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guide to soccer that i ward and write quite a special occasion because the winner is that once again presidential hopeful rick santorum and if in fact the pit team side of then far has been authored on this

stage as a standalone winner so just to mark a special occasion we decided to put together a little tribute to see all of rick's time here as that all time winner. well it's time for tonight's tool time award and we're going to give it to former republican pennsylvania somewhere rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum. rick you know sometimes i really wish for your own good that you would just stop talking but then again that would make finding our winter so much harder so i guess keep up the good work now it's an irate has earned the honor once again for injecting himself into your bedroom this time he's decided to go to bat for the children by taking down internet porn and recently discovered stated on santorum campaign site express that santorum is intense desire to put an end to internet

porn or actually this is how he put it he said while the obama department of justice seems to favor over children and families that will change under a santorum administration what's pornographers over children and family if they god santorum is here to rescue america from people having sex with each other on video now for anybody out there that is shocked that santorum would go after the internet you should be just listen to his thoughts about the internet in general. the internet is not a. free zone where anybody can do anything they want to but the idea that you know anything goes on the internet. the internet our bedrooms very why on earth would we think that we have the right to do whatever we want in those places but i can't help but wonder if a little of santorum is distaste for the internet you know might come from a personal vendetta one stemming from be redefining of his name perhaps it's unfortunate that some people thought that that would be

a big joke to make fun of my name. little ricky we got his feelings hurt by the big bad internet i hope he didn't take the whole your name is now defined as a gay sex acting too personally because when it comes to santorum crusade against the internet and porn people are going to get whipped up into a frothy frenzy if he contrary to rake squeaky clean america view more than one out of every three people with internet access check out porn on a regular basis that's a lot of voters to vilify and alienate don't you think i mean rick thought of the gay activists were able to mobilize to smear his name in a shocking wages will wait until he sees the backlash from this one but you know as imaginary president he can always do the popular thing but unfortunately for rick is anti-porn statement contains straight up lies like this part he said pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships that contributes to massage any and violence against women great i think it's obvious that over the last twenty years internet access has increased therefore internet porn availability is increased but

guess what hoarding in the census bureau over the last two decades divorce rates are down twenty five percent according to the bureau of justice statistics of rape is down eighty six percent and clear there are other factors that play into this is well but there is an argument that everybody gets along a little better when they're able to shall we say release some stress occasionally but i guess that we should see all this come in given that rick want to tell us what to do with every aspect of our lives especially those that involve sex and i'm starting to think that maybe he's a little obsessed with other people's sex lives almost to an unhealthy degree maybe he should seek treatment for it but anyway for trying once again to force all americans to be as boring sexually as he is and going to stop the pandemic of pornography rick santorum is tonight's told time winner. well it's day two of the latest bradley manning hearing me and yesterday we saw prosecutors put a name on the label and any lawyers lawyers officially accused manning of aiding al

qaeda and al qaeda in the region and in fla we also learned the defense lawyer david coombs filed several motions including the use of depositions from witnesses who were denied by the prosecution the said not only was the defense team denied access to key witnesses but the government is also denying them access to the people in charge of determining what's labeled as classified which is really important to highlight because one of the crux of the manning's case here is the question of whether or not the documents that were leaked actually harmed national security of the united states in any way and since the defense is so if you materials to help build their case they filed a motion to dismiss all charges against the army private the most shocking part of yesterday's hearing came from the judge and we'll let firedoglake seven dollar explain why. who's in love oh and she said that from in the courtroom today which leaves here on new day leave she is not familiar with the case material and there are some basic details from the article thirty two hearing

that she doesn't know about. that's right even the judge for this hearing hasn't done her homework so i think it's safe to say that in order to come to a well rounded decision she should probably know a role adrian lamo played manning's current attention which brings us to today when everyone convened again and he blinked you might have missed what happened because after a long delay this whole thing wrapped up in about twenty minutes we did however learn the fate of the motion filed by yesterday the judge ruled against the defense's motion to gain access to classification authorities she says she's quite happy with the way the authorities have determined who the defense can and cannot use as a witness and her reason she said of the government of bang up job during article thirty two hearing in december and if they did their job then then she trusts that they've done their job well this time around to now this would be a good time to remind you that the government only allowed ten of the forty eight witnesses requested by the defense during the hearing in december so i think that would be debatable to hear how good of a job it was also revealed today that bradley manning is going to be back in court on april twenty fourth but we're not sure what exactly is going to be litigated

