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Orlando Cop Found Guilty Of Battery After Rupturing Man’s Spleen

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 Asa J 632 Views Accountability, battery, Brutality, copblock, copblock.org, David Bigney, emergency surgery, excessive force, felony battery, felony conviction, internal bleeding, jury verdict, officer Peter Delio, orange county, Orange County jail, Orange County jury, orlando, orlando police department, Peter Delio, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police crime, Police State, Robert Liese, ruptured spleen, Sgt. William Faulkner, spleen, surveillance video, video

A former Orlando cop has been found guilty of felony battery for a 2014 incident that resulted in a man

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DEA Will Kill Thousands Banning Kratom

August 31, 2016September 1, 2016 Lorelei McFly 1473 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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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Class Warfare

May 4, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 1291 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 1925 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 1474 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 2298 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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