Missing Links, by Maggie McNeil

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I subscribe to her blog and got this series of news links, most of which I found very interesting. Thought I would share for those who are interested.
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Missing Links

August 12, 2012 by Maggie McNeill

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams

As promised last week, here’s a big collection of links derived from various sources this week. The first few are all examples of our burgeoning police state, courtesy of Radley Balko; in fact, every link down to the chimpanzee video came to me via his Twitter feed.

• You’re 8 times more likely to be killed by a cop than by a terrorist.
• Florida cops strip-search woman on the side of the road in front of her two kids because of a “rolling stop”. And by “strip”, I mean completely.
• While we’re on the subject of Florida: when calculating weight of drugs for possession charges, they include the weight of the container.
• Man arrested and interrogated for not smiling at the Olympics.
• A particularly horrible isolated incident.
• Government doing what it does best.
• No need to buy a gun; the government will protect you by ordering your rapist to stay away, and providing your address so he knows where to stay away from.
• Welcome to our world, “pink slime” edition.
• Gazillions.

• The US federal government adds a new rule – each with the force of law – every 1 hour and 53 minutes (24 hours a day, 7 days a week).
• It’s good to see mainstream writers saying this at last: The U.S. federal government cannot be reformed. It must be catastrophically remade.
• This week’s edition of “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”. If that’s not enough, here’s another one.
• NYPD shocked to discover women don’t like being forcibly groped by cops. Especially not when the excuse is a search for a (male) rapist.
• Gibson Guitars finally decided to pay the federal extortion demand.
• The world’s first website is still up and running.
• 9th Circuit Court of appeals rules that the government can spy on whoever it wants, whenever it wants, without even bothering to get a warrant.
• Major human trafficking ring exposed: 37% of poor children in one California county are literally abducted from their homes, enabling traffickers to make up to $8000 apiece.
• Mike Siegel explains that though global warming is real, the way to solve it is NOT thorough huge government wealth redistribution schemes.

Click the links to read the articles...

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This article in particular I thought Cog would find an interesting read:

Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping

Click Link here to read: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...s-wiretapping/


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