linda explained that both sides have to submit what they want to be litigated in a final decision will be made before next month so in short season this judge who isn't completely up to speed on the case feels that manning's lawyers have ample materials to build their argument and the government hasn't done anything in the process without a fair hearing perhaps you should be the judge for now. and now we've got a breaking news update for you tonight the suspect in killing of the killing of sixteen afghan civilians has been identified as army staff sergeant robert bales u.s. officials have been current confirmed the name of the suspect and we'll bring you more details as they come in. now he's talking about the f.b.i. monitoring a veyron metal an animal rights activists many times before here on the show but new documents and even more instant insight into how pointless some of these investigations event pointless in the sense of people are being monitored simply for being an our kids are militant feminists who planned rallies for of subarus and went to farmers' markets in the form take notice and highlight these issues of

course because it shows how far the f.b.i. will go under the guise of terrorism to monitor people despite no suspicion of wrongdoing and thanks to the freedom of information act requests john cook has been able to glean information on a three year long investigation called seizing thunder was a nationwide investigation called operation backfire so let's see just how busy the feds are keeping themselves to supposedly protect us from those with strong political beliefs joining me from our studio in new york is john cook senior writer for gawker dot com john thanks so much for joining us on a first i guess just tell us how it is that you ended up you know trying to look into this filing a freedom of information act request. well i've written a lot about the animal rights movement and rights extremism and the federal government's response to it over this especially during the bush administration and i had filed some requests just looking at the end the liberation front and in some of those documents i go back in the f.b.i.

in a bleak reference to an investigation called seizing thunder which sounded kind of cool so i just filed off request but three years ago for that one and it's a good three years to get back to me and it turns out that seizing thunder was an investigation run out of the portland oregon office of the f.b.i. and it had at its root a sort of legitimate you know there was a legitimate law enforcement interest they were they were looking for some extremists who had committed some arsons across the pacific northwest and also a notorious one in vail colorado in the one nine hundred ninety s. across about twelve million told million dollars of damage to a ski lodge. but the investigation quickly metastasize from trying to find these specific individuals to literally just the f.b.i. agents sitting in a car outside a farmer's market yeah i mean tallahassee i mean a lot of i briefly i briefly mentioned you know the subaru to farmer's market but probably going to be a very examples that you foundered sacraments. well there's

a lot of instances of informants just telling agents about the little giving in the license plate numbers of every car that parked out of what they what they called a park outside of what they called a a no one in a case hang out and you know there's nothing illegal about being an anarchist that surely no federal law against this which is bizarre that we've got you know federal law enforcement resources especially in the wake of nine eleven this is going on two thousand and two to two thousand and five. federal law enforcement resources devoted to you know just keeping track of what cars are parked out of no on an anarchist hangouts there's a lot a lot of instances like that there's instances of people you know a warning that one agent received from an informant saying that the the local homeless groups are aligning with the anarchist groups and are going to create a homeless camp as though there's anything the f.b.i.

should be involved in there and there's cases of agents monitoring it's the war protests protests against the i.m.f. and world bank and the agents you know find out about this memo or an agent very proudly recounts how an informant told them about an upcoming march against the i.m.f. in eugene and he informed the eugene police department and he writes menacing i averted a riot there was going to be a riot and because i were in the eugene police department about it there wasn't a riot will know it was a march and there was going to be a teach in and some bands were going to play so they just these are sort of clueless agents who don't understand. you know the political activism and think it poses some kind of danger and so they just sort of you know ran amok well i mean i want to hand you know a little funny at first when you listen to some of the things that they did and you say while i was scared of. them home was at our camp to lions or people going to punk rock shows but you know it's it's not funny right this is supposed to be

a democracy and so how dangerous is it when you start being carried by the f.b.i. sometimes very stupid town agents like you mentioned it's only for the fact that you're practicing your rights that you're expressing your political views. well i mean it's not quite up to the standards of you know the stasi or the soviet era k.g.b. or the or the nixon era f.b.i. for that matter i think a lot of it's motivated by this you know what happened in the in the two thousand as the bush administration said our top counterterrorism domestic counterterrorism priority is animal rights and environmental extremism that was the number one thing . and domestically and a lot of resources internally in the department just as the f.b.i. went to the environmental an animal or its extremism and you know as of two thousand and five there are one hundred fifty active federal investigations and i think what happens is just agents who want their careers to succeed look to what

