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A comment from M. Simon reminded me of something which was drummed home further by today’s events. The war on drugs makes it harder to fight the war on terrorism. I don’t mean simply diversion of resources, although it would be nice to shut down the DEA and all the various drug enforcement divisions and…

CureZone.com. Reposted in its entirety. A SWAT team is under investigation for storming into a home in Coconut Grove at around 11 a.m. with a narcotics warrant. According to the homeowner, Bobby Mclendon, the warrant that SWAT presented to raid his house was for 2 blocks away. However these brutes did not care. They came…

Originally found at Rap: Catchy, True, Sad One of the images was in response to the police burning a baby in a drug raid. Proceeds from sales of the video will go to that baby: “Money from sales willl be donated to support Baby Bou Bou, the baby who was hit by the SWAT team…

I didn’t, but I do now. …the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called “the Linux Journal…

Another day, another horrifying SWAT Team atrocity. The difference is that this one made me worry that by focusing on the drug war aspects, I might be losing sight of the bigger, and more ominous picture. Here’s what happened. In a 3:00 a.m. SWAT Team raid, police broke down the door of a house to…

While the narrative promoted at the moment is that President Obama is winding down America’s wars, what is actually happening is that the machinery and war expertise are being shifted from use abroad to use domestically. Never mind the Constitution; police departments all over the country have been transformed into heavily-armed military occupation forces. …as…

Two more headlines serve as reminders. SWAT Team Raids Family Home After Finding Tea Leaves In The Garbage Innocent Man Gets Dead Wife and 25 Years in Jail; Lying Prosecutor Gets 10 Days in Prison The problem is that it’s incredibly difficult to hold these people accountable. As Glenn Reynolds said, “our criminal justice system…

This takes the food war insanity to an all new level. Health department raids community picnic and destroys all food with bleach The evening was everything I had dreamed and hoped it would be. The weather was perfect, the farm was filled with friends and guests roaming around talking about organic, sustainable farming practices. Our…

The reason that Republicans cannot win Latinos – or other minorities for that matter – is because Republicans counter liberal ‘Santa’ version of big government with what I call the ‘Darth-Vader’ idea of big government. So says Shikha Dalmia, senior analyst at the Reason Foundation, during  FreedomFest 2013 in Las Vegas. While her discussion focused mainly…

I do not like the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The date represents more than a notorious and murderous attack on America by our enemies, but it was a turning point in U.S. history, and for the worse. The lasting legacy of 9/11 is not merely a loss of life and damage to the economy,…

I read about police abuses almost every day now. The latest SWAT Team outrage involved holding small children at gunpoint during a home invasion — all in retaliation over their father having quarreled with a drunken off-duty cop at a veterans lodge. The officers threw to the floor, kicked and handcuffed Georgeia, her stepfather and…

I recently learned from a friend about a man in Pennsylvania who is being charged with the crime of keeping pet ducks: A Pennsylvania man is facing a fine of $500 a day for having four pet ducks. Delmont resident Jim Kistler was notified that having his web-footed pals, Larry, Moe, Curly and Fred, is…

Earlier I read about a new police tactic in the war on drugs. “Fake” drug checkpoints: An Ohio law enforcement agency’s decision to use fake drug checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs has some residents wondering if it could violate the Fourth Amendment against unlawful searches and seizures. Police in Cleveland suburb of…

Ever wonder why there is such a major push to both militarize the police, and simultaneously demilitarize — even disarm — the military? I think Bill Quick may have touched on the answer. Soldiers expect that they may have to kill enemies of the nation. Cops expect that they may have to kill civilian criminals. They…

Some kids have been reading this blog and are mocking it. H/T Spatial Orientation – Classically Liberal Space Cadets. And how did I find them? Well I was looking for a SWAT team picture and found a really good one here.

I was having a little discussion with a friend who objected to my phrase “Medical Marijuana prohibition is a crime against humanity and a violation of the religious precept – heal the sick” because he said it trivializes mass murder. But does it? I believe we should examine the evidence. Heart Surgeon Dr David Allen…

When I saw this story linked by a Facebook friend — that in a few days it will be a federal crime to unlock your smartphone — I honestly thought it was a joke. Wrong. That’s right, starting this weekend it is illegal to unlock new phones to make them available on other carriers. I have deep…

Here’s a trailer to a movie that (according to IMDb) I cannot see because it isn’t anywhere in my area: A pity I can’t see it, because the Forbes review called it “The Most Important Drug War Film You’ll Ever See.” It’s a film about the human consequences of execrable War on Drugs and there…

I was a bit startled earlier by a quaint, nostalgic sentiment quoted by M. Simon: All who follow a code of ethics or principles are self-governors. Our system is meant to protect the self-governors from those without ethics and principles, perpetrators of fraud, rape and violence. The state does not run the affairs of people…

This shit gets more and more tedious. What, precisely, is the question? Who should be in charge of our SWAT teams? Please God don’t let them vote.