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Source: Associated Press Posted on 10.20.10 by Steve Trinward “A coalition of Internet content providers and free-speech advocates told a federal judge yesterday that a new Massachusetts law aimed at protecting children from online sexual predators effectively bans anything that may be considered ‘harmful to minors,’ including material that adults have the right to view. Supporters say the new law closes a loophole that led the state’s highest court to overturn the conviction of a man accused of sending sexually explicit instant messages to someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl. The Supreme Judicial Court found that the old state law that imposes criminal penalties for disseminating material harmful to minors did not cover electronic communications.” (10/20/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bgjwfq Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 10.20.10 by Steve Trinward “A national anti-abortion group, the Susan B. Anthony List, has filed a lawsuit over a state election law that prohibited the group from putting up a billboard against a Democratic congressman, according to the Associated Press. The group claims Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH), a first-term anti-abortion Democrat, ‘voted for taxpayer funding of abortion,’ because he voted for the new healthcare laws. The planned billboard would have read, ‘Shame on Steve Driehaus! Driehaus voted FOR taxpayer-funded abortion.’ Driehaus denied the claim and filed a complaint with the Ohio Election Commission. The commission ruled in Dreihaus’ favor, saying that there was probable cause that the planned billboard included false statements.” (10/20/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28wl899 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Gazette Extra Posted on 10.18.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “There were almost as many hip-holstered guns as there were American flags flying at the Southern Wisconsin Pre-election Freedom Rally on Janesville’s north side on Saturday. In the end, it wasn’t just about guns. Or taxes. Or the nation’s health care system. Or even ‘tea,’ really. About 500 people turned out for the rally … The event included issue-oriented information booths and speeches from local, state and national politicians running in the November midterm election. Organizers of the Freedom Rally are members of the Southern Wisconsin Patriot Alliance, a group of activists associated with the ‘taxed enough already,’ or Tea movement.” (10/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2b4uzwo Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: WBTV News Posted on 10.18.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Two parents are facing drug charges after their child took their drugs to school and told a school officer his parents were breaking the law. … The 11-year-old student is in 5th grade at a an elementary school in Matthews. Police say he brought his parents’ marijuana cigarettes to school when he reported them. Matthews Police say he reported his parents after a lesson about marijuana was delivered by a police officer who is part of the D.A.R.E. program, which teaches kids about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. … Police say both the 11-year old and a sibling have been removed from the parents’ house by social services. Police say they are staying with relatives.” (10/18/10) Link: http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13330034 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 10.17.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters. Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs — by producing them in China, importing them as ’small heating devices’ and selling them as ‘heatballs.’” (10/15/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101015/od_nm/us_germany_heatballs Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 10.17.10 by Steve Trinward “The final touches are in place for their late October wedding by the sea: the marriage license, the red and orange orchids, and the matching gold rings. But the honeymoon will be different. After they exchange vows, Greg Gould and Aurelio Tine will immediately go to battle with the US government. Gould said he will formally apply for legal residency for Tine, a native of Venezuela, even though he fully expects to be rejected, to lay the groundwork for a possible legal challenge to a federal law they say discriminates against gays. The US government offers a path to legal residency for immigrants who marry Americans, but it does not recognize same-sex marriages. The couple would rather honeymoon in Italy, but with Tine facing deportation, Gould says that is not an option.” [editor’s note: Everyone claiming “marriage is sacred to man and woman” should be directed to this double-standard - SAT] (10/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2upu882 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 10.17.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on bail restrictions on G20 leader (You are not permitted to speak to press), “Nobody gets their kids back” in New Hampshire, A chance to help Bradford Metcalf, an American political prisoner, TSA Enhanced pat-downs coming, ‘Mad Anne’ Bailey, Solidarity wins out over psychobabble in Chile, “To exist is to resist”, direct action to challenge power, Hypothesis: Many Americans have withdrawn, anti-war vets, the government’s watch list?, Free baby Cheyenne, “Yes, we can” turns deadly and America’s Third World Economy. In the news, Greek Riot police storm Acropolis protest, SC an fights to keep religious signs on his property and Florida Open Carry holds events across central Florida. Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Sky News [UK] Posted on 10.14.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Baton-toting police have stormed the Acropolis clashing with government workers and blocking Greece’s most sacrosanct archeological site for a second day. The scuffles, watched by astonished tourists, erupted when police burst into the grounds of the landmark attraction through a side entrance. Protesters clung onto the gates, defying repeated orders to clear the entrance. At least 30 government workers had occupied the Acropolis overnight, barricading themselves inside and changing the padiock on the main gate to keep police out.” (10/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/36wqh6f Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 10.12.10 by Steve Trinward “A South Carolina man says his constitutional rights have been violated after he was told by his local government to remove the Bible-themed signs he had posted on his property. Oscar Moultrie says a Berkeley County, S.C., ordinance that requires residents to obtain government permission before putting up signs on their private property — other than ‘for sale,’ ‘for rent,’ political signs and a few other exceptions — violates his First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Moultrie says he received no complaints about his signs before the county ordered him in March to remove them or pay $25 to get a permit to post them.” (10/11/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/32fefz6 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Orlando Examiner Posted on 10.11.