American college student harassed by TSA for having Arabic flash cards
Nicholas George, a U.S. citizen from Pennsylvania, was on his way back to college when airport security officers found him carrying English-Arabic flashcards. The Transportation Security Administration questioned him, and a TSA supervisor asked him how he felt about the September 11 attacks, whether he knew “who did 9/11,” and whether he knew what language Osama bin Laden spoke. He was handcuffed and left in a locked cell for two hours before being “abusively” interrogated by two FBI agents, but was never told why he was being detained.
This type of pathetic stupidity, of course, is completely unsurprising from the TSA, being one of Americaís most embarrassing boondoggles since Prohibition.
Public school spies on its students using laptop cameras. Sci-fi? Nope!
12 year old handcuffed and arrested for doodling on desk.
Twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez scribbled “Lex was here 2/1/10″ on her desk at an NYC middle school. She also wrote “I love my friends Abby and Faith.” They were done in marker and could have easily been erased. When her “vandalism” was discovered, a goon in uniform handcuffed her and hauled her to a police station where she was detained for several hours. Gonzalez has been assigned eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay on what she’s learned from the experience.
From J: It’s a good thing I didn’t go to school around there. I remember boring holes in my desk with scissors. Why? Because school is unstimulating and meant to stifle the mind. Change that and kids won’t be defacing their desks. But that would require someone in the government to have a brain.
Man convicted of DUI for sleeping at the wheel of his non-functional car.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota on January 1, 2010 upheld the drunk driving conviction of a man caught asleep behind the wheel of a vehicle that would not start. On June 11, 2007, police found Daryl Fleck sleeping in his own legally parked car in his apartment complex parking lot. The vehicle’s engine was cold to the touch, indicating it had not been driven recently and the keys were in the center console, not the ignition. The police arrested him, and his blood alcohol level was found to be .18. A few weeks after Fleck’s vehicle was impounded, a police officer tested the vehicle using the keys found in the car’s center console. It was determined the vehicle could not even start.
Thus, Daryl Fleck was convicted by the highest court in Minnesota of a crime he had not committed – drunk driving – and in fact, a crime he could not commit! Now that’s some dumb ass government.
Judge Tommy Munoz forcing your children to carry GPS trackers if they don’t go to school like they’re told to.
Judge Tommy Munoz
In Bryan, TX, Justice of the Peace Tommy Munoz is implementing a new strategy for punishing “truants” (aka people who don’t do what the government orders them to do) – forcing them to carry GPS devices at all times.
Says Munoz, “If your son or daughter does not want to get up and go to school, you call my office and I will send the constable to go get them out of bed and bring them to school. Is this intended to embarrass you? Yes it is, because the law says they need to be in school and if they don’t want to get up, well we’re going to get them there.”
To add insult to injury, the parents of the kid who did not go to school are forced to pay court costs. Maybe they should focus more on making school actually stimulating for youths rather than punishing them when they react to the general lousiness of public schools. Nah… that would entail creativity and excellence.
Thanks Genevieve!
Woman ordered confined to hospital bed by judge “for the sake of the child”. Child dies anyway (or possibly as a result).
In Tallahassee, FL, Samantha Burton was 25 weeks pregnant and showing signs of a potential miscarriage. Her doctor advised her to go on bed rest for as long as 15 weeks. This was not practical for Ms. Burton as she had two toddlers and a job. She planned on getting a second opinion, but before she could, the doctor informed the state government which had the Circuit Court of Leon County get involved.
By the judge’s order, she was ordered to stay bedridden at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital undergoing any and all tests recommended by her doctor. She requested a change of hospital but was denied, being told by court buffoons that “such a change is not in the child’s best interest at this time.” After three days of hospitalization, she had to undergo an emergency C-section and the fetus was found dead.
So much for the sovereignty of the human body.
Thanks Luke!
Anyone with the name of the doctor, please send it in for free merchandise.
School evacuated over science project mistaken for a bomb.
On Jan 15th 2010, a “concerned vice principal” prompted the evacuation of Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in San Diego. The reason? A student’s science project resembled a bomb. An arson team took photos and X-rays of the empty plastic bottle with wires and determined it was harmless. The mysterious device was in fact a home-built motion detector. The culture of irrational hysteria being promoted by school functionaries is nothing new, but this is still amazing in its stupidity.
Soldier charged with child pornography for picture of a little girl in a bathing suit.
Spec. Billy Miller of Galesburg, IL is being charged by the U.S. Army with possession of child pornography and faces 10 years in prison along with the other inevitable consequences of sex offender status. His crime? He received in the mail a photograph of a 4 year old girl, a relative, in a swimsuit. The soldier had become close to the girl after she was diagnosed with a serious illness.
Cop pulls gun on law-abiding citizen for carrying a licensed firearm. Incompetent courts throw out citizen’s lawsuit.
- Greg Schubert, a lawyer and licensed firearm owner, was walking in a high crime area of had a pistol concealed under his suit coat, and Mr. Schubert was walking in what the court described as a “high crime area” of Atlanta.
- At some point police officer, J.B. Stern caught a glimpse of the attorney’s pistol, and he leapt out of his patrol car “in a dynamic and explosive manner” with his gun drawn, pointing it at the attorney’s face.
- Officer Stern “executed a pat-frisk,” and Mr. Schubert produced his license to carry a concealed weapon.
- Schubert was disarmed and ordered to stand in front of the patrol car in the hot sun. Eventually, the officer locked him in the back seat of the police car and started to lecture the man, telling him some of his Miranda rights, brought up the possibility of criminal charges and in a blatant display of hubris, lied to Schubert saying that he was “the only person allowed to carry a weapon on his beat.”
- Stern finally stole Schubert’s firearm permit and drove off.
- The attorney sued in federal court, but the District Court threw out his suit. Then he appealed, and the First Circuit upheld the District Court’s ruling. The court held that the stop was lawful and that Officer Stern “was permitted to take actions to ensure his own safety.”
D.A.G. Says: They forget who their real boss is.
Thanks Joseph!
Boneheaded TSA subpoenas journalist for posting the full text of their security directive.
Journalist Christopher Elliott, just one of many people who posted the full text of the TSA’s boneheaded security directive, has been subpoenaed by the aforementioned government bureaucracy for posting the truth. Here is the full text of his subpoena:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Department of Homeland Security
Transportation Security AdministrationSUBPOENA DUCES TECUM
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR, TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, to produce and permit inspection and copying of the records described below to Special Agent Robert Flaherty, TSA Office of Inspection, Transportation Security Admininistration, 580 T G Lee Blvd, Suite 610, Orlando, Florida 32822 (Phone #: 407-563-4096), email: Robert.M.flaherty@dhs.gov, no later than COB December 31, 2009, in furtherance of an official investigation:
All documents, emails, and/or faxsimile transmissions (sic) in your control possession or control concerning your receipt of TSA Security Directive 1544-09-06 dated December 25, 2009.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned, an officer designated by the Transportation Security Administration, has hereunto set his hand in the county of Arlington, Virginia, this 29th day of December, 2009.
Dan Kuntz
Senior Counsel – Civil Enforcement
Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityAUTHORITY
This subpoena is issued under the authority contained in 49 U.S.C. §§ 40113 and 46104; and 49 C.F.R § 1503.3.
Any person who neglects or refuses to produce records in obedience to this subpoena is subject to fines under Title 18, United States Code, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, 49 U.S.C § 46313.
D.A.G. Says: This is where your tax dollars are going.