Atheists persecuted throughout the world and no government cares

We live in a society where unmarried people who live together, are still prosecuted for co-habitation. It is a relic of our Puritan/religious past. A past that saw women forced to wear Scarlet A letters on their shirts, yes, that just wasn't a book. The International Humanist...

Why it is wrong for a county meeting to have prayers

Note: This is a recent letter of mine that I sent to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that wasn't published. It is about Barron County, the far northwestern corner of Wisconsin, having secterian prayers during county meetings. The government shouldn't be involved in prayers of...

Cop Harasses Couple for Ohio Buckeye Leaf Bumpersticker

http://economicrisis.com/cop-harasses-couple-for-ohio-buckeye-leaf-bumpersticker/676 Cop Harasses Couple for Ohio Buckeye Leaf Bumpersticker A Texas couple were on a return trip from Ohio when a cop pulled them over and ordered them to remove a bumpersticker. He thought...

2 out of every 3 Americans lost Fourth Amendment protections

http://economicrisis.com/2-out-of-every-3-americans-lost-fourth-amendment-protections-to-dhs/474 2 out of every 3 Americans lost Fourth Amendment protections to DHS Those numbers come from the ACLU’s estimates of how many people live within 100 miles of the United...

Why is the government paying 20K to repair a cross?

Alto Pass, Illinois is a rather small little village towards the southern tip of that state. A few hundred people. But at it is the center of controversy, because it is one more example of the government actively promoting religon, specifically Christianity. A 111 foot cross...

TN rep. believes gays are "the biggest bullies" in the world

President Obama just attended the National Prayer Breakfast. It is a breakfast, with prayer, attended by members of Congress and the president, since the 1950s. I was thinking how awesome it would be for President Obama to attend a convention of the American Humanist...

Pro-drug reformer prosecuted for activism

In New Hampshire in January of 2008, a police officer tried to get talk show host Ian Bernard charged with a criminal offense for the host's promotion of a protest against anti-marijuana laws. A pro-marijuana reformer, James Carroll, held a quanity of marijuana out in the...

LOCKHEED/USG CENSORS 'DISAPPEAR' FACEBOOK MEDIA COMMENTS LINKS

*  The audacity of taxpayer-pillaging military contractor real-time cyberNazi censorship regime is breathtaking -- brutally fascist and authoritarian (and the regime is sabotaging the formatting of this posting in real-time, as I write in the NowPublic webform).GET...

More cases of police abuse including in Milwaukee

More examples of police violating our civil rights. This is one of the most abusive cases. Andrew Henderson is a man who while legally filming outside of his apartment residence in Little Canada (by St. Paul, Minnesota) videotaped a person being taken away by local...

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

A judge, Edward Burke, in this video on the left, 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 an...

Bork is dead and why it's good he was never on the Supreme Court

A  few years ago I read a book about Judge Robert Bork, a man that then President Ronald Reagen nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time of the nomination I was still a little young to follow this event, but I am so glad that Bork never made it onto the U.S....

Boy Scouts quasi-ends ban on gays and gays oppressed in Russ

The Boy Scouts are allowing local Boy Scout councils to decide if they want to keep bans on gay scouts and scoutmasters. Of course, they continue to ban atheists like me in their ranks, as is their right. The Girl Scouts on the other hand don't discriminate based on sexual...

Police abuses once again including 12 year old in handcuffs

Here are more examples of police violating the basic liberties of their fellow citizens. I wish that there came a time when there weren't more examples, but sadly I can't even write about all of them, unless I devote my column to just police abuses, and no other issues. In...

Gangnam for human rights

Alto Pass, Illinois is a rather small little village towards the southern tip of that state. A few hundred people. But at it is the center of controversy, because it is one more example of the government actively promoting religon, specifically Christianity. A 111 foot...