their bosses priorities are and they go with it and i think that's what's behind a lot of it i mean there's not a tremendous amount of of indications that any of this intelligence was was used. in a pernicious way it was just it's just sort of the the the just kind of run amuck although the one thing that is there definitely was some chilling i think that went on there was a deliberate effort in in the run up to the two thousand and four political conventions two thousand and four r. and c. in new york there was definitely a concerted effort by the f.b.i. and other federal law enforcement agencies to keep track of anarchists leftists and ask them are you going to are and see what are your plans and to develop intelligence and i think a lot of that was aimed at letting people know we're watching you don't try anything well and you know i mean i'm partially read feel like we hear these

stories a lot right we've seen a piece of investigation and then my t.v. and their surveillance program when it comes to the muslim population in the northeast and unfortunately always find out about these things very often after the fact that it took you three years to get this information through the foyer requests for. also mentioned that you know in fact the f.b.i. inspector general hey shooter a poor thing and they went too far here to take a guess you think anything strange are they still doing the same now the same thing now we're going to are infinity and see this year in q and we know that they're worried but occupy protesters are going to be there well that's what i mean one thing that is very clear from these these documents and other sort of cases of f.b.i. monitoring political extremists i think it's very clear that there are f.b.i. informants in occupy camps that the f.b.i. is keeping tabs on these these people especially the energy you know what they call they regard as the end of this movement that they're paying attention to them and they regard them as for some reason the federal law enforcement priority and so

would not surprise me i mean we do know in fact that there are. a coworker ager in china gawkers reported on. an informant who was sending forwarding. occupy e-mail list serv information to the f.b.i. but i'm sure there are people in the camps who are reporting back to f.b.i. agents and will probably be i guess it makes for a point to find out all exact i think that the holiday of john thank you so much for joining us tonight my pleasure thanks for having me. our is time for our last break of the evening but when we come back tired by friday and that on happy hour the co-founder of invisible children masturbating in public and if the government makes you get it ultrasound against your will one lawmaker suggests that you just always arrive.

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here weeks ago i covered her report by human rights watch report the highlight of the incredibly high numbers of youth juvenile offenders that are facing life in prison without parole three hundred in the state of california alone are behind bars for life with no way out nationwide that number is twenty five hundred next week on march twentieth supreme court is going to hear oral arguments in two cases to decide if sentencing juveniles to spend the rest of their lives to die in prison is unconstitutional and these two cases are jackson versus hobbs and miller versus alabama two cases where fourteen year olds were convicted of murder sentenced to life in prison without parole. and this is subject to devise a lot of people we saw within our own audience so we posed this question to you we went and spoke to people on the street well it might seem that if a kid is capable of committing heinous crimes they must know what they're doing they can't have the child the mind of a child anymore the evidence just doesn't add up the rulings of the supreme court

in the past just don't add up and let's not forget one of the few countries out there especially democratic nations the still have capital punishment thankfully the supreme court ruled in two thousand and five that juveniles can now be sentenced to death in two thousand and ten they ruled that juveniles guilty of non homicide crimes can't be sentenced to life without parole based on these two prior rulings they should say that even in cases of murder sentencing a young person to rot away in jail without any chance of rehabilitation is wrong and that's because in past rulings we've seen supreme court justices argue that juveniles are less mature they're not fully developed they're more vulnerable to external influences and they have a greater capacity to change and for rehabilitation there are psychological studies out there to back that up neuro science can back it up and it's fight back that we treat kids like kids and have legal boundaries for what they can and can't do until a certain age and so many other areas of our criminal justice system different we don't trust people to drink legally in this country until they're twenty one years

old but we believe that at age fourteen they can be capable of being completely rational and fully aware of their actions and the rep or cautions in cases of violent crime and there's no definitive way to say yes or no what's going on in that person's mind what the studies show what they show if we believe them elsewhere it's hard to imagine why wouldn't apply them here as well and perhaps it's because americans have been conditioned to buy into this tough on crime logic thanks that we have the largest known incarceration system in the world we've given up on rehabilitation as a country which means that we're giving up on people we'd rather lock them up throw away the key and deal with them like human beings and it's worst of all if we do that to argue and so. saying that doesn't mean that you don't think that people deserve punishment for their crimes it's simply about believing of they have the capacity to change and at least giving them the option to prove it to start over after serving their time so we'll be covering this case for you next week are we keeping you updated with all the details but in the meantime just think about what