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Open carry gun rights supporters met Saturday on public fishing piers in Tampa and Daytona Beach, FL for a morning of fishing and to exercise their right to bear arms. The Florida Open Carry movement started holding open carry & fishing events immediately after the United States Supreme Court clarified that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right for the individual to keep and bear arms for self defense. The high court also held that the Second Amendment is incorporated to the states. This requires that state and local governments protect your right to own and carry firearms without undue restrictions. Much like the right to free speech, the right to bear arms has now been recognized as a civil right.” (10/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2e7ga8g Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 10.10.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Cointelpro 101: A history of repression, Pennsylvania has been monitoring you!Obama reneges on key agreement with immigration advocates, Tyranny’s last stand, Internationalizing American insanity, and X-raying you while you drive In the news iolence mars gay pride parade in Serbia, FBI seizes John Lennon fingerprints before auction, ACLU sues North Carolina school over nose-piercing suspension, chair monitors your comfort, jail time and fines for incorrect national anthem singing in Philippines, Saggy pants prompts bullet in butt in Tennessee , and New Mexico Students tracked with RFID chips Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/lsand Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: All Headline News Posted on 10.10.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Anti-gay protesters trying to disrupt a Gay Pride parade in Serbia’s capital on Sunday clashed with police guarding the march resulting in the injuring of 100 people, mostly police, and the arrest of another 100 people. Protesters and police exchanged petrol bombs, stones, tear gas and rubber bullets along Terazije boulevard. Rioters also set several cars on fire and tried to burn down the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Party.” (10/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2vjrc95 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 10.07.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A set of John Lennon’s fingerprints being auctioned for at least $100,000 was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday 30 years after the singer’s death. … The fingerprint card was being shown to media at a midtown New York store early Wednesday in an auction preview of more than 90 Beatles items when the FBI faxed a subpoena there and took the card. Lennon was born in Liverpool, England and had been investigated by the FBI in the early 1970s for anti-war activity. … ‘We’re investigating how the item came to be in a private collection,’ FBI spokesman James Margolin said. ‘It is apparently a government document and would not normally be in the commercial stream.’” (10/07/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101007/od_nm/us_lennon_fingerprints Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 10.06.10 by Steve Trinward “The American Civil Liberties Union claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that a North Carolina school violated the constitutional rights of a 14-year-old student by suspending her for wearing a nose piercing. The lawsuit from the state chapter of the ACLU seeks a court order allowing Ariana Iacono to return immediately to Clayton High School, which has kept her on suspension for four weeks since classes started. The complaint hinges on Iacono’s claim that her nose piercing isn’t just a matter of fashion, but an article of faith. She and her mother, Nikki, belong to a small religious group called the Church of Body Modification, which sees tattoos, piercings and the like as channels to the divine.” (10/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dyu9n3 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 10.06.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Getting back pain from sitting still for too long or in a bad position could be a thing of the past thanks to a chair developed by a German scientist which makes noises to tell users when they need to move. … If the chair detects that its occupant is sitting in the wrong position or has remained seated for too long, it makes a noise to tell the user it is time to change position.” (10/06/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101006/od_nm/us_germany_chair_odd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 10.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “In the Philippines, a land of passionate singers, taking on the national anthem is about to get a little more daunting — get it wrong and you could land in jail for a couple of years and be fined more than $2,000. A ban on the improper singing of Lupang Hinirang (Beloved Land) and unpatriotic displays of the Philippine flag is a Senate vote away from becoming law after the lower house voted 196-0 in favor of it on Monday.” (10/05/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101005/od_nm/us_philippines_anthem_odd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: The Smoking Gun Posted on 10.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Incensed when two teenagers ignored his demands to pull up their saggy pants, a Memphis man allegedly shot one of the youths in the back, according to police. Kenneth Bonds was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of aggravated assault and jailed on $25,000 bond. … Investigators contend that Bonds admitted to shooting Cameron Tucker, 17, following a September 25 argument on a Memphis sidewalk.” [editor’s note: Assault, yeah, but dang! It’s pretty funny. Put me on the jury - MLS] (10/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26lqz62 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: KHOU News Posted on 10.04.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Students in Santa Fe have to wear ID badges to class, complete with a built-in tracking device. The Smart Badge program started this school year, and is getting mixed reviews from parents and students. Patrick Mann is a senior and said he feels like he’s in prison.” [editor’s note: Patrick, you ARE in prison - MLS] (10/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/22m4o8j Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 10.03.