From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Nothing says police state quite like the Feds forcing Drivers Ed students to treat law enforcement the way THEY want you to.
Two years ago, an article in the Chicago Tribune revealed what these driver education bills are really about.
“We want everybody to know what they’re supposed to do when they get pulled over by police” state Rep. Frances Ann Hurley said. Continue reading “Drivers Ed students forced to learn how the government wants you to treat law enforcement”
Feb. 26 (UPI) — AM General was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to procure 60 M1167 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles or HMMWV.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $11.8 million under a modified contract. Continue reading “Army awards AM General $11.8M for 60 Humvees”
Thanks to the work of the Panda Idaho, an Idaho house committee passed the Restoring Constitutional Governance Act, H473, by a vote of 11-2 on February 20, 2018. This legislation, drafted by the Patriot Coalition, is the strongest in the nation as it explicitly prohibits the laws of war from being used on non-soldiers in Idaho, and Idaho citizens anywhere, and will punish any person, including Federal or international agents, who attempts to utilize those powers. Continue reading “Idaho Passes Strongest Anti-NDAA Bill in America Out of Committee 11-2”
Criminal charges will not be filed against a student after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun.
On Tuesday afternoon, Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies investigated an allegation of terrorist threats at Oberlin High School, according to the department’s Facebook page. The investigation revealed that a student was completing a math problem and drew the sign for square root. Deputies say another student made a comment that the symbol looked like a gun and several other students made similar comments. According to investigators, the comment made by the student in question “could” sound like a threat when taken out of context. Continue reading “Student investigated after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun”
What happens when Robocop meets Knight Rider’s KITT? You get Ford’s latest brainchild, a plan for an automated police car that’s either an abuse of privacy and power or the future of unbiased law enforcement, reported The Daily Mail.
A recent patent filed by the automaker specifies the concept of an autonomous vehicle that lurks behind buildings or trees to surprise speeding drivers.
Law enforcement officials are not amused by the implied threat to their jobs. Neither are autonomous experts who worry about robots violating privacy. Continue reading “Can Ford’s proposed autonomous “Robocop” car be trusted not to shoot innocent civilians?”
In response to last week’s shooting at a Florida high school, the state’s governor recently released his plans to make schools safer. Many of his proposals will indisputably serve to further turn schools into prisons, a trend that has been on the rise for years.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Governor Rick Scott’s proposals include: Continue reading “Apparently the “Solution” to Mass Shootings Is to Turn Schools Into Prisons”
In the aftermath of yet another mass shooting in the United States, the internet and broadcast news alike are inundated with commentary about why this keeps happening in America. Some blame guns, others blame mental health, and still others confidently blame false flag events and crisis actors.
But one commonality among numerous mass killings in the United States remains absent from these conversations. It is always reported when details of the shooter are published, but the widespread connection is rarely acknowledged: A mounting number of mass shooters have ties to the military, including Nikolas Cruz, who was a member of his school’s military prep organization, JROTC (Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps). Continue reading “Nobody Wants to Talk About What Many Mass Shooters Have in Common”
A recent article in CNN reveals that Santa Monica, California became the first city in America to have an electric scooter-share system.
A start-up company created by former Uber and Lyft executive Travis VanderZanden, called Bird allows residents to rent electric scooters.
But a closer look at Bird’s User Agreement and Privacy Policy reveals Bird does much more than allow residents to rent a scooter. Continue reading “Electric ride share scooters spy on your face and much more”
Broward County Deputies will begin carrying rifles on school grounds in the wake of last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, according to Broward Sheriff Scott Israel.
“This morning, I implemented a practice within the Broward Sheriff’s Office and spoke to Mr. Runcie and he’s fully cooperative of my decision, that our deputies who are qualified and trained will be carrying rifles on school grounds from this point forward,” Israel said in a Wednesday press conference. Continue reading “Florida Deputies Will Now Carry Rifles On School Grounds: Broward Sheriff”
Welcome to Southwestern High School in suburban Indiana, where the classrooms door are bullet-resistant… Continue reading “This Is What Extreme Security In “America’s Safest School” Looks Like”
Here’s a video showing some “heroes” unhappy about a pair of guys taking video of the outside their nest – which is public property and which the citizens therefore have every legal right to take video of.
But the “heroes” do not like this.
They never do. They take it as an implicit challenge, an affront to their privacy and peace – which of course are sacred. Whereas ours is held in absolute contempt by them, to be violated at will whenever they feel so inclined. Continue reading ““heroes” Value Their Privacy – But Not Ours”
SAGINAW, MI — Businesses in the city of Saginaw have until March 1, 2019, to install three security cameras at each building and put up parking lot lights.
Saginaw City Council members unanimously passed an ordinance on Monday, Feb. 19, for most Saginaw businesses to install cameras and parking lot lights. Continue reading “Saginaw requires businesses to install security cameras within a year”
Everywhere you turn politicians and corporations are trying to convince the public we need to convert our cities into ‘smart cities’.
Last week AnyVision and Nvidia announced that they are working together to put facial recognition cameras in cities across the globe. Continue reading “AnyVision’s facial recognition cameras are being installed in ‘smart cites’ everywhere”
Editor’s note: The implementation of cashless tolling in the Lower Hudson Valley has brought howls of complaints from drivers who have told us horror stories. Some say they’ve never received bills, only to face thousands of dollars in late fees. Others told us about strong-arm tactics of collection agencies, about a faceless system that didn’t seem to care. Here are two of their stories.
Janet Berg considers herself a reluctant E-ZPass expert who came by her expertise one grueling, frustrating, bureaucratic encounter after another over the course of more than a dozen years. Continue reading “Cashless tolls horror stories: ‘I wept,’ woman says as she takes from IRA to pay bill”
Legislation has been introduced in the Hawaii State Senate which, if passed, would require homeschooling parents to undergo background checks.
State Senator Kaialii Kahele’s bill is a reaction to several “high-profile abuse cases,” according to World’s Leigh Jones. The state’s Child Welfare Services would conduct reviews on parents wishing to homeschool their children. Continue reading “Hawaii bill would require background checks for parents who homeschool”
San Antonio Express – by Jason Buch and Joana Santillana
LAREDO — A long-running feud between a South Texas rancher and the Border Patrol has escalated into a civil lawsuit after the rancher confiscated a surveillance camera he found on his property.
The suit filed by Ricardo D. Palacios, a lawyer who lives on a ranch near Encinal, north of Laredo, against federal agents and a Texas Ranger raises questions about how much leeway law enforcement officials have to enter private property near the border. Continue reading “Texas rancher sues feds, state after finding surveillance camera on his property”
To dodge its obligation, a state utility company paid a fancy law firm triple the amount of money required to fix damages caused by one of its trucks. It’s yet another example of government wasting taxpayer dollars, a senseless misuse of public funds that is all too common in government at all levels. It’s also a bizarre—and costly—struggle between one of the nation’s largest public power utilities and a small business owner whose security cameras captured the truck crushing the drainage system under the asphalt of her parking lot. The utility truck, which weighs nine tons, left a hole in the pavement and a broken drain pipe underground when it used the parking lot to turn around. Continue reading “Public Utility Avoids Fixing Damage by Paying Fancy Law Firm Triple the Money”
WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — A distraught man who was pointing a pistol at his own head was shot by police as he walked toward two officers next to a busy interstate and refused repeated commands to drop the weapon, state police said Monday.
The man died at a hospital shortly after the Sunday shooting in the breakdown lane of Interstate 89 in Bolton, said state police Col. Matthew Birmingham. Continue reading “Police: Man pointing gun at his own head killed by officers”