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Los Angeles, CA — A Los Angeles city councilwoman just proposed one of the most chilling uses of license plate scanners ever.
As an ostensible means of deterring prostitution, Nury Martinez, of the LA city council, wants to scan every single license plate, make a list, and mail out a shame letter to every person who drives through an arbitrary area deemed a prostitution zone.
You read that right. For merely driving through a designated area, Martinez proposes publicly shaming any and every motorist by scanning their license plate.
Martinez told CBS Los Angeles, “If you aren’t soliciting, you have no reason to …read more

Shane Goldmacher has this story in Politico, which says that some recognized Republican candidates for President are complaining about primary ballot access. One complaint is the very high filing fees some southern Republican Parties are charging for presidential candidates to get on the ballot. State laws in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, and Texas permit the Republican Party to create their own barriers, beyond those mentioned in state law.
The irony is that neither states nor political parties are permitted to impose mandatory filing fees on candidates without giving any alternative method to get on the ballot. The …read more

From Jim Babka
President, Downsize DC

Lots of people have written to us, so that it’s getting impossible to respond to all of them. We have been informed, repeatedly, over the past couple of days, that we’ve “lost our way.” Here I am, working on Thanksgiving, reading those messages and writing this reply…

This memo needs to be an Open Letter. It is not intended for anyone, personally. I think, given the number and type of letters requesting response, in the last couple of days, that it’s important to be general in my response and answer everyone alike — which means this answer …read more

It should be common knowledge now that law enforcement has no hesitation in abandoning morality to achieve its goals. During interrogation of suspects, they can lie, offer false rewards, harass and threaten in the pursuit of a confession, deceiving the suspect into waiving his constitutional rights. This is used on children too, resulting in a high rate of false confessions.
The FBI scrapes the bottom of the barrel in carrying out its bizarre business of turning hopeless, angry teenagers into terrorists. In 2009-2010 two undercover agents, along with dozens of support operatives and a massive surveillance undertaking, spent a year to …read more

Millis, MA — A new cop on the Millis police force, who put a whole neighborhood on lock-down and initiated a massive manhunt when he fabricated a story to cover up his car accident, has just been found dead in his residence near Millis, Massachussets.
In September, Officer Bryan Johnson, 24, said someone in a pickup truck opened fire on his vehicle as they passed in opposite directions on Forest Road.
“My cruiser’s been shot at. I’m at Forest Road. It’s going to be a dark maroon pickup,” the officer radioed to dispatch at 2:17 p.m.
As the story goes, he spun around …read more

Well, just to give a nice “fuck you” to the nonsense that is Black Friday, I want to share with you something that is completely free. Not a dime to spend, and it works with Firefox and Firefox-based browsers.
And the relevance for the Dark Android Project is that the developer of this Firefox add-on has also released an experimental version of it for the Android version of the Firefox browser (and again, Firefox-based browsers like Orfox, IceCat, or the AdBlock Browser).

The add-on is simply and aptly called: “Black background and white text“. And that’s exactly what it does, it inverts …read more

On November 25, the last two briefs were filed in the Sixth Circuit in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted. Here is the state’s response, and here is the reply to that.
The part of the case in the Sixth Circuit concerns whether the 2013 ballot access law violates the Ohio Constitution. The part of the case about whether the 2014 enforcement of a campaign finance law was enforced in a discriminatory manner is still in U.S. District Court. …read more

Former Congressman Virgil Goode, who was the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, has become a campaign official in Donald Trump’s campaign in Virginia. See this story. …read more

I love it when I get to talk hardware at the Dark Android Project, and with this new tablet I’m going to talk about, I’ve been given another opportunity.
This one is a bit of a weird animal since you can buy it with either Android or Windows 10 installed. Yep, it’s an Intel-based device, so it unquestionably proves the point I’ve been making on this blog for some time: You can run other operating systems on Intel-based devices, and that means you have greater control of your device, and you have options, which are the very essence of freedom. Really, …read more

Breitbart has this lengthy article by Matthew Boyle about the Republican presidential nomination process for 2016. …read more