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Police By Any Other Name or Perhaps Vigilante Is a Better Word

Police By Any Other Name or Perhaps Vigilante Is a Better Word

Montana has a history of vigilante’s protecting neighborhoods and meting out justice and well, look it up if you want to see how it turned out (one man got hanged so that another man could get with his wife). People tend to forget that laws are enforced by force (either direct or implied).


European Union Set to Ban AI Surveillance

European Union Set to Ban AI Surveillance

They need to do that here in the United States too.�? The article is here.


Facial Recognition

Facial Recognition

Law enforcement uses this more than people realize.�? In addition to facial recognition, there are cameras along the highways that register license plates and monitors the amount of traffic back and forth between the states.�?


Big Data and the Meaning of Words in Court

Big Data and the Meaning of Words in Court

Considering how “fluid” the definitions of words are online (Merriam-Webster edits and adjusts their definitions of words) and in the areas controlled by Big Data this seems like a bad idea.


Biden Creates Comission on Expanding the Supreme Court

Biden Creates Comission on Expanding the Supreme Court

He isn’t court packing, yet. And probably won’t.


The Importance of Having a Lawyer for Self Defense

The Importance of Having a Lawyer for Self Defense

“My personal decision is to tell the police very little. “That man tried to shoot me.


Self Defense Is a Human Right

Self Defense Is a Human Right

Gun ownership by Black Americans is rising. This is a good thing.


New Mexico Is About to Become the 16h State to Legalize Marijuana Use

New Mexico Is About to Become the 16h State to Legalize Marijuana Use

New York was number fifteen and did so this last week. I fully expect that this will happen in all fifty states in the next four or five years, which will create and interesting schism between the states and the federal government.


Nullification of Federal Laws

Nullification of Federal Laws

An interesting article and background on how far the States can go when deciding they don’t want to enforce or be controlled by federal law. The obvious examples currently are the legalization of marijuana, the so called sanctuary cities for immigration, some of the refusal to enforce federal gun laws.


The Trial of Chauvin

The Trial of Chauvin

Not sure why there wasn’t a change of venue granted in this matter.�? It seems unlikely he will get a fair trial.