Sage Wisdom. Daily Brickbats (2011-06-17):

A Broward County, Florida, sheriff’s deputy spotted Robin Brown when she was bird watching one day. He thought that the sage she had with her was marijuana, and a field test seemed to confirm that. He didn’t arrest her then, but confiscated the sage and sent it to the crime…

Want to guess how much compensation she might be able to get from police and state prosecutors to make up for the harassment, arrest, abduction, sexual assault, torture, and confinement that they inflicted on her, a completely innocent bird-watcher, based on nothing more than belligerent ignorance, a fraudulent “field kit,” and pure, callous negligence?

Ha, ha, it’s a trick question. Even if she does win her lawsuit (which will be hard; the system overwhelmingly favors immunity for government violence), the police and prosecutors will never pay anything for the damages she’s awarded. Government police and state prosecutors never pay for what they do to innocent people; you pay for their crimes instead, when they send the tax bill on to you.

Sage Wisdom. Daily Brickbats (2011-06-17):

A Broward County, Florida, sheriff’s deputy spotted Robin Brown when she was bird watching one day. He thought that the sage she had with her was marijuana, and a field test seemed to confirm that. He didn’t arrest her then, but confiscated the sage and sent it to the crime…

Want to guess how much compensation she might be able to get from police and state prosecutors to make up for the harassment, arrest, abduction, sexual assault, torture, and confinement that they inflicted on her, a completely innocent bird-watcher, based on nothing more than belligerent ignorance, a fraudulent “field kit,” and pure, callous negligence?

Ha, ha, it’s a trick question. Even if she does win her lawsuit (which will be hard; the system overwhelmingly favors immunity for government violence), the police and prosecutors will never pay anything for the damages she’s awarded. Government police and state prosecutors never pay for what they do to innocent people; you pay for their crimes instead, when they send the tax bill on to you.

• Living Freedom » Blog Archive » Give Your Stuff Away Day. www.backwoodshome.com (2011-06-15). “And the joys of a bad neighborhood in a bad economy.” – Claire Wolfe (Linked Wednesday 2011-06-15.)

• the post-moral period. Captain Capitulation, cheese it, the cops! (2011-06-12). it's amazing what is an illness these days: to begin with, your personality, your actions being symptoms. i guess i would think of this as a model, metaphor, or ideology: a central one of our era. apparently weiner is actually entering a residential treatment facility for compulsive sexting. now if one is… (Linked Monday 2011-06-13.)

• Jim Crow Returns to Alabama. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-06-10). This past Thursday the Alabama legislature put on their white hoods and enacted the harshest anti-immigrant regime in the country, one even more tyrannical than Arizona's ethnic-cleansing laws. As in Arizona, the new edict "allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant if the person is stopped… (Linked Sunday 2011-06-12.)

• That '80s Show. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason.com articles and blog posts. (2011-06-10). Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, by David Sirota, Ballantine Books, 220 pages, $25 1971 saw the debut of All in the Family, a generation-gap comedy that pitted a liberal college student against his conservative father-in-law. 1982… (Linked Sunday 2011-06-12.)

• Revolutionary WARPED. admin, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (2011-06-11). Grenades took a bit longer to explode back then. (Linked Sunday 2011-06-12.)

• rechelon on Why is /r/Anarchism so feminist oriented? reddit: the front page of the internet (2011-06-12). 1) Well, for instance, there's a profound number of ways that the state is utterly terrible on issues of rape — like during the RNC in 08 the police basically openly shuttered their rape investigation department, because you know, priorities, but also use of rape as a weapon by cops/prisons,… (Linked Monday 2011-06-13.)

• Black Rose Anarchist History Tour. Guy Debord, Los Angeles Anarchist (2011-06-13). Fellow Anarchists! Los Angeles has a rich anarchist history, but sadly most of that history has been forgotten or lost in the pages of time. Due to a disconnect of today's anarchists with their past, combined with never ending redevelopment of the city's landscape, anarchists in the city constantly walk… (Linked Monday 2011-06-13.)