A little brain food for the perpetually Recovering City of Big Bear Lake Council and other prostitutes of the Prison-Industrial Complex

DNA evidence can be fabricated and planted at crime scenes, scientists warn

Scientists have shown it is possible to fake DNA evidence, potentially undermining the credibility of the key forensic technique. Using equipment found in labs up and down the country, they obliterated all traces of DNA from a blood sample and added someone else’s genetic material in its place. The swap was so successful it fooled [...]

Proposed Law Would Extend FOIA Reach to Private Prisons

Congress is considering proposed legislation to extend the Freedom of Information Act to private prisons that contract with government agencies. At present, the companies that run private prisons say they are not subject to FOIA because they are not public agencies. Read more about H.R. 2450 here. (Private Prison Information Act of 2009)

Censorship of Arab News Media

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to censor some of the Arab news media, particularly satellite channels if Washington deemed, with Israeli backing, that these satellite channels are broadcasting content that is in conflict with American and Israeli interests in the region. It is strange that this U.S. legislative step, which was [...]

Announcing Venezuela’s first and only English Language Newspaper, THE CORREO DEL ORINOCO INTERNATIONAL

Caracas, 22 January 2010 – This Friday, Venezuela celebrates the launching of its first and only English language newspaper, the Correo del Orinoco International. While in the past other English-language publications have existed, none remain in circulation today, and no others have been created during the Bolivarian Revolution. Editor-in-Chief Eva Golinger explained, “This will be [...]

War Criminals: Arrest Warrants Requested

International arrest warrants have been requested for George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George J. Tenet, Condoleeza Rice and Alberto R. Gonzales at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands. Professor of Law Francis Anthony Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champain, United States of America, has issued [...]

Sheriff’s deputy accused in off duty death threat faces new charge

Download: Arrest declarationINDIO – A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy facing criminal charges for allegedly holding a gun to a man’s head while off duty has been charged with an additional felony for allegedly bringing his service weapon to court on his trial date. Richard Charles Heverly, 43, of La Verne arrived last week [...]

Investigation into Vermont police trainer continues

Police are still searching for answers in connection with a child pornography investigation at the Vermont Police Academy. “At this point we don’t have any information to indicate there was any child pornography on what we’ve examined so far,” Vermont State Police Maj. Ed Ledo said. Ledo says the investigation of former police academy trainer [...]

Pentagon Report Calls for Office of “Strategic Deception”

The Department of Defense needs to get better at lying and fooling people about its intentions. That’s the conclusion from an influential Pentagon panel, the Defense Science Board (DSB), which recommends that the military and intelligence communities join in a new agency devoted to “strategic surprise/deception.” Tricking battlefield opponents has been a part of war [...]

Weapons station CO fired, charged with solicitation

The commanding officer of Naval Weapons Station Charleston, S.C., was arrested Tuesday and accused of trying to pay a prostitute $20 for oral sex, police said. Capt. Glen Little, 55, was immediately relieved of command and reassigned to administrative duties with Navy Region Southeast, said Scott Bassett, a spokesman for the Navy base. Little, who [...]

Venezuela writes off Haiti’s debt

President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías on Monday said that Petrocaribe, Venezuela‘s regional energy alliance, will forgive quake-stricken Haiti‘s debt, AFP reported. Haiti’s debt with Venezuela is USD 295 million, about one-third of its global foreign debt of USD 1 billion, according to International Monetary Fund figures. “Haiti has no debt with Venezuela — on the [...]

Noriega Will Be Extradited to France, His Lawyer Says

Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno will extradited to France after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal against the extradition, his lawyer said, though the final say on the matter belongs to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Noriega “has exhausted all his legal options. He has to go to France,” defense [...]

José Martí’s Anniversary Celebrated across Cuba

Havana, January 28, (RHC)—The anniversary of the birth of Cuba’s national hero, José Julián Martí Pérez, was widely celebrated across the island today. Visitors and Cubans from all over the country laid wreaths in homage to Marti at different locations. Last night thousands of young university students carried out their traditional torch light march from [...]

Who knows better than NASA about getting high?

A bag of cocaine was discovered in the space shuttle Discovery‘s hangar at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Only shuttle workers are authorized to enter the area. The bag with a small amount of the drug was discovered on Tuesday by an employee and handed over to security, reports Space.com. “This is a rare [...]

Three Indiana teen girls sue city over strip search

MADISON, Ind. — The high school girlfriends weren’t known as troublemakers. One was a cheerleader, another a soccer player and the third grew up working on her family’s farm. But the Madison Consolidated High School seniors found themselves shivering on a winter night three years ago in a deserted church parking lot, surrounded by police, [...]

California is free to make its own drug laws

The Times raises two objections in its Jan. 13 editorial, “Legalize pot? Not so fast,” to a proposed state bill that would legalize, tax and regulate the sale of marijuana to adults 21 and older. First, the editorial claims that the purpose of California Assembly Bill 390 (Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act) is “simply” [...]

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information

Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Christopher Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years. In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the [...]

