Outraged Fullerton citizens react to Kelly Thomas beating tape
The May 15 city council meeting in Fullerton, California was packed with outraged citizens ready to voice reactions to newly released security camera footage showing police brutally beating Kelly Thomas to death at a bus depot. Thomas was a 37-year-old schizophrenic drifter who died after a July,...
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Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and Other Merchants of Despair
"We have never been in danger of running out of resources," says Dr. Robert Zubrin, "but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained." In his latest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Enviro...
Battle for the California Desert: Why is the Government Driving Folks off Their Land?
The Antelope Valley is a vast patch of desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles County, and a segment of the few rugged individualists who live out there increasingly are finding themselves the targets of armed raids from local code enforcement agents, who've assembled into task forces called Nuisa...
Why Obama's Stimulus Failed: A Case Study of Silver Spring, Maryland
High, persistent unemployment and a sluggish economy underscore what all but the most-dedicated supporters of Barack Obama know to be true: The president's 2009 stimulus program was a massively expensive bust. Understanding why the stimulus failed is an important step in understanding how the gov...
The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed
"They...come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything," says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville and Memphis factories by agents from the Depar...
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Is Harrisburg's Nightmare America's Future?
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America's municipal debt crisis. Pennsylvania's capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly ten times its annual budget. The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for bankruptcy. Reckless spending did m...
What We Saw at the Stewart-Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity
Reason.tv was on hand for the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the National Mall in Washington on Saturday, October 30, 2010. The crowd was huge, the weather fine, the signs memorable, and the people...well, let's just say they were there too. Some ...
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What We Saw at the Occupy Wall Street Protest
Down with banks, student-loan debt, and expensive elections! Up with barter...capitalism...and...Mitt Romney?!?! On October 4, 2011, Reason.tv visited the Occupy Wall Street protests at Liberty Square in Lower Manhattan, on Day 18 of the ongoing demonstration. The crowd was relatively small at ab...
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Too Much Copyright
"This disconnect between the public's view of copyright and fair use and what should and should not be prosecuted, versus the 'copyright maximist' view of the law, is our generation's Prohibition," says Ben Huh, CEO and founder of Cheezburger and a loud voice in the recent backlash to SOPA and PI...
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Remy: Do the TSA Pokey Pokey
The Transportation Security Administration - with a little help from Reason.tv and international web sensation Remy - have produced an instructional video outlining proper airport screening measures. "Do the TSA Pokey Pokey" is the second of a series of collaborations between Remy and Reason.tv. ...
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Lindy: "No Knock Raid" - a song about the drug war's deadliest tactic.
Note: This video contains graphic images of violence and mature language. Viewer discretion is advised. "No Knock Raid," written and performed by Toronto-based musician Lindy, is a searing indictment of one of the most aggressive, ubiquitous, and mistaken tactics in the War on Drugs. Consider onl...
What We Saw at the Save Our Schools Rally in Washington DC
On July 30th, 2011, teachers, parents and advocates such as actor Matt Damon, author Jonathan Kozol, and historian Diane Ravitch gathered for the Save Our Schools Rally outside the White House. The purpose of the event: "To put the public back in public schools." Reason.tv was on hand to talk ten...
Attack Ads, Circa 1800
Have this year's negative political ads really "taken dirty to a whole new level, as CNN's Anderson Cooper frets? Is a "return to civility...a relic of a bygone era," as President Barack Obama laments? Er, not exactly. If anonymous political speech, the other widely decried villain of this politi...
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Cops Vs. Cameras: The Killing of Kelly Thomas & The Power of New Media
NOTE: Because of violent images, viewer discretion is advised. The autopsy results from the death of Kelly Thomas, a schizophrenic drifter who was allegedly beaten to death by Fullerton, California police will be announced today by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. Rackauckas will ...
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Radley Balko on the 3 Worst Cases of Police Abuse in 2011
Due to the violence depicted and discussed in this video, viewer discretion is advised. The 1991 beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department, which came to light after being caught on video by a citizen trying out a video camera, ushered in a new age of transparency and openness w...
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Remy's Occupy Wall Street Protest Song
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads like a, well, financial contagion through global markets, intergalactic Internet sensation Remy and Reason.tv give the movement its anthem. Written and performed by Remy and produced by Meredith Bragg. About 2.45 minutes. Go to reason.tv for downloadable...
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