From the "What-do-you-expect-from-lowest-bidder" Department: The US military use Predator drones to spy on people. What they did not expect is that someone would spy on their drones. In December 2009, it was reported that Iraqi militants were using software costing less than 30 Euros to monitor video feeds from passing drones. Rather amazingly the Predator spy drone transmits video footage without encryption, which allows anyone with a satellite dish and Skygrabber software to download Predator video streams.

Judges without legal training, no oversight , and sometimes no court records sending people to jail for up to two years and holding people without trial for months...some third-world banana republic? Not quite. It would seem that kangaroo courts are not unusual in New York State. In the words of one, not so learned, judge, “And the hell with the law.”

The Guardian reports that schools in Southern California have banned the dictionary because it contains words parents do not like. Here is a word that you will find in any dictionary, "Stupid"!

Highway robbery (seriously...robbing passing truckers)... threats of kidnap...Somalian pirates?...No...Texas cops. (who tf is Walker? The Texas Ranger! a.k.a Chuck Norris!)

Arizona, USA: 6 years ago a 13 year-old girl was forced to strip as her teachers suspected her of being in possession of headache tablets. Yes..really. They did not find any aspirin but they did provoke legal action. Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw said, "It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights...More than that,it is a violation of any known principle of human dignity." (U.S. Court of Appeals 9th circuit). If a supermarket owner or a priest subjected a child to a strip-search, they would be at risk of serious jail-time. The same should happen to these teachers.

So much for democracy...a finger-licking tale of vote-rigging by the good ol' boys in Kentucky, USA...

From the land of the "free": "The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday." "The former state police superintendent who authorized the operation, Thomas E. Hutchins, defended the program in testimony yesterday. Hutchins said the program was a bulwark against potential violence and called the activists "fringe people." "

Greensburg-Salem High - Pennsylvania: Children charged with "manufacturing, disseminating or possessing child pornography" after taking interesting pics of THEMSELVES! The 2 girls sent the pics to boys, who were no doubt pleased, until they were charged for RECEIVING pics on there phones. PS Take a look at the name of the school...Salem was where a major witch-hunt took place in the novel, the Crucible.

"Here are a couple of accounts of commercial airline pilots, one of whom has been put on the TSA's no-fly list and the other is on the terrorist watch-list, for reasons that no one will disclose."