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Thanks to Real-ID, DHS has created a national ID system right under everyone’s noses.

According to the above video, Tennessee is ‘Spreading the Good Word’ that DHS now has the power to suspend and revoke anyone’s drivers license or identification card.

A recent article in the Lebanon Democrat, reveals how DHS and the Tennessee DMV suspended more than a quarter of a million driver’s licenses (DL) for failure to pay traffic tickets.
Continue reading “Real-ID allows police to control ‘fundamental aspects of our daily lives’”

CTV News

A Montreal driver says his passionate rendition of a cheesy 1990s pop hit has netted him a $149 fine.

On Sept. 27, Taoufik Moalla was on his way to buy a bottle of water, happily singing along to C+C Music Factory’s 1990 song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” when he says he heard a police siren blaring behind him.   Continue reading “Fun police? Montreal man says he was given $149 ticket after singing while driving”

The Daily Wire – by Emily Zanotti

Indiana University’s Housing and Residence Life program recently hosted a “practice Halloween” so that students could learn how to avoid “offensive” and “insulting” costumes when they dress up on October 31.

The College Fix sent a reporter to the “Culture Not Costumes” Halloween workshop, so that their staff could learn precisely what it takes to be as woke as possible ahead of the traditional holiday.   Continue reading “Indiana U Holds ‘Practice Halloween’ To Help Students Avoid Offensive Costumes”

Jon Rappaport

PBS Frontline (2/23/2016): “The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history…with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more than 27,000 people a year…” (Note: prescription opioids are now a very significant gateway-drug leading addicts into heroin.)

CBS News (8/1/2017): “Nearly 92 million U.S. adults, or about 38 percent of the population, took a legitimately prescribed opioid like OxyContin or Percocet in 2015, according to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.”   Continue reading “Insider reveals how the opioid crime network operates”

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

A news report from Alabama offers two textbook cases of how sweeping powers of civil asset forfeiture allow police to seize people’s property with near impunity.

Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police can take property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner is not charged with a crime. Law enforcement and prosecutors say the practice is a vital tool to disrupt drug trafficking and other organized crime by targeting ill-gotten gains. But in state after state, horror stories have emerged of regular people having their possessions expropriated and their lives turned upside down.  Continue reading “Alabama Police Use Asset Forfeiture to Ruin an Innocent Small Business Owner”

Law & Forfeiture – by Rek LeCounte

When most Americans hear the words, “district attorney,” they probably think and the long-running television drama Law & Order. But in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia), District Attorney Jack Whelan traded the good-natured heroism of the fictional Jack McCoy for the villainous antics of taking money from private citizens to pay for campaign ads. In a bid to win the judicial nominating primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, Whelan spent more than $53,000 advertising his name and likeness, according to City & State Pennsylvania. That money came not from his campaign coffers, but instead from taxpayers and civil forfeiture:   Continue reading “Pennsylvania District Attorney Campaigns With Civil Forfeiture Proceeds”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Intercept has obtained a leaked asset forfeiture guide for seizures performed by ICE. (It has, unfortunately, chosen not to share the original document. Then again, the last non-Snowden leak it published appears to have helped out the document’s source.)

For those familiar with the process of civil asset forfeiture, the contents of the guide are mostly unsurprising. Despite the document dating back to 2010, ICE did confirm the version seen by The Intercept is its most recent guidance. ICE is allowed to seize property without bringing charges or securing convictions — something still permitted by federal law (your state laws may vary) and greatly encouraged by the new head of the DOJ, Jeff Sessions.   Continue reading “Use A Landline To Talk About Criminal Activity? The Government Can Seize The House Around It”

Reason – by Jacob Sullum

Since 2012 federal prosecutors have been trying to imprison three medical marijuana users in Washington, arguing that they grew cannabis for profit rather than relief of their symptoms. In a startling shift this week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Spokane finally conceded what the defendants—Rhonda Firestack-Harvey; her son, Rolland Gregg; and his wife, Michelle Gregg—have been saying all along: that they grew marijuana in compliance with Washington’s law allowing medical use of the plant. The government also admitted in a brief filed on Monday night that its pursuit of the case has therefore been illegal since December 2014, when Congress first passed a spending rider that prohibits the Justice Department from prosecuting people for conduct permitted by state medical marijuana laws.
Continue reading “Feds Admit Their Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Users in Washington Was Illegal”

CBS Boston

WALPOLE (CBS) – The decorations are out and Halloween is two weeks away but there’s controversy at Boyden Elementary School in Walpole. The school will not be having its annual Halloween costume parade this year.

“I think it’s a lot of political correctness,” a Walpole woman said. “I think it’s a shame because Halloween is the funnest day of the year next to Christmas for children.”   Continue reading “School Cancels Halloween, Will Celebrate ‘Black And Orange’ Spirit Day”

Activist Post – by Chris Kanthan

Globalism is just like the mafia, but with lot more complexity and respectability. If you have watched mob films such as The Godfather, you can understand how the world works. For example, in Godfather II, a bunch of mobsters get together in Havana, Cuba, to celebrate Hyman Roth’s birthday. As the birthday cake is symbolically cut into pieces and distributed, Roth tells the group how Cuba will be split up amongst the guests. Extrapolate this scene to the world, you can visualize how the world works.   Continue reading “How Interlinked Corporations Rule The World”

Miami Herald – by Howard Cowen

As Halloween nears, many are considering clown pranks for fright night fun.

At least one sheriff’s office in the state says don’t even think of playing a creepy clown if your aim is mischief.

Volusia County Sheriff’s Office issued a stern warning on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon.   Continue reading “Dressing as a clown for Halloween? These Florida cops say you’re risking your life”

AZ Family – by Dennis Welsh

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – The head of the Arizona Lottery says he’s not embarrassed that his department overlooked a potentially costly computer glitch.

Over a six-day period starting Sept. 28, lottery machines spit out the same numbers in consecutive games.

The Lottery is now offering refunds or exchanges for anyone who played the Pick 3, Fantasy 5, All or Nothing and 5 Card Cash from Sept. 28 through Oct 3.    Continue reading “AZ Lottery picks out the same numbers for six days in a row and nobody notices”

Philly.com – by Stephanie Farr

When asked about drugs at a Phoenixville mayoral forum, Republican nominee Dave Gautreau proposed that, if elected, he would look into getting drug-sniffing bunnies for the borough police department.

Though it seems like a harebrained idea, Gautreau was as serious as the killer rabbit of Caerbannog.

“I was dead-serious,” he said of the idea he presented at the Thursday forum. “I would not make a joke about a rabbit if I did not believe it to be true.”   Continue reading “Candidate falls for hoax, proposes drug-sniffing police bunnies”

The Daytona Beach News Journal – by Patricia G. Balona

A Volusia County sheriff’s deputy is on paid administrative leave after he was arrested for putting his son in a headlock causing him to lose consciousness, an agency spokesman said.

Sgt. Robert Rahn, 50, was charged with one count of domestic battery by strangulation and one count of child abuse without great harm after the physical encounter with his 16-year-old son, said sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant on Sunday.   Continue reading “Volusia sheriff’s sergeant arrested for assaulting son”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.

More than 20 women have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual harassment, sexual assault or rape. After the New York Times and the New Yorker published in-depth stories detailing the testimonies of women who have been abused by Weinstein—and in many cases, paid off with airtight non-disclosure agreements—the stories have continued to come to light.
Continue reading “They’re All In It Together – Weinstein Paid for Bill Clinton’s Legal Fees During His Sex Abuse Scandal”