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January 2018

January 24, 2018

Kiwi Police Reveal Amazing Trick for Avoiding Speeding Fines

Brilliant! 1. Look closely at the signs on the road that show you the speed...

September 2017

September 02, 2017

Stimulus/Response

Stimulus Response: This brutal thug in a uniform behaved in exactly the way he was...

August 2017

August 05, 2017

Last Week, the President of the United States Urged Cops to be More Brutal

...in a speech so stupid and irresponsible the DEA chief had to publicly reject Trump's...

August 05, 2017

US citizens can be held for three years on the basis of nothing whatsoever…

...and then be denied compensation by Appeal Courts. All they have to do is breathe...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

Did you know people could be forcibly catheterized…

...for drug testing? Am I the only person who thinks that is insane?

November 2015

November 06, 2015

The American Experiment and Truth Cancer

When I contemplate the fact that the Land of the Free has a bigger prison...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Behold the Face of a Criminal

This little kid was permanently disfigured by a "no knock" SWAT raid on his house...

May 21, 2015

Demented Home Invasions by Police…

...in Wisconsin. Bizarre.

April 2015

April 13, 2015

The GOP: On the Cutting Edge of the Late 19th Century

In a week when a cop's lie about cold-blooded murder has been exposed by the...

March 2015

March 07, 2015

If You or I Kill Somebody, We are Required to Answer Questions About That

When Coconut Creek, Florida police kill people, they can just declare that "confidential" and then...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

I’m with him on this

The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video Archive...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Baltimore Cops Beat up Innocent Old Lady

...discover that she's tougher than they realized. Baltimore is hemorrhaging money from suits against cops....

October 09, 2014

The War on Okra

Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants If we let the elderly...

October 08, 2014

Stunning Legal Theft

Another week, another astounding revelation of the police kleptocracy we live under (NSFW language, but...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Police State Good News (and Bad News)

Good News: “Amid a national furor over police militarization, the San Jose Police Department has...

September 24, 2014

American Police State Fleecing Tourists

American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money U.S. police are operating...

September 22, 2014

Laughing and Fistbumping as they Beat a Handcuffed Nurse

...the LAPD cops forgot that the growth of the surveillance state is not an unalloyed...

September 08, 2014

Beverly Hills Cops Bust Guy for Walking While Black

Wow. WHEN YOU "FIT THE DESCRIPTION"! It’s one of those things that you hear about,...

August 2014

August 22, 2014

One California Town’s Answer to Police Brutality…

...has lowered the use of force by 60%. It's pretty simple: the cops are required...

August 20, 2014

NPR does an interesting piece on our militarized cops

here. The problem, of course, is not primarily with the cops but with the policymakers...

August 19, 2014

John Oliver on Ferguson

NSFW: 1400%. Wow.

August 14, 2014

When did Missouri become an Iron Curtain Country?

News crew tear gassed and their equipment dismantled. What's interesting and creepy (to me as...

August 14, 2014

Weaponized Goon Police in Ferguson, MO

...protect the living daylights out of reporters and journalists who were typing very, very dangerously...

August 13, 2014

The press has freer access to Iraq…

...than to the police state of Ferguson, MO, where a cop shot an unarmed kid eight...

July 2014

July 09, 2014

Barney Fife Meets Delta Force

Historians looking back at this period in America’s development will consider it to be profoundly...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Protecting the living guts out of people

Our militarized police kill another citizen enemy who was sleeping on his couch.

June 24, 2014

Man Cooked to Death in Scalding Shower by Cops–as Punishment

I trust they will receive the customary Severe Vacation with Pay.

June 20, 2014

A Ruling Class That Acts like the One in the Last Story

...increasingly selects for cops that act like the ones in this story as it readies...

June 18, 2014

Good news! Justina Pelletier Goes Home

I hope her parents get a gazillion dollars in lawsuit money from the state for...

June 11, 2014

The police state continues…

to protect the living daylights out of people: SWAT throws flash grenade into crib, severely...

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