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Iran’s blogfather: 19 years in jail for speaking his mind, The firing of Moscow’s mayor , the Tea Party debate, Hardyville Tales is here! In the news Motorcyclist wins taping case against Maryland police, Wisconsin Gun rights group sues city and police chief, Guns cleared for Hometown Fair Til next week for freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Baltimore Sun Posted on 09.30.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A Harford County Circuit Court judge ruled this afternoon that a motorcyclist who was arrested for videotaping his traffic stop by a Maryland State Trooper was within his rights to record the confrontation. … The judge ruled that Maryland’s wire tap law allows recording of both voice and sound in areas where privacy cannot be expected. He ruled that a police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy. ‘Those of us who are public officials and are entrusted with the power of the state are ultimately accountable to the public,’ the judge wrote. ‘When we exercise that power in public fora, we should not expect our actions to be shielded from public observation.’” (09/27/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/279l3g7 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 09.30.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Gun-rights group Wisconsin Carry is accusing the city of Madison and police Chief Noble Wray of violating the Second Amendment rights of five men. A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday says officers violated the rights of five armed patrons at a fast-food restaurant by asking them to produce identification or face arrest. A woman called 911 on Sept. 18 after seeing the men’s holstered guns. Responding officers asked the men for identification. All five were eventually cited for disorderly conduct.” (09/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2wslpc9 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Easy Reader News Posted on 09.30.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Though the guns that will be holstered to dozens of people at this weekend’s Hometown Fair won’t be loaded, the debate over the right to carry them has been. Despite initial warnings from Hometown Fair Board members and the Manhattan Beach Police Department that people with firearms at the event would be arrested, volunteers of South Bay Open Carry (SBOC) made it clear that they will not leave their guns at home, citing their Second Amendment right to bear arms. A quarrel over guns at the event began with the fair board threatening arrests. ‘They are opening themselves up to a huge lawsuit,’ Harley Green, founder of SBOC, said on Monday.” (09/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2vgan78 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 09.28.10 by Steve Trinward “It’s bad enough when you throw a party and nobody comes. Well, what if you hold a rally, plenty of people come, but nobody –- meaning, in this case, the national media –- pays attention? That scenario seems to be playing out right now as what is possibly the mother of this midterm election’s Washington rallies slips into town under what Harry Potter fans might call an invisibility cloak. A group called One Nation Working Together, which bills itself as ‘a nationwide liberal organization dedicated to networking progressives together for true hope and change,’ has been planning its big event for Oct. 2 since May. … Yet, punch in ‘Washington rally’ for a Google search and all you hear about is the upcoming Stephen Colbert/Jon Stewart event on Oct. 30 — or lingering deconstructions of the Aug. 28 Glenn Beck gathering on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.” (09/28/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bmajs5 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: CNN Posted on 09.27.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “More than 100 people protesting mountain-top removal coal mining were arrested Monday outside the White House for failing to obey an order to disperse, the U.S. Park Service said. All 114 people arrested at the protest against mountain-top mining were later released pending a court date, according to the park service. The protesters, most from the Appalachian coal-mining states, had a permit to gather in front of the White House, but some failed to follow rules set out in the permit, according to a park service spokesman.” [editor’s note: The only “permit” anyone needs is the First Amendment’s assembly clause, and the only rule it implies is that the assembly be peaceable. Any restrictions beyond that constitute crimes by the Park Service, not by the protesters - TLK] (09/27/10) Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/27/white.house.protest/ Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: News.com.au [Australia] Posted on 09.27.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Queensland teachers would be given Taser stun guns to control unruly students under a leaked State Opposition draft policy. In a move labelled ‘ridiculous’ by parents, Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek’s office proposed handing teachers the 50,000 volt electro-shock weapons for protection against rising school violence. … The document, which was shared among policy advisers, said giving teachers Tasers would provide a valuable discipline tool, allow control of the entire class without physical contact and ensure class concentration.” (09/26/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/285kzpj Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 09.26.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on The collapse of western morality, Animal experimentation funny??, two people live here, Locking up activists, RIAA vs. Wikileaks, No law? No warrant? No problem, The next Mexican revolution, How to record the cops, The leaker as American hero, Avoid the Constitution?, Police informants within libertarianism, The National Speed Trap Exchange and Burning and building In the news Three years for New Orleans ex-cop in post-Katrina bridge shooting, German Restaurateur in hot water over giant schnitzels, 84-year-old vet suffers broken neck after police takedown, Irish Police to send “test” youths to pubs, Make homosexuality illegal says Montanas GOP policy, Florida Child still expelled for toy gun — one year later, and PigSpotter still tweeting speed traps in South Africa Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 09.23.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A former New Orleans police detective who admitted he helped cover up deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina has been sentenced to three years in prison. Jeffrey Lehrmann, one of five former officers who have pleaded guilty in the Justice Department’s probe of the Danziger Bridge shootings, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Lance Africk. Africk refused a prosecution request to postpone Lehrman’s sentencing until after six current or former officers are tried. Africk also went above the sentencing guidelines, which called for up to six months behind bars.” (09/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/38ngfhc Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 09.22.