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Oh, maybe that's why Christian extremists are not painted as killers.

They should be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)#Attack_on_Saint_Michel_theater.2C_Paris

Texas fundie "spanks" 7-year-old to death

Just because you haven't been programmed to hate "Christian" murderers like you have been with Muslims, doesn't mean they are innocent or somehow less evil.

Hells yes Democrats are easiest to troll. Because Republicans have a nice solid record of saying the stupidest shit conceivable. Not just the voters, but their officials.

Except for the fact that he's running unopposed? In his case it doesn't matter that it's an election year.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/06/arkansas-republican-slavery-was-blessing-in-disguise-that-rewarded-blacks-with-u-s-citizenship/

If you look up stuff on the Internet or watch mainstream media and choose to remember the stories then you get a pretty clear picture of "Blood for Oil" and "Too big to fail" stories. You balance that out with candidates saying money for influence and the massive disproportion in wealth in the US and it paints a grim picture.

A few people with a disgusting amount of money make decisions that impact the rest of the world and none of them are elected.

The bad part is that we know all this already and no doubt when troops hit the ground in Iran, Somalia, etc, we will continue to rage on the Internet while ours sons go and kill someone else's sons......Wikileaks rocks but unless we are using the information at our disposal for change then what's the point?

For a while I was thinking that could actually work - if something happened you'd get a little flare up, nothing too dangerous. But...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/04/exploding-hydrogen-balloons-at-armenian-political-rally-injure-many/

apparently it doesn't work out so well if you use a lot of them. I'm not sure there's a good solution for this, might just have to wait for advances in materials. Carbon fiber vacuum balloons could work maybe... Maybe. They'd have to be pretty big though.

Yeah, you crammed it pretty much in nutshell. Also, the DoD being involved would only compound this gargantuan shit-sandwich. I think it may be wise to think long and hard before trusting an unaccountable department that has likely spent more than 2/3 of the national-debt (10+ of 16 trillion) and essentially needs conflict to survive. And when their ghouls start wailing about Digital Blackwaters, thinking should yield to shunning altogether. It seems the Pentagon would be all too satisfied having a nation of under-educated poverty-stricken dunces quivering behind the World's greatest military force. I don't think we should put any more power in the hands of those who are eager to declare war over "cyber attacks" until they can learn to distinguish "war" from "crime" and "crime" from bogus-copyright and free-speech and "terrorism" from honest journalism.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/04/anonymous-claims-hack-caught-fbi-spying-on-apple-customers/

I am expressly not listing any elements involving the validity of the allegations themselves, but only such ones that may influence Assange that are outside the scope of the alleged crimes. There is more to be said (see links in the text), but here are the main points of swedish behaviour which are likely to trouble Assange:

• Preliminary investigation: failures to follow procedure and the probable biais of an investigating officer due to personal acquaintance with one of the defendants unfortunately put the investigation itself in a bad light.
• No case: the investigation was opened, closed, then re-opened on request of the lawyer representing the two women. The investigators themselves did not consider the evidence sufficient for court.
• Proportionality: the fact that Assange has already been held in house arrest for over 500 days and faces at least short imprisonment in Sweden prior to any trial raises serious proportionality concerns. Given this result, I believe the argument of Assange's lawyers in court, that the use of an European Arrest Warrant simply in order to further an investigation before any actual prosecution takes place is disproportionate, to be valid. However, opionions are divided on this issue.
• Questioning in the UK: there is no legal problem whatsoever for the prosecutor to do this outside of Sweden, and indeed Sweden has questioned defendants or suspects abroad in the past. This is a decision that is entirely up to the prosecutor, and that decision has not satisfactorily been explained (audio interview with Swedish prosecution authority). Only recently, one justification has been given, and it is essentially one of prestige, which is a rather poor explanation given the fears expressed by Assange and the lack of any non-extradition guarantees by the Swedish government. I would be very curious to know what the real justification was before the case blew up.
• Connections: as mentioned in previous post.
• Expected future behaviour: opinions expressed in the press by Swedish journalists and intellectuals have become virulent, to say the least. Along with the media, public opinion has swayed in disfavor of Assange, giving cause for Assange to fear a fair trial, should it ever come to one. This case would likely collapse before any trial, according to Ove Bring, professor Emeritus of the Swedish national defence college (see previous link). However, with media and public opinion and concerns of prestige being as they are, this has become less likely. Interestingly, similar reasons may be given to argue that an actual extradition from Sweden to the US has become even less probable. It would go down very poorly in the court of global, public opinion should Sweden do so after months of trying to get him to return to Sweden for completely unrelated reasons. Personally, I believe Assange's fears have alway also centered around receiving a fair trial. With time, this fear has probably become increasingly real.

