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Date Sent: 2014-05-29
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
How About A Three-Front War—– Where “Rebels” Will Need Tutors To Get “Vetted”
Man Threatens Representative of Extortion Syndicate, Faces 20 Years in Prison -- Ten years after, Bush protesters lose free speech case -- Mayor Slaps Reporter’s Camera before Ensuring Commitment to "Transparency" -- US Airways Hates Violins, Makes Bach Cry -- Afghanistan: Permanent US Occupation Planned -- War Without Mercy Continues -- Good To The Last Shot -- Man in Pig Mask Arrested for Impersonating Police Officer -- Revenge of the Pink Slime II:
South Dakota Supreme Court Allows Trial Of ABC For Beef Coverage -- The
Ten Commandments Exchanged for the ten of the NWO - The Generation Gap
Has Been Produced Part II -- Police Deny FOIA Request About Mysterious Snooping Device -- Luke
Rudkowski Arrested While Covering Bilderberg 2014? -- Adam Kokesh: Americans don't really care about
veterans -- Joe the Plumber: “As Harsh
as This Sounds – Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump... -- SpaceShipTwo to be fueled
by thermoset plastic similar to nylon -- Kinsley, Greenwald and Government Secrets -- 'Mind pilots' steer
plane sim with thoughts alone -- Father faces child cruelty charges for teen's punishment --
This Is What Happens When You Hack and Extort the ‘Bitcoin Jesus’
-- Powerful Photos
Dig Into Turkey’s Taboo History of the Armenian Genocide -- Are You
Talking to a Provocateur? -- 05-28-14 -- Thomas
DiLorenzo - Mike Finger (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Result of "War
on Terror": U.S. State Department warns no U.S. citizen safe
"Throughout -- How Gold Helped Iran Withstand U.S. Financial Fury -- The empire
strikes back: How Brandeis foreshadowed Snowden and Greenwald -- EU
GMO Regulation Handed Over to Biotech Industry?
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News Link • Syria
How About A Three-Front War"" Where “Rebels” Will Need Tutors To Get “Vetted” ....
05-28-2014
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davidstockmanscontracorner.com
How About A Three-Front War"" Where “Rebels” Will Need Tutors To Get “Vetted” By Clueless “Screeners” Sent By Samantha Power!
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Man Threatens Representative of Extortion Syndicate, Faces 20 Years in Prison
05-29-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
“Make them cry,” exhorted an IRS instructor.... "Enforcement. Seizure and sales. That’s our mind-set…. You’re not out there to take any prisoners. Prisoners are like an installment agreement. They have to be fed and clothed and housed
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Ten years after, Bush protesters lose free speech case
05-29-2014
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USA Today
"People are not at liberty to speak whenever, however, and wherever they please," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled for the court. "In that regard, we have recognized that securing the safety of the president is a vital concern."
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News Link • Government
Mayor Slaps Reporter’s Camera before Ensuring Commitment to "Transparency"
05-29-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Dorn was attempting to ask Mayor Headen whether she knew about any charges against Brandye Mells, the mayor’s assistant. Mells is the subject of two criminal cases in Toledo Municipal Court, according to court records.
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News Link • Activism
US Airways Hates Violins, Makes Bach Cry
05-29-2014
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Simple Justice
musicians have long suffered a far more serious indignity. Ever since the classic, United Breaks Guitars, it’s been beyond question that musical instruments should not be checked.
U.S. Airways, however, is more concerned for your safety, because
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Good To The Last Shot
05-28-2014
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Simple Justice
Even when it’s beyond dispute a police officer had no choice but to defend himself from deadly force, someone will ask why. Why did they have to shoot that many times? The Supreme Court gave a conclusive answer
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man in Pig Mask Arrested for Impersonating Police Officer
05-28-2014
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His costume included a police hat and jacket, but the pig mask he was wearing made it obvious the whole thing was a joke. Unfortunately, the police didn’t find the joke funny, and arrested him for impersonating an officer.
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News Link • Food
Revenge of the Pink Slime II: South Dakota Supreme Court Allows Trial Of ABC For Beef Coverage
05-28-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We have previously covered the “pink slime” controversy and claims by the industry that the term is defamatory toward a beef product that it prefers to call “lean finely textured beef.” Now, the Supreme Court of South Dakota
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News Link • Police State
Police Deny FOIA Request About Mysterious Snooping Device
05-28-2014
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‘HailStorm’ is a new device obtained by the Oakland County Sheriff with monies from a U.S. Homeland Security Grant and so far, there isn’t much information available on what exactly it can and cannot do.
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Opinion • Communications
What Do We Mean by Legal?
