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Police states don’t appear full blown, over night. They are, like any other social phenomenon, part of a social and political process - the end result of a long term corruption of the political culture and the incremental diminishing of democracy. This is a process that has been taking place for at least twenty years in Canada and the US as it should come as no surprise that the police state in Canada and the US at the direction of the politicians and their freinds in the Global Elite - that escalate the threats to democratic expression and the intimidation of ordinary citizens who speak out on this type of corruption.

THE POLICE STATE & THE PEOPLE

12-year-old Put in Jail by Mistake - Thursday, May 17, 2012

Krista Henery
WLFI-TV West Lafayette, Indiana
May 17, 2012

From the waiting room to a jail cell. A case of mistaken identity leads to a 12-year-old who said he was wrongfully jailed.

12-year-old put in jail by mistake: wlfi.com

Now the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

“He was holding his belt in one hand and had tears coming down his face and I said, ‘Jacob, where were you,’ and he said, ‘I was in jail,” Michelle Magruder said. “I said, ‘what do you mean, did you ask for them to show you’ and he said, ‘no.’ “

Police Hunt Man for Sport - Monday, May 14, 2012

Infowars.com
May 14, 2012

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High Level Insider: DHS Preparing to Start A Civil War - Thursday, May 10, 2012

Infowars.com
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Alex talks with Douglas J. Hagmann, founder and director of the Northeast Intelligence Network. He is also the CEO of a private investigative agency serving a roster of Fortune 500 clients. Due to his expertise in covert surveillance and counter-terrorism, Mr. Hagmann has been used as an operational asset by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, as well as the Pennsylvania and New York State Police agencies. Earlier this month, Doug said high-level, reliable sources told him the Department of Homeland Security is preparing for “massive civil war” in America as a result of a collapse of the dollar and the hyperinflation that will result.

Congressional Democrats Introduce Amendment to Outlaw Self Defense - Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 9, 2012

The Congressional Progressive Caucus has announced it will introduce legislation designed to strip Americans of the right to defend themselves. Called “Stop Shoot First Laws,” the amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill under consideration in the House would deny states federal funding allocated under section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 if they continue to allow citizens to defend themselves.

Democrats Raul Grijalva asnd Keith Ellison.

“Shoot first laws have already cost too many lives,” said Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva upon introducing their amendment. “In Florida alone, deaths due to self-defense have tripled since the law was enacted. Federal money shouldn’t be spent supporting states with laws that endanger their own people. This is no different than withholding transportation funds from states that don’t enforce seatbelt laws.”

“The message here is if you have this kind of law that your federal funding is going to take a hit because they make states less safe,” Adam Sarvana, communications director for Grijalva, told Politico.

In other words, the Democrats will force states to choose between putting their citizens at the mercy of violent criminals or taking federal largess.

Because the House does not have an open amendment process, the amendment will likely not see a vote on the floor. Ellison and Grijalva introduced the amendment in and effort to further politicize the Trayvon Martin case and increase pressure on the Second Amendment.

Democrats are using “Shoot First” instead of “Stand Your Ground” in an effort to portray self defense as homicide.

“Stand Your Ground” is a legal extension of the Castle doctrine stating that a person has a right to defend himself against an intruder. “Stand Your Ground” laws state that one can use deadly force in any location one is legally allowed to be and removes the requirement that the threat must occur on one’s own property.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in Congress. It is supported by the Institute for Policy Studies, MoveOn.org, the NAACP, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, and other liberal and so-called “progressive” organizations.

FBI Exploited Mental Illness in Latest Fake Terror Case - Friday, May 04, 2012

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 4, 2012

Police and court records reveal that three of the five suspects entrapped and arrested by the FBI in a supposed plot to blow up a bridge in Ohio suffer from mental health problems, according to a report posted today by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Three of the five “anarchists” arrested by the FBI suffer from mental health issues.

One of the suspects, Brandon Baxter, was talked out of committing suicide in February. A week later he joined the plot arranged by an FBI informant.

“Really, from everything I know, this is not something Brandon would think up on his own,” said John Pyle, an attorney representing the disturbed 20 year old.

Pyle has questioned the role of an FBI “Confidential Human Source” in the case. “We need to … put the case under a microscope,” Pyle told the Los Angeles Times. “But just on the basis on the filing in the court, there’s some indicators that this informant was playing a really active role.”

Baxter’s lawyer revealed the identity of the “informer” who acted as a provocateur. Shaquille Azir is a convicted felon accused of passing bad checks. He has worked for the FBI since July of last year. It was Azir who arranged the purchase of inert C-4 explosive from an undercover FBI agent and also fronted money to buy the material the mentally disturbed “anarchists” believed was real explosive.

“The FBI source – who has been paid ‘$5750 for services and $550 for expenses’ – has prior convictions for cocaine possession (1990), robbery (1991), and four convictions for passing bad checks between 1991 and 2011, according to the bombing complaint. No mention is made, however, of Azir’s two pending criminal cases,” reports The Smoking Gun.

Azir, aka Kelvin Jackson, has a lengthy criminal record that also includes grand theft, tampering with records, and aggravated theft.

The FBI has made entrapping the mentally ill and other vulnerable people in fake terror plots a cottage industry.

“The FBI is not choosy about the people it uses. Some have criminal records, including attempted murder or drug dealing or fraud. They are often paid six-figure sums, which critics say creates a motivation to entrap targets. Some are motivated by the promise of debts forgiven or immigration violations wiped clean. There has also been a relaxing of rules on what criteria the FBI needs to launch an investigation,” writes Paul Harris for the Guardian.

Since September 11, 2001, the FBI has built a huge network of informants. Many of them are convicted criminals. The agency maintains a roster of 15,000 spies, Trevor Aaronson wrote for Mother Jones last year. For every informant officially listed, Aaronson notes, the agency has as many as three unofficial ones, according to an FBI official.

The current network rivals COINTELPRO, the agency’s illegal surveillance and political neutralization operation that allegedly ended in the 1970s but in fact continues today. As Brian Glick and others have documented, covert action against political enemies is a permanent feature of the federal government.

The FBI and the federal government seek out the mentally ill and other deluded souls who are easily tricked into engaging in illegal behavior. This is done because the domestic terrorist threat is virtually nonexistent in America. It is a transparent chimera engineered by the government to provide a pretext to attack legitimate and constitutionally protected activity and characterize it with the help of the establishment media as terrorism.

In fact, the FBI and the feds – with the help of the corporate media – pose a far more serious threat to America than any number of mentally ill “anarchists” or Muslims.

Crack Heads Duped by FBI - Friday, May 04, 2012

Prisonplanet.com
Friday, May 4, 2012

Alex exposes the The FBI’s latest plot to engineer their own job security as five men from Cleveland are arrested after being recruited and trained to blow up bridges.

FBI nabs five mastermind geniuses after teaching them how to blow up a bridge in Cleveland

Mike Adams
Natural News
Thursday, May 3, 2012

I feel safer already. After recruiting five of the dumbest crack heads in the city of Cleveland, Ohio and convincing them to “blow up a bridge”, the FBI halted the operation just in time — a move that wasn’t too difficult considering the FBI plotted the whole thing to begin with.

And thanks to the FBI, we have all been saved from the masterminds of evil shown in the pictures below. As you can clearly see, these evil geniuses were a clear and present threat to America’s national security. If the FBI hadn’t stopped them in Cleveland, no doubt they would have gone on to break the Pentagon’s high security encryption, acquire the launch codes to nuclear missiles, and unleash a global thermonuclear war through sheer brain power alone.

Here are the mug shots of the five mastermind villains now thwarted by the clever FBI:

The FBI: Dreaming up fake terror plots for job security

Now, as you can probably tell from all the fake terror plots the FBI has dreamed up recently, this is an agency desperate to engineer job security. Since the agency can’t find any REAL terror plots in America, they routinely resort to planning and carrying out their own terror plots against America while recruiting drugged-up morons to take the blame.

These five individuals in Cleveland look like they could have been recruited by the FBI with little more than five crack pipes. Or five hits of meth, perhaps. In no way are these the “criminal masterminds” they’re being made out to be by most of the mainstream media and the FBI itself.

Speaking of the MSM, more and more newspapers across the USA are waking up to the FBI’s fake terror plot routine. Believe it or not, even the New York Times recently ran a feature story questioning the FBI’s role in planning, providing weapons and even helping carry out all these fake plots.

As the NYT reports: (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-help…)

The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.

But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naively played their parts until they were arrested.

When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust.

This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps.

The FBI also masterminded various other attacks, during which it intercepted its own terror plots and then claimed to be protecting America from terrorists! (http://www.naturalnews.com/033751_FBI_terrorism.html)

This is all “police state theater”

What you are witnessing in all this is government-sponsored theater carried out across the stage of America. The terror plots are all fake, the terrorists are all drugged-out patsies, and the “domestic terrorism” threat against America is non-existent.

The only terrorists the FBI can actually find are the ones it recruits!

This is all done to play to the cameras and keep the American sheeple reminded that terrorism is everywhere around them so that they continue to give up their rights and liberties.

The entire “war on terror” was completely faked, of course, starting with the 9/11 attacks which were themselves planned and plotted in advance by shadow government insiders who wired the entire WTC 7 building with explosives. That’s how they managed to level THREE buildings using only TWO airplanes. The third building — WTC 7 — was brought down demolition-style. This fact is so obvious that I often use it as an IQ test to find out if the new people I meet have any brains at all:http://www.naturalnews.com/033684_911_truth_WTC_7.html

So now to keep all this whole police state game going, the security agencies run around desperately trying to recruit morons, drug addicts and insane patsies to play roles in their little terror plots, all of which are planned, engineered and carried out by the FBI themselves. Heck, in the Portland bombing threat, an FBI agent even drove the van!

FBI = Fabricated Bombing Instigators

I’m sure there are fine men and women in the FBI. But I have to ask the obvious question: Don’t you guys have any REAL terrorists to track down? Don’t you have something more important to do with your time and taxpayers’ money?

Or has the FBI done such a great job of keeping America safe from real terrorists that they now have to recruit pretend terrorists just to stay in practice?

Or has all this crossed a threshold to the point where the FBI has become the chief terrorist plotting organization in America?

In other words, if the FBI stopped staging fake terror plots, would the era of terrorism in America come to a screeching halt?

Coming soon: The Big Kahuna False Flag

All humor aside, the really big news for my fellow Americans is that it’s rather obvious the FBI is planning and plotting a “Big Kahuna” false flag attack that will inevitably use LIVE explosives.

After all, the entire credibility of the FBI is eroding by the day. When even the New York Times admits the FBI is staging and engineering fake, false terror attacks, you know these guys are going to resort to desperate measures to try to keep everyone stunned into a state of freedom-crushing terror.

Unfortunately, that need for a government escalation of the terror almost certainly means they’re working on another 9/11-style event with massive loss of life. Speculation of what they’re planning runs the gamut across the ‘net, from a “dirty bomb” set off at a sporting event, to an intentional release of a deadly biological weapon in a train station somewhere. Or maybe an attack on a nuclear facility that results in a massive release of radiation across North America. Who knows? Are there any limits to what these people will do in order to save their own jobs and remain in power? If they would “almost” blow up a bridge in Cleveland and “almost” fly explosives into the Pentagon using a remote-controlled airplane, then what happens when they remove the “almost” and just let the explosions happen?Then they get raises and promotions!Because suddenly the FBI is more important than ever!

The FBI has the expertise to carry out false flag terror attacks in America

So when the next domestic terrorism attack happens, look first to the FBI as the source, because they’re becoming quite well-informed about terrorist bombings and attacks these days, aren’t they? In fact, it can be accurately argued that the FBI has the most terrorism expertise of any group in the country, exceeding even the experience and knowledge of actual terrorists (if there are such things).

Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns and Woodland Fairies… and then “terrorists” in America. It’s all fiction, my friends. Fiction that is staged for your psychological enslavement under a system offalse fear.

The more you are kept afraid, the more easily you’ll give power to the centralized government — the very government staging all these terrorist plots! Do you yet realize just how insane this is?

It’s the new Amerika: We’re all told that “Americans are the enemy” but no one can find actual Americans trying to blow anything up. So the FBI stages the whole thing and manages to find a group of total drug-heads to unwittingly play their part in something they are cognitively incapable of understanding, much less carrying out.

And then, to add yet more stupidity to the entire equation, the FBI parades these morons to the public, claiming they were terrorist masterminds who threatened our entire nation! Yeah, right. They might be a threat to your refrigerator if you’re hiding some beer in there, but the odds of this band of knuckleheads actually pulling off anything real is just about zilch.

In observing all this, ask yourself this question: If the terror threat is so real, then why do terrorist plots have to be FAKED by the FBI?

Unmasked: Meet The FBI’s Bridge Bomb Plot Snitch - Friday, May 04, 2012

The Smoking Gun
Thursday, May 3, 2012

The paid informant who helped orchestrate the FBI sting that resulted in the arrest of five anarchists for allegedly plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge is a convicted felon who was arrested on bad check and theft charges in the midst of his cooperation with federal investigators, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Shaquille Azir, 39, was named in a pair of felony indictments filed in January in Cuyahoga County, according to court records. Azir, who TSG has identified as the informant in the federal bombing case, is accused in the indictments of passing bad checks onJuly 25, 2011 andDecember 22, 2011.

Azir, pictured in the mug shot at right, “has been working as a source for the FBI since July 20, 2011,” according to the U.S. District Court complaint filed yesterday against the alleged bomb plotters. Wearing a body recorder, Azir captured the five self-styled anarchists plotting to use C-4 explosive to take down a Cleveland-area bridge.

Azir arranged for the purchase of the C-4 from an undercover FBI agent. He also fronted the alleged conspirators money for the buy of the material, which had been rendered inert by federal investigators. If the bombing case goes to trial, defense lawyers will certainly portray the 6’ 5”, 350-pound Azir as the plot’s instigator, a snitch who pocketed the FBI’s money to help entrap the five defendants, who range in age from 20 to 35.

Full story here.

Obama Information Czar Confronted Over “Ban Conspiracy Theories” Paper - Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Claims to have no memory of saying free speech should be taxed

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
May 1, 2012

During a rare public appearance, the Obama Administration’s Information Czar Cass Sunstein told a crowd gathered at he NYU Law School in NYC yesterday that he has little recollection of writing a 2008 paper that called for a ban on conspiracy theorizing.

In the question and answer portion of the lecture, We Are Change founder Luke Rudkowski confronted Sunstein concerning his avocation of a “provocateur” style program to silence what have become the government’s most vociferous and influential critics.

With tongue firmly in cheek, Rudkowski introduced himself as “Bill de Berg from Brooklyn college”, before directly asking Sunstein to explain his comments.

“I know you wrote many articles, but I think the most telling one about you is the 2008 one called ‘Conspiracy Theories’. Where you openly advocated government agents infiltrating activist groups for 9/11 truth, and also to stifle dissent online.” Rudkowski stated.

“Why do you think the government should go after family members and responders who have questions about 9/11?” he asked Sunstein.

“I’ve written hundreds of articles and I remember some and not others.” Sunstein replied, denying that he has a firm recollection of the paper.

“I hope I didn’t say that, but whatever was said in that article, my role in government is to oversee federal rulemaking in a way that is wholly disconnected from the vast majority of my academic writing, including that.” Sunstein added.

“I know that, I’m just asking because you may be the next Supreme Court Justice if Obama appoints you, and you did write those things.” Rudkowski replied.

“I may agree with some of the things I have written but I’m not exactly sure. I focus on what my boss wants me to do.” Sunstein said, intimating that he was just following orders.

When Rudkowski asked if Sunstein would retract his comments about banning opinions that differ from those of the government, Sunstein again claimed he did not remember the article he had written and his personnel intervened to prevent Rudkowski pressing him on the matter.

Watch the video:

Another insane person within the Obama government.

Within his infamous paper, which can be downloaded here, Sunstein outlined plans for the government to infiltrate “conspiracy groups”, including the 9/11 Truth Movement, in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks, as well as real meetings.

The specifics of the plans must be read in full in order to gauge their extreme nature and the threat Sunstein poses to the freedom in America.

On page 14 of the paper, he proposed that “under imaginable conditions” the government “might ban conspiracy theorizing” and could “impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.”

In effect, Obama’s information czar called for taxing or banning outright, as in making illegal, opinions and ideas that the government doesn’t approve of.

Sunstein’s definition of a “conspiracy theorist” encompasses those who question manmade global warming and, most bizarrely, anyone who believes that sunlight is healthy for their bodies.

Presumably if Sunstein had been in power in the latter middle ages he would have attempted to tax and then ban the work of Galileo Galilei for subscribing to the theory that the Earth was not the centre of the universe and that it actually revolved around the Sun.

When he’s not going after those evil sunlight lovers, Sunstein advocates Internet censorship via enforced and regulated links in news pieces to opposing opinions.

Sunstein himself later retracted that proposal, explaining that it would be “too difficult to regulate [the Internet] in a way that would respond to those concerns”, and admitting that it was “almost certainly unconstitutional.”

Sunstein has also called for the re-writing of the First Amendment, and has even proposed a mandatory celebration of tax day in America.

His views on the Second Amendment have also raised serious concerns. In his book “Radicals in Robes,” he wrote: “[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine.”

Sunstein is on record attacking the Second Amendment. Watch in the following clip as he says “The Supreme Court has never suggested that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to have guns.”

Given his extreme actions and stated intentions, Cass Sunstein should be forced out of office and barred from practicing law with immediate effect. If president Obama has his way, however, we may very soon see his good buddy Sunstein elevated to the highest judicial position in the country.

NSI Instructional Video: Public Photography is Terrorism - Monday, April 30, 2012

The Phony War On Terrorism

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 30, 2012

As part of an ongoing effort to create a Stasi-like surveillance grid in America, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in association with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, has produced a video to assist in the training of officers as they go about detecting what the federal government considers to be suspicious activity. It is part of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI).

The video instructs officers to consider photographers as possible terrorists who should be singled out for additional interrogation.

According to the video, street photography and photography of public buildings provides “justification for further analysis,” although the video emphasizes that photography “and other similar activities are protected activities unless connected to other suspicious activities that would indicate potential terrorism. This may cause the officer to conduct additional observation or gather additional information – again taking into account the totality of circumstances.”

“Photography, observation, or surveillance of facilities, buildings, or critical infrastructure and key resources beyond casual, tourism, or artistic interest, to include facility access points, staff or occupants, or security measures,” the video instructs.

The “acquisition or storage of unusual quantities of materials,” including cell phones and pagers, is considered to be a suspicious behavior.

While the NSI attempts to be politically correct – stating it does not profile individuals on the basis of race or religion – and also pays lip-service to privacy, it is the largest and most technologically sophisticated surveillance program in the nation’s history (a fact noted by none other than the Washington Post). It “collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing,” the Post notes.

“The unprecedented network involves local police, state and military authorities feeding a growing database on thousands of US citizens and residents, even though many have never been charged with breaking the law,” AFP reported in 2010. “The apparatus breaks new ground in the United States — where domestic security measures traditionally have faced legal limits — and raises questions about safeguards for privacy and civil liberties.”

In fact, this is a fallacy – the government has surveilled and collected data on millions of Americans for decades.

Beginning with Operation Shamrock, the NSA has spied on Americans since the end of the Second World War. Operation Shamrock violated the Communications Act and the Fourth Amendment. In 2005, it was revealed that the NSA has continued to illegally monitor Americans by working with transnational telecoms to copy all email and web browsing in the United States and internationally.

The NSA is not alone. The FBI (most notoriously under COINTELPRO) and the CIA (Operation CHAOS) have long track records in not only surveilling Americans, but also disrupting – the FBI called it neutralizing – the legal political activities of countless Americans.

The NSI is part of a long and disreputable tradition in violation of the Constitution. Street photographers can expected to be singled out and considered members of al-Qaeda and other largely mythical terrorist fabrications.

The drift is unmistakeable. East Germany’s Stasi began by creating dossiers on its citizens and ended by imprisoning people for trying to leave the country, or telling political jokes. Secret executions and the deliberate irradiation of political prisoners with x-ray machines in an attempt to give them cancer was routine.

Authorities Refuse to Disclose Details of Chicago Evacuation Plan - Monday, April 30, 2012

Information lockdown by Secret Service and city officials

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, April 30, 2012

City and federal authorities have reacted bizarrely to the revelation that the Red Cross has been ordered to prepare for the possible evacuation of Chicago during next month’s NATO summit by refusing to acknowledge that the directive came from them.

As we reported last week, Red Cross volunteers in the Milwaukee area were sent an email instructing them that, “The American Red Cross in southeastern Wisconsin has been asked to place a number of shelters on standby in the event of evacuation of Chicago.”

According to a chapter Red Cross spokesperson, “Our direction has come from the City of Chicago and the Secret Service.”

However, according to a CBS 2 report, the Secret Service has refused to even acknowledge the issue and “Chicago officials say the plan didn’t come from them.”

Chicago area tenants were also informed by management agencies that they should get ready to leave their homes in preparation for major rioting.

Despite the fact that the plan for evacuating citizens has stoked paranoia and confusion amongst residents, information about the procedure has seemingly been placed on lockdown.

Chicago NATO host committee officials also responded to reports that heavily armed security teams would be making themselves visible in federal buildings from this week onwards with ignorance, claiming they were “completely in the dark.”

It appears highly probable that many of the policing methods and emergency planning provisions are so over the top that authorities are loathe to disclose details for fear of a backlash before the event.

This reminds us of the previous administration’s continuity of government plans for the aftermath of a catastrophic event that were deemed so secret that even Congressman Peter DeFazio, who sat on the Homeland Security Committee with clearance to see classified material, was barred from viewing the details.

“Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right,” DeFazio said at the time, which is precisely the reaction the refusal to acknowledge the Chicago evacuation plan will also generate.

The effect that all this has is to create the perception that the mere act of exercising First Amendment rights is somehow dirty and criminal, and that it needs to be countered by the state using clandestine means with plans that are more suited to responding to debilitating terrorist attacks than public demonstrations.

Indeed, preparations to shut down roads and limit the size of trucks passing through certain highways mirrors “a procedure originally designed for use in an all-out emergency like a bioterrorism attack.”

The NATO summit represents a massive photo opportunity for the government to showcase how America is now a militarized police state, sending the message that any attempt to protest the new world order will be met by an army of gun-wielding goons, invasive surveillance technologies and pain-inducing torture tools.

Government Secretly Prepares To Evacuate Chicago During NATO Summit - Thursday, April 26, 2012

“Standby shelters” readied for residents

Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 25, 2012

A leaked directive issued to the Red Cross indicates that the federal government has prepared plans to evacuate Chicago during the NATO summit.

An email sent to Red Cross volunteers in the Milwaukee area notes that the NATO summit in May could “create unrest or another national security incident.”

“The American Red Cross in southeastern Wisconsin has been asked to place a number of shelters on standby in the event of evacuation of Chicago.” the email, which was leaked to CBS News, reads.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7041873

A spokesperson for the Red Cross Chapter told CBS “Our direction has come from the City of Chicago and the Secret Service”.

While the Secret Service has not commented on the news, officials at Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication have denied having anything to do with the directive.

Two weeks ago residents were startled by urban warfare drills conducted in downtown Chicago on the authority of the OMEC. Huge black hawk helicopters were seen flying low and in between buildings for hours. It now appears that these exercises may be linked to the secret preparations.

In addition, earlier this week a number of Chicago area residents revealed that they have been asked to leave their homes in preparation for major rioting.

The residents received letters from management that read:

“We are STRONGLY recommending that all residents find places to stay during the conference from May 18 through May 21.”
“In the event of a riot or the potential of one near the building, all access doors will be locked including the garage door,” the letter continues. “For everyone’s safety, we will be instructing anyone in the building to stay in his or her unit.”

The fact that, “The American Red Cross in southeastern Wisconsin has been asked to place a number of shelters on standby in the event of evacuation of Chicago,” dovetails with reports earlier this year that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) put out a request for contractors to construct temporary emergency camps inside the United States which can be ready for occupancy within a 72 hour time period and used to house emergency responders as well as “displaced citizens”.

The camps are primarily designed to house emergency responders, but will also be utilized to shelter “displaced citizens,” who will be “given the first opportunities for employment within the camp,” according to the solicitation. The camps will be able to service up to 2,000 people at one time.

Scenarios based around displaced citizens were also part of the 2010 Operation Vigilant Guard exercises in Chicago which featured Polish troops training with the Illinois National Guard.

Lawyer Slams TSA “Counter-Terror” Bus Program - No Terrorists Found, No search Warrent - Monday, April 23, 2012

Police Chief tries to cover up Fourth Amendment violations

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, April 23, 2012

Criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett has slammed the Houston METRO and the TSA for a “counter-terror” exercise that involved cops and TSA agents riding buses as undercover spies, as METRO Police Department Chief Victor Rodriguez denied that random bag searches had taken place despite a post-exercise METRO press release stating bag searches had occurred.

Video -
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8629970

As we reported last week, TSA VIPR agents and undercover police officers were placed on buses in Houston as part of a program labeled BusSafe. Their job was to to perform bag searches, watch for “suspicious activity” and interrogate passengers in order to ‘curb crime and terrorism’.

Unsurprisingly, the expensive drill didn’t turn up any terrorists, it snagged a few prostitutes and drug dealers, but given that the whole idea is to condition Americans to accept TSA goons getting in their face every time they try to travel anywhere, consider it mission accomplished.

However, Attorney Mark Bennett isn’t letting it go lightly, pointing out that using 81 uniformed feds to conduct such a pointless operation at a time when local governments can ill afford it is unforgivable.

“This isn’t about terrorism — they’re not busting terrorists, they’re not finding bombs. And that’s not even what they’re trying to do,” Bennett told ABC 13.

Bennett also questioned METRO Police Chief Victor Rodriguez’s claim that police and TSA agents performed “zero random bag checks.”

“I don’t believe they didn’t do any searches. The reason I don’t believe it is before the operation, they announced there were going to be random bag checks. And after the investigation, they announced in their official blog that there had been bag checks,” Bennett said.

In a post released after the exercise had concluded, the official blog of the METRO transit authority reported that “Law officials performed random bag checks,” words that remain posted at time of press. In addition, a press release issued prior to the exercise also stated that “random bag checks” would be performed.

In addition, immediately after the exercise went into effect, Phillip Levine of the Houston Free Thinkers blog witnessed police and TSA agents conducting bag searches as well as interrogating passengers.

Indeed, since drugs were found during the exercise, how else could they have been discovered other than bag searches?

It seems that METRO authorities only tried to retract the statement that they had performed random bag searches, which they had announced publicly on two separate occasions as a statement of fact, when Bennett started complaining to the media about how the warrantless checks were a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

“Of course no terrorists were detected in this “counter-terrorism exercise.” Instead METRO’s constituents, the bus riders, were hassled by an agency, the TSA, best known for its overbearing, aggressive, assaultive and abusive behavior at airport checkpoints,” Bennett wrote in a comment on the official METRO website. “Shame on you, METRO, and shame on you, Sheila Jackson Lee. Houston doesn’t want TSA.”

Despite the operation being dubbed an “exercise,” Rodriguez said that TSA agents and police officers could be riding on buses as undercover spies again in a matter of weeks, suggesting authorities are looking to make the activity a routine practice.

In addition, Rodriguez said that random bag searches could be ordered at any point in the future, maintaining, “he does have the right to search your bag and may tell his officers to do it.”

Speaking to the Houston Chronicle, Bennett argued that, “inviting the TSA to expand its authority would make no one safer but would instead inevitably limit freedom.”

Chicagoans Warned to Evacuate Before Globalist Instigated Riot During NATO Summit - Monday, April 23, 2012

Residents of State Street Condo Told To Leave Chicago During NATO Summit: MyFoxCHICAGO.com

Chicago Police State Militarizes for G8 NATO Summits

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 23, 2012

Residents of a Chicago condo received a letter from management last week informing them that they should move out of their homes during the upcoming NATO confab to be held in the Windy City next month. If the residents decide to remain, they will be subjected to a lockdown.

“In the event of a riot or the potential of one near the building,” the letter states, “all access doors will be locked including the garage door. For everyone’s safety we will be instructing anyone in the building to stay in his or her unit.”

Aaron Klein, writing for WorldNetDaily on Saturday, said radicals with ties to Obama plan to riot during the NATO summit.

In August of 2011, Klein said the founders of a “radical group that teaches tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation” were among a “slew of extremist organizations, some tied to President Obama, preparing protests to coincide with major NATO and G-8 summits in Chicago.”

Klein quoted Joe Losbaker of the United National Antiwar Committee, one of the groups planning protests, who warned, “The wars and economic policies of the NATO and G8 nations are not just and will be met by protest.”

Losbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, worked as leaders of the Chicago New Party. It was formed by the Democratic Socialists of America, ACORN and the labor union SEIU. The Communist Party USA breakaway group Committees of Correspondence and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) were also involved in forming the New Party.

According to WND, Obama was a member of the now defunct New Party and his name was included in the party’s newsletter.

The IPS is a Marxist organization formed in the early 1960s. It has received funding from the banker James Warburg, the son of the infamous banker Paul Warbrug. The elder Warburg wasinstrumental in creating the Federal Reserve and was chosen by President Woodrow Wilson to serve as one of its first members.

It may seem odd for an international banker to fund a Marxist organization supposedly advocating the destruction of finance capital. “If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all,” writes the late Gary Allen. “Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.”

Klein said Code Pink also plans to protest during the NATO and G8 summit in May. Code Pink’s co-founder, Jodie Evans, was an Obama fundraiser. She sits on the leadership board of Warburg’s IPS. Code Pink co-founder, Medea Benjamin, set-up Global Exchange, an “anti-globalization” organization that took money from globalist foundations, including the Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rubin Foundation, and Tides Foundation. The Ford Foundation has a long and sordid history of collaboration with the CIA.

"Chicago Mayor and former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel just won approval from the Chicago City Council for a Draconian set of anti protesting ordinances to prepare the city for international protesters who will flood the city for the G8 and NATOs summits scheduled to take place this spring in Chicago. Just like many other cities that use big events as a pretense for concentrating power, Emanuel is drumming up fear to make a grab for power."

As Infowars.com has exhaustively documented, violence at globalist summits and confabs is invariably instigated by “anarchists” who report to the police. Supposed anarchist violence was used in Ottawa,Pittsburgh, London,Strasbourg and elsewhere to disrupt and discredit anti-globalism and other political groups and provide a pretext for police violence against non-violent protesters.

Former Obama chief of staff and current Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has used the threat of agents provocateur instigated riots in Chicago next month to brazenly grab more power and further militarize the city’s police. On April 17, Infowars.com reported on military exercises in preparation for the NATO summit in Chicago.

Residents are now being prepared for pre-planned and orchestrated violence by Marxist political groups and their anarchist shock troops funded by bankers and globalist foundations and coordinated by the CIA. Chicagoans may get to experience what it is like to live under military siege and martial law if they do not take the advice of condo management companies and head out of the city on May 20.

So-called privacy expert lauds bill brimming with anti-privacy measures as being “good for privacy” - Friday, April 20, 2012

So-called privacy expert lauds bill brimming with anti-privacy measures as being “good for privacy”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, April 20, 2012

Forbes writer Kashmir Hill responds to our report about black box data recorders becoming mandatory in all new cars under a bill set to be passed by the House by accusing Infowars of engaging in a “freak out” and claiming the legislation is “good for privacy” when in reality it destroys privacy.

“The big news in automotive privacy this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all new cars. InfoWars is encouraging drivers to freak out about the horrific invasion of privacy represented by the government’s insisting that all Americans have event data recorders that reveal exactly what happened before and after a crash. But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. They’ve been around since 1996, are found in at least 60 million vehicles, and are a feature in 85% of new cars every year,” writes Hill in a piece entitled Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely Has A Black Box ‘Spying’ On You Already.

Hill’s attitude seems to stem from the mind set that the state has already eviscerated our privacy, so why should we bother fighting back to salvage what’s left of it? She brazenly dismisses fourth amendment rights as “roadkill” simply because having a black box in your vehicle might help the authorities work out who was responsible for an accident.

The most chilling aspect of this approach is that Hill bills herself as a privacy expert yet she has no idea about the ‘slippery slope’ principle and has seemingly failed to read the ‘Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act’ (MAP-21), on which her article is based.

The point of our original story was not that the black boxes will merely be in all new cars from 2015 onwards if this bill passes, it’s that it will be mandatory to activate them and anyone who attempts to deactivate them will be hit with civil penalties under section 31406 of the bill. This is about creating the groundwork for a future tax by the mile system which has been aggressively promoted by the Obama administration.

Sinking further into the depths of idiocy, Hill claims that both the mandatory black boxes and the entire bill itself are “actually good for privacy in a few ways,” because the legislation establishes “that the data in the recorder belongs to the owner (or lessee) of a vehicle.”

Just like every other piece of data was originally owned by us – web history, phone calls, library records, until the government demanded ISPs, cell phone companies and libraries turn them over in the name of security.

In addition, the empty-headed notion that the bill is “good for privacy” completely ignores the other sections of it which Hill has obviously failed to read.

Section 53006 of the bill – the “Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications systems deployment,” creates the framework for all vehicles to be connected wirelessly to other vehicles and infrastructure (such as the new street lights which are being installed with “Homeland Security applications” and can listen in on conversations), greasing the skids for constant real-time tracking, eavesdropping and surveillance.

Presumably, Hill thinks that all vehicles being connected to the ‘Internet of things’ – a transformation which CIA chief David Petraeus recently hailed as making it much easier for the government to spy on you – is also “good for privacy”?

The legislation also includes a provision that allows the federal government to revoke passports of Americans accused of owing back taxes, a measure slammed by legal experts as anathema to the constitution.

Presumably Hill thinks the IRS sharing information about your financial situation with the TSA and US Immigration authorities is also “good for privacy” too?

Is it any wonder that people are turing away from the mainstream media in droves when columnists like Hill, who grandstand as privacy experts, praise legislation like MAP-21, a bill that is brimming with horrendous measures that will destroy privacy, as being “good for privacy”?

Police Handcuff, Charge 6-Year-Old Girl For Misbehaving - Tuesday, April 17, 2012

When did cops become so cowardly and pathetic?

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Police in Milledgeville, Georgia handcuffed and charged a 6-year-old girl with assault for throwing a tantrum in school but instead of apologizing for such unnecessary treatment, the chief of police praised his officers for their actions.

After kindergartner Salecia Johnson knocked over a shelf that injured the principal, cops were called, Johnson was handcuffed and taken to the police station where she was charged with assault.