Yep

they're not really very direct links though

Having sex in Sweden with an someone who was connected with the CIA can get complicated! Regardless to say, breaking international treaties for not wearing a condom makes no sense me to!

Really? You are going from the six degrees of separation chain of possible connections in that article to "was connected with"? You could get almost anyone connected to almost everything this way.

I don't get why we are so quick to defend people we support otherwise when accused of criminal activities, and be so sure about their innocence. Even nerds can be douchebags.

People her had the same kind of outrage against Hans Reiser being accused of killing his wife. So absolutely sure it couldn't be true, all kinds of conspiracy stories and over-the-internet evidence evaluation. Until he showed the police where he had buried her.

Assange is accused of things that are criminal in Sweden, if found guilty. And no, it is not criminal to have sex without condom, it is criminal to have sex without consent - and if the consent is clearly dependent on condom, you don't have consent if you drop it. He is also accused of another account of nonconsensual sexual behavior towards a sleeping woman.

I am not saying he did either of these things, we can't possible know that (just as with Hans Reiser), that is for the courts to decide. He has also committed a separate criminal act in UK by skipping bail, and they are not really breaking international treaties, Geneva Convention do contain clauses that allow UK to retract ambassady status, but Ecuador did break the Geneva Convention first by taking him in under these circumstances.

Having sex in Sweden with an someone who was connected with the CIA can get complicated!

Regardless to say, breaking international treaties for not wearing a condom makes no sense me to!

Apparently they CAN get away with a lot: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/08/wealthy-fund-manager-avoids-felony-charges-running-cyclist/

case in point!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/22/california-police-fire-into-crowd-of-women-and-children-during-near-riot/

some quoting:

A near-riot broke out in Anaheim, California on Saturday after a police shooting left one man dead and angry witnesses began throwing bottles at police offers. Police responded by firing bean bags and rubber bullets into a crowd of terrified women and children and even loosed a police dog on one woman and her baby.

Residents, who have recently been complaining about alleged police violence, told KCAL 9 News that Manuel Diaz was running away from police who had attempted to speak with him when he was shot from behind with a bullet that hit him in the buttocks. He fell to his knees and was struck in the head by another bullet. Police handcuffed the motionless man and he was taken to the hospital, where he died three hours later.

However, it was what happened after residents had blocked off a street and set fire to a dumpster that left even the KCAL reporters shocked. Not only did the police fire on women and children, hitting at least one young boy, but a police dog was allowed to attack a mother with her child..

âoeThey just released the dog and I had my baby in the stroller,â the hysterical mother told the news team. âoeThe dog just grabbed me with his teeth.â

According to reporter Jay Jackson, dozens of people were filming the event with their cellphones, and four different people told him âoethat police officers offered to buy their video from them without any explanation.â

the youth and many middle aged folks now, due to events like this, distrust the police and the whole system of 'law' enforcement.

when stuff like this goes on (and it really does; this is not isolated; its happening more and more as our police become a private military for the upper classes) there is no respect for laws on the books.

