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Distracted Driver Cameras To Spread Across North America
Post Date: 2019-08-30 06:36:27 by Deckard
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MassPrivateI Imagine driving down a highway in North America or a city street and wondering if anywhere is safe from Big Brother’s prying eyes. That might soon become a reality if we allow politicians and officials to install distracted driving cameras along every highway and street. An article in iPhone in Canada revealed that an Australian company called Acusensus wants to do just that by expanding Big Brother’s prying eyes to identify distracted drivers in North America. “Acusensus, an Australian company that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to spot distracted drivers, made a pitch at the 2019 International Conference on Urban Traffic ...
A DEA Agent Got a Drug Dealer to Buy a Truck So the Agent Could Seize it Through Asset Forfeiture
Post Date: 2019-08-30 06:10:15 by Deckard
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Former DEA special agent Chad Scott has been convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and falsifying government records. (Yuko Saito-Miller/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent was convicted Tuesday of lying and falsifying records to hide a long-running scheme to skim money and other property during drug busts. In one scheme, he convinced a confidential informant buy a truck so the agent could seize it through asset forfeiture.A New Orleans jury found former DEA special agent Chad Scott guilty of seven counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and falsifying government records. The U.S. government's indictment alleged that from at least 2009 to 20 ...
Straight Pride Parade a 'perversion': Boston plans draws outrage
Post Date: 2019-08-29 11:15:09 by Deckard
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BOSTON — Emerson College President Lee Pelton on Wednesday condemned the Straight Pride Parade set to take place here Saturday as a "perversion" led by "angry and misguided people" in a sharply worded email to students and faculty.The private school's downtown campus borders much of the route where conservative organizers, who form the group Super Happy Fun America, plan to hold the much-debated parade, which begins at noon at Copley Square and ends at City Hall. Parade organizers have embraced the motto, "It's great to be straight." On Facebook they're calling on supporters to ...
California Police Officers Are Handing Out Free Doorbell Cameras In Exchange For Testimony In Court
Post Date: 2019-08-29 09:47:46 by Deckard
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from the underbidding-Crime-Stoppers-and-raising-propriety-questions-in-court deptWed, Aug 21st 2019 11:55am — Tim Cushing Snitches no longer get stitches. In the year of our lord two-thousand-nineteen, snitches get street surveillance gear from Amazon. Amazon's Ring doorbell -- which sports a handy camera to catch all those package thieves -- has swallowed up more than 200 police departments with its charm offensive. Cops get doorbell cams at a discount and hand them out for free to locals with the assumption residents will repay the favor by granting officers warrant-free access to footage any time they ask. To decrease friction, Ring -- which has final edit approval on ...
Woman Complains About Trooper's Behavior, Ends Up Getting A Whole Bunch Of Cops Fired For Timecard Fraud
Post Date: 2019-08-29 09:42:35 by Deckard
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from the start-small,-think-big deptMon, Aug 26th 2019 3:32pm — Tim Cushing It's not often a citizen's complaint results in a fired officer. Even more rarely does it result in a criminal investigation and prosecution. But a woman known only as "Debbie" hit the accountability jackpot, as Matt Rocheleau reports for the Boston Globe. And it all started with nothing more than a state trooper being an asshole. The woman was driving through the Ted Williams Tunnel on her way to Logan Airport on a weeknight three years ago when a Massachusetts State Police trooper popped out of nowhere in front of her car, arms flailing, gesturing to pull over. “Do you not speak ...
Insurance Companies Are Destroying People's Lives And Cops Are Being Paid To Help Do It
Post Date: 2019-08-29 09:15:26 by Deckard
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from the all-hail-your-corporate-law-enforcement-overlords deptFri, Aug 23rd 2019 11:04am — Tim Cushing Insurance claims result in investigations. This much is a given. Sometimes it involves both insurance companies and law enforcement agencies, depending on what's being investigated. But in many cases, insurance companies are doing the investigative work for law enforcement agencies and pushing prosecutors towards bringing fraud charges against claimants just trying to be compensated for valuables damaged or lost. The combined power of these two forces is enough to obliterate lives and livelihoods. Kendall Taggart's report for Buzzfeed is a long, horrifying read. It details ...
I Never Smoked Marijuana — But I’m Serving Life In Prison Over A Marijuana Charge
Post Date: 2019-08-29 08:54:45 by Deckard
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“I sentence you to a term of natural life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole.” These were the words I heard just months after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. You see, at that time, the news was filled with theories that drug dealers finance terrorists, and I had just been convicted of my first felony: conspiring to distribute marijuana. This was the newest foray into the “War on Drugs.”The government never claimed that I bought, sold, or even used marijuana, but rather my business repaired semi-trucks for a company that trafficked marijuana. I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong, as I didn’t do anything with marijuana. I was wrong, ...
