Women attending the debate over the Texas abortion-bill-that-will-not-die were searched and their tampons and pads confiscated.

The state troopers were afraid the women would throw them at the senators. No, really.

Loaded guns, however, were permitted in the chamber. No, REALLY.

Do we need The Onion when we have Texas?

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The US police state is alive and well.

ETA: The case was dropped in September. Thanks, gershwhen. :)

On to the next...

The police brutality is definitely escalating.


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I'm keen to understand what the NYPD think they are accomplishing by confiscating and destroying Occupy's library. TWICE. Over 5,000 volumes have been trashed, some of them irreplaceable signed reference works. As you can see in the linked article, the librarians have taken to pushing the new donations around in a cart, so that they are more ( Read more... )

Okay, I have my occasional issues with Keith Olbermann, but this is fantastic. On OWS, Michael Bloomberg and the US Police State:

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YEAH! YOUR NATION NEEDS YOU, MR. MAYOR! *cackle* How old I must be to remember seeing most of those film clips when they were news...

Of the Occupy Wall Street protests that are taking place all over the country.

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Just in case someone zip-ties your hands by accident.

Keep safe.

Adam Savage gets his junk scanned and still winds up boarding a plane with a couple of 12-inch razor blades.

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So tell me again how these new procedures are supposed to be making us safe?

Anyone opting out of the new TSA nuke-or-grope procedures will not be permitted to leave the security area and go home.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be ( Read more... )

Since it's come to my attention that some folks think that only people with "bad attitudes" are being abused by TSA personnel, I'll link two of the latest examples of the work being done by our defenders of freedom.

A breast cancer survivor is forced to remove her prosthetic breast.

A bladder cancer survivor's urostomy bag is ripped open.This is ( Read more... )