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Land Of The Free? 1 In 3 Americans Are On File With The FBI In The US Police State

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Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The sickening transformation of these United States into an authoritarian police state with an incarceration rate that would make Joseph Stalin blush, has been a key theme of my writing since well before the launch of Liberty Blitzkrieg. One of the posts that shocked and disturbed readers most, was published a little over a year ago titled: American Police Make an Arrest Every 2 Seconds in 2012. In the event you never read it, I suggest taking a look before tackling the rest of this piece.

Fast forward to fall 2014, and the Wall Street Journal has a powerful article about how children in schools systems across the U.S. are being arrested or turned over to police custody for doing things that children have always done since the beginning of time. Things such as wearing too much perfume, sharing a classmates’ chicken nuggets, throwing an eraser or chewing gum.

As a result of our insane societal obsession with authority and disproportionate punishment, the WSJ reports that “nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBI’s master criminal database.” 

USA! USA!

From the Wall Street Journal:

A generation ago, schoolchildren caught fighting in the corridors, sassing a teacher or skipping class might have ended up in detention. Today, there’s a good chance they will end up in police custody.

 

In Texas, a student got a misdemeanor ticket for wearing too much perfume. In Wisconsin, a teen was charged with theft after sharing the chicken nuggets from a classmate’s meal—the classmate was on lunch assistance and sharing it meant the teen had violated the law, authorities said. In Florida, a student conducted a science experiment before the authorization of her teacher; when it went awry she received a felony weapons charge.

 

Over the past 20 years, prompted by changing police tactics and a zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBI’s master criminal database.

Did you catch that too? “Zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes.” Indeed, the big criminals go to Wall Street, crash the economy and then receive trillions in taxpayer bailouts. Or they get a top job in the Obama Administration, such as Jedi-master of cronyism, Tim Geithner, being chosen as Treasury Secretary.

Back to the WSJ…

At school, talking back or disrupting class can be called disorderly conduct, and a fight can lead to assault and battery charges, said Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of the Advancement Project, a national civil-rights group examining discipline procedures around the country. 

If these rules were in place in my day, I would have been arrested about 150 times.

“We’re not talking about criminal behavior,” said Texas State Sen. John Whitmire, the Democratic chair of the senate’s Criminal Justice Committee, who helped pass a new law last year that limits how police officers can ticket students. “I’m talking about school disciplinary issues, throwing an eraser, chewing gum, too much perfume, unbelievable violations” that were resulting in misdemeanor charges.

 

According to the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, 260,000 students were reported, or “referred” in the official language, to law enforcement by schools in 2012, the most-recent available data.

 

The number of school police officers rose 55% to about 19,000 in the 10 years to 2007, the last year for which numbers were available, according to a 2013 study from the Congressional Research Service.

 

The schools crackdown has had its intended effect. Victims’ surveys compiled by the Education Department show that there is a lower rate of violent crime committed in schools, falling to 52 incidents per 100,000 students in 2012 from 181 incidents per 100,000 in 1992.Supporters say that alone proves the worth of aggressive policing.

Well yeah, and pigs in a pen are easily controlled too, but are these the types of children we want to raise?

And what about the downside, such as:

Brushes with the criminal justice system go hand in hand with other negative factors. A study last year of Chicago public schools by a University of Texas and a Harvard researcher found the high-school graduation rate for children with arrest records was 26%, compared with 64% for those without. The study estimated about one-quarter of the juveniles arrested in Chicago annually were arrested in school.

 

A science experiment that went awry turned into a 17-month battle for Kiera Wilmot and her mother as they tried to clear the honor student’s arrest record. According to the police report, she was on school grounds outside the classroom trying out an experiment that hadn’t been authorized by her teacher. Ms. Wilmot, now 18, said she put a piece of aluminum inside a bottle with two ounces of toilet cleaner to see what would happen. The teen’s mother said she was trying to simulate a volcanic eruption.

 

“It popped,” blowing the top off the bottle, she said. She was handcuffed by the school-resource office, escorted out of the Bartow, Fla., school and taken to a juvenile facility where she was charged with possessing or discharging firearms or weapons at school and making, throwing, possessing, projecting, placing or discharging a destructive device.

Think about what sorts of lessons we are teaching talented students about experimenting and being creative. A modern Benjamin Franklin would most likely be rotting away in solitary right now.

So as we militarize the police, we police the schools. See the direction this is all headed in?

Keep chanting muppets.

 

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Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:45 | 5361023 observer007
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Your PRIVATE Reuters Newsticker for free:

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Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:53 | 5361045 economics9698
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1.  Increase welfare benifits 4x, 1965.  No fathers in home.
2.  War on drugs.  1971.

Worked pretty darn well, we are the USSR x4.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P08B_lBUL0E

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:08 | 5361096 12ToothAssassin
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Wonder if I can file a FOIA for all the files the FBI has on me?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:14 | 5361117 ZerOhead
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That's probably just as well... if you submit a FOIA request on yourself it likely triggers an immediate FBI investigation...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:16 | 5361137 12ToothAssassin
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Check that, found the real process:

 

Privacy Act Request

The Privacy Act allows U.S. citizens and lawfully admitted aliens to request information on themselves or another living person.

