Ex-Cop May Face Taser Death Charges

This is a follow up on NowPublic Member Glc3 's post found here I read this story as I would any other but what is sad are the comments left under the CBS story highlighted here. Everyone blaming others once again. I believe, and this is only my opinion, that we all need to...

IDF Continues Passing the Buck

In a previous post I wrote about the case of Lieutenant Colonel Omri Fruberg, who was accused of ordering an IDF soldier under his command to open fire on a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner. In more...

10 Year old boy Arrested For Defending Self... With Pea Shooter

You can watch a news coverage of this here.In my opinion, this is a story of what goes around comes back around. No I am not quoting from Justin Timberlake's song, but the bullies had it coming when they constantly...

British women face jail after drunken rampage on jumbo jet

British travellers overseas are continuing to make their country proud, with two girls getting so drunk on a flight from Greece to Manchester that they tried to open the plane door during flight. They had to be wrestled to the ground and handcuffed. The incident is just a...

Polygraph Simultaneously Clears and Clouds the Issue

The IDF soldier that was filmed shooting a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian protester in the foot was released back to his unit after asserting that his commanding officer ordered him to open fire. The officer,...

Camera Captures More IDF Abuse

Several weeks ago, I went to a protest in Bil'in. This small West Bank village organizes protests every Friday against the wall that separates them from their land, their families, and their basic necessities. Bil'in...

Hundreds swept up in mortgage fraud arrests

"By LARA JAKES JORDAN and ALAN ZIBEL, Associated Press WriterThursday, June 19, 2008""WASHINGTON (AP) --More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March — including dozens over the last two days — in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of...

Not-so-free-press: Andrew Mwenda (and others) arrested

"“We think the government is not happy with a story The Independent published in a recent issue exposing atrocities committed by government forces during the war.” — Bob Kasango, legal counsel for The IndependentFrom Reuters:"“Ugandan security forces on Saturday...
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Pilot restrained after yelling to God on flight

"The co-pilot of a Heathrow-bound passenger flight had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit after suffering a mental breakdown 30,000ft over the Atlantic.The co-pilot then had his wrists and ankles bound in front...

Icelandic Tourist Chained and Detained in Holding Cell at JFK

I first read about this story on Boing Boing. From there I found a link about it on MSN, which describes primarily the fact that the Icelandic government has now asked for an explanation, but the really shocking...

Fugitive Democratic Fundraiser Turns Self in to Police

 I thought it was only Repubulicans who were the party of corruption weren't they? "REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a...

Malaysia fails to show quality of high Malay civilization

Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) - Malaysia`s refusal to apologize for the torture incident of Indonesian karate referee Donald Peter Luther Kolopita by four Malaysian police last week does not reflect the quality of high...

Woman Charged For Sodomising Lover

"A Perth woman will go to trial next year accused of handcuffing her soldier lover to a chair and sodomising him with a sex toy in an alleged hour-long sex attack. Nicola Clunies-Ross, 19, allegedly lured the Darwin-based soldier, also 19, to her East Perth home on October...

Darth Vader Arrested on Weapons Charges

This story starts out funny, but turns creepy: blasters are fictional weapons, so the Darth impersonator surely should not be charged with possessing an "unregistered firearm": how could Darth have registered it?...

Cracking Down on Jaywalking Historians

"Police say a British historian was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and jailed because he refused to obey a uniformed officer's order to use a crosswalk and wouldn't show identification. The historian says he had no idea the upset young man was a police officer. "Where I'm...

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