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A German restaurant operator has run into trouble with local tax authorities because he makes larger-than-average schnitzels — or veal cutlets — for his customers in a working class section of Saxony. Gerhard Kaltscheuer said his giant schnitzels are popular in the town of Hammerbruecke and he sells about 70 dishes per day. He said tax officials told him they believe he sells 200 portions daily based on the amount of raw material he purchases.” (09/22/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100922/od_nm/us_germany_schnitzel Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: News 13 Posted on 09.22.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “An elderly man is in critical condition after being thrown to the ground by a police officer. … Witnesses say the 84-year-old was upset when he saw his car was about to be towed. … The police were called and say Daley, who’d been drinking, put his hands on the officer. … he put his hands on the officer three times and the cop warned him to stop each time. … the officer then violently hip checked him and took him to the ground. … Orlando Police Department’s use of force policy … define[s] imminent danger as a situation that could lead to death or great bodily harm. An Orlando police sergeant and spokesperson said this situation should qualify as imminent danger.” [editor’s note: Imminent danger from an 84 year old. Hmm - MLS] (09/20/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26kqwqe Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 09.21.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Ireland plans to allow police to send ‘test’ youths to pubs from next month to check if landlords abide by laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol to those under 18, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said on Tuesday. Faced with one of Europe’s worst binge drinking cultures which usually starts in teenage years, police will be authorized from October 1 to get permission from parents to train and send young people aged 15-17 to licensed premises. If any alcohol is sold to the minors, the pub will be prosecuted and face fines or closure for a period.” (09/21/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100921/od_nm/us_ireland_drink Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: MSNBC Posted on 09.20.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal. The party adopted an official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997.” (09/18/10) Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39246126/ns/us_news/ Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: NBC Miami Posted on 09.19.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Samuel Burgos has fond memories of his friends at school, but he only gets to see them in pictures now. The 8-year-old boy hasn’t been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way. Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack. But when the boy went to register to go back to Pembroke Pines Charter School, he was told he will be expelled for this school year, too, as part of the county’s zero tolerance weapons policy. ‘He made a mistake, but why the severe punishment? I don’t understand that,’ said Magdiel Burgos, Sam’s dad. School board officials said the rules are quite clear and that the toy gun constituted a weapon.” (09/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/387uue2 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: News 24 Posted on 09.19.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “While Johannesburg motorists will no longer receive information regarding the location of police roadblocks from Twitter’s renegade PigSpotter, he still tweets the whereabouts of mobile speed trap cameras. … ‘He will be arrested even if he stops tweeting now,’ said metro police spokesperson Wayne Minnaar. ‘He can be charged with obstructing or defeating justice.’” (09/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2v4qjwc Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 09.19.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on a renewed commitment to activism, Making a start on community, Making a start on community, JBTs and copyright enforcement, The great Muslim scare, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus break cover, Tools for radicals, South Carolina’s Jocassee Gorges, If at first you don’t secede, The Koran at Fahrenheit 451 and more! In the news, NYC may ban smoking in parks, on beaches, Appalled” Rendell shuts down reports on protests in Pennsylvania, Celebrated civil rights photographer was FBI informant, Frances Crowe has no plans to stop agitating and “Tea party” activists march on Capitol Hill. Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 09.16.10 by Steve Trinward “New York City is pursuing a tough new policy that would shoo smokers out of public parks, beaches, and even the heart of Times Square — one of the most ambitious outdoor antitobacco efforts in the nation. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration and city lawmakers announced yesterday that they will pursue a broad extension of the city’s smoking ban to 1,700 parks and 14 miles of public beaches, plus boardwalks, marinas, and pedestrian plazas.” (09/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2c6ua4u Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 09.15.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Information about an anti-BP candlelight vigil, a gay and lesbian festival and other peaceful gatherings became the subject of anti-terrorism bulletins being distributed by Pennsylvania’s homeland security office, an apologetic Gov. Ed Rendell admitted. Rendell, who claimed he’d just learned about the practice, said Tuesday that the information was useless to law enforcement agencies and that distributing it was tantamount to trampling on constitutional rights.” (09/15/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_homeland_security_bulletin Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: National Post [Canada] Posted on 09.14.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Ernest Withers had seen it all. Described as the ‘original civil rights photographer’ he was present at some of the most important events during the movement. He snapped photos at the murder scene of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Little Rock crisis. Little did his subjects know that he was doing some other work on the side. Memphis Commercial Appeal has revealed that Withers, who died in 2007 at the age of 85, worked as a paid FBI informant. The newspaper possesses numerous reports that show Withers was spying on King and other activists, including the day before his murder when he met with what the FBI thought were black militants.” (09/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/22veqs7 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 09.13.10 by Steve Trinward “Authorities dragged the short woman with white hair out of her congressman’s Springfield office while she protested the Iraq war. She spent a month in federal prison after painting ‘Thou shalt not kill’ on missile tubes of nuclear submarines in Connecticut. She has been arrested nine times for trespassing at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. When asked how often she has been hauled away for acts of civil disobedience, Frances Crowe responds with a smile: ‘Not enough.’ At age 91, and less than a month after her latest arrest, the veteran protester — who favors socks with sandals, thick glasses, and oversized pins with bold-lettered messages — has no plans to stop agitating.” (09/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2g2rblv Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 09.12.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “‘Tea party’ activists marched Sunday on Capitol Hill, promising to mobilize conservative voters on election day to take back the country. … Tea party activists used a similar march last year to galvanize their opposition to Democrats’ healthcare overhaul. In the process, they established themselves as leading voices of opposition to the Obama administration and a threat to incumbent Republicans deemed too moderate.” (09/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/38qbsv3 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 09.12.10 by Mary Lou Seymour In the news … a milk filling station in Germany, a loony preacher in Florida … Commentaries on How far are you willing to go?, Why 9/11 gave rise to a carnival of confusion, goodbye to the long census in Canada,No justice for Marcia Powell, Anti-traffickers, Show me your papers, Military recruiters, The curse of 1913 and more! Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 09.08.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a ‘milk filling station.’ The ‘Milchtankstelle’ near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses the output of 78 cows from a stainless steel vending machine. Customers can either bring their own empty containers or buy milk bottles to fill up. … ‘Customers say that the milk on sale in supermarkets doesn’t taste good any more,’ he said. ‘Supermarkets work on improving the shelf life, but people just want fresher milk. People come from as far away as Cologne to buy milk from my station.’” (09/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/279p3ck Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 09.07.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere. But the Rev. Terry Jones insisted he would go ahead with his plans, despite criticism from the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, the White House and the State Department, as well as a host of religious leaders.J ones, who is known for posting signs proclaiming that Islam is the devil’s religion, says the Constitution gives him the right to publicly set fire to the book that Muslims consider the word of God.” (09/07/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_us/quran_burning Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 09.06.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Web only this evening … hope y’all had a great Labor Day holiday! News on : NOPD under fire for Katrina killings and Brazilians given permission to laygh at elections ….Commentaries on a Scary back to school future in California , Instead of marching, lets end the war on drugs, The fake TV challenge , running for justice, Civil Disobedience and more! Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: WDEF News Posted on 08.31.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The New Orleans Police Department is reeling from allegations of murder, conspiracy and civil rights violations in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina. When the storm hit dozens of police abandoned their posts. CBS News cameras caught others apparently looting stores. More than 500 officers were fired or disciplined for their actions. Sherrel Johnson’s son, 17-year old James Brissette, seen here in the only photo to survive the storm was shot six times by police while crossing the Danziger bridge five days after the storm. The police claimed self-defense. Five officers have pleaded guilty to covering up the shooting. Four others could receive the death penalty if convicted.” (08/30/10) Link: http://wdef.com/news/department_under_fire/08/2010 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 08.29.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Carlos Ayres Britto, vice president of the country’s Supreme Court, late Thursday suspended a rule banning TV and radio programs from poking fun at candidates in the country’s October 3 elections. The ban hurts constitutional principles of free expression and creates programing restraints, Britto said. His ruling, which came in response to a complaint by an association of TV and radio broadcasters, will be deliberated by a full session of the court most likely next week.” (08/27/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100827/od_nm/us_election_comedy_odd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 08.29.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Latino activist Ramsey Muniz (guilty of being Latino and activist in America), Julian Heicklen (arrested for handing out FIJA flyers), HR 45 DOA but gun registry looms, Open Carry: How to assert your rights, Slow violence and the BP coverups (you didnt really believe the oil spill had disappeared, did ya?), Is the Muslim my neighbor? (Good Samaritan 2010), and A self educated chicken (the evolution of an average housewife). In the news, Ebonics translator wanted for DEA job, Judge refuses to block ban on guns in Georgia church; case moves forward, Minneapolis to pay $165,000 to zombies, typo vigilantes correct errant signage, ACLU questions “enhanced patdowns”, Idiot pols try to levy tax on Philly bloggers…. And please take the anonymous JPFO survey on What is your line in the sand? Til next week for freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: ABC News Posted on 08.24.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for fluent Ebonics speakers to fill nine drug enforcement jobs, giving merit to a dialect that experts say is often mimicked and little understood. The federal Drug Enforcment Administration translators would work out of the Atlanta field office according to a Justice Department request, posted online today by The Smoking Gun. ” (08/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2cfnyju Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted on 08.24.