WKYC of North Ridgeville, Ohio follows up on the story where a humane society officer executed several feral kittens in front of a group of children. The kittens were feral and the officer had been called to take the cats away for fear of a flea infestation. The police department is defending the shooting as…
‘No Right Is Absolute’ -Peter King via Andrew Kirell @ Mediaite Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called for the prosecution of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald for his reporting on the classified National Security Agency information given to him by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Republican congressman also likened Greenwald’s reporting to a hypothetical situation wherein World War II-era reporters had revealed the…
Liberty Vs. Tyranny Glenn Greenwald, civil libertarian journalist takes on Ari Fleischer, former Press Secretary for George W. Bush over the recent revelations about the NSA’s domestic spying program. Greenwald claims that “government is operating in the dark”, while Fleischer defended the program saying that we have accepted the loss of civil liberties at airports,…
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” Congressman Ron Paul joined CNN last night to discuss whistleblower Ed Snowden who broke the case of the National Security Agency’s PRISM domestic spying program. Paul rails against the national security state, declaring “When you have a dictatorship, truth is treasonous!”
Does the punishment fit the crime? 26-year-old Josh Williams was beaten to a pulp last week in Brooklyn’s 79th Police Precinct by officers who called him and his friends “fucking faggots”. The officers claimed that Williams had urinated on a public building and called him over to question him about the incident. When Williams approached…
“Why is it that it’s so difficult to defend freedom consistently across the board?” Paul in 1984 American civil liberties took a devastating blow following the tragic events of 9/11. For years, one lone Republican stood on the house floor, ignored by his colleagues as he rang the alarm bells regarding big government spying. Paul…
“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” -Lord Acton
“I always feel like… somebody’s watching me.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) renewed his committment to the destruction of constitutional principles Thursday by happily agreeing with President Barack Obama‘s policy to seize the phone records of Verizon Wireless customers. In an interview on Fox and Friends, the senator seemed downright jovial about the destruction of the…
Doing what’s right doesn’t always mean following the rules. Seventh grader Brian Maclean stopped a bully from stabbing a classmate and was reprimanded by the school for his act. Brian’s mother in the interview was incredulous, stating that “we aren’t raising our children to be strong. Who will be our heroes? Our firefighters? Our Army…