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The Policeman Is Not Your Friend, 2nd Denver Edition
[UPDATE below.] Yikes, just six days ago I posted a video of Denver cops beating up a guy who was standing there, talking on his cell phone. To counteract the inevitable “hey man, this is one bad apple, I bet you call the cops when a guy breaks into your house” comments, I mentioned that [...]
Read moreThe Policeman Is Not Your Friend, Denver Edition
[UPDATE below.] [Second UPDATE below.] [Third UPDATE below.] Ryan McMaken over at the LRC blog has another “good” one. To give this some context, apparently a guy got ejected from a bar for using the woman’s bathroom. (Presumably he was obnoxious on top of it.) So the cops are arresting this guy, while his buddy [...]
Read moreFederal Government Deploys “Strike Force” and Unmanned Drones…in America
[UPDATE below.] I don’t lie: The Senate agreed Thursday to add $600 million to the effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. Mexican border. The money would be used for such purposes as adding 1,500 new enforcement agents and deploying unmanned aerial drones to improve border surveillance. Incidentally, I heard Senator [...]
Read moreAmerica, The Shining City on a Hill
More depressing stuff from Glenn Greenwald: The Obama administration’s claim that the commissions are now improved to the point that they provide a forum of real justice is being put to the test — and blatantly failing — with the first such commission to be held under Obama: that of Omar Khadr, accused of throwing a grenade [...]
Read moreIMF Plans for a Global Currency?
Michael McKay showed me a rather alarming paper from the IMF [.pdf]. (Thanks to Floy Lilley for finding the online version; McKay said it had been yanked from the place he originally got it.) I don’t have time to do a full analysis anytime soon, so I wanted to at least get this out into [...]
Read moreThe Policeman Is Not Your Friend, v. 304
Wow, David Kramer finds another one. In a lot of the examples of bully cops, there is something that the person did to “ask for it.” For example, the guy who got detained for hours crossing the US/Canadian border: Sure, that shouldn’t have happened, but he didn’t need to get sarcastic with the border agent. [...]
Read moreManning Didn’t Understand the Rules of the Game
Glenn Greenwald comments on the government’s formal charges against accused WikiLeaks informant Bradley Manning: The 22-year-old whistle-blower faces 52 years in prison….I just wanted to review the contemporary rules governing the Rule of Law in the U.S.: * If you torture people or eavesdrop on Americans without the warrants required by the criminal law, you receive Look-Forward Imperial Immunity. [...]
Read moreSomeone New on My Radar
I’m not sure if he wanted to remain anonymous, but someone emailed me this guy’s keynote address at a conference for bloggers. The only vetting I did was to check Wikipedia to make sure this guy is who the video says he is. Anyway, I watched the 11-minute collage below. The guy is a former [...]
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