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A federal judge on Monday declined to block enforcement of a new Georgia law that bans guns in places of worship. ‘It’s not at all discouraging,’ said John Monroe, the attorney who filed a lawsuit on behalf of a minister at a Thomaston church and GeorgiaCarry.org, gun-rights advocacy group. U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal, in a 30-minute hearing, said he would base his final decision on the outcome of the lawsuit only on the writings submitted by Monroe and the attorney for the state and Upson County …. Royal’s ruling on the case likely won’t occur this summer. Whatever his decision, legal analysts expect it to be taken to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court.” (08/23/10) Link: http://www.ajc.com/news/judge-refuses-to-block-597481.html Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted on 08.23.10 by Steve Trinward “Minneapolis will pay seven people who were jailed after a street theater protest. The Minneapolis city attorney’s office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000. The payout, approved by the City Council on Friday, settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis on July 22, 2006, to protest ‘mindless’ consumerism. When arrested … most of them had thick white powder and fake blood on their faces and dark makeup around their eyes. They were walking in a stiff, lurching fashion and carrying four bags of sound equipment to amplify music from an iPod when they were arrested by police, who said they were carrying equipment that simulated ‘weapons of mass destruction.’” (08/23/10) Link: http://www.startribune.com/local/101273159.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 08.23.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “‘The Great Typo Hunt’ describes a nationwide mission by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, both 30, to rid America of signs that add an extra ‘n’ to ‘dining,’ or insist that ’shipping’ is spelled with one ‘p.’ Deck, a magazine editor, and Herson, a bookseller, drove across the country in the spring of 2008 armed with sharpies, pens and whiteout, correcting spelling, removing surplus apostrophes and untangling subject-verb disagreement on signs outside stores, gas stations, parks and public buildings.” (08/23/10) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100823/od_nm/us_book_typos_odd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: CBS News Posted on 08.23.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is questioning the propriety of stepped-up security checkpoint procedures at airports in Boston and Las Vegas. The Boston Herald reports that Transportation Security Administration screeners at Logan International Airport are testing what one official called an ‘enhanced patdown.’ It lets screeners use a palms-forward, slide-down search procedure on passengers’ bodies.” (08/22/10) Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/22/national/main6794734.shtml Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: ComputerWorld Posted on 08.23.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “If you’re a blogger in the city of Philadelphia, get out your checkbook. Just like everyone else, Philadelphia is struggling to get through the tough economy, and city officials want bloggers to do their fair share and pay up. There’s no specific blogger tax, as some media outlets reported today. But the cit[y] does have a business tax that covers any Philadelphia-based bloggers who are now making any money from their online efforts. Maura Kennedy, a spokesperson for the city, told Computerworld that officials want money-making bloggers to register their business and start paying the tax.” (08/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2f3mpnc Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 08.22.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentraries on Why Wikileaks must be protected, CS Lewis on the evils of statism, Booing the goose, The ugly truth, The prison state, intellectual roperty rights, Freedom and illusion, Free the monks, free entrepreneurs nationwide and Cyberwar against Wikileaks? In the news, Anti-liberty bigots protest, freedom supporters counter at Islamic center site, Six hurt in fresh clashes in Kashmir, Antigay church can protest military funerals, judge rules, Hundreds bear arms at rally in NC, Gun activists take aim at metro Detroit …. Royal Oak to allow guns at Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival, Levin has his military-industrial complex cake, eats anti-war pie too, “Tea Party” Know-Nothings rally at border to support terror state, and FBI police harass student for photographing “sensitive” area. Til next week For freedom1 Mary lou Link: http://rationalrevioew.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 08.22.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Hundreds of people took part in rival protests over plans for a mosque [sic] near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks. Police kept the banner-waving groups apart, although there were no reports of violence between supporters and opponents of the scheme in New York. Opponents chanted ‘No mosque, no way’ as supporters responded with ‘Say no to racist fear.’” (08/22/10) Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11054868 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Agence France-Presse Posted on 08.22.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Six people were hurt Sunday when police fired pump action shotguns at stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir, where more than 60 people have died during anti-India protests. Police said the incident took place in Srinagar, the main town in Indian Kashmir, when police were conducting a flag march. ‘Some miscreants pelted stones heavily on the police. The police used (teargas) and pump action ammunition to chase them away,’ a police statement said, adding that six people were hurt. Doctors said one was in a critical condition. Witnesses said the police used force on worshippers who were coming out of a mosque and that there was no stone pelting.” (08/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24qpggd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 08.18.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a Missouri law aimed at preventing members of a Kansas-based religious group from conducting inflammatory protests outside the funerals of fallen US service members.Chief US District Judge Fernando Gaitan said the state statute violated free speech protections guaranteed in the First Amendment by imposing excessive restrictions on the ability to conduct protests outside funerals….“Although plaintiff’s speech may be repugnant to listeners, the court finds that, at a minimum, some of plaintiff’s speech is entitled to constitutional protection,” Judge Gaitan said in a 19-page decision announced Monday.” (08/17/10) Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0817/Antigay-church-can-protest-military-funerals-judge-rules Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: The Right Perspective Posted on 08.18.