‘A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI, Secret Service agents and police in Virginia’s Chesterfield County questioned him Thursday evening about what they said were ominous posts talking about a coming revolution. In one message earlier this month according to authorities, Raub wrote: “Sharpen my axe; I’m here to sever heads.”
Police — acting under a state law that allows emergency, temporary psychiatric commitments upon the recommendation of a mental health professional — took Raub to the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. He was not charged with any crime…’

Thanks to Moist von Lipwig for that.

A DECLARATION OF EQUALITY
I’ve taken the liberty of excerpting the whole thing.

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‘..(The) immigration affairs minister, Kevin Andrews, …had been gradually cutting our intake of refugees from Somalia and Sudan for some time… (and was pilloried as a racist for it. kg)
…..But perhaps the most crucial rebuke came from (Victorian Chief Commissioner Christine) Nixon….
”Those Sudanese refugees are actually under-represented in the crime statistics.” Note: under-represented…
It took more than a year – until this week, in fact, – for me to belatedly decide to check Nixon’s figures, that had persuaded me and many others to hit Andrews rather than heed him….
Last year Nixon told us Sudanese refugees, if not all African refugees, were “under-represented in the crime statistics”. In fact, we now know they’re over-represented—by as much as eight times.
Today, an admission:
SUDANESE and Somali-born Victorians are about five times more likely to commit crimes than the wider community, a trend that must be addressed to prevent Cronulla-style social unrest, police warn. 

The most common crimes committed by Somali and Sudanese-born Victorians are assault and robbery, illustrating the trend towards increasingly violent robberies by disaffected African youths…’    via Andrew Bolt

The Past Future Tense

‘..The Nazis and the Communists believed that certain races and classes had to be wiped out to make the future possible. We, the modernists who communicate through shiny slabs of white and black plastic, who use the flag of the United Nations as our background image and John Lennon’s “Imagine” as our ring tone, don’t believe in such barbaric things. Instead we kill people because they are too old or too sick and use up medical services that are always short in a collective system….’
Sultan Knish ‘The World of Tomorrow’

‘..Add the now-routine tracking of passports, cameras that read every passing license plate and record the time, NSA’s automated monitoring of email, Google’s and therefore the government’s knowledge of your searches, GPS tracking of cell phones, detailed records of bank transactions, and so on. Not all of these are instantly accessible by the police. They can easily be made accessible, and they move in that direction.
..In short, the technology exists for a detailed, unblinking, unforgetting watchfulness of the entire population beyond anything imagined, or perhaps imaginable, a few decades ago. This is not Fred-drank-too-much-coffee. It is happening.
…..People speak of the onrush of the police state. I think that many do not understand how fast it comes, or how thorough it will be…’           Fred On Everything
THIS – from our own governments and bureaucrats- is the real threat. Not terrorism, not some unhinged clown with a gun, not foreign armies. This is how our freedom is being destroyed. Right now.

From a very recent interview. via Andrew Bolt:
‘JG: Paul,(Kelly, journalist. kg) I’m not getting in to specifics about issues 17 years ago when you are not able to put to me any contention about why this is relevant to my conduct as Prime Minister today. I mean join the dots for me, Paul. What matters about this today for Australia and me being Prime Minister? Just articulate that.
PK: Well, I will. The point is that a partner in your former firm has made a series of allegations which go to your integrity.
JG: And the relevance to me being Prime Minister today, Paul?
Says it all, doesn’t it?

‘Study: Plastic Bag Bans Have Harsh Economic, Environmental Impact
….The study notes that “most thin-film plastic bags are made in the United States, and the plastics manufacturing industry employs more than 30,000 people directly and many more indirectly.” In contrast, “most reusable bags are imported.”
…NCPA further challenges the supporters’ entire reasoning for banning plastic bags: that plastic bags deal woe to the environment. In terms of energy produced, the study notes that plastic bags require 182,361 kcal but recover “2,581.3 through combustion.”
However, paper bags fare far worse, observing that they require “three times as much energy consumption as plastic bags (626,672.9 kcal), whereas only 6,859.5 kcal can be recovered through consumption.”