A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a $5 Nerf-style toy gun in his Hammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the kid now faces misdemeanor criminal charges. Hammonton Police began an investigation into the “suspicious activity” at the Hammonton Early Childhood Education Center Jan. 18 after school officials alerted them to the incident.
Officials also say that there was no evidence of anyone being threatened. The child's mother told school officials that she didn't know her son brought the toy to school.
Orwellian
The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan has filed a complaint against a 31-year-old woman in Grand Rapids. According to the complaint the ad "expresses an illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths." Says Executive Director Nancy Haynes, "It's a violation to make, print or publish a discriminatory statement. There are no exemptions to that."
You read that right! In Michigan, you are not allowed to choose what kind of roommate you'd like to have. You have to take what life gives you or the government will shove it down your throat. This law does not only apply to landlords but simply renters who would have to potentially deal with this roommate on a daily basis.
The case was turned over to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. If the woman is found guilty of having a preference, she could face several hundreds of dollars in fines and “fair housing training so it doesn’t happen again.”
Despite growing opposition, the pig-headed organization intends to pursue this case. Says Haynes, "We want to make sure it doesn't happen again," she said. If there is a God, he's out taking a whiz right now.
Online dating service eHarmony has been forced by the government to create a special website servicing gay and lesbian individuals. The fiasco began when Eric McKinley a whiny gay man from New Jersey sued the website. McKinley for his "troubles" will receive $5000 from the business and a year of free membership.
Never mind that eHarmony is a private business whose prerogative it is to do business with whomever it chooses (and its service being entirely frivolous and far from monopolistic cannot in any way be considered an essential human right). The morons in the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights will force it to service homosexuals even though it may not be the strength or preference of the business owner.
DAG Says: Welcome to America. Instead of being the land of hard work, it has become the land of success through pissing and moaning. We at DAG, then, have plenty to piss and moan about, and we will work hard at doing it!
In Uniondale, on Long Island, NY, George Grier has been arrested and charged with "reckless endangerment" for defending his home from a gang, potentially the violent and dangerous MS-13. As he was leaving his house to drive his cousin home, he was confronted by a group of five men. He returned to his house to get his wife to call the police. He then returned with an AK-47 which he legally owned, and asked the men to leave. The men did not leave and in fact loudly egged him on, encouraging as many as 20 other thugs to show up on his property.
At this point Grier fired four shots at the ground to scare off these miscreants. These shots alerted the police faster than the wife's phone call apparently because their high-tech "ShotSpotter" technology which can pinpoint the source of gunfire to within 35 feet notified them. Instead of congratulating the man for successfully deterring a hideous crime, the Blue Goons arrested him.
D.A.G. says: Don't you feel so much safer now?
Short yellow light times at intersections have been proven to increase the number of traffic violations and accidents. Conversely, increasing the yellow light duration can dramatically reduce red-light violations at an intersection. Despite this, some local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of longer yellow light time and installed red-light cameras (themselves Orwellian) and shortened yellow light duration all to steal money from the citizens.
The cities caught "red handed" include:
- Chattanooga, TN
- Dallas, TX
- Springfield, MO
- Lubbock, TX
- Nashville, TN
- Union City, CA
D.A.G. says: It is our belief that yellow lights ought to have standardized timing across the city, should be sufficiently long, and even display a countdown timer. If you're ever wondering why such painfully obvious improvements are not made, now you know. Stupidity, incompetence, and greed.
Dr. Santhosh Thomas, his wife, and their daughter Alyssa were on a trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis when an unexpected and shocking development occurred: six-year-old Alyssa was on the dreaded No Fly List, a roster of slime and vermin supposedly reserved for psychopathic terrorists.
While the family was allowed to board the flight, they were admonished to contact Homeland Security to clear the matter up. This did not help. The family received a letter written to young Alyssa from the government notifying her that nothing will be changed and they will not confirm or deny any information they have about her or someone else with the same name.
D.A.G. says: The family is Indian with a western last name. This should be all the proof necessary that you do not need to be Muslim or have an Arabic name to find yourself on the No Fly List.
A 14-year-old autistic boy was suspended and charged with a felony over a picture he drew in school. The boy was in a special needs class when he drew a picture of two stick figures, one of which was holding a gun. The eighth grader's picture depicted a stick figure with a gun that was labeled "me." The figure was shooting another figure that had his teacher's name above it.
The boy, who has the mental capacity of a third-grader, has been suspended and is now facing felony charges for "terroristic threats".
D.A.G. says: Clearly the boy isn't the only one with the mental capacity of a third-grader.
In Gilbert, AZ, the town code bars religious assemblies in private homes. The Oasis of Truth church began meeting at Paster Joe Sutherland's house in November of 2009 and rotated homes several times per week for Bible study and socializing. The church received a violation notice when a code compliance officer saw a sign advertising Sunday services.
A zoning administrator told the church that Bible studies, church leadership meetings and fellowship activities are not permitted in private homes. This law is barred by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
In 2004, Malaika Brooks was driving her son to Seattle's African American Academy when she was stopped for doing 32 mph in a school zone. When she was handed the ticket, she misinterpreted the signature requested of her as an admission of guilt and refused to sign.
Rather than give her the ticket and let her go on her way, the officers decided to arrest her. One reached in, turned off her car and dropped the keys on the floor. Brooks stiffened her arms against the steering wheel and told the officers she was pregnant, but refused to get out, even after they threatened to stun her.
The cops, Sgt. Steven Daman, and Officers Juan Ornelas and Donald Jones, then carried out their threat, electrocuting her three times, in the thigh, shoulder and neck, and hauled her out of the car, laying her face-down in the street. She now has permanent scars from the Taser.
Brooks filed a lawsuit against the offending officers for violating her constitutional rights, and U.S. District Judge Richard Jones allowed the case to continue, refusing to grant the officers immunity but in a 2-1 ruling on March 26, 2010, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed. Judges Cynthia Holcomb Hall and Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain held that the officers were justified in making an arrest because Brooks was obstructing them and resisting arrest.
The trouble is that under Washington law, the officers had no authority to take Brooks into custody: Failure to sign a traffic infraction is not an arrestable offense, and it's not illegal to resist an unlawful arrest. To obstruct an officer, one must obstruct the officer's official duties, and the officers' only duties in this case were to detain Brooks long enough to identify her, check for warrants, write up the citation and give it to her. Brooks' failure to sign did not interfere with those duties.
Newark Airport. August 14, 2009 - Famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained at immigration and customs and questioned for hours for having a Muslim-sounding name.
