Category: Corruption Corner

They’re Not Even Trying to Hide the Police State Anymore

Thor in fucking Valhalla… the government isn’t even attempting to hide the fact that this entire country has turned into a damned police state. First an Indiana court ruled that peasents have no right to resist unlawful police entry and now the Supreme Court has ruled that police may use any noise inside a home as probably cause that evidence is being destroy:

The justices in an 8-1 decision said officers who loudly knock on a door and then hear sounds suggesting evidence is being destroyed may break down the door and enter without a search warrant.

Residents who “attempt to destroy evidence have only themselves to blame” when police burst in, said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

So what kinds of sounds could suggest evidence is being destroy? Well if an officer can articulate his reasoning why the sound of that vacuum cleaner made him believe evidence was being destroyed a door breaking they may go. At least there was one dissenter in the Supreme Court:

In a lone dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she feared the ruling in a Kentucky case will give police an easy way to ignore the 4th Amendment. “Police officers may not knock, listen and then break the door down,” she said, without violating the 4th Amendment.

I’m not sure if you’ve been alerted to this face Justice Ginsburg but the 4th Amendment is dead and buried. The police no longer need a warrant to enter your home, they simply need to hear noises that may possibly mean evidence of some sort is being destroyed. Basically this ruling is the government giving a huge middle finger and telling you to bend over and get ready for a collapsible baton up the ass.

Welcome to the United Police State of America. Feel free to do whatever you want since everything is illegal. Seriously though fuck the state.

Resistance is Futile

I’ve mentioned several times on this blog that I believe a conflict of interest exist in our legal system. Namely the government controls the courts and the police thus the courts generally have a bias towards believing police officers. How far does that bias go though? In Indiana it goes pretty fucking far:

Citizens have “no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry [to their homes] by police officers,” Indiana’s Supreme Court declared May 12 in a controversial 3-2 decision, Richard L. Barnes v. Indiana.

Justice Steven David wrote for the court in the decision that “this Court is faced for the first time with the question of whether Indiana should recognize the common-law right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers. We conclude that public policy disfavors any such right.”

There you have it ladies and gentlemen, if the police are acting outside of their government granted authority you have no right to protect yourself against their actions. Just think about that for a minute and let it sink in. If a police officer unlawfully enters your home and attempts to cause physical harm to you it is illegal for you to fight back in Indiana. I just shook my head when I read this bucket of statis bullshit:

Justice David concluded: “We believe however that a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Nowadays, an aggrieved arrestee has means unavailable at common law for redress against unlawful police action.” Specifically, Justice David found not that anyone had amended the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or that the legislature had passed any new laws, but rather that Americans are the beneficiaries of “modern developments” that include: “(1) bail, (2) prompt arraignment and determination of probable cause, (3) the exclusionary rule, (4) police department internal review and disciplinary procedure, and (5) civil remedies.”

Wow… just wow. Basically this guy has said you must submit to unlawful police actions because you have options available to you that apparently didn’t exist back when the Bill of Rights was ratified. Options including (1) pay the state to allow you to leave jail knowing you’ll never be reimbursed that bail money should you be found innocent, (2) hope that the courts will decide to side with you instead of the police in regards to determining if the arrest was lawful, (3) hope that the courts will find evidence unusable, (4) hope a conflict of interest doesn’t exist when the police department tries to determine the lawful nature of one of their officer’s actions, and (5) hope the government courts will allow you to sue the government for their wrongful actions.

Those options are not valid reasons to force people to submit to the will of a police officer executing a wrongful entry into a home. The article also points out the fact that the file options listed by David have been violated by the government before (not surprising at all).

So the state ruled that you can’t resist the state when the state is performing unlawful actions against your person. Yeah that doesn’t simply reek of conflict of interest or anything.

Documents Released Showing 150 Gitmo Detainees Are Believed to be Innocent

What happens when a government is granted the ability to hold prisoners indefinably without charges or trial? You get innocent people held in a prison, that’s what. Documents uncovered by Wikileaks have revealed the United States government believes many prisoners held in Gitmo are actually innocent:

Files obtained by the website Wikileaks have revealed that the US believed many of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives.

The files, published in US and European newspapers, are assessments of all 780 people ever held at the facility.

They show that about 220 were classed as dangerous terrorists, but 150 were innocent Afghans and Pakistanis.

You got that? 150 people people held in Gitmo are presumed to be innocent bystanders by the government of the United States. Oh and this is just a classy line by our benevolent Lords:

The Pentagon said the files’ release could damage anti-terrorism efforts.

By “damage anti-terrorism efforts” they really mean embarrass the Hell out of us. This also makes an excellent case for working hard to protect our rights from government intrusion.

ATF Trying to Cover Up Their Gun Smuggling Efforts

When you are given the power to enforce laws it’s often the case you will come to the understanding that you are above the law. Apparently this is what the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) think as they have been blowing off requests for information on their little gun smuggling effort:

Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is not a happy man. He is not happy because the Department of Justice and the Acting Director of ATF, Kenneth Melson, are continuing to blow off the requests for documents related to Operation Fast and Furious (aka Project Gunwalker). This is in the face of a supoena requesting documents issued by the Committee.

Rep. Issa is so unhappy that he is threatening to have Melson cited for Contempt of Congress according to a letter released this morning.

I’m not surprised by this turn of events. The ATF was caught doing something illegal, something they were charged with stopping. Now that people are wondering what the Hell the ATF was thinking they agency is trying to sweep the entire situation under the rug.

