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Category: Crime

  • Feds Ask Web Firms For Account Passwords

    The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed. If the government is able to determine a person’s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could…

  • Welfare-Funded Groceries Shipped to Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti

    Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found. The practice is so…

  • IRS Chief Met with Obama 2 Days Before New Targeting Rules

    The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight…

  • Survey of 15,000 Law Enforcement on Gun Control

    The survey, which was conducted in early March 2013, received 15,000 responses from law enforcement professionals. It found that the overall attitude of law enforcement is strongly anti-gun legislation and pro-gun rights, with the belief that an armed citizenry is effective in stopping crime. Response percentages varied only slightly when analyzed by rank and department…

  • Defend Yourself from Crazy People

    This is blatantly lifted from Second City Cop.  No need to correct perfection. – – – – – – – Here’s some brilliant freaking idea coming out of a “police executive” group. Confronting an attacker leads to less casualties: The speed and deadliness of recent high-profile shootings have prompted police departments to recommend fleeing, hiding…

  • FBI Admits Warrantless Cellphone Tapping

    FBI investigators for at least five years have routinely used a sophisticated cellphone tracking tool that can pinpoint callers’ locations and listen to their conversations — all without getting a warrant for it, a federal court was told this week. The use of the “Stingray,” as the tool is called, “is a very common practice”…

  • Chicago’s Felons with Guns Go Free

    Do you know where Chicago ranks in terms of enforcement of the federal gun laws? Out of 90 jurisdictions in the country, they ranked 90th. Why doesn’t NBC News start with, “Shocking news on Chicago. Of all the jurisdictions in the country, Chicago’s dead last on enforcement of the federal gun laws?” Why doesn’t the…

  • Regular Guy Schools Politicians on Gun Control

    “The Constitution does not guarantee public safety.  It guarantees liberty.” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ledhyTAE2zo] This guy is famous and he don’t even know it.

  • It’s Big Brother Day

    Just plain too damn spooky for all this to hit in the same day.  If you’re not weirded out… you should be Let’s start with the CIA keeping track of EVERYTHING you do. Discussing the goldmine of data that today’s technology has created, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Chief Technology Officer Ira “Gus” Hunt on Wednesday…

  • Black Leaders Oppose Gun Control

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ] “There is a direct correlation between Gun Control and Black People Control.” “Black Codes to deny the Second Amendment to recently freed slaves.” “When they take our guns is when they will take our God.  And that is when America will fight back.” Amen to that!! Not since Lincoln has a president so…