Reason – by Zuri Davis

A school resource officer in California arrested several middle school girls for being unresponsive while he investigated a bullying case. One of the girls was a bully. Three were her victims.

The case of David Scott v. County of San Bernardino began with an incident between seventh-grade girls at the Etiwanda Intermediate Middle School in Rancho Cucamonga. A teen bully hit another middle schooler, who reportedly did not fight back. Continue reading “Court Says School Resource Officers Can’t Arrest Students Just to ‘Prove a Point’”

Reason – by J.D. Tuccille

Why should you faithfully deliver your children to the government schools, missing no more than a bare handful of days? Because those tykes are worth big bucks to institutional educators, so if you don’t hand ’em over, you might be slapped with fines or jail time.

That’s an accurate interpretation of a letter sent out to parents for years by Orange County, California, District Attorney Tony Rauckauckas. But don’t take my word for it—read it for yourself. And keep in mind that this represents a national problem of schools claiming greater authority over kids then their parents, whether because they think they know better or just because the kids are so valuable.   Continue reading “Public Schools Threaten Parents With Jail Time for Truant Kids”

MassPrivateI

A new “free” app called SirenGPS is being billed “as a panic button that helps keep you safe.”

SirenGPS does much more than provide first responders with your location, they also want users to provide their personal medical information.   Continue reading “New app takes our fear of terror to the “next level” by sending voice alerts to entire communities”

Campus Reform – by Grace Gottschling

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that allows illegal immigrant students to hold elected positions on California college boards as long as they qualify for in-state tuition.

The bill, AB1887, was signed on Aug 24 and permits students, who are illegally residing in the United States, to “serve on any board or commission […] that relate to public elementary and secondary education and that includes members who are pupils or minors,” provided they are eligible for in-state tuition or are otherwise exempt from paying non-resident tuition.   Continue reading “Illegal immigrant students now allowed positions on California college boards”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

The question often arises in liberty movement circles as to how we get to the point of full blown tyranny within a society.  There are numerous factors that determine this outcome, but through all the various totalitarian systems in history there are common denominators – elements that must be there for tyrants to prevail.  When we can identify these common elements in an objective manner, we make it far more difficult for despotic structures to stand.

This is a very complex issue, but I’ll break it down as best as I’m able…  Continue reading “How People Become Easily Controlled By Tyrants”

WNEP 16 News

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A Virginia man put up an electrified fence around his yard to keep students at a nearby bus stop off his property, according to WTVR.

The Sandston man — who only identified himself to WTVR as Bryan — said he was sick of children who cursed, fought, and littered at the bus stop.   Continue reading “Man Erects Electrified Fence to Keep Students at Bus Stop Off His Lawn”

Quartz – by Jeff Nesbit, December 8, 2017

Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.   Continue reading “Flashback: Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance”

MassPrivateI

A recent article in the Outline reveals that a startup company called Flock Safety is encouraging neighborhoods to spy on each other using wireless cameras.

Flock bills itself as “a wireless security system for neighborhoods”. Continue reading “‘Flock Safety’ and police cam-share programs encourage neighborhoods to spy on the public”

Strategic Culture – by Eric Zuesse

On Friday, August 31st, the neoconservative US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “The 3 million Syrians who have already been forced out of their homes and are now in #Idlib, will suffer from this aggression. Not good. The world is watching.”

By “this aggression,” he was referring to the completion, by the Syrian Government and its allies Russia and Hezbollah, of their elimination of jihadist terrorists from Syria. Pompeo’s remark was a veiled threat, especially to Russia, not to intervene in the US-led invasion of Syria, which Pompeo and his boss, US President Donald Trump, and the US ‘Defense’ Department, have planned, in continuation of the policies of aggression against Syria, by the prior US President, Barack Obama, and by his Administration — their policies to protect and train and arm those terrorists, so as to overthrow and replace Syria’s Government.    Continue reading “How US Government Relies on Lying Media”

Maui Now

Former Maui Police Department Officer Anthony Maldonado, 29, of Kahului, Maui, was sentenced on Tuesday by Senior United States District Judge Helen Gillmor of the District of Hawaiʻi to 24 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and required to pay $1,917.70 in restitution.

The information was compiled and released by the Justice Department and the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaiʻi.   Continue reading “Former Maui Police Officer Sentenced for Unlawfully Seizing Money”

Reno Gazette Journal

Locked away in the Mineral County Jail for failing to take care of her traffic tickets, 27-year-old Kelly Coltrain asked to go to the hospital. Instead, as her condition worsened, she was handed a mop and told to clean up her own vomit. She died in her jail cell less than an hour later.

