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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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Tragedy Compounded by Travesty – Virginia Family Prosecuted for Not Euthanizing Beloved Dog “Soon Enough” [UPDATED]

January 4, 2016January 8, 2016 Lorelei McFly 1244 Views Aaren Evans, Animal cruelty, copblock, copblock.org, Dogs, Eric Olsen, Evans Family animal cruelty, overcriminalization, overzealous prosecution, pets, Reginald Latson, Stafford, Stafford County, Travis Evans, Virginia, virginia cop block

1/7/2016 Update Your calls and signatures on the petition worked! The Stafford County Commonwealth’s Attorney dropped the animal cruelty charge

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Obscure Virginia Law Turns Activists, Bicyclists, and Other Innocents into Felons–UPDATED

November 5, 2015January 25, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2200 Views anti-klan statues, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Fairfax County, felony, first amendment, freedom, guy fawkes, Harassment, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, mask, masks, no victim no crime, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COPBLOCK, overcriminalization, police, police abuse, Police State, rights, Seth Christman, video, Virginia, virginia cop block, virginia mask law

11/29/15 update with the outcome of Seth Christman’s trial On November 5th, thousands of people will be donning Guy Fawkes

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Crybaby Cops to DOJ, “YouTube Won’t Let Us Do Our Jobs!”

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 Lorelei McFly 2209 Views Accountability, broken windows, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Dave Rohrer, Fairfax County, ferguson effect, film the police, Filming police, John Geer, overcriminalization, police accountability, Sharon Bulova, Transparency, washington post, YouTube Effect

A recent Washington Post article provided an inside look at what the heads of law enforcement agencies talk about in

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