Anti-corruption Group Discusses Strategy

The new organization dedicated to rooting out political corruption in San Bernardino County held its first public meeting on October 6 in Redlands. The meeting was relocated at the last minute when the San Bernardino Public Employees Association (SBPEA) reneged on its agreement to allow the group to use its [...]

10 Steps to End Democracy

Saved from First Time Ignition Interlock Requirements in DUI cases

San Diego Dui Offenders will be spared the requirement of installing Ignotion Interlock Devices in their cars if they are convicted of a first offense.
Governor Swartzenegger signed a bill requiring first time offenders in Sacramento, Alameda, Tuare and Los Angeles counties to install ignition interlock devices.
What is so strange about [...]

Firepower and freedom

The brilliant thinkers that wrote our Constitution had it right… They had just fought a war to overthrow an oppressive government, and they had won it by having similar technologies to this oppressive Government and tactics more suitable to the type of war they were fighting. These geniuses wrote the [...]

Former CBS anchorman, Dan Rather, warns of corporate influence over news

(WMR) – On September 16, Dan Rather, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, warned that today’s news is shaped by very powerful corporate network owners who “are in bed with powerful political interests” that are influenced by government regulatory interests.
Rather spoke at a National Press Club remembrance [...]

Return of Stout a good thing?

[ As Mike Ramos cleans the house that this man helped to build, we suspect that his expressed interest in running again is little more than an advance defense against an investigation of him.  Follow Stout at the iePolitics blog.  The military- and prison-industrial complexes of this [...]

Pittsburgh Police: Anarchists attack squad cars at police HQ

Sources indicate nails and screws were forced into the tires on at least a dozen marked and unmarked police cars as well as a number of private cars.
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police sources say at least a dozen police cars and a number of private cars were vandalized.
Sources also confirm police investigators [...]

BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

Drugs Won the War

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? [...]

New “security” restrictions at Canadian border

Lawmakers in Oregon say No! to Real ID

On Friday, May 29th the Oregon State House passed Senate Bill 536 (SB0536) thanks to organizations such as ACLU of Oregon. The bill “Prohibits state from expending funds to comply with the federal Real ID Act 0f 2005 unless certain requirements are met.” The bill passed by a vote of 39-6. [...]

Is the California DMV rigging DMV hearings?

I just received a response to a California Public Records Act request I filed about THREE MONTHS ago….
According to the documents, it seems that San Diego DMV Manager Brian Dawson is unhappy that his hearing officers (aka “HO’s” for fun), aren’t summarily suspending all people who challenge the California Department [...]

San Bernardino County Bar Association – Bulletin 09/03

(CA) Medical Marijuana No Longer Grounds for License Suspension

The use of medical marijuana can no longer be the sole grounds for losing driving privileges.
In a policy revision — or clarification, depending upon who you speak with — the state Department of Motor Vehicles has determined, in writing, that the use of medical marijuana prescribed by a physician is [...]

DMV sued over medical marijuana

Matt Vaughn, who operates a medical marijuana collective, eventually got his driver’s license and marijuana back after a CHP officer found the drug — for which he had a doctor’s recommendation — in his car.
The lawsuit says patients are unfairly targeted for license suspensions.
The California Highway Patrol officer smelled the weed, [...]

Hey Kids, Wanna Play Security Checkpoint: The Terrifying Marketing Of Police State Normalacy To Children

When I flew home from Washington, DC after a business trip last week, the TSA agent asked to test my laptop.  I politely asked what they were testing for.  It was just routine she told me.  And she’s right, it has become routine, a much too routine standard operating procedure [...]

Breathalyzer Source Code Required for Use as Evidence

Here’s a very interesting case from Florida, where an appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that threw out evidence from a breathalyzer test in a drunk driving case because the manufacturer of the device refused to release the source code and allow defense experts to analyze the accuracy of the [...]

I am a Terrorist

See also:
Domestic Militarization Comes to San Bernardino County
Patriot Act – The War on Civil Liberties
The Second Amendment Versus The Police State?
Veterans for Peace (VFP) Opposes Combat Brigade’s Permanent U.S. Assignment
Assignment America: Keep juries dumb
Excellent Article on the Corrupt Prison-Industrial Complex
Court Rules Patriot Act’s “National Security Letter” Gag Provisions Unconstitutional
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Banned in 2008

Poll: Less than half say US offers liberty and justice for all

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports indicates that although Americans strongly support the saying of the Pledge of Allegience, less than half of them believe that “the United States is truly the land of liberty and justice for all.”

Medical pot user sues DMV to get license back

A 53-year-old Atwater woman will file a lawsuit against the DMV for revoking her license because she’s a medical marijuana user.
Her suit seeks to reinstate her license and also affirm that other residents can’t lose the right to drive simply because they use medical marijuana, approved by California voters in 1996.