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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
A 21 year old black man in Winnfield, Louisiana, named Baron "Scooter" Pikes, was tasered 9 times in 14 minutes by a white police officer in January after he was arrested and handcuffed. He died. Seems a tad excessive to me. However, here's the story of his arrest and subsequent ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
n the wake of Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins\\\\\\\' (R-ME) alarmist report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," the Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" (S. 1959).Read the full story
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.Read the full story
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
NYPD INVESTIGATES CABBIES AGAINST BUSH I was one of the founders of Cabbies Against Bush, organized during the Republican Convention of 2004. The Daily News and the New York Times have reported that Cabbies Against Bush were investigated by the NYPD during the convention.Read the full story
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
MURPHY, Texas — A sting in which police teamed up with "Dateline NBC" to catch online pedophiles was supposed to send a flinty-eyed, Texas-style warning about this Dallas suburb: Don't mess with Murphy.
Instead, it has turned into a fiasco.
One of the 25 men caught in the sting — a ...
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