Bulletproof Security: Mining Company Hires Paramilitary Commandos to Guard Their Precious Equipment, and Wisconsin Is Unhappy

In response to protests against a proposed $1.5 billion iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin by Gogebic Taconite, the mining company has hired masked, camouflaged, assault-rifle-toting guards from a "no compromise" security force that boasts of "professional operators" who can "smoothly manage surrounding threats." Thanks to the witless overkill, the "surrounding threats" are mostly once-peaceable, now-pissed residents blasting the company's “confrontational and incendiary step" in the name of profit. “Some of the local people are wondering what the heck? It’s come to a sad situation when you’ve got to have a machine gun to protect a business that people around here don’t want.” Update : More on the guy behind the mercenaries-for-hire. He's also into real estate and payday loans.

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This Is My Government

Rushing headlong to pass their egregious abortion restriction bills, the Texas House paused just long enough to throw out a young woman offering a great and furious rant on their war against women. With livestream, a transcript of what else she would have said if troopers didn't get to her first, and the 80-plus-year old Margaret and Helen asking of those "hypocritical bullies," "Are they saving babies or just calling you a slut?" "Margaret, if my vagina could shoot bullets it would have fewer regulations on it...I am old enough to remember what happens to women who don’t have access to safe, legal abortions. But I guess if you don’t like women, killing a few is of no concern."

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