Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1. Police abuse-protecting your civil liberties
2. Keeping your
home safe during vacations
3. Become a
civil liberties activist-brother, we need them!
4. Asset
Forfeiture abuse by government on the rise
My riches
consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
- Joseph Brotherton (1783-1837); pastor, writer
- Joseph Brotherton (1783-1837); pastor, writer
Law Enforcement Abuse Increases-A never ending American story…
William M. writes…as a retired school principal
who used to work hand in glove with law enforcement – I wanted to bring to your
attention the "sorry treatment" law-abiding citizens can expect when
involved in a police search. While staying at a local hotel in my parent's
hometown, I was awakened at about 10:40 P.M. by the St. Criox County Sheriff's
Department. I answered the door and was forced to the floor, while a team of
officers ransacked my hotel room. I was then placed against a wall in the
hallway to field a host of questions dressed only in my skivvies.
SIDEBAR:
Jacob Sullum:
A front-page story in today's New York Times highlights the special humiliation inflicted on women who are detained and patted down by police under the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program. Male officers grope them, concentrating on "the waistband, armpit, collar and groin areas," and go through their purses, pulling out personal items such as tampons, birth control pills, and lacy underwear. "Yes, it's intrusive," Inspector Kim Y. Royster tells the Times, "but wherever a weapon can be concealed is where the officer is going to search." Yet these searches almost never yield weapons.
A front-page story in today's New York Times highlights the special humiliation inflicted on women who are detained and patted down by police under the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program. Male officers grope them, concentrating on "the waistband, armpit, collar and groin areas," and go through their purses, pulling out personal items such as tampons, birth control pills, and lacy underwear. "Yes, it's intrusive," Inspector Kim Y. Royster tells the Times, "but wherever a weapon can be concealed is where the officer is going to search." Yet these searches almost never yield weapons.
It’s disgusting that this kind of
information needs to be provided in the ‘land of the free.’
An introduction to civil
liberties, suitable for beginners and experts alike. Explains the Constitution,
Bill of Rights, and other relevant documents.
Learn more ways to protect
yourself against police abuse here:
Sweet
potatoes are a nutritional all-star. Loaded
with vitamin C, potassium and fiber-they’re terrific when baked instead of the
traditional baked potato.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Got a summer vacation planned? Keeping your house safe these days means
more than turning on a lamp and locking the front door. From Facebook to
smartphone apps, there are a lot of easy ways to protect your most valuable
investment.
The FBI says 2,159,878
burglaries occurred in the United States in 2010. A burglary happens once every
14.6 seconds, and those property crimes resulted in a loss of $15.7 billion.
As I was reading those statistics, I looked at my exterior doors and
wondered how secure they really are.
More at: http://www.moneytalksnews.com/2012/08/01/keeping-your-home-safe-while-youre-away/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=email-2012-08-06&utm_medium=email
Get
Involved with protecting your Civil Liberties
Organizations that focus on civil rights and civil liberties issues.
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/uscivillibertie1/a/groups.htm
There is no single organization that does more to protect your civil
liberties than the ACLU, and there is no single news site that does a more
comprehensive job ...
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/uscivillibertie1/tp/news.htm
activism · voting rights · civil liberties organizations ...
Civil liberties are far too important, far too fundamental, to be regarded as
optional components of the ...
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestions/f/politicalmap.htm
The ACLU is often the only organization willing to take on
unpopular civil liberties cases, which makes it essential to the
preservation of our system of liberal ...
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/p/aclu.htm
If you're interested in doing more to defend American civil liberties,
such as sign petitions, join civil liberties organizations, and
volunteer, here are some ...
Where women come to shoot (A new face book friend you’ll find
interesting)
Splenda and Truvia sweetners appear to be safe but Sweet n Low and
NutraSweet may promote cancer. Sorbitol
can cause diarrhea in many people.
The Nanny State Updates…
Steven Greenhut on Why Asset
Forfeiture Abuse Is on the Rise
We've all become accustomed to the police increasing their
ticket-writing to backfill their budgets, writes Steven Greenhut ,
but civil forfeiture laws have taken the profiteering to a new and disturbing
level. If, for instance, your neighbor borrowed your green Buick and sold some
marijuana to an undercover agent, the law enforcement agency can seize the car.
The owner might not have done anything wrong, but the car was indeed used in
the commission of a crime. And law enforcement knows that it's so costly for
people to fight their forfeiture proceedings that many victims simply cede the
property without a fight.
Who owns the rain? That
sounds like a silly question, but the answer may surprise you. If you live in
Oregon, Oregon does. So
what does that mean in practice? Well, if you live in Oregon and dig a pond on
your own property without a license, and the pond fills with rain water, the
state now owns that water. Oh, and apparently you can go to jail if you decide
to keep it.
Clean
toilet bowls by pouring in one cup of white distilled vinegar and ¼ cup baking
soda. Let it sit for a few minutes, then
scrub.
The Parting Thought- Government’s slide to ruin of the
American Way
"When you
see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who
produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in
goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull
than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them
against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a
self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
According to an official U.S. Department of Justice document, citizens
are to be treated as potential terrorists and extremists if they have, and I
quote:
"instructed themselves on topics ranging from first aid to
childbirth to edible plants."
I am not making this up. The official Justice Department document,
prepared, printed and distributed at taxpayer expense, is titled Investigating
Terrorism and Criminal Extremism.
This document, proudly displaying an official Justice Department logo
on its cover, mandates that anyone who has studied the above topics is to be
subjected to enhanced scrutiny by criminal investigators, who are directed "to
obtain as much information as possible" about such citizens.
Congress has headed off for its long vacation-and-campaign season,
fleeing Washington as the unemployment rate rises. According to the Labor
Department's July jobs report, the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent,
12.8 million Americans are out of work, and 5.2 million have been out of work
for at least a half a year.
According to one survey, the country added a surprising 163,000 jobs in July, while according to a second Labor Department survey, employment fell by 195,000—raising questions about whether the more positive figure is all that reliable, given that the economy slowed significantly to a 1.5 percent annualized growth rate in the second quarter and appears to be slowing further.
The question isn't what has slowed the economy—it's really what Obama Administration policy hasn't slowed the economy? The policies of the last few years has been unequivocal job killers.
According to one survey, the country added a surprising 163,000 jobs in July, while according to a second Labor Department survey, employment fell by 195,000—raising questions about whether the more positive figure is all that reliable, given that the economy slowed significantly to a 1.5 percent annualized growth rate in the second quarter and appears to be slowing further.
The question isn't what has slowed the economy—it's really what Obama Administration policy hasn't slowed the economy? The policies of the last few years has been unequivocal job killers.
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2 comments:
Why does the government spend so much time screwing with us (we used to be the master, not the slave) instead of serving us as it's supposed to?
Because there's too many people with their heads up their politics. Once people stop voting for criminals with a (D) or a (R) next to their names will things have a shot at getting better.
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