Feds Move to Throw Pot Smokers in Prison for Impaired Driving

If you smoked marijuana last week or even last month and you drive a car, you may be sent to prison under new guidelines drafted by the federal government.

The Obama administration released its National Drug Control Strategy guidelines last week. The federal government wants all of the states to adopt its authoritarian and draconian diktat and expand the drug war.

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MPs to Face a Year in Prison for Fiddling Expenses

MPs caught fiddling their expenses could face a year in prison from the autumn after the House of Commons agreed to surrender its right to police itself. Parliament looks likely to approve rules that will see Members who lobby for money or fail to declare how long they spend on work outside Parliament being hauled before a judge.

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Jack Straw Spent £75 million on Temporary Cells

The full cost of Operation Safeguard, which ran for a period in 2006 and again from January 2007 to last October, was set out in figures released by the Ministry of Justice.
The Conservatives said the sum could have been spent on building a brand new 500-cell prison and operating it for two years.

At an average cost of £843 per prisoner per night it would have been cheaper to house inmates in a "superior suite" at the Ritz hotel, they added.

Under the scheme, police forces were paid to accommodate inmates who should have been in jails which were too crowded to accept any more offenders.

Police cells were used on 89,000 occasions. The cost varied between police forces, ranging up to £1,686 a night - more expensive than a "deluxe king suite" at the world's only seven star hotel, the Jumeirah Burj al Arab, Dubai, the Tories pointed out

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So there you have it. The police Corporation charges the Ministry of Justice Corporation £1,686 per night per prisoner and then the Ministry of Justice Corporation charges you the taxpayer !

Detective Sergeant Mark Kearney: 'Refusing to Bug Inmates Made Me a Thorn In Their Side'

Thames Valley Police began to investigate Detective Sergeant Mark Kearney ostensibly as a way of silencing an officer they suspected of talking to the press.

In an effort to stop embarrassing titbits about the force appearing in the Milton Keynes Citizen, they bugged his car, raided his house and those of his friends and seized their belongings.

But in using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Thames Valley Police did not foresee that their ill-conceived efforts would draw in ministers and MPs, lead to an official Whitehall inquiry and expose one of the most shadowy aspects of police work - the eavesdropping carried out on prisoners and their visitors in British jails.

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USA - Prison Cell Portable Building Blocks Coming To A Town Near You?

I received the following communication today. It appears the Government has new Lego building blocks to play with.

Prison cells that are designed to snap together to build a prison anywhere at any time to meet the demand.

The new Lego style can be snapped together to make a hundred, a thousand, or hundred thousand cell prisons, two, three, or ten blocks high.

Rather expensive to make these mobile type units don't you think?

Our government must see a need for them somewhere.

Your home town when needed maybe?

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