I really wonder if its just the US and a few select countries or if the whole world really is going to hell in a handbasket. at times, its hard to stay positive when those in power pull shit like this and are fully shamless about it!

copying files - yeah, that's really a crime. but shooting into crowds, nah, not a crime.

It's somewhat pedantic, I know, but I work in education and this is something that far, far too many people a) don't get, b) don't care about, and c) don't appreciate its importance. When making a direct quote, you need to do more than simply drop a hyperlink to an original source to avoid plagiarizing your sources; you need to also name the original author.

It's really, honestly as simple as adding "Muriel Kane of Raw story writes:" at the start of the paragraph. Make a habit of giving proper credit where it's due, especially if you do a lot of writing. It's easy to do and gives proper credit and respect to the person who took the time to write the words you're using.

Yes, I have better things to do. No, I have no plans to try to sic Ms. Kane's lawyers on you. To be frank, there's a reason the editors were listed first there: it's their job to know this kind of thing inside out as a matter of professional competence, whereas you're just Random Person On The Internet. Still, it's important, and something worth knowing. That's worth at least a mention, yeah?

You point is an excellent one. I am aware of the rules surrounding the appropriation of the works of others. Perhaps I should have prefaced TFS with "From http://www.rawstory.com/" or "In an article by Muriel Kane" or some such. As an aside, I did not personally attribute the prose to me. Nor was it ever my intent to deceive anyone on that point. That was done (presumably automatically) when I posted the article.

That said, this is not a term paper, a newspaper piece or a scholarly article. It's a post on a news aggregation and discussion site. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the "Fair Use" doctrine applies here. In fact, perhaps you should use this as an example to your students of fair use. You can then juxtapose my post with a real example of plagiarism.

I assume you intended to actually use this posting as an example of plagiarism for your students. Otherwise, your actions are quite incomprehensible to me. If you weren't planning on using this as an example then you were just engaging in a bit of off-topic ranting. While it can be amusing, people who do that are often considered trolls.

In my days those "fixers" were known as Fairlight and Razor 1911 among others.

And after starting Fairlight, Strider went into politics.

Not really - Just a matter of degree, limited solely by how much power each group has over their respective countries... AIDS sucks more than the flu, but you don't really want to catch either of them. But hey, I hear ya - It makes perfect sense to devote the full resources of the US government to hashing out whether or not whores... er... "young women"... should have the right to autonomy over their own bodies when it comes to reproductive health. Certainly, no fine upstanding Fundies would suggest beating people to death just because their god whispers sweet, sweet nothings to them in the dark... Religion is a disease, which any sane person would seek to cure ASAP.

Wish I could have given you a nudge with this... thank for posting.

Comparing the Extremism the Fundamentalist Islamists get away with around the world to whatever drama the Fundamentalist Christians try to perpetrate is -- really -- just ridiculous.

Not really - Just a matter of degree, limited solely by how much power each group has over their respective countries... AIDS sucks more than the flu, but you don't really want to catch either of them.

But hey, I hear ya - It makes perfect sense to devote the full resources of the US government to hashing out whether or not whores... er... "young women"... should have the right to autonomy over their own bodies when it comes to reproductive health. Certainly, no fine upstanding Fundies would suggest beating people to death just because their god whispers sweet, sweet nothings to them in the dark...


Religion is a disease, which any sane person would seek to cure ASAP.

He was a big name, and he broke the law to the point he used his influence to do things that would get other men arrested too. And then instead of answering the charges, he fled the country. Over something that might get him $1000 in fines and told not to come back to the country.

You appear to have some crucial facts wrong.

Sweden dropped the charges on 21 August 2010 as "baseless". He had sex with both women, and neither had a problem until they found out about each other. They then wanted Assange to take an STD test. He refused, and they then went to the police. They reopened the case early in September, but told him he was free to leave the country.

In November, Sweden signaled that it wished to detain him for questioning, despite the fact that he had already been thoroughly questioned and had offered to be further questioned via video link from the UK. No formal charges were/have been pressed.

