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Drug War Gone Mad: Three-Year-Old Forcibly Catheterized By South Dakota DSS Workers

July 12, 2017 Asa J 1926 Views Aaron Henning, american civil liberties union, Avera St. Mary's Hospital, Catheterization, child abuse, childhood abuse, civil liberties, Civil rights, Cody Holcombe, constitution, constitutional violations, copblock, copblock.org, degrading, Dept. of Social Services, Dirk Sparks, Drug war, DSS, emotional pain, end the drug war, federal lawsuit, Fifth Amendment, Forced Catheterization, Forcibly Catheterized, Fourteenth Amendment, fourth amendment, Gena Alvarez, Jason Riis, Kirsten Hunter, marijuana, Pierre, Pierre Police Department, police abuse, Police State, Sisseton, Sisseton Police Department, South Dakota, South Dakota Highway Patrol, staph infection, Trauma, urine sample

A three-year-old boy was forcibly catheterized on behest of South Dakota Dept. of Social Services employees during a child abuse

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Massachusetts Legalizes Cannabis, Cops Keep Arresting People

April 17, 2017May 10, 2017 Asa J 1426 Views 10th amendment, 10th Amendment Center, cannabis, Cannabis legalization, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, decriminalization, Drug war, end the drug war, Essex County, Institute for Justice, Interstate Commerce Clause, licenses, marijuana, marijuana caregivers, marijuana dispensaries, marijuana licenses, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Marijuana Legalization Initiative, pot shops, Question 4, quotas, regulators, Roscoe Filburn, Suffolk County, U.S. Constitution, Wickard v. Filburn

(Police State Daily) Cannabis legalization has been a highly contested issue in Massachusetts during the last decade. Possession of less than

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Half Of U.S. Adults Already In Facial Recognition Database Study Shows

October 19, 2016 Asa J 1312 Views american civil liberties union, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, databases, department of defense, Department of Motor Vehicles, facial recognition, facial recognition database, facial recognition network, facial recognition software, FBI, freedom of information requests, fusion centers, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology, intelligence agencies, mugshot database, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Police State, Privacy, state police, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, Technology, West Virginia Fusion Center

A new study conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology shows that half of all U.S. adults are

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DEA Will Kill Thousands Banning Kratom

August 31, 2016September 1, 2016 Lorelei McFly 1965 Views chronic pain, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency, drug prohibition, drug schedule, Drug war, heroin, Human rights, incentives, kratom, kratom ban, kratom saves lives, marijuana, opiates, opioid addiction epidemic, opioids, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, self-medicating, Self-ownership, state-sanctioned murder, undertreatment, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This headline is not hyperbole. When the Drug Enforcement Administration outlaws kratom by making it a Schedule I substance on

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FBI Director: Filming Police Increases Crime Rates

May 16, 2016 Aaron White 1040 Views Accountability, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, double-standards, FBI, FBI Director, film the police, Filming police, filming the police, first amendment, FTP, James Comey, photography is not a crime, police, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, recording cops, Transparency, YouTube Effect

James Comey, FBI Director, proclaimed that people filming police caused crime rates to increase, while admitting that he had absolutely

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Video: Open-Carry Jogger Handcuffed After Asserting Rights To Police

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Asa J 1475 Views 14th District, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, film the police, Filming police, fourth amendment, Go-Pro, Go-Pro camera, gun owner, Gun rights, Handcuffed, Harassment, James Moody, License To Carry Firearms, Mount Airy, officer Cave, open carry, open carry state, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association, Philadelphia, Philadelphia police, philadelphia police department, Police State, rights, Second Amendment, stop-and-identify state, Vernon Road, video

A Mount Airy, Pennsylvania man says he was handcuffed and relieved of his firearm and wallet after he refused to

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Class Warfare

May 4, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2200 Views Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, class warfare, classism, cocaine, Colorado, crack, crack vs cocaine, DoJ, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, drug war propaganda, economic discrimination, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, Human rights, incentives, law enforcement against prohibition, LEAP, marijuana, marijuana legalization, Matthew Fogg, meth, Methamphetamine, methamphetamine crisis, Occupational licensing, Oregon, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, pseudoephedrine, Racism, sentencing disparities, state-sanctioned class warfare, unintended consequences, victimless crimes, war on drugs, wealth redistribution, working class

This is the fourth and final article in a series on how the “War on Drugs” is state-sanctioned theft, rape,

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Murder

May 2, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2733 Views adderall, cash, cash is criminal, chronic pain, Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, crime clearance rates, criminogenic, DEA, drug cartels, Drug Enforcement Agency, drug prohibition, drug schedule, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, felony homicide, felony murder, hepatitis c, heroin, HIV, Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng, Human rights, incentives, Joey Rovero, kratom, legal highs, marijuana, Matthew Lowery, Medical marijuana, narcoterrorism, needle-exchange, opiates, opioid addiction epidemic, opioids, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, Rush Limbaugh, self-medicating, state-sanctioned murder, undertreatment, victimless crimes, Violent Crime Clearance Rates, war on drugs

This is the third article in a series on how the “War on Drugs” is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and class warfare.

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Rape

April 29, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2136 Views anal probe, anal rape, anal searches, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, Human rights, illegal rectal searches, incentives, invasive search, marijuana, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot, pot prohibition, rape culture, Self-ownership, sexual assault, state rape, state-sanctioned theft, the failed war on drugs, unbanked, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This is the second article in a series on how the “War on Drugs” is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and class

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Theft

April 27, 2016May 5, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2850 Views Attorney General Loretta Lynch, cash, cash is criminal, Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, criminalization, criminalization of the poor, Department of Justice, double-standards, drug cartels, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, equitable sharing, Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program, HSBC, Human rights, incentives, Institute for Justice, marijuana, overcriminalization, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, state-sanctioned theft, unbanked, underbanked, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This is the first article in a series on how the war on drugs is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and

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Illinois Police Dept. Removes Body-Cams Because “A Bit Burdensome”

April 11, 2016 Asa J 1067 Views Accountability, BatteryJack, body cameras, body cams, Braidwood police department, burdensome workload, California, chief Justin Meyer, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, Grundy County, Illinois, Justin Meyer, Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act, Minooka police department, Police brutality, police brutality statistics, police misconduct, Police Removes Body-Cams, Police State, rialto, USB ports

Illinois became one of the first states to establish comprehensive rules governing how police use body-cameras when the Law Enforcement

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Feds Making Thousands Of Augmented Reality Surveillance Flights Across US

April 9, 2016 Asa J 1603 Views Adam Bates, agumented reality surveillance, aircraft, Associated Press, augmented reality, BuzzFeed News, Cato Institute, cellphone tracking, Cessna, Cessna Skylane 182, Cessnas, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, department of homeland security, DHS, FBI, FBI front companies, federal bureau of investigation, FlightRadar24, front companies, helicopters, Pilatus PC-2, planes, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Surveillance, surveillance aircraft, surveillance flights, surveillance state, Technology

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security have been running thousands of surveillance missions employing cellphone tracking

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