Police commit arrests to reach quotas and man illegally tased

The police are sometimes wrong. Sometimes often. Police in New York City demanded quotas for NYPD patrol officers. Innocent young men are often arrested for mild conduct, in order to reach quotas. But before being brought before a judge, these arrestees are often released,...

Should women have the right to go topless in America?

Should the government ban, as happens in most places in the U.S., topless women in public? Of course the religious right-wing in the U.S. would oppose any such right by women, because let's face it, they are the anti-sex police. They want to imprison gay men for sex in their...

Why the bible is a poor argument to use against marriage rights

Some, but not all, Christians believe that there should be no marriage equality for gay couples, because their supposed god says so. First this illustrates the belief of these people, that we should live in a semi-theocracy. They do not believe that the American people are...

Police assault woman with phone and 50 feet radius to film them

If you film the police in Austin, Texas, or anywhere else for that matter, should you have to be 50 feet away? Also, should everyone be 50, or even 60 feet away, or just those filming the police? Can other bystanders be closer? Also, if the filming is at a crowded event with...

Police demand ID without any suspicion whatsoever of a crime

This first video is a clear and present violation of constitutional rights. A journalist named Chris Geo is arrested after he comes to a Federal Emergency Management Agency base to ask a question why they were taking the license plate number of everyone going to a postal...

Should women have the right to go topless in America?

Should the government ban, as happens in most places in the U.S., topless women in public? Of course the religious right-wing in the U.S. would oppose any such right by women, because let's face it, they are the anti-sex police. They want to imprison gay men for sex in their...

Why did police ignore 4th Amendment rights of students at search?

This is an amazing case out of Greene County, Missouri. High school students at Central High School were ordered to leave their possessions in their classrooms, be it notebooks, purses, backpacks etc for sheriff's deputies to search, really ransack, at will. No reasonable...

Illegal conviction for investigating police wrongdoing

In New Hampshire recording another person in a phone coversation without their consent is a misdemeanor. Ademo Mueller recorded a phone conversation he had with a police officer ( a very short one) asking the officer about what seemed to be clearly an unnecessary use of...

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JOURNO EXPOSING LOCKHEED WAR CRIMES AGAIN BLOCKED FROM FACEBOOK

GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTONTHE FASCIST CENSORSHIP REGIME OF LOCKHEED MARTIN UNDER U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT APPARENTLY HAS AGAIN BLOCKED THIS VETERAN JOURNALIST FROM MAKING ANY 'PUBLIC COMMENTS' ON FACEBOOK.THE BLOCK CAME AFTER THIS JOURNALIST EXPRESSED HIS OPINION THAT...

Police raid on gay bar, sees numerous rights of patrons violated

At the Atlanta Eagle, an Atlanta bar with gay patrons, police conducted a raid in 2009. A website dedicated to the memory of this raid, states on their website: "An independent investigation has confirmed that Atlanta police officers broke the law during the raid of the...

Where have all the "support the troop" ribbons gone?

Something I have noticed, why are there so much fewer "support the troops" ribbons on cars? When George Bush was president, they were everywhere. Where have they gone? Did those conservative critics of Obama's handling of the military conflict in Libya, not care about the...

Police raid on gay bar, sees numerous rights of patrons violated

At the Atlanta Eagle, an Atlanta bar with gay patrons, police conducted a raid in 2009. A website dedicated to the memory of this raid, states on their website: "An independent investigation has confirmed that Atlanta police officers broke the law during the raid of the...

How prostitution laws make innocent people guilty

In the city of San Francisco you can be arrested for intent to solicit a prostitute. This is something of a thought crime. If the government believes you intended enough to do an action, though you never agreed to do that action, than it is a crime. For example, if you make...

States prosecute women over miscarriages and Romney and marijuana

Rennie Gibbs, of Mississippi, became pregnant when she was 15 years old, lost the baby in a stillbirth 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When local prosecutors discovered that the young woman had a cocaine habit, they charged her with a criminal offense that carried up to a life...

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