Anti-vaxxers still blamed. SELF

She sees Hillary for the war hawk she’s always been. Raw Story

To protect against radiation from a possible ISIS dirty bomb. The Telegraph

Bob Bates, sugar daddy of the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office, has been found guilty for the “accidental” shooting death of Eric Harris.  The jury recommended four years behind bars for him. Daily Beast

Kids, ages 6 to 12, were arrested for not stopping a fight that happened off school grounds.  “I am so saddened, and I’m so sorry this incident happened”, police chief Karl Durr said in an interview.  Will they lose their jobs? No. Mashable

From The Guardian. Read the entire thing.

Zakaria trots out all the familiar scary scenarios of bad guys exploiting encryption to evade the cops, arguments that Snowden rips apart with ease.  The Intercept

There is no trade-off between liberty and security.

They might get shot by a trigger-happy cop.  Cleveland will pay Tamir’s family $6 million for the shooting death of their 12-year old by a cop who opened fire immediately after he got out of his patrol car.  Perversely, that cop’s police union is now saying the family should spend the money educating kids about the dangers of playing with toy guns.  Sounds like an admission that cops will probably open fire if they see a kid with a toy gun.  The Intercept

A note: police unions, like other public-sector unions, are nothing more than organized parasites at a trough filled with taxpayer billions and liberties.  They protect their members no matter the circumstances, while the public, who are held hostage to their demands, picks up the tab in the form of higher taxes while being forced to deal with a choleric, irascible, unaccountable police force.

Mexican drug cartels, the abominations that sprang from the environment of Prohibition, probably executed the 8-member Ohio family.  A large marijuana-growing operation was found on their property.  Either to protect their black market turf or out of some other vendetta, the reasons come from the Drug War.  The Drug War gave life to the murderous cartels by creating an environment where only violent criminals buy and sell marijuana, cocaine, meth, or the myriad other prohibited substances.  This is how a black market operates, this will always happen as long as governments of the world insist on enforcing Prohibition.  The drug cartels would disappear if drugs were legalized in the US.  By enforcing the Drug War at home, the US government is creating an optimal environment for the invasion of these foreign cartels, who know how to handle the feds.

Prohibition is societal poison, it incentivizes criminal behavior on both sides of the law, destroys families, lives, liberties, and consumes taxpayer billions that are wasted all for an endeavor that is worse than futile.

Justin Raimondo ably exposes criminal language of the Obama administration who claims “no boots on the ground” as he sends boots to die on Syrian ground. Antiwar

From the article: “There are now over 4,000 US troops in Iraq, “advising” and “assisting” the Iraq military: there are hundreds in Syria – and this latter represents a significant extension of US intervention over and above what George W. Bush ever tried. Back in the days of “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” the Bush administration continually threatened the Syrian government with “regime change,” but never made a serious move to translate rhetoric into action. The Obama administration recognizes no such constraints – and a second Clinton administration, if such there is to be, is likely to throw reticence to the winds and charge full-bore into Syria.

President Obama won the White House largely on the promise that he would not repeat Bush’s folly in the Middle East. Yet his legacy is likely to be that the war he hung around Hillary Clinton’s neck was restarted in the final months of his presidency. And if Mrs. Clinton does indeed succeed him, I have no doubt that she will escalate the war in Syria and in Iraq, with consequences down the road that we can only imagine.”