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Gilbert, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- The first detailed scholarly analysis of knives and the Second Amendment has been published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (vol. 47, pages 167-215).
Authored by noted Second Amendment scholars David Kopel, Clayton Cramer and Joe Olson, the paper makes the case for knives as “arms” protected by the Second Amendment, supporting one of Knife Rights’ foundational tenets. Continue reading “‘Knives and the Second Amendment’ Legal Article Published”
Manassas, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- Rights advocates around the country need to be on the lookout for an insidious new tactic being launched by Mike Bloomberg and his mercenary minions.
Their latest line of attack is mental health. This actually isn’t so much a new approach as a refocusing and turbo charging of an older plan. Continue reading “Mental Health – The Next Gun Rights Assault”
Bill de Blasio, NYC’s new Trotskyite Sandinista Commandant, was an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement and many of the progressive values it espoused. He spoke at Zuccotti Park in October of 2011, and heralded the activists for dragging “the growing crisis of income inequality out into the light of day.” He called Bloomberg’s decision to evict the occupation in the dead of night “troubling” and said he would have let the protest “play out.” His police commissioner, however, would have swept that park clean as soon as the first twinkle fingers hit the air. Continue reading “De Blasio’s New NYPD Commissioner Would Have Crushed Occupy Wall Street Like A Cockroach”
Huffington Post – by Murray Weiss
NEW YORK — The NYPD has ordered the city’s 77 police precincts to stop giving out any information to the media about crimes taking place in their neighborhoods, cutting off a long-standing source of information for New Yorkers.
According to a terse NYPD edict transmitted citywide, precinct commanders were instructed: “Any requests by media to view complaint reports be referred to the office of the Deputy Commissioner For Public Information.” Continue reading “NYPD Crime Reports To Be Denied To Journalists”
The Gazette – by Dave Philipps
Facing pressure to combat drug use and sexual assault at the Air Force Academy, the Air Force has created a secret system of cadet informants to hunt for misconduct among students.
Cadets who attend the publicly-funded academy near Colorado Springs must pledge never to lie. But the program pushes some to do just that: Informants are told to deceive classmates, professors and commanders while snapping photos, wearing recording devices and filing secret reports. Continue reading “Honor and deception A secretive Air Force program recruits academy students to inform on fellow cadets and disavows them afterward”
The United States Air Force Academy is defending its use of cadet “spies” after a local newspaper broke the story that one its informants was expelled for misconduct committed at the secret instruction of the academy.
The Colorado Springs Gazette first reported on the academy’s program Sunday in an article titled “Honor and Deception.” Operating out of a law enforcement branch of the Air Force called the Office of Special Investigations, or OSI, 24-year-old Eric Thomas said that as a cadet he was instructed to help gather information on sexual assaults, drug use and other aspects of misconduct committed by his fellow cadets. Continue reading “Air Force Academy Defends Use Of OSI Student Spying Program To Catch Rule-Breaking Cadets”
Covington VA –-(Ammoland.com)- FIRST – ARE YOU A MENTAL-HEALTH PROFESSIONAL?
If so, VCDL is putting together a special committee to monitor mental-health bills that will be coming up in the General Assembly in January.
We need mental-health professionals to read all of the mental-health bills that get introduced and to tell VCDL leadership if the bills would affect gun-rights and how. The VCDL Board of Directors will then determine VCDL’s position on such bills based on the committee’s input. Continue reading “How The Antis Are Planning To Push Gun Control In Virginia”
A New Yorker who was arrested near his Brooklyn home for possession of several Ecstasy pills was actually carrying breath mints, a discovery that forced prosecutors to drop a criminal charge against the man, who is now suing for false arrest.
Robert Hankins, 46, was arrested on April 2 at 2:30 PM by NYPD Officer Sean Nurse, according to a Criminal Court complaint. Nurse reported observing Hankins in possession of “a plastic bag containing a quantity of” Ecstasy. Continue reading “NYPD Busts Man After Mistaking Mints For Ecstasy”
New York Daily News – by Rocco Parascandola , Erin Durkin AND Larry Mcshane
Former New York top cop William Bratton, bounced from One Police Plaza in 1996, is returning as the city’s new police commissioner.
Bratton, 66, was announced Thursday as the new commissioner at the Red Hook Justice Community Center by incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. Continue reading “William Bratton named NYPD commissioner by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio”
Huffington Post – by Alexis Kleinman
More than 2 million passwords for sites including Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google have been stolen and posted online, BCC reports.
The “ethical hackers” at security firm Trustwave’s SpiderLabs blog discovered the trove of login credentials, email credentials and passwords on Tuesday.