If you are requesting information about yourself, you must use one of the following options:

Option 1: Use the U.S. Department of Justice Certification of Identity Form DOJ-361. You may submit an attachment listing additional information that may aid in locating responsive records. Please place your name and contact information on the attachment.

Option 2: Following the instructions in U.S. Department of Justice Certification of Identity Form DOJ-361, submit a letter to the FBI, sign your request, and have it notarized or state, “Under penalty of perjury, I hereby declare that I am the person named above and I understand that any falsification of this statement is punishable under the provisions of Title 18, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 1001 by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment of not more than five years, or both; and that requesting or obtaining any record(s) under false pretenses is punishable under the provisions of Title 5, U. S. C., Section 552a(i)(3) as a misdemeanor and by a fine of not more than $5,000.”  

Mail, fax, or e-mail this letter to the following:

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attn: FOI/PA Request
Record/Information Dissemination Section
170 Marcel Drive
Winchester, VA 22602-4843
Fax: (540) 868-4391/4997
E-mail (scanned copy): foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov

For more information:

Identification Record Request

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:20 | 5361160 Frank N. Beans
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nice work, but I wonder how much will be redacted.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:24 | 5361172 bunzbunzbunz
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Depends on what they know about you.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:30 | 5361203 Liberal
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As a staunch liberal, I just want you all to know that this sort of thing is ALL OKAY just as long as Obama's in the White House and you have nothing to hide.  This is for your own good, people.  This is for your own good.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:46 | 5361271 Save_America1st
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and 9 out of 10 ZH'ers have a file as well.

So, FUCK YOU, FBI!!! ;-)

It had to be said...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:59 | 5361310 Rememberweimar
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The FBI ARE the master criminals...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:00 | 5361317 kliguy38
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100% of ZH commenters

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:17 | 5361360 johngaltfla
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I know I'm in that file. Oh, by the way: FUCK YOU FBI and DHS!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:55 | 5361466 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Select Zero's.

Chumbawamba is a "KNOWN" Mossad agent.

And quite often he leaves confusing comments. Don't pay attention to him!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:24 | 5361765 zerozulu
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This is the path people have chosen for themself. can't complain.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 22:25 | 5361966 Socratic Dog
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I didn't fucking choose it!  I'm complaining.

I guess that's the difference between democracy and a constitutional republic.  In our democracy, it got chosen for me.

Fuck off police state and FBI.  Fuck off democracy.  Give me back my constitutional republic.

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 01:22 | 5362345 Richard Chesler
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Land of the fleeced, home of the slave.

Thank you Obongo!

 

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 00:08 | 5362228 12ToothAssassin
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When that 400lb fat fuck was sucking me off while gurgling verses from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion I knew something was wrong!

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 11:34 | 5363575 BigJim
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 Listen Select Zero's.

Chumbawamba is a "KNOWN" Mossad agent.

And quite often he leaves confusing comments. Don't pay attention

JFC, why are you such a doofus?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:19 | 5361362 McMolotov
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This is proof that J. Edgar Hoover's ghost still runs the joint. On quiet nights, you can probably hear his high heels clicking down the hallways.

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 01:06 | 5362330 pavman
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Thought that title was exclusively reserved for Goldman Sachs.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 23:34 | 5362143 juangrande
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On file since 1997!  

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:29 | 5361187 ZerOhead
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Wow... 5 years in jail for putting false information on a mere request for information...

Could you imagine what the penalties must be like for those in the financial industry who commited hundreds of billions in mortgage application fraud and robosignings?

( I'll bet those guys are laughing on a beach somewhere... )

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:20 | 5361366 shovelhead
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About the same time you would get for that ripped copy of 'The Patriot,' with the FBI warning on it, sitting on your DVD shelf.

Why are there no FBI warnings on bags of potato chips?

Steal billions, life at the beach.

Copy a movie, 5 in the slammer.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:51 | 5361676 Ness.
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Can you imagine the fury the FBI would bring upon a US citizen if they knowingly sold weapons to known Mexican drug cartels?  Holy shit.  But what if those same weapons were used to kill US customs agents!!?!?!?!?

I can't go on.  I must be craaazy, right?  No one would do something so heinous.  

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 23:41 | 5362154 juangrande
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Man,  that is nothing compared to the decades old link between cartels and certain shadowy aspects of our government! In fact, it's a fine line between the two....

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:44 | 5361833 sun tzu
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The FBI are a bunch of corrupt shitheads no different from the Gestapo or KGB. They exist to protect TPTB, not you and I.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:47 | 5361662 XitSam
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It would be a darn shame if Jon Corzine, or some other upstanding citizen, made a false request.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:15 | 5361123 Son of Captain Nemo
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Well said e

Speaking of which this guy foretold our future in 1983 and it's everything the "Great Society" that L.B.J. ushered in that has metastasized ever since.

Just a footnote.  I saw this as a freshman in college and as soon as the words ex-KGB was uttered on his profile I completely shut down.

