Being a cop is so dangerous! Well, not as dangerous as being a farmer, garbageman, , pilot, fisherman, logger, roofer, deliveryman.......you get the point.

More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?

Again, people are arrested for chalking. I call police state, again.

Police department homepage reads, "IF YOU USE DRUGS....WE MAKE HOUSE CALLS." Plus, there is a nice photo of mustache wearing douche bags with MP5s.

Here is the link the site. I saved the picture in case they take it down.

A teenage girl who ran away from home will have a hard time returning to Dallas after she was deported to Colombia by mistake.

Jakadrien Turner, 15, is being held in a detention centre in the South American country after giving immigration officials the wrong name, reports the Dallas Morning News.

Turner, a U.S. citizen, ran away in November 2010.

We live in a world where the answer to everything -- from oil, to overdue student loans, to past-due library books -- is to send men with guns. Jeeezus help us.

Obama has just signed into LAW the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Section 1021 of this act calls for indefinite detention without trial for those deemed "terrorists". Section 1022 requires that persons arrested and detained under the provisions of section 1021 are required to be held by the U.S. Armed forces. This may or may not include lawful resident aliens. Shame on you Obama. Shame on you U.S. Senate. Shame on you John McCain and Carl Levin. Welcome to the Police State.

A host of new laws—from making it a crime to sell a live animal on any street or in any parking lot, to honoring law enforcement officials killed in the line of duty with a special medal—become effective Jan. 1, 2012.

In 2011, all 50 states and territories met in regular session and enacted close to 40,000 new laws on issues across the board. Laws do not always become effective on Jan. 1, however. State constitutions or statutes usually establish when they go into effect, or sometimes, an effective date is written into the specific piece of legislation.

Great article on how more and more government-school cops are using tasers as well as pepper-spray against "problem" students, and thereby normalizing the use of violence to control the behaviour of children. The is a very disturbing and dangerous trend.

Moving quickly on Christmas Day after the US Senate voted 86 - 14 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial, Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill.