Willie The Pimp

Frank Zappa fan video explains the situation

design by Terry

Mexico newspaper is drug war casualty

AP
CNN
05/25/07

• A newspaper in northern Mexico is attacked and threatened
• Cambio Sonora will temporarily shut down because of the danger
• Area is a battleground for a war between the government and drug traffickers
• Mexico second most dangerous place in world for journalists after Iraq

Atlanta Overhauls Police Narcotics Unit

Associated Press
Forbes
May 23, 2007

Atlanta's police chief announced more than 140 personnel changes in the department, including replacing the entire narcotics unit that was scandalized last fall by the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman during a drug raid.

Parading the Dead

Parading the Dead
Mussolini
BBC

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
GEORGE W. BUSH
May 9, 2007

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In this Directive Bush grants himself dictatorial powers to be assumed upon the event of the next "emergency" of any kind.

Cops Gone Wild!

Becky Akers on National Police Week.
05/25/07
lewrockwell.com

F The Police

Bad laws breed contempt for all laws.
Video of Ice Cube live in New Orleans.

Pigs On The Wing

Video from helicopter where trainee is learning to slaughter farmers in Afghanistan.
Mix by Terry

Oh Canada, where smokers get a break

Posted by Manuel Lora at May 7, 2007
blog.lewrockwell.com

I went to Ottawa with my wife over the weekend and we bumped into a a small rally for the legalization of pot there (we later found out that it was the Global Marijuana March). The march was peaceful and really nothing special...except for a "small" detail. There cops seemed to be perfectly ok with this. They even followed (escorted?) the group to a park close to Parliament Hill. Can you imagine this happening in the United States? I would expect to see the local and heavily militarized police department converge on these pot-smoking monsters with helicopters and tanks and putting them in the darkest of jails for their own good. They would probably not hesitate to pull the trigger at the slightest resistance.

Totalitarianism need not evoke images of faraway lands and funny looking dictators dressed in army uniforms. It has arrived.

Ron Paul 2008

Ron Paul 2008

Ron Paul-Wikipedia

Ron Paul archives at LewRockwell.com

8 Ex-Prison Employees Charged in Fla.

BRENT KALLESTAD
Associated Press
05/08/07

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues.

The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 605-inmate medium and minimum security at the Hendry Correctional Institution in the Everglades. The previous warden and an assistant warden resigned, and three others were reassigned after an inmates was beaten and choked by guards in March.

State prisons chief Jim McDonough said the warrants include charges of battery and failing to report inmate abuse against former guards William Thiessen, Phillip Barger and Randy Hazen, Gabriel Cotilla, Kevin Filipowicz and Stephen Whitney. Fired guard James Brown was charged with grand theft.

"These former employees were involved in a series of dehumanizing and degrading behaviors," McDonough said.

Your "What Country Are We Living In?" Photo of the Day

Radley Balko
The Agitator
May 06, 2007

Spider venom could boost sex life

By Vladimir Hernandez
BBC News
05/04/07

Brazilian and US scientists are looking into using spider venom as a possible treatment for male impotence.

Their investigation follows reports that men bitten by the Phoneutria nigriventer experienced priapism - long and painful erections.

In pictures: Baghdad murals

BBC News, UK
05/03/07