Unexpected consequences of gardening supplies

[RuralEngineer]

It might be probable cause for an armed search of your home... .

Probable cause apparently extends to the equipment necessary to grow indoor tomatoes, such as hydroponics, plastic trays, or...*gasp* potting soil!

One of these days I'm going to compile a list of all of this crap and the next time somebody tells me I'm being overly dramatic for saying I feel like I'm living with the Gestapo, I'll whip it out and read the litany.  Anymore if you aren't getting your house searched by the cops and CPS for posting a picture on facebook of your kid holding their gun (that they are registered and have passed the required gun safety course to have), then you're getting busted for suspicious gardening supplies.  My personal favorite is NY state, where they openly practice racially targeted "stop and frisk."

http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-couple-ind ... 49463.html

[Pointedstick]

Bookmark it all in a folder. After a few years, you'll have links for practically everything. Here are some of my favorites:

Anyone who wants higher taxes can easily make a donation to the government:
http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

The police have no duty to protect you, says the court system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._ ... f_Columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

...And the police even admit they can't protect you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... AQ1WBb81BE#!

Map of botched paramilitary police raids, complete with links:
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

Regulatory nightmares:
http://www.pololu.com/blog/26/three-and ... es-legally

Generalized loss of constitutional rights:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/02/sc ... ally-lost/

Congressional idiocy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7m6aewquco

Krugman calls Social Security a Ponzi Scheme:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR21.6/krugmann.html

Gandhi's real views on violence and non-violence--not what most people think!
http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm

Proof that anti-gun forces actually want gun confiscation:
From Feinstein herself!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 9PrBmStG4M
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02 ... democrats/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/01/sa ... eneration/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-et ... 18536.html
http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2010/12/r ... ation.html

AR-15 suitable for personal defense, days DHS:
http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/d ... o-gun-grab

Obama DOJ write memo saying that most gun control is totally ineffective without registration and confiscation (duh):
http://www.nraila.org/media/10883516/ni ... y-memo.pdf

Gun restrictions breed defiance of the law:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/g ... red-defian

Congressionally-mandated, DOJ-funded report shows that the original federal assault weapons ban had no real measurable effect on crime and violence:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf

Where do criminals actually get their guns? Ask the DOJ!
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/fuo.pdf

[rocketdog]

Bookmark it all in a folder. After a few years, you'll have links for practically everything. Here are some of my favorites:

Links change, web sites get updated, and articles just magically "disappear".  Better to download the page itself, or do screen shots or page scrapes.