Anti-Government Extremist

Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:50:16 -0400

Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing:

Thinking about file-sharing? Don’t. You’ll get fined, and crime doesn’t pay (unless you rob banks and/or armored cars, then it pays very well). Take it from Jammie Thomas, who was fined $2 million for downloading 24 songs, or anyone else who tried to fight the RIAA.
Instead, try another crime, because plenty of them draw far lighter penalties than downloading Jason Mraz’s latest. Thanks to the Mechanics blog at Gapers Block, here are seven crimes that will get you smaller fines than file-sharing:

1. Child abduction: the fine is only like $25000.

2. Stealing the actual CD: the fine is $2,500

3. Rob your neighbor: the fine is $375,000

4. Burn a house down: The fine is just over $375,000

5. Stalk someone: The fine is $175,000

6. Start a dogfighting ring: the fine is $50,000

7. Murder someone: The maximum penalty is only $25,000 and 15 years in jail, and depending on your yearly salary, would probably be far slighter a penalty that $2 million.

Seriously, murdering someone will result in a lighter overall penalty than downloading a bunch of songs and getting caught. Granted, you don’t get shivved in the showers at home, but still.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:23:28 -0400

thinksquad: Welcome to NJ, Pro Gun Citizen Forcefully Removed...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:43 -0400

thinksquad:

Welcome to NJ, Pro Gun Citizen Forcefully Removed From Hearing in the Middle of His Testimony
James Kaleda explains that the proposed NJ Gun Bills will not save any lives but will endanger them. He is ejected by Committee Chair Senator Norcross. This took place at the NJ Senate gun control hearings in Trenton on April 30, 2013.

Notice in the video the legislators laugh as they have their security (armed with guns of course) remove Kaleda before he finished his testimony.

I guess this is how they handle dissent in NJ, remove it from the building with armed guards.

Drunk on power.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:30 -0400

New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don't Want To Have A Country Anymore

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:51 -0400

New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don't Want To Have A Country Anymore:

satans-advocate:

eltigrechico:

“I already belong to a health club, a church, and the Kiwanis Club,” Tammy Golden of Los Angeles wrote. “I’m a member of the Von’s Grocery Super Savers, which gets me a discount on certain groceries. These are all well-managed organizations with real benefits. None of them send me a confusing bill once a year and make me work it out myself, then throw me in jail if I get it wrong.”

God I wish this were real

WISHING THIS WASNT THE ONION

c4ss: Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:09:08 -0400

c4ss:

Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent

Senior Obama officials tell the US Senate: the ‘war’, in limitless form, will continue for ‘at least’ another decade - or two…

Burglars Unwittingly Put Victim In Gun Closet; He Comes Out Shooting

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:29:45 -0400

Burglars Unwittingly Put Victim In Gun Closet; He Comes Out Shooting:

The victim of a home invasion managed to turn the tables on his attackers after they unwittingly forced him into his own gun closet.

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:43 -0400

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office :

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today. Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds…

This is looking worse by the day.

Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:12:43 -0400

Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press | Wired Opinion | Wired.com:

We now live in a world where public servants informing the public about government behavior or wrongdoing must practice the tradecraft of drug dealers and spies. Otherwise, these informants could get caught in the web of administrations that view George Orwell’s 1984 as an operations manual.

With the recent revelation that the Department of Justice under the Obama administration secretly obtained phone records for Associated Press journalists — and previous subpoenas by the Bush administration targeting the Washington Post and New York Times — it is clear that whether Democrat or Republican, we now live in a surveillance dystopia beyond Orwell’s Big Brother vision.

So how can one safely leak information to the press?

myparallelgalaxy: Years ago Al-Jazeera broadcasted shocking...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:59:11 -0400

myparallelgalaxy:

Years ago Al-Jazeera broadcasted shocking images of the aftermath of an American bombing raid in Iraq. Dozens of bodies, layed out in front of the clinic, 26 members of the Al-Qamiz family died in the bombing.
But when questioned about the civilian casualties, brigadier Mark Kimmitt dismissed the Al-Jazeera report as propaganda.

Brainwashing by the US through media. They don’t want you to see the truth.

Video: Ohio Man Illegally Arrested for Open Carry Sparks $3M Lawsuit

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:06 -0400

Video: Ohio Man Illegally Arrested for Open Carry Sparks $3M Lawsuit:

thinksquad:

An Ohio man has slapped local government with a $3.6 million lawsuit after policemen allegedly violated his Constitutional rights. Police detained Ray Call and confiscated his weapon because he openly carried his firearm into a store.

Brb open carrying all day.

NFL Player Instagrams Himself Peeing on IRS Building

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:10:27 -0400

NFL Player Instagrams Himself Peeing on IRS Building :

“Audit this,” says NFL player Evan Mathis.

"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency"

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:48:23 -0400

““Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency””

- Barack Obama

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:51:04 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

Every time someone says we’re a lazy and entitled generation I’m going to show them this

They should be happy most of us haven’t moved to the moon yet

That actually sounds like a good idea at this point

(via setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain)

paragonpostcards: Literally the American employment...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:52:15 -0400

paragonpostcards:

Literally the American employment system.

Also known as, minimum wage laws. See also here here and here.

Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned per President Obama's request

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:47:48 -0400

Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned per President Obama's request:

shortformblog:

President Obama announced minutes ago that, in response to the revelation that the IRS discriminately targeted conservative-leaning groups for scrutiny, he’s asked for and accepted the resignation of Miller, the acting IRS Commissioner. The commissioner at the time of the targeting was Donald Shulman; Miller didn’t assume the post of acting commissioner until November of last year, after the probe ended. However, he did have knowledge in May that the probe had taken place.

IRS exec got $42K in bonuses in three years | WashingtonExaminer.com

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:26:55 -0400

IRS exec got $42K in bonuses in three years | WashingtonExaminer.com:

Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011. That figure was included in data provided by the IRS in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Examiner. Lerner is director of the IRS exempt organizations division, which processes and approves or denies applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status. Lerner received $17,220 for 2009, $24,691 for 2010 and $10,620 for 2011, the most recent year for which the IRS said data was available. The newspaper’s FOIA was dated Aug. 21, 2013, but the tax agency said it only received the request on Nov. 21, 2012. The response, including the data, was postmarked May 10, 2013.

Redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.

The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon On Us

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:45:05 -0400

The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon On Us:

The war on whistleblowers, the treatment of Manning, and now this investigation of journalists are all hallmarks of a White House that promised transparency but has been one of the most secretive — all to the detriment of the public’s right to know.

Buy a handgun.

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:25:09 -0400

Buy a handgun.

"In a few short weeks, [the Obama administration has] managed to show that when [government] wants to..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:48:21 -0400

“In a few short weeks, [the Obama administration has] managed to show that when [government] wants to do “good” things, [its] managerial competence falls somewhere between David Brent and a cat chasing a laser pointer. But when government wants to flex its more malevolent muscles, [it’s] fucking Iron Man!”

- Jon Stewart (via laliberty)