Bitter Thorn |
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How Bush Used PR to Conceal Massive Ethnic Cleansing in Baghdad: The Myth of the Surge by MIKE WHITNEY
Intriguing.
Let me add this.
Iraq War Latest Cost Estimate: Likely $6 Trillion Over Next Four Decades
Freehold DM |
NYPD cops ordered to run criminal checks on domestic-abuse victims
hm. I'm all for ensuring that the person is not a serial complainant, but this is going too far. That said, this is the post we're talking about - make sure you take a lick of salt before reading.
Bitter Thorn |
Bitter Thorn wrote:NYPD cops ordered to run criminal checks on domestic-abuse victimshm. I'm all for ensuring that the person is not a serial complainant, but this is going too far. That said, this is the post we're talking about - make sure you take a lick of salt before reading.
I would like to see some more information on this, but this seems consistent with a lot of other law enforcement abuses.
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM wrote:I would like to see some more information on this, but this seems consistent with a lot of other law enforcement abuses.Bitter Thorn wrote:NYPD cops ordered to run criminal checks on domestic-abuse victimshm. I'm all for ensuring that the person is not a serial complainant, but this is going too far. That said, this is the post we're talking about - make sure you take a lick of salt before reading.
I wouldn't call it abuse, at least not around here. People misuse/overuse domestic abuse to herculean proportions, something like this has been coming for a while, but not that I agree with this per se.
Bitter Thorn |
Bitter Thorn wrote:Manufacturing TerroristsThere's one born every minute, I suppose. This practice should be reexamined. Didn't something similar happen with Waco?
How FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents
Yup.
During the Clinton administration Christian fundamentalists, "militia" members, or bikers where the targets of choice. Then, like now, vets were also seen as potential enemies. We're not all McVeigh, but some administrations don't see it that way.
thejeff |
Bitter Thorn wrote:NYPD cops ordered to run criminal checks on domestic-abuse victimshm. I'm all for ensuring that the person is not a serial complainant, but this is going too far. That said, this is the post we're talking about - make sure you take a lick of salt before reading.
serial complainant? So if you get beat up too often, you must be the problem?
thejeff |
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Freehold DM wrote:Bitter Thorn wrote:Manufacturing TerroristsThere's one born every minute, I suppose. This practice should be reexamined. Didn't something similar happen with Waco?
How FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents
Yup.
During the Clinton administration Christian fundamentalists, "militia" members, or bikers where the targets of choice. Then, like now, vets were also seen as potential enemies. We're not all McVeigh, but some administrations don't see it that way.
And during the Bush administration, it was environmentalists and peace activists.
At least the militia types tend to be heavily armed and make lots of threats.
And you know, occasionally blow up government buildings. No need to worry about them.
Bitter Thorn |
Bitter Thorn wrote:Freehold DM wrote:Bitter Thorn wrote:Manufacturing TerroristsThere's one born every minute, I suppose. This practice should be reexamined. Didn't something similar happen with Waco?
How FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents
Yup.
During the Clinton administration Christian fundamentalists, "militia" members, or bikers where the targets of choice. Then, like now, vets were also seen as potential enemies. We're not all McVeigh, but some administrations don't see it that way.
And during the Bush administration, it was environmentalists and peace activists.
At least the militia types tend to be heavily armed and make lots of threats.
And you know, occasionally blow up government buildings. No need to worry about them.
How many militia types do you know?
Bigoted much?
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM wrote:Bitter Thorn wrote:NYPD cops ordered to run criminal checks on domestic-abuse victimshm. I'm all for ensuring that the person is not a serial complainant, but this is going too far. That said, this is the post we're talking about - make sure you take a lick of salt before reading.serial complainant? So if you get beat up too often, you must be the problem?
like I said, there are some people who misuse this. I'm not talking 3 bad b/f's, but excess of a dozen.
thejeff |
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Environmentalists never blow up anything!
How many deaths?
I didn't go through that list in detail, but I didn't see any.
That's a big difference.
Freehold DM |
(Reuters) - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.
thought they could do this already?
Bitter Thorn |
Bitter Thorn wrote:(Reuters) - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.thought they could do this already?
It's an expansion of the policy. The CIA used to be prohibited from spying in the US, for example.
Comrade Anklebiter |
Comrade Anklebiter wrote:Environmentalists never blow up anything!How many deaths?
I didn't go through that list in detail, but I didn't see any.
That's a big difference.
Probably none. How many deaths by militia members other than McVeigh?
Besides, I don't know what you guys are arguing about. IIRC, they killed Weaver's wife and dog under Bush I.
Comrade Anklebiter |
Reuters Employee Charged With Helping Anonymous Hack News Site Faces Federal Felony Charges
F&%$ing snitch-ass biznitch...