Milledgeville’s acting police chief Dray Swicord praised the actions of the arresting officer for dealing with the deadly threat posed by the girl.

“Our policy is that any detainee transported to our station in a patrol vehicle is to be handcuffed in the back. There is no age discrimination on that rule,” Swicord told 13WMAZ.

“A 6-year-old in kindergarten. They don’t have no business calling the police and handcuffing my child,” said Earnest Johnson, Salecia’s father.

This is just the latest example in a growing trend of police officers treating young children as dangerous criminals. Zero tolerance has obliterated common sense and the routine arrest of children is another symptom that America is now a police state.

- Back in December a 13-year-old middle school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico was handcuffed and hauled off to juvenile detention for “burping audibly” in class.

- In January, 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes was arrested by police in Austin, Texas for spraying perfume on herself.

- Also in January, cops in Charlton, Massachusetts were dispatched to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.

- A 6-year-old San Francisco boy was detained for 2 hours by the principal and forced to confess to “sexual assault” for brushing the leg of his friend during a game of tag. The boy was later charged with “sexual battery”.

- A similar overreaction ensued when an Orange River Elementary School assistant principal called cops after seeing a girl kiss a boy during PE class, labeling it a possible sex crime.

- In Stockton, California, a 5-year-old boy with ADHD was “handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer,” after the cop claimed the boy had kicked him in the knee.

- In Florida, 6-year-old girl weighing 40 pounds was handcuffed and then sent to a mental health facility for screaming and throwing objects in class.

These are just a handful of the cases that have occurred recently and there are probably scores more that don’t even get reported by the media.

How on earth can we expect police officers to deal with real crime and actual dangerous criminals when a significant number of them seem to be intimidated by children who throw temper tantrums?

When did cops become so pathetic?

While the federal government is training law enforcement that Americans who express grievances against the state or who are engaged in political activists represent a threat akin to terrorists, cops are presumably becoming so terrified by this prospect that they are even treating little kids as violent criminals.

The fact that elementary school children are being arrested for misbehaving or being charged with sexual assault for overenthusiastic games of tag serves as another urgent warning that both law enforcement and the school system in America are rotten to the core and run by complete morons who have dispensed with all semblance of common sense.

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DHS Now Issuing Thousands of New Photo ID’s for ‘Voting Purposes’ - Friday, January 06, 2012

Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
January 6, 2012

“As a nation, we will do everything in our power to protect our country. As Americans, we will never give in to fear or division. We will be guided by our hopes, our unity, and our deeply held values. That’s who we are as Americans … And we will continue to do everything that we can to keep America safe in the new year and beyond.”

- Barrack Obama’s opening address for the Department of Homeland Security 2011 Budget Report

The Orwellian overtones could not be more ominous. Contrary to Obama’s moral decree, America is already ten years into its latest social experiment – making fear and division its premier business.

One of the true hallmarks of any successful police state is a compulsory national ID. On this score, Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security has officially taken up challenge of making sure that no American will be left without one. Tennessee provided the launchpad for this new DHS police state project, but like anything with the DHS, it’s hard to actually pinpoint whose banner it is actually run under.

Originally conceived under the Bush Administration in November 2002, supposedly in response to the attacks of September 11, 2011 and the dubious anthrax attacks (both these events have not been proven to be carried out by foreign agents), the DHS along with its stepchild the TSA, have become a bottomless pit of federal and grant money, who’s only achievement to date has been to instigate increased control and monitoring of the US domestic population – bullying its way through the legislative branch at the same time as the USA PATRIOT Act.

The new DHS national ID card program was officially rolled out this week in the state of Tennessee. From January 1st, 2012, ID cards are longer optional, they are the law. The new state law requires that all Tennessee citizens must present a federal or state-issued photo ID in order to vote at the polls. The law also requires the DHS to issue photo IDs for voting purposes – at no charge. Residents appear to have given in without any serious fight, giving a new dimension to the state’s lofty moniker as a “Volunteer State”.

The program was quietly ushered in earlier in 2011, as reported today by Tennessee journal Clarksville Online:

The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security today announced that 9,492 photo IDs had been issued for voting purposes from July 1st through December 31st, 2011. The vast majority (8,989) of those issued were non-photo driver licenses converted into photo driver licenses, while 503 were original photo identification cards.

If Tennessee passes another state law making the new ID cards a prerequisite for voting, which the current trajectory of this legislation seems to be aimed towards, then other states could follow suit, making it illegal to cast one’s vote without this new generation DHS Federal ID Card.

Notice here that the DHS has successfully embedded itself as a local franchise in each state – making initiatives like this latest voter ID card in Tennessee look and feel like a localized state program. This ID program is being rolled out under the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Rather than looking like a federal DHS project, this police state measure effectively delivers a fully federally mechanized ID card scheme – under the perceived banner of a state mandate. Clever.

Since its inception, the DHS has grown into one of the largest and most expensive federal bureaucracies on the planet, costing the country an estimated $57 billion. But the DHS isn’t like any of its other federal department or branch military forerunners. It is what one might describe as the “Haliburton’ of federal agencies, whose apparent role is to ‘reorganize’ federal and state emergency services, coordinate logistics, streamline interdepartmental communications and work out Critical Infrastructure Protection. All this has been orchestrated and paid for under the assumption that, before Sept 11th, all these federal responsibilities were not being looked after, highlighting the need for a new layer of federal bureaucracy and making a number of existing federal bodies – including the FBI, all but redundant.

For all intensive purposes, like any other 21st century federal security program, this brave new idea was purposefully constructed around a feeling of national fear and division – the same one that Obama was unknowingly(or knowingly) alluding to in that DHS budget address.

The police state and big brother implications of this type of state-sponsored ID roll-out are quite evident. Already, all new US passports issued after 2008 are fitted with an RFID chip inside, allowing authorities to track and trace the movements of any US citizen over borders and through transit depots. It would only be a matter of time before this same feature would be implemented in the DHS national ID card. No doubt also, that some right wing xenophobic tendencies towards illegals can be used by government officials and media in order to sell the benefits of a voter-friendly ID card.

“The Iowa caucus is over, and the presidential primary season is in full swing. Tennessee’s presidential primary will be here before you know it, so I strongly encourage anyone who doesn’t already have a valid photo ID to get one as soon as possible,” Said Tennessee’s Secretary of State Tre Hargett.

Tying these mandatory ID cards to voting will ensure that the program sticks, but this latest divisive move in Tennessee should be viewed by citizens of the Volunteer State, and Americans elsewhere too, as a step backwards in terms of rights and liberty.

Local liberty organizations around the country should mobilize now, in order to head-off a complete rout by the DHS of the our polling and democratic system. Once their system is in place, it will be near impossible to dismantle.

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DHS Now Issuing Thousands of New Photo ID’s for ‘Voting Purposes’ - Friday, January 06, 2012

Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
January 6, 2012

- Barrack Obama’s opening address for the Department of Homeland Security 2011 Budget Report

The program was quietly ushered in earlier in 2011, as reported today by Tennessee journal Clarksville Online:

The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security today announced that 9,492 photo IDs had been issued for voting purposes from July 1st through December 31st, 2011. The vast majority (8,989) of those issued were non-photo driver licenses converted into photo driver licenses, while 503 were original photo identification cards.

It is not Illegal to film Police - Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Charges Dropped Against Man Who Faced Life In Jail For Recording Cops - Paul Joseph Watson | Ruling follows national trend underscoring fact it is not illegal to film the police.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Michael Allison, the 41-year old Illinois mechanic who faced life in jail for recording police officers, has had all charges against him dropped after a state judge ruled that his First Amendment rights had been violated, following a trend of similar rulings across the country that underscore the fact that it is not illegal to film cops.

Allison appeared as a guest on Infowars Nightly News yesterday.
Allison was the victim of a vendetta that was being pursued by the state despite the fact that every other case brought against citizens for filming cops had collapsed. A judge slapped Allison with five separate 15-year sentences for “eavesdropping,” four of which involved Allison filming police officers during a dispute over cars he was working on at his home in Bridgeport, and another related to Allison bringing a tape recorder to trial after he was told there would be no official transcript of proceedings.
“A statute intended to prevent unwarranted intrusions into a citizen’s privacy cannot be used as a shield for public officials who cannot assert a comparable right of privacy in their public duties,” wrote Circuit Court Judge David Frankland. “Such action impedes the free flow of information concerning public officials and violates the First Amendment right to gather such information.”
The “eavesdropping” charge was also dismissed by Frankland as completely inappropriate.
“Judge Frankland ruled that Allison had a First Amendment right to record the police officers and court employees. And while a ban on recording devices in the courtroom might be justified, he said, the eavesdropping charge was inappropriate,” reports Reason. “As applied in this case, Frankland said, the eavesdropping law “includes conduct that is unrelated to the statute’s purpose and is not rationally related to the evil the legislation sought to prohibit. For example, a defendant recording his case in a courtroom has nothing to do with an intrusion into a citizen’s privacy but with distraction.”
Frankland’s decision followed a First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which found that, “The filming of government officials engaged in their duties in a public place, including police officers performing their responsibilities, fits comfortably within these principles [of protected First Amendment activity].”
Indeed, every similar case nationwide has concluded in all charges being dropped against the defendent. It is not illegal to film police officers in public. And yet cops up and down the country are still using intimidation tactics against citizens by threatening them with arrest for using a video camera.
Despite the clear legal precedent of such cases being thrown out, the state was determined to incarcerate Allison and throw away the key, even sending an assistant from the Attorney General’s Office to speak against him during a hearing.
Perhaps there needs to be a national activist day solely devoted to filming police officers in public to get the message across that documenting the performance of public servants is a completely natural and lawful expression of the First Amendment.
Let’s call it “Film a Cop Day” – a reminder that the First Amendment is more powerful than the threats and intimidation that victims of a law being enforced that isn’t even on the books have had to endure repeatedly for years on end.

Judge Declares Case Against Man for Recording Police Unconstitutional - Kurt Nimmo | A judge in Illinois has thrown out a case against Michael Allison for recording a conservation he had with police.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 21, 2011
A judge in Illinois has thrown out a case against Michael Allison for recording a conservation he had with police.
The state wanted to throw Allison in prison for 75 years – tantamount to a death sentence – for violating Illinois’ strict eavesdropping statute.
Circuit Court Judge David Frankland cited First Amendment protections when he wrote in his opinion that Allison had a right to record police officers and court employees.
“A statute intended to prevent unwarranted intrusions into a citizen’s privacy cannot be used as a shield for public officials who cannot assert a comparable right of privacy in their public duties,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Crawford County State Attorney’s Office may appeal case in next 30 days. Allison told Infowars.com that he believes they will appeal, but for now have dropped the charges against him.
Allison credited Infowars.com and Alex Jones with prompting a large public outcry over his case. Hundreds of phone calls opposing the prosecution were made to the mayor, district attorney’s office, and police in Robinson, Illinois.
Alex Jones interviewed Allison on September 8, 2011:

Law Would Encourage Americans To Report On Each Other - Thursday, September 15, 2011

‘See Something, Say Something’ Act protects snitches from prosecution

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, September 15, 2011

A new piece of legislation being backed by the National Association of Security Companies (NASCO) would encourage Americans to frivolously snitch on each other by providing legal protection for people who report “suspicious behavior” to the authorities.

“The National Association of Security Companies (NASCO) today endorsed the See Something, Say Something Act (H.R. 963), by Congressman Lamar Smith (R—21st District Texas), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, calling it sensible policy that expands protections against lawsuits for individuals who provide good faith reports of suspicious terrorist-related activity to an authorized official. The legislation will further encourage citizens to take an active role in reporting suspicious activity without fear of legal retribution,” reports PR Newswire.

The bill (PDF) seems designed to do little else than encourage Americans to frivolously report each other to the authorities for any reason. If someone was certain that they were witnessing suspicious behavior that was likely related to the commission of a terrorist attack, the knowledge that they would have legal protection for reporting the incident would be the last thing on their mind.

In addition, since the threat of being killed by terrorists is less common than being killed by accident-causing deer, intestinal illness or peanut allergies, the government’s aggressive promotion of the See Something, Say Something campaign has no basis in reality.

The campaign is designed to manufacture the myth that terrorists are everywhere and that any kind of mundane behavior could be characterized as suspicious. This is why the federal government constantly needs to reinforce the hoax through enlisting the general public as the eyes and ears of the Homeland Security surveillance state.

The law would provide immunity for anyone who reports “any suspicious transaction, activity, or occurrence indicating that an individual may be engaging, or preparing to engage, in a violation of law relating to an act of terrorism,” which judging by DHS standards and those set down by federal agencies and law enforcement bodies over the last decade, could be classified as almost any behavior whatsoever, including political activism, owning gold, being a Ron Paul supporter, or displaying a political bumper sticker.

So-called “suspicious behavior” as defined by the Department of Homeland Security includes talking to police officers, using cell phones and a myriad of other normal activities. Moreover, the DHS has gone to great lengths to portray white, middle class Americans as the primary terror threat.

By encouraging Americans to frivolously report anything as “suspicious behavior,” the federal government is mimicking the policy of some of the darkest dictatorships in history.

One common misconception about Nazi Germany was that the police state was solely a creation of the authorities and that the citizens were merely victims. On the contrary, Gestapo files show that 80% of all Gestapo investigations were started in response to information provided by denunciations by “ordinary” Germans.

“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors,” wrote Robert Gellately of Florida State University.

Gellately discovered that the people who informed on their neighbors were motivated primarily by banal factors – “greed, jealousy, and petty differences,” and not by a genuine concern about crime or insecurity. This is precisely the kind of environment the ‘See Something, Say Something’ law, and the campaign itself, is designed to create.

School Cop Killed Teen Who Got Into Fight at Bus Stop - Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Courthouse News Service | A 14-year-old boy got into a fight at a bus stop and the school district’s police officer responded by shooting him to death.

Iulia Filip
Courthouse News Service
September 14, 2011

SAN ANTONIO – A 14-year-old boy got into a fight at a school bus stop and the school district’s police officer responded by shooting him to death, the boy’s mother says. She says the cop had been reprimanded 16 times in the previous 4 years, suspended without pay 5 times, and “recommended for termination for insubordination,” but the school kept him on the force “without remedial training.” 

Denys Lopez Moreno sued the Northside Independent School District, of San Antonio, the district’s Chief of Police John Page and the alleged shooter, Daniel Alvarado, in Federal Court. 

Lopez says her son, Derek, got into a fight with another boy at a school bus stop and punched the other boy once, in November 2010. 

“Defendant, Alvarado, having responded to a call regarding a bus with a flat tire, witnessed Derek strike the other boy. He ordered Derek to ‘freeze.’ Derek hesitated and then ran from defendant Alvarado,” according to the complaint. 

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School cop kills a student

Russia Today
September 14, 2011

Denys Lopez Moreno filed a lawsuit in Federal court last Thursday against the Northside Independent School District of San Antonio, the district’s Chief of Police John Page and Daniel Alvarado for the death of her son.

In the lawsuit, Moreno states that the civil rights of her 14-year-old son, Derek Lopez, were violated in November of last year. Officer Alvarado pursued her son onto the property of a nearby homeowner where the officer shot and killed the unarmed teen.

According to reports, Officer Alvarado saw Lopez punch another student at a school bus stop off-campus. Lopez fled after being asked to freeze and the alleged victim was put in the patrol car.

Against his supervisor’s wishes, Alvarado sped off in his patrol unit in pursuit of Lopez, according to dispatch recordings. A neighbor witnessed Lopez hurdling a fence and hide in the shed in the back yard. When the resident dialed 911 and told a neighbor, the neighbor ultimately led Alvarado to Lopez with his firearm drawn.

No one actually witnessed the shooting, but the suit states that Alvarado charged to the shed, swung the door open and opened fire.

In a police report, Alvarado wrote that the door flew open, striking him in the face, however no one other than himself can recall seeing any facial injuries on the officer after the shooting.

Alvarado went on to write “the suspect bull rushed his way out of the shed and lunged right at me. The suspect was literally inches away from me, and I feared for my safety.” Now that suspect, a 14-year-old boy, is dead.

According to the autopsy, the bullet went into the Lopez’s chest and ricocheted off his pancreas, colon, right liver and left kidney and exited the teen’s stomach.

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Gibson Guitar raid part of government effort to extinguish American workforce - Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Gibson Guitar raid part of government effort to extinguish American workforce, outsource remaining jobs to foreign countries.

Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
Sept 6, 2011

As a followup to our report about the US government’s recent illegal raid of Gibson Guitars Corp., a major US based manufacturer of musical instruments (http://www.naturalnews.com/033454_G…), Gibson’s CEO Henry Juszkiewicz has openly announced that the US government actually advised him in a pleading that if he simply were to move his workforce to Madagascar, he could avoid his current quandary entirely.

This shocking, written admission by government agents, which was expounded upon by Juszkiewicz himself during a recent interview on KMJ AM’sThe Chris Daniel Show, clearly illustrates what the federal government is up to these days. By targeting a US-based company with a US-based labor force — which is an amazing rarity in today’s globalized world, by the way — for no legitimate or legal reason, it is obvious that an ulterior motive is at work.

“Mr. Juszkiewicz, did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor?” Daniel is quoted as asking Juszkiewicz in a recentRedstatereport. After responding that the suggestion was, indeed, made in a written pleading, Juszkiewicz confirmed insinuations by the government that if Gibson would simply outsource its labor force, Juszkiewicz’s problems would “go away.”

Ironically, Gibson’s first encounter with federal agents back in 2009 specifically involved rare wood imported from Madagascar, none of which was actually confirmed illegal. A ruling was also never made in that case, and Gibson was never convicted of committing any crime. And now officials are instructing the company to move its workforce to the very same country that is an unexplained problem for the US government.

So what exactly is going on here? Why is the US government repeatedly attacking Gibson on baseless charges, and now instructing it to actually eliminate American jobs by exporting them to Africa? The only logical explanation for all this madness in light of the facts is a sinister plot to target America’s few remaining large manufacturers for extinction, and drive what few jobs remain to developing countries.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/201…

Man Faces Life In Jail For Recording Police - Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Every other case involving people arrested for filming cops has been thrown out of court, but media priomulgates hoax that recording police is illegal

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

41-year old Illinois mechanic Michael Allison faces a life sentence in prison for recording police officers after authorities hit him with eavesdropping charges based on the hoax that it is illegal to film cops, a misnomer that has been disproved by every other case against people filming police officers being thrown out of court.

Despite the fact that recording police officers (public servants) is perfectly legal, Americans are still being arrested for doing so, and the establishment media is enthusiastically perpetuating the hoax that such conduct is unlawful, even though in doing so they are completely eroding protections that guarantee press freedom.

There is no expectation of privacy in public, the police are fully aware of this, which is why they have dash cams on their cars to record incidents, wear microphones and utilize other recording equipment as part of their job.

Cases like Allison’s have been thrown out all over the country and yet police continue to arrest people for filming them as a form of intimidation.

The fact that the state is knowingly ignoring its own laws in order to engage in acts of official repression highlights the rampant criminality that has infested every level of American government. This behavior is reflective of a predatory system that seeks to criminalize all first amendment activities.

It also highlights how petrified the system is about the public being able to document and record acts of police brutality.

Prosecutors in Allison’s case are deliberately attempting jail innocent man for life for an activity that they know full well is not illegal. If anything, they should be the ones being charged with illegal conduct and official oppression.

The state of Illinois is trying to charge Allison with five counts of wiretapping, each punishable by four to 15 years in prison.

Allison refused a plea deal which would have seen him serve no jail time but would reinforce the hoax that it is illegal to film police officers, as well as acting as a chilling effect to prevent other Americans from filming cases of police brutality.

Allison has chosen to reject the plea bargain and fight to clear his name via a jury trial, arguing, “If we don’t fight for our freedoms here at home we’re all going to lose them.”

A judge is expected to rule on when the case will go to trial over the next two weeks.

As another report concerning the Allison case documents, in every other example where people have been arrested for recording police officers, the charges have been dropped and the case thrown out of court. Despite this fact, the state is so desperate to make an example out of Allison that an assistant from the Attorney General’s Office was recently sent to speak during his hearing.

The notion that it is illegal to film police officers is a mass hoax that is being promulgated by authorities, the media, and police officers themselves.

In the latest example, charges were dismissed against a woman who filmed cops in her own back yard in Rochester, New York.

In Illinois itself, eavesdropping charges against Tiawanda Moore for recording patrol officers were dropped, after a “Criminal Court jury quickly repudiated the prosecution’s case, taking less than an hour to acquit Moore on both eavesdropping counts.”

The British descent into total tyranny takes another step forward - Monday, August 29, 2011

It started with calls to shut down social media in times of government-declared emergency and even resulted in the imprisonment of two young men for four years because they failed to incite a riot on Facebook.

Madison Ruppert
Prisonplanet.com
Aug 28, 2011

After the riots in London and throughout the UK I was quick to report on the full spectrum push against democracy and freedom from all sectors of the British government, including Prime Minister David Cameron.

These moves seem tame to what has now emerged in Britain: a blanket ban on all demonstrations, marches, protests and other gatherings in several areas of London for a whopping 30 days starting September 2^nd.

The ban was put in place by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and it will cover Tower Hamlets in East London along with for neighboring boroughs in London.

The moratorium was declared after a request was placed by acting Commissioner of the Scotland Yard, Tim Godwin, amongst fears that more violence would be caused if protests were allowed to continue.

Theresa May attempted to justify this undemocratic ban on protests by saying that, “Having carefully considered the legal tests in the Public Order Act and balanced rights to protest against the need to ensure local communities and property are protected, I have given my consent to a ban on all marches in Tower Hamlets and four neighbouring boroughs for a 30-day period”.

This effectively blocked the plan for an English Defense League rally in the capitol, along with opposing anti-racist rallies organized by the British chapter of Unite Against Fascism and United East End.

However, the groups Unite Against Fascism and United East End plan to move forward with the anti-Fascist march on September 3^rd regardless of the moratorium.

In a statement the groups declared that, “We the undersigned welcome the banning of the racist English Defence League’s (EDL) march through Tower Hamlets.

However, we believe the headlines claiming the EDL have been “banned” from Tower Hamlets are misleading. The EDL will still be holding a static protest in the borough.

We are also appalled to discover that the Metropolitan Police are applying for a blanket ban on ALL marches across five London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest; and the City of London for 30 days”, said the statement.

This is a huge attack on everyone’s civil liberties and prevents people’s right to oppose racism.

We have the democratic right to peacefully march through Tower Hamlets on 3 September to show unity of Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Black, Asian, LGBT communities, trade unions and all those against fascism and for freedom, and to voice opposition to the EDL’s attempts to divide us.

Our legal advice says there is no law that says if one march has been banned all marches in that area must be banned.

It is our human right to peacefully march in Tower Hamlets.

We therefore support the joint UAF/UEE protest on 3 September”

I just hope that the UAF and UEE will not be met with violence at the hands of police forces that support the anti-democratic fascistic declaration.

Interestingly, the ban is also serendipitously timed to prevent the protest against the massive arms trade exposition on September 13^th.

The protest is one of London’s largest and is in opposition to the world’s largest arms fair called the Defense and Security Equipment International that operates from September 13^th to 16^th in the ExCeL Center in East London.

The now banned protest, dubbed “Disarm DSEi” would be protesting the arms exhibition which showcases more than 1,200 companies to over 25,000 buyers from around the world, which includes representatives of dictatorships and other regimes guilty of human rights abuses.

Another protest blocked under the government ban would be the October 1^st protest called “Europe Against Austerity” which involves trade unions and other social organizations who were planning to stage a demonstration at the European Conference Against Austerity and Privatization.

It is quite sad to see the UK slowly descend into a police state styled after the oppressive American regime we currently find ourselves oppressed by.

Madison Ruppert is the Editor and Owner-Operator of the alternative news and analysis database End The Lie and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school, or other organization/cause. If you have questions, comments, or corrections feel free to contact him atadmin@EndtheLie.com

15-Year-Old Schoolboy On Trial After Head Teacher Tells Police About File-Sharing - Thursday, August 25, 2011

TorrentFreak
August 24, 2011

A 15 year-old schoolboy with a taste for BitTorrent went to trial yesterday after downloading and sharing 24 Hollywood movies. The case, however, has a worrying twist. Rather than being hunted down online by an anti-piracy company, the teenager was turned over to the police by the head teacher at his school. The prosecutor says he had no choice but to take action.

In March 2011 the IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student’s computer.

During a closer examination IT staff found that the student had 24 Hollywood movies stored on his hard drive. The 15-year-old boy in question had obtained them from two Swedish torrent sites – tankafetast.se and tankaner.se.

Ultimately the school’s head teacher learned of the IT technicians’ discovery but rather than deal with the issue in-house, she chose to drastically escalate the matter – by calling in the police. Now, five months after the alleged offenses, the boy is on trial in Sweden.

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Children defy police in Washington, purchase lemonade at Capitol - Monday, August 22, 2011

Adam vs The Man
Aug 22, 2011

In response to a recent wave of lemonade stand shut downs and harassment of children over such petty regulations or acts that are not lawful in order to be used to shut them down, several activists gathered at the west lawn of the capitol in Washington, DC to sell lemonade and were arrested.

While the officers were technically on solid “legal” ground in shutting down the stand, they behaved inappropriately by any standard numerous times, using intimidation tactics and using as one officer did comitting a assault in order to uphold governments revenue making on protestors and observers, and harassing members of the professional media and the public. The willingness with which children and tourists participated by purchasing lemonade in disobedience of the police instructions is an indicator of how little respect the general public has for government and police in general now, and specifically police when enforcing unjust laws, that are not laws, but acts designed to collect the Revenue for governments.

It shows hope for America and the people. For those who are complaining about the public property not being used for its intended purpose, part of the point of this that the government should not be using public property for the glorification of government and police being used to collect Revenue, when it could be better used to serve public interests. Excessive vending at the capitol (or without a permit in any public space) would surely be preferable to 22.5% unemployment. Free the economy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04MNf1YdNxI&feature=player_embedded

You will note how the DC women police officer committed a crime herself called an "assault" on an innocent person and tried to damage private property. This is also an act of terrorism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CCLHS-lt7Q&feature=related

What is a terrorist, A person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims or in this case to uphold an law that is not a law, but just an act to promote revenue for elected government terrorists.

. One who engages in acts or an act of terrorism. ...

A Terrorist is a person advocates / engages in acts of terrorism, in order to cause physical harm to innocent people.

D.C Capitol Police: Admits he makes six figures and will lock up anyone to keep his job

Terrorist. It's a word that sends chills up the spines of most people. The term is pejorative. It is an insult of the highest degree. Calling someone's actions "terrorism" and the person a terrorist by extension, is as serious a charge that can be laid against someone in this day and age. It has the same connotation as "child molester" or "baby killer." A terrorist has done something that offends the conscience and whose intent is to terrorize, frighten, harass and otherwise molest innocent people.

The intent is usually key to calling someone a terrorist. A murderer certainly strikes fear into the hearts of his or her victims -- a serial killer may inflict these acts with the intent of causing fear and terror. However, serial killers do their horrible acts for selfish gratification. Almost without exception, a terrorist feels that he or she is working for some higher aim. Many people associate terrorists almost exclusively with religious fanaticism, but this is not an accurate picture. Terrorists do what they do from motivation which may be religious, political, a mix of the two, or neither. They may be environmental extremists, or motivated by extreme devotion to animal rights.

One of the perplexing things about a terrorist is that many people would agree with many of their aims in principle. Most people want religious freedom, honesty in politics, environmental accountability, ethical treatment for animals. All are laudable goals -- until innocent people are terrorized in the process of promoting the agenda.

Retired NYPD Officer Frank Serpico: American Drug War is A Lie, Just Like 9/11 - Saturday, August 20, 2011

TheAlexJonesChannel
August 20, 2011

On this Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes retired NYPD officer Frank Serpico to discuss police corruption and the drug war. Serpico’s experiences as a police officer were dramatized in the 1973 film Serpico, which starred Al Pacino in the lead role.

PART 1/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBjgIy2Xi0c&feature=player_embedded

PART 2/3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPDotp2JTz8&feature=player_embedded

PART 3/3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhl4lgBoh4g&feature=player_embedded

http://www.frankserpico.com/

New York Cops Prepare For Civil Unrest - Friday, August 19, 2011

Special unit set up to ‘troll Twitter and Facebook’ for “suspicious activity”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, August 19, 2011

In the aftermath of last week’s riots in the United Kingdom, the NYPD has held a “mobilization exercise” to train police to prepare for civil unrest in the United States, while also launching a program designed to spot signs of potential trouble via social networking websites.

New York Cops Prepare For Civil Unrest amd nypd

The NYPD Disorder Control Unit brought together police from all five of the city’s boroughs to rehearse what the response would be “should out-of-control riots break out here”.

“Approximately 180 police officers total from each borough’s task force, including the horseback and aviation units, came out for the drill,” reports the Metro.

However, unlike in the United Kingdom where the rioters mainly comprised of teenage kids taking the opportunity to steal iPods and other high-end electrical goods, civil unrest in the United States is far more likely to have a political motivation.

With many Americans now becoming “pre-revolutionary” as a result of their fury at the Obama administration and equally unpopular lawmakers in Washington, potential civil unrest could spring not just from a poverty-stricken underclass, but also the shrinking middle class.

Perhaps that’s why the Department of Homeland Security is increasingly focusing its anti-terror apparatus on white middle class Americans, portraying them as domestic terrorist in a series of PSA videos.

In addition to the riot training, a new NYPD unit has also been set up to “troll sites like Twitter and Facebook for suspicious activity” in order to pre-empt potential flash mobs and other civil unrest.

Social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter came in for harsh condemnation following the UK riots, with Prime Minister David Cameron advocating authorities have the power to shut down access during times of public disorder.

For his part in decrying social media, Cameron was praised by none other than Communist China, which habitually censors the Internet to hide political corruption or prevent legitimate protesters from receiving media attention. The Communist state routinely uses such powers, which Senator Joe Lieberman has called to be introduced in the United States, to cover up atrocities and abuses against its own citizens.

Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are all banned in China and even sanitized government approved versions of these websites are now being shut down for long periods of time so that they can “remove all politically sensitive content under orders from Chinese internet authorities”.

10 New Ways That The Government Will Be Spying On You And Controlling Your Behavior - Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The American Dream
Aug 16, 2011

Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0? If you think that the hundreds of ways that the government watches, monitors, tracks and controls us now are bad, just wait until you see what is coming. We live in an age when paranoia is running wild. As technology continues to develop at an exponential pace, governments all over the globe are going to discover a multitude of new ways to spy on us and control our behavior. In a world where everyone is a “potential terrorist”, we are told that things like liberty, freedom and privacy are “luxuries” that we can no longer afford. We are assured that if we just allow the government to watch all of us and investigate all of us that somehow that will keep us all safe. But it isn’t just the government that is watching us. Now we are being taught to spy on one another and to report any trace of “suspicious activity” to the government immediately. The entire civilized world is being transformed into one giant prison grid, and many of the new technologies that are now being introduced are going to make things even worse.

The following are 10 new ways that the government will be spying on you and controlling your behavior….

#1 Are you ready for “electronic skin tattoos”? One team of researchers has created an extremely thin, extremely flexible “smart skin” that will open up a whole new world of possibilities. Wearing “skin-mounted electronics” might seem like a great idea to tech geeks, but it also could create a whole lot of new problems. The following is how an article in one UK newspaper described this new breakthrough….

The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue.

Yes, this kind of technology would be a great way to connect wirelessly to the Internet and it would be helpful for doctors that need to monitor their patients, but the potential for abuse is also there.

Once this type of technology becomes widespread, governments will be able to monitor the location and activities of their citizens like never before.

In addition, this type of technology could one day become mandated by governments. For example, someday you may be required to have an “electronic skin tatoo” in order to prove your identity or to participate in commerce.

Also, it is not too far of a stretch to imagine that “skin-mounted electronics” could be used to control large populations. Just remember, if you connect yourself physically to the Internet, that also means that the Internet is connected to you.

#2 According to a shocking document obtained by Oath Keepers, the FBI is now instructing store owners to report many new forms of “suspicious activity” to them. According to the document, “suspicious activity” now includes….

-paying with cash

-missing a hand or fingers

-”strange odors”

-making “extreme religious statements”

-”radical theology”

-purchasing weatherproofed ammunition or match containers

-purchasing meals ready to eat

-purchasing night vision devices, night flashlights or gas masks

According to WorldNetDaily, this document is part of a “series of brochures” that will be distributed “to farm supply stores, gun shops, military surplus stores and even hotels and motels.”

#3 The U.S. military has developed an invisible “pain ray” that is remarkably effective. The following is how a recent article posted on Alternet described this weapon….

It sounds like a weapon out of Star Wars. The Active Denial System, or ADS, works like an open-air microwave oven, projecting a focused beam of electromagnetic radiation to heat the skin of its targets to 130 degrees. This creates an intolerable burning sensation forcing those in its path to instinctively flee (a response the Air Force dubs the “goodbye effect“).

Sadly, this weapon is already being used in American prisons. How long will it be before it is used on the general population?

#4 Be careful about what you put up on Facebook or Twitter. Law enforcement agencies all over the globe are now focusing on social media as never before. For example, the NYPD has just created a special “social media” unitdedicated to looking for criminals on Facebook and Twitter.

#5 Facial recognition technology has now come of age. With the millions of security cameras that are going up all over the world, such technology is proving to be very useful for law enforcement authorities. In fact, police in London are using it to track down people that were involved in the London riots. The following is an excerpt from a recent CBC report that described these efforts….

Facial recognition technology being considered for London’s 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain’s riots, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through Scotland Yard’s newly updated face-matching program.

Facial recognition technology is rapidly going to become part of our everyday lives. In fact, now even Facebook is using it. Eventually it is going to become very difficult to avoid the reach of this technology.

#6 “Smart meters” are going into homes all over North America and Europe. These smart meters monitor your home every single minute of every single day and they transmit very sophisticated data about your personal behavior back to the utility company.

They are already being used by police all over the United States in drug cases. If a smart meter catches you using an “unusual” amount of energy there is a good chance that your home will be raided.

The European Parliament has set a goal of having smart meters in the homes of80 percent of all electricity consumers by the year 2020, and Barack Obama is working very hard to get them into as many American homes as he can.

#7 Our children are being trained to accept being under surveillance almost constantly. For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of U.S. public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating.

#8 Perhaps you thought that only Tom Cruise had to worry about “pre-crime”. Well, now “pre-crime” is popping up in the real world too. The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place “potential offenders” in specific prevention and education programs.

