Monthly Archives: August 2004

Protecting the People

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Here is yet another example of why we should kick all the drug warriors off the dole and send them out to get real jobs:
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Landscape contractor Blair Davis was in his northwest Harris County home around 2 p.m. Tuesday when there was a knock at his door.
Davis said he hadn’t even gotten his hand on the doorknob when it flew open and he was looking at the barrel of a pistol.
Behind the gun were about 10 members of the Harris County Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force, who burst into the home, guns drawn, and began shouting at him to get down on the floor.
There on the floor, Davis said, it took a while to figure out that what had caused the swarm of lawmen to descend upon him was the hibiscus in his front yard.
Let’s put an end to domestic terrorism now!
Via Zombyboy and Jeff Trigg.
Photo: Meg Loucks/ Houston Chronicle

People are Crazy

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This pretty much confirms what you’ve been thinking everytime you are out and about:

Crazy people outnumber alcoholics!- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the National Institutes of Health) surveyed 43,000 Americans and came up with the following data;
* 11% have some type of anxiety disorder (panic attacks, phobias).
* 9.2% have some type of mood disorder (depression, manic depressive).
* 8.5% have an alcohol dependence problem.
* 2% have a problem with drug abuse.
* 15% can be classified as having some type of personality disorder!
Sure there is some cross over or, as the professionals say, comorbidity but this confirms that there are a lot of screwed up people out on the street today.
Chris Rangel has more to say about this.

Administration Supports Increased Use of Lawyers

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And the American Library Association is fighting back on our behalf:

Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department of Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the Department has deemed not “appropriate for external use.” The Department of Justice has called for these five public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.
The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged asks:
Can you think of any reason why our current ruling party would be trying to keep americans from having access to information about our laws?
Let’s see, here are a few possibilities:
1) They think ordinary citizens are too dumb to be able to read federal statutes without a lawyer to interpret?
2) Citizens have been making effective use of the material to protect their rights without the aid of lawyers?
3) If the feds make it hard to fact check their asses they can make things up as they go along with less concern?
4) An uninformed citizenry will make it easier to to fight the “war on terror.”
5) To help pay for Iraq (see 2 above).
Any more ideas?