Cop Block Founder Seeking Donations For Upcoming Legal Battle

A little over a week after launching my ?Defensive/Offensive? fundraiser I?m happy to announce that donations to date (1.29.12) total just over $1,200! I?m inspired and excited by the flood of supporters who?ve come to my aid on such an important issue. Thanks to you, we?ll continue to highlight the abusive nature of, so called, public officials.

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I think both ways would be viable. I think it is more of your choice of what you want to do because you are the one who might have to serve time and any time served sucks pretty bad but like you said you can man up and play it the sane way but sometimes unfortunately society is so insane it likes to keep those who are sane behind bars.

I so please make the choice based on your feelings and intuition.

Thanks for bringing so much awareness to all of this I think most people already know how dirty they are.

So I would say I am about 60% go for an attorney and 40% go on the offensive.

*So please make the choice based on your feelings and intuition.

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Medical and legal experts launch new call for an inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly

*** Amid new calls for an inquest into the death of WMD expert Dr Kelly, certain sections of the media are promoting suggestions that Iraqi agents could have been responsible, citing an official source at a UN agency with known links to US/UK intelligence agencies. However, an operation by Iraqi agents is extremely unlikely, and would not explain why it was made to look like suicide. If Iraqi agents were responsible, this also does not explain why the spurious suicide conclusion was reached by the Hutton inquiry, or why the UK authorities actively concealed evidence and staged a cover-up. ***

New call for Dr David Kelly inquest

A group of experts have renewed calls for a formal inquest into the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly.

They say the official cause of death - a haemorrhage - was "extremely unlikely" in the light of new evidence.

The claim comes in a letter from eight senior figures, including a coroner, published in the Times newspaper.

Dr Kelly's body was found in 2003 near his Oxfordshire home after he was exposed as the source of a BBC story on the grounds for going to war in Iraq.

Instead of a coroner's inquest, then Prime Minister Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to conduct an investigation, which found Dr Kelly committed suicide.

Lord Hutton's inquiry found the 59-year-old died from blood loss after slashing his wrist with a blunt gardening knife.

The letter's signatories include a former coroner, Michael Powers, a former deputy coroner, Margaret Bloom, and Julian Bion, a professor of intensive care medicine.

They say Lord Hutton's conclusion is unsafe. They argue that a severed ulnar artery, the wound found to Dr Kelly's wrist, was unlikely to be life-threatening unless an individual had a blood-clotting deficiency.

"Insufficient blood would have been lost to threaten life," they write.

"Absent a quantitative assessment of the blood lost and of the blood remaining in the great vessels, the conclusion that death occurred as a consequence of haemorrhage is unsafe."

SOURCE

BBC News, "New call for Dr David Kelly inquest", 13 August 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10961016

"The Insider" mailing list article, 14 August 2010.

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Feds order California pot dispensaries to shut down - despite being legal under state laws

Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges.

They also threatened to confiscate their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law.

In an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation's burgeoning medical marijuana industry, California's four U.S. attorneys sent letters on Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California.

The attorneys are scheduled to announce their coordinated crackdown at a Friday news conference.Their offices refused to confirm the closure orders.

Copies of the letters that a prosecutor sent to 12 San Diego dispensaries were obtained.

They state that federal law 'takes precedence over state law and applies regardless of the particular uses for which a dispensary is selling and distributing marijuana'.

'Under United States law, a dispensary's operations involving sales and distribution of marijuana are illegal and subject to criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions,' letters signed by U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy in San Diego read.

'Real and personal property involved in such operations are subject to seizure by and forfeiture to the United States ... regardless of the purported purpose of the dispensary.'

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Time to ramp up that California secession movement. It's about time the feds got off their butts and did something.
98150: Agreed. The sooner we get California out of the U.S., the better. Perhaps nature will do that for us. Keep government out of my personal business. This is anti liberty.

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The Philosophy of Liberty: Legal Plunder

In this follow up video to The Philosophy of Liberty: Property, we explore Frederic Bastiat's concept of Legal Plunder. Is it ever OK for government to steal your stuff and give it to someone else? Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate ala Tony Soprano? Does it really make sense for citizens to plunder each other like competing bands of vikings?

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