What a naive fool I was then.  And unfortunately for the ones that are still "wrapped in a flag"?... How can anybody be this fucking stupid after what has happened to us in the past 13 years alone?!!!  They deserve Ebola or being cremated by the biggest SS18 the Russians have if we start the next one -which we most assuredly will!

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:29 | 5361397 metastar
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I knew in college back in 1984 that we (and our descendants) were part of the "pay for it all" generation, but I never imagined it would be this insane.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:54 | 5361047 negative rates
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When you butcher the constitution, you butcher the law.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:07 | 5361516 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Rates.

When you butcher the "SPIRIT" of the constitution, you butcher the "SPIRIT" of the people whom you seek to inspire.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:19 | 5361565 angel_of_joy
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True, but other than that the country looks just peachy...

http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/omenland/

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:49 | 5361275 Save_America1st
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dude, that Reuter's link if just a bunch of garbage...who wants to look at that???  Half of the crap on it is constantly repeated over and over again. 

Let it go man...it's just not cool. ;-)

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 02:00 | 5362382 CASTBOUND
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my neighbor's half-sister makes $71 hourly on the laptop . She has been fired from work for 9 months but last month her paycheck was $17975 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look at this site... www.job-reports.com

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:46 | 5361026 blindman
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paranoia.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:53 | 5361046 Son of Captain Nemo
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paranoia?...

Be proud son if you are on that list, it simply means you did something positive in defending the Republic for a change.  If you're not on the list it means you didn't try hard enough!  That's pride talking!!!

I have a welcome mat at my door for these cocksuckers when it comes time for "inventory check"...

Sure hope they enjoy their gift!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:20 | 5361164 blindman
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any body that needs to make a list of 100 million
people or more that threaten their "existence",
way of life or whatever it is they fear losing,
is extremely paranoid. the fbi appears to be paranoid.
i guess that is their job? so , they should get to
work and complete the list by including the remaining
2/3 rds of the population, then their work will be
complete and true to their cause, supreme paranoia.
it works best when everyone dances to the same tune.
so we all dance .......

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:26 | 5361232 blindman
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paranoia is like bacteria
it replicates via binary fission.
.
the strategy of bacteria.
look out. we have not evolved
passed it.
perhaps we actually have evolved
passed it but then, for political
purposes, devolved back to it?
the parasites have more complex
strategies.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:43 | 5361255 blindman
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and this too. if they did their job in the
first place and controlled the damned financial
criminals, they could have saved themselves the
trouble of being the morons listing everyone
in the country as a suspected terrorist or
whatever disparaging classification into which they lump
the population of mirror fogging people. (taxpaying
victims)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:45 | 5361263 blindman
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yes, paranoia. it is multiplying, like
bacteria, through a process akin to binary fusion.
ideas are like that.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:51 | 5361281 blindman
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Microbiology - Bacteria Growth, Reproduction, Classification
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lh-M-rX86Q
.
Dean Friedman - Ariel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGFW9jCFml4

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:23 | 5361372 blindman
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finally,
How Bacteria Cause Disease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNaAisFiPdU
.
what they always miss is that there are
more bacteria in and on the human body than
cells that compose the body.
they never talk about the beneficial and
essential bacteria, the ones that give
life to human life.
so it goes ....

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:13 | 5361061 Dakota Kid
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Is Obola on the top of the list? ....

Oops, I forgot, he is not an American, he's a Kenyan.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:51 | 5361027 Zirpedge
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I for one am releived in knowing that the FBI is keeping files on all manner of foreign and DOMESTIC extremist and malcontent. Keep fighting the good fight boys, we are going to win the war on terror and renew the American dream of global conquest. All these stories of kids being charged as criminals is because kids are criminals. Knowing everything we know about 9/11, how could a parent in their right mind let their child build and active volcano with baking soda and vinegar?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:01 | 5361070 ebworthen
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Some people's sarcasm detectors are off I think.

And how could a Parent let their Child whittle a stick with a sharp knife of death, or sharpen Popsicle sticks on the pavement (it's a shiv!), or learn how to cook their own meals (they might get salmonella!).

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:11 | 5361112 Zirpedge
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EB, 

Don't sweat the negative nellies. They likely missed todays market rally and are venting frustration.

RE: sharpened sticks, children learn these behaviors at home and further surveilance of the parentals is for the greater good.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 22:32 | 5361987 Socratic Dog
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You're sounding a little subversive there Zirp.  Whatever happened to your "if the messiah did it it must be good" view of the kenyan?  You might get yourself into a bit of trouble over on the Huffington Post if this continues.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:30 | 5361209 BeanusCountus
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Too funny. Loved the "because they are criminals". Not sure what everyone was doing in your day, but that "experiment" in my day was water, drano crystals and aluminum foil in a sealed container. Unbelievable force generated by the chem reaction, exploded the sealed container if it was anything less than fortified aluminum. And here is the kicker: they tought us that in..... Science Class! Strange, but none of my classmates went on to join Al Quaida. We were all too busy just growing up.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:47 | 5361659 Parrotile
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80% of my current lifespan ago, I "discovered" the interesting qualities of Sodium Chlorate (available over the counter from ALL Hardware Stores / Garden Centres - even off the shelf in Tesco!). Mix with granular sugar - and you have a very explosive cocktail. Mix with icing sugar (greater specific surface) and you've got a real explosive.

