Slippery Slopes in Action

After a school massacre, the U.K. banned handguns in 1998. A decade later, handgun crime had doubled.

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Somalia Better Off Without Government? (yes)

Scholarly article

Peaceful Man Arrested for Defending Himself. Stun Gun is a "Firearm", Self Defense is "Vigilantism"

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A taser is considered a "firearm" and defending yourself against violent attackers is considered "vigilantism".

From the article:

He had bought the stun gun, which was billed as a 'self defence torch', from a Dutch trucker after his friend was robbed by migrants whilst driving through Calais. 

The court heard the devices are legal in both Holland and France, where they are available freely at petrol stations and are frequently carried by lorry drivers. 

However it is classed as a firearm in the UK, meaning Mr Garrett was arrested on the spot when it was found in his vehicle. 

...

Sentencing Mr Garrett to six months in jail, suspended for two years, Judge David Goodin said he understood the trucker had been put in a "very difficult position" by the ongoing chaos at Calais. 

He said: "The court does accept international drivers coming from northern France through the Channel ports have a particularly difficult time of it presently because of the determined attentions of illicit immigrants who want to hitch on unobserved and get themselves to England at very nearly all costs. 

"One understands the more desperate they are the more alarming it is for a lorry driver who might find in the course of an inspection that he has such unwanted guests on his wagon. 

"Nevertheless the law cannot accept any attempt of vigilantism whatever the temptation may be for lorry drivers to arm themselves for the purpose of repelling these illegals." 

Wikipedia:
Persons alleged to be escaping the law or above the law are sometimes the victims of vigilantism. Vigilante behavior involves various degrees of violence. Vigilantes may assault targets verbally, physically, vandalize property, or even kill individuals.

Israel/Palestine, Both Sides of the Story

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Government Incentives Almost Always Go Against Citizen Interests

Example:

I'm watching The Newburgh Sting, a fabulous documentary about the FBI's operation to ensnare four impoverished, naive New York men into an informant-driven fake terror plot. In the film, former FBI assistant director Thomas Fuentes defends the FBI's conduct in the Newburgh Four case. He also says this:

If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that ‘We won the war on terror and everything’s great,’ cuz the first thing that’s gonna happen is your budget’s gonna be cut in half. You know, it’s my opposite of Jesse Jackson’s ‘Keep Hope Alive’—it’s ‘Keep Fear Alive.’ Keep it alive.

In the context of an interview about a case in which a paid FBI informant is alleged to have offered destitute men a quarter of a million dollars to execute an attack, a former assistant director of the FBI admits it's in the bureau's best interest to inflate the supposed terror threat. That's remarkably candid, and profoundly disturbing.

Fuentes' comments come at 1:06:22 in the video above. But do find a better version of the film somewhere and watch it in its entirety. The new COINTELPRO is alive and well.

Brazen, Intentional Theft by Government

http://youtu.be/YjmJXZICNDk

Government Coercion Used By Corporations To Deter Competition and Increase Profits

This is how government harms everyone. We all are paying more for health care partly because of these anti-competitive laws.

This is Justice? District Attorney Intentionally Gives Live Sentence to Innocent Man, Gets 5 Days in Jail

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The district attorney's victim spent 25 years in jail, the DA gets only 5 days.

Berlin Government Admits to Protecting Taxis from Uber Competition

Berlin Government Press Release

Here is the release using Google Translate:

Prohibition for the protection of the passenger

13:08:14, press release
, the State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs Berlin (LABO) the Uber BV has delivered a prohibition order and ordered the immediate enforcement of this Order. This excess may not use smartphone app or similar deals more or convey through this app offers violate the Passenger Transport Act now.

At the same time for each violation, a penalty payment in the amount of 25,000 Euros was threatened. Is the penalty recovered, then the Administrative Court may also order replacement obsessive against those responsible. Protecting the passenger has priority. The LABO as the competent supervisory and licensing authority can not tolerate that this goes in the context of requiring approval of passenger transport in the care of non-approved drivers in unlicensed vehicles and is subject to a disclaimer of insurance in case of damage. Moreover, available also serves to protect the driver, since the motor vehicle liability insurance does not cover the risk of passenger transport. The basic idea of the protection of the taxi trade also apply. Continued pursuit of the passenger without permission is also an offense, which is punishable by a fine of up to 20,000 euros. The injunction is not yet final. Uber may appeal against the order and apply against the immediate enforcement of judicial Eilrechtsschutz.

Another Murder by Government of a Peaceful Person Framed by a Hypocritical Government

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Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.

Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.” Baucum apparently did. After overhearing the men wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi as a cover to begin investigating him. During the next several months, he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were just more fun wagers between friends to make watching sports more interesting. Eventually Culosi and Baucum bet more than $2,000 in a single day. Under Virginia law, that was enough for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling operation. And that’s when they brought in the SWAT team.