#9 According to the ACLU, state police in Michigan are now using “extraction devices” to download data from the cellphones of motorists that they pull over. This is taking place even if those pulled over are not accused of doing anything wrong.

The following is how an article on CNET News described the capabilities of these “extraction devices”….

The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.

#10 LRAD sound cannons are already been used by law enforcement authorities to disperse large crowds inside the United States. So how much “damage” can sound do? Well, it turns out that sound can actually do a whole lot of damage. The following is how Alternet describes these cruel weapons….

The Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, built by American Technology Corporation, focuses and broadcasts sound over ranges of up to hundreds of yards. LRAD has been around for years, but Americans first took notice when police used it in Pittsburgh to ward off protesters at the 2009 G-20 summit. It is generally used in two ways: as a megaphone to order protesters to disperse; or, if they disobey, as an “ear-splitting siren” to drive them away. While LRAD may not be deadly, it can permanently damage hearing, depending on how it’s used.

LRAD sound cannons do not discriminate. When they are being used to disperse protesters, any innocent bystanders in the area will be affected as well. If anyone gets too close to an LRAD sound cannon while it is in use, permanent damage can result. Small children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable. Sadly, the use of LRAD sound cannons is becoming more common. In fact, they have even been used to break up college block parties.

So is this the kind of world that you want to live in?

Do you want your children and grandchildren to live in a world where liberty and freedom are all but forgotten?

This world is headed toward a very dark place. These “Big Brother” technologies are going to become even more pervasive and even more oppressive. If this trend is not stopped now, someday these technologies will get into some very evil hands, and then all hell will be unleashed.

So what do all of you think about these “Big Brother” technologies? Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion below….

Gun collector sues Toronto police for seizing legally owned firearms - Monday, August 15, 2011

Peter Sedge, who was arrested in 2008 and later had charges against him dropped, has launched a $6.5-million lawsuit against the Toronto Police Services Board, individual police officers, former landlords and prospective buyers of his former apartment building.

(Deborah Baic for The Globe and Mail)

A gun collector who was arrested outside his east-end apartment during a midnight raid has launched a $6.5-million lawsuit against the Toronto police, his former landlords and a tipster.

Peter Sedge, 59, said he was removed from his Beaches home at gunpoint wearing only his underwear during the May, 2008, seizure of about 120 legally collected firearms.

“I was scared because as soon as I opened the door, they were all screaming at me,” he told The Globe and Mail. “I could see guns pointed at me. . . . I totally scrambled at this point.”

The raid came hours after police got a tip about a cache of firearms and ammunition from a man who had viewed the property with his father – a prospective buyer – and Mr. Sedge’s landlord, Court documents say.

In August, 2008, the property was sold to a company owned by the man’s family.

The raid, and charges that were later dropped, were part of a negligent investigation that caused him humiliation and mental anguish, Mr. Sedge alleges in his statement of claim. His construction business, PS Fabricating Ltd., also suffered, he says.

Mr. Sedge’s lawyer, Arkadi Bouchelev, called the arrest “completely unnecessary” because his client was licensed and had no criminal record. Ontario’s chief firearms officer, who is in charge of licensing, could have been called in to inspect the site or confirm Mr. Sedge’s licence and registration, Mr. Bouchelev said.

“I think there’s a lot of public interest in making sure that things like this do not happen,” he said. The legal action is in the discovery process, which Mr. Bouchelev said he couldn’t comment on, and it’s unknown when it could go to trial or be settled.

The 14 firearms charges were dropped about 10 months after the raid.

Mr. Sedge is seeking $3-million from the police for negligence, negligent investigation, false arrest, false imprisonment, unlawful search and seizure, breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and aggravated and punitive damages.

Police denied the allegations and said in a statement of defence filed after the lawsuit last year that they arrested Mr. Sedge for officer and public safety.

“Our position is that the officers acted in a reasonable fashion, in good faith and in compliance with their duties,” Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash said.

The lawsuit names the Toronto Police Services Board and 19 police officers from 55 Division and the Guns and Gangs task force. The statement of defence says only 16 of those named are officers.

Acting chair of the board, Michael Thompson, declined to comment.

The officers had reasonable and probable grounds to lay charges against Mr. Sedge, and a Crown attorney later decided to proceed with them, Mr. Pugash said. He added that police also deny claims that Mr. Sedge’s basement apartment was searched before a proper warrant was obtained.

Police received the tip from Brandon Tataryn, according to their statement of defence, who had been conducting an inspection with Mr. Sedge’s landlord. Mr. Tataryn showed police photos and said he “saw a number of rifles and a great quantity of ammunition” and advised “that the apartment was strewn with garbage and that human feces was smeared on the walls.”

Mr. Sedge and his lawyer said the apartment was messy, but there were no feces.

Mr. Sedge is also suing Mr. Tataryn and his father, Mark, and his former landlords, who he said told him about the inspection but not that anyone else would be there. He is seeking $3-million from the Tataryns and his former landlords for malicious prosecution, defamation, conspiracy, trespass, trespass to goods and aggravated and punitive damages.

Brandon Tataryn declined to comment.

Mr. Sedge is also claiming $500,000 for economic losses, which Mr. Bouchelev said could apply to one or all of the defendants.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

The former landlords, James and David Cranton, have filed a statement of defence and deny the claims, including giving Mr. Sedge improper notice about the inspection or contacting the police. Their lawyer, Fiona Brown, declined to comment.

The Crantons sold the property at the corner of Queen Street East and Kingswood Road in August, 2008, to a numbered company belonging to the Tataryn family, according to property records. Mr. Bouchelev said it’s the same property his client lived in for more than a decade.

Meanwhile, Mr. Sedge said his life hasn’t returned to normal. Before moving to Whitby, he was left wondering what his neighbours thought of him.

“When you go out on the street, you know everybody that’s sitting on their porches looking at you were all out there that night,” he said.

Mr. Sedge said he began collecting firearms in 2007 after he became licensed for restricted and non-restricted firearms. Antique firearms also caught his eye. Later, he joined gun and revolver clubs, he said.

Former national target shooter and friend of Mr. Sedge, James Spratley, said he’s angry because Mr. Sedge was pursuing his hobby legally.

“It’s maybe a hot-button issue and certain people might not like it,” Mr. Spratley said of gun ownership. “But the bottom line is it’s a Canadian federal law.”

The police defendants that the force confirmed as officers in its statement of defence are Terrence Wray, Dennis Doyle, Stephen Gibbons, Stephen McGran, Jeffrey MacDuff, Michael Ramsay, Jason McIntyre, Lesley Zimmer, Bryan Smith, Neil Thornton, Paul Scudds, Roderick MacLean, Ron Clifford, Darryl Linquist, Michael Press and Oliver Febbo.

On the COP Beat - Friday, August 12, 2011

Parents of Homeless Man Beaten to Death by Fullerton Cops File Suit

LA Times | Six officers have been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with the case.

Police officer seeks criminal charges against woman who videotaped police beating

Raw Story | Jones was partially blinded in one eye from the attack.

Flash Mobs and the Ruling Elite Plan to Control the Internet - Wednesday, August 10, 2011

by Kurt Nimmo Infowars

In 2007, the British Ministry of Defense envisioned a distant dystopian future when "growing pervasiveness of information communications technology will enable states, terrorists or criminals, to mobilize 'flashmobs', challenging security forces to match this potential agility coupled with an ability to concentrate forces quickly in a small area," according to the Guardian.

The MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Center speculated that 30 years in the future the "middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx" in response to economic catastrophe and use flashmob techniques to challenge the police and military.

The British Ministry of Defense didn't have to wait 30 years for "flashmobs" to challenge so-called security services. The paralyzing riots now striking London and beyond are in large part organized via BlackBerry and its message network, BBM. Unlike Twitter and Facebook, the BBM network is anonymous and cannot be traced by the police.

"Rather than shouting through a megaphone — as in the infamous 1985 riots on the Broadwater Estate in Tottenham — today's rabble rousers are more likely to organize online and with the aid of their iPhones and BlackBerrys," Time notes.

On August 9, David Lammy, the U.K.'s intellectual property minister, called for a temporary end to BlackBerry services to stop rioters from using BBM to organize and stage events, according to Bloomberg.

The flash mob phenomenon is cited as a contributing factor in a curfew imposed on young people in Philadelphia, violence during a 4th of July event in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, and fights at a fair in Milwaukee.

Not mentioned in all this sensationalistic coverage of violent teens and racial incidents is the fact that Facebook, Twitter, and instant messaging are routinely used by non-violent political activists. Despite the overt character of mindless terror and senseless property damage during the London riots, many of the messages appearing on Twitter and Facebook voice opposition to the police, a fact downplayed by the corporate media.

The initial catalyst for the violence now wracking London and environs was the shooting of a black man, Mark Duggan. The authorities claimed Duggan died in an "exchange of fire" with police, but that account now appears to be a fabrication by the police. The mindless violence, vandalism, and thievery has as its genesis an opposition to heavy-handed police behavior.

Once again, the internet and new technologies are being demonized by the state and its corporate media. It is part of an ongoing and persistent coordinated effort to impose restrictions on new media, not because they facilitate violence but because the political opposition to the establishment is effectively using the medium to organize resistance and counter propaganda disseminated by the elite.

The British Ministry of Defense prognostication that communications technology would pose a threat to the military and the state was off by almost two and a half decades. The middle class will not likely convert to Marxism, but it will increasingly use new technology to circumvent the corporate media megaphone that grows weaker by the day.

Short of shutting down the internet or neutering it with burdensome regulations, the medium will become the Achilles' heel of the ruling elite. Lurid stories of rampaging kids with BlackBerrys in hand will not change the reality of the situation or blunt the determination of those of us sincerely interested in change.

San Francisco Police Accused of Shooting Teenager Over $2 Bus Fare - Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Citizen Journalist
July 18, 2011

A police spokesman said the shooting began after two uniformed officers conducted a fair inspection on a Municipal light rail vehicle. They detained the man on the platform, but he fled on foot. During the foot pursuit, police said the suspect fired at the officers, and the officers fired back.

Witnesses had a different story and said police overreacted.

Cops Strip Search Man & Leave Him Naked For 10 Hours In Holding Cell - Tuesday, July 19, 2011

CBC News | The man’s offense? He said ”Good Luck Tomorrow”.

CBC News
July 19, 2011

The man’s offense? He said ”Good Luck Tomorrow”.

RELATED: Dan Dick’s Into the Fire tells a different story about the abuse of activists and bystanders like the man in this video, as well as the ‘odd’ tolerance for violence carried out by provocateurs at the G20 Summit in Toronto.

Anchors Cracks Up Over Man Arrested for Passing Gas - Saturday, July 09, 2011

You Tube | Man charged with assault after passing “odorous” gas in the presence of a police officer.

July 5, 2011

Juvenile news anchors can’t hold in their laughter about a man charged with assault after passing “odorous” gas in the presence of a police officer.

The more important story lies in plain site– how could a natural and uncontrollable function of the body be against the law?

Fake terror, real sentence: FBI inspiration for 25 years in jail - Monday, July 04, 2011

RT | The case has raised allegations of entrapment, after they were actually incited by the FBI.

RT
July 4, 2011

Three men convicted of trying to blow up synagogues in New York have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison. But the case has raised allegations of entrapment, after they were actually incited by the FBI, and handed fake bombs. Critics claim it was a set-up, but the judge said her hands were tied.

For nearly a decade, the US has waged a widespread global war on terror. It has required a multi-tasking military effort overseas. On the domestic front, US officials have decided to redouble their efforts, recently announcing counter-terrorism plans that refocus resources on combating home-grown plots.

“This is the first counter-terrorism strategy that focuses on the ability of Al-Qaeda and its network to inspire people in the United States to attack us from within, ” John Brennan, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor declared recently.

Yet in countless so-called FBI sting operations, media reports suggest the FBI operative provided the fake C4, and actually showed them the fake stinger missile.

The inspiration to attack America has sometimes come from a government-paid informant working to orchestrate the plot. Critics of this tactic say it was exercised in a New York case dubbed the “Newburgh Four”.

The suspects — poor, illiterate, African-American Muslims — were presented as the faces of homegrown terrorism, and subsequently found guilty of conspiring and attempting US terrorist attacks.

“There was no direction by a foreign entity or terrorist group,” said Joseph Demarest, the head of the FBI’s New York office in May 2009. Instead direction came from Shahid Hussain. a Pakistani immigrant on the FBI payroll. He was reportedly paid $100,000 for his services.

police state and their terrorism - Thursday, June 30, 2011

Poisoned Riots: Cops sprayed chemicals, hard to breathe in Athens

RT | Police responded to angry protests with tear gas and stun grenades.

Cops swoop in on Britain’s pension reform protests

James Chapman and Richard Hartley-Parkinson | There were scuffles between officers and protesters after fears that anarchists might infiltrate the march.

Cops Just Love Those Tasers

Courthouse News Service | Dayton police “mistook” a mentally handicapped teen’s speech impediment for “disrespect,” so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him.

Documents Reveal Canadian Terrorist Cops Used Agents Provocateurs to Disrupt 2010 G20 - Saturday, June 25, 2011

It is now an indisputable fact the cops engaged in massive infiltration.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 24, 2011

Following the police state spectacular at the G20 last June, the cops were accused of infiltrating so-called black-bloc anarchists, who engaged in all sorts of pointless mayhem, including trashing a Starbucks and burning police cars (see video below). The corporate media had a field day covering these circus sideshow distractions while ignoring the larger issue of the globalists meeting behind closed doors and plotting to sell the national sovereignty of millions down the river.

It was necessary for the state to arrange this sort of meaningless property destruction in order to offer a public rationalization for spending nearly a billion dollars on police state “crowd control” equipment (including L-RAD sound cannons) for the globalist summit. The Canadian state also granted the cops special police state powers by expanding the jurisdiction of the existing Public Works Act to apply to high-security areas of the summit site.

It is now an indisputable fact the cops engaged in massive infiltration. According to newly released G8/G20 summit documents, the RCMP dispatched poseurs and agents provocateurs to infiltrate the ranks of anti-war, anti-globalization and anarchist groups.

In 2007, Canadian cops were caught red-handed posing as anarchists during a North American Union summit in Montebello, Quebec. “Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders’ summit,” the Toronto Star reported. “Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged ‘agents provocateurs’ have been caught on camera.”

Photographs released showed the supposed “anarchists” wearing the same boots as the police arresting them. “Protest organizers on Wednesday played the video for the media at a news conference in Ottawa. One of the organizers, union leader Dave Coles, explained that one reason protesters knew the men’s true identities was because they were wearing the same boots as other police officers,” CBC News reported on August 23, 2007.

Reports filed by the Joint Intelligence Group formed by the RCMP-led ISU (Integrated Security Unit) reveal that various police services contributed at least 12 undercover officers to take part in covert surveillance of potential “criminal extremists” in a bid to “detect… and disrupt” any threats, according to CBC News.

In other words, the RCMP was assigned the task of discrediting the larger anti-war and anti-globalization movement and making the public believe they are bomb-wielding anarchist criminals.

“There’s a lot of stuff that isn’t in there, that’s been redacted, or isn’t spelled out. But it says these undercover operations were going on, that there were 12 officers,” investigative journalist Tim Groves, who requested and obtained the reports through an access to information request, told the CBC. “The problem is that, looking at these documents, police expected criminal extremism everywhere.”

The same mindset and illegal police state activity operates in the United States. Since the FBI’s use of CLOINTELPRO tactics to neutralize political opposition to the state in the 1960s and early 70s, such practices have been uniformly codified and are now widespread and routine in the so-called war on terrorism.

According to the CBC, RCMP records indicate:

- The RCMP set up a Joint Intelligence Group in January 2009, which in turn assigned a dozen officers to a covert PIIT (Primary Intelligence Investigative Team) expressly for monitoring and infiltrating suspected extremist networks.
- The joint-forces PITT had a mandate to use undercover officers and informants from within the ranks of protest networks, not just to monitor potential criminal activity by organizers, but also to “deter, prevent, investigate and/or disrupt” threats to the summit.
- The investigative team created and shared files on a long list of individuals, color coding them according to perceived risk level as red (suspect), orange (person of interest) and yellow (associate).

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Following the June summit in Toronto, a number of so-called black-bloc anarchists were outed as police agents provocateurs. Such reports were covered by the alternative media and generally ignored by the corporate media that had characterized the demonstrations as lawless behavior by a handful of crazed extremists.

“It is hopeful that in the days, weeks and months to come government and police will be forced to admit (under similar circumstances as in Montebello, Quebec in 2007) that much of the vandalism and fire-setting was undertaken by those encouraged, directly or indirectly, by agents provocateurs,” Canadian activist Ghada Chehade wrote following the summit.

Unfortunately, it took more than a few weeks for the truth to come out. It took exactly a year.

UPDATED: ON Cop Trespasses, Arrests Woman for Taking Video and protest about it, you get ticketed - Thursday, June 23, 2011

Charges dismissed against woman arrested while videotaping traffic stop from her front yard
Raw Story | The case against a 28-year-old woman charged with obstructing governmental administration after refusing a police officer’s order to leave her front yard while she was videotaping a traffic stop has been dismissed.

Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
June 29, 2011

The case against a 28-year-old woman charged with obstructing governmental administration after refusing a police officer’s order to leave her front yard while she was videotaping a traffic stop has been dismissed.
WHEC reported a judge dismissed the case against Emily Good of Rochester, New York on Monday because there was insufficient evidence of a crime.
Good was arrested while she filmed police officers conducting a traffic stop in front of her home. Good’s recording shows the officers saying that they feel threatened by her standing behind them because she seemed “very anti-police.”
The arrest added to the already heated debate over videotaping police officers.
In a joint statement, Mayor Tom Richards, City Council President Lovely Warren and Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard said they agreed that the case should be dismissed.
Full article here

Rochester Police Ticket Supporters of Woman Arrested for Recording Cop

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 26, 2011

In Rochester, New York, if you dare protest against the thuggish behavior of the local cops, you might get a big fat ticket. That’s what happened when people came out to support Emily Good, the woman arrested for recording the police.

The video below is from a Rochester, New York, neighborhood meeting in support of Emily Good, the woman arrested for videotaping a traffic stop from her front yard. So Rochester police sent four squad cars to ticket the cars of meeting attendees who parked more than 12 inches from the curb. Yes, they even brought a ruler.

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She was completely within her rights to do so, standing on her how private property, but one of Rochester’s finest ignored her rights and trespassed and arrested her. See a video of the incident below.

Now the cops in upstate New York are going after people outraged over the incident. This is obviously political intimidation. The Rochester cops are attempting to prevent people from exercising their First Amendment right. It’s the sort of behavior one would expect in a communist country or some tin horn dictatorship, not America.

Cop Trespasses, Arrests Woman for Taking Video

You no longer have the right in Rochester and much of the rest of the country to stand on your own property and record the cops.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 22, 2011

As Officer Mario Masic of the Rochester, New York, police demonstrates in the video below, it is no longer safe to shoot video on your own property in America.

It is entirely legal to stand on your own front yard and photograph the police or anybody else in a public street.

But if the police think you’re “anti-cop,” they’re going to violate your rights and arrest you. Masic considered Emily Good’s iPhone recording a threatening act opposed to the authority of the police – as they searched a man for drugs outside of her home – and so he arrested her after demanding she go back inside her home and she refused, citing her property rights.

The fact is the cop trespassed on her property and threatened her. But then property rights in America are almost completely gone now. Cops no longer respect the law or the Constitution. They are not much different than cops in third world hell-holes like Mexico.

The only thing that stands between the people and total police control is the Second Amendment. Far too many of our so-called “representatives” are working to nullify that.

It’s only a matter of time before we descend into a total police state, that is unless people begin to stand up for the rights.

See the RT story on the incient here.

Emily Good began recording officers on her iPhone outside her home after they pulled a man over shortly before 10 p.m. on May 12. Ryan Acuff, a friend of Good, writes that cops stopped a young black male, handcuffed him and detained him in their cruiser while they searched his car for drugs. While the suspect was released, Good wasn’t quite as fortunate.

A police report says Officer Mario Masic of the Rochester Police Department is the individual that told Good she had to retreat into her house after he noticed her filming.

Masic asks, "You guys need something?" to which Good responds, "I'm just — this is my front yard — I’m just recording what you're doing. It's my right.”

"Actually, not from the sidewalk," replies Masic.

While Good tells the officer that she has the right to record from her front yard, Masic tells her that he doesn’t “feel safe” with her there. The woman responds by pointing out that she is nowhere near him and clearly doesn’t have a weapon.

Masic alleges on tape that Good and her friend made an “anti-cop” statement before the recording began, but Good, her friend and their neighbors have since disputed that.

“I think, uh, you need to go stay in your house, guys," says Masic.

Good and Masic argue over if she is actually doing anything wrong — or threatening her safety — until the officer comes onto her property and says, "You know what, you're gonna go to jail. That's just not right."

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Good’s public defender, Stephanie Stare, says, “She was well within her rights." Acuff writes that the officers’ encroachment was trespassing onto Good’s property.

“You Can No Longer Think of Yourselves as Peace Officers”: Militarizing “Lockdown High” - Friday, June 17, 2011

“You must think of yourself as soldiers in a war because we’re going to ask you to act like soldiers.”

William N. Grigg
Pro Libertate
June 16, 2011

It was Friday the 13th, and Skylar Walters thought he was going to die.

The 16-year-old inmate of Orangeville Jr.-Sr. High in Illinois was in gym class when a deranged-looking man barged into the school and began firing what appeared to be a handgun at several of the other students.

“I started praying to God and saying my last words,” Skylar later recalled. “I was scared. I didn’t know what to do.”

As the intruder fired his gun, he called out the name of a particular student; the youngster quite sensibly fled the building. Other kids “were just running everywhere and crying and hiding,” Skylar recounted. Some of the panicking schoolkids probably attempted to call or text their parents to describe the horror unfolding in front of them. They didn’t know that each of the parents had been instructed not to answer if his child issued a desperate plea for help.

Police State on the March - Thursday, June 16, 2011

MEN photographer arrested for taking pictures outside court - Hold the Front Page | A Manchester Evening News photographer has been arrested for taking pictures of a fight that started outside a court.

Sarah Bould
Hold the Front Page
June 16, 2011
A Manchester Evening News photographer has been arrested for taking pictures of a fight that started outside a court.
Sean Wilton was taking pictures of the brawl that broke out between two groups of men outside Manchester Magistrates’ Court following a hearing into an alleged assault on Channel Four’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings star Paddy Doherty.
Police arrested six people and then arrested the 43-year-old photograper for breach of the peace before bundling him into the back of a police van.
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You’re Going to Need a Warrant For That, Officer ACLU | Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, found a strange device attached to his car.

ACLU
June 16, 2011

Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, found a strange device attached to his car. When he posted a photo of it online, the FBI showed up at his home two days later. They wanted their GPS tracking device back. The FBI had been tracking Afifi’s movement for months without his knowing about it. Moreover, the agency did so without a warrant and apparently based on the flimsy rationale that his friend wrote a blog they felt was questionable. This type of warrantless tracking seems to be an increasingly common government practice.

Following this incident, as well as revelations about how much location information Apple and Google are storing about their customers, there has been a significant public outcry over the privacy of location information. Congress has held a number of hearings on the topic and today Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) introduced companion bills in the Senate and House, respectively, to protect location privacy. The bills not only require law enforcement to get a warrant based on probable cause before accessing location information, but also regulate the use of this information by businesses. With location tracking cases popping up all over the country, this would provide a strong and clear national standard for law enforcement.

Disclosing location information can be particularly harmful to victims of stalking and domestic violence . It can reveal individual movements for months or years, including things like medical information (visits to a therapist or an abortion clinic), First Amendment-protected activity (attendance at a church or political protest), or personal habits (visits to a gun range or bar). It can also be just plain embarrassing – maybe you were at a bar when you said you were at church. Requiring a warrant will not deny the police information they need, it just mandates judicial review to ensure that authorities have a good reason to access such sensitive information.

This is already the law in Oregon, where the state’s Supreme Court held that tracking is the equivalent of a search as defined by the state constitution and therefore requires a warrant. The court said GPS tracking was a violation of an individual’s right to privacy and, unlike simply viewing a vehicle tracking device, it significantly limits freedom from scrutiny.As technology has advanced, law enforcement has been quick to adopt new surveillance tools, but our privacy laws have not kept pace . We applaud Sen. Wyden and Rep. Chaffetz for bills that work towards bringing them in line. Please go here to ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor this important piece of legislation.

Police Threaten To Arrest Citizen For Asking Questions - A still tongue makes for a happy life.

Two Refugio women sue sheriff, deputies over illegal strip search - Two Refugio women have filed a lawsuit against Refugio County Sheriff Robert Bolcik and two of his deputies over claims that the officers illegally strip searched them on the side of the highway in plain view of oncoming traffic.

GHENI PLATENBURG
Victoria Advocate
June 16, 2011
Two Refugio women have filed a lawsuit against Refugio County Sheriff Robert Bolcik and two of his deputies over claims that the officers illegally strip searched them on the side of the highway in plain view of oncoming traffic.
Plaintiffs Brittah Williams and Jessica Mascorro claimed Bolcik, who was elected sheriff in November 2008, along with deputies Jeff Raymond and Shelley Haertig, both of whom are named as defendants in the lawsuit along with Bolcik, violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights, which guard against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Refugio County also is named as a defendant.
The lawsuit was filed June 8 in federal court.
Bolcik, who received a copy of the lawsuit Monday via email, did not respond to messages left by The Advocate for comment.
Both Refugio County Judge Rene Mascorro and County Auditor Diana Moss said they were unaware of any lawsuit pending against the county, and therefore could not comment.
The lawsuit contends that in the early evening hours of Dec. 31, 2009, the women were traveling home after a shopping trip.
As the women neared the Bayside Bridge, Jessica Mascorro noticed flashing emergency lights from a law enforcement cruiser approaching from behind and signaling her to pull over, according to the lawsuit.
Mascorro, who was driving, pulled over to the side of the road, while Raymond and Bolcik also parked their vehicles.
Full article here

Bandera County Sheriff’s Office Issues Sovereign Citizens Domestic Terrorism Warning - Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Hunt for Man Who Violated Parole, Fired at Police Turns into Domestic Terror Propaganda
Kurt Nimmo | Government says former militia leader is a domestic terrorist on the loose.
Infowars.com
June 14, 2011
Once again, the government and the corporate media are busy at work trying to portray anti-government activists as murderous terrorists.

“Montana authorities are on a manhunt for an ‘extremely dangerous’ former militia leader who triggered a shootout with cops and fled into the wilderness with a cache of weapons,” reports the NY Daily News.
“David Burgert, 47, a former head of a violent anti-government militia group, traded gunfire with Missoula County deputies along a logging trail after a slow speed car chase near Lolo, Mont., on Sunday, cops said.”
According to the FBI, the former Marine and Project 7, a Montana militia, plotted to assassinate local officials, kill cops and ultimately topple the government.
But there is a problem with this story. It is not true.
Burgert was never charged with threatening local officials, police, or anybody else. He was arrested in 2002 and charged with weapons violation after law enforcement discovered a “cache” of weapons and around 30,000 rounds of ammunition.
In May of 2003, the Billings Gazette reported that Burgert was expected to plead to possessing a machine gun and being a felon in possession of a firearm following a plea agreement he made with prosecutors. Instead, he jumped bail and resisted arrest.
The Montana Department of Corrections said Burgert was sentenced in 2002 for bail jumping and in 1983 for theft and was arrested after a stand-off with the cops. After that arrest, officials in Flathead County in far northwestern Montana said that Project 7 conspired to kill local police officers, judges and county prosecutors.
It seems Mr. Burgert is a problem because he does not respect the law and is combative with the police. He holds anti-government views. Before his sentencing on firearms charges, he was diagnosed by the government with paranoid personality disorder.
In 2003, the Project 7 group told the Associated Press the allegations against them were “nothing more than a fanciful conspiracy theory dreamed up by overzealous police.” No charges were filed because federal investigators were unable to substantiate any of the accusations made by Montana officials after they discovered 30,000 rounds of ammunition, explosives, night-vision equipment, and body armor – all completely legal to possess.
Following his previous experience with the government and time spent in a federal prison, Burgert said he would not be taken into custody again by law enforcement. Montana lawmen said he led sheriff’s deputies on a 30-mile chase on Sunday before exchanging gunfire with them and fleeing into the rugged mountains southwest of Missoula, according to Reuters. No one was injured in the shootout.
"He is armed and extremely dangerous," Missoula County Undersheriff Mike Dominick told Reuters as the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, the Missoula SWAT team, the FBI, the National Guard and the U.S. Forest Service searched for Burgert.
The fanfare of coverage of Burgert is part of a larger campaign by government and the corporate media to portray anti-government activists as violent, dangerous, and mentally unbalanced.
In any given week, there are hundreds of cases of people resisting arrest or ending up in violent confrontations with police. These incidents rarely make it off the pages of local newspapers or news websites because they are of little use to the government in its effort to portray constitutionalists as crazed gun-toting lunatics.
For instance, TPM posted a local story about a man who allegedly opened fire at a seafood market in Florida after learning that they had run out of crawfish. Larry Wayne Kelly, who apparently suffers from mental illness, told the cops he is a sovereign citizen.
Moreover, Burgert’s alleged confrontation with police will be used by anti-Second Amendment advocates to argue for “reasonable” laws limiting or outlawing the possession of firearms.
In 2010, the government attempted to railroad the Hutaree militia movement by claiming they also planned to kill local law enforcement and officials. The government case against the group fell apart in short order and some of the accused were released from custody.
Incessant propaganda, however, appears to work in convincing some people that anti-government groups and individuals pose a threat. In April of last year, a UPI poll conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion revealed that a “strong majority” of Americans believe “American-on-American terrorism is likely in the next year.” 58 percent of 1,005 people surveyed believe a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, carried out by Americans, is “very likely” or “moderately likely” to happen.
No terrorist event occured in the specified timeframe.

Tim Gerber

KSAT 12 News
June 10, 2011

BANDERA, Texas — The Bandera County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Thursday to citizens about an anti-government movement known for acts of domestic terrorism.

The law enforcement agency said followers of The Sovereign Citizens Movement have been known to carry out violent acts, including killing law enforcement officers and other public servants.

The sheriff’s office told KSAT-12 News the warning was prompted by the recent shooting death of Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Sgt. Kenneth Vann.

“We have domestic terrorism right at our doorstep,” said Capt. Charlie Hicks of the Bandera County Sheriff’s Office.

See video report

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KSAT.com
June 11, 2011

BANDERA, Texas — The Bandera County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Thursday to citizens about an anti-government movement known for acts of domestic terrorism.

The law enforcement agency said followers of The Sovereign Citizens Movement have been known to carry out violent acts, including killing law enforcement officers and other public servants.

Watch Tim Gerber’s Report | Read Sheriff’s Office Press Release (PDF)

The sheriff’s office told KSAT-12 News the warning was prompted by the recent shooting death of Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Sgt. Kenneth Vann.”We have domestic terrorism right at our doorstep,” said Capt. Charlie Hicks of the Bandera County Sheriff’s Office.

Hicks said while there’s no evidence Vann’s death had any links to the Sovereign Citizens, it’s the same type of crime followers are known for.

For example, in last May, a father and his teenage son opened fire on two police officers with an assault rifle during a routine traffic stop in West Memphis, Ark. News reports said the incident was sparked by the suspects’ refusal to present a valid driver’s license. The officers were killed in the shootout and the father and son died in a second shootout with officers a short time later.

“That’s our main concern. Citizen safety and police officer safety in this area,” Hicks said.

According to Hicks, followers of the anti-government, anarchist movement, share the belief that the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution has tricked Americans into becoming citizens of the United States and has offered them privileges, such as driver’s licenses and other government benefits, which act as so-called hidden contracts through which Americans effectively have given up their sovereignty.

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NOW FOR THE FACTS ON THE POLICE PROPAGANDA

Hunt for Man Who Violated Parole, Fired at Police Turns into Domestic Terror Propaganda

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 14, 2011

Once again, the government and the corporate media are busy at work trying to portray anti-government activists as murderous terrorists.

“Montana authorities are on a manhunt for an ‘extremely dangerous’ former militia leader who triggered a shootout with cops and fled into the wilderness with a cache of weapons,” reports the NY Daily News.

“David Burgert, 47, a former head of a violent anti-government militia group, traded gunfire with Missoula County deputies along a logging trail after a slow speed car chase near Lolo, Mont., on Sunday, cops said.”

According to the FBI, the former Marine and Project 7, a Montana militia, plotted to assassinate local officials, kill cops and ultimately topple the government.

But there is a problem with this story. It is not true.

Burgert was never charged with threatening local officials, police, or anybody else. He was arrested in 2002 and charged with weapons violation after law enforcement discovered a “cache” of weapons and around 30,000 rounds of ammunition.

In May of 2003, the Billings Gazette reported that Burgert was expected to plead to possessing a machine gun and being a felon in possession of a firearm following a plea agreement he made with prosecutors. Instead, he jumped bail and resisted arrest.

The Montana Department of Corrections said Burgert was sentenced in 2002 for bail jumping and in 1983 for theft and was arrested after a stand-off with the cops. After that arrest, officials in Flathead County in far northwestern Montana said that Project 7 conspired to kill local police officers, judges and county prosecutors.

It seems Mr. Burgert is a problem because he does not respect the law and is combative with the police. He holds anti-government views. Before his sentencing on firearms charges, he was diagnosed by the government with paranoid personality disorder.

In 2003, the Project 7 group told the Associated Press the allegations against them were “nothing more than a fanciful conspiracy theory dreamed up by overzealous police.” No charges were filed because federal investigators were unable to substantiate any of the accusations made by Montana officials after they discovered 30,000 rounds of ammunition, explosives, night-vision equipment, and body armor – all completely legal to possess.

Following his previous experience with the government and time spent in a federal prison, Burgert said he would not be taken into custody again by law enforcement. Montana lawmen said he led sheriff’s deputies on a 30-mile chase on Sunday before exchanging gunfire with them and fleeing into the rugged mountains southwest of Missoula, according to Reuters. No one was injured in the shootout.

"He is armed and extremely dangerous," Missoula County Undersheriff Mike Dominick told Reuters as the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, the Missoula SWAT team, the FBI, the National Guard and the U.S. Forest Service searched for Burgert.

The fanfare of coverage of Burgert is part of a larger campaign by government and the corporate media to portray anti-government activists as violent, dangerous, and mentally unbalanced.

