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USA likes to espouse itself as being the freest country in the world, defender of life and liberty.

Yet people are pre-emptively arrested for wanting to exercise their first amendment rights, 25% of all prisoners on planet earth are in our jail system, we have the highest imprisonment rate, and have killed tons of civilians in our various oil wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya).

America's dead. Perhaps a better use of everyone's energy is to figure out how to get the fuck out of America, because our "freedom" is mostly based on economics, not principles of actual liberty.

Fuck Chicago Police (for the 10,000th time).

But fuck america for allowing this to happen, and fuck americans for voting in leaders like Bush and Obama who only decrease total freedom, and for having no backbone to fight this bullshit.

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Slightly confusing, but what the headline really means is "there are many instances where police used more bullets against 1 person than Germany used in an entire year against all criminals in the country".

Now, if you extrapolate out the fact that the U.S. population is almost 4 times that of Germany's, the real number to compare is not 85 shots, but about 340 shots.

Contrast to America, where *to stop a reckless driver* last year, police fired over 110 shots, including shooting 7 innocent bystanders. We routinely shoot unarmed people 40-90 times.

Yeah.... It's not just our larger population at work. When our police use more bullets in a single incident than a country previously associated with fascism does all year -- it gives one major pause at how fucked up and broken our system is, and how piss-poor our over-militarized, trigger-happy police operate. 

Not making assumptions here. I've worked them them, eaten lunch with them, and heard them talk about how they want someone to cause them to have a chance to shoot them. It's sickening.

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But anyway, here's a story of a Jewish person who turned in the person raping his child, and was shunned by his community, harassed, and kicked out of his residence.

Hasidic Jews, that is. These are the hardcore orthodox types. People who take their supernatural beliefs way too seriously, and then inflict them on other people.

Religion has got to be one of the top enemies for children.

(Islam is even worse in that they don't need to worry about covering up chid rape quite as much as the other religions, because Mohamad set the awesome example of marrying a six year old while he was in his 50s, and Sharia says you execute the rape victim, not the rapist, so what's left to cover up?)

In general, fuck religious people. Even the ones that do no wrong help prop up communities like this by passing on supernatural beliefs that have nothing to do with the modern-day world. If you don't like my attitude, here is a cup of I don't give a fuck that you can drink.

This is basically looking like the same bullshit the pope and various bishops have pulled repeatedly.

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Freshly released: Actual video of police killing a homeless man. The video is FORTY MINUTES IN LENGTH, with TWENTY MINUTES OF BRUTALITY.

If 6 officers couldn't take this guy down in less than 20 minutes, none of them deserve to keep their job.

For once, the pigs are actually charged with murder and manslaughter. But wait. Only 2 of the 6 officers were actually charged. Seems to be that if you mindlessly dogpile onto an existing situation, you're just fine. They never charge everyone who actually did it.

"I just started smashing his face to hell" -one of the officers

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home of the brave here.. not charged, ends up in intensive care due to negligence of a government that's supposed to protect us, not injure us.

And your tax dollars paid for this. Funny how the worst stories are never about a white person.

The DEA is an evil organization. They do not make the world better. They are a waste of tax dollars. And Obama has done nothing to stop them, and in fact has empowered them.

And how the fuck are their bags of methamphetamine in a DEA holding cell anyway? DEA is incapable of administering themselves! Why do they even have their own holding cells?

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I remember when this happened.

The guy had meth in his blood, therefore it's okay for a group of taxpayer-funded thugs to murder him in cold blood while he screams for help, right?

The audio was released before. PBS just released the video. Unlike Rodney King, this guy died. Unlike Rodney King, there were twice as many officers surrounding this guy.

And here it is - watch your tax dollars being used to murder a man. Now on video. (Of course they tried to confiscate said video.)

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Bad cops are "just a few bad apples"?  Kinda like how just a few of the Germans were bad during WW2, eh?  Pointed out in the comments is that the phrase "a few bad apples" comes from the origin whereby a few bad apples sealed in a barrel full of good apples will ruin all the other apples. The whole figure of speech of "A few bad apples", as commonly used, is incorrect. A few bad apples after the fact means your whole barrel went rotten.

I did not realize this. 

So anyway... Here's what happens when you're a good apple. If you literally stop police from beating up an innocent person, as a cop, your job will be put on the line. Her department is calling her "psychologically unfit for duty" and trying to fire her. 

She's also the first lesbian cop there.

video appearance at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/69454161/News/Officer-Regina-Tasca-On-Being-Suspended-For-Not-Lying-About-Fellow-Cops-apos-Actions

So if you wonder why people think cops are assholes -- look no further than stories like this compared and contrasted to the neverending constant barrage of abuse of power performed by those with badges.

Funny how they are bringing up old bad things she supposedly did as reasons to get rid of her - reasons only brought up after this. I've seen such tactics used before, both in the news and in real life. :/

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This. Is. Bullshit.

Wrong a long spiel here. It got deleted. Goddamnit.

Basically... it takes all kinds of assholes to do shit like this, and there will be people who read this and find it completely reasonable. To which I say: Fuck you.

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89/96 for me, but 3 of the 7 ones i missed, i had the right answer checked, then changed it, argh!

I am truly embarrassed that I keep forgetting the 3rd president of the USA, and that I forgot there were 9 supreme court justices and answered 11. MAJOR DERPS.

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It's sad that ANONYMOUS and Wikileaks have more credibility to me than the U.S. government. Very sad.

