The bloodbath continues along our southern border and now word is coming in that Los Zetas, the highly trained killers formerly with the Gulf Cartel, have crossed into the United States and taken over at least two ranches in the Laredo, Texas area. I am receiving word that the owners of the ranches have evacuated without being harmed.
“Security” patrols stationed at polling places in Philly
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - Legal analyst Dan Recht said he believes the Jefferson County District Attorney is “seriously overcharging” a Wheat Ridge homeowner, accused of attempted first degree murder for shooting at two thieves.
PHOENIX—The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation’s toughest immigration crackdown. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix argues that Arizona’s law requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic violations usurps federal authority.
Oh, this makes sense.
Daley’s next initiatives: only one speech per home; only one article per newspaper; only one holiday per religion.
doubleplusgood this
An unapologetic Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said the change that allows police to arrest protesters near the G20 security fence who won’t identify themselves is neither secret nor sweeping.
…With approximately 45 percent voter turnout, 3,906 ballots were cast in favor of the ordinance and 2,908 against. Sixteen precincts voted for the ordinance while voters in four precincts were opposed.
Shall the City of Fremont, Nebraska, enact proposed Ordinance No. 5165, amending the Fremont Municipal Code to prohibit the harboring of illegal aliens or hiring of unauthorized aliens, providing definitions, making provision for occupancy licenses, providing judicial process, repealing conflicting provisions, and establishing an effective date for this ordinance?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to begin the formal process of bringing the Internet under greater federal control — a move sought by both President Barack Obama and FCC Chairnman Julius Genachowski — even though federal law calls for an Internet “unfettered by Federal or State regulation.”
The Washington Post today gave front-page coverage to the story of Anthony Graber, who is being prosecuted under Maryland’s wiretap law for videotaping his encounter with a gun-wielding state trooper during a traffic stop. Six police officers raided his home to arrest him, weeks after he had posted the video to YouTube. The local prosecutor, Joseph I. Cassilly, told the Post it was not the first time his office had charged someone with a crime for recording the police in action.
Here’s a straightforward edit: The police in Maryland are twisting a statute meant to protect people from government intrusion to, instead, punish people for trying to protect themselves from government abuse.
In China, the artist Ai Weiwei has been using video recordings to hold police and the government accountable. By filming himself as he pursues complaints against the system, Ai has forced the Chinese authorities to obey laws and procedures they would otherwise be inclined to ignore. You can hear audio of Ai being beaten in his hotel room by local police in Chengdu—an incident that caused a life-threatening head injury—and watch him return to Chengdu to file a formal complaint with the police about it.
If the Chengdu cops were Maryland state troopers, they could have prosecuted Ai for recording his beating in the first place.
New Pennsylvania proposal would ban forced implementation of ID chips in peoples—but amendment added would give parents the ability to put them in their children..
WASHINGTON (AP) — Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You’ll have to speak up.
Elena Kagan’s legal record is thinner than most other U.S. Supreme Court nominees. She hasn’t served as a judge or taken sharp positions on many constitutional and other legal issues that often trip up potential justices.
(via zero1infinity)
GUANTANAMO BAY — His nickname wasn’t “Monster,” he admonished the lawyer. It was “The Monster.” That was what the Bagram Collection Point’s interrogators, guards — and most especially detainees — called Army interrogator Damien Corsetti. And it was important to him that the court correctly record his story.
Back then — in 2002 at Bagram, and later at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison — Corsetti was as fearsome as his handle. Although acquitted, he went before a court-martial proceeding related to the abuse of a detainee in Iraq. Now, Corsetti is an unemployed veteran of two wars, unable to work because of post-traumatic stress disorder, and an infamous figure in the U.S.’s post-9/11 history of torture.
But he testified on Wednesday morning from a remote location on behalf of one of the former inmates at Bagram whom he used to intimidate and brutalize: Omar Khadr, the 23-year old Canadian citizen who has been in U.S. custody for nearly eight years. The large man once known as “The Monster” — the nickname is tattooed in Italian on his stomach — provided rare sworn testimony about the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody in the Afghanistan war’s early days, the product of what he described as command pressure for intelligence and unclear rules about permissible interrogator behavior.
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