Deckard
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A SWAT team kept members of an off-grid community in handcuffs for several hours while code enforcement officers confiscated and destroyed their organic crops, a new lawsuit alleges. The suit arises from an incident in which police with automatic weapons and armor raided the Garden of Eden, a commune and organic farm in Arlington, Texas (a Dallas suburb) on August 2, 2013, but never showed residents a warrant,Off The Grid News reported two years ago. The cops were looking for marijuana which they never found, and which residents said never existed. Residents filed suit this month in federal court, alleging their constitutional rights were violated. After the raid, police called in ...
Suit: Baltimore SWAT Planted Evidence, Shot Dogs During Raid
Post Date: 2015-07-13 14:28:33 by Deckard
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A Baltimore woman is alleging in a lawsuit that officers with a city police tactical unit shot her dogs and framed her boyfriend during a trumped up drug raid, all in order to help their informant friend get back at her for breaking up with him. Jennifer Catalano says a seven-man squad from Baltimore’s Violent Crimes Impact Division raided the home she shared with her boyfriend near Grindon Avenue on the night of June 13, 2012.According to the lawsuit, the raid was contrived by a confidential police informant with a criminal record with the help of his friends and handlers, Detectives Timothy Johnson and Edgardo Hernandez, in order to ruin the woman. Catalano claims she ended a ...
Another Court Loss for Obama’s Amnesty… Not That it Matters
Post Date: 2015-07-12 19:58:41 by cranky
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If the rule of law still meant anything in Obama’s America, the President’s agenda of amnesty for illegal aliens would be in big trouble. It doesn’t, so the Administration just keeps pumping out amnesty documents, no matter how often federal courts order them to stop. Team Obama even stooped to flat-out lying to a federal judge about the need for a temporary injunction to stop the amnesty printing press. Later they made a “surprise filing” to the judge disclosing that their previous statements were false, and – whoopsie! – they had already tossed 100,000 amnesty packages out. So the news from Politico that “President Barack Obama appears likely to ...
Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
Post Date: 2015-07-11 08:31:17 by CZ82
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Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill Critics of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership are unlikely to be silenced by an analysis of the flood of money it took to push the pact over its latest hurdle C Robert Gibson and Taylor Channing Wednesday 27 May 2015 08.30 EDT Last modified on Thursday 25 June 2015 07.18 EDT A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed. “We’re very much in the endgame,” US trade representative Michael ...
Donor Class Panicked: Priebus Pleas for Trump To Tone It Down on Immigration
Post Date: 2015-07-10 09:02:58 by cranky
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump Wednesday and pled with the real estate mogul – who’s soaring in the polls – to tone down his comments on immigration. But according to Trump’s campaign manager, Trump will not comply. Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said he was unaware of the exact contents of the phone call, but, “There’s no question in my mind that Mr. Trump’s fortitude on [immigration] will be unshaken, whether it’s a phone call from Reince Priebus or whether it’s [a business cutting its ties.]” Trump’s comments on illegal immigration have ...
Cop Shoots and Kills 'Attacking' Miniature Dachshund
Post Date: 2015-07-09 07:37:38 by Deckard
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'To Protect and to Serve...and to Overreact' If you're a police officer, Hollywood has blessed (or cursed) you with a rich history of role models, decades worth of fictionalized examples to follow on TV and in film. Today, Joe Friday is frowning beneath his fedora. Sonny Crockett just lowered his Ray-Bans to take a second, quizzical look. Even Detective Jimmy McNulty is appalled, and when he isn't inventing serial killers, he's drunk. All because a Virginia cop pulled his gun and killed an aggressive miniature Dachshund that was carrying a menacing 12 pounds on its stubby 11-year-old legs. The Danville (Va.) Police Department officer was walking back to his squad car ...
