The Radical Libertarian

Vermin Supreme

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:34:00 +0000

An old campaign video from 2008. And yes, he is running again in 2012.

Hawai'i Independence

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:38:00 +0000

I have always supported a Hawai'i that is free from US occupation, and after recently taking a trip to Oahu, my interest in the Sovereign Hawai'i movement has been given a bump.

So I found a video on YouTube about the history of Hawai'i and its relationship with its US occupiers. It was uploaded to YouTube fairly recently, and I'm wondering if the Hawai'i independence movement is perhaps gaining more interest. I hope it is.

Charlie Chaplin: "Let Us Fight!"

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:43:00 +0000

Milgrim Experiment

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Complying With Police Orders = Get Arrested

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:14:00 +0000

Horrible video, but I love how at 1:02 a voice cries out, "Fuck you, pigs!"

Arnie Gundersen: Fukushima Update

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:31:00 +0000

Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates gives an update on the Fukushima disaster, along with a devastating analysis.

Paying China

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:32:00 +0000

Peter Schiff talking about the USA paying back China. Schiff is widely credited with predicting the economic collapse of 2008, among other things.

Party Rock Pyongyang

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:20:00 +0000

Terrorist Identification Chart

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:19:00 +0000

Agenda of Peace

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:41:00 +0000

"I want to show taxpayers in the Western world what their tax money is doing to people in another part of the world: killing civilians, innocent victims, children."

Anti-Piracy Ad Gets Ridiculed

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:16:00 +0000

I have no idea if TheAmazingAtheist is for or against intellectual property rights (I'm not), but he brilliantly takes down this piece of US government anti-piracy propaganda.

Police Brutality

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:39:00 +0000

I can't tell if this is from Egypt or Oakland

The New America

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:17:00 +0000

OWS Raid Set to Sinatra

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:56:00 +0000

Why TheAmazingAtheist Hates Cops

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:21:00 +0000

Al Jazeera: The Men Who Crashed The World

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:38:00 +0000

Nato Terrorism Against Libya

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:56:00 +0000

Inept Government Begs People to Pay Tickets

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:02:00 +0000

This article is pure hilarity:

If you have an unpaid traffic ticket that's been gathering dust for three years or more, the state has a deal for you: Pay up during the first six months of 2012, and get 50 percent off.

The one-time discount, authorized by a new state law, is designed to help both delinquent drivers and financially strapped state and local governments.

Yeah, I don't think that this discount will "help" victims of ticketing, since they clearly aren't being persecuted or suffering much when not paying the fines.

This seems like a classic case of the government biting off more than it can chew. It overcriminalizes but then cannot enforce, and now it is literally on its knees, begging for its victims to let it suck their blood, offering what it laughably considers to be an incentive: 50% off.

Epic California fail. I hope nobody takes advantage of this bullshit offer. I hope the police's ability to enforce these fines further erodes, and I hope that the state declares bankruptcy soon. Choke on your own fat, California!

Imagine

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:47:00 +0000

How to Escape Zip Ties

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:13:00 +0000

For all you Occupy Wall Street folks:

Pigs and Pepper Spray

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:32:00 +0000

US Government Terrorizes Guitar Manufacturer

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Stay classy, government...

FBI Organizes Almost All Terror Plots in the US

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:14:00 +0000

Are you surprised? I'm not.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975.

If you think that’s a few spies too many – spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment – one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible for an overwhelming amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major domestic catastrophes in the vein of 9/11 from happening on American soil.

Another thing those agents are responsible for, however, is plotting those very schemes.

The FBI has in recent years used trained informants not just to snitch on suspected terrorists, but to set them up from the get-go. A recent report put together by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley analyses some striking statistics about the role of FBI informants in terrorism cases that the Bureau has targeted in the decade since the September 11 attacks.

The report reveals that the FBI regularly infiltrates communities where they suspect terrorist-minded individuals to be engaging with others. Regardless of their intentions, agents are sent in to converse within the community, find suspects that could potentially carry out “lone wolf” attacks and then, more or less, encourage them to do so. By providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage otherwise-unwilling participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to bust them before any events fully materialize.

Additionally, one former high-level FBI officials speaking to Mother Jones says that, for every informant officially employed by the bureau, up to three unofficial agents are working undercover.

The FBI has used those informants to set-up and thus shut-down several of the more high profile would-be attacks in recent years. The report reveals that the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York City subway plot, the attempt to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and dozens more were all orchestrated by FBI agents. In fact, reads the report, only three of the more well-known terror plots of the last decade weren’t orchestrated by FBI-involved agents.

The report reveals that in many of the stings, important meetings between informants and the unknowing participants are left purposely unrecorded, as to avoid any entrapment charges that could cause the case to be dismissed. Perhaps the most high-profile of the FBI-proposed plots was the case of the Newburgh 4. Around an hour outside of New York City, an informant infiltrated a Muslim community and engaged four local men to carry out a series of attacks. Those men may have never actually carried out an attack, but once the informant offered them a plot and a pair of missiles, they agreed. Defense attorneys cried “entrapment,” but the men still were sentenced to 25 years apiece.

