The former top criminal prosecutor at DOJ ended up on the terrorist watch list. Former Clinton administration official adds, “I suppose if I were convinced that America is a safer place because I get hassled at the airport, I might put up with it. But I doubt it.”
What’s next for David Simon? Apparently a series set in New Orleans’ music scene.
Man nearly crushed by 10,000 pound microscope. Punchline: At the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
Always worth reminding the pro-drug war, “you’re either with us or against” us in the war on terror crowd that just a few months before September 11, the Bush administration gave the Taliban $43 million to thank them for their efforts to eradicate opium fields.*
Woman falsely arrested as a prostitute on her way to the hospital to get treatment for an asthma attack.
The 80-year-old stripper.
*UPDATE: A fellow blogger has scolded me for stating that this aid went directly to the Taliban. It was actually humanitarian aid ostensibly given to Afghan farmers. But it was given to the Taliban’s subjects, in direct response to the Taliban’s crackdown on opium, a crackdown cheered on by the Bush administration. The Taliban certainly benefited from the aid. And much of the aid ended up getting confiscated by the Taliban, anyway. Oh, and in the end the crackdown actually only strengthened the Taliban. They merely eradicated the opium farms not under their direct control, driving up the cost of the stuff. Meanwhile, they themselves kept selling on the open market, with higher profit margins. My point was that the Bush administration’s moral absolutes when it comes to dealing with terrorist-harboring regimes haven’t been so absolute when it comes to the drug war. That point still stands. If I have time, I’ll have more on all of this later.
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Persecution is the world’s second oldest profession. The fact that laws banning prostitution still exist is irrefutable proof that the people who make the laws are usually no better than those who break them and often much worse.
Holy shit, read some of the comments on the “woman falsely arrested for prostitution” story. I already know there are “if you are arrested you must be guilty” people out there, but this story, with the cop so obviously lying*, you’d think would cause even the most ardent police supporter to rethink. But no.
* I was cited in Brooklyn for running a red light. I did in fact run the red light, about 2 seconds after it turned. I challenged the ticket in court just to try and get out of it. The cop testified that the light had been red for 30 seconds before I ran it. It was so obviously bullshit, and his attitude was so brazen, that the judge threw it out. The entire courtroom applauded when he did it. That was a fun moment.
At a group meeting in 2002 I asked the acting director of ONDCP, point blank, about the gift to the Taliban. He flatly denied that it happened. When I directed him to Colin Powell’s speech on the occasion, helpfully archived at the Secretary of State website, he downgraded to “I have no recollection of that.” It was so clear that he was lying that several people, including myself, got up and walked out.
Whole lotta class acts in the comments to the hooker story.
mbdono: “B u l l s h i t! She is a part time Ho! Her husband sent her on the street at that time in the morning WALKING to the hospital on 3rd. Ave.during an asthma attack! Give me a break! The cops were doing their duty by protecting the public, that was home in their BEDS! Part time but still a Ho.”
ForcedToLa: “based on the wonderful example of teen pregnancy that grandma set for her daughters, is the baby from the 17 or 10 year old daughter?”
Don’t miss the “guy arrested for photographing cop” story:
http://theoneblog.brendanloy.com/2008/07/tenessee-man-arrested-for-unlawful.html
Can a walker double as a stripper pole?
Carrying a condom is a suspicious activity and evidence of prostitution?
I believe the woman that she’s not a hooker, but you’ve got to wonder about a husband who sends his wife to walk to the hospital during her athsma attack so she can be back in time to take the kids to school.
Side issue, I know, but geez…
#8 Ever try to get EMS in NYC? Domino’s will get there first a lot of times. And as long as she’s not in active distress, walking in fresh air is probably not a bad idea as her priority level at the dispatch center will be somewhere below a splinter in the butt.
This NYPD officer should be out on his ass. Making a false police report is perjury and should be prosecuted as such. NYPD is the biggest street gang in NYC and it’s no wonder that when one of theirs gets hurt or killed the only people who give a shit are other gang members.
Microscope: If you sent in a script for Law and Order or some other drama show it would be rejected as not believable. Oh, the irony.
Lead story: I just love it when government control freaks get it in the ass from their own. Since I’m on the list myself as punishment for 1st Am activities, the more government goons who get the gloved hand up the Hershey Highway the better.
Hey, Radley, if you’re going to use quotes, can you at least get it right?
Bush didn’t say, “you’re either with us or against” us…..I believe he said, “You’re with us, or your with the terrorists”. That’s not quite the same thing……
from the “80 year old stripper story”
“I’m just blessed, I think. And I know when to push myself away from the table.”
oh… really…
The Monica Gonzalez quote that is obvious truth to those with two functioning neurons between their ears.
“The officers stick together and the system is abusive.”
For every cop who brutalizes suspects, for every cop who perjures herself, for every cop violating our civil rights, there is a handful of others that know and do absolutely nothing about it. I am convinced that the average cop will commit a felony to cover up for a “brother in blue”.
Is the law enforcement system broken beyond repair in the big cities?
A good apple who covers up for bad apples is not a good apple.
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