05-28-2014
Paul Rosenberg
In order to secure long-term, effective obedience from humans, some rationale beyond a fear of violence must be used. People must believe that obeying the enforcer’s word is the right thing to do. That’s why codes of law invoke some type of unseen hi
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News Link • Events: America
Luke Rudkowski Arrested While Covering Bilderberg 2014?
05-28-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by kevink
As soon as the cameras were taken, Luke Rudkowski and Dan Dicks were placed under arrest by the Copenhagen Police Department.
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News Link • General Opinion
Joe the Plumber: “As Harsh as This Sounds " Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump...
05-28-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Joe the Plumber: “As Harsh as This Sounds " Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights”
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News Link • Inventions
New process could lead to more widespread use of graphene
05-28-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Graphene is very thin, incredibly strong, electrically conductive and chemically inert, allowing it to be used in a wide range of technologies.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceShipTwo to be fueled by thermoset plastic similar to nylon
05-28-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
As the still-to-be-announced date of the first commercial flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo approaches, more and more of the technology involved is getting nailed down.
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News Link • Inventions
New record efficiency for quantum-dot photovoltaics
05-28-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Colin Jeffrey
Flexible, inexpensive, large-area, lightweight solar cells are difficult to produce as they require an inert atmosphere and high temperatures, and they often degrade in a short time after exposure to air.
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News Link • Inventions
Could this little-known biomass generator start an energy revolution?
05-28-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Eric Mack
It could be the most important portable power plant you've never heard of. It's called the "Power Pallet" and it is essentially a combined biomass refinery and generator that fits on a single pallet and can kick out up to 20 kilowatts of electricity.
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News Link • Books
Kinsley, Greenwald and Government Secrets
05-28-2014
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nytimes.com
Michael Kinsley’s review of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, “No Place to Hide” hasn’t even appeared in the printed Book Review yet " that won’t happen until June 8 " but it’s already infuriated a lot of people.
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News Link • Energy
Screwy-looking wind turbine makes little noise and a big claim
05-28-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Although it's getting increasingly common to see solar panels on the roofs of homes, household wind turbines are still a fairly rare sight.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Mind pilots' steer plane sim with thoughts alone
05-28-2014
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cnet.com
Seven test pilots demonstrate an X-Men-like ability to steer an airplane through a flight simulation with surprising accuracy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Father faces child cruelty charges for teen's punishment
05-28-2014
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11alive.com
Police arrested a Douglasville father on child cruelty charges after the man punished his 16-year-old son by making him carry a 23-pound landscape stone for several miles.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
This Is What Happens When You Hack and Extort the ‘Bitcoin Jesus’
05-28-2014
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Wired.com
When the man known as “The Bitcoin Jesus” got hacked, he didn’t go straight to the police. He just tapped the power of bitcoin.
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News Link • 3D Printing
A $250 3-D Printer With Breakthrough Software
05-28-2014
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Wired.com
Automobiles had been around for decades when the first Model T arrived in 1908. The reason we remember Henry Ford’s creation is because it was the first car that made sense for the masses.
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News Link • Books
Powerful Photos Dig Into Turkey’s Taboo History of the Armenian Genocide
05-28-2014
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Wired.com
Kathryn Cook’s book Memory of Trees tells a complicated and moving story of the Armenian genocide through a visceral and broadly visual survey of the people and places that were, and still are, affected by the tragic events of a century ago.
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News Link • Internet
Are You Talking to a Provocateur?
05-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The imagined look and persona of an agent provocateur in most people’s minds probably couldn’t be further from the truth.
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News Link • Books
Is Democracy Another God that Failed?
05-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
On Memorial Day weekend, scores of thousands of bikers arrived here for their annual Rolling Thunder tribute to America’s veterans, especially those lost in our wars or left behind.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
05-28-14 -- Thomas DiLorenzo - Mike Finger (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Thomas DiLorenzo (Professor of Economics, Author, Writer) on the military industrial complex and militaristic fascism - Mike Finger (Dir of Marketing at Europac Precious Metals) on Europac using Bitpay to accept Bitcoin for Precious Metals
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News Link • TERRORISM
Result of "War on Terror": U.S. State Department warns no U.S. citizen safe "Througho
05-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
After the attack on Iraq a frequently heard comment from those with no interest in foreign affairs or much, from activists, journalists and political observers of all hues, was: “Soon no American or British citizen will be safe anywhere on earth, for
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News Link • Iran
How Gold Helped Iran Withstand U.S. Financial Fury
05-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Throughout much of 2012 and 2013, the United States and Iran fought a financial war. With the benefit of hindsight, my friend Jim Rickards calls it a draw.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The empire strikes back: How Brandeis foreshadowed Snowden and Greenwald
05-28-2014
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http://www.salon.com, Andrew O'Hehir.