"The problem with the cases we're talking about is that defendants would not have done anything if not kicked in the ass by government agents," Martin Stolar tells Mother Jones. Stolar represented the suspect involved in a New York City bombing plot that was set-up by FBI agents. "They're creating crimes to solve crimes so they can claim a victory in the war on terror." For their part, the FBI says this method is a plan for "preemption," "prevention" and "disruption."

The report also reveals that, of the 500-plus prosecutions of terrorism-related cases they analyzed, nearly half of them involved the use of informants, many of whom worked for the FBI in exchange for money or to work off criminal charges. Of the 158 prosecutions carried out, 49 defendants participated in plots that agent provocateurs arranged on behalf of the FBI.

Experts note that the chance of winning a terrorism-related trial, entrapment or not, is near impossible. "The plots people are accused of being part of – attacking subway systems or trying to bomb a building – are so frightening that they can overwhelm a jury," David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor, tells Mother Jones. Since 9/11, almost two-thirds of the cases linked to terrorism have ended with guilty pleas. “They don't say, 'I've been entrapped,' or, 'I was immature,’” a retired FBI official remarks.

All of this and those guilty pleas often stem for just being in the right place at the wrong time. Farhana Khera of the group Muslim Advocate notes that agents go into mosques on “fishing expeditions” just to see where they can get interest in the community. "The FBI is now telling agents they can go into houses of worship without probable cause," says Khera. "That raises serious constitutional issues."

From the set-up to the big finish, the whole sting operation is ripe with constitutional issues such as that. A decade since 9/11, however, the FBI is reaching through whatever means it can pull together to keep terrorists – or whom they think could someday become one – from ever hurting America.

Reprinted with permission from Russia Today.

West Ender Pwns Reporter

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:05:00 +0000

Breath Tests Worthless Says Cop

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Kinney) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:36:00 +0000

I knew it!

HELENA — A Billings police officer on trial in Helena for driving with an elevated alcohol level attacked the breath-testing technology used by the state, and emerged without a conviction on the charge after her trial ended Friday with a hung jury.

The four-man, two-woman jury convicted Samantha Puckett of speeding but failed to reach agreement on the DUI per se charge. Municipal Judge Bob Wood declared a mistrial and Deputy City Attorney Thomas Jodoin said it was too early to decide whether the city would retry the case.

Puckett’s attorney, Bradley Finn, said Puckett has been working at her job as a police officer since a brief period of administrative leave after her arrest in the early hours of Dec. 10.

Billings Police officials did not return calls inquiring about Puckett’s employment status, and a person at the city’s Human Resources Department said that department would not comment.

Helena police say they measured Samantha Puckett’s breath-alcohol content above .10 percent that night, exceeding the legal limit for driving of .08 percent.

But Paul Miranda, an expert witness for Puckett, testified that the analysis could be flawed.

Miranda, who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Montana and works as a senior metallurgist for Idaho-based Thompson Creek Mining Co., has had some training related to breath-testing and has previously testified as an expert witness about eight or 10 times, he said.

He argued that the test results could vary due to elevation, the body temperature of the person blowing, and other factors. Based on those variables, and after viewing police video of Puckett performing well in two of the three field sobriety tests, Miranda said he believed Puckett was below the legal maximum.

Jodoin questioned whether the chemist had any training in analysis of field sobriety tests. Miranda said he hadn’t, but he’s previously had a few beers with buddies and knows when they’re intoxicated. As an example, he said his sister-in-law, once at a bachelorette party, fell off a stage while singing after drinking all night, and hit her head. “I’m pretty sure she’s above a .08,” he said.

The incident began when Helena Police Department Cpl. Jason Zander, on patrol by the intersection of North Montana Avenue and Cedar Street, saw and heard Puckett’s SUV speeding southbound, according to his testimony Thursday. By driving his patrol car at about the same speed as the SUV, Zander estimated the car was driving about 45 mph in a 30 mph speed zone, and he pulled it over.

Zander, a nine-year Helena Police veteran who trains other officers on conducting field sobriety testing, testified that he smelled alcohol in the car. Puckett performed well on two of the field sobriety tests and initially said she had two beers that evening. Later, she said she had consumed four beers in three different bars, and only eaten beef jerky and a protein bar that evening.

During the required 20-minute period between the traffic stop and the breath analysis (to ensure that any alcohol left in the mouth is able to dissipate), Zander and Puckett chatted about police officers they both knew and other police-related matters including the funeral a few days earlier of David DeLaittre, the Montana Highway Patrolman who was killed during a traffic stop.

“It’s a bad situation for me, too,” Zander said on the video just before arresting Puckett. “This is the last thing I want to do.”

After viewing the results of a second breath test at the detention center, she was asked on video whether she was under the influence of alcohol.

“Obviously, yes,” she said.

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_897c390b-334f-5a93-bc9c-cf8ae948f016.html#ixzz1TjkxtB6G