In any given week, there are hundreds of cases of people resisting arrest or ending up in violent confrontations with police. These incidents rarely make it off the pages of local newspapers or news websites because they are of little use to the government in its effort to portray constitutionalists as crazed gun-toting lunatics.

For instance, TPM posted a local story about a man who allegedly opened fire at a seafood market in Florida after learning that they had run out of crawfish. Larry Wayne Kelly, who apparently suffers from mental illness, told the cops he is a sovereign citizen.

Moreover, Burgert’s alleged confrontation with police will be used by anti-Second Amendment advocates to argue for “reasonable” laws limiting or outlawing the possession of firearms.

In 2010, the government attempted to railroad the Hutaree militia movement by claiming they also planned to kill local law enforcement and officials. The government case against the group fell apart in short order and some of the accused were released from custody.

Incessant propaganda, however, appears to work in convincing some people that anti-government groups and individuals pose a threat. In April of last year, a UPI poll conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion revealed that a “strong majority” of Americans believe “American-on-American terrorism is likely in the next year.” 58 percent of 1,005 people surveyed believe a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, carried out by Americans, is “very likely” or “moderately likely” to happen.

No terrorist event occured in the specified timeframe.

Police State Much? - Monday, June 13, 2011

The Constitutional Lawyer turned POTUS is committing atrocities against peace, justice and human rights at a pace that Bush and Cheney only dreamed possible. If Obama can’t have one of us arrested or executed on his orders, then he will gladly diagnose our principled questioning as a mental disorder.

Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan’s Soap Box
June 13, 2011

“Patriotic” Americans are still berating me for “demeaning” my son’s “sacrifice.” A typical message goes something like this:

“Your son died to give you the right to spew your filth against this country. If it wasn’t for the military and people like your son, you wouldn’t have the freedom to protest.”

Oh, really? If I have the “freedom to protest” then why have I been arrested so many times and why did I have a four-month restraining order from protesting near the White House last year that would have landed my buns in jail for six-months if I violated it? Why are activists still being arrested for solely exercising what used to be our fundamental rights?

In fact, attorney, Bill Quigley has documented that more than 2600 activists have been arrested since Obama was sworn in 2009.

Obama even told Steve Pelley of 60 Minutes that if any American dare question his obvious lies around the re-death of Osama bin Laden, then he/she should have “their heads examined.”

I find it extremely interesting that the fundamental values of peace, truth, and justice have been turned into a mental disorder by the POTUS who, as I have pointed out before, has committed innumerable atrocities against these values. However, what I am finding increasingly alarming is the USA’s rapid descent into a police state.

On June 7^th, my sister and I were driving from Sacramento to Los Angeles on I-5—this is a trip that both she and I have made dozens of times since my family moved near Sacramento in 1993. We almost immediately noticed the elevated presence of cop ‘copters hovering over the interstate and over nearby communities. Neither of us had ever witnessed so many military convoys and such a police presence in any of the previous times we made the trip. We speculated what it could be all about and I even had to come to a complete stop on I-105 when it looked like a Los Angeles Sheriff’s ‘copter was about to land on the roof of my car. Hmm, there is definitely a shift happening, but it’s often hard to pin things down.

Well, the very next day, I learned about two events that shocked even me—I thought the Empire couldn’t shock me, but I was wrong.

The very day that my sister and I were traveling the length of our gorgeous state, a Stockton, California man was having his door broken down by what he thought was a S.W.A.T. Goon Squad.

According to Kenneth Wright, a single father of three young children ages, 3, 7 and 11; he heard some commotion outside his Stockton home, so he looked out his upstairs window and saw 15 cops that looked like members of S.W.A.T. Before he could get downstairs to the door, they had battered it down and entered his home. Wright spent the next six hours handcuffed in the back of a cop car with his three frightened children.

Is Kenneth Wright the alleged murderer of thousands of brown people in the Middle East and North Africa? Has this scoundrel cheated millions of people out of their retirement/life savings? Did Mr. Wright authorize the use of torture, or even invade one country illegally?

No, of course not. It turns out that the cops who broke down Mr. Wright’s door brutalizing him and traumatizing his children weren’t local or state law enforcement, but an Education Goon Squad that had been granted some kind of vicious police state authority because Mr. Wright’s ex-wife allegedly committed “fraud” on her student loans. How many of us have student loans that are in danger of being defaulted on because we can’t find a job? The primary question is, though, why do most of us have to commit ourselves to years of debt to get a University education which should be free in the most wealthiest country in the world?

The scandal of the rising cost and increasing inaccessibility of higher education can be directly related to the oppression and exploitation of the people that handle Obama like the Marionette that he is. If the above story doesn’t terrify you, then what about this one:

In the wee hours of Memorial Day, cops in Miami were involved in a high-speed chase that ended with the injuries of four innocent bystanders and the shooting execution of the SUSPECT. Witnesses to the crimes of the P.D. videotaped the entire incident and were then, themselves subjected to police brutality as the Miami cops held guns to their heads and smashed their cell phones. Luckily, one of the victims had the presence of mind to secure the sim card of his phone in his mouth.

Ask yourself: “How terrified would I be if I just witnessed cops brutally shooting a man to death, then holding a gun to my head?”

Incidentally, the Miami PD has also recently been involved in arresting activists from the organization Food Not Bombs for having the audacity to feed the area’s homeless.

The Robber Class obviously doesn’t want hungry people fed, sick people healed, uneducated people schooled, homeless people housed, or poor people prosperous. Their agenda is total domination of the world’s resources and complete income inequality in our own country.

The next time you fly and either have to subject your body to unacceptable levels of radiation in one of the Pervo-Scanners or get molested by TSA—think to yourself: “This is how it starts—my nation is being turned into a police state with nary a whimper.”

At least I loudly protest these violations when I fly and I educate everyone within earshot (including the TSA) that Michael Chertoff (former director of the NSA under Bush) profits from the full-body X-ray machines in airports. The last time I was being illegally molested by a TSA agent because I refused to go through one of the Pervo-Scanners, she said: “Am I hurting you?” And I answered: “Yes, you are beating the crap out of my 4^th Amendment.”

The above stories illustrate that we no longer even have the pretense to the rights to privacy or against illegal search and seizure. Even if the state grants warrants, or passes laws that our privates are now fair game for government perversity, oftentimes these laws directly contravene the Constitution.

However, with the recent reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT ACT, the Constitution has again been rendered “null and void.”
The obvious solution to what ails our nation is to end the wars and invest part of the money in education—forgive student loans and provide free/low cost university education to everyone in this country. Ending the wars will not only have a positive effect on our economy, but we won’t be creating enemies faster than we can kill them, so all of this jack-booted police state thuggery would not be necessary.

With the profit motive being so tempting to the Robber Class, it seems like one of the only recourses left to us now is to film everything that happens around us and hide the sim cards of our phones in one of our body’s crevices—we can at least be witnesses to and document Obama’s rush to total totalitarianism.

Please visit Cindysheehanssoapbox.com for the latest commentary about what a war culture is doing to America

SWAT team busts into house over student loan default - Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Sahil Kapur
Raw Story
June 8, 2011

Acting on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and reportedly roughed up a man — all because of his estranged wife’s defaulted student loans. She wasn’t there.

Yet, Kenneth Wright of the city of Stockton was grabbed by the neck by handcuffed before he and his three young children were put in a police car as the officers searched his house, he told ABC News10. He said he was in his underwear the whole time.

“They busted down my door for this. It wasn’t even me,” Wright told the local news station. “All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door.”

Local police were reportedly not involved in the incident.

Watch the video, via ABC News10.

The Government’s War on Cameras (video) - Friday, June 03, 2011

Reason TV | Police everywhere are cracking down on citizens using cameras to capture breaking news and law enforcement in action.

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Police Threaten CNN Journalist Looking for “Secret Morgue” [???] - Monday, May 30, 2011

What’s this all about?

CNN - May 30, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRTn-dDBTI&feature=player_embedded

Graphic Video Of Police Brutality On Protesters In Spain - Friday, May 27, 2011

Police in Barcelona have attacked protesters that have been camped out since May 15 in the city’s Plaza Catalunya.

Gus Lubin
Business Insider
May 27, 2011

Police in Barcelona have attacked protesters that have been camped out since May 15 in the city’s Plaza Catalunya. The protesters originally were trying to apply pressure to the public to not vote in last weekend’s local Spanish elections. Those elections resulted in sharp losses for the country’s Socialist Party government.

Protesters have remained in squares across Spain since the election, demanding government reforms and renewed attention to the country’s unemployment crisis.

The forceful move against the protesters today in Barcelona was staged to clear the square out ahead of FC Barcelona’s Champions League final match against Manchester United tomorrow evening. But to many, it may just appear the beginning of a government crackdown on the country’s protesters.

Videos are now surfacing of the police assault. The video includes violence on unarmed protesters (via Zero Hedge):

Eighth Grader Executed by a derange Cop with mental problems - Friday, May 27, 2011

Police officer's past questioned in teen death, but not a problem, Kill a kid, it's ok...

http://www.woai.com/mostpopular/story/Police-officers-past-questioned-in-teen-death/FLDCXlVaCUGYd8QMlVXUHg.cspx

William Grigg
The LRC Blog
May 27, 2011

Between March 2006 and November 2010, Officer Daniel Alvarado of San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District Police was suspended four times. Four times he was informed by supervisors that he faced “immediate termination.” For some reason, when it came time to fire Alvarado, his superiors just couldn’t bring themselves to pull the trigger. Alvarado displayed no similar scruples on November 12, 2010, when he murdered 14-year-old Derek Lopez, who had just taken part in a brief scuffle with another student.

Owing to his own troubled past, Lopez was a student at the Bexar County Juvenile Justice Academy. At around 4:30 PM on the fatal day, Lopez sucker-punched a 13-year-old classmate at a bus stop.

“He just hit me once,” the student later recalled in a sworn deposition. “It wasn’t a fight. It was nothing.”

Unfortunately, Alvarado happened to be prowling the intersection in his patrol car, and witnessed the trivial dust-up.

“Freeze!” Alvarado shouted at Lopez, who bolted from the scene. Alvarado, in his mid-40s, briefly gave token pursuit before relating the first of several self-serving falsehoods.

“I just had one run from me,” wheezed the winded tax-feeder. “I saw an assault in progress. He punched the guy several times.” (Emphasis added.)

A supervisor instructed Alvarado “not [to] do any big search over there” in pursuit of the assailant. “Let’s stay with the victim and see if we can identify [the suspect] that way.”

Rather than doing as he was ordered, Alvarado bundled the “victim” — who was probably more terrified of the armed functionary than of his obnoxious classmate — into the patrol car and went in pursuit of Lopez.

Lopez vaulted a nearby fence and hid in a backyard shed containing Christmas decorations. The homeowner saw the intrusion, and a neighbor flagged down Alvarado’s patrol car. The officer drew his gun “when he came up the driveway,” recalled the homeowner. Within a minute or so, a single gunshot resonated through the neighborhood. When asked by the horrified homeowner what had happened, Alvarado — who reportedly looked “dazed or distant” — replied that Lopez “came at me.”

Full article here

Indiana Students Organize Protest Against Supreme Court Ruling - Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Supreme Court decision ruled citizens don’t have the right to resist a police officer who is entering their home without a warrant.

RT
May 23, 2011

Adam is joined by Stephen Skolnick, who is organizing a rally in Indiana to protest the Indiana State Supreme Court decision ruling citizens don’t have the right to resist a police officer who is entering their home without a warrant.

Indiana State Supreme Court decision ruling citizens don't have the right to resist a police officer who is entering their home without a warrant

Fourth Amendment Busting Sneak and Peek Warrants On the Rise - Thursday, May 19, 2011

Majority of rise in sneak and peek search warrants not related to terrorism cases.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 19, 2011

An Albuquerque television news report aired earlier this week reveals a steep increase by the federal government in the use of unconstitutional sneak and peek search warrants.

“The warrants have always been around, but their use has spiked since the War on Terror and revamped Patriot Act was signed in 2005,” reports KOAT. “The number of delayed-notice search warrants spiked nationally from nearly 700 in fiscal year 2007 to approaching close to 2,000 in 2009.

See a video report on the KOAT website.

According to KOAT, a majority of the search warrants were not related to terrorism cases. Justice Department figures indicate the majority of the secretive warrants were issued in drug cases.

“While billed as an anti-terror tool, (a sneak-and-peek warrant) had no requirements on it that it precluded it from being used in standard criminal investigations,” Peter Simonson of the ACLU told the news station.

The ACLU said it expects so-called delayed-notice warrant numbers to increase so long as the PATRIOT Act remains law.

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the Fourth Amendment protected Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires the government to both obtain a warrant and to give notice to the person whose property is to be searched prior to conducting the search. The notice requirement allowed a property owner to assert his or her rights under the Fourth Amendment.

For example, a person with notice might be able to point out irregularities in the warrant, such as the fact that the police are at the wrong address, or that because the warrant is limited to a search for a stolen car, the police have no authority to be looking in dresser drawers, the ACLU points out. The Supreme Court recently ruled that notice is a key Fourth Amendment protection.

The FBI has has engaged in a similar practice for decades. Commonly known as black bag operations, the practice permitted FBI agents to illegally enter offices of targeted individuals and political organizations.

In 1966, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover claimed he put an end to the prctice used by the agency since the early 1940s, but in the late 60s and through the 1970s the agency routinely violated the Fourth Amendment under COINTELPRO, the federal effort to undermine political individuals and groups the government opposed. In 1972 in the Plamondon case, the Supreme Court ruled black bag jobs unconstitutional.

The criminal practice came back into vogue following the attacks of September 11, 2001. “The refocusing of FBI operational priorities and the new emphasis placed on intelligence-based activities… has resulted in a dramatic increase” in the demand for black bag jobs, according to an unclassified FBI document. “It does not detail how many of the secret searches it carries out, and the FBI did not respond to comment,” ABC News reported in June of 2007. It went to Congress that year and demanded $5 million to pay for the surreptitious operations.

The New Mexico report on increased sneak and peek illegal entry in drug and other criminals cases follows a ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court that residents of that state do not have the right to resist the invasion of their homes by rogue cops.

Indiana Sheriff: House to House Random Searches Now Possible - Thursday, May 19, 2011

Illinois Gun | Sheriff believes Indiana Supreme Court decision allows cops to violate Fourth Amendment.

Illinois Gun
Infowars.com
May 19, 2011

With the recent Indiana Supreme court ruling giving police unfettered access to people’s homes, Newton county Sheriff Donald Hartman Sr. believes the ruling makes house to house searches possible.

In one reported interview regarding the Barnes vs. State of Indiana case, Sheriff Hartman showed such an indifference toward the rights of the people that he was asked three times to explain his views. The sheriff made it clear that he would use random house to house searches if he believed it was necessary.

The opinions of Newton county Sheriff Hartman has created a movement to remove him from office.

The facts and procedural history of the Barnes vs. State of Indiana began on November 18, 2007 in Vanderburgh County. The incident involved a married couple arguing, no attacks of violence were committed by either party, but officers on the scene escalated events when they forced their way into the couple’s apartment.

In writing for the court, Justice David Steven said that if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner can not do anything to block the officer’s entry.

This 3-2 decision by the Indiana Supreme Court has in affect overridden the 4th amendment to the US Constitution which says;

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized- [4th Amendment to the US Constitution]

A legal precedent has now been set for Indiana residents; people have NO reasonable expectation to be secure in their persons, house, papers and effects.

Justice David Steven was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in October of 2010; he is a colonel in the United States Army Reserve and a former Chief Defense Counsel for Guantanamo captives.

Governor Mitch Daniels who is seen as a potential savior for the Republican presidential ticket in 2012 selected David Steven for the Indiana Supreme Court.

On April 19, 1775 after years of illegal searches and seizures the American colonists resisted their government.

The colonists believed they had the protection of the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights, but the policing actions of the British Crown ignored those rights.

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Today people are grabbed and groped at airports and police routinely choke and taser people into submission. With the recent decisions by the Indiana and U.S. Supreme Courts the 4th amendment a mans home is NO longer his Castle.

Links of interest…

http://www.mikechurch.com/…

http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions…

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_David_(Judge)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/…

Warrants Let Agents Enter Homes Without Owner Knowing - Wednesday, May 18, 2011

KOAT7 News
May 18, 2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A special type of government search warrant that allows authorities to search homes without informing the owner for months is becoming more common, Target 7 has learned.

Imagine someone walking through your neighborhood, coming into your home and rifling through your intimate belongings.

“(They) search through your home, your dresser drawers, your computer files,” Peter Simonson, with ACLU New Mexico, said.

These search warrants don’t involve knocking on doors or any type of warning at all. Delayed-notice search warrants, or “sneak-and-peek” warrants, allow federal agents to enter your home without telling you they’ve been there until months later.

Full article here

While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Paul Joseph Watson | Debate Over: The United States has official entered the annuls of history as a Soviet-style police state.Two recent Supreme Court cases have served to virtually abolish the Fourth Amendment in the United States of America, with citizens no longer being “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

May 17, 2011

Two recent Supreme Court cases have served to virtually abolish the Fourth Amendment in the United States of America, with citizens no longer being “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

In a precedent described by dissenting justices as “breathtaking” and “unnecessarily broad,” the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week in a 3-2 vote that doing anything to resist police busting down your door and conducting an illegal search is now a criminal act.

“[We] hold that the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law,” the court ruled in the case of Richard L. Barnes v. Indiana.

Dissenting Justices Brent E. Dickson and Robert D. Rucker made it clear that the ruling represented a total rejection of rights enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.

“In my view, the wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad,” Dickson wrote.

“In my view it is breathtaking that the majority deems it appropriate or even necessary to erode this constitutional protection based on a rationale addressing much different policy considerations,” added Rucker. “There is simply no reason to abrogate the common law right of a citizen to resist the unlawful police entry into his or her home.”

The ruling was made under the justification that resisting a police officer had the potential to escalate and cause violence against the officer, meaning that the God-like status bestowed upon police officers now trumps both the 220-year-old Fourth Amendment and the 796-year-old Magna Carta on which it is based.

In a separate case, on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the police can now also bust down a door and enter your property without a warrant if they smell marijuana or hear sounds that are suggestive of destruction of evidence. The case revolved around the warrantless search of an apartment in Kentucky, Lexington.

“Where, as here, the police did not create the exigency by engaging or threatening to engage in conduct that violates the Fourth Amendment, warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence is reasonable and thus allowed,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority.

Of course, the fact that police officers have been known to habitually lie in order to justify illegally entering a property and violating the Fourth Amendment (which is apparently now null and void anyway), was not considered.

These two cases merely scratch the surface of America’s descent into an authoritarian tyranny, which has noticeably deepened over the last few weeks. Describing the United States as a “police state” is no longer a glib or alarmist use of rhetoric, because by every measurable tenet and in every context, the rights guaranteed in the Constitution are now being completely ignored by government or simply abolished altogether.

The fact that Supreme Courts are now attacking the very Constitution they are supposed to uphold is proof that America has been hijacked by rogue criminal elements who are busy dismantling everything that once made the country a beacon of liberty for the world.

The debate is officially over. America has now entered the annuls of history as an authoritarian police state on a par with Soviet Russia, and as that virus spreads throughout all levels of society it will ultimately lead the United States to the same fate – the only question remaining is how messy the collapse will be, how many people will be incarcerated, and how many people the government will murder in the process.

Police Can Now Kick in your door according to courts - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Police Can Now Knock On Your Door, Listen for Sounds Suggesting Evidence Is Being Destroyed (Whatever That Means), and Then Break In—No Warrant Necessary

The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in a Kentucky case, says police officers who loudly knock on a door in search of illegal drugs and then hear sounds suggesting evidence is being destroyed may break down the door and enter without a search warrant.

cryptogon.com
May 17, 2011

Game over.

Via: Los Angeles Times:

The Supreme Court on Monday gave police more leeway to break into residences in search of illegal drugs.

The justices in an 8-1 decision said officers who loudly knock on a door and then hear sounds suggesting evidence is being destroyed may break down the door and enter without a search warrant.

Residents who “attempt to destroy evidence have only themselves to blame” when police burst in, said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

In a lone dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she feared the ruling in a Kentucky case will give police an easy way to ignore the 4th Amendment. “Police officers may not knock, listen and then break the door down,” she said, without violating the 4th Amendment.

Police State in your face and yet that's ok you sheep love it. - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

TSA Responds To Texas: Resistance is Futile

Steve Watson | Agency perverts meaning of Constitutional protections in response to state’s new law against federal groping.The TSA has issued a laughable response to the news that the state of Texas has passed a bill to officially make it a misdemeanor to pat-down breasts, buttocks, or genitals.

Philly Police Harass, Threaten to Shoot Man Legally Carrying Gun

John Stossel | “You f—— come here looking for f—— problems?”

Police State: Cops Pull You Over And Take Your Cash

A major NewsChannel 5 investigation has uncovered serious questions about Tennessee’s war on drugs. Among the questions: are some police agencies more concerned about making money off the drugs, than stopping them?

Police-state ‘chill’ - Sunday, May 15, 2011

Vancouver Sun | A former Mission district councillor had three computers seized Monday.

John Allen
The Province
May 15, 2011

I am incensed at the police raid on the home of Mission council critic Ron Taylor. I also feel a chill at the prospect of such a police visit because I, too, am openly critical of my vindictive village council.

Mr. Taylor is doing sterling service in questioning his local council on some dubious policies and practices. To have the police raid his home and seize his computer smacks of a police state.

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Original news story below:

Gerry Bellett
Vancouver Sun
May 15, 2011

A former Mission district councillor -a leading critic of the city’s controversial marijuana growing operation inspection process -had three computers seized Monday after RCMP officers raided his home in connection with a breach-oftrust investigation.

“I regard this as political intimidation by the district,” said Ron Taylor, who served on Mission council for 12 years until he retired from office in 2005.

Langley RCMP Cpl. Holly Marks said the seizures were part of an investigation by Mission RCMP into an alleged breach of trust and breach of the Community Charter.

But the RCMP would not elaborate on the nature of the allegations, which concern a suspected leak from Mission council to Taylor.

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Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home - Friday, May 13, 2011

The Courts have taken upon itself to no longer uphold laws but instead give governments and police the only ones who have rights, no matter what the cost. People need to take back the courts and arrest those who violate the very laws they are to uphold.

Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home

Nwitimes.com | Indiana Supreme Court overturns common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215.

INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.

"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," David said. "We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest."

David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.

The court's decision stems from a Vanderburgh County case in which police were called to investigate a husband and wife arguing outside their apartment.

When the couple went back inside their apartment, the husband told police they were not needed and blocked the doorway so they could not enter. When an officer entered anyway, the husband shoved the officer against a wall. A second officer then used a stun gun on the husband and arrested him.

Professor Ivan Bodensteiner, of Valparaiso University School of Law, said the court's decision is consistent with the idea of preventing violence.

"It's not surprising that they would say there's no right to beat the hell out of the officer," Bodensteiner said. "(The court is saying) we would rather opt on the side of saying if the police act wrongfully in entering your house your remedy is under law, to bring a civil action against the officer."

Justice Robert Rucker, a Gary native, and Justice Brent Dickson, a Hobart native, dissented from the ruling, saying the court's decision runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

"In my view the majority sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally -- that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances," Rucker said. "I disagree."

Rucker and Dickson suggested if the court had limited its permission for police entry to domestic violence situations they would have supported the ruling.

But Dickson said, "The wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad."

This is the second major Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week involving police entry into a home.

On Tuesday, the court said police serving a warrant may enter a home without knocking if officers decide circumstances justify it. Prior to that ruling, police serving a warrant would have to obtain a judge's permission to enter without knocking.

Man Dies After Being Tasered 34 Times - Friday, May 13, 2011

Police Insanity and how they got off when they murder people even when their use of force is justifyed in their small minds....

State investigation recently exonerated police in the May 2010 death of a man who died following 34 shocks by a Taser weapon.

Gregory B. Hladky
Hartford Advocate
May 12, 2011

A Waterbury man died earlier this month after being hit with a police stun gun. In Middletown, a state investigation recently exonerated police in the May 2010 death of a man who died following 34 shocks by a Taser weapon.

State lawmakers had been considering legislation to require standardized police training in the use of stun guns and restrictions on when and how they should be used. Opposed by the Connecticut Chiefs of Police Association (pdf), the bill has been watered down to a study of police use of Tasers by a state law enforcement training panel. The study legislation is awaiting General Assembly action.

“We were disappointed,” David McGuire, a lawyer with the Connecticut chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, says of the much weakened legislation. “But this is a step in the right direction, and we believe a study will show the need for comprehensive Taser regulation, including training and public accountability.”

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He Served the Empire Abroad; The Regime Killed Him in His Home - Friday, May 13, 2011

William Grigg | Former Marine slaughtered by SWAT team during a May 5 assault on his home in Arizona.

LewRockwell.com
May 12, 2011

Jose Guerena survived two combat tours of Iraq, only to become a casualty of the Regime’s longest war — the one waged against its domestic subjects in the name of drug prohibition. The former Marine was slaughtered by a SWAT team during a May 5 assault on his home in Arizona.

Guerena’s wife, Vanessa, heard a noise outside the couple’s home near Tucson at about 9 a.m. Jose, who had just gone to bed after pulling a 12-hour shift at the Asarco Mine, suspected — correctly, as it turned out — that his family was threatened by an armed criminal gang. Grabbing his AR-15, Guerena instructed his wife and four-year-old son to hide in the closet while he confronted the intruders. According to Mrs. Guerena, the stormtroopers from the Pima County Regional SWAT team never identified themselves as police; they simply stormed into the home and started shooting.

“I saw this guy pointing me at the window, Vanessa recalled in a television interview. “So, I got scared. And, I got like, ‘Please don’t shoot, I have a baby.’ I put my baby [down]. [And I] put bag in window. And, I yell ‘Jose! Jose! Wake up!’”

“A deputy’s bullet struck the side of the doorway, causing chips of wood to fall on his shield,” recounts the Arizona Daily Star, paraphrasing an account provided by Pima County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) functionary Michael O’Connor. “That prompted some members of the team to think the deputy had been shot.” Guerna never fired a shot; the marauders who invaded his home fired no fewer than seventy-one. As is standard procedure in such events, the invaders claimed that Guerna had fired on the officers, as he had every moral and legal right to.

Neither Jose nor his wife had a criminal history of any kind. The attack on their home was described as a narcotics enforcement operation, but there are no reports that narcotics were found at the residence – – even though the invaders reportedly “seized” (that is, stole) something that belonged to the victim.

“Tucson is notorious for home invasions and we didn’t want it to look like that,” insisted PCSO spokesman O’Connor, exhibiting the dull-witted refusal to acknowledge the obvious that typifies tax-feeders of his station. He also maintained that the death squad “went lights and sirens and we absolutely did not do a `no-knock’ warrant,” a claim refuted by the only surviving witness, Vanessa Guerena. Such details are morally inconsequential, since there was no reason — apart from the institutional vanity of the PCSO and the indecent eagerness of the armored adolescents who compose its SWAT team — to conduct a paramilitary raid to serve a routine search warrant.

“I never imagined I would lose him like that, he was badly injured but I never thought he could be killed by police after he served his country,” lamented the wife of the murdered ex-Marine, who died on his feet, a rifle in his hand, and his face to an unexpected enemy. The grim but unavoidable truth is this: We shouldn’t be at all surprised that a Regime capable of sending Americans abroad to terrorize Iraqis in their homes would employ the same state terrorism against Americans here at home.

FEMA to confiscate food from local farms in emergencies? - Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Since our nation’s founding the federal government has, in times of emergency, claimed extra-constitutional powers and authority. Under the guise of acting in the public’s best interests, Washington has taken away privacy rights, free speech, and habeas corpus, among others. There’s no reason to think it wouldn’t happen again.

J. D. Heyes
Natural News
May 11, 2011

With that in mind, would it surprise you to find out that if disaster strikes in your part of the country, the federal government is prepared to take over local food supplies, in part by confiscating farms?

It shouldn’t, says “Farmer Brad,” a Texas-based farmer who said in an interview about food security with Mike Adams for Natural News TV that during Hurricane Katrina, an inventory of local farms and what they produced was conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“FEMA was doing an inventory of all the farms around … metroplexes,” he said, which included nearby Houston and other large cities. “They started calling up farms and wanted to know where farms were, and they were being prepared to maybe take food if they need to, from farms, you know, for a crisis like that.”

Brad, of HomeSweetFarm.com, said that while the agency didn’t come right out and say they would confiscate crops and cattle, “they were making food assessments, you know, what is in the local food shed in a metroplex.”

He said the agency’s assessment took into account a number of potential emergencies and disasters, including spikes in fuel prices or even sudden disruptions – anything that might hinder or prevent the delivery of food to stores. Such scenarios would also lead to dramatic increases in food prices as well, Brad said.

“The distribution system for food is so fragile, you know, and there’s only enough food in these grocery stores to last, literally, for just a couple of days,” he said, noting that store shelves during Katrina were stripped bare “within hours.”

Worse, Brad said, because of mass evacuations from the big cities, traffic choked local roads, making even short-distance travel impossible. He said he and his family couldn’t even get into town to go to the store.

“We heard all kinds of stories from our local residents about what it was like – people camping out in the Walmart parking lot; grocery stores were empty; food wasn’t coming in,” he said. “We had people from 90 miles away from Houston and some other metroplexes coming into our town because we were one of the few that still had gas.”

Brad said that FEMA didn’t send agents to farms but made phone calls instead asking, “what are you producing, how much land do you have, wanting to get the details of the local food sheds in the area.” He said he and local farms were voluntarily providing the information but that the food security aspect of the questions made them all “a little suspicious.”

As people flee the large cities, Brad says most of them will be unprepared and that his farm – through theft or through confiscation – will likely be “wiped out.”

Getting the Public to except a police state with US soldiers - Sunday, May 08, 2011

Why is it that the American people put up with all this crazy stuff, do they not love their freedoms any more and willing to give up their rights for a police state

Army embeds PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations

The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, according to Yahoo! News blog The Upshot.

GlobalReport
May 8, 2011

The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, according to Yahoo! News blog The Upshot. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army’s 4th Psychological Operations group as part of the Army’s Training With Industry program.

Real Men Punch Women Full In The Face - Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Over the last few weeks, “beat downs” in public eateries have become common. Now the cops have joined in, as a cellphone video from Atlanta posted on YouTube reveals.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 27, 2011
Over the last few weeks, “beat downs” in public eateries have become common. Now the cops have joined in, as a cellphone video from Atlanta posted on YouTube reveals.

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0Pw-bEwEUvI%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
The Atlanta Journal Constitution notes that it is not clear what events preceded the capture of an off-duty cop slugging a woman in the face. It appears he was attempting to either arrest or subdue a patron before he hauled off and slugged a second woman in the face. The cop was working at the restaurant as a security guard.
“The Atlanta Police Department is aware of the incident that took place early Sunday morning involving one of its officers attempting to arrest a patron at an IHOP in Buckhead,” APD told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday. “The matter has been referred to our Office of Professional Standards to determine whether department policies and procedures were followed. Further comment at this time would not be appropriate.”
Violent cops assaulting men, women, and children has become an all too common and ugly feature of our society over the last few years. It is alarming that the recent videos reveal the increasing violence of young women.
Earlier this week, we were subjected to a video
of a “transgender” person getting walloped at a McDonald’s in Maryland. Other violent incidents have surfaced lately, including a

2010 video
of a woman who punched through a McDonald’s drive-through window because she couldn’t get Chicken McNuggets.

TSA officer charged in distributing child pornography - Sunday, April 24, 2011

A TSA passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Flashback: 10,000 Child Porn Images Found On Ex-TSA Worker’s Computer
Philly.com
April 24, 2011
A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.
Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.
Although the case was unsealed Thursday, neither the indictment nor the news release mentioned Gordon’s job searching airline passengers for TSA.
The arrest comes as TSA grapples with several other incidents involving screeners, including a YouTube video posted last week by parents angry about the pat-down their 6-year-old daughter received at an airport in New Orleans. TSA officials said the pat-down was proper; the parents said the girl was “groped.”
Citing privacy rules, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not say if Gordon has been suspended from his job, but noted that he had been in federal custody since his arrest.
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TSA: An Army of Pervs and Criminals

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 24, 2011
Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, a TSA “screener,” was arrested on March 24 and charged with distributing more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook. He allegedly uploaded explicit pictures of young girls and also is said to have posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform, Fox News reported on Saturday. Gordon was arrested by Homeland Security and is being held without bail.
Federal agents also note Gordon routinely searched airline passengers, despite the fact the searches are unconstitutional and illegal. A growing number of district attorneys around the country have indicated they may charge TSA employees with sexual assault.
The Drudge Report linked the story and it was reported by Fox News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a handful of other news sites, but was virtually ignored by the larger corporate media.
Ryan Hamilton Jr., writing for Gather, says it is “very shocking that the TSA hasn’t alerted the public about these infractions…. This shocking news has come out as the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) tries to figure out what to do about incidents such as these.”
In fact, instances of sexual perversion and criminal activity on the part of TSA employees is becoming routine.
In February of 2010, another TSA employee, Charles Bennett of Winter Garden, Florida, was arrested and charged with molestation of a minor after police say he tried to keep a 15 year old girl as a sex slave. On his MySpace page, Bennett called himself “Master Charles” and said he was into submissive females and claimed he is a master of bondage dominance sadism and masochism.
Sean Shanahan, a TSA worker at Logan International airport, was arrested last year after he allegedly sent sexually explicit text messages to a 14 year old girl. The inappropriate contact escalated and Shanahan had physical sexual contact with the girl at his home in February over school break, according to news reports.
In October, it was reported that an Amarillo, Texas, woman filed a lawsuit against the federal government after TSA agents allegedly humiliated her by publicly exposing her breasts during an “extended search” at an airport in Corpus Christi. The suit also claims that other TSA employees continued to joke and laugh about the incident for an extended period of time. The woman filed an administrative claim against the TSA, but the agency never responded, thus prompting her lawsuit.
In addition to sexual perverts, the TSA hires violent psychopaths. Earlier this year, an Indianapolis TSA employee was arrested after he put a man in headlock and punched him six times in the face during a parking dispute.
TSA agents have bragged about the power they wield over the public. In January of 2010, a TSA agent in Los Angeles proclaimed “I am god, I’m in charge.” The agent was arrested after making the delusional claim, according to reports.
Violent TSA agents have also attacked each other. In May, 2010, a Miami TSA agent attacked a colleague who repeatedly made fun of his small penis after the security screener walked through a radiation emitting naked body scanner that showed his genitalia, according to Miami-Dade police.
The TSA has a habit of hiring not only sexual perverts and violent psychopaths, but other assorted criminals as well. In February, two TSA employees were arrested for stealing around $40,000 in cash from a bag that was checked through a security line at John F. Kennedy Airport.
The agency admits that over the last three years alone there have been 12 similar cases of thefts involving the removal of valuables and/or cash from baggage.
A few days before this case, a Newark TSA agent pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and kickbacks from a colleague who regularly stole money from passengers during sexual molestation pat-downs.
In Detroit, a TSA agent was arrested for participating in a series of fast food restaurant robberies. Quantrez Rapheal Sawyer was employed as a “passenger screener/security officer,” according to a news report.
In response to repeated instances of criminal behavior and sexual perversion on the part of its employees, the TSA claims it conducts significant background checks, including criminal history, before candidates are offered a job with the government.
It should come as no surprise the TSA has such a large number of violent criminals and sexual perverts on staff. Government agencies assigned to police state roles invariably attract violent and pathological scum. It can be argued the government in fact specifically recruits violent people.
Lenin and later Stalin’s secret police recruited thugs and psychopaths to terrorize, torture, and murder anybody who resisted the state. Early Bolshevik Victor Serge described the process in his book, Memoirs of a Revolutionary.
Mao unleashed violent and murderous members of the Red Guard – mostly students and other ideologically brainwashed young people – on the public at large during the so-called Cultural Revolution.
Hitler’s SS recruited from the violent Freikorps, specifically the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, a handpicked selection of street fighting thugs. The Nazis envisioned a legion of SS-Lords to rule over subjects of the Lebensraum, or land captured by the German army for the expansion of the racist Third Reich.
Police states invariably rely on criminals and violent thugs to intimidate the public. The TSA, of course, is not largely comprised of sadistic minions, but bureaucrats and low-level employees looking for a steady paycheck. The same can more or less be said for the Soviet era police and many ranking members of Hitler’s SS.
However, it does take a certain kind of individual to perform non-stop pat-downs that are nearly indistinguishable from sexual molestation. It should come as no surprise a large percentage of them run afoul of the law or end up accused of sex crimes.

