Did you know that even if you’re an 80 year old god-fearing woman, if the police kick your door in at 2am and kill you, you have no recourse so long as some criminal drug using informant previously swore that there were drugs in your home?

And that’s not just a hypothetical situation. It actually happened. And so did a whole bunch of other shocking examples just like it.
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A new site dreamt up by the rock star Peter Gabriel called Witness.org focuses on the noble, yet disturbing, concept of documenting human rights violations.

The site currently catalogs one of the largest collections of human rights violations in the world, and has gathered the data by training hundreds of people in over 80 countries to use video recording technology.
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This is a 5 minute video put together by a group of young people calling themselves “the five year plan”. In it, they demonstrate what happens when a group of drivers decide to strictly obey the posted speed limit on a major US highway.

Interesting stuff, and it’s all absolutely real…
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