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Yes people -- there is a literal bounty on our head. When you wonder if that cop is going to shoot you, just be reminded that he'll get paid $300 to $500 if he does kill and shoot you.  As if the pigs need more incentive to  shoot people. This is ridiculous.

Anyone paying a modicum of attention has  seen how bounties in Afghanistan resulted in innocent people sent to Guantanamo for years (and not released for years even after the government realized they were innocent).

The amazing thing is all the comments supporting this practice. A literal bounty on the head of taxpayers. Shoot us and you get a reward. Our tax dollars at work. PUBLIC unions at work.

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This is pretty damning. Journalist releases something USA and Yemen lied to their people about. Wikileaks then verifies it. Yemen imprisons journalist as if he's a terrorist for saying something America doesn't like. Local leaders and Amnesty International get mad.

Pardon is drafted up. Obama then literally called Yemen when they had the pardon written up, in order to ensure that this journalist stay in jail and the pardon disappear. Which happens after the phone call.

This is direct action. This is not Congress's fault, this is not Obama being a puppet of vast machinery he has no control of. 

And oh, we still have secret prisons just like under the Bush Administration. Obama just tricked Obama-supporters into thinking he stopped Bush's practice. He did not. As usual, Obama continues Bush's practices, but more secretively. 

And at this point, is The New York Times even worth wiping one's ass on? This is the paper that knew we were being wiretapped by the government, and sat on the story for a year. Among many other things, New York Times is now, to me, the least reliable major newspaper in existence.

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And this is why I no longer check organ donor on my driver's license. If you're going to make 2 million dollars from my organs, Carolyn should get those profits, not some for-profit corporate hospital. Hey Carolyn? When I'm dead, negotiate a better deal than $0.

Honestly, if we all could take a line of credit out against our future organs, there'd probably be no student loans left ;)

Okay. That's all a bit fallacious because not all hospital costs are profit -- even though we pay way more for the same procedure here in America than in most places, and a lot of it certainly is profit, and I do think we should get something for it. 10% finder fee.

But Carolyn not being the ultimate decider? FUCK. THAT. That's the real crux.

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To those who said that NDAA would not be applicable to American citizens...

To those who said that because the law did not modify previous law, it meant that Americans could not be assassinated...

To those who defended the Obama administration, and his appointee, Eric Holder...

...Here is our attorney general directly arguing that assassinating american citizens without judicial oversite is perfectly constitutional.

You see, existing law never needed to be modified. Just clarified by Bush's actions and Obama's legitimization of those actions. 

And here is our attorney general directly saying it.

There's no denying it.

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Yup. If you are a 17 year old passenger in a car that sideswipes an off  duty cop, the cop can chase you down, fire indiscriminately in a car full of 5 teenagers, and NOT GET CHARGED FOR SHOOTING YOU AND  PUTTING YOU IN THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

 Is it any wonder people don't respect american authority? American authority does not submit to law. They are simply thugs who do what they want -- and the system lets them, which is why they do it.

No charges. For shooting an unarmed teenage passenger in the back after chasing down their car in road rage. The officer is not even named. Fucking ridiculous.

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Seems like a month can't go by without hearing about some new evil foisted on the world by Cathlocism, in the name of their fictitious sky fairy.

Can we say -- Christian-sponsored mass-murder of Native American children?

Not only did it happen in America by Papal Decree from the Catholic Pope centuries ago, but it happened in Canada, set up  by the Anglican Church. 

Now add up the 100000+ babies stolen in Spain by Catholicism -- and the sexual abuse of so many people that phone lines set up in support are overrun by calls...

...Yeah, religion is bullshit. A giant fairy in the sky threatening to burn people if they do wrong is not a proper motivator for a functional society. 

The Queen of England picking 10 children who were never seen again? Then a guy who has testimony against her mysteriously gets murdered? A rack? They were using an actual rack for torture, possibly as late as 1970? UK denied entry to people who were going to testify in the Tribunal, so they had to move it to another country?

They must really have something to hide.

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Why did these two daughters have to watch their father - a black male - get shot to death?

Because the police were concerned for their safety!

You see, a black man with children in a truck. That's suspicious. Cause for concern. 

The officers clearly had no choice but to shoot this man, after he forced their hand. This is a good use of our tax dollars. {this paragraph is sarcasm}

How much longer are we going to take this shit?

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"I've fallen, and I can't get up". Remember those commercials? Well it's not like that in real life. Not if you're black! The police will break down your door to "help" you by calling you a nigger before shooting you to death. Our tax dollars at work.

Don't by Lifeline Medic Alert services; it may result in the police shooting you to death.

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...the Skull Beneath dave mustaine's Skin seems to have Hook In Mouth disease. this is a Bad Omen for all. someone should read him his Last Rites. he needs to give His Last Words and shut the fuck up. he is truly In His Darkest Hour. someone should get him some more Mary Jane. his Take No Prisoners attitude is ridiculous, and he shouldn't support people who support Holy Wars.  to see him trumpeting the Symphony Of Destruction by the Skin Of His constantly-griting Teeth just feels like a Countdown To political Extinction. Washington Is Next? i hope not. i guess it's No More Mr. Nice Guy, and that's probably why metallica kicked you out of the band, dave. Go To Hell. 

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This kinda pokes a hole in the argument that apple's walled garden provides a better user experience ....

(well that, and me owning an iPhone to know what a pain in the ass it is to have thy will be done on it.)

(not that Android is immune to this, but at least you're not paying extra to be worse off with Android)

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