Despite being in a video-monitored cell, Mineral County Sheriff’s deputies did not recognize that Coltrain had suffered an apparent seizure and had not moved for more than six hours. When a deputy finally entered her cell and couldn’t wake her, he did not call for medical assistance or attempt to resuscitate her. Coltrain lay dead in her cell until the next morning when state officials arrived to investigate.   Continue reading “Denied medical care while detoxing, Texas woman died in a rural Nevada jail”

Boston.com

Maine officials denied a request Thursday from animal rights advocates to create a memorial along Route 1 after a crash last week sent 7,000 pounds of live lobster into the street.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, sent a letter to the state’s Department of Transportation Wednesday requesting permission to erect a 5-foot-tall tombstone memorial near the crash site in Brunswick.   Continue reading “Maine officials denied PETA’s request for a memorial honoring lobsters killed in a crash”

USA Today

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 47-year-old man was jailed after allegations he gave his girlfriend a “wet willy,” an affidavit states.

Joseph Sireci, of the 1000 block of Trinidad Avenue in Fort Pierce, was arrested on a battery charge after the Aug. 15 incidents.   Continue reading “Man jailed after ‘wet willy’ caper in St. Lucie County”

NJ.com

An Elizabeth police officer is being accused of beating, choking and dragging a handcuffed suspect in the department’s headquarters.

Officer Edward Shields was indicted Friday on a simple assault charge by a grand jury, Union County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Mark Spivey said. An earlier grand jury was presented with the case in April, but no charges were brought, Spivey said.   Continue reading “Cop accused of hitting, dragging handcuffed man in police station”

MassPrivateI

For years the MSM has been pushing Mobile Drivers Licenses (MDL) on the American public.

But now things are about to take a strange turn.

MDL manufacturers want to encourage motorists to use their drivers licenses by tying them into loyalty rewards programs and various services.   Continue reading “The future of mobile drivers licenses: Massive profits and loyalty rewards”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson announced the launch of a new site that will distribute 3D-printed gun code to purchasers via mailed flash drives, during a Tuesday morning press conference

Cody Wilson’s announcement comes a day after Judge Robert Lasnik issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the online publication of the files.   Continue reading “Cody Wilson to Distribute 3D-Printed Gun Code on Mailed Flash Drives”

MassPrivateI

Two years ago, I wrote an article warning NYC residents that City Bridge was installing spying Smart City Kiosks (SCK) throughout the city.

The SCK’s came equipped with cameras, microphones and sensors that created the largest urban spying system in the country.

SCK’s collect lot’s of personal information, like a person’s MAC address, IP address, browser type and version and their destination IP address to name a few.   Continue reading “Cities across the country are installing ‘free’ spying Smart City Kiosks”

NJ.com – by Craig McCarthy

Just over five months ago, authorities say officer Paul Pappas clocked in for the evening shift, climbed in his unmarked patrol car and drove to New Brunswick to slash his ex-girlfriend’s car tire.

The brazen, bizarre incident — in which the 43-year-old cop, in full uniform, was found underneath his ex’s car cutting the woman’s tire — was captured on a nearby security camera, leading to his arrest, according to the police report obtained by NJ Advance Media.  Continue reading “In Edison, a police force under investigation braces for more arrests”

The Newspaper

A federal judge told a Virginia sheriff’s deputy that he had no right to pull over a car because a passenger flipped him off. On Friday, proceedings advanced in the lawsuit against Patrick County Lieutenant Rob Coleman. US District Judge Jackson L. Kiser had found sufficient evidence to bring the matter to trial.

Brian H. Clark, the irreverent passenger, has a history of annoying authority. In 2016, Judge Martin F. Clark Jr (no relation) banned Brian Clark from entering the county courthouse clerk’s office without a lawyer. The judge complained that Clark annoyed his staff with “numerous emails, letters and filings,” and the state Supreme Court upheld the order.   Continue reading “Federal Judge Upholds Right To Flip Off Virginia Cops”

Boing Boing

A homeowner is suing police in Greenwood Village, Colorado, after they destroyed his house with explosives to flush out a shoplifter hiding there. The cops maintained a 19-hour siege to collar Robert Seacat, who “stole items from WalMart” and fired a gun at them during the showdown.   Continue reading “Cops destroyed man’s house with explosives to flush out hiding shoplifter, offered $5,000 in compensation”