Martial Law in the Land of Confusion! - Saturday, April 23, 2011

Gary D. Barnett | Time is running out, and we are at great risk of losing what is left of our freedom at the hands of our own corrupt government.

Gary D. Barnett
LewRockwell.com
April 23, 2011

I must’ve have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street
– From the first verse of the song Land of Confusion by Phil Collins and Genesis [1986]

Obviously, those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and other parts of the Middle East understand fully the sound of marching feet in their streets. U.S. soldiers carrying out the orders of those in command over them have been marching there for many years. They have brutalized those mostly innocent people all over that region, and in the process, entire infrastructures have been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and maimed, and aggressive occupations have become the norm. This is only the beginning, and most Americans don’t expect nor do they realize that the probability of marching feet in our own streets is great. This will not come from invaders from abroad, but by our own federal government and its agents in the police and military.

These things rarely happen all at once due to the danger to the ruling class of an uprising by the people. Generally, liberty and freedom are taken away over long periods of time, and the masses at large are little aware of this very dangerous slippery slope. That slope however, has become much steeper and now is covered in ice. Just consider the time line of liberty destruction in the past ten years since 9/11.

George W. Bush created by Executive Order 13228 the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council just 11 days after the 9/11 attacks.

On October 26, 2001, Bush signed the horrible USA PATRIOT Act into “law.” This in my opinion is not only the lynchpin in the devastating assault on civil liberty, but the most liberty destructive piece of legislation ever passed into law in United States history.

In January of 2002, the Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established to bring together several government projects focused on applying surveillance to monitor “terrorist” and “other” threats to national security. This was to be done by achieving Total Information Awareness which entailed creating an enormous computer database to capture and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal emails, credit card records, social networks, phone records, medical records, and much more without any requirement for a search warrant. Although defunded by Congress in 2003, these projects continued to be funded, and continue to take place under different names.

The Department of Homeland Security was established on November 25, 2002. This monster has grown to become a massive bureaucracy that controls most every single aspect of our lives today.

The now groping and child molesting Transportation Security Agency (TSA) was moved from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security in March of 2003. This was the beginning of the end for all those U.S. citizens who want to have free movement in their own country. Now, one has to be baked in radiation, sexually assaulted, or both by the cretins at the TSA in order to travel.

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 was an act of Congress signed by Bush to authorize trial by military commission of so-called violators of war and for “other purposes.” One can only imagine all the “other purposes.” This legislation basically stripped all rights from any individual captured or targeted by the U.S. government, so they could be held indefinitely and without proper charge or trial. This suspension of rights virtually eliminates any semblance of freedom or justice. This Act was amended in 2009, but as amended, still falls far short of providing any real due process as required by the constitution. While there is argument as to whether this Act affects the rights of habeas corpus, only an agent of the state could believe otherwise. Habeas corpus has been effectively rendered moot for any, including Americans, targeted by the government.

In October of 2008, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, a very “elite” combat squad, became the first active duty military unit to be dedicated and deployed for domestic use. This means the virtual elimination of the protections afforded us by the Posse Comitatus Act against federal military forces acting as domestic police. This is certainly an important step toward the implementation of Martial Law.

In January of 2010, President Obama signed Executive Order 13528, which established the Council of Governors. These governors are appointed directly by the president for the stated purpose of building a state/national police partnership. This fascist partnership was put into place to build a “legal” partnership between the federal government’s national military force and the domestic police agencies, so that they became one and the same. The scariest part about this is that this force would be fully controlled by the executive branch of government, making this a federally controlled domestic police force! I wrote about this here.

In 2010 Obama authorized the targeting of U.S. citizens for assassination, thus continuing another heinous Bush policy. Glenn Greenwald of Solon discusses this policy in detail in this article.

I have only touched the surface of course, as these things are only a few of the most obvious invasions of our liberty, but as you can see, these past ten years have brought an avalanche of liberty destroying policies and legislation to our doorstep. We are being bombarded continuously with more bad laws and more police state abuses. This behavior is increasing at an alarming rate, and the populace it seems is still mostly unresponsive to these intrusions by government.

Due to all these government actions, the stage has been set for Martial Law. But will it come, and if so, what events will trigger this state assault on us all? First, just consider where we are currently as a nation. Economically speaking, we are in dire straits. The national debt now stands at 14.3 trillion dollars. That doesn’t count all the hidden debt owed by the taxpayers that is sitting at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which is several trillion dollars more. Also not included are the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, and Prescription Drugs, which total over 113 trillion dollars. Current annual deficits are running above 1.5 trillion dollars with no end in sight. And the Fed continues to create money out of thin air, and the government keeps spending. This is a recipe for disaster.

Real unemployment as calculated by the well-respected John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics is 22%, which means that approximately 33,000,000 people are now out of work. The government is only reporting 8.8% by its fraudulent U-3 method, or 13,000,000. When this many people are out of work, a huge drain on the system is the result, and desperation takes hold.

The U.S. killing machine is now openly advancing aggressive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, and is covertly involved in military actions in several other countries. Besides murdering innocents abroad, the cost to run the military and to prosecute these immoral wars is over a trillion dollars a year.

Predator drones are being used to murder people in the Middle East on a regular basis, but they are also being used for domestic law enforcement. These computer game-like spying drones can be used for surveillance, and they can also be used for target killing. The fact that they are flying over our towns and cities is frightening.

Our money is being purposely destroyed every single day so that this corrupt government can monetize the massive debt it created. The Federal Reserve is a most willing accomplice in this scheme to bankrupt our society. If in fact our money continues to lose value at this pace, and massive or hyperinflation is the result, our wealth will simply disappear.

The state governments are in deep trouble as well, and they don’t have the power of the printing press to temporarily cover up their mistakes. State pensions are broke in some cases, and vastly underfunded for future obligations in most others. When the checks stop going out, frustration and anger will take over.

The TSA gropes, fondles, and intimidates those traveling daily. This is done to instill fear, and to habituate the sheep like populace into a herd mentality. It is meant to turn the citizens into serfs. The abusive and brutal behavior by state and local police, and other agents of the government, is increasing dramatically. It is increasing in numbers, but it is also increasing in severity. In 2007, Paul Craig Roberts wrote about this in his article titled America’s Police Brutality Pandemic, but since the time of that writing, this problem has increased exponentially, and is still worsening.

As I said earlier, the stage is set for a police state takeover of our streets. The government has in place all the legislation, tools, and gendarmes it needs to implement Martial Law. It has a militarized police system armed and ready to act. It has a domestic military force trained in urban warfare. It has holding centers ready to house those who don’t go along or who practice civil disobedience. The government has the capability to listen to every conversation, to track our location, to monitor all our computers and email, and can shut down our communication systems, including the Internet at will.

Given this capability, and all the problems evident in our country today, the implementation of Martial Law in my opinion is imminent! When large numbers of people in this country continue not to find work, when they don’t have enough to eat, when their money won’t buy the necessities of life, when they can’t afford to travel because of high fuel prices, and when they continue to lose their homes, they will become desperate. This desperation will result in civil unrest. That will be the government’s reasoning for declaring Martial Law. I don’t believe this will happen all at once nor do I think it will be immediately widespread. Like most government interventions, it will probably be incremental, beginning in the inner cities, and expanding to other areas as the ruling class sees fit.

We are living in dangerous times. We are facing a dangerous enemy. That enemy is the State. It is now all-powerful and armed to the teeth. Most of those armed government agents in the police forces and the military will act on orders without question. They will attempt to disarm the public, just as they did in New Orleans during Katrina. They will round up any who don’t obey government commands, and they will kill any who forcibly resist. These things are not far-fetched, but likely in the near future.

The time to act is now, not after this government aggression begins. By then, it may be too late. The signs are everywhere, so why do so many not see them? Why is this continuous buildup of the police state tolerated? Why are so many Americans blind to this reality? Has the “public” government run “education” system been that effective, or is the majority so dependent on government that their apathy consumes them?

Time is running out, and we are at great risk of losing what is left of our freedom at the hands of our own corrupt government. We are now in a fascist state, and if this government assault on our liberty is not stopped soon, expect Martial Law in this land of confusion!

Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Henry Stephens Randall [October 9, 1858]

Police state in your face - Friday, April 22, 2011

TSA TERRORIST VIPR Squads Roam Florida Train Stations

- Sqauds of TSA agents conducted random searches and patrols at a train station in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday in yet another example of the expansion of TSA Tyranny beyond the nation’s airports.

Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com
April 22, 2011

Squads of TSA agents conducted random searches and patrols at a train station in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday in yet another example of the expansion of TSA Tyranny beyond the nation’s airports. “Hoping to keep terrorists and others off-guard Transportation Security Administration conducted what it calls a random ‘Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Operation’ on Thursday morning at the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station.”, reports WPTV news. ........ As we have documented, VIPR teams are now occupying America in the name of “security,” having expanded from airports, to train stations, highways and street corners. The TSA was recently caught in yet another act of deception after claiming that passengers, including young children, who were subjected to an invasive pat down and bag search after getting off an Amtrak train in Savannah, Georgia did not have to enter the station, when in fact according to a firefighter on the scene, TSA agents swarmed the platform as soon as passengers stepped off the train and ordered them to cooperate. VIPR is quite obviously a 21st century Gestapo designed to indoctrinate Americans into accepting Soviet-style shake-downs, bag searches and groping of genitalia at checkpoints across the country – not just in airports. If people think they can avoid the TSA by staying away from airports, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening. TSA is clearly engaged in a total takeover of society and plans to have its agents searching, patting down, scanning and harassing Americans at all levels of society.

Big Sis Backs Six-Year-Old’s TSA Gropedown

- Homeland Security Head Janet Napolitano, otherwise known as ‘Big Sis’, has backed the TSA’s recent actions in conducting and enhanced pat-down on a six year old girl, while simultaneously suggesting that biometric ID cards could be introduced as a viable alternative.

Pushes biometric ID cards on the back of public outrage

Big Sis Backs Six Year Old’s TSA Gropedown 130411feature3

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 22, 2011

Homeland Security Head Janet Napolitano, otherwise known as ‘Big Sis’, has backed the TSA’s recent actions in conducting and enhanced pat-down on a six year old girl, while simultaneously suggesting that biometric ID cards could be introduced as a viable alternative.

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this week, Napolitano addressed the incident that occurred recently at New Orleans International airport, where that parents of Anna Drexel captured video of a TSA agent thoroughly frisking their daughter, including inside her pants.

“Nobody likes to see those kinds of things… even though it was done professionally according to the protocols,” Napolitano said.

“But, what TSA is doing is reexamining those protocols all the time. It’s all in relation to threat – what is the threat? And one of the things we do see is if you categorically remove a group from any type of screening, well those who seek to do us harm will then exploit that group. So you have to be very careful on how you do it”. she added.

So Big Sis is seriously suggesting that if toddlers and children are not treated as potential terror threats then they will become useful tools for terrorists. The TSA is groping children in order to protect them from terrorists.

Napolitano also suggested that grossly invasive and unpopular TSA procedures could eventually be scrapped if air travelers were willing to submit to biometric ID cards.

“So here’s a couple of things we’re working on,” she said. “Number one is expanding trust and traveler programs, programs where people will get biometric cards. They’ve already supplied information. We know they are safe to travel. We can move them through the system. That’s going to be expanded this year. That allows us to remove a number of people I think from the screening process.”

“What we need to do is, if I can say so, is kind of market them and make them equally available, so we’re working on that,” she added.

Watch the interview: As their is no threat other then from your government who are the terrorists....

Terrorists in government who like molesting children.Carrying a card containing a chip with information such as fingerprints, iris scans, and even DNA samples has long been thought of as something akin to a dystopian science fiction film. However, the notion of carrying such a card would undoubtedly be more appealing to air travelers if the alternative is being groped, ogled naked and fired with radiation from body scanning machines.

Police State and you the People are under attack by government terrorism - Thursday, April 21, 2011

Video: Homeland Security Black Helicopters In Drill Over Downtown Miami

Michael Edwards | Miami-Dade County seems to have become a staging ground in preparation of a militarized police state.

Infowars.com
April 21, 2011

Miami-Dade County seems to have become a staging ground in preparation of a militarized police state. The latest event was reported on by The Miami-Herald when a scene right out of the movie Conspiracy Theory led residents to start Tweeting about “pitch black” military helicopters dropping men onto buildings, including the Bank of America building, beginning around 9:15 p.m. as witnessed in the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6qwYKLg_NY&feature=player_embedded

Military drill, helicopters over downtown Miami cause a stir

Several large military-style helicopters conducting a training drill caused a stir in downtown Miami Tuesday night.

LAURA FIGUEROA
Miami Herald
April 20, 2011

Several large military-style helicopters conducting a training drill caused a stir in downtown Miami Tuesday night.

At around 9:15 p.m., at least three large choppers landed in a parking lot of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Biscayne Boulevard and 14th Street. The choppers, which resemble Black Hawks, then flew over Brickell area. SWAT team members were also seen taking part in the exercise.

Some who witnessed and heard the powerful choppers sent out Tweets fearing a real event was unfolding.

Miami Police at the scene said it’s all part of a planned Homeland Security exercise that will go on until 11 p.m..

Global Elite and the Government terrorism to keep you in your place - Thursday, April 21, 2011

DHS Launches New Alert System Designed to Terrorize Public - Kurt Nimmo & Alex Jones | The government wants the war against manufactured terror in your face 24-7.

Kurt Nimmo & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
April 21, 2011

In order to keep the phony war on manufactured terrorism in your face 24-7, the government has trashed its old and absurd color-coded system in favor of a new and more obnoxious system.

A more detailed explanation by bureaucrat Napolitano can be viewed here.

“The terrorist threat facing our country has evolved significantly over the past ten years,” said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, regardless of the fact that there has not been a staged terror attack since cave Muslims did or didn’t slam airliners into skyscrapers and presumably the most defended building on earth.

As part of the propaganda effort, Napolitano and the DHS claim attacks have been either disrupted or uncovered in the past few years, including a cartoonish attempt by a supposed al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen to detonate toner cartridges packed with explosives aboard U.S.-bound cargo planes.

Most of the “uncovered” terror plots were designed by the FBI and involved clueless and often mentally deficient patsies. As for the laughable toner terror plot, it turns out there were no UPS or DHL cargo flights from Yemen within a 48 hour period prior to the supposed terror attack. The government claimed CIA operative Anwar al-Awlaki was behind the bombings. Mr. al-Awlaki was at one time a preferred dinner guest at the Pentagon.

Moreover, a number of the supposed hijackers listed their addresses on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, and others received instruction at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama, and at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Of course, this puzzling information was long ago excised from the official 9/11 fairy tale and the Pentagon admission that Atta and crew were under its wing has been memory holed.

Fed goons harass Infowars.com journalists for the crime of photographing the private Federal Reserve.

According to officialdom, the color-coded alert system was dumped because it didn’t provide enough information on supposed threats. Under the new system, an “elevated” threat will include a “credible” threat of terrorism while an “imminent” threat would warn of a “credible, specific and impending threat,” according to DHS bureaucrats.

The new system, called the National Terrorism Advisory System, is necessary according to Napolitano because the old color-coded system did not communicate enough fear-based information. “What was the threat? What were you supposed to do? Where were you supposed to go to get up-to-date information?” In addition, the older system “had no natural way to be reduced if a threat dissipated or was removed,” she explained.

In addition to ferreting out exaggerated and fictional threats to the corporate media – threats easily ignored under the old system – the new system will feed them to Facebook and Twitter as well. Government engineered fear-mongering will soon invade social networks and become more personalized.

Instructing the cops how to profile citizens as terrorists.

Napolitano also announced a new DHS web page. According to the page, the National Terrorism Advisory System, or NTAS, “recognizes that Americans all share responsibility for the nation’s security, and should always be aware of the heightened risk of terrorist attack in the United States and what they should do.”

In other words, according to the government, it is your responsibility to be in a heightened state of anxiety and fear over non-existent terrorists who hate us for our freedom and are at this very moment preparing to strike under the tutelage of the FBI and its legion of informers and agents provocateurs.

The DHS began researching more effective ways to induce irrational fear back in 2003. Steve Cooper, chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department, said during a keynote address at the Federal Office Systems Exhibition that the government was exploring how to exploit wireless technology and disseminate fear-based propaganda. “Our goal is to make it work all the time,” he said. “We want to be faster, better, cheaper.”

A 2003 beta test in Virginia included sending local residents “free subscriptions to emergency alerts, which are delivered to personal digital assistants or mobile phones,” wrote Elsa Wenzel of PCWorld. The technology was designed to tailor messages to specific zip codes, alerting residents to supposed dangers – white al-Qaeda lurking about with cameras, for instance (see the above cop training video) – in their own neighborhoods.

The new DHS system reveals a larger plan by the government to install a sprawling fear-based electronic matrix that sends text messages over our wireless devices and posts terror warnings using the full range of social media, including microblogging services, Facebook and Twitter instant messages.

In the not too distant future, we can expect endlessly issued and fatuous terror alerts to be accompanied by increased presence of goons in full black-clad regalia of the militarized police state at public buildings and the local mall as the control grid expands from the nation’s airports and travel infrastructure to local neighborhoods. Intrusive pat-downs and mobile naked body scanners at the mall are on the agenda in the months ahead.

The goal of endless harebrained terror alerts is to get us acclimated to the presence of cops and a network of tattletales, snoops and informers serving the larger Stasi-state America has become.

FREEDOM What the governments and the New World Order called IT! - Wednesday, April 20, 2011

FREEDOM What the governments and the New World Order called IT!

Obviously this is satire, but it illustrates the craziness of the world we are now living in and they tyranny we are being forced to submit to.

Corporate and schools to implement a new “Employee Meal Plan” for the new World Order...

Police State in your face! - Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Cops Use Mobile Scanner To Steal Cellphone Data From Innocent Americans - Paul Joseph Watson | Michigan state police slap ACLU with half a million dollar demand for information relating to 4th amendment-busting program.If there was a scintilla of doubt as to whether Americans are living in a predatory police state, then this story completely eviscerates it. Michigan state police have been using a handheld mobile forensics device to steal information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations.

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 20, 2011
If there was a scintilla of doubt as to whether Americans are living in a predatory police state, then this story completely eviscerates it. Michigan state police have been using a handheld mobile forensics device to steal information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations.

The high-tech device works with 3000 different phone models and can bypass passwords to process “Complete extraction of existing, hidden, and deleted phone data, including call history, text messages, contacts, images, and geotags,” according to CelleBrite, the company behind the device. “The Physical Analyzer allows visualization of both existing and deleted locations on Google Earth. In addition, location information from GPS devices and image geotags can be mapped on Google Maps.”
“A US Department of Justice test of the CelleBrite UFED used by Michigan police found the device could grab all of the photos and video off of an iPhone within one-and-a-half minutes,” reports TheNewspaper.com.
Michigan state police have been using the device to conduct 4th amendment-violating searches of motorists’ phones who have not even been suspected of any crime.
To add insult to injury, when the ACLU attempted to file a freedom of information act request to discover how police were using the devices, they were slapped with a demand for $544,680 from the Michigan state police.
The fact that Americans are now considered guilty until proven innocent and treated like terrorists by cops who have been trained that their role is no longer to “serve and protect” but to harass and abuse is fast becoming a glib concept.
The question really boils down to whether anyone actually cares. Most Americans couldn’t live without their smart phone and now give it more attention than their own children. We are being enslaved through our own overdependence on gadgets and technology.
As the ACLU points out, use of the devices is completely illegal as it clearly violates the 4th amendment.
“With certain exceptions that do not apply here, a search cannot occur without a warrant in which a judicial officer determines that there is probable cause to believe that the search will yield evidence of criminal activity,” ACLU staff attorney Mark P. Fancher wrote. “A device that allows immediate, surreptitious intrusion into private data creates enormous risks that troopers will ignore these requirements to the detriment of the constitutional rights of persons whose cell phones are searched.”
With the ACLU currently embroiled in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to stop its warrantless searches of laptops belonging to anyone who enters the United States, another legal fight in the case of the mobile cellphone scanner device is also on the cards.

POLICE BRUTALITY – Man Beaten & Arrested For Having An Unzipped Jacket - Surveillance video shows a Passaic, New Jersey, police officer beating a 49-year-old man standing idly on a street corner.

CNN
April 20, 2011

Surveillance video shows a Passaic, New Jersey, police officer beating a 49-year-old man standing idly on a street corner.

The War On Freedom is an act of Terrorism on law abiding citizen's - Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mother “Considering All Options” After TSA Groped Six Year-Old-Daughter - Steve Watson | Parents say they have not ruled out legal challenge to “dangerous” TSA policies. The mother of a six-year-old girl who was subject to an intensive pat down at the hands of the TSA recently says she is considering all options in how to respond to the incident, including a possible lawsuit.

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
April 19, 2011
The mother of a six-year-old girl who was subject to an intensive pat down at the hands of the TSA recently says she is considering all options in how to respond to the incident, including a possible lawsuit.
“The message that we are trying to get out is that this has to stop, preferably for everybody with the groping, but especially for children.” Selena Drexel told The Alex Jones Show this week.
“I want to believe that the TSA, in theory, would be well intentioned to try to keep passengers safe during the course of a two to three hour flight, but I’m interested in keeping children safe when they’re on the ground too.” Mrs Drexel added.
The case hit headlines last week when the Drexels uploaded to YouTube a video of the TSA conducting an “enhanced” pat down on their young daughter Anna at New Orleans International Airport.
The video, which captured the agent frisking the girl up and down and even inside her pants, quickly went viral.

Selena Drexel and her husband, Todd, a qualified gynecologist, then appeared on ABC News and revealed that they had felt threatened by TSA agents and supervisors who made it clear that there would be trouble should the parents object to the enhanced screening procedures.
In her interview with Alex Jones, Mrs Drexel expanded on these comments.
“It was pretty hard to keep my cool, but the supervisor you don’t see on the camera was reasonably intimidating to me and let me know that there would be a big deal if I made a fuss.” she said.
“The TSA supervisor was sitting behind a desk and overseeing this and I recognized that he was the one in charge and protested to him off camera both before and after the video was rolling. He physically got into my personal space… and let me know ‘just don’t’” Mrs Drexel explained.
Mrs Drexel’s comments are interesting in light of a related story that the TSA has suggested it will now consider any form of “contempt against airport passenger procedures” as cause to categorize those involved as “high risk”.
Mrs Drexel also expressed deep concern over the TSA procedures as far as children are concerned.
“The methods that they have in place right now are setting kids up to be vulnerable to child predators who would take advantage of a child who has been conditioned to ignore that feeling of wrongness.” she said. “That uneasy feeling you get when someone is touching you in an inappropriate manner.”
Mrs Drexel is not alone with such concerns. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention and expert in the fight against child sexual abuse, recently told Raw Story that the TSA’s policies are desensitizing children to inappropriate touch. In some instances TSA agents have even suggested to kids that the pat-down is a “game”
Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is “one of the most common ways” that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden said. Children “don’t have the sophistication” to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he added.
As we also documented last week, the TSA outright lied late last year when it suggested that it had modified the pat-down procedure for children under 12, when in fact the same invasive search of private areas of the body are evidently still being employed to this day.
Selena Drexel revealed that she and her husband are still deliberating over what action to take in response to the incident.
“I’m investigating what our options are, in terms of making the TSA accountable to their own published standards. I’m currently investigating options right now, I’ve not ruled anything out.” she said.
“I don’t remember signing anything when I bought my ticket saying I was giving up my constitutional rights, and certainly not those of my children, so I’m not sure how this is allowed.” she added.
Mrs Drexel also emphasized that it is important to become informed about what the TSA is doing, admitting that before the incident she had little knowledge of just how invasive the agencies methods had become until she was directly confronted by them.
Watch the full interview below:
Selena Drexel, Mother of Groped 6 yr old Girl: TSA Sexual Abuse Must STOP!
PART 1

Selena Drexel, Mother of Groped 6 yr old Girl: TSA Sexual Abuse Must STOP!
PART 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_q5V7VlRBWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EVRj2PUes&feature=related

‘Bunny Lady’ Accosted By TSA - AOL News | In time for Easter comes a woman in a bunny costume who had a hassle with the TSA over a basket of confetti-filled eggs.

COMMENT: Just in case you didn’t already think TSA was enough of a joke… now it’s helping catch children’s mascots.

Fran Golden
AOL News
Posted April 18, 2011

Just in time for Easter comes the story of a Kansas clown who dresses up as a bunny and had a hassle with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) over a basket of colorful, confetti-filled eggs.

Valerie Baul, 35, of Roeland Park, Ks., is usually in the business of making people smile as the singing and juggling “Bunny Lady,” a role for which she dons a fuzzy pink and green costume with ears.

But she wasn’t singing after an encounter with a TSA agent at Philadelphia International Airport, reports Fox 4 Kansas City.

Baul faces charges of harassment after a TSA agent inquired about the basket of eggs, which Baul says had just passed through an airport security X-ray machine.

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Kettling of G20 protesters by police was illegal, high court rules - Thursday, April 14, 2011

The high court has ruled that the Metropolitan police broke the law in the way they “kettled” protesters at the G20 demonstrations in 2009.

Vikram Dodd,
London Guardian
April 14, 2011

The high court has ruled that the Metropolitan police broke the law in the way they “kettled” protesters at the G20 demonstrations in 2009.

In a landmark judgment on Thursday, high court judges found for protesters who had claimed police treated them unfairly. It also criticised the use of force by officers.

In the case, the high court heard that officers used punches to the face, slaps and shields against demonstrators who police chiefs accept had nothing to do with violence. The judgment does not strike down the police tactic of kettling or mass detention, but it will be seen as a rebuff to the Met.

The judgment places limits on the use of kettling. It says: “The police may only take such preventive action as a last resort catering for situations about to descend into violence.”

Full article here

Coast to Coast- Government Secrecy - Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Coast to Coast- Government Secrecy
Alex Jones
April 12, 2011

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYQEiX0ymWk&feature=player_embedded#at=141

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bsjSMspVc&feature=player_embedded

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLxE8wCXCTU&feature=player_embedded

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61u8MP2j3rs&feature=player_embedded

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uerf_rTv47Y&feature=player_embedded

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUNAci1xhE&feature=player_embedded

Supreme Court rules prosecutors can lie and fabricate evidence - Monday, April 11, 2011

COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be held accountable for knowingly or intentionally sending an innocent man to prison and even death row.

Washington Post
Posted April 10, 2011

WASHINGTON – An ideologically divided Supreme Court on Tuesday stripped a $14 million award from a wrongfully convicted man who had spent 14 years on death row and successfully sued New Orleans prosecutors for misconduct.

[...]

[A dissenting Ginsburg] said the actions of prosecutors under the control of Connick, who left office in 2003 and is the father of the famous singer of the same name, “dishonored” the obligation to turn over evidence favorable to the accused established in Brady v. Maryland, nearly 50 years ago.

[...]

There is no dispute that one of Connick’s prosecutors did not turn over a blood test that would have shown Thompson innocent of one of the charges against him. But Thomas said that a single incident is not enough to prove liability for the district attorney’s office and that Thompson did not show a pattern of similar violations.

[...]

Thompson was convicted of armed robbery in 1985, before he stood trial for the murder of Raymond Liuzza, the son of a prominent New Orleans hotel owner. Prosecutors used the armed robbery conviction as a way to coerce Thompson not to take the stand in his own defense, and, after conviction, to secure the death penalty. A pair of lawyers at a large Philadelphia law firm took up his case to spare him death; at one point, Thompson came within weeks of execution.

But in 1999, an investigator discovered that a blood test conducted in the armed robbery case showed that Thompson was not the perpetrator. Prosecutors acknowledged that it was withheld from Thompson’s attorneys.

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High court says exonerated inmate cannot sue prosecutors

Bill Mears
CNN
April 10, 2011

Washington (CNN) — A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled against a former death row inmate who sought damages from the state after prosecutors hid crucial blood tests that would have earlier proven his innocence. The 5-4 decision Tuesday involved John Thompson, who came within weeks of execution and had spent 18 years behind bars before being set free after the new forensic evidence came to light.

At issue was whether a district attorney’s office should be held liable, under a “failure to train” standard, when one of its prosecutors unconstitutionally withholds exculpatory evidence from a criminal defendant.

Then-New Orleans area District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. claimed his office should not be held fully responsible after one of his staff attorneys violated long-standing, accepted procedures on handling evidence in criminal trials.

Thompson’s lawyers said the DA’s office as a whole should be held liable for the poor training of prosecutors working under Connick.

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ROGUE PROSECUTORS GET LICENSE TO LIE AND CHEAT

Connick v. Thompson: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Prosecutors to Hide Evidence Favorable to the Accused without Consequence

Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
JohnTFloyd.com
Posted April 10, 2011

[...]

What the Supreme Court Held

Essentially, the Court ruled that a district attorney’s office cannot held liable under § 1983 for a failure to train its prosecutors based on a single Brady violation (prosecutorial misconduct). The Court adhered by a standard it set in 1977 in Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Services which requires an individual suing a local government municipality prove that his/her injury was caused by an action taken pursuant to an “official municipality policy” and requires a showing that decisions by the government’s lawmakers (such as a city council or a district attorney’s office), as well as acts by its “policymaking officials,” are wrongful practices so “persistent and widespread as to practically have the force of law.”

[...]

Thompson did not try to prove a pattern of similar Brady violations by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, although he did point to four reversals of convictions for Brady violations by the Louisiana courts emanating out of Connick’s office during the ten years prior to his trial. The Supreme Court casually dismissed these four reversals, saying they were dissimilar to Thompson’s situation and, therefore, could not have put Connick on notice that there was a need for Brady training among his assistants.

We’re not making this stuff up. That’s what Justice Clarence Thomas said, and he was joined by Justices Roberts, Scalia, Alito, and Kennedy. But let’s look at the facts. Thompson was put to trial in 1985. During the 23-year period from the pronouncement of the Brady rule in 1963 by the Supreme Court and Thompson’s trial, Brady was cited, followed or distinguished in 40 cases decided by the high court, in 222 cases by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and in 179 cases by the Louisiana Supreme Court and the state’s courts of appeals. That’s a total 441 cases in which Brady was explained, discussed, or just mentioned by those various federal and state courts before Thompson was put to trial.

Just how much notice did District Attorney Harry Connick need that his assistants needed “training” in this area of law; namely, that district attorneys could not lie and cheat by fabricating evidence, concealing favorable evidence from the defense, and encouraging or at the least sanctioning perjured testimony in order to secure criminal convictions. This was evidenced by a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court in Kyles v. Whitley, a precedent ruling in an Orleans Parish capital murder conviction that sent Curtis Lee Kyles to Louisiana’s death row where he joined Thompson. Kyles, like Thompson, was innocent and the New Orleans police built its case around him through a well-known informant. Prior to Kyles trial, his defense attorney filed a Brady motion seeking discovery of all exculpatory evidence, and despite having in its possession at least 7 pieces of critical evidence that tended to exonerate Kyles, one of Connick’s assistants told a bald faced lie to the court, saying we have “no exculpatory evidence of any nature.”

Even though the Kyles decision was handed down 10 years after Thompson was convicted, it was at the very least prima facie evidence that deliberate, methodical, and unethical Brady violations had been a fixture in Harry Connick’s office since his election as Orleans Parish District Attorney in 1973. The repeated reversals of criminal convictions over a 20-year period for Brady violations—ten years before and 10 years after Thompson’s conviction—was more than ample evidence that Connick was not only aware of this pattern of systemic prosecutorial misconduct in his office but that he ignored, condoned, or perhaps even encouraged, the “convict at any costs” mentality associated with Brady violation convictions. What does seem obvious is that there was no serious training, or strict policies in place, demanding that that Brady be followed or that exculpatory evidence be turned over to the defense.

[...]

Our Conclusions

We endorse everything Justice Ginsburg said about the John Thompson travesty. We believe Justice Thomas, and his conservative brethren, have given rogue prosecutors a virtual free pass to lie and cheat, even when they knowingly send innocent people to prison. These five justices have given constitutional blessing to the deplorable, shameful, and ever-increasing taint of prosecutorial misconduct in our legal system, and that is a judicial disgrace. The law, and its constitutional foundation, can be twisted and manipulated to achieve any objective, too often political ones. And that is precisely what we believe occurred in the Thompson case—a decision by pro-prosecution justices designed to cover and insulate prosecutorial misconduct.

