Yeh, another micro-mini-rant. 😉
Just follow the links for the examples. Any one of them is enough to skew my blood pressure results for a day…
1. Magistrate judge to decide if couple will be prosecuted for ‘stalking’ officer. Yeh, they set up cameras and a radar gun to catch speeders (plural) down their residential street, cos the cops were doing zippo. So, when they turned one of them in, this is what they get.
2. The Martha Stewart Rule. And here as well. Yeh. “Manufacturing” safely-prosecuted “criminals”.
3. And what about the Plame Game outcome? Seems the feds can gin up a prosecution if your memory (or someone else’s whom they want to believe) is faulty.
4. Ruby Ridge coverup and the continued freedom of Lon Horiuchi, the murderer of Vicki Weaver. No justice for the Weavers, that’s for sure.
5. The TSA. Examples too numerous to cite. *sigh* Try this one. Remanufacturing citizens as subjects.
6. You need look no further than the sticky post at the top of thos page for a prime example of anarcho-tyranny: the unconscionable persecution of two Border Patrol agents by an unjscrupullous feddle prosecutor (the position should be retitled as “persecutor” just for him, although he’s not the only one by far) for doing their job and following the rules the Border Patrol has for doing their BP agents!
7. The most obvious example of deliberate state-caused anarcho-tyranny is the willfull, witting and completely irresponsible and desrtructive behavior of the feddle gummint in NOT enforcing the laws against illegal immigrants, and, indeed, persecuting darned near anyone who does attempt to get those laws enforced. Save for the paltry few examples like the Swift plant raid that (unintentionally, I’m sure) exposed the lie that illegal immigrants are necessary to “do the jobs Americans won’t do,” the feddle gummint under the explicit leadership of President Bush has even managed to make the Clinton administration look good on border/immigration enforcement!
8. “Police blotter: Teens prosecuted for racy photos” Not condoning or in any way endorsing these kids’ behavior, but the courts determined that they were old enough to legally engage in sex in Florida, but arrested them and put them on trial as adults for engaging in child pornography… because the girl sent pictures of them in the act… to the boy. Let’s see… the pictures were of “children” who were then tried as “adults” for taking the pics and sharing them. Anyone make sense of that? That they were stupid on many levels doesn’t excuse the irrationality and injustice of the courts.
9. Julie Amero. The more I read of this case, the less respect I have for the people of Connecticut. In this case, the school system administrators, the police, prosecutor, judge and jury should all be introduced to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether and escorted on a long walk off a short pier.
10. The Duke “not-a-rape” case. Another case where the police (and school officials) as well as–especially!–a prosecutor all need introductions to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether…
11. Not here–yet!–but given the antipathy the “prisons for kids” system of public “education” has for homeschoolers (and the justifiable fear politicians and others have of citizens who can actually think), can it be far off? Police take home-taught student to psych ward: Government objected to her parent-led courses in math, Latin.
12. Of peanut butter and dogs: is there nothing the State cannot meddle in to restrict the liberties of common citizens while enabling outlaws to thrive?
13. Well, in answer to that apparently rhetorical question, no. Thursday Thirteen Hub, and Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, The Virtuous Republic, Perri Nelson’s Website, basil’s blog, Stuck On Stupid, The Amboy Times, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, Conservative Thoughts, Pursuing Holiness, stikNstein… has no mercy, Blue Star Chronicles, Pirate’s Cove, The Pink Flamingo, Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker, High Desert Wanderer, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
How about the “Dateline: Predator” which has caught a few dozen pervs and in the meantime taken cyberporn to a new level. In all these shows, how much time is spent showing safe practices, or even good sites for kids and parents? Uh… I think 5 minutes during season one.
Chris Hansen is a tool who poses as a white knight for corporate interests. It’s all about the ratings baby! Uh oh… I said “baby”… I think Chris is at the door now.
Seriously, no one is going to defend pederasts (or should), but our mass media obsession with it is its own style of pornography for the sake of ratings. It’s shows like Dateline which lead to cases like Julie Amero’s (a case which I’ve been following through the wwwedu list and Nancy Willard’s scrupulous coverage thereof). It’s appalling.
The chilling effects in K-12 schools is even worse. No one seems to care if computers are used in schools, given the 100% negativism that we get in mass media about how the Net is (basically) soley for child predators.
Regards,
Jeff Cooper
Education Technology Support Consultant
Good points, Jeff. And yeh, I’ve been following Nancy Willard’s coverage of the Julie Amero case. Another case where the “justice” system… isn’t.
Let’s not forget the Supreme Court’s ruling last year that police can stop and demand ID from citizens at random.
They don’t have to outlaw peanut butter for me. The minute I heard about the rat droppings that was it. I’ll never eat peanut butter again. But that’s a good thing.
BTW – it’s not that I wouldn’t have realized that food stored in storage facilities would have, errr, those kinds of problems – but I don’t want it in the front of my mind. I haven’t eaten at Taco Bell in years and I used to love them…
Can’t. Stand. The. Thought. Of. It.