🚀 go-pugleaf

Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
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#   The Police-taught DARE program encourages students to turn in
#   friends and family by becoming a police informant.

:   Real life: a child in school answers the friendly and inquiring police
:   officer teaching about drug dangers that yes their parents have some
:   of the displayed paraphernalia.
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:   A search warrant is issued, the parents are arrested, and
:   the child is put into custody of Child Welfare workers.


#   "The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995
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#   The Justice Department confiscated the home of an elderly Cuban-American
#   couple in Miami after the couple was arrested for playing host to a weekly
#   poker game for family and friends.


*   "Nynex Mistake Brings Scholarship Offer", NYT, 4/26/1995
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*   Walter Ray Hill, 18, was arrested and jailed for two days based solely on
*   his phone number being used for a hoax bomb threat.
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*   Nynex eventually realized one of its employees transposed a number when
*   tracing the call. [Ever see Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil?]
*   
*   A Nynex spokesman said today that they were offering to pay his complete
*   four-year tutition bill, and that the offer was unconditional.


In Washington, D.C., police aggressively hassle motorists to give them
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