On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged a time to drop by to collect his winnings. When Culosi, barefoot and clad in a T-shirt and jeans, stepped out of his house to meet the man he thought was a friend, the SWAT team began to move in. Seconds later, Det. Deval Bullock, who had been on duty since 4:00 AM and hadn’t slept in seventeen hours, fired a bullet that pierced Culosi’s heart.

Sal Culosi’s last words were to Baucum, the cop he thought was a friend: “Dude, what are you doing?”

In March 2006, just two months after its ridiculous gambling investigation resulted in the death of an unarmed man, the Fairfax County Police Department issued a press release warning residents not to participate in office betting pools tied to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The title: “Illegal Gambling Not Worth the Risk.” Given the proximity to Culosi’s death, residents could be forgiven for thinking the police department believed wagering on sports was a crime punishable by execution.

Government in a Nutshell

Bias of Global Warming Mongers

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"John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says he remembers the morning he spotted a well-known colleague at a gathering of climate experts.

“I walked over and held out my hand to greet him,” Dr. Christy recalled. “He looked me in the eye, and he said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Come on, shake hands with me.’ And he said, ‘No.’ ”

--Here's the kicker:

"He says he worries that his climate stances are affecting his chances of publishing future research and winning grants. The largest of them, a four-year Department of Energy stipend to investigate discrepancies between climate models and real-world data, expires in September."

“There’s a climate establishment,” Dr. Christy said. “And I’m not in it.”

--The government, who does most of the financing of studies, is not interested in good news because they can't grab more power with good news.

Colorado high school replaces punishment with 'talking circles'

Suspending and/or arresting a school child only serves to treat the child as a criminal. If he's treated as a criminal, he no longer has the option to be a "normal" child in society. His only other option is to go ahead and act like society treats him -- as a criminal.

Paul Craig Roberts Clearly Points Out Today's Tyrannical U.S. Government

Great interview, especially starting at 24:34

Why Everyone Should Be Very Afraid of Any Cop in the U.S.

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A guy (James Edward Holmes) helps two people who had an accident on a bicycle and called 911. The cops came and immediately became aggressive and hostile to him. They needlessly arrested him and while in jail they taunted and tortured him.

The jailers all knew that his charges would be dismissed before the charges would even be filed. So after 12 hours of degrading and humiliating torture, he was finally released with the false charges being dropped before ever being filed.

The night shift at the jail is notorious for their abuse. It was during the day when they are most likely to be observed and held somewhat accountable that someone explained why he was arrested: "...there are a lot of young cops on the street, trying to make a name for themselves."

You are far more likely to be criminally assaulted by thugs with badges than any non-badged street thug.

German Judge Forces Family to Remain In Germany Because They Want to Home School

A SWAT team raided their home and kidnapped all of their children who consistently score highly in German state academic an social test.
Read shocking article here.

There are politicians that want to do this in the U.S.

This is why Government Sucks - No Knock Raid Terrorizes Woman

Brittish Cops Arrest and Jail Man Because Woman Didn't Like His Ringtone

Yes, really.

The police will arrest you if a stranger complains she was offended by some sound waves emanating from a cell phone.

Cop Shot and Killed in Self Defense in No-Knock Raid, Why Should Anyone Be Surprised?

Government mercenaries break into home over suspicion of a few plants inside that grow in nature. Let this be a lesson to the criminals with badges that breaking into homes unannounced will get you justifiably shot. Exactly how is a victim of a break-in supposed to know they are cops if they don't announce who they are? How can the police just assume that the home invasion victim will assume the invaders are the police? Is it not in the realm of possibility that someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night could be a murderous criminal?

Unfortunately, the victim of the break-in will probably be convicted of murder because the vast majority of the people in the U.S. worship authority figures and they think they can do little to no wrong.

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According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Sowders had obtained a search warrant for the residence after obtaining information that the homeowner was growing marijuana and possibly had stolen guns. The warrant was a "no-knock" warrant, meaning police could forcibly enter the residence without giving residents a chance to respond.

Sowders, the first officer through the door, was shot and killed by homeowner Henry Goedrich Magee, 28, who has now been charged with capital murder. But Magee's attorney, famed Houston defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin, said Magee and his pregnant girlfriend were sleeping in the home when they heard "explosives" going off and loud pounding at the door. Moments later, the door burst open and a person Magee couldn't identify entered the residence. Magee grabbed a rifle leaning against his bedroom door frame and shot Sowders. According to DeGuerin, Magee shot him because he "believed the man rushing in was an intruder and he needed to defend himself."

"The danger is that if you're sitting in your home and it's pitch black outside and your door gets busted in without warning, what the hell are you supposed to do?" DeGuerin [no-knoch raid victim's attorney] said.