‘Innocent’ US man freed 42 years after deadly hotel fire
A man who was locked up for more than 40 years for starting a deadly fire at an Arizona hotel has walked free from prison after years of doubt about his conviction.
Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?
Emily Bazelon Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not hear his Miranda rights before the FBI questions him Friday night. He will have to remember on his own that he has a right to a lawyer, and that anything he says can be used against him in court, because the government […]
The Bill of Rights was written for Dzhokar Tsarnaev
Thomas Mullen AMPA, April 20, 2013 – 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev is in custody. Assuming that Tsarnaev is indeed guilty of these crimes, a very real threat to public safety has been taken off the streets. That’s the good news. The bad news is that […]
“You’re a punk, and your breath smells of bacon!”
Hats off to this man! There may be hope for my island yet.
Goff Limits! Pantheon of the Persecuted, or the Patronised?
I’m feeling oppressed over at the Inferno today… _________________ As if membership amongst the officially oppressed wasn’t crowded enough, Greater Manchester police saw fit to induct goths, metalheads, and others of “alternative” persuasion into the Pantheon of the Persecuted last week.
NY officer accused of leading drug robbery crew pleads not guilty
CNN Alleged crooked NYPD officer Jose Tejada’s service weapon, which was allegedly used in a hold-up.
Man Facing Charges For Not Being Mauled By Bear
Political Outcast A 76-year-old Auburn, Massachusetts man Richard Ahlstrand had spotted a black bear in his backyard last Thursday around his bird feeders. On Friday, he went to fill up his bird feeders, and as a precaution, he took his shotgun. Sure enough, the black bear showed up […]
Legal Group Launches to Aggressively Challenge US Government Prosecutions of Whistleblowers
The Dissenter A legal group of criminal defense attorneys has formed to combat what they describe as the FBI and Justice Department’s use of harassment and over-prosecution to chill and silence those who engage in journalism, Internet activism or dissent.
Hate crimes to include attacks on punks, goths and metallers
Victim status? I don’t want to live that way! From The Telegraph. _______________ By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent Greater Manchester Police is to become the first force in the country to officially record such offences in the same way as those based on disability, race, religion and sexual […]
Norfolk police officer sues garage after trip on 999 call
PC Jones, ‘sow’ is such a fitting epithet for you. Reminds me of those numpties who sue McDonald’s after spilling piping hot coffee on their crown jewels. From BBC News ____________ A police officer is suing a petrol station owner after apparently tripping on a kerb on his […]
Contagion! The FaceBorg Equality Epidemic
My latest from the Inferno. I wonder: Have you caught the bug? _____________ Thanks to a good chunk of my Facebook friendslist, I came face-to-face with the latest meme virus to infect the social conscience. Hear those squeaky wheels, lushes and reprobates? That’s the sound of the latest […]
The Death Penalty for Marijuana Possession
Popehat.Com TJIC alerts us to the tremendously disturbing story of Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old quadriplegic sentenced to ten days in jail for his first offense — possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Because the Washington D.C. jail was incompetent to meet his special medical needs, including his dependence on […]
Prison Gang Member Suspected in Murder of Prison Chief
211 Crew, supremacist group, involved in high-profile crimes The man now the focus of the probe into the high-profile murder of prisons chief Tom Clements is a member of the 211 Crew, officials say. Evan Ebel, 28, is not the first member of the white-supremacist prison gang to […]
See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya
wired.com Brendan I. Koerner Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing secret compartments in cars. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong. Illustration: Paul Pope Alfred Anaya took pride in his generous service guarantee. Though his […]
Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Shot Dead
Huffington Post MONUMENT, Colo. — Colorado’s top state prison official was shot and killed when he answered the front door of his house, and police are searching for the gunman and trying to figure out if the attack had anything to do with his position. Authorities are also […]
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device
wired.com David Kravets The second of two GPS trackers found on the vehicle of a young man in California. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.
The Conservative Case Against More Prisons
By Vikrant P. Reddy and Marc A. Levin vgm8383 / Flickr Since the 1980s, the United States has built prisons at a furious pace, and America now has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. 716 out of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars. By comparison, in […]
Once ‘inconceivable,’ Republican leaders sign pro-gay marriage brief
I cautiously predict that the SCOTUS will use this case to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. This will likely be the Roe v Wade of gay marriage. I say “cautiously” because I’m not 100% certain in my prediction. There may be one or two liberal or centrist justices who […]
Pushing gun control a problem for red state Democrats
By David Lightmari High-end rifles in a gun shop in Arizona in 2011 | Will Seberger/MCT More on this Story Story | Newtown massacre may impel states to beef up mental health services Story | Gun debate begins in Congress, but both sides start out far apart By […]
Should There be Laws Against Drinking and Driving?
Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance injects some common sense into the issue of drinking and driving. http://www.libertarian.co.uk/multimedia/2013-01-22-sig-drink.mp3 Sean Gabb, Director of the Libertarian Alliance, speaking on BBC Radio 4 on the 22nd January 2013. The excuse for this discussion was a story about an Irish local […]
Homeless man threatened to kill Obama to get free health care in prison
Russia Today A Florida man has been sentenced to prison — again — for threatening to kill the president of the United States — again. Stephen Espalin says he only made the threat to get free medical care, though, and it wasn’t the first time he tried it […]
The Closing of the Doors of Innovation: The Corporate-Government Asphyxiation of Aaron Swartz
Codex Sarepticus on the life and death of a modern-day Prometheus. _______________ Several days ago, Lawrence Lessig, a friend and legal adviser for Aaron Swartz released this statement regarding Aaron’s death (source): (Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every […]
Federal prisoners use snitching for personal gain
usatoday.com Denny Gainer, Jerry Mosemak and Brad Heath, USA TODAY At least 48,895 federal convicts — one of every eight — had their prison sentences reduced in exchange for helping government investigators, probe shows. ATLANTA – The prisoners in Atlanta’s hulking downtown jail had a problem. They wanted […]
Small Town Sebastopol Sued by Giant CVS Pharmacy
by Shepherd Bliss
On Christmas Eve, when most were at home with family and friends or out-of-town
Canadian Makeup Artist Faces Real Trial for Fake Violence
The Canadian justice system: moralfags extraordinaire! From Reason.org. ______________ This week the trial of Rémy Couture, the Canadian special-effects artist charged with “corrupting morals” by illegally combining sex and gore, began in Montreal. The evidence against him includes two short films depicting the crimes of a necrophiliac serial […]
A Fucking Good Time
From the Inferno. ____________ Ostensibly, she’s a horny, hyper-enhanced, insatiable fuckpig, ready to give hummers to all cummers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year, 3 holes per session… …until the director yells “cut”, upon which she reverts to a hollow, empty, used-up […]
VAWA: An Admission of Defeat for Native Men
By Vince Rinehart
A nation is never conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
-Cheyenne saying
The recent spat between Democrats and
The TSA as we know it can’t die soon enough
Hear, hear! Anyone who follows Bruce Schneier and his book Beyond Fear knows that the reason air travel is safer today is less about the TSA taking away your nail clippers and more about reinforced, locking cockpit doors and the common understanding among passengers that if your plane […]
Will the Supreme Court Kill Used Bookstores?
From Reason.com ___________ By Christopher Balogh On October 29, the Supreme Court heard the arguments of a copyright case involving the right to resell imported goods in the United States. The goods in question were college textbooks but the outcome could affect whether copyrighted goods made overseas can […]
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop
From TorrentFreak. ____________ An anti-piracy company has found itself in the middle of a huge controversy. CIAPC, the company that had The Pirate Bay blocked by ISPs in Finland, tracked an alleged file-sharer and demanded a cash settlement. However, the Internet account holder refused to pay which escalated […]
UN Drug Czar Pressing US Feds to Disregard Marijuana Legalization in Co. and Wa.
Someone disband these wannabe-totalitarian, busybody cocksuckers. From AntiWar.com. __________________ by John Glaser The head of the UN drug watchdog agency is pressing US federal officials to challenge ballot measures in Colorado and Washington that decriminalized marijuana, in blatant disrespect for what the people voted for in those states. […]
10 Good Reasons Not to Assassinate Obama
From Taki Mag. _____________ America has now elected its first half-black president to a second term, which, if you understand math, means that America has finally elected a fully black president to one term. A little more than half of America is gloating like drunken pigs on moonshine. […]
How Mandatory Minimums Forced Me to Send More Than 1,000 Nonviolent Drug Offenders to Federal Prison
By Judge Mark Bennett Reuters/Joshua Lott
Joe Rogan Interviews Amber Lyon
http://vimeo.com/50802185 Amber Lyon is a former CNN journalist who exposed widespread censorship at the news agency. Topics include the collaboration between the media, the U.S. government and foreign dictatorships, the situation in Bahrain, Israel, Iran, NDAA, Wikileaks, whistleblowers, the Anaheim protests, media propaganda, journalism, the police state, false […]
Anarchy in rural Oregon
The Columbian The law in their own hands in Oregon timber country An Oregon sheriff lost funding and citizens stepped in O’BRIEN, Ore. — There’s no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff’s department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has […]
The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many people?
