Author: Joe from MassPrivateI

Lew Rockwell – by Gary North

Picture this. You’re driving down the highway with your nine-year-old son. You’re in the middle lane. On your right, one behind the other, are two buses. The bus in front is painted white. The bus behind is painted yellow. The bus in front has its windows painted over. The bus behind does not.

Your son asks you a question. “What are those two buses, Daddy?” You tell him that they are two very different kinds of buses. ” How are the different?” he asks. You explain that on the first bus are prisoners who are being taken to jail. On the second bus are students who are being taken to school. “But how is that different?” your son asks. That’s what I’m asking, too.   Continue reading “The Story of Two Buses”

9 News

ADAMS COUNTY – Adams County Sheriff’s Office got a call about a man with a gun in Lulu’s Inn in Watkins Friday morning.

Deputies evacuated the building and set up a perimeter in the 33300 block of East Highway 36.   Continue reading “Lulu’s Inn evacuated after mic stand mistaken for gun”

Kansas Exposed – by Michael Shatz

In 1986, now-Wichita City Councilman Pete Meitzner and Pizza Hut co-founder Dan Carney incorporated a telecommunications company under the name Tele-Matic Corporation.

In 1988, Tele-Matic merged with Star Ventures Inc., to form T-Netix, Inc.

In 1992, T-Netix acquired 8 prison inmate phone companies.   Continue reading “Wichita City Councilman profits from mass incarceration”

Associated Press – by Frank Eltman

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The ex-chief of one of the country’s largest local law enforcement agencies was arrested Wednesday on charges he took revenge against a man who stole sex toys, pornography and other items from his SUV by beating the suspect and then coercing officers to lie about it.

Former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke also threatened to kill the suspect with a heroin overdose and “went out of control” — punching, screaming and cursing — after the suspect called him a “pervert” until a detective “finally said, ‘Boss that’s enough, that’s enough,'” prosecutors told a judge.   Continue reading “Former NY police chief accused of covering up beating”

Prison Policy – by Peter Wagner

Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 636,000 people released every year include the people getting out of local jails? Frustrating questions like these abound because our systems of federal, state, local, and other types of confinement — and the data collectors that keep track of them — are so fragmented. There is a lot of interesting and valuable research out there, but varying definitions and other incompatibilities make it hard — for both people new to criminal justice and for experienced policy wonks — to get the big picture.   Continue reading “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015”

ABC News – by David Warren, AP

A Texas police chief who warns President Barack Obama in a social media video that trying to disarm Americans would “cause a revolution in this country” is the latest law enforcement official to urge citizens to arm themselves in the wake of mass shootings.

Randy Kennedy, longtime chief in the small East Texas town of Hughes Springs, about 120 miles east of Dallas, says in the video posted this week on his personal Facebook page that the Second Amendment was established to protect people from criminals and “terrorists and radical ideology.”   Continue reading “Texas Police Chief, Others Urge Citizens to Arm Themselves”

East Oregon – by Phil Wright

State deputy fire marshal in Pendleton asks public for information on hoax calls.

Three local McDonald’s restaurants had to shut down after prank calls Sunday afternoon convinced employees to activate fire suppression systems.   Continue reading “Prank calls create mischief for local McDonald’s restaurants”

MassPrivateI

In January 2016, local police will be required by the FBI to report animal-related crimes to the FBI’s national crime reporting database. They will be categorized as crimes against society!

The is the same organization that has lied to Americans for over 50 years and now, wants Americans to believe animal abusers are future domestic abusers, etc.   Continue reading “Police to classify those accused of animal cruelty ‘as crimes against society’”

Union Leader – by Paul Feely

MANCHESTER — Police issued multiple citations to panhandlers around the Queen City in recent days, including several along the busy South Willow Street retail corridor.

While panhandling is not considered a crime, Manchester Lt. Brian O’Keefe said it can cause disruptions to traffic, which is a violation of city ordinances, and create safety issues for motorists and the panhandlers themselves.   Continue reading “Manchester police cracking down on panhandlers”

Courthouse News – by Nick McCann

(CN) – Police officers in an Oregon town who removed children from a couple’s home without a court order have immunity from the family’s civil rights claims, a Ninth Circuit panel held.

The action stemmed from a February 2010 incident where police in Stayton, Oregon, responded to a request for a welfare check on two children aged two and five.   Continue reading “Cops Immune for Child Welfare Check”

Eric Peters Autos

Ever wonder why people throw empty beer bottles out the window – rather than just throw them in the trash when they get home? Could any of it have to do with fear of being found in possession of an “open container” – and of the severe penalties that one would face in that event, even if one isn’t close to being legally “drunk” by the state’s own arbitrary standards (i.e., BAC level)?

I think so, yes.   Continue reading “Unintended Consequences”

Reason – by Robby Soave

The American Civil Liberties Union apparently hates guns more than it hates arbitrary government-enforced discrimination. Even though the ACLU opposes the no-fly list—and is suing the federal government for violating the due process rights of several people on it—the civil liberties advocacy group is theoretically okay with depriving people on the list of their gun rights.

A spokesperson for the ACLU told Buzzfeed News that the organization had no formal position on legislation, supported by the Obama administration, which would deny the right to purchase firearms to people on the no-fly list:   Continue reading “ACLU Opposes the No-Fly List, But Is Okay with Using It to Take People’s Guns”

NY Daily News – by Alfred Ng

A Florida woman thought she got away from a hit-and-run, until her own car called the cops.

Cathy Bernstein, 57, tried speeding off after hitting both a truck and a van near Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard, but her Ford cut her escape short, police said.   Continue reading “Florida woman’s hit-and-run escape foiled after her own car calls police on her”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Congress is once again declaring its willingness to hold everyone in the nation accountable for their actions, present party excepted.

Back in 2011, it was revealed that members of Congress were participating in insider trading. Spending a great deal of time conversing with lobbyists tends to result in the discussion of information that has yet to be made public. Legislators, being the opportunists they are, chose to buy and sell stock based on this insider info. Lobbyists — also opportunists — sometimes did the same thing. And it was all perfectly legal… at least for Congress.    Continue reading “Congress Still Fighting SEC’s Investigation Of Alleged Insider Trading By Its Members”

The Intercept – by Glenn Greenwald

As Vice President, Dick Cheney was a prime architect of the worldwide torture regime implemented by the U.S. government (which extended far beyond waterboarding), as well as the invasion and destruction of Iraq which caused the deaths of at least 500,000 people and more likely over a million. As such, he is one of the planet’s most notorious war criminals.   Continue reading “U.S. First Shields its Torturers and War Criminals From Prosecution, Now Officially Honors Them”