Barbers in Florida, be ready to have police point guns at you

In most states there are licensing requirements for barbers. Well, in Florida, the police take advantage of those licensing requirements to check for drugs in barber shops. Sometimes, with guns drawn. I wish I was kidding. Would police take advantage of licensing of doctors...

Can a police chief arrest you if you criticize him, for criminal

One of the most amazing things I find about the law is that in some states, there are still criminal defamation cases. The government can imprison you for defamation, but the defamation often involves public officials. See, if the Constitution means anything it is that those...

Church thinks small children are demon possesed and other stories

These are various stories that have caught my attention, I am putting them all in this one column. I. I wrote previously about a religious rightwing type in Maine who thinks homosexuality is caused by demons. Well an Australian Christian ministry does 4-5 "exorcisms" a day,...

Gay marriage is like a child driving? Someone believes that.

Republican Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler believes that same sex marriage is like an uncle marrying his niece and a 50 year old marrying a 12 year old girl. Yes, she said that. She also believes that it is comparable to a 3 year old driving a car. At least, she didn't compare...

Obert Madondo's Indefinite Canada Crime Bill C10 Hunger Strike

Today is Day 28 of my ongoing indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's universally-condemned and cruel new crime law, deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”.  I’m an Ottawa-based Occupy activist and progressive...

Gay rights t-shirts banned by schools, violation of free speech

Pro gay t-shirts are being banned and censored in schools. One shirt with the text, Jesus is not a homophobe, was banned in a school in Ohio because the student, Maverick Couch, was told it was "indecent and sexual in nature" by the school principal. So, any expression of gay...

Judge lies to get man arrested, and is still on the bench

A judge in New Hamsphire, Edward Burke, lies to police  and states that a citizen named Ademo Freeman, who was asking him questions in a courthouse that the judge obviously didn't like, threatened him. I didn't have to watch the video more than once to know it was...

Woman who needs medical marijuana given years in prison

This is an amazing case, because not only was a woman named Patricia Smith imprisoned for taking marijuana for medical purposes, but the jury that convicted her knew she was taking it for medical reasons. Also, even though they were informed that they did not have to convict...

Horrible incidents of police and TSA violence and abuse

The police have arrested and intruded upon media freedom in America. It happens quite often, and ironically, it is mostly ignored by the media at large. In a case in Philadelphia at an anti-military recruiting protest in 2008, a reporter was singled out for arrest, after the...

Marquette players who are cited for "underage" in a club

In this case a man who informed his fellow citizens there was an unconstitutional soberity checkpoint ahead, was harassed by the police. Indeed, checkpoints are often advertised in newspapers beforehand, in an effort to give an apperance of being constitutional. They are...

Police engaging in strip searches in Milwaukee illegally

A number of Milwaukee police (where I live)  have been engaged in illegal strip searches, without an arrest, of suspects. Of course, under the U.S. Constitution, without probable cause, police cannot engage in strip searches. Some of these searches were rectal...