Reason – by Jacob Sullum

This Saturday is Jury Rights Day, which commemorates the 1670 acquittal of Quaker leader William Penn by English jurors who refused to convict him even though he had clearly violated a ban on dissenting religious assemblies. Denver is celebrating the occasion by harassing activists who seek to inform the public about the principle embodied in Penn’s acquittal: the right of jurors to reject the enforcement of unjust laws, a.k.a. jury nullification.

After two local activists, Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt, distributed jury nullification pamphlets outside the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse in Denver on July 27, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey charged each of them with seven counts of jury tampering, a felony punishable by one to three years in prison. The seven counts were based on pamphlets received by seven jury pool members.   Continue reading “Denver’s Unconstitutional Harassment of Jury Nullification Activists”

Information Liberation – by Sonia Roubini, ACLU

We recently received a handbook from the DEA, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking information about the use of impersonation as an investigative technique. While the 1999 handbook, titled Online Investigative Principles for Federal Law Enforcement Agents, was almost identical to a version of the handbook that is available online, there is one notable difference: the version that the DEA sent us includes a copy of the DEA’s Consent to Assume Online Identity: Adult Consent form.   Continue reading “Here’s How Law Enforcement Agencies Impersonate Your Friends”

RT

Land overlooking the top-secret Area 51 facility has been owned by the same family for 130 years. Now its owners are claiming years of bullying and abuse at the hands of the Air Force, to whom they recently refused to sell their land to for $5.2 million.

The Sheahan family has been extracting lead and silver from Groom Mine since Grover Cleveland was in the White House, at the end of the 19th Century, long before the nearby installation was established by the federal government in 1955 to test experimental aircraft technology.   Continue reading “Area 51 neighbors reject $5.2 million Air Force buyout offer”

RT

The six Baltimore PD officers charged in the April death of Freddie Gray will be tried separately, judge Barry Williams ordered. He rejected the motions by defense lawyers to dismiss the charges and remove prosecutor Marilyn Mosby from the case.

While the prosecutors argued that the entire chain of events leading to Gray’s death was relevant to the case, from his arrest to the death inside the police van, the judge’s ruling means they will have to make a separate case against every one of the officers involved.   Continue reading “Separate trials for six officers in Freddie Gray death”

The Tap

A Project Leader at the Dutch National Cyber Security Center, who goes by the name Yasmina Haifi, was suspended from her job at the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice after tweeting that the terrorist group ISIS, led by Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, “does not exist,” and that it is “a Zionist plot to stain the image of Islam.”

COMMENT – The claim is absurd. Yasmina Haifi is Islamic, and would like everyone to believe that there is no “real”, Islamic, ISIS. She should talk to those who have been raped, or the families of those sold into slavery or killed. She and other Islamists would do more of a service to their communities by demanding the immoral evils perpetrated in the name of Islam be stopped.  Martin   Continue reading “Dutch National Cyber Security Center Employee Suspended After ‘Revealing’ that “ISIS Is A Zionist Plot””

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Free-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenburg

Warnings about Peak Oil have circulated widely in recent years, and if accurate, they are important. Peak oil, however, pales in comparison to something that’s happening right in front of us… and something that is a good deal more dangerous: Peak Obedience.

If that concept strikes you as odd, I can understand why: We’ve all been living inside of an obedience cult. (And I choose these words carefully.)   Continue reading “Peak Obedience”

NBC News

Authorities in northern Illinois are combing through hundreds of leads on social media and surveillance video and continuing to canvass door to door in pursuit of three suspects wanted in a fatal police shooting.

The manhunt in Fox Lake, a village on the Wisconsin border, has been hampered by a vague description of the suspects — two white men and one black man — given by the officer before he was slain Tuesday morning.   Continue reading “Manhunt Continues for Suspects in Killing of Fox Lake, Illinois, Police Officer”

Breitbart

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international railway station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other European Union countries to the west.

“What we want? Peace! What we need? Peace!” a few hundred migrants chanted outside Keleti station, the new focal point for continent-wide tensions over the unrelenting flow of migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa fleeing war, persecution and poverty.   Continue reading “Migrants Defiant as Hungary Blocks Train Links for 2nd Day”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On September 1, California Assembly members voted 42 to 23 to repeal to repeal an exemption that currently allows concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on college and university campuses for self-defense.

State senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) pushed the repeal without once citing a single instance where a concealed carry permit holder committed a crime while carrying on campus.   Continue reading “CA Assembly Passes Bill To Repeal Campus Carry”

USA Today – by Alan Gomez

More than half of the nation’s immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that’s far higher than the native-born population’s, according to a report to be released Wednesday.

About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one kind of welfare benefit, including Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches and housing assistance, compared to 30% for native-led households, according to the report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for lower levels of immigration.   Continue reading “Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare”

Stop the Crime

The Primary Water Institute – More Scientific Evidence “Water is a RENEWABLE”

The Primary Water Institute – More Scientific Evidence “Water is a RENEWABLE” = the Earth makes water deep within and WE CAN “EASILY” ACCESS IT . . . READ MORE – LEARN MORE – we have been tricked by the powers that be into thinking water is scarce and we are running out . . We have not been told the TRUTH . . . The Earth makes water continually, within . . .   Continue reading ““Peak Water”: the NEW “Peak Oil” FRAUD”

Militia News – by Tim Dunkin

When he authored the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, Thomas Jefferson based his arguments for nullification, in part, upon the compact theory of the relationship between the states and the Federal Government. According to this original understanding of the State-Federal relationship, the Constitution under which the Republic was to operate was the creation of the several states, and thus the Federal government was also the creation of these states.   Continue reading “Restoring the Compact Theory Is Vital to Restoring the Constitution”

Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many ” friends ” of the Clintons.

1 – James McDougal – Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation.

2 – Mary Mahoney – A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.   Continue reading “Clinton For President?”

Boston Globe – by Andy Rosen

A gunman shot at a Millis police cruiser on Wednesday afternoon, causing the vehicle to crash and catch fire, according to State Police.

State Police sent patrols and helicopters to the scene, officials said, adding that they were not aware of any injuries from the incident.   Continue reading “Cruiser crashes, catches fire after being shot at in Millis, Massachusetts”

The Telegraph – by Rob Crilly

Anywhere else and the sprinklers would have been a good idea, cooling off overheated visitors with a fine spray of water at the entrance to one of Poland’s busiest historical attractions.

But not at Auschwitz.

To the visiting Israeli tourists, the new showers outside the entrance to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp brought images of Nazi gas chambers flooding back through their collective memories.

Continue reading “Tourists horrified by showers at Auschwitz entrance”

Counter Current News

A Gold Coast police officer who leaked the CCTV video footage showing police brutally beating an innocent man is now facing seven long years behind bars.

Sergeant Rick Flori is being threatened with seven years in prison after the leaked video surveillance footage was released, which clearly showed his fellow officers beating a young chef named Noa Begic.   Continue reading “Cop Who Leaked Video of Fellow Officers Beating Innocent Man Now Faces 7 Years in Prison”