Detroit Free Press

Michigan law enforcement agencies are returning donated surplus military equipment to the federal government this month — including tracked armored vehicles that metro Detroit sheriff’s offices have had for more than a decade— under orders of the White House, and they are not happy about it.

“It really upsets me. We have a great asset. We have not abused it, and in just a blanket order we can no longer have it,” Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said of the tracked armored vehicle his office has had for its SWAT team since 2004. “Look what’s happening around the country — mass shootings, barricaded gunman. An armored vehicle gives law enforcement the upper hand.”   Continue reading “Michigan cops fume over loss of U.S. military vehicles”

This is another depressing story about our corrupt and broken judicial system!

The Newspaper

Judges rarely side with drivers over the word of a police officer, and the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals took action last week to keep it that way. A three-judge appellate panel corrected a lower court judge believed driver Samuel Duane Johnson Jr was more credible than the Michigan State Police troopers who stopped him.   Continue reading “Federal Appeals Court Stops Judge Who Believed Motorist Over A Cop”

WQAD 8 – by Shellie Nelson

MECOSTA COUNTY, Mich. — A Michigan man is charged with a felony for obstruction of justice and misdemeanor of tampering with a jury for passing out fliers about jury nullification rights on the sidewalk of the Mecosta County courthouse.

Keith Wood, 39, faces charges after handing out 50 fliers on Nov. 24, which describe juror rights that are typically not given by judges during jury instructions before a trial.   Continue reading “Man faces criminal charges for passing out jury rights fliers in front of Michigan courthouse”

MassPrivateI

Bobby Abtahi, an Iranian-American and vice chair of the Dallas Plan Commission, was kicked off of a Virgin America flight because he walked in front of a flight attendant!

Abtahi said that he was boarding a flight from New York’s La Guardia to Dallas when a gate agent pulled him aside and said the crew did not feel comfortable having him on the flight. When he asked why, the gate agent said it was the captain’s decision and went to speak with him.   Continue reading “You can be denied the right to fly if you cut in front of a flight attendant!”

Breitbart – by Michael Patrick Leahy

The nine contractors receiving huge payments from the White House’s $1 billion U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program have launched an aggressive PR campaign to crush what they call “pockets of resistance” to the Muslim migration into the United States.

That campaign is led by Welcoming America, a “non-profit” immigrant advocacy group run by “Ashoka Fellow” David Lubell. His group received its first funding in 2007 from the George Soros-financed Four Freedoms Foundation.   Continue reading “Christian Charities Try to Crush Americans’ ‘Pockets of Resistance’ to Muslim Migration”

Courthouse News Service – by Adam Klasfeld

MANHATTAN (CN) – Nearly a year after the release of the “torture report,” the vast majority of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s findings of the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program remains classified.

On Thanksgiving eve, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint to acquire details about the program that the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice and four of its component agencies continue to keep under wraps.   Continue reading “ACLU Sues for Info on CIA Rendition Program”

People – by Tiare Dunlap

A self-described “free-range” mom who allowed her 4-year-old son to play alone on a playground 120 feet from their front door within their gated apartment complex is fighting back after she was arrested for felony child endangerment and neglect.

“We have a CPS [Child Protective Service] case now and every time he’s not in my visual site we’re in violation,” mom Sonya Hendren told KTXL.    Continue reading “California Mom Fighting Back After She Was Arrested for Letting 4-Year-Old Son Play 120 Feet from Home Within Gated Community”

MassPrivateI

Alabama police issued a warning last week after two boys, ages 10 and 12, told officers they were riding their bikes when a white male inside a parked black Audi told them to get into his car about 9:20 a.m. on Scout Ridge Drive. The boys fled and the man drove off.

“We don’t know what his intentions were but we are going to investigate and assume his intentions were not good,” Captain Gregg Rector said. Continue reading “Police think waving kids across the street is suspicious”

RT

A document released by the courts over the FBI’s use of National Security Letters (NSLs) and gag orders show the agency used secret interpretations of the Patriot Act to demand extensive access to sensitive web history and location data – without a warrant.

“For more than a decade, the FBI has been demanding extremely sensitive personal information about private citizens just by issuing letters to online companies like mine,” Nicholas Merrill, former owner of Calyx Internet Access and a plaintiff in the case, said in a statement. The document released on Monday, in which the agency had demanded access to user data, was sent to Merrill by the FBI over a decade ago.   Continue reading “FBI accessed personal web history, location data without warrant – court docs”

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CHICAGO – They say ‘crime doesn’t pay’ but it sure could cost you if you live in the state of Illinois. The Chicago Tribune reports the Illinois Department of Corrections has been suing prisoners for the cost of their incarceration after they’re released.

The law allowing this practice, which was enacted in 1982, has reportedly been used on 11 inmates in the first 10-months of this year. A huge uptick in frequency, which is probably why this article started gaining traction. Check out what they have to say, and see if you think this is the justice system at its best. Continue reading “State of Illinois suing inmates for cost of prison”

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The American Police State is using advertising, months in advance to justify heroin checkpoints.

After months of advertising, one of the most brazen Police State campaigns ever conceived began in Maryland last week. Police set up rolling heroin checkpoints as a pretense to detain, question, ticket and arrest pedestrians and motorists. Continue reading “Police use advertising to justify stopping, pedestrians and motorists at heroin checkpoints”

The Newspaper

A pair of New Mexico state lawmakers are taking action to block Albuquerque’s civil forfeiture program. State Senators Lisa Torraco (R-Bernalillo) and Daniel A. Ivey-Soto (D-Bernalillo) last week teamed up with the Institute for Justice in a lawsuit meant to stop the city from grabbing cars for profit.   Continue reading “New Mexico State Senators Attack Automoble Impounding”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – b y Michael Krieger

Saudi Arabia never, ever disappoints when it comes to barbarism and backwardness. The latest example is a supposed threat to sue a Twitter user for making the obvious and accurate comparison of the regime to ISIS, something I myself have done on countless occasions.   Continue reading “Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sue Twitter Users Who Compare it to ISIS”

Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry

A pediatric emergency medicine physician is urging doctors to join the effort for gun control by asking about gun ownership while performing health histories on their patients.

A panel titled “The Tipping Point: Activating a Public Health Movement to Address Gun Violence” was featured at the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s 2015 annual meeting in Chicago earlier in November. The panel called for a view of gun violence as a public health emergency situation.   Continue reading “Physicians Urged To Ask Patients About Gun Ownership During Office Health Histories”

Breitbart – by Michael Patrick Leahy

Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, and several other Christian organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees in the United States.

Of the 100,000 refugees resettled in the United States in 2014 under the Refugee Resettlement program, an estimated 40 percent were Muslims.   Continue reading “Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees”

Des Moines Register – by Charley Haley

Des Moines Police are seeking a 17-year-old girl for possibly assaulting a police officer after she reportedly threw snowballs at a uniformed officer and other passersby Monday.

The officer reported the incident Wednesday, noting in a police report that the girl threw a chunk of ice about the size of a baseball at him while he was directing traffic for a construction site at about 3:50 p.m. Monday in the 1400 block of Ingersoll Avenue.   Continue reading “Teen sought for assaulting police officer with snowball”