How an Attractive, Undercover Cop Posed as a Student -- Then Entrapped a Smitten Teen to "Sell" Her Marijuana | | AlterNet

Can we just kill the drug war or is the desire to turn narcs loose to entrap people so deeply entrenched that we'll never be rid of it, despite years of it failing and failing, and the complete militarization (and alienation) of our police from the general populace?

How an Attractive, Undercover Cop Posed as a Student -- Then Entrapped a Smitten Teen to "Sell" Her Marijuana | | AlterNet

Not Even the Right Deadbeat :)

Storm troopers arresting debtors? What's next? Debtor's prisons?

S.W.A.T. Team Breaks Down Doors Looking For Student Loan Defaulters | AlterNet

Is it Allowed or Not?

TSA's own guidelines allow photographs to be taken

How do they get away with preventing it if it IS allowed? Yeah, yeah, rhetorical question :)

Welcome to Minnesota: The Police State

There was a lot of news in the blogosphere yesterday about the out-of-control raids by a combination of local and federal law enforcement in Mpls-St Paul yesterday, 'cracking down' on possible protestors. WaPo has some coverage here (which is the only coverage I've seen in the MSM...) Glenn also went into overdrive yesterday covering it.

I'm not a big fan of the whole 'let's get rowdy and disrupt shit' movement, but as long as they remain peaceful and no one gets hurt, I'm all in favor of their being allowed to protest. But, in Shrub's Amerika, even thinking about disagreeing en masse in public with his Holy Writ is grounds for manhandling, verbal abuse, and false arrest. Next stop, Gitmo?

Don't we have a Constitution or something?