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The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

912 Group of Central Ohio

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[Repeat the mantra that we’re at war with illicit drugs often enough, and the cops on the front lines of that war will naturally begin to think of themselves as soldiers.]

Home raided and family terrorized.  Outcome?  One charge of possessing drug paraphernalia...

A Drug Raid Goes Viral
A violent drug raid posted to YouTube catches fire online. But the only thing unusual about the raid is that it was caught on video.

On April 20, Jonathan Whitworth pleaded guilty to a single charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. He wasn't even charged for the minor amount of marijuana in his home (marijuana for personal use has been decriminalized in Columbia). He was issued a $300 fine.

According to surveys of police departments conducted by University of Eastern Kentucky criminologist Peter Kraska, we've seen about a 1,500 percent increase in SWAT deployments in this country since the early 1980s. The vast majority of that increase has been to serve search warrants on people suspected of nonviolent drug crimes. SWAT teams are inherently violent. In some ways they're an infliction of punishment before conviction. This is why they should only be used in situations where the suspect presents an immediate threat to others. In that case, SWAT teams use violence to defuse an already violent situation. When they're used to serve drug warrants for consensual crimes, however, SWAT tactics create violence where no violence was present before. Even when everything goes right in such a raid, breaking into the home of someone merely suspected of a nonviolent, consensual crime is an inappropriate use of force in a free society.

Repeat the mantra that we’re at war with illicit drugs often enough, and the cops on the front lines of that war will naturally begin to think of themselves as soldiers.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RbwSwvUaRqc&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RbwSwvUaRqc&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/E6qdMZJQUeM&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/E6qdMZJQUeM&rel=0</a>!

scary but inevitable.  Can only be delayed but not stopped.  Convenience (laziness), fear and profit make it inevitable.

The Shadow for the young

What price is enough for safety?

Privacy concerns aside, isn’t it possible that we’ve reached the point where such intrusive security measures are counterproductive?

Statistically speaking, flying is much safer than driving.

It follows that events or policies that discourage travelers from flying — and encourage them to drive — will result in increased injuries and death.

In fact, three professors at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., produced a study in 2005 showing that 242 driving fatalities a month could be attributed to travelers switching from flying to driving in the years immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

Could security hassles at airports be hurting more people than they protect by discouraging air travel? And does it make sense to spend $150 million of our finite security dollars installing 1,000 full-body scanners at airports across the country?

Nobody knows, said John Mueller, the Woody Hayes Chair in National Security Studies at Ohio State University.

And that’s the problem, said Mueller, the author of Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them.

“The Department of Homeland Security has been very lax in preparing any kind of cost-benefit analysis for such measures,” Mueller said.

He notes that the chances of a terrorist attack on a particular flight are already remote.

“And if the chance of an attack is one out of 17 million flights, how much do you want to pay to decrease the risk to one in 20 million or one in 50 million?

“Any good, sensible garden-variety risk analysis would ask that question.”

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Can it detect Salmonella in eggs??? (Joke)

If you sacrifice freedom for safety you get neither.  "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."  Benjamin Franklin

The "people demand" that government guarantees absolute safety.  The government responds thus the rise of the police state.

The Shadow

Awww yes, sustainability and security...

Podesta: Obama Can Use ‘Armed Forces’ to Push Progressive Agenda

What exactly does Podesta think the president should use such powers to “accomplish”? Among others, the report suggests “job creation,“ ”quality affordable health care,“ ”sustainable security,“ and ”a clean energy future.”

If its a womans time of the month... and she has a string hanging out of her crotch... will the TSA think its a "fuse" and scream BOMB!.. just asking.

It's sad that we can no longer view your comment as being immature and ignore it. 

Actual footage of British police arresting Christian street preacher

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/12LtOKQ8U7c&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/12LtOKQ8U7c&rel=0</a>



Question: How many police officers does it take to arrest a passive street preacher?

Drug-Friendly Netherlands to Close 8 Prisons -- Not Enough Crime

The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate.

U.S. Department of Education Brings In S.W.A.T. For Unpaid Loans. Really.

Kenneth Wright, a father of three without a criminal record, was the victim of a S.W.A.T. raid yesterday. He looked out his window at 6 a.m. and saw 15 police officers. They didn't bother to knock, instead barging through his front door, grabbing him by the neck and pushing him face down onto his front lawn. They woke his 3, 7 and 11-year-old children and put them in a police car while they searched the home.

Is this not conservative?  Compare this to how 2nd Amendment proponents are trying to get around federal arms legislation.

NRO: Right on Marijuana

The War on Drugs, which is celebrating its 40th year, has been a colossal failure. It has curtailed personal freedom, created a violent black market, and filled our prisons. It has also trampled on states’ rights: Sixteen states have legalized “medical marijuana” — which is, admittedly, often code for legalizing pot in general — only to clash with federal laws that ban weed throughout the land.