"Everyone" doing A-Level chemistry knew this, (as did a lot of the non-A-level stream). Sodium chlorate, Sodium nitrite (Saltpetre), Potassium permanganate ("Condy's Crystals") - all potent oxidisers, all available with ZERO (0) restriction on sales.

Grandfather used to buy 56lb (= approx. 25kg) SACKS of Ammonium Nitrate "for the garden". Fortuately for me I had a "sheltered" rural upbringing, so the likes of ANFO were not in my lexicon. Fortunately - since the farm next door had a lot of diesel in drums (leaky drums too), and with my penchant for "things that went bang" I'd probably be reading ZH from the Afterlife!

Fast forward to nowadays? I'd be doing "life" without parole in Parkhurst (or maybe in Rampton or Broadmoor)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:33 | 5361210 BeanusCountus
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Sorry, duplicate

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:51 | 5361283 Zirpedge
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Administrators please delete this duplicate post. Too many advertisements are to blame for these glitches.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:47 | 5361028 mikelongisland
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Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:47 | 5361031 ebworthen
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Control and money; control the sheep and shear them.

When they have lost their utility, slaughter them.

That is what we have become.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:51 | 5361041 The Shootist
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Control their brains. Keep telling them their debt notes are money. Keep taking every last shred of wealth from the middle class.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:51 | 5361033 The Shootist
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USSA! USSA! USSA!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:50 | 5361035 czarangelus
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Getting arrested and expelled for programming a Drug Wars-style Columbine parody game for calculator was the best thing that ever happened to me. It was the final blow teaching me that all authority is vile, self-serving, and unquestionably out to get me, and sent me down the long road towards being a gun toting; silver hoarding; Ebola-chan worshipping anarcho-capitalist madman.

It's all a lie, people. Government is a lie, academia is a lie, Christianity is just old lies; doctors poison; the Department of Defense attacks; education is to distract you from learning and preachers get in the way of our relationship with the gods.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:52 | 5361043 i_call_you_my_base
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"Getting arrested and expelled for programming a Drug Wars-style Columbine parody game for calculator was the best thing that ever happened to me."

LOL!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:11 | 5361113 12ToothAssassin
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Preach it Czarangelus!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:59 | 5361067 Dr. Venkman
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ah the TI-82.

BTFL (Buy the Fucking Ludes)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:51 | 5361036 i_call_you_my_base
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"If these rules were in place in my day, I would have been arrested about 150 times."

Eh, maybe, if you are black.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:54 | 5361296 The9thDoctor
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As far as I am concerned, public school was a 12 and a half year prison sentence.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:51 | 5361038 css1971
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Wow.

I'm married to an East German, and the Stasi didn't have anything like that level of monitoring.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:32 | 5361217 Peter Pan
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The problem is that old habits die hard, so the question is whether your spouse has YOU under surveillance.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:49 | 5361669 Parrotile
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You may safely bet on it mate - "Happy Wife, Happy Life".

(Madame ALWAYS knows!!)

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:54 | 5361048 RockRiver
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Fucking depressing is what it is....

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:54 | 5361049 kchrisc
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To paraphrase:

You cannot keep the American people under your thumb forever, as there is are enough rifles for one behind every blade of grass.

An American rifle owner, not US subject.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:07 | 5361093 TeamDepends
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That is the one battle where they lost decisively. Gun control! It's called the Second Amendment.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:15 | 5361737 kchrisc
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Actually the 9th. and 10th. carry even more weight. Especially the 9th.

9th.: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. 

10th.: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

That is why the neo-cons are quietly putting together a Constitutional convention. They are going to use abortion, "gay rights," "illegals," and other "issues," to gut the Constitution.

Watch for it.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/indiana-senate-lead...

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2014/06/13/long-...

An American, not US subject.

 

"All those for government control of others are going to find themselves under government control."

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:35 | 5361794 pods
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The 9th is one that most everyone forgets.  Especially when someone states "you have no right to".......

I have any and all rights I declare, according to the constitution.

I was reading a Federalist paper, ironically penned by Hamilton, AGAINST the BOR.  What was stated was that the enumeration of certain rights would appear that the rights of the people were in fact limited by the document that was merely a limit on the GOVERNMENT. Thus, the need for the 9th amendment. To quote Hamilton:

"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power."

Federalist 84.

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_84.html

Reading these documents is almost like reading about a different civilization. Wait, it is.

pods

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 22:04 | 5361903 kchrisc
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Yup, you subtly make the most important point about the Constitution, and the attached Bill of Rights--the Constitution created a government limited, not a people limited.

We are born with "certain unalienable rights"--Life, Liberty, and Property.

A right, law, to someone Else's Life, Liberty and/or Property is not a right but an abhorrent, and criminal privilege of plunder.

Now a days the government, via propaganda, and "bread and circuses," have many believing that they only derive their rights from government while also maintaining that they also have access to someone else's rights.

And there is the brilliance of their propaganda: One's expectation, or right, to someone else's rights negates everyone's rights, except the government's, of course.

An American, not US subject.

