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The School Security America Doesn’t Need

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 20:23 — Dave Culver

After Newtown: Turning Schools Into Prisons
Handcuffing Seven-Year-Olds Won't Make Schools Safer
US DOJ Alleges Mississippi County Jails Kids for School Dress Code Violations, Tardiness

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February 26, 2013 | Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more seven-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to local police precincts.

You read that right. Americans may disagree deeply about how easy it should be for a mentally ill convicted felon to purchase an AR-15, but when it comes to putting more law enforcement officers inside our schools, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and liberal Democrats like Senator Barbara Boxer are as one. And when police (or “school resource officers” as these sheriff’s deputies are often known) spend time in a school, they often deal with disorder like proper cops -- by slapping cuffs on the little perps and dragging them to the precinct.

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Once those children are in the juvenile justice system, they are denied basic constitutional rights.
School District: 12-Year-Old "Was Herself Responsible" For Being Raped
Poor Kids

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Bill Schorr | Raise Your Hands / media.caglecartoons.com

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 18:17 — Dave Culver

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How Law Enforcement and Media Covered Up the Plan to Burn Christopher Dorner Alive

Sat, 02/16/2013 - 15:11 — Dave Culver

Highly disturbing behavior by newspaper and Live TV sources in complying with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office.
PBS Drone Coverage Brought to You by Drone Makers

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet

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February 13, 2013 | At approximately 7 PM ET, I listened through a police scanner as San Bernardino Sheriffs deputies gave the order to burn down the cabin where suspected murderer Christopher Dorner was allegedly hiding. Deputies were maneuvering a remote controlled demolition vehicle to the base of the cabin, using it to tear down the walls of the cabin where Dorner was hiding, and peering inside.

In an initial dispatch, a deputy reported seeing “blood spatter” inside the cabins. Dorner, who had just engaged in a firefight with deputies that killed one officer and wounded another, may have been wounded in the exchange. There was no sign of his presence, let alone his resistance, according to police dispatches.

It was then that the deputies decided to burn the cabin down.

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Lockheed's Nova sponsorship violates underwriting rules
Ask PBS ombud Michael Getler to investigate whether Nova's "Rise of the Drones" violates PBS underwriting guidelines.
Rise of The Drones
Drone Warfare ~ Madea Benjamin

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Who can’t be on Obama’s “kill list”?

Wed, 02/06/2013 - 17:47 — Dave Culver

A Department of Justice (DOJ) white paper reveals White House rationalization for drone strikes -- and an out of control power structure.
Call it Too Big to Curtail.
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing
Obama's Kill List Reveals Gangsta Mentality in the Oval Office

David Sirota, Salon

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Tues., Feb. 5, 2013 | Last month, America saw in graphic detail how the destructive notion of Too Big to Jail means for an executive branch that refuses to prosecute a single banker connected to the financial meltdown. Today, with the release of a secret Justice Department white paper about the president’s so-called kill list, we are learning about another radical jurisprudential notion being pioneered by the Obama administration. Call it Too Big to Curtail.

That’s the most accurate label to describe the machinery of the government’s ever-expanding drone war. As the white paper asserts, that war — which is likely creating more terrorists than it is neutralizing — cannot be curtailed by laws or the Constitution. Therefore, the argument goes, the president no longer merely claims the power to detain and torture people without due process, nor does he merely claim the power to execute American citizens without indictment or trial. Those extra-constitutional powers, which only a few years ago were seen as utterly illegal, are quaint compared to the new assertion that the president can now do all of this without any concrete intelligence suggesting a citizen is linked to terrorist activity.

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Drone Warfare ~ Madea Benjamin
John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy
How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?

10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing, Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams

Stay tuned to www.c-span.org at 2:30pm on Thursday (2/7) to hear the Senators’ questions, Brennan’s answers and the response from those of us in the audience who don’t have many such occasions to express outrage at our government’s policy of remote-controlled killing.
Pressure Works: Urge the Senate to Press Brennan on Drone Strikes
John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy

Obama's Kill List Reveals Gangsta Mentality in the Oval Office, Dennis Trainor, Jr., YouTube

Obama has mindfully charged well to the right of the homicidal idiot from Texas whom we all thought was as bad as it could get.
Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
America's murderous drone campaign is fuelling terror

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FBI Should Investigate Bankers, Not Protesters

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 13:56 — Dave Culver

What we should do is continue to build our own evidence locker against the bankers, continue to announce their crimes to all who would hear, and keep risking arrest to get the truth out. Maybe we can finally turn the cops against the real bad guys.

Carl Gibson, Huffington Post

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Britain's Lord North forces tea down the throat of America (represented by a female figure) in a 1774 cartoon depicting retribution for the Boston Tea Party. (Library of Congress)

January 2, 2013 | Dec. 16, 2012 marked the 239th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, when activists clad in Native American costumes protested a tax code that benefited a multinational corporation at the cost of taxpayers, and committed one of the biggest acts of property destruction in history by dumping the East India Tea Company's product into the Boston Harbor by the crate-full. For nearly 50 years, the act was either shunned or ignored by the populace. But today, those activists' names are among the revered Founding Fathers of our country.

Yet while we celebrate the radical activists behind the Boston Tea Party, today's activists protesting corporate greed and a rigged tax system are labeled "terrorists" by the federal government and investigated as such. Last week, CNN reported what most of us in the movement already knew and assumed -- that the FBI had been closely monitoring the Occupy movement since its infancy and considered the movement's organizers a terrorist threat. And judging from a photo of my #S17 arrest in the CNN article's slideshow, it's safe to say I'm probably being closely monitored as well. Maybe they're reading this article. Maybe they'll at least learn something.

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