Andymatic

Category: 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

  • DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act

    In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people’s homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn’t be tipped off that they’re under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after […]

  • Indefinite Detention to Continue Under Obama

    The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials. via washingtonpost.com

  • Ex-CIA Chiefs Nervous About Investigations

    Seven former heads of the CIA on Friday urged President Barack Obama to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners held by the agency, arguing that it would hamper intelligence operations. via Ex-CIA chiefs urge Obama to drop abuse investigation | Reuters.

  • Southern Fried Sex Panic

    Here’s how a sex panic works in the south: First, you convince yourself that two guys looking at each other like Elvis looked at a pork chop poses more of a threat to public safety than two guys who look at your property as if it were their own. Second, a sex panic requires you […]

  • Atlanta Police Raid Gay Bar Just Because They Wanted To

    “I hate queers,” a cop said. Other officers — some plain-clothed, some uniformed — walked around the bar demanding to know who was in the military, threatening to report them to their commanding officers. “This is a lot more fun than raiding n_ggers with crack!” Du-Wayne Ray heard one white officer say this to another; […]

  • Czech Town Confronts 1945 Massacre

    The officials sent a report back to their minister recommending that the bodies be exhumed and burnt so that “[the victims] should have no memorials to which they could point as a source of suffering by their people.” In a top-secret operation in August 1947, several mass graves were dug up, and 763 bodies were […]

  • Forced Catheter in DUI Case

    An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police forcibly withdrew blood and urine from his body during a drunken driving arrest, WLWT-TV reported.According to the suit, police arrested Jamie Lockard, 53, on suspicion of drunken driving in March. via Forced Catheterization Used In DUI Case

  • Right-Wing Dog Whistles

    #5. Sovereign: In the right wing, this term has two meanings. The most troubling refers to a notion called “sovereign citizen,” a term popularized by the violent Posse Comitatus militia formation in the 1970s to argue that white people have a superior form of citizenship to that of black people. More commonly, the term “sovereign” […]

  • Founders Like Me

    Beck has a very clever way of being racist without actually directly saying anything racist. He’s always applauding the Founding Fathers as brilliant, wonderful men who are, most importantly, Beck will stress as he leans toward the audience, “just like us.” And he’s right, in that the only people in his theater are old and […]

  • 1k CCTV Cameras, One Crime Solved

    Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. via BBC NEWS