 

"First they came for my Property, and I did not resist. Then they came for my Liberty, and I still did not resist. When they came for my life, I had nothing to resist them with."

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:14 | 5361348 HomersGhost
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What are you going to do with that gun?
Plink little, defenseless animals with it?

You gun thumpers and 2nd amendment flag wavers used to make me laugh.

Now your spurious insanity is just a mantra of straight out spineless simps who worship some document like it is a living god.

No document is worth anything without the balls to back it.

You are a slave and subject to all that entails.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:42 | 5361821 kchrisc
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"What are you going to do with that gun? Plink little, defenseless animals with it? You gun thumpers and 2nd amendment flag wavers used to make me laugh. Now your spurious insanity is just a mantra of straight out spineless simps who worship some document like it is a living god. No document is worth anything without the balls to back it. You are a slave and subject to all that entails."

 

With respect, but freedom and Liberty are a mindset, an attitude. One either wants to be free, or excepts being a slave--a farm animal on their farm pulling their plows, eating their gruel, and going to slaughter at their convenience.

As for balls--I find that mine are bigger when I'm armed with a knife instead of only a fist, and bigger still when armed with a rifle. They become audacious when fighting with like minded free Americans.

I am an American citizen. I am not a US Subject.

 

"For those watching, Liberty was sighted at the Bundy ranch after taking a hiatus after Waco."

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:54 | 5361052 cooperbry
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I wonder if I write to them if they'll give me a copy of mine, or at least show me ?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:16 | 5361122 12ToothAssassin
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Yes.

 

Privacy Act Request

The Privacy Act allows U.S. citizens and lawfully admitted aliens to request information on themselves or another living person.

If you are requesting information about yourself, you must use one of the following options:

Option 1: Use the U.S. Department of Justice Certification of Identity Form DOJ-361. You may submit an attachment listing additional information that may aid in locating responsive records. Please place your name and contact information on the attachment.

Option 2: Following the instructions in U.S. Department of Justice Certification of Identity Form DOJ-361, submit a letter to the FBI, sign your request, and have it notarized or state, “Under penalty of perjury, I hereby declare that I am the person named above and I understand that any falsification of this statement is punishable under the provisions of Title 18, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 1001 by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment of not more than five years, or both; and that requesting or obtaining any record(s) under false pretenses is punishable under the provisions of Title 5, U. S. C., Section 552a(i)(3) as a misdemeanor and by a fine of not more than $5,000.”  

Mail, fax, or e-mail this letter to the following:

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attn: FOI/PA Request
Record/Information Dissemination Section
170 Marcel Drive
Winchester, VA 22602-4843
Fax: (540) 868-4391/4997
E-mail (scanned copy): foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov

For more information:

Identification Record Request

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:15 | 5361728 New World Chaos
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Yes.  I had to request a copy for NZ Immigration in 2007.  Took them over six months.  There was a bugout backlog even then.  

There must be a double-secret shit list which they still won't give you.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 17:55 | 5361056 Seasmoke
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HA 33%…………Must be 89% at ZeroHedge. ………… just enough statists here to keep it below 90%

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:03 | 5361065 JustObserving
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More prisoners than any other country in this world.  More women prisoners than China, Russia and India combined. 250 million arrests in last 20 years.  Cops have stolen more than $2.5 billion in cash from about 63,000 motorists in last decade or so.

Fascism has been masquerading as democracy in the land of the free.  The NSA spies on the Supreme Court, Congress and White House.  The closest you will get to freedom is when you sing "land of the free."

The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”

 

The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html

CBC warns Canadians: US cops will pull you over and steal your money

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/14/cbc-warns-canadians-us-cops-w.html

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:09 | 5361095 Harbanger
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More prisoners than any other country is also because we were printing and could afford to house them.  After a financial collapse and full blown totalitarian state, prisoners will become a burden to the state and most likely be executed like the soviets and chicoms did.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:11 | 5361118 JustObserving
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They are being executed today.  Here is today's news on that:

Hundreds of prison deaths in Florida under investigation


By Matthew MacEgan 
21 October 2014

 

The Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) is under federal and state investigation after a large number of inmates have died under suspicious circumstances in recent months. The share of homicides has increased from 1.4 percent of all deaths in 2001 to 2.1 percent in 2011. More than 200 deaths in the state’s prisons are under investigation.

The most recent victim of the Florida prison system was Latandra Ellington, a 36-year-old mother of four children who was being held in the Lowell Correctional Institution, who died on October 1. Ellington had been placed in solitary confinement in response to complaints from her family that a prison guard had threatened her life. In a letter written under a false name to protect her safety, Ellington revealed to her family that “Sgt. Q,” a guard who obscured his badge when dealing with the inmate, had threatened “to beat me to death and mess me like a dog.” She reported one instance where the unnamed prison guard “[grabbed] his radio and said he was gone bust me in my head with it.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/21/pris-o21.html

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:17 | 5361143 Harbanger
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I'm sure innocent people get executed, but I seriously doubt the state will be paying for any appeals.  Thats a western phenomenon, the non-western world has a different perspective on dealing with crime.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:22 | 5361169 Latitude25
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Poor innocent Latandra never said or did anything wrong.  Those mean guards are criminals.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:23 | 5361763 pods
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And she was also deprived of her rights for a time, hence the state had to become her guardian.

