Author: Joe from MassPrivateI

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

Here’s a bothersome trend that seems quite fitting for the smoke and mirrors driven, celebrity obsessed, hologram society that America has become. A company known as Crowds on Demand is actually in the business of providing fake protesters for causes, fake entourages for wanna be celebrities and seemingly even fake supporters for unpopular corporate activities.   Continue reading “Truman Show USA – “Concerned Citizens” at Town Hall Meetings are Often Paid Actors”

Institute for Justice – by J Justin Wilson

The Indiana Constitution clearly states that “all forfeitures” must go to support the state’s schools, but that has not stopped police and prosecutors in Indianapolis from keeping 100 percent of civil forfeiture proceeds for themselves. This multi million-dollar constitutional violation has been going on for years, fueling aggressive forfeiture practices in Indiana’s capital city. Now, a lawsuit filed today by a group of forfeiture victims and concerned Hoosier families seeks to put an end to policing for profit in Indianapolis.   Continue reading “Lawsuit: Indianapolis Police Violate Constitution In Pursuit of “Policing for Profit””

Courthouse News Service – by Nick Rummell

TRENTON, N.J. (CN) – Two jurors who pleaded for a judge to be lenient with a man found guilty of murdering his father have no say in the matter, New Jersey’s appeals court ruled Monday.

The two jurors, among the 12 who found John Mahoney guilty in 2015 of first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his father, had suggested to the judge that Mahoney receive “significant therapy” and probation for the crime.   Continue reading “N.J. Court Reverses Sentencing Role of Jurors”

Reuters

The U.S. Justice Department is considering legal changes to combat what it sees as a rising threat from domestic anti-government extremists, senior officials told Reuters, even as it steps up efforts to stop Islamic State-inspired attacks at home.

Extremist groups motivated by a range of U.S.-born philosophies present a “clear and present danger,” John Carlin, the Justice Department’s chief of national security, told Reuters in an interview. “Based on recent reports and the cases we are seeing, it seems like we’re in a heightened environment.”   Continue reading “U.S. eyes ways to toughen fight against domestic extremists”

Fourth Amendment – by Hall

Officers approached defendant sitting in his Jeep at 14th & U in D.C., looking down into his lap. It turned out he was looking at his phone. The police order to get out of the car was without reasonable suspicion of any wrongdoing. Defendant had brass knuckles on him because he managed two restaurants in the area. The evidence was in dispute whether he admitted he had them or the officer just frisked him. It doesn’t matter: no reasonable suspicion. Sharp v. United States, 2016 D.C. App. LEXIS 40 (Feb. 18, 2016).   Continue reading “DC: Sitting in a car looking in your lap isn’t reasonable suspicion of anything”

The New Orleans Advocate – by BRYN STOLE AND DANIELLE MADDOX KINCHEN

A dozen years ago, just after Derrick Todd Lee was arrested and tied to a string of killings in south Louisiana, the state counted 12,000 DNA profiles in its database designed to help solve crimes.

Now, it has about 40 times as many.   Continue reading “‘It smells of Big Brother’: Some question legality, effectiveness of Louisiana’s expansive DNA database”

Fox News

A Virginia bill that would keep the names of police officers secret from the media and public is drawing harsh criticism from open records advocates who argue that the names are an important tool in keep watch over whether police departments are hiring potential problem officers with taxpayer money.

Supporters of the bill say that handing over the lists of names would possibly put officers and deputies at risk in the field during a time of what they describe as growing contempt toward law enforcement.   Continue reading “Virginia bill would keep the names of police officers from public”

Chron – by Cindy Horswell

Facing possible prosecution over a campaign mailing sent to former jurors, Conroe judge Michael Seiler resigned his post Tuesday as part of an agreement with the district attorney’s office that will prevent him from serving as a judge in the future.

George Parnham, Seiler’s attorney, said the 435th District judge submitted his resignation to Gov. Greg Abbott late Tuesday morning.   Continue reading “Conroe judge resigns, avoids prosecution over campaign flier to jurors”

MassPrivateI

According to Courthouse News (CN) article, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson warned law enforcement of a new breed of terrorism that sees people “self-radicalize.”

