logicallypositive:

Maybe calling the income tax slavery is a wee bit of a stretch…. but yeah

‘Price floor’ is a more precise/better term for ‘minimum prices’.

The income tax would much better be equated with pimping. Prostitutes get to keep some revenue from their services, but pimps forcibly extract an arbitrary portion for what they claim is ‘protection’ or ‘security’, even though they themselves often pose a serious threat to the prostitute’s well-being. Sound familiar?

International aid programs equate more to extortionate lending than anything else.

Don’t just fuck the police. 

Take the police out on a couple dates. Take the police to the movies or a nice stroll in the park. Feed the police some delicious fondue. Make the police fall in love with you. Then, fuck the police. And then out of nowhere, stop taking calls from the police. Ignore the police. Make the police miss you. Make the police cry.

This appeals to some deep-seated sadistic feelings about the police which I only just discovered I have.

The performance of violent acts, directed against one or more persons, intended by the performing agent to intimidate one or more persons and thereby to bring about one or more of the agent’s political goals.

Terrorism defined by Per Bauhn

Confirmed: The US government is the most powerful terrorist in the world.

Y’all know what this means, don’t you?

statehate: The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously decided today to uphold citizens’ Fourth Amendement rights in the GPS tracking case which would have allowed the U.S. government to track a suspects’ cars without a warrant. The court states that the Fourth Amendement’s protection of “persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,” extends to vehicles. According to the ruling (PDF version here), a warrant is required “[w]here, as here, the government obtains information by physically intruding on a constitutionally protected area,” including a car. The case stems from a case involving the nightclub owner Antoine Jones, who was sentenced to life in prison for drug dealing before the appeals court overturned the ruling. The government had installed a GPS device on the suspect’s Jeep, which led to his later arrest. The government tracked Jones over four weeks in order as a part of its case proving Jones was distributing cocaine and storing it and money in a suburban house outside Washington D.C. In today’s ruling, five Supreme Court justices, Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed that attaching a GPS to a car would violate a person’s Fourth Amendment rights. The other four justices, led by Samuel Alito, agreed in the Jones judgement itself, saying that the move to attach the GPS violated Jones’ “reasonable expectations of privacy.” All judges agreed that GPS tracking should require warrants, which upheld the appeals court decision. The ruling will have a serious impact on police investigations going forward, as GPS tracking has become a common means of obtaining information on a suspect’s movements. The case had Big Brother-esque implications, however, despite the Justice Department’s argument that the government was not after “24-hour surveillance of every citizen in the U.S.” The idea that the government walk up to your driveway and plant a GPS device (originally a military technology) on your car, had left many with a feeling of unease. Even though I don’t think the justices deserve much credit for this, seeing as the correct ruling was so obvious, I was actually expecting this case to go the other way, so I’ve gotta give credit where some credit is due. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure this is one of <20 unanimous decisions by the Court since Brown v. Board of Education. That’s kind of a big deal.

Supreme Court unanimously rules search warrant needed for GPS tracking

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Murray Rothbard (via libertyidaho)

Fear is, ironically, the most powerful tool when it comes to the state coercing people to relinquish their rights.

ladyatheist:

msmalcontent:

kemetically-ankhtified:

18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons

#1 Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has announced that school officials can search the cell phones and laptops of public school students if there are “reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school.”

#2 It came out in court that one school district in Pennsylvania secretly recorded more than 66,000 images of students using webcams that were embedded in school-issued laptops that the students were using at home.

#3 If you can believe it, a “certified TSA official” was recently brought in to oversee student searches at the Santa Fe High School prom.

#4 A few years ago a class of 3rd grade students at one Kentucky elementary school were searched by a group of teachers after 5 dollars went missing.  During the search the students were actually required to remove their shoes and their socks.

#5 At one public school in the Chicago area, children have been banned from bringing their lunches from home.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Students at that particular school are absolutely prohibited from bringing lunches from home.  Instead, it is mandatory that they eat the food that the school cafeteria serves.

#6 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating.

#7 A teenager in suburban Dallas was recently forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using bad language in one high school classroom.  The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.

#8 It is not just high school kids that are being ticketed by police.  In Texas the crackdown extends all the way down to elementary school students.  In fact, it has been reported that Texas police gave “1,000 tickets” to elementary school kids over a recent six year period.

#9 A few months ago, a 17 year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school.  It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples.  So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this?  The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.

#10 A little over a year ago, a 6 year old girl in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

#11 In early 2010, a 12 year old girl in New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly wrote on her desk.

#12 There are actually some public schools in the United States that are so paranoid that they have actually installed cameras in student bathrooms.

#13 Down in Florida, students have actually been arrested by police for bringing a plastic butter knife to school, for throwing an eraser, and for drawing a picture of a gun.

#14 The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place “potential offenders” in specific prevention and education programs.

#15 A group of high school students made national headlines a while back when they revealed that they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

#16 In some U.S. schools, armed cops accompanied by police dogs actually conduct surprise raids with their guns drawn.  In this video, you can actually see police officers aiming their guns at school children as the students are lined up facing the wall.

#17 Back in 2009, one 8 year old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.

#18 This year, 13 parents in Duncan, South Carolina were actually ticketed for cheering during a high school graduation.

(number 14 makes me want to destroy computers.)

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Enjoy your school year, kids.

Can I add a number 19? My high school’s surveillance and intercom system was designed by the same company who did the jail and prison camp that was down the street. We had Sheriff deputies patrolling the halls and they brought in drug sniffing dogs in to do sweeps every month. They also conducted surprise searches. During the searches you could only enter the school through the front doors. All of the other entrances were guarded either by teachers or officers. You had to go through metal detectors and if they went off they used the wand and searched your bags. High school. The best years of your life.

I went to a magnet school in the ghetto. We had security guards who would call the Black and Mexican kids derogatory names and tell them to ‘go downstairs’ if they were on the second floor, which was the magnet school (the first floor was the regular school), simply because they weren’t Asian or white.

We had drug dogs randomly search classrooms on a whim, because the standards for the 4th Amendment are so low in public schools.

I was forced to take 7 classes my last year (they ‘let’ me take my 8th class off), even though I needed 2 credits to graduate (Government, Macroeconomics, and English). I had a teacher that gave me a 69.5 in Calculus (which rounded up, luckily), because she was an angry, hormonal, pregnant woman who had been transferred to our school—because they can’t fire public school teachers, just move them—but made a 5 on my Calculus AP. Those were, without a doubt, the worst years of my life. 

Then, last year, after I graduated, they cut funding from my school, which ranks #21 nationally and already received the lowest funding in the district (there’s actually a negative correlation between spending and performance in Austin ISD) with around $5,000 spent per student, while some schools couldn’t pass basic tests and were receiving upwards of $10,000.

(Source: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/18-signs-that-life-in-u-s-public-schools-is-now-essentially-equivalent-to-life-in-u-s-prisons)

coeus:

BLOGS!~ Are we being censored right now? Is somebody from the Secret Service (or whatever) reading this right now? 

If you’re reading this, and you’re from the government of whatever nation, kindly go f*** yourself. Please, and thanks. 

I’m willing to bet the Secret Service is really just bored and laughing at pictures of kitty-cats. Hopefully.

(Source: yuxiyou.net/open/)