A Brief History On June 13, 2016, we ask if calls for de-militarizing police should be put on hold? After the anti-police hysteria following police related killings of black (in this article we will use this term to be in consonance with “Black Lives Matter?) in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland (as well as New York and Cleveland), many naïve people called for the “de-militarization of police.” Led by no less than President Barack Obama, who declared his intention to keep military surplus equipment out of the hands of police, the reactionary response has been shown in graphic detail to…
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A Brief History On June 13, 1966, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Miranda in Miranda v Arizona, creating the requirement for police to inform people of their rights before questioning. On March 13, 2014, we ran an article about that, and on May 20, 2014, we wrote a list about things commonly misunderstood about the law. Here we list another 10 of those commonly misunderstood legal things. Remember, laws may vary from state to state and local laws might have differences as well, so we are talking what is generally the case, not always. If you need actual…
A Brief History On June 12, 2016, in the worst domestic terrorist incident inside the United States since 9/11, Omar Mateen, a 29 year old Afghan man (born in the US), shot and killed at least 49 people and wounded over 50 more in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. No question about his motives, the gunman called police from the scene and pledged allegiance to the Islamic terrorist group, ISIS, while ISIS itself took credit for the attack via their news agency. Digging Deeper President Obama and others predictably called for “common sense” gun control measures to prevent such…
A Brief History We have covered numerous tragedies that have occurred at schools around the world. This article presents a chronological timeline of the most infamous such incidents in our world’s history. Digging Deeper On May 18, 1927, Andrew Kehoe committed the worst mass murder in an American school ever, proving that this is not just something started recently. On June 11, 1964, World War II veteran Walter Seifert went on a rampage at a Catholic elementary school outside of Cologne, Germany. He did not have a gun, but he did have a home-made flamethrower, a mace and a lance! On May 4, 1970, the…
A Brief History On June 11, 1937, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had eight of his top army generals executed as part of The Great Purge. From 1934 to 1940 Stalin had vast numbers of government, party, and army officials murdered to satisfy his paranoid delusions that everyone was out to get him. This purge left his military in bad shape when war came, stripped of many of its most capable officers, but just another day for “The Man of Steel.” Stalin was a bad person indeed, and although Hitler is generally regarded as the most evil man in history, Uncle Joe gives…