Interpol approved a Red Notice on Assange on 20 November. Red Notices tend to be used for manhunts of dangerous criminals or notorious fraudsters (A Red Notice was issued for Osama Bin Laden, for example). Assange then turned himself in to the Police in England, and was held in solitary confinement for 10 days (several sources have indicated that this was not standard procedure).

To summarize: It's the inconsistency of the whole affair that looks odd. They seriously reopened a case that was previously said to be baseless, initiated an international manhunt for one of the mildest possible sex crimes defined anywhere in the civilized world, and then put the guy in solitary?

Disclaimer: I don't think there's any conspiracy to actually grab Assange from Sweden and ship him to the US, but I do think this is something the US would do to incapacitate a troublesome individual. The US has certainly done worse. I guess I should also mention that the US has used Sweden for extraordinary rendition in the past. Although I don't think that will happen to Assange, it is indicate of the US's influence over Swedish policy.

Sources:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/08/report-assange-rape-case-sparked-std-fears/

http://thestandard.org.nz/marianne-ny-making-an-arse-of-swedish-law/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341

Ehm, don't know about original sources, but I found it here:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/06/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ties/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/04/exploding-hydrogen-balloons-at-armenian-political-rally-injure-many/

you don't need even that. electricity, water, balloons and a balloon pump. or lighter propane and balloons. with a bit of macgyver anyone is a potential terrorist.

C'mon! That's not a fair comparison, when we all know that with 0.07% certain parts of your brain are even working better

Now the question is, Would you drive better if you use your cellphone with 0.07% blood alcohol than not alcohol at all?

What's the "Most religious state?" What's the most Republican state? What state can't host the Olympics without embarrassing the USA with their corruption? What state lost $2.5M to stupid Nigerian "You have been selected to win $100M dollars!" scams? What state bans effective sex-ed? Banning D&D in public schools... polygamy... and these people are too innocent to know that the religious right GOP crowd they want to join knows for sure that every Mormon will burn in Hell.

And after yet another epic f--kup, I have to listen to posts like this... on an article about how Utah can't keep track of their Medicare records, and this somehow is an opportunity to blame Obamacare? Give me a break.

In the past, Fox News has maliciously edited videos, edited audio, and willfully distorted the truth through selective editing. The primary difference between Fox News and other News programs is that when confronted, Fox News will never admit to this being a mistake while others own up to it and publicly denounce it.

Plenty of examples here.

Looks like not.

Neither story covering it mentions a court order or a subpoena; one of them says that "it may have been done without a court order."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/secret-service-asks-for-shutdown-of-legit-website-over-user-content-godaddy-complies.ars

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/16/successful-online-startup-kicked-off-domain-without-stated-reason/

Try being a rape survivor with PTSD triggers on non-consensual groping. Try having a colostomy or other embarrassing medical device of your choice. Try being a transgendered person forced to risk being outed to some random TSA chimp to travel. The epsilon-minus Wal-Mart rejects they hire are not exactly the sort of people who can be relied on to handle such situations discreetly and respectfully.

Moreover, even for someone who has no such special vulnerability, this sort of treatment is simply unacceptable. You may not have a problem with it - hell, you probably like it and wish they'd shove that jackboot up your ass just that much harder - but the notion that one should be expected to be okay with having the government inspect one's genitals is simply obscene. Make no mistake, this is a rape, and it's about the same thing most other rapes are: the assertion of power so absolute as to abrogate the victims' control over even the most intimate parts of their own bodies. This is the forcible reduction of free persons to 'bare life', as Agamben would put it. This is a seed, and thanks to people like you willing to accept and defend it, it has taken root and become almost impossible to challenge, and now we wait in fear of the next step. When fully matured, this is O'Brian saying to Winston Smith, "If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent."

All in all, I recommend you reconsider your position.

