A lot has happened since the last Government Tyranny Roundup.

Serve and protect? Sure…

For our own good? Right…

• A woman in a wheel-chair is murdered because she was tasered 10 times.

Did all that initial voltage give her the ability to walk again? Is that why they had to use it an additional 8-9 times?!

• Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why. A good read about how any secret government process will ultimately be used for harming the very ones it is meant to “protect.” Plus, her treatment by government officials during the process is absolutely despicable.
  

  In a written account of the next eight hours that she prepared for her lawyer, Ms. Ghuman said that officers tore up her H-1B visa, which was valid through May 2008, defaced her British passport, and seemed suspicious of everything from her music cassettes to the fact that she had listed Welsh as a language she speaks. A redacted government report about the episode obtained by her lawyer under the Freedom of Information Act erroneously described her as “Hispanic.”

  Held incommunicado in a room in the airport, she was groped during a body search, she said, and was warned that if she moved, she would be considered to be attacking her armed female searcher. After questioning her for hours, the officers told her that she had been ruled inadmissible, she said, and threatened to transfer her to a detention center in Santa Clara, Calif., unless she left on a flight to London that night.

  Outside, Mr. Flight made frantic calls for help. He said the British Consulate tried to get through to the immigration officials in charge, to no avail. And Ms. Ghuman said her demands to speak to the British consul were rebuffed.

  “They told me I was nobody, I was nowhere and I had no rights,” she said. “For the first time, I understood what the deprivation of liberty means.”

  And this woman is a British citizen who has a degree from University of California, Berkeley. Is this treatment in store for US citizens next?

• Woman is Hog-Tied, Blindfolded, and Tasered Multiple Times. And of course, no one has been charged with anything yet. The consequences for these thugs are never that harsh.
• 70-Year Old Woman Arrested for Having a Brown Lawn. I’m certainly glad they stopped this dangerous criminal in her tracks.
• Teens and Pregnant Women have been Tasered. The taser must offer some kind of natural high. Or is it just the abuse of power that provides the euphoria?
• Police Taunt Homeowner as his Home is Burning Down. Then they Kick Him in the Face. And we’re supposed to give these guys the benefit of the doubt? Shouldn’t they be held to a higher standard?
• Smoking now Banned in some Private Residences. It doesn’t matter if you legally own the property or not, you don’t get to decide what you want to do in it. If you think this is bad, just wait and see what will happen if government gets even more control of health care and thinks it owns our bodies.
• 15 Year-Old Girl Punched and Pepper Sprayed.
  

  This one is a little more ambiguous. No one would accuse this girl of being smart, and the officer did give plenty of warning. Still, she was a 15 year old girl. And it looked like she had calmed down a little bit a few seconds before he drenched her face in pepper spray.

  The real question is what was the girl charged with? I find it disturbing that she repeatedly says that she didn’t do anything, and the officer doesn’t answer that objection at all, even though he obviously knew the camera was running. Why not repeat the charges? If not, it makes you wonder whether or not he even cited any to begin with.

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