Man Beaten While Filming Police from His Own Property

Mitchell Crooks was standing outside of his Las Vegas home filming an arrest of burglary suspects across the street. Even though Crooks was doing nothing to interfere with the police activity, he was approached by, Las Vegas police officer, Derek Colling. In the ensuing confrontation, Crooks was beaten, had his camera kicked by police, mocked, arrested, and had his video camera confiscated.

Mitchell Crooks Mug Shot

Read the full story and see the video of the confrontation at Las Vegas Review Journal.

Many people will harp on the fact that Mitchell Crooks answered, "Nope," when Derek Colling asked if Crooks lived at the address. It is true Crooks would have been wise to answer the officer truthfully or not at all, but Colling had no business approaching Crooks in the first place. Crooks was not doing anything illegal, and the cop should have just ignored him. Colling just could not leave it alone. For some reason, he felt the need to bully an innocent bystander.

People might try to defend the officer by saying he was trying to stop Crooks from trespassing, but that is not the business of the cops unless a property owner or resident makes a trespassing complaint or there appears to be suspicious activity on the property. Simply aiming a video camera at the police is not suspicious.

When you watch the video, you will see that officer Derek Colling completely overacted to the situation and caused things to escalate completely out of control. If Derek Colling had just done his job and not stopped to bully Mitchell Crooks, none of this would have happened.

Las Vegas Police Officer, Derek Colling

Derek Colling needs to undergo some serious psychological evaluation. When the psychologist realizes Derek Colling is too dangerous and unstable to carry a gun, the Las Vegas Police Department needs to fire that brutal bully, and then arrest him for aggravated assault.

Government Job Center Gives Superhero Capes to Unemployed

Dr. Evil Unemployment
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Workforce Central Florida apparently has way too much extra money.  Under Director, Gary J. Earl, Workforce Central Florida thought it might me a good idea to spend $73,000 on a campaign to turn the unemployed into "caped crusaders." The agency spent more than $16,000 on 6,000 capes to give away to unemployed people. The agency also spent $2,300 on foam cutouts of a villain: Dr. Evil Unemployment. There is also a chance to win a $1000 prize pack.

Cape-A-Bility Challenge Logo

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It is all part of the "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" program with the assumed goal of motivating unemployed people by dressing them up with superhero capes.

Cape-A-Bility Challenge Logo
Workforce Central Florida

Is this really what unemployed people want? Are they wanting to dress up as superheroes, or do they just want help finding jobs so they do not get thrown out of their homes?

Can you imagine anything more depressing than a bunch of unemployed people standing in a line waiting on an employment check? What if that money had instead been unused to place people in jobs or--better yet--not have been seized from taxpayers in the first place?

Caped Crusaders Against Unemployment

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One must wonder where these capes were manufactured. For the love of all that is decent and fair, let us hope these capes were not made in China. If the capes were absolutely necessary, why did the unemployed people not get a chance to make these capes and earn a little money? Making a cape is not very difficult. Anyone with an hour of training could make one of the simplest garments ever invented.

Woman Beating Dr. Evil Unemployment

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If you were wondering why your taxes are so high, this is just one silly example of how government wastes your money. Every government worker involved in this ridiculous program should be unemployed.

By the way, Superman, Spider-Man, and a lot of other superheroes have steady day jobs. Some of them even work for the press. Maybe they should be covering this wasteful insanity.

TSA Makes a "Game" out of Touching Children in Intimate Places

Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, is raising concerns about the Transportation Security Administration's methods for getting children to comply with TSA pat-downs. Just as many child molesters get children to allow sexual contact by calling the activities "games," the TSA is also training its professional friskers to get children to comply with enhanced pat-downs by calling the pat-downs "games."

The TSA screeners want to touch children's butts, inner thighs, breasts, and (perhaps) even genitals, but they would rather the children not scream when this is going on, so they try to make it easy or fun for the children. Quite similarly, child molesters want to touch children's butts, inner thighs, breasts, and (perhaps) even genitals, and they also would rather the children not scream when this is going on. The TSA screeners do the groping under the banner of security, and the perverts do the groping under the banner of pleasure. Nevertheless, both groups feel the need to touch children in intimate areas, and both groups are using similar tactics.