Rush at me bros, let's see if this new beam weapon works in a quantity vs quality test...

Around the time the cables were released, Assange said Wikileaks were about to release a tranche of documents implicating a certain US bank in shenanigans. What happened to those?

They were destroyed by a former WikiLeaks employee who left with them, then destroyed the key. Yes, somehow there wasn't a backup of the documents or key (or at least one of the two).

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/22/some-of-wikileaks-bank-of-america-files-destroyed-by-former-spokesman/

Whatever Bank of America did, they got away with it.

Honestly, I trust them more than I trust Diebold. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_Georgia_was_warned_of_0730.html You can look at other coverage, but this is a fairly accurate accounting of what's known.

At least with MS, you can be assured that it isn't corruption, just incompetence if the results aren't right.

TSA's previous actions are relevant here...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/24/rape-victim-arrested-refusing-tsa-pat/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/11/it-begins-us-passenger-arrested-for-refusing-tsa-screening-process-then-paraded-through-airport-in-his-underwear/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014331/Mother-attitude-arrested-refusing-TSA-pat-daughter.html
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz

etc..

Of course, if he wasn't a senator he probably would have been arrested for refusing to complete the security process.

This this this.

See:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/24/rape-victim-arrested-refusing-tsa-pat/

additionally...
https://www.google.com/search?q=arrested+for+refusing+tsa&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Theoretically electronic voting machines should be a lot more efficient than pen and paper is. That being said, it's not generally properly implemented and typically you don't end up having any reason to trust the machines.

Diebold for instance patched machines in Georgia during the 2002 gubernatorial race in Democratic leaning precincts. I don't believe that it's ever been properly answered as to why those patches were being made and why they were only patching machines in those precincts, but it does lead to more grave questions about the whole situation. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_Georgia_was_warned_of_0730.html

With a paper ticket system you can still have the benefits of electronic voting, with verification and the voter should be able to leave the booth with a receipt that can be used to validate results later on if need be.

Unless they forget to pay their annual fee for fire dept. services.... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/07/fire-dept-watches-home-burn-because-family-didnt/

this story says otherwise:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/12/sovereign-citizens-members-arrested-with-help-of-predator-drone/

they weren't cattle rustlers, but members of "Sovereign Citizens" movement.

And who are they, pray tell, some people with a "from each herd according to availability, to each larder according to capacity" point of view?

Yup, been done in Europe already. Check the video of the protestor in Warsaw who used a camera to fly over police lines.

The right to free speech is not infinite. Especially when your speech infringes on the rights of others (try right to life of soldiers and CIA),

1) The revalations stemming from decoding the wikileaks cache are directly responsible for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/wikileaks_cables_and_the_iraq_war/singleton/

2) 4483 US Military Deaths in Iraq in the last 9 years (498/yr): http://icasualties.org/

3) Documented civilian deaths (probably very conservative): 100k+ (over 11k/year) http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Plainly, it SILENCE that would cause death and destruction. In such circumstances, it is immoral, inhumane, and evil to keep the information secret. If anything should be a capital crime, it should be the failure to reveal information where such failure results in 1000s of deaths.

When I google "killed because of leaked cables", I end up with this: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/02/cable-reveals-airstrike-killed-21-children-yemen/

But that's a story about our proud government killing 21 children in Yemen and how the information was contained in the cables. So instead of some theoretical bullshit about how the leak endangering soldiers, the truth is it will save 500 soldiers per year and we won't be responsible for 11,000 (min) civilian deaths per year in Iraq. Every person involved in leaking the cables deserves a Nobel Peace prize.

16 years old is old enough to be tried as an adult in a homicide case. The system likes to pick and choose when 16 is a minor, or adult.

11 year olds have been tried as adults, do you also consider them "adults"

being tried as an adult != being an adult

Back when I proposed that OWS topple statues of Ronald Reagan, I wasn't actually sure if any had been established.

