Category Archives: Cops Behaving Badly

Quotable: Samantha Bee on untested rape kits

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

“Remember, local elections are a lot like rape kits. No one really wants to pay attention to them, but if you bother to open them up, you might just get rid of someone who’s been screwing everyone in town.”

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Rape law in Germany: a veritable devil’s carnival of injustice

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

The memo that “Not All Men” have gotten, but which all men should get. Including white men in general, and Germans in particular. Hi, me again, harping about Köln, again. Or rather, translating yet another good Störenfriedas piece about just … Continue reading →

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Germany: After New Year’s Eve assaults, the deluge…of stupidity and racism

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Sabina Becker

More raw footage of the New Year’s Eve goings-on in Köln, Germany. A voice off-camera asks the guy recording it if he’s ever seen anything like this before, and he replies that he can’t say; he’s waiting to see what … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Eve in Germany: No terror attacks, but mass sexual assault in at least three cities

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Sabina Becker

News footage from the cathedral city of Köln on New Year’s Eve. Cellphone video shows unruly crowds shooting off fireworks carelessly. The local officials are worried that the appearance of some of the men in the footage might spark riots … Continue reading →

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Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Seeing as it’s the 50th anniversary of the incident that inspired this here song, I figured it would be a friendly gesture to post it for all my US friends: Oh yeah, and the movie that got made about it, … Continue reading →

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Algeria: The real, unmentionable key to the Paris attacks

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Sabina Becker

The Battle of Algiers, an award-winning film based on the true story of the struggle for Algerian independence. Saadi Yacef, who plays El-Hadi Jaffar, was an actual FLN guerrilla leader; the character Jaffar is basically himself a few years before … Continue reading →

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Whoa Canada!

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Sabina Becker

A tale of environmental horror and police-state paranoia, set right here in the Great North. Pull up some frozen lasagna and watch this, folks. (Courtesy Shit Harper Did.)

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Compare and Contrast: Sandra Bland vs. Dylann Roof

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Quite a striking difference, wouldn’t you say? A black woman dies for a minor traffic infraction, while a white punk not only survives his arrest, but is taken for a fast-food meal along the way. Yeah, tell me that misogynoir … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: A foretaste of C-51?

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Via Canadaland, a little whiff of what the cops have already got cooking for us lowly, democracy-loving peons: What an interesting* statement from the Mountie! “Attacking the Canadian economy”, just by PROTESTING the Harper government’s piss-poor handling of it? Shades … Continue reading →

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“El Colombia”, assassin of Robert Serra, extradited to Venezuela

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Video of Venezuelan National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello, on his VTV show, Con el Mazo Dando (“Giving it to them with a club”), promising that soon, the Colombian paramilitary thug who murdered PSUV deputy Robert Serra and his girlfriend, María … Continue reading →