All Vehicles Look Alike

The latest Brickbat from Reason Magazine. This could never happen to you right?

via Daily Brickbats on 7/7/10

JaDaimon Cole says he and his girlfriend were terrified when Dallas police ordered them out of their car at gunpoint. Sgt. Warren Mitchell described the stop as "an honest mistake." He says an officer typed in an "N" instead of an "M" into a computer terminal when checking the license plate and the computer alerted them the car had been stolen. Cole was driving a 2005 Chrysler and the stolen car was a 1995 Chevrolet.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
http://www.slate.com/id/2245188 Quote from Declaration of Independence:
 ...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
It's time to withdrawl your consent.

Recording the Police

Media_httpinthenameof_qvecx
I have decided why not do recurring posts everytime I see a news story of a person arrested for recording the police in their official duties. I will use the above picture to identify the posts. This one is from Toledo, Ohio where a lady was harrassed to give up her camera outside her house. The officer demanded she hand it over for evidence and when she refused the officer eventually left with the drunk whom he was arresting. Later in the day different cops came to her house and arrest her as a warrant was put out for her arrest after the officer filed charges against the woman. She was in jail for 18hours before eventually being released. My favorite quote is from the officer who is appealing the suspension:
''There was no 'just cause' to this suspension and I should not be disciplined at all,'' he wrote. ''I did nothing wrong.'' 
That's right kids stealing and kidnapping aren't wrong!