But now, we have the object for our contempt: Nine foot statues of the Patron Saint of Corporate Fascism.

Read this closely, and I think we can discover from where Cain derived his '9, 9, 9".

If you crack the head open, is there a miniature, bronze GHW Bush, spinning knobs and pulling puppet-levers?

I AM OZYMANDIAS! KING of MOTHERFUCKING KINGS! LOOK UPON MY WORKS, OH YE MIGHTY MOTHERFUCKERS, AND DESPAIR!

NVIC Vaccine Risk Report Reveals More Serious Reaction Reports After Gardasil

Comparing serious adverse event reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) following Gardasil (HPV) and another vaccine for meningococcal (Menactra), the National Vaccine Information Center found that there are three to 30 times more serious health problems and deaths reported to VAERS after Gardasil vaccination.

And more information on when Perry tried this:

Perry: "I didn't do my research" on mandate for HPV vaccine

When Perry became the only governor in the U.S. to order all girls between 11 and 12 be injected with Gardasil -- a three-shot regiment at $360 total -- his administrationâ(TM)s ties to Merck immediately came under scrutiny.

It soon became public knowledge that Mike Toomy, Perry's former chief of staff, had gone to work for Merck as a lobbyist. Rep. Dianne White Delisi, then head of the House public health committee, also led a group called Women in Government, which Merck used to generate support for Gardasil among lawmakers -- and her son-in-law was a high-ranking Perry aide. Merck also donated about $6,000 to Perry's reelection campaign.

Because their costs are offloaded onto others, who lose their house because they can't afford to pay for it after they've paid all the taxes.

Randian drivel. They also don't have health insurance CEO's worth three quarters of a billion dollars, funny how you left that part out. How do you think that happens? Because United Health pays for prompt medical care, or because they delay and deny care?

Whine about scary socialism as much as you want, but under the scariest scenario you at least get what you pay for: health care. As opposed to in the U.S., where your insurer takes your double digit increase in your premiums and strives to find new ways to deny your claims. Like calling a severe miscarriage an "elective abortion", calling acne an "undisclosed precondition" to deny coverage for breast cancer treatment, or Vietnam vets that lose coverage because were two cents short on their payment.

The OccupyWallStreet activists have, so far (this is Day 11 of the protest), been unable to articulate much their philosophy or objectives. There is no single leader; some of them are undirected anarchists, some are communists, and some seem to have no coherent viewpoint.

The clash with police referenced in the article, during a march from lower Manhattan to Union Square and back, actually occurred on Saturday. On Sunday, the protesters were visited by journalist Chris Hedges, who gave an excellent interview (even if you don't agree with his politics or anything else). The full interview is posted at http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/ [rawstory.com]

Chris Hedges is the first person who has been able to clearly summarize the position of the protesters. Although, it's really just his own viewpoint--some of the activists view Hedges as a "reformer, not a revolutionary" and therefore not a spokesman for their movement--it's the best statement that has emerged from Zuccotti Park since this thing started. Hedges makes it clear that he views the two dominant political parties in the US as equally corrupt and controlled by corporate interests. The corporate media will try to ignore this protest as much as possible, as it does not fit the political agenda of any major news organization.

Personally, I disagree with most, if not all, of what these protesters say, but I emphatically support their right to say it. The behavior of the NYPD was disgusting.

And then change their mind later, what then? While I'm on the subject, is it just me, or has the mood on Slashdot changed lately? I doubt I'll see one post in defense of these patents, and I don't see as much of the 'ole libertarian bias as I used to. After 11 years of us tech workers getting screwed and having our jobs shipped overseas, maybe we finally got it. :).

It becomes an argument for anonymous browsing on everything you do, until they figure out how to either track, or ban, that too.

