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From USA Today on August 7, 2014 - On Nov. 1, 2013, when TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez was shot by a lone gunmen at Los Angeles International Airport and lay bleeding on the ground for more than half an hour and later died, Biles says that "a team of FAMs [federal air marshals] was less than 100 yards from the shooter yet failed to respond or engage the threat." Despite the fact that air marshals typically carry a Sig Sauer P229 and have high shooting skills, trained as they are to fire in the close confines of an aircraft cabin, Biles claims their inaction was "mostly due to a mentality and unwritten policy that exists at the FAMS by upper management that tells air marshals not to get involved." Still think the United States exists to keep you safe? My Channels: Facebook Twitter Patreon

Did you know the United States' highest court has ruled that police have no obligation to protect anyone?

The Supreme Court has actually ruled that it is literally not the police's obligation to protect people from violent criminals. The video you're watching above is a true story. Here's the Wiki article on it .

I think there are a couple big dangers worth pointing out about the #MeToo meme. For one, it may have blown sexual assault out of proportion by conflating it with sexual harassment. This is because of how the meme was formulated: So that when someone posts it, they could mean a range of things from being horrifically raped to someone just being very rude to them. But with sexual assault featuring prominently in this meme, packaging the two all together like that risks painting an inaccurate picture of the world. ...in a campaign that is purported to make us more aware of how things really are out there. But because of this meme, is the world looking like it might be a lot worse than it really is? When I brought this concern up in a discussion, a friend of mine said something I agree with 100%: "I think it's the prerogative of anybody who has been raped to be as vague as they choose." But right before he said that, he said this: " I don't ...

Government Official: "We need to ensure only legal workers are hired." Immigrant: "You're saying I'm 'an illegal worker?' What have I done wrong?" Government Official: "Well you're standing there." Immigrant: "Where should I be standing?" Government Official: "Somewhere in your country." Immigrant: "My country?" Government Official: "The country you were born in." Immigrant: "Why can't I stand here? I'm not causing any problems. He owns this place..." [Immigrant points to his employer.] "And he says I can be here." Government Official: "Well you didn't even tell us you were here, or get our permission to be working. This is our country you know." [Immigrant looks over at his employer with brows knit together shaking his head like "wtf?" and his employer shrugs his shoulders and puts his hands up like "dude ...

4/24 commemorates the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915 from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals were arrested that day. Eventually 2,345 prominent Armenian leaders were detained. The event has been described by historians as a decapitation strike, which was intended to deprive the Armenian population of leadership and a chance for resistance. By Yerevantsi - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 These detainees were later relocated within the Ottoman Empire. Most of them ended up murdered by the government. This was just the beginning. Eventually 1.5 million Armenians were rounded up, men, women, children, and the elderly... ...and systematically murdered in forced death marches through the Syrian desert and in concentration camps. Headline of New York Times, December 15, 1915 Barack Obama Promised That When He Was President The US Would Finally Recognize What Happened As a Genocide. But he never kept his word. ...

Just had to share this comment here in case you didn't see it. First, here's the comment it's in response to: Anon - The police had every right to shoot the dog. The dog was going to ATTACK an officer. The police had to do what they needed to do to protect themselves. They are entitled to defend themselves from harm. you say it's animal cruelty but they are just doing their jobs. You clearly don't know the definition of animal cruelty if instantly killing an animal is so "cruel." Have you seen how lions hunt their prey? They eat them alive. And you guys talk about animal cruelty as if you know what it is. And the comment of the week: Anon 2 - Except for one thing. The Police Officer was the aggressor (assuming that this is a simple case of the police arresting somebody for filming them), filming the Police is not a crime. The kidnapper had every right to shoot the dog. The dog was going to ATTACK an kidnapper. The kidnapper had to do what they nee...

I made another Pinterest board this week entitled " Police Being Bullies ." I made this to support the Peaceful Streets Project , which is having its 2013 yearly summit this weekend.

