Category Archives: Politics

100 years ago these drugs were legal for the citizen to purchase and consume. Along comes the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 which made criminals out of common citizens. As of 2006 50% of citizens in federal prison and 20% of citizens in state prison are incarcerated for drug charges.
How is that war on drugs going?

Jeff Wood Didn’t Kill Kris Keeran, but He Is Set to Be Executed for Keeran’s Death
By SCOTT MICHELS

Aug. 8, 2008 —

Texas is scheduled to put a man to death this month even though he never killed anyone, in what would apparently be the first execution of its kind in more than a decade.

Jeff Wood was sentenced to death in 1998 for his role in the murder of Kris Keeran, a gas station attendant who was killed during a 1996 robbery.

But Wood did not kill Keeran. Danny Reneau, Wood’s former roommate, was convicted of shooting Keeran between the eyes during the robbery Jan. 2, 1996. Reneau was executed in 2002.

Barring a commutation from the governor, Wood, 35, will be put to death Aug. 21.

Wood was the getaway driver while Reneau robbed the Kerrvill, Texas, gas station where Keeran worked. [...continue...]

I’m all for the state to use capital punishment in those extreme cases that warrant it. However John Wood never killed anyone. I don’t care if he did help destroy the surveillance tapes, at gun point or not. Dude didn’t take a life, dude shouldn’t have his taken from him.

A new report to the Connecticut state legislature shows police have used the state’s unique gun seizure law to confiscate more than 1,700 firearms from citizens based on suspicion that the gun owners might harm themselves or others.

The state’s law permits police to seek a warrant for seizing a citizen’s guns based on suspicion of the gun owner’s intentions, before any act of violence or lawbreaking is actually committed [...continue...].

Some more info on this can be found here.

So what is this minority report?

The dismantling of the 2nd admendment and the disarming of citizens continue…

Milissa Santos spotted the San Jose cop in the next lane chatting on his cell phone as she drove down Meridian Avenue a couple of weeks ago. The sight made her curious and then a little peeved.

The officer was holding the phone to his ear, gabbing away. Hey, she wondered, what about the hands-free law that went into effect July 1?

“It took me by surprise,” said the 42-year-old customer service manager at Cisco, one of dozens of irate drivers who called Roadshow to complain after seeing police using cell phones. “It was obvious that his call was not work-related, as he was having a jolly good time laughing.”

Like it or not, police are exempt from the new law and can legally use a hand-held phone.

Another one of those laws that us regular citizens have to follow, but law enforcement/government do not. They are above the law.
How many more criminals has this law created from those would be law abiding citizens in a free country?

The excuse that many cops wear an ear piece connected to their scanner is a bunch of crap. Maybe the ones running dispatch buy not the officer on the street. I have never seen a cop on the street with an ear piece in.

If Susie wants to do something about, start taking photos of the cops talking on their cellphones. Setup a website something like copsoncellphones.com and have people submit their own photos.
The more people that see the hypocrisy the better.

Montgomery College in Maryland has banned tobacco use on campus, even outside. This is a growing trend among higher-ed institutions.

The real reason why sheeple agree with this. ‘I don’t like the smell.’ or the even better fallacy of second hand smoke kills, especially outside. If car exhausts smelled like the cigarette smoke then I suspect we would be banning cars too. I suspect I breath in more harmful chemicals walking through the parking lot then when walking by the few smokers lighting up in the designated areas.

I don’t smoke and actually call cigarettes cancer sticks, since that is what they are. But what a person decides to breath is their own business. But it is just not cigarettes that are banned, all tobacco products are. This ban also includes chewing tobacco. A tobacco product that does not harm anyone except the user. So why ban chewing tobacco? Well, chewers make up a very small minority so it is easy for the anti-tobacco crowd to take away that freedom as well.

And yes, employees could ultimately be fired or students kicked out if they kept ignoring the rule.

The more freedoms that are taken away, the more us citizens are turn into rule/law breakers, sad.

I have been told that if I vote for someone that doesn’t have a D or an R after their name on the ballot that I am just throwing my vote away. My response to them is the opposite but still quite the same. If you are voting for someone just because they have a D or an R after their name on the ballot, then you are equally throwing your vote away.

Check out the Libertarian party playform, check out the Libertarian candidate for President, Bob Barr.

Some say voting for a 3rd party candidate for any reason is dumb because they can’t win. Well, voting for someone just because they can win doesn’t hold too much logic either.

AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.
Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.
He thought the boss would “see sense” — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: “My mate set off the alarms and was searched.
“But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’.” ..continue..

And the reasons why I don’t fly continue to pile up.

Seriously….