100% chance that, in our lifetimes, this will come to pass, too ;(

a lot has been happening the last few weeks. I'm having a hard time keeping optimistic about the world, sigh. and just today, there was this:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/12/robocalls-spam-wi-democrats-telling-them-not-to-vote-in-recall-elections/

the world seems like its burning. (and where's moped jesus when you really need him?)

That's great... the US will stop its own Internet http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/24/power-shut-internet-court-oversight/ but it will make Internet in a suitcase (LOL) for those big desert countries.

Let's keep spending US taxpayer dollars to protect the rights of people out there in other countries, while our own Supreme Court says police can ignore the 4th amendment. http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2011/05/supreme-court-ruling-lets-police-break-down-doors-to-save-evidence.html ...while we pay for them to take our rights and hand them to others.

What's next, China owning the US? http://www.prisonplanet.com/meet-the-new-boss-china-owns-the-united-states.html

Lou

Search warrants aren't required any more. All the cops have to do is claim you were destroying evidence: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/16/supreme-court-upholds-warrantless-search-of-apartment-based-on-marijuana-smell/ 8-1 Supreme Court ruling. That should take 50-75 years to overturn, if we are lucky.

I'd be very doubtful unless he has good proof he was working for the government.

Uhm.. the government ALREADY ADMITTED that they were using him as an undercover informant.

One of those things about the word "undercover" is that unless you are participating in what is going on, chances are the people you are trying to inform on will peg you real quick. "Hey, don't talk to that guy, everyone he talks to gets busted by the feds."

The Secret Service is no different than any other law enforcement agency. The dirtiest, most corrupt wing is always "Vice", simply because in order to find the guys they're trying to bust the cops have to get very, very, very dirty themselves. Sometimes they go native, sometimes they really go native, sometimes they get really freaking insane (more here. Sometimes it's even worse. Undercover cops on major mafia infiltration cases have had almost carte blanche to participate in anything that went on, so long as they testified later.

Am I completely convinced he's telling the truth? No. Is it reasonably plausible that someone in the Secret Service gave him verbal instructions to do certain things in order to keep his credibility up so as to set up future busts, but then decided he wasn't worth it and used him as a scapegoat? Absolutely.

Well, as I recall, in February legislation was "introduced to the Georgia legislature by House Republican Bobby Franklin that would make abortion the legal equivalent of murder and require miscarriages to be investigated by authorities ... Authorities would be required to investigate the cause of fetal death in cases where a miscarriage occurs without attendance at a medical facility."

So, to answer your question: yes, very possibly.

The public doesn't want to pay taxes to fund 6-figure public sector salaries and pensions, and the people making that pay decide to cut libraries and schools instead of their own pay (shocking, I know - but to give some excuse, at the state level the constitution requires pensions be funded first), and the public is outraged.

This is the stuff I like: "Walker gives lobbyist's college dropout son an $81,000-a-year job - With no degree and little expertise, Wisconsin Governor’s appointee pulls in big bucks" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/04/with-no-degree-and-little-expertise-wisconsin-governors-appointee-pulls-in-big-bucks/

"By all means I'm so happy that the FBI has their priorities straight. Yeah let's go after these high school and college students for messing with corporations while ignoring the corporate criminals who destroyed our economy. America, land of Corporate privilege! "

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/arrested-uk-anonymous-web-attacks/#comment-136309035

BTW:
The US and Israel did this. Egypt didn't jump - it was pushed.

Who printed all these very professional "How to Protest" instructional flyers? Anonymous leaked these - in the days BEFORE the demonstrations.

Look into it yourself, and question all assumptions.

Well that kind of clause is abusive. In France that means that you can safely sign such a contract, the law protects you from it being applied, even if you signed the contract. Here is a link another poster gave : http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/mastercard-visa-licenses-revoked-iceland-wikileaks/

They very well be banned to operate in Iceland over this.

Well the way they terminated the contract was shifty enough to get them hauled over the coals by the regulators in at least one country.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/mastercard-visa-licenses-revoked-iceland-wikileaks/