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Ron Paul | "This bill will not help the United States, it will not help Israel, and it will not help the Middle East."

ABC Local | Beaumont, CA woman completely blinded by pepper spray gun says deepest regret, not being able to see her child.

Stephen Lendman | It's an American tradition.

Dekalb County News | Georgia - A Dekalb County Police officer under criminal investigation for kicking pregnant woman in stomach.

Washington Times | Legislation would allow domestic attacks on service members to be reviewed the same way as international terrorist attacks.

AFP | More than 50,000 killed since President Calderon launched military offensive on drug gangs in December 2006.

Thomas DiLorenzo | The "mainstream media' will now bloviate on about how much Obama has "grown in office."

MSNBC | People in China's Zhaotong City are committing suicide in protest over the demolition of houses.

Alex Jones | Psychopathic cops normalizing what went on at Abu Ghraib.

Fox News Latino | Once thought to have died by stun gun, new video shows agents shot 42-year-old Rojas while subdued.

Red Ice Creations | "Presidents, dignitaries and celebrities have all stepped through the door at 33 Royal St."

Steve Watson | TSA agents at Fort Lauderdale Airport insist eighteen month old child was on a no fly list as a terror suspect.

NY Times | Two car bombs exploded outside key intelligence compound in Damascus killing 55 and wounding 372.

Infowars.com | The establishment media has once again turned over its entire news coverage of today's bombing in Damascus to dubious Twitter users.

MSNBC | TSA has $44 million worth of screening equipment in storage for over a year; bought more than necessary to receive bulk discount.

Infowars | Campaign observers note "weird" ad produced by individual exposing hypocritical candidate

Tony Cartalucci | US stokes "terronoia" domestically, while backing real terrorists abroad.

New Yorker: Here’s Looking at You; Should we worry about the rise of the drone? by Nick Paumgarten:

ABSTRACT: THE WORLD OF SURVEILLANCE about drones. The prospect of unmanned flight has been around—depending on your definition—since Archytas of Tarentum reputedly designed a steam-powered mechanical pigeon, in the fourth century B.C., or since Nikola Tesla, in 1898, demonstrated a radio-controlled motorboat at an exposition in Madison Square Garden. By the sixties the Air Force was deploying unmanned reconnaissance jets over Southeast Asia. Still, it was the advent, in the mid-nineties, of the Global Positioning System, along with advances in microcomputing, that ushered in the possibility of automated unmanned flight. The Department of Defense, meanwhile, developed a keen interest. With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and manhunts in places like Yemen, the military applications, and the corporations devoted to serving them (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman), came to dominate the skyscape. Many of these manufacturers had one client: the Department of Defense. In 2001, the military had just a few Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (U.A.V.s). Now it has more than ten thousand. Later this month, the F.A.A. will present a regulatory regimen enabling law-enforcement departments to fly small drones, and the military contractors will suddenly have some eighteen thousand potential new customers. As of now, only a tiny percentage of municipal and state police departments have any air presence, because most can’t afford helicopters or planes. Small camera-loaded U.A.V.s are much cheaper. The public proposition, at this point, anyway, is not that drones will subjugate or assassinate unwitting citizens but that they will conduct search-and-rescue operations, fight fires, catch bad guys, inspect pipelines, spray crops, count nesting cranes and migrating caribou, and measure weather data and algae growth. For these and other tasks, they are useful and well suited. Of course, they are especially well suited, and heretofore have been most frequently deployed, for surveillance.

“No more than reasonable suspicion is required to search a parolee's home when the search is conducted pursuant to a valid parole condition.” State v. Heaton, 2012 Minn. App. LEXIS 39 (May 7, 2012).*

Defendant was stopped for a turn lane violation. Defendant’s detention was based on the fact that he would not make direct eye contact, his eyes were red and glassy, he was looking around the vehicle, and he acted somewhat suspicious. This led the officer to believe that he might be engaged in criminal activity. State v. Aguirre, 2012 Ohio 2014, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 1765 (3d Dist. May 7, 2012).*

Defendant has the burden of showing that the search warrant was issued without probable cause. Evaluating all the information, there was a substantial basis for concluding there was probable cause. State v. Fruge, 2012 La. App. LEXIS 623 (La.App. 5 Cir. May 8, 2012).*

To apply a Davis good faith exception to an officer’s interpretation of the statute, it has to be correct and in accord with existing case law that thereafter changed. If the officer is wrong on application of the statute, that’s a mistake of law and any good faith exception would not apply. United States v. Gore, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64784 (D. S.C. May 9, 2012).*

Officers approached defendant outside a store and got her ID to run a “local check” finding no warrants. They let her go but watched her walk and then decided to encounter her again, having her back against a wall and officers to both sides. A reasonable person would not have felt free to leave, and this was a Terry stop without justification. Defendant had the burden of showing that this was a seizure, and she satisfied it. State v. Young, 2012 Wash. App. LEXIS 1015 (May 1, 2012).*