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Kansas City police dog takes a bite out of woman’s head and butt but not crime - Friday, April 08, 2011

Rogue human police officers aren’t the only authorities we have to fear. Sometimes it’s a rogue canine cop, such as Eros.

Justin Kendall,
The Pitch Blog
April 8, 2011

Rogue human police officers aren’t the only authorities we have to fear. Sometimes it’s a rogue canine cop, such as Eros.

The 3-year-old Belgian Malinois and his handler were searching for a gun at 43rd and Chelsea that a robbery suspect may have dropped; they’d already found a magazine, the Star reported. But when Eros spotted a woman in front of the house, the dog ripped the leash from his handler’s hand and unleashed some doggie police brutality.

The 56-year-old woman, who is afraid of dogs, tried to run into her house. She didn’t make it. Eros bit the woman’s head and butt and broke her glasses. Eros’ handler had to pull the dog off the woman. The woman’s head had to be stapled shut and she had “several puncture wounds on her buttocks.”

VIDEO REPORT HERE

“It’s a sad thing,” Capt. Randy Jacobs told the newspaper. “We hate that this happened.”

Police are investigating the incident, and if Law & Order: SVU has taught me anything, situations like this won’t stand with Internal Affairs. The cops are already admitting fault. Jacobs told the Star: “The officer didn’t have hold of him (Eros) good enough.”

The cops are wondering if they need to change their procedures, like letting residents know if they’re searching around their homes with dogs. Still, I get the feeling that there are more than a few personal-injury lawyers lining up to represent this woman.

Man Arrested for Barking at Police Dog - Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Daily Mail | A barking drunk man has been arrested for the bizarre offence of barking at a police dog. Talk about Police wasting the courts time...Woof!

A man has been arrested for the bizarre offence of barking at a police dog. Ryan James Stephens has been charged with teasing ‘Timber’ the dog by barking and hissing at the K9 animal inside a police patrol car in Mason, Ohio.

The 25-year-old appeared to be very drunk and claimed ‘the dog started it’ when asked why he was harassing the animal, police said.

Texas Cops Ticket Thousands of Schoolchildren to Raise Revenue, Some as Young as 6-Yrs-Old - Saturday, April 02, 2011

Information Liberation | TX cops have been writing thousands of tickets to schoolchildren for $250-$500 for “misbehaving in school.”

Chris
Information Liberation
April 1, 2011

Flashback: The Government Would Rather You Die If It Nets More Revenue

This is how low your government will go. Cops in Texas have been writing thousands of tickets to schoolchildren for $250-$500 each for the “crime” of “misbehaving in school” so the government can raise revenue. This has been going on now for over five years.

The Texas Tribune reports:

With the rise of get-tough juvenile crime policies across Texas, the municipal courthouse has become the new principal’s office for thousands of students who get in fights, curse their teachers or are generally “disorderly” on school campuses — even in elementary schools, according to data collected from school systems by Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit research and advocacy group focusing on social and economic justice.
Dallas ISD’s police department, for instance, issued criminal citations to 92 10-year-olds in the 2006-07 school year, the latest year for which such data is available. Alief ISD’s officers issued 163 tickets to elementary school students in 2007. And “several districts ticketed a 6-year-old at least once in the last five years,” according to a recent presentation to the state Senate’s Criminal Justice Committee by Texas Appleseed. Such tickets, often given for “disorderly conduct” or “classroom disruption,” typically are handled in municipal courts or by county justices of the peace and can have fines of between $250 to $500, police and court officials say, though some courts route many students into community service in lieu of fines. [...]
Last school year, police in Houston ISD, with an enrollment of about 200,000, wrote 5,763 tickets to students, its department reported to the Tribune. The number of tickets in Houston has ranged between 4,000 and 6,000 since 2005, according to district data. Dallas ISD, with about 150,000 students, wrote nearly about 4,400 tickets in 2006-07, according to data the district reported to Texas Appleseed. (Dallas ISD officials said they could not immediately provide more updated data.) Officers in Austin ISD, with enrollment of more than 80,000, wrote 2,364 tickets in the 2007-08 school year, according to the organization’s data, a decline from a peak of more than 3,000 in 2005-06.
This is your pathetic parasite government at work.

RCMP loves kicking down doors even when you are Licenced - Thursday, March 31, 2011

B.C. grandma's licensed grow-op busted by RCMP

CBC

A 62-year-old woman from the Castlegar, B.C., area says RCMP raided and damaged her property and hauled her to jail even though she has a licence to grow marijuana.

Velma Mullaney said that despite a Health Canada permit that allows her to grow 98 plants, police showed up at her rural home last month, kicked in the doors, cut off her electricity and confiscated her marijuana.

The officer in charge refused to look at her permit or count the plants, the grandmother said.

"He kept saying, 'You are way over in plants,'" Mullaney said. "I said, 'Get those guys to go in and count them and you'll see everything is legal.' And he kept saying, 'You are way over and you are going to jail.'"

Mullaney was taken to jail and later released. No charges have been laid.

Her lawyer, Don Skogstad, said he doubts charges will be forthcoming.

"It is one thing to believe you have grounds for illegal activity," Skogstad said. "But once you get there and you can see how many [plants] there are and know about the licences, why don't you just leave?"

He said Mullaney may sue the RCMP for damages and file an official complaint.

Police would not comment on the case.

Civil Servant Napolitano: Warns Police Chiefs About Evolving Terrorism and Domestic Extremism - Friday, March 25, 2011

America faces a “constantly changing” terrorism threat that includes expanding partnerships among al Qaeda-inspired terrorist groups, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano who's use of fear mongering to keep the war on freedom going is a prime example of government terrorism being used on it citizen's.

Edwin Mora
CNS News
March 25, 2011

America faces a “constantly changing” terrorism threat that includes expanding partnerships among al Qaeda-inspired terrorist groups, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

“More and more, we are seeing a homegrown extremism being an issue,” she said.

“The terrorist threat to our nation is as busy as it has been since anytime prior 911. The difference is that instead of one al Qaeda group, we now have many al Qaeda groups or al Qaeda-inspired groups, including for example AQAP [al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula], which has been centered in Yemen, which has been one the busiest ones in terms of attempts on the United States since I have been secretary.”

Big Sis Urges Citizen Spying at NCAA Tournament - Wednesday, March 23, 2011

NCAA.org | A public safety committee for the Men’s Final Four included representatives from local emergency management agencies.

Marta Lawrence
NCAA.org
March 23, 2011

Fans attending this year’s March Madness games will be greeted by a video of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and NCAA President Mark Emmert encouraging them to “say something” if they see suspicious activities.

The video, which will also appear at most other winter championship events, is part of a national campaign sponsored by Homeland Security to raise citizen awareness in high-profile environments such as major events and public transit.

Security at the games has always been a priority for the NCAA, but the rapid growth of the Final Four in recent years has prompted the Association to assess security practices even more closely and to scale procedures to fit the constantly evolving environment.

“We’re building on a base that was very, very stable,” said NCAA security expert Khalil Johnson of Common Sense Consultants.

Johnson and his team have worked closely with Houston’s local organizing committee and the Division I men’s basketball staff planning the logistics for the games, which include transportation, crowd control, operations and venue security. Integrating safety and security into all aspects of the event means a better fan experience and a more secure experience overall, Johnson said.

“We believe we’re creating best practices that can act as a model for future events,” says NCAA Interim Executive Vice President for Championships and Alliances Greg Shaheen. “The lessons learned from Houston will help inform planning for the 2012 games at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.”

A public safety committee for the Men’s Final Four included representatives from local emergency management agencies; the local organizing committee; and city, county and federal law enforcement. The committee’s work culminated in several recent exercises led by the FBI that addressed various scenarios from the lights going out to a multiple-causality incident.

“We make sure that the experts who do it and do it every day are involved in the planning of the Final Four,” Johnson said.

Team security was another major issue. “We will do some things this year to make sure we have a full awareness of where our student-athletes are, where their coaches are, how they’re doing, what they’re doing, everywhere they are from the time they hit Houston to the time they leave,” Johnson said.

A full site inspection and security assessment has been done on each potential team hotel. The NCAA has worked closely with those hotels to ensure they meet all safety and security expectations. Teams will also be accompanied by security professionals as they attend Final Four events.

When fans arrive at Reliant Park, they will be funneled through an expanded perimeter, increasing the distance between the entry point and the facility. Although Johnson would not comment on specific security screening practices, he said they will be similar to those used for NFL games.

In addition to retaining security professionals, the NCAA has hired crowd-management experts to make sure traffic in and around the stadium is effective and efficient. Those experts have worked closely with the staff at Reliant Park, which is accustomed to large events.

Reliant Park is not located near hotel complexes that allow fans to walk to and from the venue. To aid traffic flow, a tip-off party is planned in the parking lot before the games.

“We’re excited by the opportunity to host a tip-off party for our fans and believe it will help set the tone for the games while reducing traffic congestion on the roads leading to Reliant Park,” Shaheen said.

The planning committee has worked closely with the public works offices, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, to address traffic flow in and around the facility. A traffic plan has been integrated into the overall security plan to “allow us to better manage the entire site,” Johnson said.

Communication among the various groups involved will be key, Johnson said. In addition to constant communication among the various stakeholders, there will be daily briefings for all staff working inside the building.

“The level of information about what’s going on in and around Reliant Park will be staggering,” Johnson said.

In the end, said Johnson, “most of the things that relate to the fan’s experience from a safety standpoint, they won’t really be aware of.”

And that’s the way he wants it.

Police brutality against Col. Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg at Free Bradley Manning Protest - Wednesday, March 23, 2011

You Tube | Police brutality at Free Bradley Manning protest as Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg become victims of targeted assault.

New York man faces five years in jail for ‘linking’ to online videos - Friday, March 11, 2011

You may want to think twice the next time you share a link to your favorite video.

David Edwards
Raw Story
March 11, 2011

You may want to think twice the next time you share a link to your favorite video.

In a case against a New York website owner, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is claiming that merely linking to copyrighted material is a crime.

DHS, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seized Brian McCarthy’s domain, channelsurfing.net, in late January. The site has now been replaced with a government warning: “This domain has been seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations, Special Agent in Charge, New York Office.”

“It is unlawful to reproduce copyrighted material, such as movies, music, software or games, without authorization… First-time offenders convicted of a criminal felony copyright law will face up to five years in federal prison, restitution, forfeiture and fine.”

The advocacy group Demand Progress has claimed that McCarthy never reproduced copyrighted material, and that his website simply linked to other sites.

Homegrown terrorism: the threat of Homeland Security and spy agencies - Friday, March 11, 2011

The PPJ Gazette | Homeland Security represents a clear and present danger.

March 11, 2011

“Anyone who slaps on a government badge and accepts a paycheck with full knowledge that their job will involve violating your rights and the Constitution of the people of the United States, should be considered a domestic terrorist. Any agency who is unlawfully and actively spying on, data mining, intimidating or violating your Constitutional rights should be considered a radical extremist group and domestic terrorists.”

We should have stormed the streets when TSA was set loose in our airports to assault travelers, but we didn’t. Instead, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of us mewled that TSA was “only trying to keep us safe”. These assaults have nothing to do with our safety; we are being systematically trained to comply, to submit. Now, because so many of us did comply, TSA is setting up shop in our train stations and courthouses among other public places and is expanding their assaults on US citizens. The government has now openly declared war on its own citizens. Think I’m wrong?

While the globalists at the federal level pretend to be in conflict about spending and the uber scary national debt and deficit spending, the global elite that control the government had no problem borrowing millions upon million of dollars to purchase 500 roving surveillance vans. The Z Backscatter vans range in cost from $729,000 to $825,000 that will invade your person, x-ray you, facially imprint you and scan and record your iris. You can be walking down a street, attending a sports event, or just sitting in a park or your own home and you can be scanned. Have you figured out who the government is hunting yet? Who they are after? I would advise not leaving your home without very dark and large sunglasses and a big hat to pull down over your face.

Arrest Of Website Operator Renews Debate Over Constitutionality of Government Domain Seizures - Friday, March 11, 2011

David Makarewicz | Any Government seizure of private property raises Constitutional questions.

Newly Obtained Homeland Security Documents Reveal Radical Shift In Internet Policy - Thursday, March 10, 2011

David Segal | Arrest represents yet another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE.

The Huffington Post
March 9, 2011

Until a few weeks ago, Brian McCarthy ran a website, channelsurfing.net, that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized his domain name in late January. All you’ll find there now is a “This domain has been seized” warning, complete with a screeching eagle dive-bombing your face as he clutches a banner that reads “Protection is our trademark.” Then, in an unprecedented move, on Friday they arrested McCarthy and charged him with criminal copyright infringement — punishable by five years in prison.

Demand Progress just obtained a copy of the complaint that DHS and ICE made against him: they do not even allege that he made a copy of anything. Just that he ran what they call a “linking website” which linked to various sites with infringing material.

Two Fresh TSA Gropedown Videos: Pregnant Woman pulled aside, TSA Thugs Block Man From Filming Wife - Thursday, March 10, 2011

Two new videos taken by concerned Americans accosted by the thugs and terrorist TSA in airports. The first shows a pregnant woman being groped by an officer. The second shows TSA agents blocking a man from recording TSA agents touching his wife, even after a supervisor had overruled them and said the man had the right to film.

Youtube
March 10, 2011

TSA Pat-down of pregnant wife

There you have it! We were on our way to the SHOT Show and had to face this.

Coming back the Las Vegas airport didn’t even touch my wife. She went through the same metal detecting machines too not the full-body scanner thing.

Go figure.

Atlanta TSA threats of arrest and detainment over videotaping body scanner opt out pat down

This is half of the video I shot of the TSA experience we had in the Atlanta airport on March 2nd 2011. Before the video started I was threatened with arrest over using a video camera after my wife refused a TSA naked body scanner. They surrounded me like gang members and told us they would hold us there all day and make sure we missed our flight. I will be trying to obtain by any means the whole video from surveilance of that day.

Another Amtrak Train Incident! We have entered a Police State - Thursday, March 10, 2011

It seems more and more information is coming out about riding Amtrak Trains and what happens when you do.

Sherrie Questioning All
March 10, 2011

I am just amazed constantly how our Civil Rights have disappeared along with our Constitutional Rights in the U.S.!

It seems more and more information is coming out about riding Amtrak Trains and what happens when you do. Amtrak allows a complete Police State type events. In fact I have images that come to mind of what happened during the 1930s and 40s in Europe and the Nazi tactics used. We are going the same exact way now.

Last week information came out about TSA searching and groping people after they got off a train in Savannah Georgia and the first hand story about it is here.

Now an Amtrak passenger (Greg Travis) has related what happened to him when riding a train through Nebraska this week.

There is video in the link about it. The police are denying what questions were asked and how long it took for questioning.

From the article:

A Chicago-bound businessman traveling in an Amtrak sleeping car didn’t expect to wake up in Omaha. That’s where plain clothes Nebraska State Patrol Investigators boarded and knocked on the doors of four first-class passengers.

Greg Travis of Bloomington, Indiana said, “It was a loud knock followed by questions. ‘Where are you going! Who did you visit!’ They shined a flashlight and I was in my pajamas.”
Travis said investigators didn’t tell him why they knocked on his door. In a railroad traveler blog he alleged the questioning took an hour. However Lt. Kracl said that’s not correct. Investigators talked to the four passengers for about seven minutes each he said. Amtrak stopped in Omaha for less than a half hour and left on schedule.

Greg Travis who it happened to posted on a board about it with a little more information.

What he posted:

I’ve just spent the last hour being interrogated by the Nebraska State Police who boarded our train, the California Zephyr, at 4AM. I am in a sleeper (Car 0632, room 14) and awoke to a non-uniformed individual banging on my door, again at 4AM.

I was interrogated as to where I had boarded, where I was going, what I was doing, and had my room and my luggage searched as was the experience of all the other sleeping car occupants in my car. When we asked for identification from the officers (who were not uniformed) we were told a) They had jurisdiction and b) they would HAND WRITE individual cards.

My card reads “Richard A. Lutter”, Investigator, Investigative Services Division, Nebraska State Patrol. Badge # 253.

When my fellow sleeping car riders asked why they were on the train, they said “To Search For Contraband” and that was the excuse they used to rummage through our rooms and our luggage. The train’s conductor was also present and for reasons I do not understand did not throw them off the train.

This is not America.

Government Claims Unlimited Discretion to Look Through Your Laptop at the Border - Thursday, March 10, 2011

Government Terrorism under the cause they call the new freedom for surcurity, it all a big lie...The Moment the government decided to treat it citizen’s as terrorists, they the government became the real terrorists. Last May, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents searched and took Pascal Abidor’s laptop and external hard drive when he was returning home to New York City from Montreal, Canada, where he attends graduate school.

ACLU
March 10, 2011

Last May, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents searched and took Pascal Abidor’s laptop and external hard drive when he was returning home to New York City from Montreal, Canada, where he attends graduate school. When his laptop and hard drive were returned to him 11 days later, Abidor discovered agents had opened numerous files, including personal photographs, a transcript of a chat with his girlfriend, copies of email correspondence, class notes, journal articles, tax returns, his graduate school transcript, and his resume.

This past fall, we, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NACDL) filed a suit on behalf of Abidor, the NACDL, and the National Press Photographers Association, challenging the government’s policy of searching and keeping laptops, cell phones, and other electronic devices at the border in the absence of any suspicion of wrongdoing. Today, we filed a brief asking the court to reject the government’s attempt to dismiss our suit.

As Abidor’s situation makes all too clear, in today’s world, the search of a computer or phone is akin to — if not more invasive than — the search of a home or office. But while the government ordinarily needs probable cause and a warrant issued by a judge to search a home or office, it claims the authority to look through your laptop or phone simply because you choose to cross the international border with them, and to keep them after you leave so it can continue searching them.

According to the government, a computer or phone should be treated just like any other baggage one chooses to bring across the border, subject to search without any specific justification. The government’s policies on these searches set no limitations on what the government may search or how long it may keep your devices.

5 Ways DHS Violates the Constitution with Website Domain Seizures - Thursday, March 10, 2011

Last week, Bryan McCarthy, the 32 year old operator of ChannelSurfing.net, was arrested on charges of criminal copyright infringement.

Why do America’s police need an armored tank? - Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Jalopnik | America’s most in-demand police vehicle is a ten-officer 16,000-pound armored tank.

Justin Hyde
Jalopnik
March , 2011

America’s most in-demand police vehicle is a ten-officer 16,000-pound armored tank that takes bullets like Superman and drives 80 mph. The federal government buys dozens each year for local police departments. Do America’s local police need tanks?

Every day, America produces a fresh batch of barricaded gunmen, some of whom want to lure police into a shootout. Roughly 50 police officers are killed every year, most in shootings, and many during arrests or ambushes.

Which is where the Lenco BearCat G3 rolls in.

“If somebody looks out and sees a Ford Crown Victoria sitting out there, they may not take you very seriously,” Warren County, Va., Sheriff Daniel T. McEathron told a local newspaper in October, “but if they look out the window and see this thing sitting there, they’re going to know you’re serious.”

No Crime, but an Arrest and Two Strip-Searches - Tuesday, March 08, 2011

NY Times | The more recent trend, from appeals courts in Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia, is to allow searches no matter how minor the charge

Adam Liptak
NY Times
March 7, 2011

Albert W. Florence believes that black men who drive nice cars in New Jersey run a risk of being questioned by the police. For that reason, he kept handy a 2003 document showing he had paid a court-imposed fine stemming from a traffic offense, just in case.

It did not seem to help.

In March 2005, Mr. Florence was in the passenger seat of his BMW when a state trooper pulled it over for speeding. His wife, April, was driving. His 4-year-old son, Shamar, was in the back.

The trooper ran a records search, and he found an outstanding warrant based on the supposedly unpaid fine. Mr. Florence showed the trooper the document, but he was arrested anyway.

Homeland Security Says It Has Every Right To Spy On Peaceful Protest Groups - Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The Department Of Homeland Security has concluded that it is perfectly reasonable for it to spy on dozens of peaceful advocacy groups and monitor scores of lawful protests and political rallies in the name of national security.

Deluded TSA Worker Arrested After Telling Cop “I’m A Customs Inspector” - Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The actions of a TSA worker who was pulled over during a routine traffic stop betray the general attitude of the TSA in recent month, that the agency is above the law and makes its own rules.

Police can be distracted by computer and phones - Monday, March 07, 2011

Other people are noticing this too... but notice the responce from
Complaints commission.... Putting children at risk is not an issue to them.

Police can be distracted by computer and phones
By Shawn Connelly, Times Colonist March 5, 2011
Re: "More than 3,000 distracted drivers nabbed," March 3.

RCMP Superintendent Mike Diack hit the nail on the head: "The excuses won't mean anything if you are involved in a collision that seriously injures or kills somebody because you made a phone call or sent a text message."

I would like to know why the police who are responsible for enforcing these distracted-driving laws are exempt from them.

I recently observed a Saanich police officer driving her patrol vehicle
through a school zone, through one of the busiest intersections of the city (Lansdowne and Richmond) while typing on her dashmounted laptop.

I contacted the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. The written response was, "The description of events that you have detailed in your complaint is not egregious enough to constitute misconduct as it is defined within the Police Act."

If driving through a school zone while typing is not egregious, what is?
Must a child be struck by a police vehicle before this behaviour is banned?

Police need to lead by example. If it is not an emergency, police need to drive just like the rest of us. No cellphones and no typing while driving, so that they can also drive with due care and attention.

Shawn Connelly

Oak Bay

The Victoria Times Colonist
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Police violence still on the rise. Mental health issue need to be look into - Friday, March 04, 2011

Police violence still on the rise in Canada. Mental health issues need to be look into.

Case against Ottawa man dropped over questionable arrest and police violence... Should Police Officers who use violence without justification be looked at for some kind of mental illness, that leads to psychological or behavioral patterns of violent behavior and it's concern to the public with the growing use of police violence where officers carry guns?

Charges against a 43-year-old man accused of obstructing and attempting to bribe a police officer have been withdrawn after prosecutors said there were potential legal issues with the man's arrest.

Kenneth Alzingre was arrested on January 20, 2009 during a traffic stop and charged with obstructing a peace officer, bribery and failure to provide a breath sample.

But Crown lawyers said Thursday there are concerns about the use of force during the arrest and that those concerns make the prospect of conviction unlikely.

"If you are a police officer, you're supposed to respect and protect the citizens," Alzingre told CBC News.

"You don't just beat the s--t out of someone for no reason."

Alzingre said the night of the incident he was driving home from the bar. He admitted he had a few drinks, but "not that much."

Alzingre said the police officer who pulled him over was rude to him, so he got out of his car to write down the police cruiser's license plate number. That's when the police officer punched him repeatedly, Alzingre said.

Alzingre said he suffered face and neck injuries in the incident, as well as a minor back injury.

No charges have been filed against the police officer involved.

Case would have been 'nightmare' for police: lawyer

Defence lawyer Paul Lewandowski said if the case carried forward it would have been a "public relations nightmare" for police.

"I think we would have been able to deconstruct what happened in the situation very effectively if it had gone to trial," Lewandowski said.

He said his client's case had many similarities to the case of Stacy Bonds, whose rough treatment in the Ottawa cellblock led to increased scrutiny of how police officers and special constables handle people brought to jail.

Lewandowski said the Crown only raised concerns about the use of force in Alzingre's case after the Bonds incident and a subsequent Ontario Provincial Police investigation into other incidents which began late last year.

Investigating G20: The Untold Stories of How the War Measures Act was used on Canadians - Wednesday, March 02, 2011

This is nothing but government and police terrorism at it's best, being used on Canadians...Wake up people, your own governments did this to you and has no problem in harming it own citizen's..

They were the most unlikely of troublemakers. There were thousands of ordinary citizens on the streets at Toronto G20 Summit marching peacefully until the police closed in and shut them down.

March 2, 2011

They were the most unlikely of troublemakers. There were thousands of ordinary citizens on the streets at Toronto G20 Summit marching peacefully until the police closed in and shut them down. Many had gone downtown simply to see what was going on, only to find themselves forcibly dragged away by police and locked up for hours in a makeshift detention center without timely access to lawyers or medical treatment.

It’s been eight months since the G20 and the iconic images are still with us — burning police cars, rampaging mobs, the massive security presence that according to the official story is all that stood between Canada’s largest city and chaos. But that’s not the whole story of Toronto’s G20. Astonishing new images caught on camera are now emerging and they expose a troubling new picture of what happened to hundreds of ordinary citizens caught in the huge police dragnet during those three highly-charged days last June.

Gillian Findlay presents a revealing new street-level perspective of what happened when thousands of police were deployed in downtown Toronto and instructed to do what was necessary to ensure the wall around the G20 Conference Centre was never breached.

Exclusive eyewitness video obtained by the fifth estate brings to light startling images captured on cellphones and minicams by the innocent bystanders who found themselves on the wrong side of all that G20 “order.” In a rare television interview, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair explains why police took the actions they did.

On this edition of the fifth estate: the summit from the street, and the people who never dreamed it could happen to them. The stories you’ll hear will raise questions about what protest means in this country and what the limits to dissent have become.

“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” -Ben Franklin

Lorne Gunter: Opposing self-defence means opposing democracy itself - Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Lorne Gunter March 2, 2011 – 12:49 pm

The case of Ian Thomson has touched a nerve, and rightly so. Mr. Thomson is the Port Colborne, Ont. man who last August fired warning shots over the heads of masked men who were firebombing his rural home with him in it. His seems a classic case of using justifiable force in self-defence. Indeed, it would have been justified had he fired at – not merely over – his attackers.

Nonetheless, when Mr. Thomson reported the incident to police, he ended up being the one charged – with dangerous use of a firearm.

There is to be a rally in support of Mr. Thomson outside the courthouse in Welland, Ont. on Wednesday.

I think this case has touched a nerve with the public because so many of us can see ourselves in Mr. Thomson’s shoes and his response seems entirely reasonable to us. Even we Canadians who don’t own guns see nothing wrong in what he did.

But I think the public response goes beyond a simple case of self-defence. I think (I hope) it also includes some healthy disdain for the mentality of those who run our criminal justice system and our governments.

The charging of Mr. Thomson clearly shows the total disconnect between elite thinking and that of ordinary Canadians. Our police, prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats no longer see themselves as our servants, rather they view the public as a threat to the peace almost equal to that of criminals. They are no longer a part of “us” in “us versus them.” Indeed, at least when it comes to self-defence, officialdom sees law-abiding citizens as as much of a disruption as gun- and knife-wielding thugs.

A generation ago, it would never have occurred to Niagara, Ont. police to charge Ian Thomson. Indeed, they may even have given him a pat on the back for acting courageously under fire and for helping them deal with some baddies. But after 40 years of political correctness, of sociological tripe about criminals as victims of poor upbringings and theories about how lenient sentences encourage criminals to rehabilitate rather than reoffend, police and Crown prosecutors have now convinced themselves that an armed civilian is as much of a threat to community safety as an armed robber or attempted murderer.

Former Liberal Justice Minister Allan Rock, the man behind our expensive, intrusive and useless gun registry, once said he thought the only people in Canada who should have guns were the police and the military. If that were the case, than the police and military would be the sovereigns in our state.

The Niagara police’s action betrays the same fundamental mistrust of ordinary people as Mr. Rock’s words did.

If those in charge of public safety cannot see the inherent difference between citizens and criminals, our whole notion that the people are in charge of our democracy has been turned upside down.

George Orwell once wrote “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” He clearly understood better than our current intelligentsia what our system was meant to be.

National Post

Policing for Profiting - Criminals in police... - Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Cops Caught On Tape Talking About Stealing Man’s Property

Scott Lewis, Ann Mullen, Ross Jones
WXYZ
March 1, 2011

An Action News investigation is breaking new ground after two state police officers have been criminally charged.

Lt. Luke Davis, Lt.. Emmanuel Riopelle and Monroe County resident Lawrence Dusseau face dozens of charges. Davis headed the undercover narcotics unit that operated out of a non-descript house in Monroe County. The indictment alleges he and the others sold off drugs and confiscated goods for their own profit.

The Action News Investigators have exclusive audio reportedly of the rogue cops caught on tape during a drug raid. The audio comes from a local man, Rudy Simpson, alleging heavy handed and unprofessional police tactics. Simpson says he was a victim of these tactics in a drug raid on his home.

It all centers around State Police Lt. Davis, now facing corruption charges. In June of 2008, the OMNI Drug Task Force, headed by Davis, executed a search warrant on Simpson’s Monroe County home. They based the search on an anonymous tip and a marijuana stem they said they found in his garbage. When the cops came in, Rudy’s band was practicing in his basement recording studio.

What the police didn’t know is that the microphones were hot and everything was being recorded.

Policeman Helps Union Thug Get Away After Assaulting Tea Party Protester - Monday, February 28, 2011

Youtube
Feb 28, 2011

After a pro-union protester shoved a tea party member into a fence, a local police officer intervened allowing the thug to get away.

Here is the assault from a different angle

Leaked Memo: Government Considering Deploying Special Forces Troops On The Streets With Police - Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The British government is considering plans to deploy crack trained SAS commandos onto the streets to work alongside police in “counter-terrorism surveillance teams”, according to a leaked memo unveiled by the Times Of London today

Recent protests in London used as justification for increased “security”

Photo: Wikimedia Commons – US troops firing Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifles,
the same high velocity weapons used by SAS commandos and now being carried
around the streets of London by police

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Feb 23, 2011

The justification given in the memo is to counter “Al Qaeda’s International Operations wing”, which security officials believe is adamant on carrying out a Mumbai style terror attack to inflict mass casualties on the streets of London.

The restricted Whitehall document notes that under the plans, the SAS could relocate to a base in central London in order to cut down response time.

The document states that terrorists are seeking to use suicide or car bombs or the use of “firearms against aircraft and airport targets”.

It is claimed that the Royal Wedding in May and the 2012 Olympics are high profile events that could be targeted by terrorists, and that the incident involving the student protest “attack” on the car of Prince Charles last year shows that extra security is required.

However, when asked what the specifics of the threat were, government officials denied they had any evidence of an imminent attack.

It is not explained how a student protest, consisting of young British people taking to the streets in opposition of rises in tuition fees is in any way related to foreign mercenaries intent on slaughtering as many innocent shoppers and members of the public as they can with machine guns.

The online Times report is now firmly secured behind a pay wall, however, the Mail also carries the story today.

Since the Second World War, the Special Air Service has become the model for special forces regiments all over the world, it is the blueprint for the US Delta Force.

The same SAS soldiers that are now set to roam the streets of Britain have been conducting black ops in Iraq and Afghanistan for years now, in so called “secret wars” that rarely capture headlines. They are hardened killers, trained for combat.

Though the memo states that the plans are under consideration, previous reports have detailed how SAS squads have already been “drafted in” to work with police. They are under orders to shoot to kill as well as to “engage and neutralise” using gas-loading pistols and stun grenades should they be called into action.

The same elite outfit that trained The Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot’s guerrilla army, is now poised to wander around shopping malls and high streets “helping” the police.

Police firearms units based at Scotland Yard have been trained to engage using SAS assault rifles, specifically the 5.56mm calibre high velocity Heckler & Koch G36.

Some have questioned the effectiveness of such weapons in a potentially crowded chaotic scenario, arguing that such massive firepower would only intensify the carnage.

To your everyday member of the British public, however, machine guns in the hands of uniformed officers and troops look really really big and black and frightening, and one suspects that is the whole point of this operation, especially in the wake of increased protests on the streets and social unrest amongst the wider population.

Also never forget that, according to it’s own “future strategic context” report, the MoD foresees the emergence of a “terrorist coalition,” an alliance of belief systems that oppose the state, from environmentalists to “ultra-nationalists” and remnants of religious groups.

So exactly who are the “terrorists” that the MoD believes Britain needs to be defended from?

Army wants rapid-fire rubber bullets for crowd control - Wednesday, February 23, 2011

US army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns.

New Scientist
February 23, 2011

THE US army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent protests without loss of life, but human rights campaigners are alarmed by the new weapon.

The final design for the XM1044 round has not been selected, according to an order placed on the Federal Business Opportunities website last month, but the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate has been working on a ring aerofoil projectile for some years. The round is a hollow plastic cylinder 40 millimetres across, looking something like a short toilet-paper roll. In flight its shape generates lift, giving it a longer range.

Cops terrorize 11-year-old boy in Arvada, Colorado, after he drew stick figures - Tuesday, February 22, 2011

February 22, 2011
ADD labal put on children is a socilaist disease by the state that MISFITS IN GOVERNMENT WHO HAVE REAL MENTAL PROBLEMS WITH their growing need for LUST FOR POWER, CONTROL over people, AND GREED is a big problem in todays society. Police are acting as thugs and terrorists for government goons and all of these scum need to be taken to task, by the general public.

Cops terrorize 11-year-old boy in Arvada, Colorado, after he drew stick figures in school at therapist’s instruction.
Video from KDVR, broadcast February 21, 2011

Alex Jones: Milestones of the impending Police State in The United States - Thursday, February 17, 2011

In case you haven’t been paying attention, we are entering a Police State. Alex Jones points out some the milestones on this downward slide our country is taking from liberty to tyranny.

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Kevin Libin: Alberta’s dangerous database - Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Kevin Libin February 14, 2011 – 9:30 pm

When the RCMP were caught many years ago burning down a barn belonging to a family of Quebec separatists — after a judge refused to grant the force permission to wiretap their meeting — Pierre Trudeau shrugged off the incident.

If Mounties burning down barns was illegal, the prime minister said dismissively, perhaps he should make it legal for them to burn down barns. Mr. Trudeau had a sharp legal mind and so he surely understood the difference between something being illegal and something being wrong. Even if he was being deliberately provocative in public, privately Mr. Trudeau knew full well torching people’s property isn’t wrong strictly because it’s illegal. It is, of course, illegal because it is wrong.

That is a difference apparently lost on the Alberta government. The province is quietly putting together a database for police that is every bit as dangerous to citizens’ liberties as giving police the unwarranted right to destroy private property. The project is called, rather ominously, TALON — as in The Alberta Law Officers’ Network — and it will, according to the solicitor general’s department, allow police quick access to information about “persons of interest.” The trouble is, TALON is designed to keep track not just of Albertans’ criminal records, but also, according to the Calgary Herald, any “speculations, unproven allegations, investigation theories, details of 911 calls — virtually any record of a citizen’s contacts with the police” anywhere in the province. Any officer will be able to dial it up without a supervisor’s permission, warrant, or cause. It is, in other words, a record of any old thing that authorities consider worthwhile keeping track of that can be accessed at any time for any reason by any officer. That kind of police-state-style record keeping might be otherwise ruled unlawful because it is so plainly an unjust violation of citizens’ privacy. To get around that, the province appears to be prepared to simply make gross intrusions perfectly legitimate.