White House Tried to Stop S&P from Downgrading the Country’s Credit Rating

Standard and Poor’s (S&P) recently downgraded the United State’s long term credit rating to “negative.” This isn’t surprising really as the United States government keeps spending more and more money which only leads us to spiral into deeper debt. It’s kind of like a person who has a maxed out credit card, makes the minimum interest payments, but their credit limit keeps getting extended and they keep increasing the amount on the card.

Well the White House wasn’t too happy with the downgrade and it seems they tried to stop S&P from downgrading the country’s credit rating:

Even though the White House has publicly downplayed the credit warning issued Monday from a leading agency, Obama administration officials were privately trying in recent weeks to convince Standard & Poor’s not to lower its outlook for U.S. debt from “stable” to “negative,” Fox News has confirmed.

I guess the White House found out that they can’t make secret deals with everybody.

Interior Design is Serious Business

I didn’t realize interior design was such a serious business. Did you know that Florida, Nevada, and Louisiana require a state license to practice interior design. That seems like pointless licensure requirements if I’ve ever heard of them. It seems as though Florida is getting smart about this and are moving to deregulate the interior design market but abolishing the need to get a state license in order to work as an interior designer.

As with any government protected cartel the interior designers are fighting back with some very interesting claims. My favorite on? That improper interior would contribute to 88,000 deaths every year. How did they come to that number? No idea but it sure sounds scary if not completely far fetched. Maybe all those deaths come from people not having enough “zen” in their living room because a couch is 0.05cm too far to the left.

Government licensure is nothing more than a means of creating cartels. In order to protect themselves from competition people working in a specific field will make up a reason why there needs to be a requirement for government oversight and licensure of their field. This creates a barrier against entry for new employees and thus reduces the potential competition they may be facing. These licenses usually carry an arbitrary number of pointless restrictions that make the barrier to entry even higher.

Don’t Perform Criminal Acts for the State

If you are approached by the State to perform illegal acts for them don’t do it. When you’re finally caught they will ignore you and allow prosecution to be brought against you. That seems to be the problem Albert Gonzalez is now facing. He’s been found guilty of creating one big ass credit card heist and has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The problem? His actions were likely authorized by the United States government:

The government has acknowledged that Gonzalez was a key undercover Secret Service informant at the time of the breaches. Now, in a March 24 habeas corpus petition filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, Gonzalez asserts that the Secret Service authorized him to commit the crimes.

“I still believe that I was acting on behalf of the United States Secret Service and that I was authorized and directed to engage in the conduct I committed as part of my assignment to gather intelligence and seek out international cyber criminals,” he wrote. “I now know and understand that I have been used as a scapegoat to cover someone’s mistakes.”

Good luck to you Mr. Gonzalez. The United States government has a long and proud history of leaving those who’ve helped them behind. It’s likely that if what Mr. Gonzalez claims is true the government will disavow any knowledge and let you rot in prison for 20 years. This should go as a lesson to everybody else though, don’t perform acts that are illegal in the United States for the government of said United States. Government agents are pricks and spend more time covering their own asses then doing any real work. Part of covering their asses involves finding other people to take the heat for the illegal acts they’ve committed.

The Real Reason Behind United Nations Involvement in Libya

Prepare yourself to have your personal beliefs rocked to the core forcing you to question all you know about reality. It seems the real reason the United Nations has gotten involved in helping the Libyan rebels has finally been unveiled:

The first export of oil from rebel-held areas of eastern Libya for almost three weeks is due to begin later.

Libya’s opposition groups are making plans to load a tanker believed to have now docked at a terminal near Tobruk.

Oil. Are you surprised? I didn’t think so. Nobody in the United Nations gave two shits about the rebels. If that were the case they would also have forces entering Syria now that the government is killing protesters.

You Know That Conflict of Interest I Periodically Mention

I often talk about a conflict of interest the exists by having one branch of the government determine the validity of the action another branch takes. The idea of having the same organization both perform actions and watchdog itself doesn’t fly anywhere else but somehow we’re willing to accept it when such action is taken by government. It would seem that I’ve found an example of this:

A bitterly divided Supreme Court tossed out a jury verdict Tuesday won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on Death Row and came within weeks of execution because prosecutors had hidden a blood test and other evidence that would have proven his innocence.

The 5-4 decision delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas shielded the New Orleans District Attorney’s office from being held liable for the mistakes of its prosecutors. The evidence of their misconduct did not prove “deliberate indifference” on the part of then-District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., Thomas said.

How’s that for the government protecting it’s own? An innocent man spent 14 years on death row because a prosecute concealed evidence that would have acquitted the man. Instead of holding the District Attorney’s office liable for the actions taken by one of its members the Supreme Court decided to shield the office from any accountability.

This is about as disgusting as it gets ladies and gentlemen. When a government office can’t be held responsible for taking 14 years of a man’s life because of direct actions taken by one of its members then there is no recourse. Then again what can be expected from entities that have officers that shoot an innocent person and give that office nothing harsher than paid administrative leave?

The land of the free is become less so every day.

More Government Stealing Shit

Need an increase in your blood pressure this morning? Well I think I can oblige you with a video of the Delaware Department of Transpiration stealing more private property:

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Yes they not only ripped out a basketball hoop that’s been there for 60 years but then they stole it after telling the owner he could keep his property. I hope this man gets some justice but being the justice is doled by the ones stealing property I highly doubt it.