Submitted by Matthew Harwood via TomDispatch.com,
If you’ve been listening to various police agencies and their supporters, then you know what the future holds: anarchy is coming -- and it’s all the fault of activists.
Earlier today, the "most hated man in America", serial biotech entrepreneur and former Jim Cramer protege Martin Shkreli was arrested by the FBI.
As Shkreli reminded the world earlier this week while discussing an absurd plan to free an incarcerated rapper, coming up with $2 million in bail money is "no fucking problem," so we assume he'll be able to afford an OJ-esque legal team.
Or will he...
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A bit of humor, via The New Yorker:
Roman Zadorov has been imprisoned for almost 10 years, part of life sentence for gruesome murder 13 yo girl, which he had nothing to do with. Israeli law professor Boaz Sangero wrote: "Conviction with no real evidence". Israeli law professor Mota Kremnitzer wrote:"Conduct of the prosecution is scary... the prosecution isn't seeking the truth... the justice system is mostly busy protecting itself..." Please sign the petition.
The philosophical underpinning of the Republican Party since Richard Nixon has been an affinity for fascism for sake of power, Aryan privilege and greed.
Randy Kennedy, the chief of the Hughes Springs Police Department (in Texas), is the latest in a string of police chiefs across the nation urging citizens to arm themselves following the recent mass shootings in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino.
In this brief clip, Kennedy warns President Obama that trying to take away American's guns will "cause a revolution," adding that the 2nd Amendment is "there to protect us against a government that has over-reached its power," exclaiming "you are not our potentate, sir. You are our servant."