
Kunta Kinte Had it Coming
• bretigne.typepad.comI remember watching this scene when it first appeared, in the TV miniseries adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in 1977.
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I remember watching this scene when it first appeared, in the TV miniseries adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in 1977.
"A Police officer in Texas who was being criminally prosecuted for shooting dead an unarmed black man has persuaded a judge to throw out the charge against him by arguing that he enjoyed immunity under the US constitution.
AT exactly 5 p.m. on March 13, 2007, just as I was preparing to leave my cubicle in Washington for the day, I got a phone call from the journalist Jonathan Landay of McClatchy Newspapers. To this day, I remember his exact words.
"Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
Today, we live in a full-fledged, militarized police state where the average American gets nervous driving in traffic as soon as they notice a cop in the rear view mirror, even though the person hasn't done anything wrong and is simply just trying
Once upon a time, a dental or medical exam was an opportunity to read a book. No more. The TV blares. It was talking heads discussing whether a football player had been sufficiently punished. The offense was unclear.
Masks, face paint also not allowed
Once upon a time, a dental or medical exam was an opportunity to read a book. No more. The TV blares. It was talking heads discussing whether a football player had been sufficiently punished. The offense was unclear. The question was whether the lash
As the widespread use of encryption starts to make surveillance more challenging, one of the nation's fusion centers has a proposed solution: More informants.
The Blockchain Alliance is a new public-private forum between law enforcement and bitcoin executives.
"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here." Jayne Cobb, demonstrating why he should never be left in charge of anything, from "The Train Job."
This alliance will serve as a resource for law enforcement to help combat criminal activity involving bitcoin and the blockchain, and has so far engaged with the Department of Justice (including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service), the U.S. Secret
UK Police are asking the government for new surveillance powers to be able to view the internet search history of every single person in the country.
Both the FBI and local law enforcement are trying to get the genetic data stored at companies like 23andMe.
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The zombies are back. They are hungry. And they are lurking around every corner.
"Law and order" conservatives: When they are right, they are so right; but when they are wrong, they are so wrong.
"Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
On the anniversary of the USA Patriot Act, Black points out that we should take some time to remember how freedom was actually lost in the US.
In 2000 Larry Stratton and I published The Tyranny of Good Intentions, the story of how Americans lost the protection of law.
"C.B.P.'s own records paint a disturbing picture of lawlessness and impunity, in which the agency continually operates without any regard for accepted best practices, and agents commit widespread abuses knowing they won't be held accountable,
In this video Luke Rudkowski travels to Nevada to interview the Lantry family that have gone through the greatest injustice a family could ever go through from the U.S Federal hey Government. When you watch this video you will understand how this is
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Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic 'Extremists'
A gutless, cowardly population that accepts mass murder of women and children and destruction of countries without protest and sits and watches, without intervening, as criminal cops murder unarmed citizens and black thugs inflict brain trauma on wom
But very few arrests are made at checkpoints. For example, only about 800 of the 120,939 immigrant apprehensions made by the Border Patrol in the Tucson Sector in fiscal year 2013 were made at checkpoints. That's 0.67 percent.
The New York Police Department is using super-secret X-ray vans and it is something the authorities want to keep tight-lipped.
Previously Labeled Libertarians, Conservatives "Domestic Extremists"...Given past history, DOJ's "domestic terrorism counsel" will politically persecute libertarians and conservatives
Vampire cops in Central Texas propose full-time 'No Refusal' blood draws