FBI Crime Lab Analyzing Two Broken Cameras From Outside Epstein Cell
Post Date: 2019-08-29 08:08:04 by Deckard
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An FBI crime lab is examining two cameras from the area outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell which reportedly malfunctioned the night he died, according to Reuters, citing a law enforcement source. The two cameras would have had a view into the Manhattan jail cell where, on August 10, Epstein was found hanging by his bedsheet in what has been ruled a suicide. The cameras were sent to Quantico, Virginia, site of a major FBI crime lab where agents and forensic scientists analyze evidence. The Washington Post reported on Monday that at least one camera in the hallway outside Epstein’s cell had footage that was unusable. The newspaper said there was other ...
Why Socialism, and Why Now?
Post Date: 2019-08-29 07:42:05 by IbJensen
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"Socialist! is no longer a McCarthyite slur. Rather, the fresh celebrity "Squad" of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen -- Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) -- often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas. A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called millennials would like to live in a socialist country. Five years ago, septuagenarian Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) was considered an irrelevant lone socialist in the U.S. Senate -- Vermont's trademark contribution to cranky quirkiness. But in 2016, Sanders' improbable Democratic primary run almost knocked ...
Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship
Post Date: 2019-08-29 07:05:03 by Deckard
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Kids participating in Utah's Children’s Entrepreneur Market are being ordered by government officials to pay sales tax on their small businesses. But one activist says children are exempt from such taxes. Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market—an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute—dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby. Lucie’s experience as a spectator at prior markets had given her time to think long and hard about what kind of ...
Dorian Slams Virgin Islands; Likely to Approach Florida as a Major Hurricane
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:36:08 by IbJensen
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Hurricane Dorian was pulling away from the Caribbean on Wednesday evening, embarking on a four- to five-day journey that will take it across near-ideal territory for strengthening. By this weekend, Dorian is likely to be a major hurricane threatening Florida’s Atlantic coast, and it may plow onward into the Gulf of Mexico next week. Dorian muscled its way to hurricane strength on Wednesday with a burst of thunderstorms (convection) wrapping around a newly formed eye. Originally expected to move somewhere between the eastern Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, Dorian ended up tracking well to the east, in part because its center reformed 60 miles to the north beneath intense convection ...
Opinion and Fair Comment Privileges
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:33:31 by Gatlin
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The right to speak guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution includes the right to voice opinions, criticize others, and comment on matters of public interest. It also protects the use of hyperbole and extreme statements when it is clear these are rhetorical ploys. Accordingly, you can safely state your opinion that others are inept, stupid, jerks, failures, etc. even though these statements might hurt the subject's feelings or diminish their reputations. Such terms represent what is called "pure opinions" because they can't be proven true or false. As a result, they cannot form the basis for a defamation claim. This is not to say that every statement ...
‘Last Blood’ Should be Last Straw for Gun Owners and Stallone Movies
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:23:25 by Deckard
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U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Sylvester Stallone gets back to his roots with explosive new trailer for ‘Rambo: Last Blood’,” Agence France-Presse reports on the fifth installment in the series, scheduled for a September release. “Still in top shape at 73, Stallone’s muscles are put to good use to save the life of his friend’s daughter, who’s been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel.” It won’t just be his muscles put to use, but plenty of weapons, including guns. How he’ll keep and bear them in Mexico without violating almost as many gun laws as ATF’s Phoenix Field Division is left unstated in what looks to be a ...
New Hampshire woman fights state for ‘PB4WEGO’ vanity plate
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:13:16 by Deckard
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New York Post – by Yaron Steinbuch A New Hampshire woman is pissed off with the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which told her to surrender her vanity license plate because of a common parental phrase – PB4WEGO. Wendy Auger received a letter from the DMV informing her to turn in the plate, which she has had for 15 years, because phrases involving bodily functions are forbidden, according to seacoastline.com. The bartender from the Gonic neighborhood of Rochester, NH, is fighting the bladder-related ban on the phrase – “Pee before we go” – because she believes it’s a free speech matter. “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who ...
The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:07:42 by Deckard
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"The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,’ make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.”— Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History This is how freedom dies. This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into believing they are free so that they will march in lockstep with the state and ...
A Nonemergency of His Own Making
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:01:08 by Deckard
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Late last week, President Donald Trump issued a tweet in which he purported to order American businesses to cease doing work with their employees and contract partners in China. He claimed he was exercising presidential powers pursuant to what he contended was the national emergency surrounding the trading relationship between the United States and China. Since he did not declare a national emergency, he did not notify Congress and give it the opportunity to ratify or reject his executive orders. In fact, he didn’t even sign any executive orders on this. He merely ordered American businesses in a tweet to cease all commercial activities with anyone in China. It appears that no American ...
