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U.S. Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page

A DEA agent seized a woman’s cell phone after a drug arrest and created a Facebook page in her name without her knowledge. The agent went on to post racy pictures to the phony Facebook account and even posted a picture of her young son and niece.

The DEA agent, Timothy Sinnigen, used the account to communicate with at least one wanted fugitive. At no point did the agency notify the woman, Sondra Arquiett (previously Sondra Prince), that one of their agents was using her identity.

Arquiett only found out about the account when a friend asked about the pictures she was posting to her Facebook page. Arquiett was surprised because she did not have a Facebook page. At least she thought she didn’t have a Facebook page.

Buzzfeed reports:

Not long before, law enforcement officers had arrested Arquiett, alleging she was part of a drug ring. A judge, weighing evidence that the single mom was a bit player who accepted responsibility, ultimately sentenced Arquiett to probation. But while she was awaiting trial, Sinnigen created the fake Facebook page using Arquiett’s real name, posted photos from her seized cell phone, and communicated with at least one wanted fugitive — all without her knowledge. The Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., referred all questions to the DEA, which then declined to answer questions and, in turn, referred inquiries to the local U.S. attorney’s office in Albany, New York. That office did not respond to multiple requests for an interview. A Facebook spokesman declined to comment on the case. The site’s “Community Standards” say, “Claiming to be another person, creating a false presence for an organization, or creating multiple accounts undermines community and violates Facebook’s terms.” The spokesman said there is no exception to this policy for law enforcement.

The Facebook page remains accessible to the public and the privacy infringements by the DEA may have never been revealed if Arquiett had not filed a lawsuit against agent Sinnigen, accusing him in federal district court of violating her privacy and placing her in danger.

The article continues on Buzzfeed:

In a court filing, a U.S. attorney acknowledges that, unbeknownst to Arquiett, Sinnigen created the fake Facebook account, posed as her, posted photos, sent a friend request to a fugitive, accepted other friend requests, and used the account “for a legitimate law enforcement purpose.” The government’s response lays out an argument justifying Sinnigen’s actions: “Defendants admit that Plaintiff did not give express permission for the use of photographs contained on her phone on an undercover Facebook page, but state the Plaintiff implicitly consented by granting access to the information stored in her cell phone and by consenting to the use of that information to aid in an ongoing criminal investigations [sic].”

The government’s defense is unbelievable! They claim if you’re arrested and agree to aid in ongoing criminal investigations, then the government has the right to steal your identity. You cannot make this stuff up!

If you don’t think we are living in a police state, perhaps this story will wake you up.

For more on the out of control police state, check out the following episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast. Host Marc Clair is joined by John Whitehead, author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and founder and President of the Rutherford Institute, a non-profit civil liberties organization dedicated to the protection of constitutional and human rights.

Lions of Liberty Podcast Episode 13: John Whitehead- The Police State Is Here





Private Company Keeps Ebola Under Control

In theory stopping the spread of the deadly Ebola virus is not that complicated. The key is securing separation of individuals infected with the virus from the general population. The reason the disease spreads so easily in the poor nations of West Africa is because they do not have the resources to execute the necessary quarantine to separate those infected from the general population.

There is at least one town in Liberia that has done a phenomenal job of containing the deadly Ebola virus to this point. It is the town of Harbel, Liberia and it’s where the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is located. Firestone workers make up a community of 80,000 across the plantation. They had their first case of Ebola on March 30th and were able to stop the virus from spreading to family, workers, or anyone that treated or cared for the infected woman. The woman died, but there was not another case of Ebola in the town until an epidemic raced through the nearby capital of Monrovia in August.

From NPR.org:

Firestone didn’t see another Ebola case for four months. Then in August, as the epidemic raced through the nearby capital, patients with Ebola started appearing at the one hospital and several clinics across the giant rubber plantation. The hospital isolation ward was expanded to 23 beds and a prefab annex was built. Containing Ebola became the number one priority of the company. Schools in the town, which have been closed by government decree, were transformed into quarantine centers. Teachers were dispatched for door-to-door outreach. Hundreds of people with possible exposure to the virus were placed under quarantine. Seventy-two cases were reported. Forty-eight were treated in the hospital and 18 survived. By mid-September the company’s Ebola treatment unit was nearly full. As of this weekend, however, only three patients remained: a trio of boys age 4, 9 and 17.

This is an amazing story. In the U.S. we get accustomed to bashing corporations for not caring about their employees. It is refreshing to see a corporation standing tall in the middle of the terrifying Ebola outbreak by providing the protection and care necessary to contain the outbreak. It is telling that a for-profit corporation has better resources and a better plan than the coercive governments in the area.

Mass Grave Found In Mexico After Protestors Disappear Near Iguala

What the hell is going on in Mexico?

The BBC reports:

A mass grave has been found on the outskirts of the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on 27 September, officials say. It is not clear whether the bodies found in a pit are those of the missing students, who were last seen being forced into police vans. The group had travelled to the area, in the state of Guerrero, to take part in a protest over teachers’ rights. Police opened fire on their buses, killing six people. Twenty-two police officers are being held in connection with the shooting. Witnesses said that most of the survivors – all trainee teachers – were bundled into police vans before disappearing.

Remember, this is occurring in the nation directly to the south of the United States. These awful crimes did not occur on the other side of the globe. At the very least the President should denounce these atrocities.

But will President Barack Obama address what appears to be an egregious violation of individual rights?

Don’t get your hopes up.

President Obama is probably too busy dropping bombs on faraway nations to be bothered with condemning the mass murder of innocent civilians by police and government officials in the country to the immediate south.

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