(2013/05/15) Homeland Insecurity Part 1: Law (Police State)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 May 2013
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Edition #717
Homeland Insecurity Part 1: Law
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Teen Arrested For Yelling "Bingo!" in a Bingo Hall - Majority Report - Air Date: 03-22-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Bingo - The Whispers
Ch. 4: Act 2: Govt. Spying on Your Finances Fights Terrorism? - Young Turks - Air Date: 03-22-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Big Brother - David Bowie
Ch. 6: Act 3: Cops: Mobile Carriers Should Keep Records of People's Text Messages - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-23-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Lost in the post - The Wombats
Ch. 8: Act 4: Police Stings: Are They Entrapment? P2 - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 04-16-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: I always knew - The Vaccines
Ch. 10: Act 5: Guy From Pringles Ad Convicted Of Murder On 'Law And Order' - The Onion
Ch. 11: Song 5: Kelsey - Metro Station
Ch. 12: Act 6: 1000's Of Surveillance Cameras - We Need More - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 4-22-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Don't worry, we'll be watching you - Gotye
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Future of Surveillance - On the Media - Air Date: 4-26-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Let's misbehave - Irving Aaronson & His Commanders
Ch. 16: Act 8: Former FBI Agent: NOT Mirandizing Can Actually Hurt Investigation - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-23-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Square one - Coldplay
Ch. 18: Act 9: NYPD Cop: We Have Quotas Because We're Lazy - Young Turks - Air Date: 05-04-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: To serve and protect - Queen Ifrica
Ch. 20: Act 10: Professor Arrested for Swearing at Graphic Anti-Abortion Display - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 04-17-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Atoms in a molecule - Noah and the Whale
Ch. 22: Act 11: Profanity - Ron Kipling Williams
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Americans are blessed in how easy it is to learn about other cultures - Jorge From South Florida
Ch. 24: Government using too much power, what about mission creep - Jason from Iowa
Ch. 25: The problem with propaganda - Chris from Middletown, NY
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments on critical thinking
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details visit |
| 0:06.6 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft Podcast with Cups Today from the majority |
| 0:12.4 | report, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, The Tom Hartman Program, The Onion Radio |
| 0:16.3 | News, This Week in Blackness, On the Media, and Ron Kipling Williams. |
| 0:23.3 | So, let's say you're an 18-year-old, and you decide to, you know, hear with your friends |
| 0:35.0 | hanging out, you're in high school, and you go past a local bingo hall, maybe you live |
| 0:39.6 | in a town like Covington, Kentucky, and you go into the local bingo hall and you sit |
| 0:45.7 | down, play a game of bingo, and you decide we're going to be hilarious to shout out bingo |
| 0:51.4 | when there is no bingo, what a childish prank, but then again you're in high school. |
| 0:57.8 | That's what happened to Austin Welley. |
| 0:59.7 | He went to the Covington, Kentucky bingo hall, and he yelled bingo. |
| 1:05.0 | Now what happened to Austin Welley, that probably wouldn't have happened to you, is that a |
| 1:11.4 | police sergeant Richard Webster was there, and he decided to arrest Austin Welley, 18-year-old |
| 1:19.5 | Austin Welley, a high school student, for yelling out bingo in the bingo hall. |
| 1:24.0 | What did police sergeant Richard Webster have to say? |
| 1:27.1 | At first everybody started moaning and groaning when they thought they'd lost. |
| 1:31.8 | When they realized it wasn't a real bingo, they started hooting and hollering and yelling |
| 1:37.9 | and cussing. |
| 1:39.4 | People take their bingo very seriously. |
| 1:42.6 | So apparently though, not only do those people take bingo very seriously, sergeant Webster |
| 1:47.5 | went on to arrest him, and he continued on, just like you can't run into a theater and |
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