Fascism

Articles involving crony-capitalism and tyrannical government.

Cover Up Of Murder By Police In The Andrew Scott Case

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July 20, 2012

A Bad Cop No Doughnut contributor notes: By now most everyone is aware of the shooting of an innocent man in his home who the Sheriff’s Office said was shot by Deputy Richard Sylvester when he answered his door at 1:30am with a gun in his hand. This story got much coverage and today it was...
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Woman Convicted of Battery For Doing Exactly What The TSA Does

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July 14, 2012

How is it possible for a woman to be convicted of battery for doing exactly the same thing the TSA does, while the TSA is not guilty of battery itself? Clearly this is insane. If it is battery when a citizen does it, then it is battery when the state does it.  I look...
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Obama Moves To Shut Down Largest Dispensary In CA – Because It’s Too Successful

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July 13, 2012

As the article says, they aren’t even pretending this is about a violation of state law anymore. Stop The Drug War.org reports,  by Scott Morgan: One month ago, Eric Holder testified before Congress that the Dept. of Justice is only targeting medical marijuana businesses that violate their state’s laws. Anyone who didn’t realize it was a lie should...
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Why Political Arguments Don’t Matter

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July 12, 2012

As an individual, you might disagree with subsidies to major food conglomerates, but I can guarantee you that the food conglomerates have a lot more money to spend on getting politicians to subsidize them than you have on getting them not to subsidize them.  This scenario is the same for every other conceivable sector of the economy....
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The “Defense” Industry Wants to Draft Your Kids With The Help of The New York Times

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July 12, 2012

Recently Thomas E. Ricks, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, authored an article entitled “Lets Draft Our Kids” in the New York Times that called for the military conscription of 18 year olds.  I have a great curiosity about people who advocate for conscription (which is essentially slavery) and war, so I decided...
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Ademo Freeman Facing 21 Years For Recording A Cop

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July 12, 2012

Felony wiretapping for calling a cop and recording the conversation, in which he asks about a video of police beating up a 17 year old kid. 3 counts, 7 years each, 21 years total. The incident that lead to the felony charges is described here. The video, which lead to the wire tapping charges,...
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Total Unfunded Liabilities Now Reach 99 Trillion: New Reading of Obamacare Finds 17 Trillion Additional Debt

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July 11, 2012

ZeroHedge reports: Two years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion ($900 billion to be precise), and that it would not add ‘one dime’ to the debt. It appears that this estimate may have been slightly optimistic… by a factor...
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The Tale of My Father’s Escape From Communist Hungary

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July 11, 2012
The Tale of My Father’s Escape From Communist Hungary

My father was 6 years old when the Russian tanks rolled into his village.  The year was 1956, and the Hungarian Revolution was underway.  The Hungarian Revolution or Uprising of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People’s Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. The revolt began as a...
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The Vanishing Entrepreneur

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July 10, 2012

Story of how one woman’s business idea of servicing low income areas with transportation to and from jails was crushed under the heel of government regulations.
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Government Investment Generates Huge Returns…

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July 5, 2012

…for politically connected crony private business partners. For the rest of us, it has cost us rather dearly.  I present to you some recent and not-so-recent failures of bureaucratic investments. Clean Energy Projects In Bankruptcy: Solyndra, total cost to you: $535 million Abound Solar, total cost to you: $400 million Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP), total cost...
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