So-called liberals attack the whistle-blower duo -- and a brilliant Supreme Court justice saw it all coming
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News Link • Bioterrorism
EU GMO Regulation Handed Over to Biotech Industry?
05-28-2014
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Farm Wars
If a new proposal passes, Monsanto and Syngenta get to decide whether or not to ban their own products in the EU. But don’t worry, a minute portion will have misleading labels. I feel safer already!
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News Link • Economy - International
The Great Western Gas Fiasco
05-27-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Eric Margolis
Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin usually wears a perfect poker face. But last week in Shangahi, the icy-cold Russian president came awfully close to bursting into a big grin.
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News Link • World News
More than 50 rebels killed as new Ukraine leader unleashes assault
05-27-2014
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By By Sabina Zawadzki and Gabriela Baczynska
Ukrainian aircraft and paratroopers killed more than 50 pro-Russian rebels in an assault that raged into a second day on Tuesday after a newly elected president vowed to crush the revolt in the east once and for all.
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News Link • China
Elderly Chinese people committing suicide...
05-27-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Damien Gayle
Elderly Chinese people committing suicide before end of the month to avoid province's looming ban on burials
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Memory Holes in the American Right
05-27-2014
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lewrockwell.com
We all know about the memory hole. That was the unofficial name of a department of government in George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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News Link • China
China to be the Most Important Country in XXI Century - Jim Rogers, Investment Specialist
05-27-2014
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lewrockwell.com
Sanction threats against Russia sent shockwaves of panic across the world of investment. There’s still those who still believe in the prospects of the Russian economy, despite the political turmoil.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
05-27-2014
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lewrockwell.com
President Obama held a press conference last week to express his outrage over reports that the Veterans Administration was routinely delaying treatment to veterans, with some veterans even dying while on alleged secret waiting lists.
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News Link • Books
All Hail Shadow Banking
05-27-2014
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lewrockwell.com
Another way of looking at the essential and inherent unsoundness of fractional reserve banking is to note a crucial rule of sound financial management"one that is observed everywhere except in the banking business.
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News Link • Free Trade
Bilderberg Agenda Revealed: Elite Desperate to Rescue Unipolar World
05-27-2014
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Prison Planet
Anti-EU revolution, Ukraine crisis threaten to derail global government
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News Link • Police State
Extremists: “Military Veterans Who Have Fought In Foreign Wars And Are Disgruntled…”
05-27-2014
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shtfplan.com
While President Obama lays wreaths and Congressional representatives give lip service thanking our veterans for their sacrifice, the Department of Homeland Security operating under the directives of said Executive and Legislative branch membership wa
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar
05-27-2014
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pbs.org
With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that country’s brutal civil war, moderate Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging their training in Qatar.
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News Link • Military
VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/26/14: The VA Scandal ....
05-27-2014
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Daily Paul.com
VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/26/14: The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
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News Link • Police State
SWAT team ambushes innnocent man as he works on tractor in his driveway
05-27-2014
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policestateusa.com
"I was minding my own business, you know, and they came in for the kill."
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News Link • European Union
Stark warning from Europe’s voters
05-27-2014
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ft.com
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News Link • Death
Swiss group to allow assisted dying for elderly who are not terminally ill
05-27-2014
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theguardian.com
Exit adds 'suicide due to old age' to its statutes, giving people suffering from age-related problems the choice to end their life
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance
05-27-2014
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realclearpolitics.com
The man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.
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News Link • China
China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push
05-27-2014
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news.yahoo.com
China plans to take more than five million ageing vehicles off the roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone, ...
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Indiana: Motorist Sues After Officer Takes Forced Urine Sample
05-27-2014
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The Newspaper
Cops use catheter in invasive procedure against Indiana motorist whose blood alcohol level was below the legal limit.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NY county to pay $650,000 after police shoot woman in drug raid on wrong apartment
05-27-2014
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Rawstory
A New York woman has reached a $650,000 settlement with Nassau County after a police officer accidentally shot her while mistakenly bursting into her apartment during a drug investigation.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Assaults Air Force Captain for Not Knowing His Neighbor
05-27-2014
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Reason Magazine
In December 2013, Aquino was at home when he noticed Sheriff's Deputy Ivan Rodriguez outside his property. Apparently, one of Aquino's neighbors didn't recognize him and called the Sheriff's Department to report a suspicious person. According to Aqui
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man arrested for bringing gun to movie days after Aurora shootings gets $25K from CO town
05-27-2014
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Rawstory
Police later dropped the charges, and Mapes sued the city of Thornton. “We don’t take and use the mood of the moment to take way people’s rights,” said his attorney. The city agreed to the settlement but not to wrongdoing.
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