Canadians already tolerate a certain amount of monitoring of personal information by police in the name of fighting the bad guys. The Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) keeps track of criminal records, pending charges, and lists any acquittals and discharges. Questions for the firearms registry go much deeper, including not only what guns a person owns, but also his or her financial circumstances, personal romantic relationships and any history with mental illness.

But databasing unproven allegations, 911 calls and “theories” appears to be new territory. The average citizen stopped by an officer can be compelled to volunteer a lot of information (notice that officers at drunk-driving checkpoints routinely ask you what you’ve been up to that evening) that could, quite conceivably, find its way into the database. And at least CPIC requires officers to furnish a valid reason for running someone’s name through a check. Not TALON.

And the more intelligence authorities compile on us, the more vulnerable we all are to having such confidential things read by people who have no right to see them, whether inside or outside government organizations. One Albertan health-care worker was recently caught repeatedly tapping into the medical file of her boyfriend’s ex-wife. In Ottawa, an employee with the Canada Revenue Agency a few years back was found digging around the financial affairs of women he met on the Internet. We know CPIC is accessed illegally hundreds of times a year. And MP Garry Breitkreuz has been trying for ages to get the RCMP to take seriously evidence that gun thieves are hacking into the firearms registry to research their targets. Concentrating any and all citizens’ interactions with police into a centralized, real-time database is, as useful as it may be for police, just this side of a very tenuous line of leaking it on the Internet.

Canada’s privacy commissioner has, in fact, been extremely strict with Internet firms like Google and Facebook who dare to record personal Internet habits of their users for purposes of marketing them products and services.

But according to Wayne Wood, a spokesman for Alberta’s privacy commissioner, there is no “mandatory requirement” for public bodies like the solicitor general’s office to consult with the commissioner about privacy concerns, and, the only material obligation the government has to a citizen with this kind of intelligence file is not to share it with third parties.

The province has requested input from the privacy commissioner on the TALON database, Mr. Wood says, but the “privacy impact assessment” that his office provides will, in the end, be non-binding on the government.

Albertans had better hope that they have less to fear from law enforcement agencies misusing their private data than they do from Mark Zuckerberg. The province has been discreetly building the TALON project for five years now, has committed $65-million to it, and is reportedly nearly finished building its “top-secret” headquarters, so it may not be inclined back off its plan regardless of what the privacy commissioner has to say.

The solicitor general’s office maintains this is all about fighting increasingly sophisticated organized crime networks, as if the problem with justice in this day and age has only to do with a paucity of glaringly unreliable hearsay and false accusations.

Already, authorities in Alberta have some pretty wide latitude to sidestep rights in their battle against the gang menace: the province’s Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods initiative, for instance, permits police to seize for 30 days any homes and businesses merely suspected of being used for illegal activities.

Of course, it’s all in the name of protecting Albertans. What terrible things might befall this province’s citizens if it weren’t for authorities legalizing these increasingly intrusive tactics, we are left to only imagine. That’s because, for some reason, the government never seems to tell us.

National Post

Police State Canada as police violence is growing - Monday, February 14, 2011

RCMP officer won't face charges in Bashaw incident

Last Updated: Monday, February 14, 2011

CBC

News Crown prosecutors recommended no charges be laid against an RCMP officer who allegedly punched and stomped on a one-footed Alberta man in 2009.

A complaint laid against Const. Jack Cunningham in Dec. 2009 was independently investigated and evidence was provided to senior Crown Counsel, RCMP said Monday.

The Crown recommended no charges be laid. Last month, an Alberta Provincial Court judge stayed four criminal charges faced by Les Lattery, after ruling Cunningham breached Lattery's charter rights during an arrest near Bashaw, Alta. in July 2009. Lattery wants Cunningham to face charges. But in a news release, RCMP said there will be no further investigation into the incident as it has already been completed and reviewed by Crown prosecutors.

Victoria Police gets a free ride on using violence on the public, people need to fight back - Saturday, February 12, 2011

Political Commentary and Opinion,

Police Investigating police has to stop, corruption is at it higest level now....

Police State in Victoria BC. Outright criminals in police, who use outright violence should be fired and criminal charged. It seem the corruption even goes deep into government crown, who also excuses the police's outright violence on the public.

The People of Victoria need to speak out on this as something needs to be done about this type of police state mentailty. The Public really needs to send a clear message to police and government crown that this kind of behaviour is not going to be tolerated by tax payers as it does is sends a clear message to the public that police violence and criminal actions is acceptable.
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No Criminal Charges for VicPD Officer (VIDEO)

VICTORIA - The Criminal Justice Branch says criminal charges will not be laid and Victoria police officers did not use excessive force in the arrests of young men in front of a nightclub last March. The officers came under fire when a witness posted a minute long video showing two men being kicked and/or kneed.

A lawyer of two men who believe excess force was used against them by officers says he is appalled and shocked by the decision. Richard Neary says he believes this is a black mark on justice in British Columbia.

Jamie Graham, Victoria's Police Chief, says the officer at the centre of the investigation is returning to full duties. Graham adds the transparent investigation - independently proved - his officers were justified in the level of force that was used to apprehend suspects in a volatile and chaotic situation

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No charges for officer who kicked two suspects
Victoria constable didn't use excessive force, Crown decides

By Katie DeRosa and Lindsay Kines,

Victoria Times Colonist

A person in the area videotaped the aftermath of the brawl including the police arresting suspects. An officer is shown to kick two people. An investigation found there was no excessive force.

Police Terrorism on the public, while the government crown supports such violence by the police on the general public. A person in the area videotaped the aftermath of the brawl including the police arresting suspects. An officer is shown to kick two people. An investigation found there was no excessive force. Photograph by: Handout

Victoria, B.C. — A Victoria police officer who was captured on video kicking two men will not face criminal charges, Crown counsel announced Friday.

The 57-second video, which was posted on YouTube, shows three officers scrambling to make arrests after a group of allegedly drunken men, ages 19 to 27, got into a bloody brawl on Store Street outside the Victoria Social Club on March 21 last year.

Const. Chris Bowser, seen wearing a yellow jacket in the video, became the centre of a criminal investigation after he kicked two men, 24-year-old Harpinder Kang and 20-year-old Tyler Archer, who were both on the ground at the time.

The video, which was viewed more than 260,000 times, sparked public outrage and accusations that the officer used excessive force.

Following a criminal investigation by Vancouver police, B.C.'s criminal justice branch decided that Bowser did not use excessive force and should not be charged.

A statement from the Crown said a host of evidence was considered, including the video, interviews with officers and witnesses at the scene, and a report from a use-of-force expert.

Comment: Propaganda being used by those who support police violence:

"While many witnesses viewed the officer's conduct as heavy-handed, many also confirmed that the two individuals who were kicked were resisting the police efforts to handcuff them," the statement said. Police training allows the use of "hard physical control techniques such as punches, kicks, elbows and knees" to control someone who is resisting arrest, it said.

You the people can judge for yourself.

Victoria defence lawyer Richard Neary, who is representing Archer and Kang in a civil lawsuit, said he is "shocked and appalled" at the Crown's findings, which, he said, fly in the face of a Police Act decision that considered the same evidence.

According to Neary, a preliminary Police Act investigation by the Calgary Police Department — which ran parallel to the criminal investigation — found that Bowser used excessive force against Archer, but not against Kang.

Neary disputes that. He said Bowser used excessive force against both, and is asking that a retired judge be appointed to investigate.

Neary said the Crown's decision is "a real black mark on the administration of justice. It sends the message that police are held to a different standard."

Victoria police Chief Jamie Graham acknowledged that the video images were disturbing, but said police work is often gritty.

"People do not always choose to be co-operative," he said, reading from a prepared statement. "They fight. They kick. They punch. They bleed, and they resist."

Graham said the Crown's review of the case paints a more complete picture than a 57-second video clip of an incident that witnesses said lasted from five to 20 minutes. "The officers did not act in a reckless and wanton manner, but deployed calculated police tactics designed to minimize injury and subdue the assailants."

Graham said that Bowser, who has been with the department for nine years, will return to regular duties.

"He is an outstanding officer and this process has been incredibly hard on him and his family," he said. "Despite the vilification, the death threats, the public tarnishing of his image, he wanted to return to full duties and get back to doing what he loves."

The chief declined to take questions from the media. Department spokesman Sgt. Grant Hamilton confirmed that nobody involved in the brawl was charged with a criminal offence, because the alleged victims refused to co-operate with police.

kderosa@timescolonist.com

lkines@timescolonist.com

Criminal Justice Branch statement

1.) MEDIA STATEMENT 11-2 CLEAR STATEMENT

Just after midnight on March 21, 2010 three regular members of the Victoria Police Department along with two reserve members were part of the Late Night Task Force patrolling the downtown area of Victoria on foot. The responsibility of the police officers was to deal with such things as public drunkenness and disturbances outside of licensed premises. The Late Night Task Force was established by the Victoria Police Department in response to general public disorder, including disturbances and violence, which had become a problem in the downtown core area in the late evening and early morning hours. As the officers walked towards the intersection of Johnston and Wharf Streets, they noticed a multi-person fight underway outside a bar on Johnston Street. A male was on the ground, apparently unconscious and was being kicked or stomped in the head by

another male. The police attempted to control the crowd and restore order. In doing so,the police eventually placed six males in custody. Two of these males were kicked by one of the arresting officers (“Officer A”) during the process of placing them in custody. A video taken of this portion of the event was posted to the internet, was broadcast and received widespread publicity. In a statement to the press following the incident, Victoria Police Chief Jamie Graham stated “the images are disturbing and the reaction on an emotional level is one of shock.”Chief Graham directed an investigation into the conduct of “Officer A” in kicking the two individuals. The investigation was carried out by members of the Vancouver Police Department, and the resulting investigative report was forwarded to the Criminal Justice Branch for a charge assessment review. In reaching its decision on the matter the Criminal Justice Branch considered the video recording of the arrest of the two individuals, the evidence of the police officers on the scene, the evidence of numerous civilian witnesses, the report of a “Use of Force” expert,the Criminal Code provisions relating to the use of force by police officers, and previous case law involving allegations of excessive force by police officers. The civilian witnesses included some individuals directly involved in the disturbance, some bystanders and some passers-by. No individual statement or piece of evidence was determinative of the outcome of the Branch analysis. The initial review of the file was conducted by Deputy Regional Crown Counsel in Vancouver Region and the result of that review was provided to the Director of Legal Operations. The Director of Legal Operations then directed that a further review of the file be conducted by Deputy Regional Crown Counsel in Fraser Region. Both reviews concluded that the officer in question should not face any charges as a result of his conduct. The Director of Legal Operations has considered both of these reviews, as well as the investigative report and video evidence, and concurs that no charges should be laid against the officer.

2.) POLICE ARRIVAL AT THE INCIDENT

Shortly after midnight on March 21, 2010 five members of the Victoria Police Department“Late Night Task Force” came upon a fight involving seven to ten participants taking place outside a downtown bar on Johnston Street near the intersection with Wharf Street.Police witnessed one individual on the ground, apparently unconscious, with a second individual stomping on or kicking his head. Other males were fighting in the vicinity. “Officer A” thought initially that police were dealing with an assault causing bodily harm that might turn into a homicide. Another of the attending officers described the situation as “very dynamic, uncontrolled and unsafe” and was concerned that he was witnessing a beating homicide. The police officers attending were of the view that they needed to quickly gain control of the situation by stopping the fighting and preventing any of the crowd of onlookers from becoming involved. The officers also believed that they needed to bring the situation under control to allow paramedics to attend to treat the unconscious man. While one civilian witness described the scene as “not volatile” and another civilian described one group of males who became involved in the fight as “rowdy,” others described the events using terms such as “pretty violent,” “serious,” “pretty serious;”“unbelievable,” “pretty intense,” a “big brawl;” a scene of “chaos”, “pretty hectic;” a “warzone,” “tumultuous,” and a “scary, stressful situation.” To bring the situation under control two officers ran into the crowd, which consisted of the seven to ten fighters and approximately thirty to forty onlookers standing in the immediate vicinity. One of these officers deployed a pepper spray, some of which in advertently struck the second officer in the left eye. The pepper spray caused the person kicking or stomping to stop his attack on the unconscious male. “Officer A” arrested or assisted in the arrest of four individuals. While the degree of force used in two of these arrests is not in question, his kicking of the other two individuals(“Civilian A” and “Civilian B”) during the process of their arrests became the subject of investigation.

THE LAW AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE FACTS

Section 25 of the Criminal Code provides certain legal protections to police officers acting in enforcement of the law. The Criminal Code sets out the justification in section 25 which, in part, provides that:

3.) “(1) Every one who is required or authorized by law to do anything in the administration or enforcement of the law

(b) as a peace officer or public officer, is, if he acts on reasonable grounds, justified in doing what he is required or authorized to do and in using as much force as is necessary for that purpose.” Section 26 of the Criminal Code places limits on what is the legitimate use of force. If an officer uses too much force, he or she is criminally responsible for the excess: “26. Every one who is authorized by law to use force is criminally responsible for any excess thereof according to the nature and quality of the act that constitutes the excess.” The Supreme Court of Canada has recently held that while, at times, the police may have to resort to force in order to complete an arrest or prevent an offender from escaping police custody, the allowable degree of force to be used remains limited by the principles of proportionality, necessity and reasonableness. Courts must guard against the illegitimate use of power by the police against members of society, given its grave consequences. Other court decisions have established that what is reasonable, necessary, and proportional will depend on the totality of the circumstances. This is assessed from the point of view of the officer because the officer’s training, experience and the orders of the day given to him are all part of what goes into the answer to the question of what constitutes reasonable grounds. This approach also requires a court to take into account the characteristically dynamic nature of police interactions with citizens. The officer's decision must be made quickly in volatile and rapidly changing situations. The officer must make his or her decision based on available information which is often less than exact or complete. The courts will not hold police to a standard of perfection, and the police are not required to measure with nicety the force they use. What is reasonable, proportionate, and necessary is a use of force which is not gratuitous. A justified use of force is one delivered in a measured fashion. It is a use of force taken neither from revenge, anger or malice but one characterized as an application of situational force designed to dissolve a potential risk to the officer’s personal safety or achieve some other legitimate purpose. “Civilian A” The available evidence is capable of establishing that “Officer A” kicked “Civilian A” twice as police were attempting to take him into custody. While this was an intentional application of force without consent, the available evidence provides a lawful justification for the officer’s actions. There is evidence to establish that “Officer A” had reasonable

4 grounds to conclude that his fellow officers were lawfully arresting “Civilian A”. There is also evidence to establish that the officer’s use of force in assisting them was not excessive. Apart from the officers involved, a number of witnesses say that “Civilian A” resisted the police. “Officer A” kicked him twice in the buttock area. This was a situational use of force designed to achieve one goal, the handcuffing of the individual. Once he produced his hands, there was no need for additional force and none was applied. The application of further force might be expected if the officer’s conduct was gratuitous or actuated by malice, anger or the desire to punish the individual. While the use of kicking as an instrument of force calls for close scrutiny, a court is likely to find that this was a measured use of force to achieve a legitimate purpose, and therefore justifiable.

“Civilian B”T he available evidence is capable of establishing that “Officer A” kicked “Civilian B” once and struck him with his knee twice as police were attempting to take him into custody.This also was an intentional application of force without consent, but again there is evidence to provide a lawful justification for this use of force. It is likely that a Court would conclude that “Officer A” had reasonable grounds to detain or arrest “Civilian B” for assault, having seen him fighting and near the location of the unconscious individual. It was also not unreasonable in all the circumstances for the officer to infer that “Civilian B” had been a combatant and could cause further problems if he were not subdued. While “Civilian B” initially was complying with “Officer A’s”instructions to get on the ground, when a second officer intervened “Civilian B” reacted by crawling away and would not produce his hands for handcuffing. In all the circumstances, it was not unreasonable for “Officer A” to increase the intensity of his intervention and resort to the use of force. Once again, the blows were designed to subdue the individual and achieve the goal of handcuffing him. When the individual produced his hands the level of force was reduced and he was handcuffed, the entire transaction having taken no more than 25 seconds. In relation to this arrest a court is al so likely to find that this was a measured use of force to achieve a legitimate purpose, and therefore justifiable.

SUMMARY

The officers involved in this incident were outnumbered and one was to some degreed debilitated by pepper spray. The officers had a reasonable basis to be concerned for their safety and that of others. The officers also had a duty to restore the peace and to prevent the commission of offences. “Officer A” concluded that it was necessary to place the combatants in custody as quickly as possible to prevent the recurrence of fights and control the possibility that bystanders would intervene. He also wished to ensure the scene was safe so emergency health officials could enter and treat the injured party.

Criminal Justice Branch statement

Abuse of Authority by Police and Crown - No charges for cop filmed kneeing handcuffed man - Saturday, February 12, 2011

A Victoria police officer caught on video kneeing and kicking two men while they were being handcuffed during the break up of a vicious downtown street fight will not face any charges.

A video sent to ctvbc.ca by Mike Morellato shows two Victoria police officers arresting a number of men in the city last Sunday morning. March 21, 2010. (Mike Morellato for ctvbc.ca)

B.C.'s Criminal Justice Branch said Friday it reviewed last spring's incident, including watching the video which was viewed by thousands of people on line, and concluded the officer was using legally permissible force to gain control of a dangerous and volatile situation.

"The visual images on the video showing the application of force are emotionally disturbing, however, in all the circumstances of the incident there is evidence that the officer was using force lawfully in order to gain control in an unstable and unsafe situation," said a statement from the Criminal Justice Branch.

The decision not to charge the officer is one of several incidents involving use of force allegations against Victoria police, including Const. George Chong, the brother of B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong, who was charged with assault last July in a case in which a man was hurt.

Other incidents have included the tethering of a 15-year-old girl to a jail cell door for four hours, and a handcuffed man who was slammed to the jail floor from behind, causing brain damage.

Last fall, a police use-of-force report examining the brawling image of the Victoria Police Department and made 80 recommendations relating to use of force and jailhouse operations.

In the latest case, the Criminal Justice Branch says three Victoria Police officers and two reserve officers were on foot patrol in downtown Victoria when they came upon a full-scale brawl involving up to 10 people and being watched by up to 40 bystanders.

One man involved in the brawl was unconscious on the ground with another man kicking him in the head, said the statement. Two of the police officers believed the unconscious man was in danger of being beaten to death.

"The police officers attending were of the view that they needed to quickly gain control of the situation by stopping the fighting and preventing any crowd of onlookers from becoming involved," said the statement. "The officers also believed that they needed to bring the situation under control to allow paramedics to attend to treat the unconscious man."

Bystanders uploaded video footage of the arrest on YouTube, creating a stir among many who accused the officer of using too much force.

The statement said the video footage provided 57 seconds of the incident which lasted anywhere between five and twenty minutes. Six males were arrested.

"While the use of kicking as an instrument of force calls for close scrutiny, a court is likely to find that this was a measured use of force to achieve a legitimate purpose, and therefore justifiable," said the statement.

The statement acknowledged that many witnesses viewed the officer's conduct as heavy handed, but others also said the two men who were kicked during their arrests were resisting efforts to be handcuffed.

Victoria Police Chief Jamie Graham has said police officers regularly encounter trouble in the city's downtown core, which he described as an area of "drunkenness, debauchery and silliness."

G20 lawyer wants charges filed against police - Friday, February 11, 2011

Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011
CBC News

Natalie Gray was apprehended by police during a demonstration at the temporary detention centre in Toronto's east end on June 27. (Submitted by Natalie Gray)

The lawyer for a G20 protester who claims to have been shot with rubber bullets by police at a Toronto rally is calling for a criminal investigation of the officers who he says were involved.

Clayton Ruby on Friday showed reporters a video that he says shows two officers firing three rubber bullets at Natalie Gray during an east end Toronto protest on June 27.

Two of those rubber bullets hit Gray, before officers surrounded and then arrested her, he said. Ruby also produced a photograph of an officer he alleges fired one of the shots. He believes that officer is clearly identifiable.

Ruby said he has sent the footage to Toronto police Chief Bill Blair and has asked him to look into the matter.

"I want the chief to do a criminal investigation. He promised he would be transparent. He's done nothing," he said.

"So now we're going to give him the picture of the officer so there's no doubt who it is, and we're going to say, 'You criminally investigate that."

He said those who fired the rubber bullets should be charged with assault and unlawful use of a firearm.

A picture of Natalie Gray showing a wound on her elbow that she said was from a rubber bullet. (Submitted by Natalie Gray)

$1M lawsuit filed

Gray was hit in the sternum and near her left elbow. Her elbow wound later became infected, Ruby said.

Gray was unarmed, was five metres away from the officers and posed no threat to them, he said.

In September, Gray filed a lawsuit against the Toronto Police Services Board and ten individual police officers who haven't been identified for over $1 million in damages.

The lawsuit claims Gray was a victim of assault and battery, unlawful arrest and detention, malicious prosecution and violations of a number of her constitutional rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

None of the allegations has been proven in court.

Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but have said in a statement of defence that injuries Gray sustained were not caused by rubber bullets; rather they were sustained either before or after her arrest.

Gray was one of about 150 protesters who marched on a police-approved route to a former Toronto film studio that was converted into a temporary detention centre on June 27, the final day of the G20 meetings.

Gray was later charged with obstructing a peace officer, one of nearly 1,000 people arrested before or during the G20 summit.

Gray had all charges against her dropped on Aug. 23

Police State mentailty in kids schools - Ottawa program to put police in schools extended - Friday, February 11, 2011

Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011 | 7:27 AM ET

CBC News

Ottawa police Const. Mahamud Elmi speaks to a class at St. Patrick's High School. (CBC)

A pilot project that places Ottawa police officers in high schools was extended this week, and will soon be in two more schools.

Through an arrangement with the Ottawa Catholic School Board, city police officers are placed full-time in high schools that have a history of frequent police calls. The officers patrol the hallways during the daytime, and make their presence felt in the area around the school when students get out.

Const. Mahamud Elmi can be found in the hallways of St. Patrick's high school in Ottawa's Alta Vista area. He's got a handshake for most students, most of whom know his name, and asks them questions about how their homework is going and what's going on in their lives.

"You want them to do good, you want them to graduate, you're not there to hammer them or get them into trouble," Elmi said.

Once students realized he wasn't going to arrest them — although he will if he has to — Elmi said he made plenty of friends.

Clifford Lerebours, a Grade 11 student, often plays basketball with Elmi in the school gym.

"He's very helpful being a mediator if there is a conflict or anything," Lerebours said.

"Because of the relationship he's built with us we know there's a fine limit of what we can and can't do."

Program extends to two more high schools

Const. Mahamud Elmi said being a presence at schools deters crimes and altercations. (CBC) Elmi works at two other schools in the area with the goal of diffusing fights and drug deals before they happen.

"Just by being there it prevents a lot of things because people don't want to do anything once they see your car there," Elmi said.

And while he's close with many students, he said he still has to keep the broader Ottawa community in mind.

"That's that fine line because you still have to serve the community," Elmi said. "If a crime is committed you still have to answer back to the community to ensure that the victim is looked after."

Woodroffe and Notre Dame high schools will soon have police constables assigned to their hallways. The school board and the Ottawa Police Service are splitting the program's cost

WikiLeaks: Egyptian torturers trained by FBI - Thursday, February 10, 2011

Telegraph | The head of the Egyptian state security and investigative service thanked the US for “training opportunities” at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia.

February 10, 2011

The US provided officers from the Egyptian secret police with training at the FBI, despite allegations that they routinely tortured detainees and suppressed political opposition.

According to leaked diplomatic cables, the head of the Egyptian state security and investigative service (SSIS) thanked the US for “training opportunities” at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. The SSIS has been repeatedly accused of using violence and brutality to help prop up the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. In April, 2009, the US ambassador in Cairo stated that “Egypt’s police and domestic security services continue to be dogged by persistent, credible allegations of abuse of detainees.

“The Interior Ministry uses SSIS to monitor and sometimes infiltrate the political opposition and civil society. SSIS suppresses political opposition through arrests, harassment and intimidation.”

In October, 2009, “credible” human rights lawyers representing alleged Hizbollah detainees provided details of the techniques employed by the SSIS. The cable states: “The lawyers told us in mid-October that they have compiled accounts from several defendants of GOE [Government of Egypt] torture by electric shocks, sleep deprivation, and stripping them naked for extended periods

Cop threatened to Taser suspects’ testicles - Wednesday, February 09, 2011

A Toronto cop’s threat to Taser suspects’ testicles was condemned as “disgraceful, unacceptable and shocking” Monday by a Toronto Police spokesman.

SAM PAZZANO
QMI Agency
Feb 9, 2011

TORONTO — A Toronto cop’s threat to Taser suspects’ testicles was condemned as “disgraceful, unacceptable and shocking” Monday by a Toronto Police spokesman.

The video, released by a Justice Hugh Fraser, shows Const. Christopher Hominuk profanely vowing to Taser two handcuffed prisoners in the rear of police cruisers on May 24, 2010.

“This officer’s actions are disgraceful, completely unacceptable and shocking,” said police spokesman Mark Pugash. “One of the reasons we had these in-car cameras installed was the protection of both officers and the public.

“We could identify the frivolous complaints and the serious ones, as we did in this case, and followed it up with an investigation by professional standards, which led to this charge.”

Hominuk, 37, pleaded guilty last Monday to one count of threatening bodily harm in the west Toronto incident. He’ll be sentenced in June and has been suspended with pay since being charged last June

RCMP face more serious allegations in B.C. - Wednesday, February 09, 2011

RCMP will not probe allegations in B.C.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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The RCMP in Terrace, B.C. face serious allegations from community members, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.(CBC)
The RCMP says it cannot investigate allegations outlined in a B.C. Civil Liberties Association report released Wednesday.
The report cites numerous allegations of excessive force, racial profiling, and abuse of authority by RCMP in Terrace.
BCCLA executive director David Eby gathered the stories from local citizens and social workers during a recent two-day visit to the city, about 100 kilometers east of Prince Rupert.
Eby said allegations against Terrace RCMP officers were troubling and widespread and included accounts of false arrest, assaults, illegal seizures and the use of "stress positions" on people accused of being drunk.
"If it had just been one person, we'd say, 'Well, you're just making this up, maybe it's not very credible,'" said Eby. "But to have these allegations repeated again and again ... It's not an atmosphere that results in a great deal of trust in the local police authorities."
He said he is accustomed to hearing allegations of police misconduct. But after he heard what people in Terrace told him, he began to fear for his own well-being there.
"It actually began to make me feel a little bit unsafe."
Terrace was one of 14 communities where public consultation workshops were held by the BCCLA.
Eby said the BCCLA does not have the resources to determine whether the accounts are true or not, but he said he hopes the RCMP will take the report very seriously.
RCMP will not investigate
The RCMP said it will not investigate the claims.
"We have to remember the stories are given anonymously, and we have no way of validating them," said Insp. Tim Shields. "We don't know where they happened, when they happened, who they involve. So, we can't investigate."
Shields also questioned whether the results truly reflect citizens' views.
"It is disappointing that the BCCLA did not solicit input from Mayors and Council, community leaders and local Aboriginal leaders, and that the RCMP was specifically asked not to take part in the process. The turnout to the town hall meetings in some communities was very low, and the sentiments expressed in the report do not reflect the sentiments of the community as a whole," said Shields.
Shields also said the RCMP understands some individuals may have concerns about the way policing is conducted in their particular community, but indicated the police force has feedback from across the province that indicates people are appreciative of policing efforts
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The RCMP in Terrace, B.C. face serious allegations from community members, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.(CBC)

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is releasing a report Wednesday that cites numerous allegations of excessive force, racial profiling, and abuse of authority by RCMP in Terrace.

BCCLA executive director David Eby gathered the stories from local citizens and social workers during a recent two-day visit to the city, about 100 kilometers east of Prince Rupert.

Eby said allegations against Terrace RCMP officers were troubling and widespread and included accounts of false arrest, assaults, illegal seizures and the use of "stress positions" on people accused of being drunk.

"If it had just been one person, we'd say, 'Well, you're just making this up, maybe it's not very credible,'" said Eby. "But to have these allegations repeated again and again ... It's not an atmosphere that results in a great deal of trust in the local police authorities."

He said he is accustomed to hearing allegations of police misconduct. But after he heard what people in Terrace told him, he began to fear for his own well-being there.

"It actually began to make me feel a little bit unsafe."

Eby said the BCCLA does not have the resources to determine whether the accounts are true or not, but he said he hopes the RCMP will take the report very seriously

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Toronto officer pleads guilty to Taser threat - Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 | 10:30 AM ET .

The Canadian Press

A Toronto police officer is to be sentenced in June after threatening two men with a Taser. Reports say Const. Christopher Hominuk pleaded guilty to one count of threatening bodily harm. In-car video entered as an exhibit in the trial shows an officer using the weapon to try to extract information from the men. The men were being detained while officers investigated a theft in west-end Toronto last May. The video shows an officer holding a Taser to a handcuffed man's neck in the back of a police cruiser, then threatening to Taser the genitals of a second man in another cruiser. Court was told neither man was actually Tasered

Toronto police constable accused of beating G20 protester Adam Nobody charged again - Monday, February 07, 2011

Kenyon Wallace February 2, 2011 – 9:56 am

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Toronto Police have charged one of their own, Constable Babak Andalib-Goortani, with assault with a weapon in connection to an incident that occurred during G20 protests last summer.

The Toronto police constable accused of assaulting G20 protester Adam Nobody has been arrested and charged in connection to another incident involving the alleged assault of a woman during summit protests at Queen’s Park.

The Toronto Police Service says Constable Babak Andalib-Goortani, 30, was arrested and charged with assault with a weapon Tuesday. He is alleged to have hit a woman with his baton on Saturday June 26, 2010, in the area of Queen’s Park.

He is scheduled to appear in court at College Park on March 7.

Police have not released the name of the alleged female victim.

Const. Andalib-Goortani, who has three years of experience on the force, has already been charged with assault with a weapon by the province’s Special Investigations Unit after the police watchdog conducted an investigation into injuries sustained by Mr. Nobody, who was tackled by a group of officers and punched repeatedly.

A hearing in that case has been postponed until February 28, at which time a date for a judicial pretrial will be set.

The new charge stems from a complaint received by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director. Police began a criminal investigation based on that complaint January 21.

Allison Hawkins, a spokeswoman for OIPRD, said she could not comment on any complaints made to her agency.

“Anytime a complaint is made, the chief of that police service is always sent a copy,” she said. “If they read it and decide to do a criminal investigation, that’s something the chief is entitled to do.”

Police brutality increases in US - Saturday, February 05, 2011

Terrorists in the Police....
Cops in America are heavily armed and trained to be bullies, routinely hurting people. After a number of mistakes committed by SWAT teams breaking into the wrong home of citizens and constant confrontations with people, are police overstepping their boundaries? Former Reagan Administration advisor Paul Craig Roberts says people who are attracted to police forces are bullies and sociopaths.

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Police State Canada, RCMP thugs getting bigger guns - Saturday, February 05, 2011

Police State: Miltary thugs in the RCMP bring big guns back into service on Parliament Hill

The RCMP will give its Parliament Hill detachment officers some extra firepower, after deciding to bring previously purchased submachine guns back into service.

RCMP Sgt. Greg Cox confirmed to CTV.ca that the Mounties intend to bring their Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns back into service as "secondary weapons," pending weapons training for officers. He said the RCMP must also decide on how to store the weapons securely, while also ensuring that they are accessible to officers.

Though the MP5 is technically a submachine gun, Cox said the RCMP weapons have been altered to be semi-automatic in function, meaning that a single bullet is released with each trigger pull.

The guns will also be assigned to RCMP staff tasked with guarding embassies and consulates across Canada, Cox said in a telephone interview. They will replace the shotguns currently assigned to these officers as secondary weapons, he said.

Cox said the decision to reintroduce the MP5s was made last year.

http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100407/mounties_guns_100407/20100407/?hub=OttawaHome

Man seeks AK-47: RCMP

Mounties arrested a Nanaimo man Wednesday after they discovered he was trying to build his own firearms, including an M1911 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle.

Nanaimo RCMP were tipped off in January when Canada Border Services Agency officials intercepted a suspicious package destined for Nanaimo.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/seeks+RCMP/4223001/story.html

How the hell is a box with a gun part inside "suspicious" ? How can you charge someone with possession of an AK 47 when he hadn't build it yet? Can i get arrested for building a pipe bomb if i have old plumbing parts mailed to me?

Cops Getting Their Kicks in What’s Becoming More and More Common - Friday, February 04, 2011

David Kramer | And what’s also becoming more and more common is the minimal charges that were filed against the thugs cops behaving like criminals, who commit violent terrorist acts and violating everyone's rights and freedoms. Enough of police violence as action by the people needs to be taken back on them.

Sit back and be horrified.

Cops Brutally Beat Teen Lying On Ground - Friday, February 04, 2011

Surveillance video shows Houston police running over and beating a teenage burglary suspect even after the kid laid on the ground with his face to the floor and his hands behind his back. This is the culmination of a decade or more of cop shows depicting violence on behalf of police officers as normal, necessary and acceptable

The People being Oppressed, by those in Authority, as well as Government - Friday, February 04, 2011

Paul Craig Roberts | Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public.

February 4, 2011

Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin.

The fact that SWAT teams often go to the wrong door shows the carelessness with which excessive force is used. In one instance the police even confused the town’s mayor with a drug dealer, broke into his home, shot dead the family’s pet dogs, and held the mayor and his wife and children at gun point. But most cases of police brutality never make the news.

Most who suffer abuse from the police don’t bother to complain. They know that to make an enemy of the police brings a lifetime of troubles. Those who do file complaints find that police departments tend to be self-protective and that the naive and gullible public tends to side with the police.

However, you can find plenty of examples of police brutality on youtube, more than you can watch in a lifetime. I have just searched google for “youtube police brutality” and the result is: “497,000 results.” There’s everything from police shooting a guy in a wheelchair to body slamming a befuddled 89-year old great grandmother to tasering kids and mothers with small children. The fat goon cops love to beat up on women, kids, and old people.

The 497,000 google results may contain duplicates as more than one person might have posted a video of the same event, and the incidents occurred over more than one year. However, probably only a small percentage of incidents are captured on video by onlookers, and many incidents of police brutality have no witnesses. What the videos reveal is that a large percentage of police move with alacrity to assault the public. The number of incidences could be very high. One million annually would not be an exaggeration.