By NASSER al-AWLAKI The New York Times SANA, Yemen — I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after he died. The missile killed him, his teenage cousin and at least five other civilians on Oct. 14, 2011, while the boys were eating dinner at an open-air restaurant in southern Yemen. I visited the site later, once I was able to bear the pain of seeing where he sat in his final moments. Local residents told me his body was blown to pieces. They showed me the grave where they buried his remains. I stood over it, asking why my grandchild was dead. Nearly two years later, I still have no answers. The United States government has refused to explain why Abdulrahman was killed. It was not until May of this year that the Obama administration, in a supposed effort to be more transparent, publicly acknowledged what the world already knew — that it was responsible for his death....

No, not the victims, the rapists. Let's back up a second: "We're going to get familiar with your womanly parts." That's what Brandy Hamilton says Nathaniel Turner, a male police officer told her last year during a traffic stop when she and her friend were driving home from the beach. The officer found a small amount of marijuana in their car after stopping them for speeding and made them wait on the side of the road in their bikinis, without allowing them to put on their clothes, so Jennie Bui, a female officer could show up and perform a roadside cavity search. The traffic stop and the vaginal search were caught on the police cruiser's cameras. "She pretty much forced my legs open because I wouldn't even open my legs," Hamilton said. Her friend, Alexandria Ramble told her local news station, KXAN, "We were just assaulted in the worst way possible. We weren't asked could we be touched. It was just done to us. I'm just emba...

This is an absolutely phenomenal interview between some sharp students at the University of Wisconsin and some pretty dim-witted NSA recruiters. Do yourself a favor and listen to this while following along on the written transcript at one of the students' blogs under the blog title, "The NSA Comes Recruiting." Can someone please fire David Gregory and give his job to Madiha Tahir, the journalism student that asked many of the questions and published the recording and transcript above?

Two Brazoria County, TX women were pulled over for speeding. The cop did not give the women, who were in bikinis, a chance to put some clothes on before making them wait on the side of the highway for a female cop to show up and give them a body cavity search in the police cruiser on the side of the highway- because a small amount of marijuana was found in the car. Warning - graphic rape footage:

He doesn't mean any of it.

Warning: this video is *extremely* graphic and disturbing. Hawthorne, CA Police Officer Shoots Dog: InfoWars reports : "The 130-pound, 3-year-old Rottweiler named Max was shot to death after he escaped through a window in a parked car and ran over to his master, Leon Rosby, who was being arrested for filming the scene on his phone." Hat tip: Daily Paul . The comments on the YouTube page were overwhelmingly critical of the police overreaction. Here are some examples: for the last time since so many dummies seem to exist here: ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS TELL THE OWNER TO TAKE CARE OF IT. he wasn't resisting, he would have wanted his dog safe, so all they could have done is stopped cuffing him for 15 seconds, let him secure his dog and calm it down... and then they could have continued their pointless arrest. easy. nobody hurt. isn't that the logical normal thing to do if a dog is "threatening" you? to tell it's owner to take care of it? I hope...

[ WIKILEAKS ] Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow Monday July 1, 21:40 UTC One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful. On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions. This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to fright...

To show just how creepy and invasive the NSA's spying is, German Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have a German telecom giant hand over six months of his phone data, which he made available to a German newspaper, Zeit Online. Zeit then put together a presentation showing just what the NSA is watching when it watches your use of your phone. Hit play on the chilling presentation and you'll see a little target begin to move around a map of Germany as Spitz's GPS data is relayed and stored. You'll see a little phone icon appear next to the target every time he makes a phone call. A little box below the map displays the date and time of day as they tick by. To the right of the map, every time a new day begins, an overview of Spitz's metadata appears with the number of incoming and outgoing phone calls, the total time spent on the phone, the number of incoming and outgoing SMS text messages, and the duration of phone connection to the Internet. It will someti...

"I've got to erase a lot of stuff-- a LOT of stuff."

"Americans have become outraged and concerned about their rights to privacy. But along with that concern comes a feeling of hopelessness. I mean, what can we do? Vote in new leaders? Well, the problem is, that during an election, each candidate pretends to not be an asshole."

In this pretty shocking clip from The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, dated, September 16, 2008, the actor reveals that an FBI consultant for an action film told LaBeouf that the government logs calls and proved it by retrieving and playing the audio of a phone call LaBeouf had made two years earlier! Think he was telling the truth?

The Daily Show's John Oliver in a just-too-funny segment on the NSA. So many good laughs in this: