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Every day, police officers and judges are responsible for putting non-violent people in cages for victimless crimes.
Also every day, there are many police officers and judges who use their position in the system to get away with the very same things that they lock people up for. This happens all of the time, but a bureaucrat doesn’t really end up on the wrong side of the law unless they do something very public, and very obnoxious.
In the past few months we have noticed a hand full of stories where cops and judges have found themselves on the other end …read more

Buzzsmart says there is some reason to believe that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is mulling over running for president in 2016 as an independent. Huntsman, for a few weeks in late 2011, had made up his mind to seek the Americans Elect nomination for president in 2012, but then he changed his mind. See(More)… …read more

When we started Coinbase, we took a look at the Bitcoin Core open source project, and tried to decide how we could use it to build a web application. Bitcoin Core is a great reference implementation, but was never designed to query blockchain data in a flexible way (such as through a SQL database) or to scale to millions of users across dozens of servers. And so we built our own Bitcoin node to power Coinbase (which we’ve now scaled to 1.6M wallets).
Today we’re happy to announce Toshi, the next generation of our Bitcoin node, has been open sourced.
Toshi is …read more

This Associated Press article by AP reporter Travis Loller gives an unusually comprehensive account of Tennessee’s history of hostility toward minor parties. It also reveals that there is still no decision on whether the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Governor this year will be on with the ballot label “independent” or “Libertarian.” …read more

In a video uploaded to YouTube on Monday, Officer Aguilar of the Clovis, NM, Police Department is seen blatantly assaulting an innocent and handcuffed 26 year old man.
The incident began as what appeared to be a normal traffic stop. However, Officer Aguilar approached the vehicle and never provided any information on his reasoning, before demanding license and registration from the driver.
Approximately a minute into the video the young man in the passenger seat validly asks the officer why they were stopped, and this thug with a badge demands to see his identification.
When the innocent man asked “for what?”, Officer Aguilar …read more

Over 61,000 of these incidents have occurred since 9/11, resulting in $2.5 billion being seized.
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American police are targeting their northern neighbors, according to a travel warning from the Canadian government.
State and federal law enforcement officers are reportedly shaking down Canadians visiting the US, illegally confiscating legally carried cash.
Over 61,000 of these incidents have occurred since 9/11, resulting in $2.5 billion being seized, according to The Washington Post. RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky has more details on the trend.

Source: RT.com

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“The only crime he committed was smiling too much.”
Leon Ford, a man paralyzed when Pittsburgh Officer David Derbish “feared for his life” and shot Ford at a traffic stop, was found not guilty on Monday on two counts of aggravated assault, charges which could have landed him 20 years in prison.
Not guilty on agg assault ! Huge win for Leon Ford ! #wpxi pic.twitter.com/jjDhIxhbGl
— Alan Jennings (@newsdog11) September 15, 2014

The jury was deadlocked on all other charges, which included three counts of recklessly endangering another person, resisting arrest and escape.
It is unclear if the lesser charges will be refiled against …read more

On September 15, U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Payne denied Virginia’s request to dismiss the Libertarian Party’s lawsuit challenging Virginia’s law on the order of candidates on general election ballots. The law says the nominees of the qualified parties always have the top spots on the ballot. There will be another hearing on October(More)… …read more

On September 16, Public Policy Polling released a poll for several races in Kansas. The results for U.S. Senate are: independent Greg Orman 41%; Republican incumbent Pat Roberts 34%; Democrat Chad Taylor 6%; Libertarian Randall Batson 4%; undecided 15%. See here for the full results, including gubernatorial results that show the Libertarian at 7%. If(More)… …read more