… but just so you’ll know. Some of those “let’s find a lame excuse to stop this vehicle so we can search for drugs or drug money” stops are actually the product of a secret spy program. Connection between DEA and NSA still unknown. Because the DEA gives orders (or perhaps takes orders) to keep all this under wraps — even from defense lawyers and sometimes even from their friends the persecutors. Hm. Whatever happened to the right to confront your accuser — your actual accuser — in court? The Wall Street Journal reports that, among other nice things, the…
Category: Official thuggery, bad prosecutions, and bad law
You knew it all along, didn’t you? Those crosswalk buttons don’t change the lights. Elevator “close door” buttons don’t close doors, either. They’re just there to make you feel empowered and more patient. Man, that’s one clever bear. (From Irons in the Fire) Oh gads, this is sooooo true. Self promotion is HELL. (H/T to Jim Bovard, who’s heard me whining about that often enough.) Yuppies in prison. Increasing in real life — and now on TV. More on that dirty business of child porn being sent to liberty activists. Including a lawyer’s tips on what to do if it…
If you’re old enough, you remember when Russian dissidents thought they were better off to defect to the U.S. Such a long, long time ago. Really long … Reason # 4,386,542 to be leery of Facebook. Odd one. Viral humor. I was really trying to avoid the Heidi Yewman Ms magazine saga (ignorant hoplophobe forces self to carry a gun for a month and reports on how icky it made her feel to, like, have to be aware of her environment and, you know, have grown-up responsibilities and all). Even when Joel had at Ms. Yewman in his inimitable style,…
“Stop, Drop, and Cower.” The official DHS guide to safe interactions with government agents. 😉 (H/T David Codrea) Rockin’ Gramma. Yet another (particularly egregious) act of fedgov terrorism and thuggery. Under what authority is Eric Holder ordering Sanford, Florida, police to keep holding Zimmerman’s gun? I already dropped this link into comments, but for you who don’t follow the Commentariat, here’s Justin Raimondo’s excellent piece “Is America a Free Country?” StartPage and IXquick offer an advance in search encryption. Via Borepatch:
Wow. I never thought I’d agree with Jimmy Carter about much of anything, let alone agree with him twice in one week. But if he actually said, “America has no functioning democracy at this moment” (referring to revelations of omni-snooping), then we are totally on the same radical track. The U.S. media didn’t cover the event where he made reportedly made the remark. But Der Spiegel, a decently reliable source, did. Think on it. A respected* former president of the U.S., a man of the party now in power, observes that his country is no longer of, by, and for…
The U.S. government killed his grandson. “Shouldn’t it at least have to explain why?” Beyond heartbreaking. Hey, but Joe Biden says it’s what you should do! This list of 78 skills everybody should have has been making the rounds of the gun blogs. Just reading it is exhausting. Fight racism by beating up white people. Yeah, now that makes sense. (And what’s with that opening paragraph, BTW? Where’s the evidence that “both sides” have gotten violent in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict?) Oh goodie. You can get early parole from Purgatory by following His Popeness on social media. Seriously,…
… and why, although it fills us with frustrated outrage, it’s a time of hope. Oathkeeper Stewart Rhodes nails it. Absolutely nails it. He starts out talking about Adam Kokesh. But then … The more illegitimate and absurd the arbitrary rule of Leviathan, the more it violates our natural rights, the more it has to make examples out of anyone who dares to openly defy it by means of civil disobedience or nullification. You can, and should, expect more of this, and more severe examples. … There is now a large, and growing portion of the American people who correctly…
Closed streets and helicopters. The whole military routine. All over a video. I know Kokesh courts trouble. But this is ridiculous. And coming on the heels of the latest TJIC mess, my Inner Paranoid wonders if there’s some concerted effort going on. (H/T MWD) The Adam vs the Man news release.
Time to train cops not to shoot dogs. Ya think? (But if they quit killing our pets, how will the cowards control us??? Oh yeah, that’s right. By SWATting our poker games and busting our kids’ lemonade stands.) Nostalgia has never been my thing. Those “good old days”? They weren’t really so good. Turns out, though, that nostalgia’s actually good for you. Awwwwww. Blind couple fall in love after their guide dogs do. It’s a crappy law and just more permit pushing. But both houses of the Illinois legislature hugely overrode Gov. Pat Quinn’s weird attempt to use his veto…