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When They Come For You: How Police and Government are Trampling Our Liberties and How To Take Them Back It goes without saying that our government is responsible for a serious erosion of our Constitutional rights in recent years. Maybe it’s more accurate to say it has often gone without saying. Some of those most outspoken, historically, on these issues remain largely silent– or even take the other side in today’s Alice in Wonderland dynamic. Author and journalist David Kirby stands up where too many stay seated with his new expose: “When They Come For You: How Police and Government...

A White House aide indicted for allegedly firing a gun at her boyfriend, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, has resigned. Barvetta Singletary submitted her resignation effective Aug. 28, a White House representative said Wednesday. Her resignation was accepted. Singletary is departing the West Wing three weeks after the Aug. 7 incident, in which police say she confronted her boyfriend about another woman. During the dispute at her Maryland home, Singletary allegedly fired her boyfriend’s gun at a sofa after he refused to give her his cellphone password. No one was injured. Singletary, 37, was indicted on assault charges Tuesday. She...

On the heels of police officers shooting a young, unarmed black man to death in Sacramento, California, last month, state lawmakers announced a first-of-its-kind bill on Monday that raises the standard for when officers may open fire. The proposed legislation would change the guidance in California’s use of force laws so that police may open fire ”‘only when necessary’ rather than ‘when reasonable,’” Sacramento-based Assemblyman Kevin McCarty (D), said at a press conference Tuesday.

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Several of my recent threads / comments have related to a DUI arrest I recently had. I will not defend that. One of the more interesting subjects which came up when I was in jail was whether you can be arrested for "drunk in public" when you are on your own property. My position is that this should not be possible. I like to sit out on my front porch, have a drink or three, and study my shubbery. I am not driving or doing anything else which I consider to be wrong. The overwhelming consensus among my cell-mates is...

The television show Cops stopped filming in Cincinnati today after council members objected to what the show might depict. Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher changed his mind Thursday about letting the Fox TV show crews continue to film, which they had started Tuesday.

North Korea dismisses U.S. offer to resume aid Government takes issue with terms; reaction in Washington low-key 01/16/2003 The Washington Post SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Wednesday dismissed the Bush administration's recent offer of a resumption of aid for an abandonment of its nuclear weapons programs, calling the United States' overtures "nothing but a deceptive drama to mislead the world public opinion." "The U.S. loudmouthed supply of energy and food aid are like a painted cake pie in the sky," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement distributed by its official Korean Central News Agency. Reaction in...

Malvo can be tried as adult 01/16/2003 Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. - Citing what he called strong circumstantial evidence, a judge ruled Wednesday that 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty. Juvenile Court Judge Charles Maxfield made his decision after a hearing in which prosecutors said that Mr. Malvo tried to extort $10 million from authorities during the killing spree and that fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence tied the teenager to four attacks, three of them fatal. Mr. Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, 42,...

Real mystery around N. Korea: what Bush's team has in mind 01/12/2003 The New York Times WASHINGTON - An Asian diplomat emerged from one of the many meetings on defusing the North Korean nuclear crisis saying that no one could know what Kim Jong Il wants: a nuclear arsenal or a new relationship with the West. But the real mystery, he said, is in Washington. "I'd just like to get a handle on what President Bush has in mind," he said. This administration, he said, "sends as many conflicting signals as the North Koreans." Even many of Mr. Bush's...

North Korea threatens to start test-firing missiles 01/12/2003 Chicago Tribune SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Saturday threatened to take another dramatic step in the nuclear crisis, saying through its ambassador to China that it might test-fire a missile. A day after declaring itself free of the global nuclear nonproliferation agreement, the North Korean government made clear its intention to pursue a strategy of brinkmanship. North Korea frightened Asia in 1998 by test-firing a medium-range missile over Japan without warning and then declared a moratorium on further tests. In threatening another launch, it signaled its willingness to use increasingly...

Posted on Mon, Jan. 06, 2003 Federal trial of 11 officers starts today Coverups alleged in several shootingsBY LUISA YANEZlyanez@herald.com The corruption trial of 11 Miami police officers accused of shooting suspects, then planting guns and concocting evidence to cover up wrongdoing is scheduled to start today in Miami federal court with jury selection -- a process expected to last a week.Once evidence begins unfolding, prosecutors and defense attorneys will paint starkly different portraits of the defendants. Prosecutors will try to persuade jurors that the defendants were rogue officers who disregarded the lives of unarmed suspects. Defense attorneys, for...