Petty Bureaucracy Serves to Disenfranchise the Poor

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“Oregon DMV”

Lawsuit: Oregon’s Suspension of Driver’s Licenses for Traffic Fines ‘Punishes the Poor’:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/09/suit_oregons_suspension_of_dri.html

(Maxine Bernstein) Suspending a driver’s license because of unpaid traffic fines unfairly targets poor people and is unconstitutional, a class-action lawsuit alleges.

The Oregon Law Center is representing five plaintiffs from Portland, Baker City, Pendleton and Mission who have had their driver’s licenses suspended for years or decades because they can’t afford to pay their spiraling debt from traffic violations.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Keep telling yourself that all of this petty bureaucracy, and the “need” for it is about safety, rather than disenfranchisement… Keep clamoring for our enslavement…

Bong Hits, Straight to the Head!

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Canadian Dispensary Clerk Fights Off Three Burglars With a Giant Bong:
https://hightimes.com/news/canadian-dispensary-clerk-fights-off-three-burglars-with-giant-bong/

() Police are still investigating an aggravated burglary and robbery attempt at a cannabis dispensary in Ontario on September 6. Concealed behind black hoodies and wielding large cans of bear spray, four men sprang into the Recreational Cannabis Farmers Market in Shannonville before being fended off by a dispensary worker. With little more than a large glass bong, the owner battled through the spray and objects the burglars hurled at him, ultimately backing them out of the door. Tyendinaga Police are still seeking any information and leads about the incident. The burglars were last spotted heading west on Old Highway 2 in a white SUV.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: 😮

State Strips Cannabis Users of Right to Self-Defense

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Krissy Noble

Pot Prohibition Makes Self-Defense Illegal:
https://reason.com/archives/2018/09/12/pot-prohibition-makes-self-defense-illeg

() When a stranger forced his way into her apartment, tackled her, punched her repeatedly, and tried to cover her mouth with a cloth, Krissy Noble says, she did what she thought was necessary to protect herself and her unborn baby. She grabbed a handgun from the coffee table and shot the man three times, then ran to a neighbor’s apartment and asked her to call the police.

Although local prosecutors agreed that the shooting was justified, Noble faces charges that could put her behind bars for years, thanks to a marijuana conviction that made it illegal for her to possess firearms. Her case shows how drug prohibition and indiscriminate gun laws conspire to deprive people of the constitutional right to armed self-defense.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Seems legit…

The Depraved Culture Behind the Unaccountable Institutions Guiding American Government’s Foreign Policy

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Liberty Outlook,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“One need only look at old US government plans for legitimizing an invasion of Cuba in the 1960s, casually discussing the possibility of the ‘real or simulated’ sinking of a boatload of Cubans the way normal people discuss whether to buy whole milk or skim, to get a feel for just how depraved the culture of these institutions is. We know that the United States has participated in deceptions which ended up costing millions of lives for which nobody suffered any consequence, like how they used a nonexistent attack to manufacture support for the Vietnam War, or the false ‘babies in incubators’ Nayirah testimony to manufacture support for the Gulf War, or the mountain of lies and manipulations used to manufacture consent for the Iraq invasion, all the way back to the sinking of the USS Maine. Combine this know willingness to deceive and manipulate in order to implement longstanding military agendas of human butchery with the fact that the US has powerful allies who are more than willing to get their hands dirty, like the opaque and unaccountable monarchy of Saudi Arabia and Israel’s murderous Mossad, and there’s every reason to believe that the US-centralized empire would not only pounce on an opportunity to exploit a false flag by a terrorist faction, but actively facilitate one.”

My Commentary: Discover “just how depraved the culture of the institution” of American government is…

Taxes Are the Price We Pay for the DHS to Divert Funds from FEMA to ICE

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“FEMA”

Dem Senator Releases Documents Appearing to Show DHS Diverted $10M from FEMA to ICE:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dem-senator-releases-documents-appearing-to-show-dhs-diverted-dollar10m-from-fema-to-ice/ar-BBNcMdW?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=ansmsnnews11

(John Bowden) Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Tuesday night released documents appearing to show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) diverted nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The documents, first reported by MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow, detail the agency’s funding redirections for fiscal year 2018 and show that millions of dollars were diverted to ICE from several agencies.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Enjoy supporting what you hate. Taxes are the price of ICE…