The New Totalitarians Are Here
Post Date: 2015-07-08 14:59:21 by CZ82
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The New Totalitarians Are Here Totalitarians want their rule, and their belief system, to be accepted and self-sustaining - even if it takes bludgeoning every last citizen who disagrees. By Tom Nichols July 6, 2015 There’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” People throw both of these words around, but as is so often the case, they’re using words they may not always understand. They have real meaning, however, and the difference between them is important. Simply put, authoritarians merely want obedience, while totalitarians, whose rule is rooted in an ideology, want obedience and ...
College Student Charged with Felony for Waiting to Pull Over in Well-Lit Area, He Committed No Crime
Post Date: 2015-07-07 08:30:27 by Deckard
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DaJuawn Wallace was on a late night drug store run to get medicine for his sick girlfriend when he was targeted for a traffic stop. Saginaw Valley State University Police Officer Leon Wilson had seen a car driving on the sidewalk on the SVSU campus earlier that night. Despite not knowing the make nor the model of the car, Wilson decided to pull over Wallace, citing that he “fit the description.” “I was uncertain about the make and the model of the vehicle, but this vehicle looked like the same color and was leaving the immediate area,” Wilson wrote. As Wilson turned on his lights to pull Wallace over, Wallace decided that it would be far safer to wait to pull over until ...
Kelly Thomas’ Last Words Before Police Beat Him To Death, Four Years Ago
Post Date: 2015-07-06 05:45:53 by Deckard
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It was four years ago today that Fullerton, California police sadistically beat a homeless man to death. In his final moments of life, before he lost consciousness, Kelly Thomas cried out for his father 31 times. At least 26 times he yelled “help me” and cried “I’m sorry” 15 times during the lethal beating. Thomas responded “OK” to police, to tell them he was complying, a full 29 times. He politely used words like “Sir” and “Please” when he spoke to the officers while they were beating him to death. In spite of the fact that this beating was captured on vide, the two former Fullerton California police officers walked free, found ...
Cop Kills Man with Patrol Car While Speeding & Looking at Laptop, Flexes Blue Privilege – No Charges
Post Date: 2015-07-03 13:42:25 by Deckard
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On December 21, Port Orange Police Officer Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car at 15 mph above the posted speed limit when he struck and killed a motorcyclist. Father of two and Navy Veteran, Andrew McIlvain, 39, was riding his motorcycle as Officer Portillo was looking down at his laptop on the way to a “non-priority” noise complaint. When Portillo looked up, it was too late, he was driving over this unsuspecting man. Two weeks later, McIlvain succumbed to his severe injuries, and he died on January 4. The police even had the audacity to attempt to justify this officer’s reckless driving by releasing a statement that McIlvain didn’t have his ...
Nearly 1 in 4 People Killed By Police Are Mentally Ill, More Are Just Distraught
Post Date: 2015-07-02 05:51:49 by Deckard
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By Amanda Warren Washington Post has decided to take details of officer-involved shootings and compile this year's data to detect patterns. One pattern that soon became clear: the significant amount of mentally unstable people who are shot on site. Last year, I wrote about one such instance in "Naked? Acting Weird? On-site Execution by Police." I only wanted to show that strange behavior does not warrant a threat or a reason to kill (especially when considering that there are still less-than-lethal methods available). It looks like Washington Post agrees for the most part, when it comes a volatile situation possibly made worse by volatile reactions.From the Washington Post ...
Disabled Vet Faces Life In Prison for Treating PTSD with Pot [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-01 19:49:14 by Deckard
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A marine corps veteran faces life in prison for cultivating marijuana plants while he lived in Oklahoma, plants which he relied on to treat severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Last year, police raided the home of 33-year-old Kristoffer Lewandowski, a military father of three who was honorably discharged for medical reasons after serving multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kristoffer’s wife Whitney reveals her husband, fearing liver damage from consuming a massive amount of pharmaceutical drugs, was successfully transitioning to marijuana as a preferred treatment. “He was just using it… He couldn’t get any, and, of course, we’re a military family, ...