It is not that difficult.  She could have been a murderer, but the state, by incarcerating her, took charge of her safety.

Same for all "criminals."  I use quotes because the vast majority have not actually committed a trespass against another, merely broken one of the state's statutes.

pods

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:22 | 5361749 New World Chaos
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Official executions are so 20th century.  This time around, they will just have the guy with ebola make the sloppy joes.  And with private prisons, "They're not dead if they're still on the books".

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:06 | 5361069 Flagit
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Slightly OT:

Do you ever go back and look at your posts? I'm sure some of you do. Maybe to check for replies or to see how cool you are by the green arrows, or reds in fonestars case.

2wice now, when I get to the little box that asks "Whose comments are you looking for?", there are already words there. Words that I have never typed. Today's anomaly was "alea actaleast".

To me, this makes no sense. It's not even a word or phrase. The closest thing I could find is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est

Am I being hacked? Is this some strange game or a puzzle to be solved? I am not a major player, or any kind of a player at all. I could not be more insignificant. Is the Jigsaw Killer hiding in that ominous van parked down the road?

Has this happened to anyone else?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:11 | 5361111 ebworthen
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I just checked and mine did the same thing - has not before.

It is probably dummy text to prevent robot scripts from trolling the website.

If you hit "apply" with the dummy text nothing happens.  This would prevent a script from hammering the website with useless requests.  Likely an added security feature versus something nefarious.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:19 | 5361150 Flagit
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You would be correct about the text generating no results.

Myth, busted. Good job Scooby-Doo!!

Back to my boring life...

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:23 | 5361374 WillyGroper
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No. I pay attention to certain peoples posts. I've been out & was in the midst of checking 1 person going thru them I did come upon that name. The avatar was colorful. I went back thru the same persons post going thru the each complete thread & alea is gone. You couldn't search, but there was a post in a thread. 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:35 | 5361407 Jadr
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I've noticed that posts only remain searchable for a few months at most.  I think they made a change to the archiving system and posts become archived much sooner than previously.  I have been a member for almost 4 yrs and been reading for about 6.  I don't post a ton but I should have several hundred posts at this point but when I search for my posts only the most recent ones are searchable.

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 09:15 | 5362871 WillyGroper
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Yes, but that post was yesterday.

They stay longer than that.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:57 | 5361476 ebworthen
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Hmmm...you could be right, dummy text gone.

Tyler Durden, you up on this?  Could be monkey business.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 22:43 | 5362011 WillyGroper
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Tylers:

This is weird. I just got another prefilled commentors name.

No posted comments.  

deo vindice

 

Me thinks there's some spooks about.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:13 | 5361125 bunnyswanson
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Stranger than fiction indeed.  A mug shot of a variety of young women including a famous movie star follows me everywhere, with my home town included in the caption. 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:02 | 5361318 WillyGroper
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Yup,

Happened to me today & at least 2 other times.

Same name is a poster here. Yet when I tried to read the comments, there were none.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:27 | 5361387 Flagit
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Que the X-files music.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:06 | 5361080 Everybodys All ...
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It will not matter one iota when the civil war erupts. Make no mistake that's coming sooner or later. They know it. We know it and that's why they need you to hand over your second amendment.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:02 | 5361082 Milton Freewater
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It's a double edge sword for me.  On one hand I don't want to be on their fucking list.  On the other hand i'd be embarrassed if I was not.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:20 | 5361158 IridiumRebel
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If believing in the Constitution and being critical of governmental malfeasance places me on a list so be it. I engage in no criminal activity besides being vocal of policies that are leading to our country's demise. I'm granted that right or at least I was.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:07 | 5361714 pods
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Granted by God or the Creator or by the act of being human.  (just to make sure peeps don't jump on you about who is doing the granting, I know you know)

pods

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:43 | 5361826 rydog1220
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Well between all of my time watching Ron Paul videos to The Federal Reserve and fractional banking and logging onto ZeroHedge I think I have made the list and I also did get suspended once in high school no cops involved so there's a relief 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:04 | 5361086 trader1
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The FBI tracked down three American teenage girls in Germany while they were en route to Syriato join militant groups, a law enforcement official told ABC News today.

The girls, who are from the Denver area, were trying "to fulfill what they believe is some vision that has been put out on a slick media campaign" by radical groups in Syria, including ISIS, the official said.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/american-girls-en-route-syria-tracke...
Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:06 | 5361094 ebworthen
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That "hearts and minds" campaign not going so well, eh?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:18 | 5361131 QQQBall
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phew. glad my tax dollars are being used to chase teenagers across Europe and in supply drops to ISIL. I gotta IRS notice that I botched a TTIN to one IC and they want a redo. Not only is my money flushed; my time is at the whim of whatever .gov wants. When the producers leave or stand-aside, the FSA is gonna be fooked.

cc: FBI, NSA, DHS, Border Patrol, CIA, CDC, LAPD, NHS, etc...