Arbane the Terrible |
Probably none. How many deaths by militia members other than McVeigh?
Ariz. border militia leader kills 3 adults, infant and self
I could go on. How many megabytes do you want?
Comrade Anklebiter |
Well, if you're offering, I'll take all the megabytes you've got.
In the meantime, you've got me with the first article, although, I should say, we were talking about political murders and that appears to be a crime of a passion that was committed by a militia member. Although he does sound like a piece of shiznit even before he murdered his girlfriend...
I have seen the second article before and I was never able to tell whether they were actually self-professed anarchists or if that was a media tag put on them. Anarchists usually don't equal "militia movement," so I wonder what the story really is.
In the other meantime: Theodore Kaczynski
Andrew R |
Comrade Anklebiter wrote:Probably none. How many deaths by militia members other than McVeigh?
Ariz. border militia leader kills 3 adults, infant and self
I could go on. How many megabytes do you want?
Enough to show militia members being any worse than any other segment of society
Comrade Anklebiter |
Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed: Iraq War Among World’s Worst Events by DAVID SWANSON
I don't know how it holds up against, say, The Black Death, but, yeah, it was pretty horrid.
meatrace |
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Arbane the Terrible wrote:Enough to show militia members being any worse than any other segment of societyComrade Anklebiter wrote:Probably none. How many deaths by militia members other than McVeigh?
Ariz. border militia leader kills 3 adults, infant and self
I could go on. How many megabytes do you want?
I think they just did that...
But it's not just militia, ex-military (and ex law enforcement) have a pretty strong tendency towards the types of suicide that take others out with them.
Smarnil le couard |
Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed: Iraq War Among World’s Worst Events by DAVID SWANSON
I don't know how it holds up against, say, The Black Death, but, yeah, it was pretty horrid.
And of course, an old favorite of mine, this memo sent to the POTUS in march of 2003 by a bunch of CIA retirees, because their muzzled active buddies couldn't get the message through...
TheWhiteknife |
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Obama Administration Censored, Withheld Record Amount Of Government Documents In 2012
To be fair, campaigning Obama stated that his administration would have "an unprecedented level of transparency." He didnt say that it would be more transparent. So, not a lie. It IS unprecedented.
TheWhiteknife |
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New Anne Arundel Co. Executive Probes Suspicious Cameras In County Council Offices
I wonder if this is related? If youre camera-shy, stay out of Annapolis, I guess.
TheWhiteknife |
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NYPD sued for 250 million for handcuffing and interrogating 7 year old FOR 10 HOURS
Atlanta officer accused of sexting 15 year old
Man, that government accountability is HARSH. I know every time Im accused of inappropiate relations with a minor, I get way way less than being put on easier task at work. I mean, administrative duty?!? Thats cruel and unusual, man!
Comrade Anklebiter |
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Comrade Cardozo, if you're out there:
About a month late, but 2 of the 3 anarchists suffering from Living under Obama's Presidency have been released.
Free Maddy Pfeiffer!
Freehold DM |
NYPD sued for 250 million for handcuffing and interrogating 7 year old FOR 10 HOURS
Atlanta officer accused of sexting 15 year old
Man, that government accountability is HARSH. I know every time Im accused of inappropiate relations with a minor, I get way way less than being put on easier task at work. I mean, administrative duty?!? Thats cruel and unusual, man!
Something about that first story sounds familiar and bogus. Hopefully morwe investigation will yield something more than a quickie-this-never-happened settlement.
Thiago Cardozo |
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Comrade Cardozo, if you're out there:
About a month late, but 2 of the 3 anarchists suffering from Living under Obama's Presidency have been released.
Free Maddy Pfeiffer!
These are great news. The unwholesome persecution of political activists has been pretty ruthless. Good that once in a while something like this happens.
TheWhiteknife |
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More cops who do not know how to read a warrant threaten 11 month old, shoot dog
But fear not, intrepid citizens. Your noble government will see that they are held to the same standards as you! Why, I bet the process to put them on paid administrative leave has already begun and will be completed within a matter of weeks!
PS- we need you to pay your fair share in taxes, citizen. These dynamic raids and civil suits arent free, you know.
Don Juan de Doodlebug |
Monsanto Protection Act signed into law
Natasha Lennard was featured prominently in that Occupy Wall Street movie by Andrew Breitbart.
She's totally hawt!!
Freehold DM |
Latest commie propaganda on the police murder of a 7-year-old Detroit girl
good to hear things are moving along.
TheWhiteknife |
Latest commie propaganda on the police murder of a 7-year-old Detroit girl
Ive been keeping tabs on her case since the original "Gov Folly" thread.
Whats the over/under on any meaningful prosecution?