The False Premises of the Ruling Against Johnson & Johnson
Post Date: 2019-08-29 05:40:52 by Deckard
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Blaming opioid makers for the "opioid crisis" may be emotionally satisfying, but the reality is more complicated. (K-State/Flickr) This week an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to "abate" a "public nuisance" the company created in that state by minimizing the hazards and overselling the benefits of prescription opioids. A few months ago, a North Dakota judge rejected a very similar claim against Purdue Pharma under a nearly identical "public nuisance" statute.The difference between those two decisions partly reflects the difference between broad and narrow understandings of "public nuisance." But the ...
Free RepublicÂ… * belly up * --- Under the pope
Post Date: 2019-08-29 02:09:50 by BorisY
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Free Republic Under the pope Posted by RevelationDavid I’m sure this post won’t stay up long But as a born-again evangelical I no longer feel comfortable on this site. It has become openly and aggressively pro Catholic. Catholicism is heresy. Thank you Jim for putting so much effort into this clearinghouse of ideas But the bombardment of papers nonsense can a longer be tolerated by me. God bless all who proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord. God bless America TOPICS: Chit/Chat KEYWORDS: catholic; catholics; catholicspaythebills; freerepublic; hailmaryfullof To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends; I’m sure this post won’t stay up long But as a born-again evangelical I no ...
Panic At The DNC: General Feeling Is That Trump Is Just Killing Them On All Fronts
Post Date: 2019-08-28 23:24:38 by Tooconservative
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President Trump calls them suppression polls, the endless surveys the liberal media puts out there showing how the support for this administration is in the toilet. It’s meant to demoralize his base. It didn’t work in 2016 and it won’t work in 2020. The polls were wrong. Right now, 2020 general election polling is trash. It’s worthless. It’s way too early. Everyone knows that—and even some Democrats would admit that they’re not going to win by a nine-point of double-digit margin next year. If anything, the media just reminds Trump voters that they need to vote next year. In the meantime, the Democratic Party has a three-way race at the top for the 2020 ...
PA Gov. Tom Wolf “horrified” that Rep (R) prayed to Jesus before Rep (D) was sworn in on Quran at Statehouse in Harrisburg
Post Date: 2019-08-28 22:20:41 by A K A Stone
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Pennsylvania state Dems slam Republican’s prayer as ‘offensive,’ bigoted By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News Pennsylvania state Democrats branded as “offensive” a Republican’s decision Monday to open a voting session with a prayer and a thank-you to President Trump for supporting Israel, with some Dems claiming to be “horrified” by the remarks and accusing the female lawmaker of Islamophobia. State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican and associate pastor’s wife who was elected to the state House in November, was accused of bigotry after she invoked the name of Jesus just before the Legislature swore in its first Muslim woman on the Quran at the ...
PA Gov. Tom Wolf converts to Islam
Post Date: 2019-08-28 22:17:23 by A K A Stone
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Governor Wolf’s official Islamic conversation has not yet been made public, other than these photographs circulating on social media. It has become evident through the photographs that Wolf has in fact already converted. According to Islam it is not permissible for a non-Muslim to pray either in the ranks or on his own. It is required that one converts to Islam before he prays, then to purify himself [by doing ghusl], and then fulfil the conditions of prayer. He is included in the obligation of prayer, and he is to be punished if he does not become Muslim and pray, but it will not be accepted from him unless he enters Islam.
The Bull
Post Date: 2019-08-28 19:19:11 by redleghunter
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Turkey looking to buy Russian stealth fighters
Post Date: 2019-08-28 18:19:25 by Tooconservative
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After we canceled the sale of our F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasted no time making good on his threat to take his business to the Russians. Since the bone of contention leading to this decision was Turkey’s move to buy the S-400 missile system from the Russians, I suppose this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Now that potential deal seems to be taking shape as Erdogan is viewing demonstrations of the Russian Su-57 fighter at an air show taking place near Moscow. (Time) President Vladimir Putin showed off Russia’s latest stealth warplane to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who’s been barred from buying a new U.S. fighter jet ...
A political ... hit-job --- beyond words.
Post Date: 2019-08-28 16:01:20 by BorisY
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‘Attorney General William Barr is about to break open the biggest spying scandal in American history’… Posted by Kane August 13, 2019 Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne on Fox Business this morning – Timestamped to begin Warning Shot to Deep State — Bill Barr is About to Break Biggest Scandal in American History “I ended up in the center of the Russian and the Clinton investigations. I have all the answers. I have been sitting on them waiting for America to get there. Last summer I figured out… what they all are is all about political espionage. It had nothing to do with law enforcement, it was all political espionage. Here’s the bottom line. ...
The Beast
Post Date: 2019-08-28 14:45:19 by redleghunter
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