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Hundreds brought their guns to a Tea Party rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on Saturday to peacefully demonstrate that the Constitution protects the right to own and carry a firearm. Two hundred attended the Restore the Constitution Rally at the Guildford Courthouse in Battleground Park, openly carrying their pistols and rifles in recognition of a new law allowing people to carry guns at federal parks. ‘We want to remind Americans that they have a basic human right to keep and bear arms — both for self-defense and to preserve individual freedom — that is not only enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but is protected only by Americans’ willingness to actually exercise that right,’ wrote rally organizer Randy Dye in a statement.” (08/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/243u9e8 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Detroit Free Press Posted on 08.17.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Gun owners will be able to openly carry their weapons at next month’s Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival in downtown Royal Oak.Officials lifted the gun ban after hours of public comment on Monday night.On one side were gun-rights activists who pointed to state law that allows them to openly carry their guns. On the other side were residents and families worried about safety.The festival, expected to draw tens of thousands to Royal Oak over Labor Day weekend, is now ground zero for the gun debate in Michigan.” (08/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24oj3eo Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News | |
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Source: Detroit Free Press Posted on 08.16.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Gun-rights activists are not only demanding that Royal Oak officials drop the city’s ban on openly carrying guns at the Ford Arts, Beats & Eats festival over Labor Day weekend, they also are going after Clawson, Pontiac, Taylor and Flint for local rules they say infringe on gun rights. Members of Michigan Open Carry plan to visit the Pontiac City Council on Aug. 26 to protest that city’s gun ordinance. Besides the Constitution’s Second Amendment — establishing the right to bear arms — Michigan activists rely on state law. In 2003, the state Supreme Court ruled against Ferndale and affirmed Michiganders’ right to carry guns in libraries and other public buildings.” (08/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3xw5akk Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Detroit Free Press Posted on 08.16.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “U.S. Sen. Carl Levin got an apple pie — no whipped cream or ice cream on top either — in the face this morning during a question-and-answer session for the Mecosta County Democrats at a Big Rapids deli after being criticized by a young man for his stance on foreign policy and defense of Israel. Witnesses at Pepper’s Cafe and Deli said as the Detroit Democrat who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the audience to let the man have his say, a young woman circled behind him and squashed a pie into the 76-year-old Levin’s face.” (08/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/39mlty5 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 08.15.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona’s controversial immigration law. More than 400 people gathered about 70 miles west of Nogales on a private ranch where the steel posts of the Arizona-Mexico border wall are set closely together to prevent people from crossing the border. Demonstrators attached hundreds of U.S. flags with messages about curbing illegal immigration [sic] to the 15-foot posts, and chanted ‘U-S-A’ when spectators gathered on the Mexico side of the border.” (08/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/34lapwr Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: CarlosMiller.Com Posted on 08.15.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Jerome Vorus, who is becoming a full-fledged photo rights activist while still in his teens, had yet another confrontation Friday over his photography. The 19-year-old college student was taking pictures outside the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC when an FBI police officer ordered him not to take her photo. First he turned on the video camera on his cell phone. Then he informed her that that she didn’t have an expectation of privacy. ‘I wasn’t even taking her photo in the first place,’ he said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime. As he was walking away, another FBI cop pulled up in a car and ordered him to stop.” (08/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/356xxa2 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 08.15.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on The War Party’s new torchlight parade,You can stir up fear — just don’t cause offence, Mike Gogulski on Antiwar Radio, Why is the bible of capitalism cheering on Chinese workers?, Book review: Black Maverick, A world without mosquitoes, War against Wikileaks, Honouring SEK3 abd Weed weirdness. In the news, “Tea Party” Know-Nothings rally at border to support terror state, Anarchists defend lemonade stand, Michigan town changes firearms ordinance, UK bans offensive Anti-Terrorist Hotline radio ads, Families can’t send tobacco to soldiers overseas, Photojournalist wins settlement after frightening altercation with police chief, and Wet t-shirt leads to arrest Til next week For freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: WalletPop Posted on 08.12.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “It’s lucky that Julie Murphy and her mom, Maria Fife, set up a lemonade stand at Portland, Oregon’s Last Thursday art walk, right next to the anarchists. Because when the Multnomah County Health Department officials came through cracking down on lemonade stands and other fly-by-afternoon ‘food establishments’ wildly flouting the rules requiring a $120 temporary restaurant license, they told Julie and Maria to stay put. Their idea: slightly alter the sign to read ‘free Lemonade, 50-cents — suggested donation.’ As fond as anarchists are of flouting arbitrary government rules, they encouraged the crowd walking past to support Julie’s stand.” (08/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24s35hv Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Times Herald Posted on 08.12.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A Marysville ordinance banning firearms from parks has gone against state law for more than 20 years. However, that ordinance has been amended since city officials were educated about Michigan’s open-carry law by two men flexing their rights at Marysville Days in June. The ordinance previously barred any person from carrying firearms … within any public park without special permission. … The City Council voted Monday to remove the word ‘firearms’ from the ordinance … City Manager Jack Schumacher said the city attorney reviewed the municipality’s ordinances after it was found that the two men — Rob Harris and Scott Webb — had the right to carry holstered firearms in the city park.” (08/11/10) Link: http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20100811/NEWS01/8110303 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 08.11.