“Dookhan was paroled after three years and released from prison before the sentences of those she helped convict were vacated. Despite the clear wrongdoing, the state still fought against dismissing the tainted cases.”
“Meanwhile, thousands of people who were arrested previously for what is now legal in many places continue to languish in prisons.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/marijuana-legalization-arrests-increase/
“Indians are concerned that a proposed bill, which gives regulators the option to use public deposits to bail out a bank that goes bust, is pushing individuals to hoard cash. The government has repeatedly issued statements to assure the public that their money would be safe. These concerns are heightened by news that emerged in February of a $2 billion fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank, where a jeweler allegedly colluded with a bank employee to siphon off money before leaving the country.”
“Shortly before the Waco showdown, U.S. government officials signed an international Chemical Weapons Convention treaty. But the treaty contained a loophole permitting governments to gas their own people.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/383407-bitter-lessons-25-years-after-waco-texas-siege
“FDA has shockingly defined ‘skim milk’ as having artificial vitamin additives that are not naturally found in skim milk. Business owners who insist on selling additive-free skim milk as ‘skim milk’ face fines and even possible incarceration.”
Read more: http://ij.org/case/fda-skim-milk/
“As Woodrow Wilson and LBJ knew well, the rush of power felt when America engages in a foreign crusade is effortlessly converted to a domestic crusade.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/you-cant-blame-trump-for-the-welfare-warfare-state/
“Palacio’s ranch is situated north of the Mexican border. Exactly how far away is of utmost importance when it comes to what rights you have in the US, where it’s commonly said that borders are a ‘Constitution-free zone’.”
“The next time someone warns about the potential for domestic abuse of supposed national security measures, do not dismiss him or her as a neurotic libertarian.”
“An elite police squad robbing its own citizens, stealing thousands of dollars and re-selling confiscated drugs — all seven cops were on the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.”
“The public sexual assault of this innocent man turned up nothing. What’s more, the footage of the attack was hidden from public view and only discovered by accident.”