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:38 | 5361231 TheGreatRecovery
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The FBI cannot let three teenage American girls go to Syria on their own but the President can invite thousands of teenage Latin American girls to leave their families and come to the USA on their own.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:07 | 5361329 trulz4lulz
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My fucking brain hurts to all fuck. I need a drink.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:07 | 5361097 Otto Zitte
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May we see the FBI files on the political candidates? With enough leak time before the execution to make informed choices? No blackout over the important bits.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:08 | 5361100 Peter Pan
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Zero tolerance might not be a bad thing as long as it starts at the top end.

Instead, the government practices infinite accommodation at the top end.

I mean, is this an article about the USA or North Korea?

 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:08 | 5361105 Peter Pan
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If one in three Americans are on FBI files does that mean that 2 in 3 do not read Zero Hedge?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:12 | 5361120 QQQBall
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Actually impressive. the remaining 2/3rds should be ashamed

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:13 | 5361127 IridiumRebel
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On October 31, 2013, a total of 35,344 people worked for the FBI, including 13,598 special agents and 21,746 professional staff. Among our employees are 15,296 women, 8,650 minorities, and 1,302 persons with disabilities

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:48 | 5361849 Otto Zitte
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How many Lawyers?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:14 | 5361133 booboo
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Eric Holder said that his greatest regret as Attorney General is not PASSING A MORE RESTRICTIVE GUN LAW.

You don't have a constitution if no one running the show knows how it is suppose to work.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:15 | 5361136 Latitude25
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In my highschool days the male teachers had wooden paddles and would administer swats on the butt as needed.  None of the current problems existed for some odd reason.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:23 | 5361177 FredFlintstone
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My HS assistant principal was a big, mean SOB that would occasionally show up to school with a black eye. I never saw him smile once. Just catching a glimpse of him in the hall would send a shiver down the spine as well as make the hair on your neck raise and your asshole pucker. You did not want to cross him. Our principal on the other hand was a nice old, doddering man. Good cop/bad cop.

Middle school assistant principal was a smaller man, but had bulging biceps. He had a large wooden paddle crafted in shop class. It had holes drilled straight through it that were to reduce drag so that velocity could be maximized. It was also reported that the holes created raised welts on the upper rear of the thighs.

Good days.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:43 | 5361432 PoliticalRefuge...
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.."It had holes drilled straight through it that were to reduce drag so that velocity could be maximized. It was also reported that the holes created raised welts on the upper rear of the thighs"..

ha.. that hung in the principals office in Channing Texas with the words.. 'Board of Education' written on the side, it was quick and efficient discipline.

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 06:14 | 5362555 Boscovius
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In my school, if you were unlucky or foolish enough to get caught at something serious enough, you would be instructed to go to the shop class and fashion your own paddle.  You would bring it back to the principal (who just happened to be the shop teacher) and he would instruct you as to how to refine it and perfect it for it's ultimate use.  Yes, we put holes in them too.  I remember the feeling of the back of my eyeballs burning when he used it on me. 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:15 | 5361543 booboo
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My gym teacher in Jr High had a paddle named "Charlie" with them damn holes. They leave little round red hickies on your ass cheek and I spent a few days admiring mine.

The red badge of stupidity.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 23:47 | 5362173 Dragon HAwk
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My Dad had one of those but he was humane, it mas made out of pine so it would break...

many a time I went down into the Cellar and saw that darn paddle sitting up in the Vise getting glued back together..

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:19 | 5361563 roadhazard
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Madison County in WNC JUST this week stopped using the paddle as punishment. There goes the neighborhood.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:16 | 5361741 pods
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"In my highschool days the male teachers had wooden paddles and would administer swats on the butt as needed.  None of the current problems existed for some odd reason."

I'm sure it was because a representative of the state was allowed to beat kids and the parents were too damn stuck in the "USA #1" meme to realize the were preparing their kids to have kids who saw no problem with the state lording over them.

pods

 

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 00:47 | 5362296 hardcleareye
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Yeah and if you were stupid enough to get in "serious shit" at school, chances were good when you got home you were in for another ass whippin....  lol..... 

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:18 | 5361148 Captain Willard
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So 26% with a police record graduated in Chicago versus 64% who didn't have a record? Am I supposed to feel good about the 64% figure?

Vouchers. School Choice. Parental Involvement. Charter Schools. Freedom. Smaller government. Citizens, not subjects.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:19 | 5361149 your_moms_basement
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Better than being blacklisted from Hop Sing's.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:04 | 5361323 Silver Bullet
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You named names!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:27 | 5361175 I Write Code
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The files with the ZH sticker are the bestest.

I hope they include that "Road Kill T-Shirts" babe in pink in my folder.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:15 | 5361188 Son of Captain Nemo
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Us and Them!

Future Obama quote:

You're doin a helluva job Klain-ie!...  You fucking talmudic Ashken-nazi genocidal piece of smelliest shit!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:29 | 5361194 Gringo Viejo
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I've been bitchin' about the US government since 1969. I tell anybody that'll listen that Obama's a muslim. Hmmmm. Wonder if I got a file?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:30 | 5361215 BeerMe
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Scarier than this...We are all on file with the IRS.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:37 | 5361228 DonGenaro
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I've seen my file:

"Note 1: Guy thinks we're major dicks".