This "game" ploy is just one example of how the TSA pat-downs are conditioning or (unintentionally grooming) small children to be molested. So, when a pervert wearing the security guard uniform and badge he bought on eBay approaches a small child and wants to play a pat-down "game," how likely is it that the small child will understand that the child molester dressed as security guard is any different than the TSA screener at the airport?

The TSA's Roundtrip Ticket to Your Anus

Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri, the Butt Bomber

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on August 27, 2009, al-Qaeda terrorist, Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri, attempted to kill Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, the Saudi Deputy Interior Minister in charge of Counter-Terrorism. Al-Asiri tricked the prince into believing he was a terrorist who wished to surrender and help the Saudi government fight terrorism. Using this ploy, al-Asiri managed to get within feet of the prince--in the prince's home--and detonate a bomb.

You might be wondering how an admitted terrorist was able to get a bomb within feet of a prominent public official in his own home. He did so by concealing the bomb in his rectum. Fortunately for the prince, al-Asiri's body deflected much of the blast away from the prince, and the prince did not suffer any serious injuries. A better-constructed bomb, however, could have easily killed everyone in the room.

Of course, this brings up the issue of airline security. If a known terrorist can use his rectum to get a bomb into a public official's home, what is keeping a terrorist from using his rectum to sneak a bomb past the dolts working the TSA airport security checkpoints?

How long will it be before the Transportation Security Administration decides rectum bombs are a legitimate threat to airplanes? What is in store for us then? Will the TSA have us dropping our pants, bending over tables, and sticking their fingers into our anuses to probe our rectums? How else will they know whether or not we have bombs up there? Those full-body scanners might not be able to detect certain explosives with densities similar to human tissue.

You know, if man can hide a bomb in his rectum, a woman could hide a bomb in her rectum and another bomb in her vagina. How long before the TSA wants to probe around inside of vaginas looking for bombs?

Here the worst part. The TSA is currently defending its intrusive pat-downs of small children on the grounds that no class of passenger can be treated differently from the others. The concept is that, if the TSA does not pat-down children aggressively, the terrorists will begin to use children in their suicide attacks. Based on this logic, the TSA will want to inspect the anuses and vaginas of small children who wish to fly.

By this point, hopefully you are seeing how ridiculous airport security has become. Is our security really worth all of this humiliation? At some point, the precautions become worse than the threat.

TSA Conducts Pat-Down on Boy Going to Disneyland

TSA Pat-Down of Small Boy

Heather Sheahan is upset about how the TSA went too far with a pat-down of her eight-year-old son in the Portland Airport on their way to Disneyland. She specifically did not like the way the male TSA agent ran his hands up the insides of the boys thighs and up close to the little boy's genitals. You can learn more about the incident in this video.

TSA Validates Intrusive Pat-Down of Drexel Girl in New Orleans

Appropriate Glove for TSA Pat-Downs on Children

If you thought the TSA's disgusting groping of the six-year-old Drexel girl in New Orleans was just an isolated incident, mistake, or deviation from standard operating procedure, think again. The TSA has come out and addressed this specific incident on their blog.

The TSA is confirming that it is their policy to pat-down small children in this manner. A procedure that is tantamount to child molestation is actually among the standard operating procedures of the TSA. The TSA is unapologetic about this incident and has officially confirmed they will continue to grope small children in this manner.

Wow, Michael Jackson would have loved to have worked for the TSA. They should put sequins on those rubber gloves to give the children the full Neverland Ranch experience.

TSA Pat-Downs Condition Children to Be Molested

Dr. Todd Drexel and Selena Drexel of Bowling Green, Kentucky are upset about the way a TSA agent patted down their six-year-old daughter at New Orleans Armstrong International Airport on April 5, 2011. The female agent intentionally touched the girl's butt, right breast, and inner thigh. The agent also stuck her fingers inside of the girl's pants at the waistband. According to the parents, the little girl was calm during the pat-down, but she broke down in tears afterward.