“As I have said many times, we are in a new phase of the global terrorist threat, requiring a whole new type of response,” Johnson said. “We have moved from a world of terrorist-directed attacks to a world that includes the threat of terrorist-inspired attacks.”
Continue reading “Fearing Americans are tiring of the war on terror, DHS creates a “new breed of terrorism””

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

BASTROP, Tex. (INTELLIHUB) — Photos taken by Joe Carey last Friday, in a Lowe’s parking lot reveal something rather suspicious.

A fully armored surveillance truck, equipped with surveillance electronics and stabilizer bars, that is sitting stationary, with its stabilizers extended as if it’s in operation.   Continue reading “Fully armored surveillance truck, with stabilizers down spotted in Lowe’s parking lot — European plates”

Papers, Please!

One of the big lies being told by supporters of the REAL-ID Act of 2005 is that, as the DHS says on its official “Rumor Control” page, “Fact: REAL ID does not build a national database nor does it grant the Federal Government or another state access to a state’s driver’s license data.”

In fact, as we’ve been pointing out and as others have noted, the REAL-ID Act is both building a national database and requiring any state that wants to issue drivers’ licenses or state ID cards that are “compliant” with the REAL-ID Act to grant all other states access to their state’s drivers’ license and ID card data.   Continue reading “How the REAL-ID Act is creating a national ID database”

Boston Globe – by Matt Rocheleau

The federal government has ordered three Massachusetts town police departments and the state Department of Correction to return military equipment, including grenade launchers, bayonets, and tracked armored vehicles, that they received as part of a controversial program.

After concerns were raised over the use of military equipment by police during riots in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, President Obama issued an executive order that established a working group to study the issue. He later accepted the group’s recommendations to curb federal programs that send surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies nationwide.   Continue reading “Goodbye, grenade launchers: Mass. towns return military equipment to feds”

Breitbart – by Milo Yiannopoulos

Rumours that Twitter has begun ‘shadowbanning’ politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech. His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.

According to the source, Twitter maintains a ‘whitelist’ of favoured Twitter accounts and a ‘blacklist’ of unfavoured accounts. Accounts on the whitelist are prioritised in search results, even if they’re not the most popular among users. Meanwhile, accounts on the blacklist have their posts hidden from both search results and other users’ timelines.   Continue reading “Twitter Shadowbanning ‘Real and Happening Every Day’ Says Inside Source”

Watchdog – by Eric Boehm

This week’s Nanny State involves a trip into the Way-Back Machine, to a time almost 100 years ago.

You see, kids, back in the early 20th Century, there was actually a time when drinking alcohol was illegal in this country. It was called Prohibition, and for about 12 years it was a serious crime to be caught making or selling booze.   Continue reading “Nanny State of the Week: Minnesota men facing felony charges for selling beer”

Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish

In the spirit of the transparency — of which the Obama administration claims to be a champion — there will be no details regarding the allocation of non-military intelligence spending in the president’s final budget request to Congress.

According to a press release from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), fiscal year 2017’s budget totals $53.5 billion, but don’t ask which agencies or programs will receive the funds — “because such disclosures could harm national security.”   Continue reading “If This Is “Transparency,” I Would Hate to Know What Secrecy Looks Like”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

It is the job of the Fourth Estate to act as a check and a restraint on the others, to illumine the dark corners of Ministries, to debunk the bureaucrat, to throw often unwelcome light on the measures and motives of our rulers. ‘News’, as Hearst once remarked, ‘is something which somebody wants suppressed: all the rest is advertising’. That job is an essential one and it is bound to be unpopular; indeed, in a democracy, it may be argued that the more unpopular the newspapers are with the politicians the better they are performing their most vital task.   Continue reading “America’s Corrupt Media – How Reporters Took Direct Orders from Hillary Clinton’s Staff”