Patriot News Network

The following collection of articles by various authors are their opinions, inspiration and humor for your reading enjoyment.

War on Freedom

Disabled grandfather arrested by EIGHT cops for drunk driving mobility scooter!

LONDON, England - May 26, 2010 - Riding home on his mobility scooter at less than 4 mph, Eamonn Donohoe wasn't going anywhere in a hurry and didn't appear to be a menace to pedestrians.

But when the drunken Irishman ignored a policeman's attempt to flag him down, the local constabulary decided to take no chances.

As Donohoe, 62, was trundling along the pavement near hi

War on Freedom

Video captures officer kicking deaf man!

TAMPA, Florida - May 31, 2010 - There are many different ways you can interpret a video posted on YouTube, showing a police officer kicking a man on the ground.

From the view of the police officers, they were using a move they are trained to use when a person is not being compliant, which they say is what was happening.

Then there's the view of the man on the grou

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Trooper who was fired for killing cat wants his job back!

RALEIGH, North Carolina - May 29, 2010 - A North Carolina trooper is trying to get his job back after he says he was fired for killing a neighborhood cat.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday that 39-year-old Shawn Houston of Granite Falls was charged in October with cruelty to animals and injury to real property. He was fired in January and appealed earlie

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Children as young as four to be fingerprinted by school library!

LONDON, England - May 28, 2010 - Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognized by a computer program.

Under the scheme, pupils swipe a bar code inside the book they want to borrow then press their thumb on to a scanner to authorize the loan. Books are returned in the same way.

War on Freedom

Fears of Taser overuse as children and the elderly are targeted by police!

LONDON, England - May 28, 2010 - Tasers are being used on elderly people and children, figures revealed on Friday.

Hundreds of teenagers and more than 40 pensioners have been fired at or threatened by police armed with the electric stun weapons.

Among those hit with a 50,000-volt shock were a frail 89-year-old man and a girl aged just 14.

The figures raise

War on Freedom

Architect dies after police Taser him!

BALTIMORE, Maryland - May 28, 2010 - Carl D'Andre Johnson was an accomplished architect and religious man, his brother said, not the type of person who would challenge police and wind up dead after receiving a shock from an electronic stun-gun.

But Baltimore County police say Johnson got into a rumble with officers Thursday after crashing his Toyota pickup truck near a busy highway

Road to Depression

Economic rebound slowed last quarter!

WASHINGTON - May 27, 2010 - The economic rebound last quarter turned out to be slower than first thought, one of the reasons unemployment is likely to stay high this year.

The economy grew at a 3% annual rate from January to March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That was slightly weaker than an initial estimate of 3.2 percent a month ago. The new reading, based on more comp