Chicago officer shoots family puppy, gives them a parking ticket, and then tickets them again when they tell the media

A 20-pound family puppy when out to see a Chicago officer who was writing their family a ticket, only to be shot by the officer. After shooting their dog, the officer proceeded to finish writing the ticket, and went on his way without apologizing. The puppy was being groomed to become a show dog, but will now have a permanent limp.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20121204/uptown/couple-says-trigger-happy-cop-popped-their-pup-then-wrote-traffic-ticket

But hey, policing is a dangerous job, maybe the dog had it coming. Maybe we're being too quick to judge the man who shoots puppies. Well, just in case that wasn't enough, get a look at this.

The family told the media about this, as you can see above, only to find themselves with another visit from the police, two of them this time, both a sergeant and a lieutenant, to bring them a ticket for "not having their dog on a leash", in an obvious attempt to intimidate them for talking to the media.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20121204/uptown/owner-of-shot-puppy-ticketed-again-by-chicago-police

You know what the punishment for this officer is going to be? Not a God-damn thing. You don't cross the blue line.

Woman Jailed Over Facebook Comment

Paula Asher, a woman from Kentucky, was apparently driving under the influence and hit another car. She wrote about it on facebook, saying "My dumb bass got a DUI and I hit a car…LOL".

The existence of such on outrageous comment offended the judge so much that Paula was told to delete her entire facebook account. Paula didn't take this order seriously, and the judge actually found her in contempt of court over this, jailing her for two days.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/09/lol-facebook-post-after-dui-accident-lands-woman-in-jail/

This girl sounds kinda stupid, but I'm amazed at the powertrip this judge is on. This is a very clearly an abridgment of free speech. And even if we were going to go over some kind of justification against "hate speech", this wouldn't qualify.

I'm more amazed at the comments defending the decision. WTF "americathepitiful", the first amendment is not there just to defend criticism of the government. It's there most importantly for that reason, but that doesn't make it the only defended speech.

Speak of the devil

Justice Monika Schmidt sentenced Jian Chen to three years and nine months of jail time. Her crime?  Killing her former lover Xian Peng after lacing his soup with sleeping pills, tying him up for six hours, and then stabbing him repeatedly in the neck and groin and cutting off part of his penis which was then flushed down the toilet.

Chen thought he deserved it because she was under the impression that he was a conman sleeping around with women, having babies with them, as a way of controlling them.

And she only got three years and nine months. Damn you patriarchy!

I must be misunderstanding the word manslaughter, because drugging someone, tying them up, and stabbing them to death and sexually mutilating them is murder in my book. Like, really really messed up psycho killer murder. Did she not know that stabbing someone in the neck usually kills someone?

Imagine if the roles were reversed! What if a man thought a woman was a gold digger, sleeping around and having babies so she could collect alimony money, so he drugs her, cuts off her breasts, and stabs her in the throat and groin to death? What would happen? We would call for his head on a pike! This is a truly monstrous act!

I can only imagine that she got this special treatment because she's a woman. Where's the outrage, feminists? Where is it?

Woman Ordered to Not Hand Out Free Water in 112 Degree Heat

I love the smell of red tape in the morning.

A Christian woman named Dana Crow-Smith was handing out free water during in 112-degree Farenheit heat, but was ordered to cease and desist, as she did not have her proper permits, or else they would be cited.

http://www.abc15.com//dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/valley-woman-told-she-could-not-hand-out-free-bottled-water-in-summer-heat

This is a perfect example of how inefficient, horrifying, and ridiculous government intervention in the market can get. And do you know what will happen because of this? Absolutely nothing. She might get an apology with enough publicity, but there will be no serious change.

If we eliminated tedious paperwork, permits, and licenses, trying to control the economy, just gums up the free market. Reputation and accountability work better than any red tape. Government bureaucrats with no accountability will never match the efficiency and results of a voluntary private endeavors.

CopBlock Founder gets ~3 months for "wiretapping"

It's funny how government criminalizes it's own actions on a regular basis, isn't it? Not to mention that they were his own calls and that the people he was talking to were public officials with no expectation of privacy.

Absolutely ridiculous.

http://www.reformer.com/ci_21306079/n-h-activist-gets-almost-3-months-wiretapping?source=most_viewed

TIL in America any single mother can point at a random guy and claim he is the father. If said man cannot prove he is not the father withing 30 days, he is legally the father.

And did I mention, if the child is over 2 years, you have no right to use a paternity test as evidence?

http://reason.com/archives/2004/02/01/injustice-by-default/singlepage