Of course, the girl broke down in tears. She just had her personal space violated by a stranger. Parents tell their children to not allow strangers to touch them in private areas of their bodies, but that is exactly what this TSA agent did. Not only did this agent upset this child by effectively molesting her, a precedent has been set in the girls mind that she may be touched by strangers under some circumstances.

People will argue that children get touched by their pediatricians on almost every visit, but this is different. The doctor's office is a secure, safe, and private place, and--most importantly--the child's pediatrician is not a stranger. The child understands it is okay to be touched by a known pediatrician in a doctor's office with a parent present. That is a very clear circumstance with well-defined boundaries and conditions.

Being fondled by some complete stranger in a crowded and chaotic public place (such as an airport) is an entirely different scenario. The boundaries are unclear, and the child may have a tremendous amount of trouble understanding why it might be okay to get fondled in public under some circumstances and not others.

The fact the TSA officers who are fondling these children are in uniform does not help much. All sorts of people own uniforms. To a child, a TSA agent is no different than the private security guard they might encounter in the bathrooms at the mall. Think about this through the mind of a small child: "If a uniformed authority figure can touch all over my body in a crowded airport, why should a uniformed authority figure not touch me in the mall bathroom?"

To an adult, the difference is obvious, but a child may not fully understand the difference. At the very least, a child who has already been felt-up by a TSA agent might be just a little more willing to be felt-up by someone else.

These horribly intrusive pat downs are technically child molestation, and they are conditioning children to passively accept being touched in their private areas by strangers. We should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing our Federal government to abuse and psychologically damage children in this way.

TSA Child Pat-Down Is Child Molestation

TSA Agent Pats Down Six-Year-Old Girl

In this YouTube video, you can see a TSA pat-down of a six-year-old girl. You will notice that the female TSA screener touches the girl's butt, sticks her fingers inside of the girl's pants at the waistband, rubs her inner thighs, and touches the girl's right breast.

If this occurred at a public park, mall, or school, the adult would be arrested and convicted of child molestation. It would be an open-and-shut case. The adult would go to jail and be a registered sex offender for life.

Any rational person would agree that adults may not touch children in this manner, but since this adult happens to be wearing a Federal uniform, somehow this is considered perfectly legal.  We should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing children to victimized in this way.

After Numerous Errors, TSA Will Retest Radiation Levels for Full-Body Scanners

Now, don't act surprised, but the maintenance records for the TSA's full-body scanners show tremendously higher radiation levels than originally reported.

The TSA says the maintenance reports are wrong. That may be so, but what can we believe? Are the reports actually wrong, or is the TSA exposing the public to much higher levels of radiation than had been previously admitted? Should we trust the official maintenance documents, or the word of the TSA? If the maintenance reports are truly flawed, how can we trust any other documents the TSA provides?

Read the full USA Today article here.
"TSA to Retest Airport Body Scanners for Radiation"

TSA Misses Three Boxcutters at JFK Airport

The Transportation Security Administration has managed to publicly embarrass themselves yet again. The TSA let, New Jersey man, Eusebio D. Peraltalajara pass through security with boxcutters in his carryon luggage and board JetBlue Flight 837 to Santiago, Dominican Republic on February 26, 2011.

As Peraltalajara was stowing his bag, he accidentally discovered the boxcutters. To Peraltalajara's credit, he immediately notified the JetBlue staff. The plane was evacuated, the plane was searched, the passengers were re-screened, etc. Peraltalajara was not charged with any crime, and the incompetent TSA screeners are supposedly being disciplined and retrained.

Don't people remember that al-Qeada managed to pull off the most horrific act of terrorism in American history using several boxcutters? If the TSA is not capable of keeping boxcutters off of the planes, what good are they? This is not nearly the first such incident. TSA screeners are constantly failing tests where undercover agents attempt to sneak all sorts of contraband onto the planes. Fake bombs, guns, knives, etc. are making it onto the planes. The security failures are staggering.

The most irritating thing about all of this is that the TSA is so busy virtually gazing at our naked bodies with scanners and poking around in our crotches that they do not have enough time to actually look for any weapons in the luggage. So not only are we having our privacy and dignity violated by the TSA, they are doing very little to keep us safer.