Showing posts with label 1st Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st Amendment. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2018

Turning the tables

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ACLU ‏ Verified account   @ACLU   May 8 More Federal hate crimes laws were passed to correct the centuries of i...
Monday, February 26, 2018

God told me I couldn't bake you a cake

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Suffer (bring) the children to me. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Those a...
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

School board members acting like petulant children

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This is how democracy works in this country. The Vermillion Parish school board met to determine whether to give the school superintenda...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Let them eat cake

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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission , the case about the...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Fuck Troy Nehls and fuck you for voting for him

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Yes, it's low-hanging fruit. But I've been under the weather the last couple of days and it's the best I can do. I'm su...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Taking a stand by sitting down

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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigge...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Two years awaiting trial; so much for the presumption of innocence

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One way to quell dissent is to lock up the dissenters so that no one can listen to them.You can do this by overcharging on a criminal compla...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Update: And sometimes right wins out

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A few weeks ago I wrote about Ron Martin of Frisco, Texas who was arrested and charged with violating Frisco's sign ordinance after hol...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

When promoting traffic safety is against the law

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Sure, the police set up speed traps in order to make the roads safer. Their goal is to encourage motorists not to exceed the speed limit. Th...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

NH police view Occupy protesters as terrorists

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From the website Common Dreams  comes this story of the increasing militarization of the police: In a bid to bring armored vehicles to the...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Plugging leaks

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The Obama administration has gone after more whistleblowers and journalists for leaking classified information that all other administration...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Speaking out

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Brooklyn College finds itself today in the middle of a sea of controversy over a forum being held on campus by a group, BDS, calling for bo...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

One night in Hudspeth County

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Rusty Fleming wants all you budding country and rock stars to know that they don't much care for drugs down in the Valley in Hudspeth Co...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Project dehumanization

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It's certainly not unusual for the state to do whatever it can to dehumanize a person accused of a crime. Whether that be parading them ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

The government knows best

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The State of Texas has decided it is qualified to tell doctors how to run their practices and what to tell their patients. According to a p...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Death by a thousand cuts?

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Last week Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Jr. ordered Twitter to hand over three months worth of Occupy Wall Street protes...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Plead guilty and pass the Bible

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We've had our share of judges in Harris County who didn't someone understand the reason the Founding Fathers wanted a separation bet...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Lynne Stewart: Warrior

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Judges don't necessarily like us. We get in the way. We're the ones who force the state to do things like actually producing evidenc...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Watch what you say

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Thanks to the wonders of the Freedom of Information Act, the Daily Mail of London has put together a list of all the words that the Grand I...