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IPFS News Link • Police State

The Plague of Punitive Populism

• William Norman Grigg

In Virginia, police officers raid a baptismal party for two small boys. Without cause or provocation they assault the grandfather who owns the home, tasering him three times while children and other guests look on in horror.

When the pregnant daughter-in-law of the victim intervenes, she, too, is forced to perform the "electron dance." The grandfather is charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication, despite the fact that Virginia state statutes specify that such offenses cannot be committed on one's own property.

The woman who came to the aid of the first victim was charged with "assaulting an officer," since her brave effort to protect the grandfather from a criminal assault involved placing her unhallowed hands on the sanctified personage of a "l

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Comment by Lucky Red
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 This story must be rignt out of WorldNutDaily.  Right up there with the one about the widow and 3 cats that were terrorized by the FBI...ROFL!



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