[REASON] The Leawood, Kansas, couple whose home was raided in 2012 after sheriff's deputies claimed that loose tea found in their trash was marijuana will receive $150,000 for their trouble under a settlement agreement with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. The settlement—which caps seven years of litigation, including two trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit—falls far short of the $7 million that Adlynn and Robert Harte originally sought. But it represents an implicit acknowledgment that the Hartes and their children suffered an outrageous invasion of their privacy and dignity in the service of a comically inept publicity stunt.
Here are some of the absurd facts that emerged as the couple's case was making its way through the courts:
• The family was targeted because Robert Harte bought supplies at a hydroponic gardening store in Kansas City. Harte was planning to grow vegetables with his son as a science project. But to Sgt. James Wingo of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who was staking out the store, he looked like a cannabis kingpin.
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Not to worry. Reading the tea leaves, the Keystone Gestapo will be riding high again soon, a-searching for COVID test-criminals. Against the wall, kids!
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This is in no small part the result of qualified immunity, a ridiculous, judicially manufactured 'right'. These people are manifestly owed damages, but the actual perpetrators and their direct employers and supervisors not only pass the responsibility they also pass the bill.
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If we are to crush druggies and win the war on drugs, honest mistakes like this are the price. The alternative is letting the cartels win. Not an option.
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The family was targeted because Robert Harte bought supplies at a hydroponic gardening store in Kansas City. Harte was planning to grow vegetables with his son as a science project. But to Sgt. James Wingo of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who was staking out the store, he looked like a cannabis kingpin.
So Missouri SHP has the time to do that, and a couple (or even several) hydroponic setups = Kingpin? It started bad and morons who mistake tea for for pot leaves are incompetent at best
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honest mistakes like this are the price (to win the War on Drugs)
Honest mistakes, me arse! This was incompetence at every step in the process. The idea that the people involved will escape any sort of accountability thanks to qualified immunity should outrage anyone who cares about the rule of law.
Presidential Palace, Abdullah agree framework to resolve deadlock: By Nizamuddin Hameedi on 06 May 2020 KABUL (Pajhwok): Presidential Palace and Former Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah have agreed on a framework for... read more https://t.co/G9ny8EQMpdpic.twitter.com/uVjFjC61PZ
Karzai says ongoing war in outsiders’ interest: By Pajhwok Report on 06 May 2020 KABUL (Pajhwok): Former president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the... read more https://t.co/HLRVwgFGzkpic.twitter.com/vRgDnDlGtF
[Libya Observer] The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... (UN), Taher al-Sunni, said in a speech before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), that the national judiciary is determined to prosecute all those who commit crimes against Libyans on Libyan soil.
Al-Sunni stressed that the Libyan judiciary, monitors all violations and crimes, particularly those committed by Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... over a one-year period, since the beginning of his illegal attack on Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... He also called on the UNSC to take a firm stance against Haftar, and to confront him by name, exposing his hindrance to the political agreements and to denounce his recent proclamations; asking specifically that Haftar militias, not be called the ’National Army’, as his forces do not represent the nation.
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The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations
According to Al-Kadhimi's government program "the Iraqi state shall communicate with official institutions only" and "not with individuals or non-official entities"
This goes straightaway to #Tehran#Iran. A message to BG Qaani the leader of IRGC's Quds Force...#Iraq
For the first time in recent memory, a PM is elected in #Iraq without guidance from Qassem #Soleimani, who always had significant influence into the decision-making and final verdict of the PM.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Ministry summons ambassador in response to envoy to West Bank and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... saying Paleostinian grantees may include those affiliated with blacklisted groups.
Israel reacted angrily Wednesday to a letter in which a senior European Union
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[Jpost] "We are working and cooperating with the immigration office to deport him as soon as possible to Iran."
The United States is expected to deport Iranian professor Sirous Asgari, who was acquitted of stealing trade secrets, once he receives medical clearance to leave, U.S. and Iranian officials said on Tuesday.
Asgari might be part of a rare prisoner swap between foes Iran
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Connecting flights that normally carry deportees to Iran have been canceled
Send him back in an oil tanker; I hear the Atlantic is lovely this time of year.
[JPOST] It has become an almost nightly occurrence. Syrian social media watchers await the earth-shattering kabooms from Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s that are likely to occur. From villages near Deir Ezzor and Al Bukamal, to five hundred kilometers north to the Aleppo countryside and then four hundred kilometers south to Damascus, those watching Syria’s skies have become used to aerial bombardment.
The night of May 4 was no different. Syria’s SANA state media reported its air defenses confronting an Israeli attack near Aleppo before midnight. Those details were picked up by pro-Hezbollah and pro-Iranian media networks. Then, an hour later, more reports emerged from the Euphrates river valley of explosions along the road that runs from Deir Ezzor to Al Bukamal on the Iraqi border. Rumors circulated of Iranian-backed militias being targeted. Later reports would indicate that Iranians were killed in the strikes.
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oddly the article doesn't mention the Turkish involvement which has had some big impacts
- occupation by Turkish mercenaries of much of the North
- destruction of many Syrian assets, mainly APCs and killing and wounding of many of the Syrian troops
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[JPOST] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is not leaving Syria despite some reports to the contrary, former IDF intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said on Wednesday.
Speaking to a media briefing hosted by MediaCentral, Yadlin, who currently is executive director of INSS, said, "the Iranians are not leaving. I am not buying this argument."
Rather, he suggested that the forces led by Iran in Syria have always included a mix of actual Iranians and militias made up of local Syrians, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiites, Paks and Afghans, and at most might see an adjustment in the mix.
Questioned about why the IDF would put out a statement on Tuesday that Iran was reducing its presence in Syria if this is not true, Yadlin responded, "I didn’t hear the IDF. I heard a high-level source in the defense establishment. My suspicion is it came from above the IDF political level. When you go to the political level, you need to ask someone whose is an expert in politics."
Pressed if he was referring to outgoing defense minister Naftali Bennett, the former IDF intelligence chief responded, "I think you connected the dots of who is leaving the defense ministry soon, and what is the legacy he wants to leave behind."
Explaining why Iran will not leave Syria, he said that Syria is, "the only Arab country which supported Iran’s war with Iraq [in 1980-1988]. Ties between Iran and Syria are strong strategically. Iran sees Syria as the cornerstone of its regional policy."
Continuing he said, "it was very important for Iran to keep the Syrian regime alive. In the words of Qasem Soleimani — protecting Tehran starts in Damascus."
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I don't buy that the US is leaving Syria, but that's another story......
[Breitbart] Islamic terrorists, mainly the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , were responsible for 185 fatalities and 188 injuries during the first week of Ramadan, a time when turbans believe martyrdom and jihad are exceptionally rewarded in paradise, a Breitbart News tally revealed.
That means, on average, forces of Evil killed about 26 people each day during the first full seven days of the holiest week for Moslems — April 24 to 30. During that same period, there were 60 terrorist attacks that took place in 13 countries, resulting in a total of 373 casualties, including fatalities and injuries.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[REASON] The Leawood, Kansas, couple whose home was raided in 2012 after sheriff's deputies claimed that loose tea found in their trash was marijuana will receive $150,000 for their trouble under a settlement agreement with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. The settlement—which caps seven years of litigation, including two trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit—falls far short of the $7 million that Adlynn and Robert Harte originally sought. But it represents an implicit acknowledgment that the Hartes and their children suffered an outrageous invasion of their privacy and dignity in the service of a comically inept publicity stunt.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
[JPOST] It has become an almost nightly occurrence. Syrian social media watchers await 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Breitbart] Islamic terrorists, mainly the 
