Sorry if this has already been posted and talked about, but I thought it was interesting. This is a TSA scanner image that has been run through a simple filter.
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Sorry if this has already been posted and talked about, but I thought it was interesting. This is a TSA scanner image that has been run through a simple filter.
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a bill that would tightly regulate homeschooling.
Read more »Boston cops are using the Massachusetts electronic surveillance laws to arrest and prosecute citizens who use their cellular phones to record abusive arrests.
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SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — Peter Garritano thinks it's time for Vermont to call it quits with America.
Read more »German protesters have demonstrated against the planned introduction of body scanners at airports by stripping down to their underwear and, in some cases, beyond.
The group of protesters, calling itself a 'Fleshmob', converged on Germany's Berlin-Tegel airport this week, writing messages on their bodies and handing out leaflets voicing their concerns about the new scanners' invasion of privacy.
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Pam Guenther was enjoying a Saturday morning ride on the back of her husband's motorcycle in Ocala, Fla., when a cop driving in the other direction abruptly turned around and pulled them to the side of the road.
"I knew we weren't speeding," Guenther told Asylum. "So my first question was why is he pulling us over? [The officer] just pointed to my husband and said, 'He's wearing a mask, and it's illegal to cover your face when riding a motorcycle.'"
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Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance
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The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”
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To Grant Government More Power in the Hopes that it Will Defend Human Life is Foolish.
Health care? Abortion? War? The State, as an institution, is not pro-life in any way. It's a mistake to allow it more power in the hopes that it will defend life. A look at a few points within the U.S. Federal State will help bring this fact more clearly to home.
This article looks at 2 things:
1 - the government itself has stated that it has no responsibility to defend you
2 - politicians (even "pro-life" ones) do not have convictions, they only have platforms.

Auburn, NY -- Three days before Christmas, Auburn Police Chief Gary Giannotta laid down the law for his command staff. At the closed meeting Dec. 22 in the department basement, Giannotta gave this ultimatum: Tell your patrol officers to write more vehicle and traffic tickets — at least one each per shift — or there will be repercussions for those who don’t.
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Obama says over and over how he will be public about health care reform and air all discussions about it on C-Span during his election run. My my how we forget so quickly the lies, all the lies...
Read more »Fed judges: Wash. felony inmates should get vote
By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press Writer
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
An Orlando cop is accused of groping a 20-year-old nursing mother outside a club after he arrested her for dancing "too close" to the stage inside the establishment. He allegedly fondled her right breast and squeezed milk out of it into his latex glove, and then told the young gal that he wanted to "suck on them."
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By Associated Press
January 09, 2010 6:49 AM
CONCORD, N.H. - A federal judge will decide whether a man convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons at his Plainfield, N.H., home suffers from a delusional disorder that could affect his sentence.
Ed Brown's competency and sentencing hearing is set for Monday in U.S. District Court.
Read more »The neighborhood barbershop is a good example of voluntaryism in action.
Read more »A bill to legalize marijuana in California was approved by a key committee of the Assembly, in spite of opposition from law enforcement.
Assemblyman Danny Gilmore, a former CHP commander, said the estimated $1.3 billion in tax revenue is not worth the grief that will be caused by legalization. Gilmore uses the logical fallacy of the slippery slope arguement: "What's next? Are we going to legalize methamphetamines, cocaine?"
Read more »If you carry 3 or more condoms and you're a woman in dc, it means you are a prostitute according to police.
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A 7-foot tall marijuana plant grew in plain sight on a busy street all summer long until police finally figured it out and destroyed it.
"'I don't know if somebody was watering this thing every day or what was going on, but it was a nice-looking marijuana plant,' [the Orem cop] says.
"He doesn't think it got to be 7 feet tall because people were intentionally turning a blind eye to the pot in their midst."
Read more »Web designer is attacked & arrested after asking a police officer for payment owed to him.
'Commander Ali Dizaei, 47, bullied web designer Waad Al-Baghdadi when he asked for £600 for work on alidizaei.com [the commander's website], Southwark crown Court heard. '
The officer challenged the designer to a fight, and then proceeded to arrest him after he refused and attempted to call 999 (English equivalent of 911).
Police are out to protect us all? Obviously.
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