Moscow: Exam to be required for firearms

The goal of the exam is to explain to people the correct use of personal arms. Becoming a gun owner – for hunting, civil use, or self-defense – will now be only possible after passing an examination – a process similar to the one a person undergoes to obtain their driver’s license, for example. The [...]

Lithuania opens Gulag prison camp for students

Deportation Day website A recreated Joseph Stalin-era prison camp near Vilnius, a Gulag, has become a peculiar attraction for European Union students. Each day some 40 young people spend the day as prisoners under the surveillance of stern guards. However, before putting on prisoners’ clothes with numbers, students visit the Genocide Museum and former KGB [...]

Marine scum Cesar Laurean: murder trial to move

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A former North Carolina-based Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague has been granted a change of venue for his murder trial. Onslow County Superior Court Judge Charles Henry issued an order Monday, saying the trial of Cesar Laurean should be moved because pretrial publicity surrounding the case might influence jurors. Laurean’s [...]

Former Pendleton Marine scum sentenced in DUI killing

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former Marine has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for a deadly drunken driving crash that occurred hours after he attended a driving safety briefing. Former Lance Cpl. Elijah Ferguson was sentenced Friday in Santa Ana for the crash that killed an Orange County doctor and injured [...]

Fort Hood Army scum convicted of murder in drive-by killing

BELTON, Texas — A Fort Hood soldier has been convicted of murder for an April 2008 off-post drive-by shooting during an apparent argument. The penalty phase was scheduled Friday in Belton for 25-year-old Reid Mark Paoloni of Killeen. The victim was 18-year-old Christopher Wall Jr. Jurors on Thursday convicted Paoloni in a case that investigators [...]

Fort Drum Army scum faces child porn charges

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors say an Army officer at Fort Drum who served in Iraq has been charged with possessing child pornography. Prosecutors say Lt. Col. Christopher Butler used the screen name “daddyformommies” and sent images of child pornography over the Internet to an undercover federal agent in October 2008. The complaint unsealed Friday [...]

Army scum found guilty in overdose death of girlfriend, 16

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A 20-year-old Fort Lewis soldier has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of his 16-year-old girlfriend in his barracks. A military judge ruled Friday that Pvt. Timothy Bennitt was guilty of “aiding and abetting” Leah King’s wrongful use of the painkiller oxymorphone and anxiety pill Xanax. Lt. [...]

Fort Benning protesters get maximum sentence

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Three people accused of trespassing on Fort Benning were convicted and given the maximum penalty of six months in prison. The protesters took part in annual demonstrations in November against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas. The school trains Latin American soldiers, and [...]

Recruitment ad: About 66,000 gays are in military

Download the full research brief About 66,000 gay men and women are serving in the military, making up 2.2 percent of the total force, according to a new study by demographer Gary Gates. The number of gay, lesbian and bisexual service members represents a slight increase from the author’s 2004 estimates. At the time, Gates [...]

Efforts to silence Aafia Siddiqui continue

Efforts to silence Pakistani citizen Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is charged with attempted murder of US military and Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel, are continuing during her trial. In a letter to the New York Federal judge presiding over her trial, Siddiqui’s defense team said that she is not mentally fit to testify. In the [...]

UN removes Taliban officials from blacklist

The United Nations has removed five former Taliban officials from its blacklist as part of reconciliation efforts in war-weary Afghanistan. The de-listing, which came on Wednesday, was approved by a special Security Council committee. The UN said in a statement that the five Afghan nationals would no longer be subject to a freeze on their [...]

United Nations report blasts US over human rights abuses

A United Nations report says the US has been violating basic human rights by kidnapping and holding terrorism suspects in secret detention centers during the past nine years. The US is among dozens of countries that have kidnapped suspects, four independent UN rights investigators said in a year-long study based on flight data and interviews [...]

Sheriff’s department reveals sexual battery claims; Barstow Mayor Joe Gomez unavailable

BARSTOW • The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is investigating allegations of sexual battery against Barstow Mayor Joe Gomez, according to sheriff’s spokesperson Arden Wiltshire. The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office is currently reviewing the sheriff’s report and is deciding whether or not to file charges against the mayor. A victim reported of being [...]

Twentynine Palms Marine who solicited the rape of ex-girlfriend with a knife-sharpening file is arraigned

CASPER, WYO. — Prosecutors on Tuesday, Jan. 19 formally charged a California man with five felonies in connection with allegations that he posted an advertisement on an Internet site requesting the rape of a Casper woman. Pfc. Jebidiah James Stipe — a maintenance mechanic with VMU-1 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms [...]

Authorities say Marine’s wife was strangled

Kalyn Denise O’Barr-Poteat Patrick Poteat SAN DIEGO – Investigators say they now know how the young wife of a Marine Corps Air Station Miramar soldier was murdered, but they still don’t know why. San Diego Homicide detectives said 18-year-old Kalyn Denise O’Barr-Poteat was strangled to death with some sort of cord or rope. Police said [...]

Two Fort Irwin soldiers ordered held in Barstow woman’s death

Two U.S. Army soldiers were ordered Monday held over for trial in the death of 29-year-old Sandi Lee Duncan, a former soldier. Melvin Lee Satcher and Phillip Ryan Franke appeared for a preliminary hearing in Victorville Superior Court, where a judge heard witness testimony and determined that sufficient evidence existed to hold over the two [...]