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 18:41 | 5361253 TheGreatRecovery
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I think this may be one reason many Americans are taking their kids out of the public schools and putting them into private "charter" schools.

Also, I believe this is a good example of why it is so important to vote, especially for School Board candidates.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:11 | 5361344 NoWayJose
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If the FBI is tracking 1 out of every 3 Americans, that must mean that 2 out of every 3 Americans are NOT ZHers!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:32 | 5361400 Yen Cross
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   The FarceBI couldn't even keep track of two clowns carrying "pressure cookers"... What makes you think they can keep track of 1/3 of the USSA?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:44 | 5361656 Overfed
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They just need more money and leeway....

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:32 | 5361402 robnume
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This is one time I'm proud to be on a list along with all my other ZH buddies. We're a community here. We reserve the right to say what we want, when we want, about whom we want. Fuck you, FBI. You're the treasonous ones in this country!

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:45 | 5361440 Honey Badger
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School resource officers are the biggest pieces of fucking shit in all of law enforcement...and that is saying something.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:19 | 5361746 pods
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The "state is god" meme is failing so force must be applied earlier and earlier.

pods

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 09:16 | 5362875 CoolBeans
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Glorified hall moniters...with badges and handcuffs.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:54 | 5361467 The_Dude
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Just wanted to throw this out for thought....

The anecdotal story of Kiera Wilmot, her little science experiment, and her mom defending her is complete bullshit.  I have made these cute little explosives before in a previous life.  They aren't intended to hurt but make a nice bang for effect.  

The point is the girl knew what it was, knew it was stupid and irresponsible and she would have to be semi-retarded to do it at school.  Her mom, like so many today, can't bear the thought of her little princess owning responsibility for her stupidity and instead decided to get involved in the lie and probably bring lawyers into it.

There are plenty of stories of GUV overreach....Mike, you should find a different one.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:50 | 5361670 Overfed
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Detention or ISS would have been plenty adequate. Calling the cops was a pure chickenshit move, and the cops actually charging her was even more chickenshit.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 21:10 | 5361713 The_Dude
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Agreed...but schools have all adopted zero tolerance and essentially outsourcing discipline due to....fear of lawyers....and now just call the cops for pretty much anything.  And cops rarely use discretion any longer and just throw charges so they don't get seen as having preferential treatment....and let the lawyers and D.A.s sort it out....who wins again??!!  Lawyers...

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 00:42 | 5362293 hardcleareye
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Bullshit!!!!!Bullshit!!!!  BULLSHIT!!!!!

 

With respect to the school adminstration, teachers and cops (which one of the three are you????)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'

 

And....... with respect to most Americanx....

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Wed, 10/22/2014 - 01:45 | 5362362 The_Dude
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Chill Grasshopper.... did I say one thing about supporting gov snooping or control.... the only point I made was the anecdote was horrible and fear of litigation drives bad outcomes because no one in this county uses their common sense anymore....  should I ask if you are a lawyer?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:11 | 5361526 roadhazard
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They can add another, FUCK YOU, GESTAPO to my file.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:27 | 5361597 Skip
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These guys ARE NOT radical pro-Whites which is what the Nazis were these are more like the CHEKA or the NKVD

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:11 | 5361532 cheech_wizard
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An emp over Washington DC is probably this country's only hope... Maybe I can crowdsource the funds.

Note to FBI: I'm rather sure I was already on your list.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:12 | 5361536 shovelhead
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I joined the New Black Panthers.

Eric Holder had them close my file.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:15 | 5361546 Skip
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Sometimes I wonder if these government employees who are white ever stop and think about what they are helping to create?

Second Immigration Wave Lifts Diversity to Record High

COLLISION OF CULTURES, LANGUAGES AND POLITICS POSES PERILS AND PROMISES
Small metro areas such as Lumberton, N.C., and Yakima, Wash., and even remote towns and counties — such as Finney County, Kan., or Buena Vista County, Iowa — have seen a stunning surge in immigrants, making those places far more diverse.

Students witness the changing face of the country firsthand: Public schools began the 2014-15 school year with an unprecedented profile: For the first time, non-Hispanic white students are in the minority, according to Education Department projections.

While this second wave brings tensions and battles over school districts, religion, public spaces, law enforcement and affordable housing, it also brings new energy: The immigrants have higher birth rates, ensuring a steady supply of workers for future generations. They bring new role models, new foods and traditions, new sports, a tremendous entrepreneurial energy and, perhaps most significantly, intact, religiously devout families that place a heavy emphasis on education.

In other words, true Americans.

Needless to say it is a tribal member, name of FREY cheering this on, but NOT in Israel of course.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:17 | 5361552 himaroid
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First one to the top of the list wins.

Oops, sorry I'm already there.

The prize?

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 20:21 | 5361572 roadhazard
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Beheading

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 22:02 | 5361886 22winmag
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Don't kid yourself. Armed citizens still rule the block. Even with the sorry state of America today, never in the brief history of modern day police states has the citizenry been so well armed and informed. 

 

 

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