Police Handcuff 5-Year-Old Girl
Guns and Self-Defense
Antiwar Activist Marla Ruzicka
Police State Trends: Real ID Act
Iraq and Chalabi

Local6.com, WKMG, Apr 24 '05: Police Handcuff 5-Year-Old Girl in Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida. The teacher and principal were unable - why? - to restrain an unruly 5-year-old girl, so they called the police. Three officers restrained the little girl and handcuffed her. Things like this are happening because, first of all, people are going insane, and second, because some people want to empower police and governments and disempower teachers and parents, who are afraid to restrain children. For some, this is the ideal society, in which ordinary people are incapable of acting or thinking on their own.

NRA: Carrying Concealed Weapons (CCW) Statistics

You hear about criminals carrying guns and using them, and hurting innocent people! What about law-abiding people? Governments should allow the innocent to protect themselves.

www.guardian.co.uk, Apr 19 '05, Marla Ruzicka: Idealistic young aid worker who championed Iraq's forgotten victims

"Marla Ruzicka, who has been killed by a car bomber near Baghdad airport, was an extraordinary, one-person American aid agency, who worked tirelessly to get compensation [justice] for victims of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Marla Ruzicka founded CIVIC, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict.

Boston Globe, Apr 26 '05: ''Real ID Act": Some fear law would create national ID card  (infowars.com)

"Moreover, civil libertarians argue that by creating uniform national standards for driver's licenses and requiring states to pool driver information in a national database, the bill is a back-door move to creating a national identification card, which they oppose on privacy grounds."

Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, Apr 25 '05, Prime Minister Chalabi?