“Christian mafia” rules America

A group known as the “Christian mafia” is the oldest and arguably the most powerful and influential religious rights organization in the United States, says American author Jeff Sharlet. He recently published a book entitled “The Family” in which he reveals how the group functions. “It goes back to the 1930s. They don’t seek publicity. [...]

Big Bear’s Out, Aspen’s in Cannabis competition coming to Aspen this spring aims to find out

[ Don't waste your time in the Recovering Big Bear, where the Nazi Republican pigs are stinking, business sucks and attitudes offend visitors.  Big Bear is now devoted to AA and urine samples.  Let's head for Aspen! ] ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — It’s like a beer competition for marijuana. A cannabis festival in Aspen, Colorado, [...]

Vatican summons Irish bishops over pedophilia

Pope Benedict XVI has summoned Irish bishops to the Vatican over the shocking official account of sexual child abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Ireland. The pontiff is expected to sketch a way forward for unspecified senior clerics during a two-day meeting in mid-February. This is in the wake of an earlier Irish government report [...]

Trijicon: We’ll Stop Putting Bible Inscriptions On Military Rifle Scopes

Trijicon, the company that produces the military rifle scopes with Biblical inscriptions, will end the decades-old practice and provide the military with modification kits to remove the markings, ABC is reporting. General David Howell Petraeus also addressed the scopes this morning, calling the matter “disturbing and a serious concern for me.” That’s a markedly different [...]

Court issues arrest warrant for ex-Guatemalan president

The Guatemalan criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the country’s ex-President Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera, who faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of money laundering, local media said on Monday. The Periodico newspaper said the warrant for Portillo, who had been Guatemalan president in 2000-2004, was issued following a request by a [...]

Student: ‘Beating So Bad Thought I Was Going To Die’

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Chief Nate Harper said three plainclothes officers have been reassigned during an internal investigation into the beating of an 18-year-old student violinist from the city’s Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts 6–12. Police charged Jordan Miles, 18, with assault and resisting arrest Jan. 11 because, they said, he fought with [...]

Former Fulton County, GA, Sheriff’s Deputy Convicted on Obstruction of Justice Charges Related to Federal Investigation of Inmate Death

Richard Glasco ATLANTA, GA—Mitnee Markette Jones, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, a former Fulton County Sheriff’s Department deputy assigned to work at the Fulton County Jail, was convicted by a federal jury late yesterday in Atlanta for her role in the obstruction of a federal investigation of a 2008 inmate death. Acting United States Attorney Sally [...]

Detention Deputies Sentenced In In-Custody Beating Death

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Two former Kern County Sheriff‘s detention deputies are behind bars serving their sentences for the beating death of an inmate over four years ago. In August of 2005, James Moore died after a fight with deputies at the downtown jail. Officers, at the time, said he became combative while being booked. But [...]

Prisons too expensive

The Extravagance of Imprisonment Revisited How much could the government save by cutting prison costs? According to a new report issued by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, billions of dollars could be saved through reforming the United States prison system. California alone could save an estimated $1.4 billion. As of 2006, the United [...]

Don Keith wins SEBA endorsement for 63rd Assembly District

Rancho Cucamonga mayor and California’s 63rd State Assembly District Republican candidate Dr. Donald J. Kurth, Jr. has been endorsed by the influential San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Association.  SEBA represents San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies and many other county public safety officers. “SEBA members are pleased to announce our endorsement of Mayor Don [...]

A Message From Transport Canada

LEAP’s Cops and Clergy Initiative

We are pleased to officially announce Law Enforcement Against Prohibition‘s latest project, the Cops and Clergy Initiative.  The initiative features an unstoppable alliance of representatives of the faith and law enforcement communities collaborating to make speaking appearances at places of worship and in the media across the country.  Earlier this month in California, prohibitionist police [...]

LAUSD Sued for Educators Using 12 Year Old in Drug Sting

LOS ANGELES– The parents of a 12 year old boy who was asked by educators to buy drugs from another student are suing the Los Angeles Unified School District. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, alleges that educators at George K. Porter Middle School gave the boy cash and told him to buy drugs from a student [...]

Current TV Bashes “Anti-Drug” Propaganda Campaign

Walter McKay on Police Accountability and Reform

I’m pleased to share a new blog with LEAP supporters. Walter McKay‘s blog is titled Police Accountability and Reform. It’s been around for a while, but recently he started posting on it more regularly. He lives in Mexico and so much of his writing focuses on the violence of the drug cartels in that country. [...]

Most U.S. Union Members Are Working for the Government, New Data Shows

[ You allow your police to form labor unions, then think you can ever be free from crime?  Or free at all?  Stupid Merikins. ] For the first time in American history, a majority of union members are government workers rather than private-sector employees, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday. In its annual [...]

Government posting wealth of data to Internet

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday is posting to the Internet a wealth of government data from all Cabinet-level departments, on topics ranging from child car seats to Medicare services. The mountain of newly available information comes a year and a day after President Barack Obama promised on his first full day on the [...]