Security experts told BBC that a criminal gang may be behind the security breach. The stolen information can be used to extract people’s personal information from the websites, which can then be sold, according to BBC. Continue reading “2 Million Stolen Facebook, Yahoo And Google Passwords Posted Online”
NEW YORK CITY — The bill taxpayers will have to pay to protect Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly when he leaves office next month just got bigger.
The NYPD’s Intelligence Division — with Kelly’s input — is recommending that Kelly take with him a 10-officer complement of taxpayer-funded bodyguards, up from the six-officer detail the commissioner had wanted last month. Continue reading “Ray Kelly to Get 10-Officer Detail When He Leaves, Costing Taxpayers $1.5M”
Huffington Post – by David Moye
A dance student from Tulsa, Okla., on a trip to Houston was taken into custody on Saturday after she was discovered in her instructor’s car.
Landry Thompson, 13, was visiting Houston with her dance instructor, Emmanuel Hurd, to take a series of dance classes from top industry professionals.
On the way back to their hotel with Thompson and another dancer, Hurd, who also goes by the name Emmanuel Cross, stopped at a gas station to get his bearings. Continue reading “Landry Thompson, 13, Taken Into Custody After Dozing Off In Dance Instructor’s Car”
In one year, more than 200 children were abused while under the state of Massachusetts’ care, according to a new report.
State officials found evidence supporting 249 allegations of physical and sexual abuse and poor care involving youngsters in state-watched settings last year, according to the Office of the Child Advocate’s 2013 report, a copy of which was obtained by the Herald. Continue reading “249 Children Abused In State Custody In Massachusetts: Report”
Huffington Post – by Paul Blumenthal
WASHINGTON — In a sweeping indictment of New York politics, a commission empaneled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to investigate official corruption in the state released its preliminary report, detailing abuses of power and endorsing major changes to campaign finance and anti-corruption laws.
The report issued by the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption on Monday points to numerous ongoing investigations while laying out patterns of systemic corruption. The commission relied on 200 subpoenas, millions of pages of documents, dozens of interviews and the use of data analytics technology designed for counter-terrorism to parse all the campaign finance and lobbying material. Continue reading “We Knew New York Was Corrupt, But We Didn’t Know It Was This Bad”
In an announcement made last week by outgoing Nanny-in-Chief Michael Bloomberg, it was revealed that the mythical land of runaway zebras and Mafia Wives the borough of Staten Island will be home to New York City’s largest solar installation — a 10-megawatt power plant that, when completed, will have the capacity to produce enough juice to power in the ballpark of 2,000 homes. More specifically, the facility will be located on what used to be the largest landfill in the entire world before New York City started to export its insane amount of garbage to other states (thanks a bunch Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania!) in 2001. Continue reading “NYC’s largest solar facility coming to former Staten Island dump”
New York Observer – by Drew Grant
Update: Looks like the ad is actually part of a viral campaign for Cinemax’s Hunted, whatever the hell that is. Also, it’s been there for a year? You’d think we’d have heard of it by now!
It’s times like this that we really miss Occupy New York. This advertisement for ByzantiumSecurity.com is featured prominently outside Cipriani’s Wall Street, which is about half a block away from the former Zuccotti Park HQ of the organization that brought the “1%-er” terminology to such a forefront in cultural conversations over two years ago. Continue reading “Update: Security System Promotes ’1 Percent-er’ Ad Near Zuccotti Park”
New York Daily News – by JOHN MARZULLI
An NYPD lieutenant shamed a detective in front of the entire squad, branding him a “rat” for reporting misconduct to the Internal Affairs Bureau, two of his former colleagues confirmed.
The two detectives detailed the humiliation in sworn statements filed in connection with former Detective James Griffin’s federal lawsuit, which contends he retired after being publicly disgraced by his supervisor. Griffin had previously been threatened by fellow detectives, ostracized, and found the word “rat” scrawled on his locker and a hole punched through his desk. Continue reading “NYPD lieutenant branded whistleblower detective a ‘rat’ in front of squad: former colleagues”
New York Daily News – by JOHN MARZULLI
A NYPD cop and two goons — including a reputed gangster who was involved in a fatal stabbing of a groom-to-be — were arrested Tuesday with extorting monthly “protection” payments from an Albanian restaurant in Queens, federal authorities said.
The cop, Besnik Llakatura, conspired to shake down the restaurant owner with Llakatura playing the role of the good cop with the victim who was his friend, authorities said. Continue reading “NYPD Cop and reputed gangster arrested for shaking down Queens restaurant owner: prosecutors”
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