By Adam Gopnik Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
The Other Death Sentence
Mother Jones By James Ridgeway A Kentucky inmate is admitted to the hospital. Click here to see more of Tim Gruber’s great photos from inside a prison nursing unit.
Public Opinion: Prostitution Should Be Legal
Sodahead.Com The Global Commission on HIV and the Law issued a report suggesting that nations eliminate laws banning “consensual sex work” — i.e., prostitution. It’s an interesting claim coming from an organization aimed at preventing sexually transmitted disease, but their hope is that legalization would lead to regulation […]
U.N. report recommends legalized prostitution
The Washington Times U.S. government investigators in May interviewed the Colombia prostitute Dania Londono Suarez, at the center of the Secret Service affair that cost eight officers and supervisors their jobs and became an election-year embarrassment for the Obama administration. Suarez is pictured here speaking of the issue […]
Charles Manson follower, Bruce Davis, gets recommendation for parole after 40 years
CBS News Bruce Davis, a former member of the Manson Family, waits moments before the start of his parole hearing / AP Photo/The Tribune, Joe Johnston (CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES – A former Charles Manson follower who was imprisoned for a double murder engineered by Manson won a recommendation […]
Veteran files suit over frostbitten penis
CNN A 61-year-old Army veteran is suing the U.S. government for $10 million, claiming negligent care resulted in severe frostbite on his penis, leading to its partial amputation. Michael D. Nash of Louisville, Kentucky, filed suit in federal court Monday. He is asking for damages for what his […]
Obama’s justice department grants final immunity to Bush’s CIA torturers
MO of BO :”I’ll CHANGE my mind and HOPE you forget, silly, slavish voters!” Glenn Greenwald elaborates via The Guardian. _________ The Obama administration‘s aggressive, full-scale whitewashing of the “war on terror” crimes committed by Bush officials is now complete. Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the closing […]
Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA
Just in case it hasn’t been said here before: fuck Obama! From Russia Today. ____________ A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process. Last week, a federal judge […]
Critiques of Democracy
Colin Patrick Barth’s critique of democracy. Up there with those of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Hans-Herman Hoppe, and H.L Mencken, even surpassing them in certain vital respects…. From Promethea.org. _______________ Part One Democracy, The Equivocal Standard Just what is democracy? If you were to define it, the definition would […]
Why Objective Law Requires Anarchy
By Roderick Long. Why Objective Law Requires Anarchy was originally published in the Autumn 1998 issue of Formulations by the Free Nation Foundation, written by Roderick T. Long. * * * “I see no ethical standard by which to measure the whole unethical conception of a State, except in the amount of time, of […]
‘I’m just too homophobic and racist for this’: Juror tells judge he can’t sit on any cases because of his extreme views
From the Daily Mail. I suppose that’s one way to skip jury duty. Well-played! ___________ By Martin Robinson and James Tozer A juror told a court his homophobic and racist views meant he could not give a defendant a fair trial. In a letter written to the judge […]
Sheriff Deputy Hits 19-year-old in Head with Gun; Surveillance Video Shows Vicious Attack
From MyFoxDC.com A Cottage City 19-year-old spent nearly 4 months in jail after Corporal Donald Taylor claimed Ryan Dorm assaulted him and the gun went off as Taylor struggled with him. The surveillance video is from a business on Perry Street near Rhode Island Avenue in the Brentwood […]
The First Leftist
“Leftist” : not always a dirty word… …unlike “Jacobin”. From Mises.org. __________ The first leftist would not be popular in America today. That is true because the original leftists wanted to abolish government controls over industry, trade, and the professions. They wanted wages, prices, and profits to […]
No Guns For Negroes
Great primer documentary from the JPFO. Make a gun-control-happy Obamacrat cry… Oh yeah – gotta love the narration!
Nietzsche’s Antipolitique: The Will-to-Power, the Individual, and the State
From Promethea.org. ______________ by Danny Weston, aka Darios Introduction In this essay, I would like to discuss Nietzsche’s doctrine of the ‘will-to-power’, particularly with regard to how it relates to concepts of the State and the Individual. I shall argue that there are two main interpretations of how […]
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