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Britain’s advertising watchdog said on Wednesday it had banned a police advertisement encouraging people to report neighbors whose activities raised ’suspicions,’ saying it could offend innocent citizens.The radio advert for the Anti-Terrorist Hotline listed as suspicious behavior activities which could also describe law-abiding people, the Advertising Standards Authority said.” (08/11/10) Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A3G320100811 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Tennessean Posted on 08.10.10 by Steve Trinward “Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail. The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 quietly took effect June 29. It cut off those care packages by effectively requiring that tobacco be sent with one particular kind of U.S. Postal Service shipping that requires a signature for delivery but does not deliver to most overseas military addresses. April Woods, the 26-year-old wife of a Fort Campbell soldier in Afghanistan, used to regularly send him packages of snacks, drink mixes, pictures and cartons of his favorite variety of Marlboros.” (08/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2c3wa2t Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Carlos Miller.com Posted on 08.09.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “An Oakland Tribune photojournalist is now $99,000 richer thanks to the jackass who was school district police chief at the time. In November 2008, Jane Tyska was covering an immigration demonstration when Oakland School District Police Chief Art Michel side-swept her with his car. Michel then stopped the car, jumped out and began threatening to arrest Tyska for hitting his car with her elbow. That’s right, her elbow. You really have to hear the exchange in the above video to believe it.” (08/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2b8j4hd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: WFTV News Posted on 08.08.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A Lake County mother was arrested at a children’s splash park after her white shirt got wet. Now, she’s suing the city of Tavares over her arrest. … A park employee asked Lovett to leave, because the white t-shirt she was wearing had become wet and her padded bra was showing. She says she left, but outside the park gate a police officer approached her and asked her for ID and her name. … The police report indicates Lovett didn’t give her name fast enough. The mom says she was scared and wanted to know why she was getting arrested. Lovett’s attorney, Howard Marks, is demanding those same answers from the city. He says the police had no legal right to ask Lovett for ID, because no crime had been committed.” (08/05/10). Link: http://www.wftv.com/news/24515173/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 08.08.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on illegal arrests, Miranda warning rights trimmed bit by bit by high court, “Good cause” lawsuit in NY, Young Palestinians with cameras, 1776 Part Deux — is it time?, online gambling, Do disclosures of atrocities change anything? and more! In the news, Activists rally to free Wikileaker Bradley Manning, Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images, Ohio Cops attempt to justify arrest by calling themselves cowards and idiots, ACLU seeks records in racial profiling case, Sex job ads banned at UK employment offices, Prayer outside clinic gets disorderly conduct charge, Nine die in Kashmir protest clashes Til next week for freedom1 Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: CNN Posted on 08.08.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Activists rallied outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, Sunday to applaud the man military officials suspect leaked scores of military documents to the WikiLeaks website — a 22-year-old Army private named Bradley Manning. … Outside the Quantico gates, about 80 protesters chanted ‘Bradley Manning told their tale, war criminals off to jail’ and held signs calling on the military to ‘Free Bradley Manning.’” (08/08/10) Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/08/virginia.manning.rally/ Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: CNet News Posted on 08.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that ’scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.’Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.” (08/04/10) Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: CarlosMiller.Com Posted on 08.04.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A woman in Ohio using her cell phone to videotape police questioning her boyfriend caused deputies to fear for their lives because she could have easily been holding a ‘cell-phone gun.’ … Melissa Greenfield, the 115-lb, 20-year-old woman was wearing a neck brace when she began videotaping deputies talking to her boyfriend at a truck stop. She was charged with obstructing official business and resisting arrest, which are common contempt-of-cop charges. Greenfield say when deputies returned her cell-phone, she discovered they had deleted her videos. However, the sheriff says they did no such thing because that would have required a warrant.” (08/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2wb7mt3 Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 08.03.10 by Steve Trinward “It’s a case that is raising questions about racial profiling by police, whether a town is improperly hiding what should be public records, and whether cash-strapped media outlets should take free legal help from a group that frequently takes sides in issues they cover. The circumstances have been likened to those last year involving a Cambridge police officer and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. In this case, the trouble began May 29, when a cleaning firm employee called police in Hartford to report that a condo she had been hired to clean appeared to have been ransacked and burglarized.” (08/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ar4ctm Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 08.02.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Britain is to ban employers looking for lap dancers, strippers, topless barmaids or sexy web-cam performers from placing adverts at Jobcentres. Such a ban had previously been in place at the taxpayer-funded employment exchanges but that changed seven years ago when Ann Summers, a sex toys and suggestive lingerie retailer, successfully argued at the High Court that it was unlawful.” (08/02/10) Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6712TU20100802 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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