some of the court has the right. time for happy hour and joining me this evening our team lead writer andrew blake and kevin glass managing editor at townhall thanks for joining the guys that are going to be. talking about the twenty twelve video on this show before and we were going through some of the problems but that we had to highlight for and but there is quite a p.r. scandal today but for the purpose of this remind you of something like. our goal change the conversation about cultures and get people to ask who is joseph kony we have printed hundreds of thousands of posters stickers yard signs and fires that are right now today being put out in major cities all over the world. all right so

there's a lot of critique about the video the finances of invisible children and whatnot but whatever their christian dudes in san diego that want to come out as children saviors they can do that jason russell one of the co-founders was detained at mr big beach for being drunk in public and masturbating and also i think there was some vandalization involved and this all happened eleven o'clock in the morning. this is our goal is to change the conversation and to get people asking who joseph cohen he is but obviously their brain just negative attention upon themselves you know if you're asking me who are invisible children who are these guys behind it and through what kind of you know organizational founder is drunken public masturbating in public you know one of the in the low down here they were blown up so much right he's been everywhere they're getting all of this the flack from everybody maybe he's having a breakdown because of all the negative xander so they say that he was exhausted but i can't master you and i'm tired so i don't so i'm assuming drugs probably

m.d.m.a. i was going to jump to conclusions but. yeah it's funny. i thought the masturbation. if you just put me on the spot i thought i thought i was going to hear a little more of you know if they've got this thing when the video came out everyone on the internet apparently except for me yeah yeah and they're really callable who are these dudes and then they started saying all these dude's they're bad and there's like this conspiracy that these these dude's these invisible kids or whatever. they can through their retirement or going to guys the guys invisible kids or children invisible children yeah so that people are selling they're just blowing people's money all these people are like oh this kone guy. and they're giving out money to these kids do and the i consider times running out you know given that you know he's going to post saying they were just blowing their money and now we know that at least it wasn't like going right up to do this knows he was just boozing himself hard all morning was blowing that i mean yesterday look at

this. pennsylvania's. ultrasound bill they also have an ultrasound bill this is different from the virginia bill because it's specify what type of college or sound but when people you know who had a problem with this ask the governor this is tom corbett this is what he had to say . i suppose it's not true since. but i'm still waiting to see he doesn't want. or. make anybody watch ok because you tend to have to close your eyes. you deserve to close your eyes works i'm not going to defend his statements here but they do specify it's supposed to be a non-intrusive type of a book of ultrasound and you know i've had an abdominal ultrasound it's not a huge thing to go through what it really comes down to i'm pretty is it

a pennsylvania's bill doesn't specify what kind of ultrasound it's going to be it says it has to be a non-intrusive ultrasound the language is vague to say the big you have to wear a lot of critics have said that it's too big and under certain circumstances there might be transactional ultrasounds involved but that's an easy fix if if the. in the presence of the legislation well in my eyes if you say you know the sound doesn't provide enough information to the mother who is going in for an abortion you can say well then we can't we can't give this kind of information but and then he said in some of your i guess you can still close your eyes and like i said as they are getting over the pool is it only for stuff though right because the doctor has to give you the ultrasound images you get two copies of the printed image then you have to tell you about the number of heart. that you have to get on the paper and find you bring the ultrasound images to your doctor and you know your eye you know what it's a simple as if you don't want to close your eyes you should just masturbate on the

streets of california eleven o'clock in the morning and you wouldn't be getting an abortion don't have sex there you go is your answer there's no good you want to buy is really quick newly discovered about i think alike. lies would live in rotting fruit and reduce the holes in the world and use their. medicine essential to kill off the curse rates that are growing with their blood so essentially we found the flies are using alcohol as a medicine and they're self medicating. right not only self medicating but they did this whole experiment where they put a fruit fly than a jar with some female that he just needed so he went down and so this proof i started drinking because of the lack of sex yet another experiment this confirms humans and animals are not so different as if the colony guy clearly wasn't getting anything out of the fruit fly go down to the bar he drowns the sorrows just like any of us just think if the fruit flies drunk and put him in a deer already been

a girl fruit fly what this is like think the worst like frat party that we got to drop they are up ok this is really uncomfortable we are going to have a good night thank you for joining us come back i may have a great weekend. well for the kool-aid it's technology innovation called the least i'm elements from around russia we've dumped the future coverage.

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