Former Cop Admitted to Sexually Assaulting a Toddler But This Sicko Won’t Be Going to Prison
Post Date: 2015-07-01 13:45:22 by Deckard
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Houston, TX — In November of 2013, John Van Trump was accused of sexually assaulting a girl younger than six-years-old on or before July 2010. Since the girl was younger than six, his charge was considered a super crime. The super crime law came from a tragic case out of Florida which eventually became known as Jessica’s Law. Jessica’s law and the Texas law like it, are designed to protect potential victims and reduce a sexual offender’s ability to re-offend by punishing the perpetrators with steep sentences. Trump was facing a minimum sentence of 25 years in jail and the potential for life. “Unfortunately, we are going to see a lot more of ...
The national government gives no dignity, but plenty of preference, tyranny, and death
Post Date: 2015-07-01 10:45:35 by nativist nationalist
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If there ever was a week in our Union’s history demonstrating that the national government must always be suspected of being the enemy of Americans, their liberty, and their social cohesion, this past week surely was the one. Barack Obama and his party redoubled the national government’s marked preference for Black Americans, and not only by pretending that more Blacks are killed by racist Whites, than Whites by racist Blacks. As troubling, they also encouraged and then unleashed what can only be described as a lynch mob bent on destroying a historical symbol that means — and should mean — something important, tangible, and worth honoring to many more Americans than the ...
Nail Salon Owner Sues For Return Of Life Savings Seized By DEA Agents At Airport
Post Date: 2015-07-01 09:10:47 by Deckard
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from the law-abiding-citizens-don't-carry-cash dept Here's something you see all too rarely -- not because the government's civil asset forfeiture programs aren't routinely abused -- but because it's a good way to spend lots of money fighting a losing battle. Vu Do, owner of two nail salons in New York City, is trying to retrieve nearly $44,000 -- his life savings which he had put together over twenty years -- taken from him by the DEA at the JFK airport. The complaint points out that Do has run two legitimate businesses in NYC for several years, and not once has he been arrested or even charged for violations of controlled substances laws. Nevertheless, the DEA took ...
$200 Million Went to House Members to Pass Fast Track – Here’s Who Took the Cash
Post Date: 2015-06-27 19:27:08 by Deckard
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Many think our government is for sale. However, by taking a look at the facts below provided by Open Secrets, it is easy to understand where they are coming from. Looking back at Friday the 12th, the House voted on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the controversial bill that gives power to the executive branch to negotiate treaties. TPA limits Congress’ ability to better a trade deal by subjecting members of Congress to 90 days of reviewing the trade agreement, prohibiting any amendments on the implementing legislation, and giving them an up or down vote. TPA passed with a mere 219-211 vote with only 218 needed to pass. The real shocker comes from the amount of money each ...
Burning Man pushes back on upgraded amenities for officials
Post Date: 2015-06-27 16:21:20 by cranky
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U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials are asking Burning Man organizers to provide "excessive" comforts such as flushing toilets, washers and dryers, and vanity mirrors in a compound for high-level government officials staying in Black Rock City.A Burning Man spokesman estimated the compound would cost the event more than $1 million, bringing its 2015 permit fees to about $5 million. The renderings of the compound obtained by the RGJ also show various accommodations set aside for VIP visitors but don't indicate who the visiting dignitaries will be. The request, unprecedented in Burning Man's history, has turned into a point of contention as organizers negotiate with ...
The 3 Most Unbelievable ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Involving the U.S. Govt Ultimately Proven as Fact
Post Date: 2015-06-27 13:41:59 by Deckard
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If someone told you that the U.S. government plotted terror attacks against targets on U.S. soil, that CIA had infiltrated the entirety of Western media and was using the media as a propaganda tool or that after World War II the U.S. secretly brought over a thousand Nazi scientists to the U.S to work on top secret projects for the federal government, people would likely say they were a wild conspiracy theorist. On the surface these, “conspiracy theories” sound like insane movie plots produced by Hollywood, but sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction – and much more ominous. Welcome to 2015, where tinfoil has become reality. Let us guide you through 3 of the most ...
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