In contrast, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2009 (the most recent year for which data is compiled), there were 806,000 aggravated assaults (not including assaults by police against the public) by criminals against the public, of which 216,814 were committed by hands and feet and not by weapons. (In the U.S. if you merely push a person or grab his arm, you have committed assault. “Freedom and democracy” America uses any excuse to multiply the number of felons.)

Considering the data, one might conclude that the police are a greater danger to the public than are criminals.

Indeed, the trauma from police assault can be worse than from assault by criminals. The public thinks the police are there to protect them. Thus, the emotional and psychological shock from assault by police is greater than the trauma from being mugged because you stupidly wandered into the wrong part of town.

Why are the police so aggressive toward the public?

In part because their ranks attract bullies, sociopaths and psychopaths. Even normal cops are proud of their authority and expect deference. Even cops who are not primed to be set off can turn nasty in a heartbeat.

In part because police are not accountable. The effort decades ago to have civilian police review boards was beat back by “law and order” conservatives.

In part because the police have been militarized by the federal government, equipped with military weapons, and trained to view the public as the enemy.

In part because the Bush/Cheney/Obama regimes have made every American a suspect. The only civil liberty that has any force in the U.S. today is the law against racial discrimination. This law requires that every American citizen be treated as if he were a Muslim terrorist. The Transportation Security Administration rigorously enforces the refusal to discriminate between terrorist and citizen at airports and is now taking its gestapo violations of privacy into every form of travel and congregation: trucking, bus and train travel, sports events, and, without doubt, shopping centers and automobile traffic.

This despite the fact that there have been no terrorist incidents that could be used to justify such an expansive intrusion into privacy and freedom of movement.

The TSA has not caught a single terrorist. However, it has abused and inconvenienced several hundred thousand innocent American citizens.

The abuse happens, because people with authority are dying to use the authority. The absence of terrorists means that the TSA turns innocent Americans into terrorists. There have been so many absurd cases. One woman traveling with her ill and dying mother, who required special food, had contacted the TSA prior to the flight, explained the situation, and was given permission to take the special food onboard. But when she went through “security,” the food was taken away, and when she protested she was arrested and hauled off, leaving the elderly mother in a wheelchair deserted.

Others have been arrested because a member of the household used a suitcase or carry bag to take guns and ammunition to the gun club or on a hunting trip and forgot to remove all the ammo, or the explosives test detected gunpowder residuals. Boy Scouts forgot to remove pocket knives from backpacks that they took on camping trips. Lactating mothers forced to give up breast milk. And so on.

These are the “great dangers” that the TSA protect the american sheeple from, and the sheeple submit, even servilely thanking their oppressors for protecting them.

Submission is what the government and the police want. Anyone who argues with TSA or the police will be abused. An American who stands up for his rights is likely to be beaten to a pulp. TSA has announced that such Americans are “suspects” and will be held in indefinite detention.

And “our” government assures us that we have “freedom and democracy.” We have a police state, and everyone who forgets it is in deep trouble.

The Amerikan police state is closely allied with police states all over the world–Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel in the Middle East and former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire in Central Asia. The U.S. government never lifts a finger in behalf of democracy anywhere. In fact, the U.S. government quickly moves to overthrow democracy wherever it rears its head, as the U.S. recently did in Honduras. Before Honduras it was Palestine where the U.S. overturned the election that brought Hamas to power. Now Washington is targeting Lebanon where Hisbollah has gained.

Everywhere on earth the U.S.government prefers an autocracy that it can purchase to free elections that bring to power candidates unwilling to serve as American puppets.

The U.S. government is the most determined foe of democracy in the world. Yet, Washington lectures China, which has more civil liberties than Bush/Cheney/Obama permit Americans.

If Americans ever find the emotional strength to acknowledge the oppression under which they live, they, too, will be in the streets.Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously the editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating

Police Act investigation into officer's roadside suspension (VIDEO) - Wednesday, February 02, 2011

CENTRAL SAANICH - A roadside suspension for a Vancouver Island police officer is focusing attention on the driving records of police.

A member of the Capital Regional Integrated Road Safety Unit was stopped by Victoria Police on January 27 and suspended from driving for 90 days.

Though he was off duty at the time, the incident launched a Police Act Investigation.

"The vehicle was towed for 30 days", says Corporal Janis Jean, spokesperson for the Central Saanich Police Department "This fellow is on administrative duties here at Central Saanich Police".

But it is not the first time the officer's license was suspended for allegedly driving while over the limit.

"There is an incident in 2009 where this officer was given a 24 hour road side suspension", says Jean.

When asked if the officer reported the incident to senior officers at the department, Jean's will only say "The information we have is that it just came to our attention in the past few days".

The head of the Integrated Road Safety Unit tells /A\ News it is not appropriate for any member who has had their drivers' license pulled for drinking and driving to be serving on the team.

IRSU says is considering going further, pulling drivers license abstracts before the member is appointed to the road safety team and throughout their assignment.

That move would be in contrast to how departments across the Capital Region operate; only checking driving records when they hire an officer.

The Central Saanich Police Department acknowledges under the current policy it may never know whether an officer has an infraction on their license unless the officer discloses the issue.

The department appears to be waiting for the result of the Police Act Investigation before making any policy changes.

SIU reopens another G20 investigation - Friday, January 28, 2011

Last Updated: Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Canadian Press

The SIU has reopened another investigation into a charge of the use of excessive force by Toronto police during G20 demonstrations. (Canadian Press)

An investigation into injuries a man suffered during the G20 demonstrations in Toronto has been reopened.

Joseph Thomson, 34, was arrested on June 26 in the Queen Street West -Spadina Avenue area during an assembly of G20 demonstrators.

Thomson was arrested after allegedly interfering with the arrest of a friend and at some point was struck in the face, resulting in a fractured nose.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit conducted an investigation, but said in November that it found no basis to conclude that the officer had used "excessive force."

However, SIU director Ian Scott says the probe has been reopened as a result of reviewing video of the incident and examining a number of still images.

The SIU has now reopened three cases: Thompson's; Dorian Barton, who alleges he had his arm broken when he was arrested; and the case of Adam Nobody. The SIU's investigation in the Nobody case has resulted in one charge of assault against a member of the Toronto force.

The SIU investigates reports involving police in Ontario where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.

Man Subjected To Body Cavity Search At Traffic Stop - Friday, January 28, 2011

Three Atlanta police officers have been placed on administrative leave in an investigation into inappropriate conduct accusations involving some members of the department’s Red Dog unit.

WSBTV
Jan 28, 2011

Three Atlanta police officers have been placed on administrative leave in an investigation into inappropriate conduct accusations involving some members of the department’s Red Dog unit.

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One of the men, who was driving, said members of the Red Dog unit pulled over his vehicle and forced him to pull down his pants on the side of the road in broad daylight, as officers conducted a search for drugs. No drugs were ever found, driver Brian Kidd said.

Kidd told Philips that his roommate, Shawn Venegas, was also subjected to a body cavity search that left him feeling uncomfortable.

“They went to his bottom part. That’s as low as you can go. I don’t think anybody should be subjected to that kind of search,” Kidd said. “I had to look away because I couldn’t watch my friend be done like that

One of the Corruptist Police Forces in Canada (RCMP and their Violence) - Wednesday, January 26, 2011

RCMP tried to 'smear' kicked man: advocate

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | 7:21 AM PT

CBC News

Const. Geoff Mantler kicks a prone Buddy Tavares during an arrest Jan. 7 in Kelowna, B.C.(YouTube/Kelly Hayes)

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association wants Kelowna RCMP to explain their actions in the wake of an excessive force scandal involving one of their officers.

Unsubstantiated allegations were made in the media against Buddy Tavares after video became public showing the Kelowna man being kicked in the face by an arresting RCMP officer on Jan. 7, said association executive director David Eby.

The officer who kicked Tavares has been suspended and the Crown is considering assault charges against the officer, as recommended by the Abbotsford Police Department, which investigated the incident.

'I don't think this does anything to improve their reputation.'—Criminologist David MacAlister on the RCMP

Eby said the association wants RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon and spokesman Const. Steve Holmes to explain why comments were made after the arrest alleging that it was somehow linked to domestic violence between Tavares and his wife.

The allegations were likely inaccurate, and even if they were correct, they were inappropriately released in an attempt to "smear" Tavares's character, said Eby.

Domestic violence denied

"The only reason we can think they would release it is would be to make Mr. Tavares look bad and the RCMP look good," Eby said.

But Tavares, 51, said both he and his wife deny any suggestion he was violent towards her.

"I don't know where any of this came from; she has no idea. She keeps saying, 'There was none.'"

Trudy Tavares agreed.

"I'm not threatened by Buddy whatsoever," she said. "I don't agree with it one bit."

Eby said the RCMP don't seem to have learned from the death of Robert Dziekanski more than three years ago.

The Polish immigrant died after being repeatedly stunned with a Taser and held down by a group of officers at Vancouver International Airport.

RCMP initially portrayed Dziekanski as a violent alcoholic.

"The man fell to the ground, yet still continued to be combative and fight," RCMP spokesman Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said, hours after Dziekanski died.

RCMP promises explanation

An autopsy determined Dziekanski had not been drinking.

The report from the Braidwood Inquiry into Dziekanski's death blasted the RCMP's statements, calling them, "consistently self-serving … They painted Mr. Dziekanski in an unfairly negative, and the officers in an unfairly positive, light."

Simon Fraser University criminologist David MacAlister agreed with Eby's view that the same kind of police mistake appears to have happened in the Tavares case.

"I don't think this does anything to improve their reputation," MacAlister told CBC News Tuesday. "It just paints them in an even more negative light."

Eby and Tavares said they want the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP to examine the comments made by McKinnon and Holmes.

The force stands by the statements about Tavares, RCMP spokesman Sgt. Rob Vermeulen said Tuesday.

A review of the facts will, "determine why we said what we did at the time," Vermeulen said.

With files from the CBC's Eric Rankin and The Canadian Press

Police becoming to violent, fire those who are guilty! - Saturday, January 22, 2011

B.C. police violence a growing problem: prof

A B.C. criminologist says recent examples of alleged excessive use of force by police are an indication that officers have become too quick to resort to violence. more »

A B.C. criminologist says recent examples of alleged excessive use of force by police are an indication that officers have become too quick to resort to violence.

After viewing a video of an apprehended man on his hands and knees being kicked in the face by Kelowna RCMP Const. Geoff Mantler Jan. 7, Simon Fraser University criminologist Rob Gordon said police training and attitudes are failing the public.

"This seems to be increasingly a problem across the board," said Gordon. "And [it's] something that has to be addressed … in this province."

Gordon, also a former police inspector, said another problem is a lack of mentoring by senior officers, who should encourage verbal de-escalation, not violence.

"What appears to be happening — and it's not just the RCMP, it's the municipal forces as well — is that we're generating a whole breed of cowboys."

Mantler has also been named in another complaint by a Kelowna man who alleges the officer repeatedly punched him in the face without provocation during an arrest in August.

Jeremy Packer said he was stopped by Mantler and another officer who suspected him of stealing a boat. Packer said that, with guns drawn, the officers ordered him out of his truck but that Mantler started punching him before he could exit the vehicle and after he'd gotten out of it.

"You got your hands up, you're on the ground, and the guy has to get a blow in," said Packer. "It's just ridiculous, I think."

RCMP acknowledged on Friday that Packer did file a complaint in November and that it's still under investigation.

Video recordings crucial

When asked why Mantler wasn't pulled off active duty after the first complaint, RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Annie Linteau said the first incident was crucially different from the second, in that there was no visual recording available.

Jeremy Packer has filed a complaint with RCMP, alleging he was punched repeatedly by the same officer accused in another Kelowna incident Jan. 7(CBC)"What's happened is right there," Linteau said of the Jan. 7 incident. "There's no question — the video is a valuable piece of evidence."

The Abbotsford police reviewed the Jan. 7 arrest and have recommended that Mantler be charged with assault.

The case has yet to be heard and it has not been proven that Mantler is guilty of any offence. He also will face an internal RCMP code of conduct inquiry.

Gordon said recruitment by the RCMP also has been a problem, prompting the national force to institute an accelerated application policy, which has cut the hiring and training process from 330 days to 83 days.

He also points to recent purchases of armoured vehicles by local RCMP and Vancouver police as further evidence of the increasing militarization of B.C. police forces.

"In city like Vancouver, there is no justification [for that]," he said.

One remedy for the increase in reports of excessive force is for police to play these recorded incidents repeatedly to recruits as well as to police veterans to drive home how inappropriate and counterproductive such tactics are, Gordon said.

He said police have to change their mindset and transition from being a police force to more of a police service.

Video check here

With files from the CBC's Eric Rankin

Propaganda Ex-CIA Nutjob Cohen and the government terrorist: Ventura’s Show Promotes Terrorism - Thursday, January 20, 2011

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 20, 2011

After making a comment comparing establishment Republicans opposed to Obamacare to Nazi propagandist Goebbels, Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen went on CIA operative Anderson Cooper’s CNN show to defend himself.

During the interview, Cohen took a swipe at Jesse Ventura and his popular TruTV show. Cohen makes his comment at three minutes in the following video:

Cohen: I have been writing about lies in the political spectrum for two months. There was a show that said that the government was creating concentration camps and planning to have a pandemic against its citizens, this was something on TruTV –
Cooper: Yeah, that’s Jesse Ventura’s ridiculous conspiracy show which is such a joke.
Cohen: But it’s not a joke. I wrote an op-ed about it. That’s the kind of stuff that produces Oklahoma cities, produced two deputy sheriffs being killed in West Memphis.

In other words, according to Cohen and Cooper, investigative journalism – as opposed to the sort of Pentagon script reading CNN produces – and unrestricted exercise of the First Amendment leads inexorably to terrorism and murder.

Since the murder of federal Judge Rolls and wounding of Rep. Giffords in Arizona earlier this month, Democrats and the corporate media have accused Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, and others of “heated rhetoric” they absurdly claim leads to the sort of psychotic violence engaged in by Jared Lee Loughner, who is essentially apolitical.

Jesse Ventura, Alex Jones, and Rush Limbaugh have not called for another Oklahoma City terror event. A former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, however, has said that the only thing that can save Obama’s presidency is a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11.

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” said Robert Shapiro. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

Finally, Rep. Cohen sits on the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. On December 17, during an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Jesse Ventura confirmed the government and Homeland Security put pressure on Time Warner to pull the show. TruTV is owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. Cohen penned an acrimonious op-ed about Ventura’s episode on ten FEMA regions and regional governors. He was involved in the effort to shut down Ventura’s show.

“While the First Amendment serves a vital purpose in our society, the use of airwaves to incite citizens to distrust their government, based on deliberately told falsehoods, is appalling and could lead to people getting hurt,” Cohen wrote for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. “Remember that Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City because of a consuming hatred and distrust of the government. Reputable media outlets must take it upon themselves to help expose media charlatans like truTV to protect the American public.”

In fact, so-called “reputable media outlets” fabricated the militia terrorist mythology used to demonize the patriot movement. Timothy McVeigh was a documented government agent. Jesse Trentadue has provided irrefutable evidence that the FBI and the government were intimately involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.

But then facts do not fit in Cohen’s plan to slander the opposition as Nazis and attempt to close down the First Amendment for his ideological enemies.

Obama Administration Plans Internet ID for All Americans - Monday, January 10, 2011

Fox News | President Obama is putting plans in motion to give the Commerce Department authority to create an Internet ID for all Americans, a White House official told CNET.com.

‘A militarization of US police’ - Saturday, January 08, 2011

US police have waged war, not on drugs but on video recording devices. Do Americans stand a chance when it comes to watching the watchmen? Radley Balko, Senior Editor for Reason Magazine says Congress or State Legislatures need to pass laws making this explicit, that you have a constitutional right to record government officials in public while on duty. Without that there will always be this kind of ambiguity.

Censored Jesse Ventura Show On FEMA Camps Survives On You Tube - Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Censored Jesse Ventura Show On FEMA Camps Survives On You Tube Infowars.com | During his last appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Jesse Ventura confirmed that TruTV was forced to pull the show from their schedule due to government threats. We urge you to watch the videos below because they might not be around for much longer. Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory show about the police state and FEMA camps, which TruTV never aired because of constant government harassment and pressure, has already been memory-holed and is now under threat of being removed from You Tube as well. The show covers the takeover plan and what they don’t want you to see – how martial law is being implemented in America. Get these videos now and share them before they disappear forever. During his last appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Jesse Ventura confirmed that TruTV was forced to pull the show from their schedule due to government threats. FLASHBACK: “Police State” episode of hit Ventura show covering FEMA camps pulled from air

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura FEMA CAMP, POLICE STATE, PART 2of3.avi

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura FEMA CAMP, POLICE STATE, PART 3 of 3.avi

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura and his crew at Conspiracy Theory have blown the FEMA camp issue wide open in a truly groundbreaking episode from the program’s second season on TruTV. The “Police State” episode proves once and for all that the feds have trained to take on American citizens, planned for riots and disasters and made preparations to maintain order at any cost. Tune in this Friday, Nov. 12 at 10 PM Eastern/ 9 PM Central and leave the denial at the door. This powerful episode is the largest and most in-depth investigation into FEMA camps to date– and it is scheduled to air on television. Radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones returns to the series yet again, as the team takes you to confirmed on-the-ground facilities, confronts the legislators who authorized FEMA camps and breaks down the full-scale technologically-integrated police state that includes Fusion Centers, FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security and more. At one of many real and verified FEMA locations, Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones approach a “Residential Center” run by Homeland Security in central Texas where they find locked doors, double-fences and escape warnings around the entire perimeter. Further inside the facility, they witness a playground complex, swings and slides for children. The crew walks up to the front door and attempts to get some answers. But the officials refuse to either confirm or deny the facility’s purpose, including whether or not American citizens are being held inside. However, our past investigations into this facility reveal that it has confined both children and adults, including immigrants, refugee seekers and American citizens. UPDATE: “Police State” episode of hit Ventura show covering FEMA camps pulled from air UPDATE FROM ALEX JONES AND GOV. JESSE VENTURA ON SECRETIVE “POLICE STATE” CANCELLATION UPDATED FRI, DEC. 3 11:25 AM CST — This is an update on the now-confirmed bizarre cancellation of the “Police State” FEMA camp episode from TruTV’s schedule, which is we now know is due to background pressure. Alex Jones, a consultant to the show who appears in “Police State”, noticed three weeks ago that the episode was scheduled to air before the then-newest episode on Fridays at 10 PM EST / 9 PM CST. Alex knew that encore episodes were consistently replayed over-and-over prior to brand new Friday premiere episodes, so red flags went up when it did not re-air like all the others. Now that more inconsistencies have been documented, Alex made some phone calls to get to the bottom of the matter. This morning, Alex spoke with Gov. Jesse Ventura and discovered that he was fully aware of the fact that “Police State” had been pulled due to pressure from within the government. The former Minnesota governor and star of the show indicated that he’s not ready to make a full statement yet as he’s still investigating the details and talking with network execs. However, Ventura urged that people have a right as citizens to contact TruTV and let them know that they want to see it back on air. Write us: truTV 600 Third Avenue New York, NY 10016 Call us: 800.268.7856 Whatever the full cause of the behind-the-scenes pressure, it is clear that the government does not want audiences discussing FEMA camps and Fusion Centers or looking up H.R. 645, the bill named and read in the episode that authorizes FEMA emergency centers. Alex has done all he can to make sure the TruTV series is packed with hard-hitting facts and full of real, substantial issues. Though the show employs the dramatic techniques used throughout TV land, this is not the typical fluff. People had better understand that these are truly groundbreaking shows that are discussing damning evidence that the establishment doesn’t want sinking into the minds of a mainstream audience. Who knows if tonight’s water episode investigating lithium, uranium and fluoride being added to drinking water as a means of population control will itself even air or be replayed after the fact. Lovers of liberty and supporters of Conspiracy Theory had better cue their DVRs and other recorders and save the episode for good, because with the censorship we’ve already seen, it is difficult to know how long this program will remain on air, or which episodes will be allowed to repeat. Infowars.com December 2, 2010 Alex Jones, a consultant to TruTV’s Conspiracy Theory, can confirm that the controversial episode “Police State,” which dealt with FEMA camps and fusion centers, has been pulled from air and essentially “memory-holed” due to behind the scenes pressure. In short, the series of inconsistencies with the re-airing and promotion for “Police State” posted by We Are Change and Federal Jack (below) is all true, and more. The episode was de-listed from TruTV’s website, bonus clips associated with the episode were removed from the website, its encore airings were canceled and it was not played during the recent Conspiracy Theory marathon. Alex cannot elaborate further without compromising his sources, but you have heard people associated with the show discussing on the radio how certain unnamed powerful people did not want this revealing episode to air, how shadowy figures have been caught rummaging through the trash of producers for the show, and beyond. The producers and talent for Conspiracy Theory, including former Governor Jesse Ventura, have shown a lot of courage in making their series as hard hitting as possible. With certain powers-that-be unhappy with such a substantial program airing on cable TV, supporters should treasure what they have been able to get out thus far. The very future of the series could be in question, though certainly things are still up in the air at this point. If you appreciate the content that has been on Conspiracy Theory thus far, you should do everything you can to tell your friends and associates to tune in, and make sure these dynamic episodes are seen as widely as possible. The “Great Lakes” episode, now known as the “Worldwide Water Conspiracy” airing tomorrow, Fri, Dec. 3 at 10 PM EST / 9 PM CST also was nearly not aired, but made the second season schedule in the end. Producers have told the Alex Jones Show that it has expanded in scope and now deals with a number of hardcore issues including uranium, lithium, fluoride and more being added to public water supplies. Never before has such information been seen on television. Please tune in and support this great TV program. From TruTV: “Great Lakes” – NEW! — a.k.a. “Worldwide Water Conspiracy” Premieres Fri, December 3 at 10P They call it “Blue Gold.” Water is the new oil. Once a human right, it’s now a valuable commodity, and corporations and super-rich oil dynasties are believed to be buying up water rights, controlling nations and populations. Jesse looks into the possibility of these activities finding their way to American shores and uncovers what may be a plot to literally steal the Great Lakes. Here’s the “Police State” Episode. Get it out to people while you can: CENSORED FROM TV! JESSE VENTURA'S CONSPIRACY THEORY S02E04 - POLICE STATE, FEMA

CENSORED FROM TV! JESSE VENTURA'S CONSPIRACY THEORY S02E04 - POLICE STATE, FEMA

We Are Change.org December 2, 2010 Several days ago, truTV decided to wipe clean of any mention of the bombshell “Police State” episode. At one Time the website read: “Police State” Premiered Fri, November 12 at 10P It’s been said the government has a plan to declare martial law and round up millions of United State citizens into concentration camps. Jesse may have found a conspiracy in plain sight as he investigates the proliferation of law enforcement Fusion Centers around the country. And they may be connected to hundreds of detention centers ready to accept prisoners at the stroke of a Presidential pen. TV-PG-L Police State Episode Info Erased from truTV’s Website (Nov 25, 2010) http://www.trutv.com/shows/conspiracy_theory/episodes/index.html Police State and Alex Jones Videos Erased on truTV’s Website (Nov 25, 2010) http://www.trutv.com/video/conspiracy-theory/index.html Police State Episode was blocked out of truTV Programming Code (Nov 26, 2010) http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=193209.0 Police State Episode was Not Re-Aired on Nov.19th as previously scheduled. (Popeye from FedJack.com documents this on his Youtube channel) “Is Jesse Ventura’s Police State Episode being censored by truTV?”

update: it was also not Aired on the “Conspiracy Theory Mini-Marathon” from 9pm-12am last night either (Nov 26). The Police State episode Was Never Referenced on truTV’s Facebook or Twitter Pages at any time. (All other episodes were) The Police State episode was deleted from truTv’s website (episode list and video section), around the same time (Nov. 25) the “Great Lakes” episode was finally listed to air on December 3, 2010. I said “finally” because the upcoming episode “Great Lakes” has been scheduled and re-scheduled Many times in the past and is explained more clearly in this forum thread: http://forum.concen.org/showthread.php?tid=35372 (This was discovered and investigated a month ago. Many bloggers have suggested that a censorship issue might exist, but does not seem to be connected to the current issue.) The night the “Police State” episode aired, Michael Braverman Executive producer of the show said “that he had information that there were powerful forces that wanted the show off the air”. You can hear additional comments from Mr. Braverman in the following video: “Executive Producer Michael Braverman: Fusion Centers for American Citizens!! – Alex Jones Tv 2/2″ Executive Producer Michael Braverman: Fusion Centers for American Citizens!! - Alex Jones Tv 1/2

In linked interviews, Braverman and Tyrel Ventura (Jesse’s son and a producer in the television show) raise interesting questions about men in suits examining Mr. Ventura’s trash: “Trutv’s Tyrel Ventura: Bombshell News of Upcoming Episode on FEMA Camps!! – Alex Jones Tv 2/2″ Trutv's Tyrel Ventura: Bombshell News of Upcoming Episode on FEMA Camps!! - Alex Jones Tv 2/2

The “Police State” episode got amazing television viewer ratings the first and only time that it aired: “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura has performed strongly in its second season, with last Friday’s installment ranking among cable’s Top 5 programs for the 10 p.m. timeslot among men 18-49 (385,000). The series has also scored strong growth for its timeslot compared to the same period last year, with adults 18-49 up 49% and men 18-49 up 113%. That growth is focused in the younger portions of those demos, with adults 18-34 up 48% and men 18-34 up 94%.” Source Link: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/23/ratings-notes-for-tbs-tnt-cartoon-network-adult-swim-and-trutv-including-conan-george-lopez-tower-prep-nba-averages-more/73228 Like Page Insights (click to enlarge) http://www.facebook.com/ConspiracyTheoryWithJesseVentura The reason why the “Like Page” did not censor the “Police State” episode is because I Administer the page. Remember to be polite in contact with truTV and be sure to thank them for airing the show in the first place. My strong recommendation would be to Contact truTV, ask why the “Police State” episode info and videos were from their website. Ask them why they chose not to re-air it, as was scheduled to be and was done with every other episode, and if there is a possibility that it will be. Contact truTV: http://www.trutv.com/contact This issue is concerning to me because i feel the “Police State” episode was the most powerful and important episode to date in my opinion. A couple reasons being video confirmation and expose of FEMA Camps / Coffins, at the same time Introducing “We Are Change” and “Alex Jones” to the public, as both are heavily featured in the episode. I would also ask them to buy Jesse an RV to travel in for the Third Season or help set up a website so fans of the show can contact jesse about different modes of transportation such as private planes and and / or help fundraise to secure his transportation for the next season if the TSA abuses continue. JESSE VENTURA ABUSED BY TSA WILL NO LONGER FLY. JESSE VENTURA ABUSED BY TSA WILL NO LONGER FLY.

The executive producer of the show included Tyrel and Jesse in saying they were all trying their hardest to keep the show on the air, and it is obvious there is a mounted resistance to this notion. We can not let these obstacles end Jesse’s career, and I know that very many people would love to see a third season. The Police State Episode: pt (1/3): http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=576926692520 pt (2/3): http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=576925135640 pt (3/3): http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=576923648620

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RCMP Terrorism, Cop who doesn’t know the law, about Property Laws - Friday, December 24, 2010

The Thieft of Privite Property by RCMP Terrorists who think they are above all laws

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By: ctvbc.ca

Date: Thursday Dec. 23, 2010 3:26 PM PT

Mounties in Coquitlam, B.C. have apologized for wrongly confiscating a teen's camera at a fire scene this week.

Aspiring journalism student Kam Sayed was using his digital camera Tuesday to film a blaze in his neighbourhood, and was standing across the street from the doused fire when an officer confronted him.

"Why are you taking pictures? I'm going to seize your camera; it's evidence for the fire," the officer told him in an encounter captured on video.

The camera was confiscated, shocking 17-year-old Sayed.

"I thought it was a bit rude. I thought it was a bit unprofessional. It was pretty upsetting," he told CTV News on Wednesday.

"I think they should suspend an officer if they do something like that. I don't think it's right."

In an open letter issued Thursday, Coquitlam RCMP Supt. Claude Wilcott acknowledged that the officer's actions weren't just rude -- they were wrong.

"On December 21st a member of my team made the wrong decision on the scene of a structure fire in Coquitlam. He saw a young man recording the incident and, although the young man was doing nothing wrong, my officer confronted the youth and confiscated the camera," Wilcott wrote.

"I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to Mr. Kambiz Sayed for the actions taken by my officer."

He said that everyone -- including journalists and members of the public -- is within their rights to videotape things happening on public property.

Wilcott says that the officer returned the camera very soon after it was confiscated, and then reported the incident to his supervisors and apologized.

"We immediately started working with the rest of our team to make sure they understood the rights and responsibilities of police, the public and the media at incident scenes and how to handle these interactions in the future. In addition, the young man whose camera was confiscated and returned was contacted and offered further explanation and an apology," he wrote.

The confiscation also caught the eye of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

"This sort of incivility, in terms of officer attitudes, especially toward young people, we hear about it all the time -- it's just very rarely caught on tape," BCCLA Director David Eby said.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Penny Daflos

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Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality — Tuesday Betrayal Assured - Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Obama Tyrant wants his government to have control over the Internet...Kick the piece of shit out of office!

Late Monday, a majority of the FCC’s commissioners indicated that they’re going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule.

For the first time in history of telecommunications law the FCC has given its stamp of approval to online discrimination.

Instead of a rule to protect Internet users' freedom to choose, the Commission has opened the door for broadband payola - letting phone and cable companies charge steep tolls to favor the content and services of a select group of corporate partners, relegating everyone else to the cyber-equivalent of a winding dirt road.

Instead of protecting openness on wireless Internet devices like the iPhone and Droid, the Commission has exempted the mobile Internet from Net Neutrality protections. This move enshrines Verizon and AT&T as gatekeepers to the expanding world of mobile Internet access, allowing them to favor their own applications while blocking, degrading or de-prioritizing others.

Instead of re-establishing the FCC's authority to act as a consumer watchdog over the Internet, it places the agency's authority on a shaky and indefensible legal footing -- giving ultimate control over the Internet to a small handful of carriers.

Thanks to “Dirty Harry” Reid: An Overt Act of Betrayal by Both Houses of Congress - Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Marti Oakley | How much more do we have to forfeit, how many more of our rights will be taken away before we stand up and say “enough”?
Well! Just in time for the rigged “vote” on the fake food safety bills in the House and Senate, CBS news claimed that terrorists…..in a place far, far away….were planning to poison food in hotels and restaurants in the United States.

With “Dirty Harry” Reid leading the traitors charge, every rule was broken, every trick was used, every deception was employed to force the passage of S.510 against the will of the people.

(CBS) In this exclusive story, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of poisons – simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and restaurants at many locations over a single weekend.
A key Intelligence source has confirmed the threat as “credible.” Department of Homeland Security officials, along with members of the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, have briefed a small group of corporate security officers from the hotel and restaurant industries about it.
Most likely if any terrorists had been planning on poisoning the food in hotels and restaurants, their rooms would be paid for by Homeland Security or FDA/USDA. Its highly unlikely and very improbable that any such threat ever existed.
A key intelligence source was most likely the agent who called CBS news to get their co-operation in planting this story just prior to the last ditch effort to pass the unconstitutional assault on food production and supply, S.510. Leave it to Lame Stream Media to do their part in “crisis creation”.
Works every time. Just prior to every rights robbing assault on America, the media joins with “intelligence sources” to float some bogus report meant to scare us into compliance. The FDA and USDA jumped into the fray to flex their newly empowered over-reaching, unlawful authority.
And here’s how “Dirty Harry” pulled off the hostile takeover of agriculture:
Then, on the floor of the Senate in the late afternoon, early evening of Sunday, December 19, Senator Reid called the Recycling bill for a vote and there was no objection from the two other Senators who were on the floor. So by unanimous consent HR 2751 was passed. Then Senator Reid moved for reconsideration with the vote to be tabled. This was granted by the same unanimous consent because there was no other Senator on the floor. Then Senator Reid offered without objection amendment number 4890 which substituted S. 510 the Food Safety Bill for the Recycling Bill. Without objection, then the amendment was passed and the Food Safety Bill had been substituted for the Recycling Bill. Reid moved that the bill be read for the third time and asked for the question. Without objection, the bill passed, and the Food Safety Bill was on the way back to the House.
As if it isn’t bad enough that we cannot trust either the government nor the media to relay anything remotely resembling the truth about anything whatsoever, the national groups and organizations who claim to be defending and looking out for consumers, farmers and ranchers…many times the same groups who take grant money (contracts) and avail themselves of numerous cash sources from the government in addition to their pay pal buttons, have bounded onto the net assuring everyone that the passage of S.510 is somehow now…kind of a good deal. Multiple emails from individuals who have made a living off the misery and fear of those already being targeted in advance by the FDA agricultural Gestapo are landing on the net faster than you can say…”I worked for the government all along!”

The BANNED “Police State” Episode — Full Length - Saturday, December 11, 2010

Ex-police chief criminally charged - Thursday, November 25, 2010

Winnipeg Free Press · Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010

WINNIPEG - A former Manitoba police chief has been criminally charged for his role in the bungled investigation of a fellow police officer who crashed into and killed a mother of three.

Former East St. Paul Police Service chief Harry Bakema has been charged with perjury, criminal breach of trust and obstruction of justice, the RCMP announced on Wednesday.

The charges thrust back into the public spotlight the high-profile case of Crystal Taman, who was killed in 2005.

The investigation into her death and controversial plea deal that followed -- which spared off-duty Winnipeg police constable Derek Harvey-Zenk jail time -- prompted widespread public outrage and led to the disbanding of the small police force outside Winnipeg.

But the tragedy that set off the chain of events was Ms. Taman's death.

Harvey-Zenk had spent the night socializing with other officers before he drove his truck into the rear of Ms. Taman's convertible as the 40-year-old waited for a traffic light on the morning of Feb. 25, 2005.

Mr. Bakema, chief of the then-East St. Paul force, was accused of mishandling the investigation from the start.

He had worked with Harvey-Zenk when Mr. Bakema was with the Winnipeg police service.

An inquiry into the case heard that following the crash, officers at the scene failed to document any signs of impairment and Harvey-Zenk wasn't asked for a breath sample until hours after the crash.

What was later roundly described as a flawed investigation led to the plea deal that spared Harvey-Zenk jail time.

He was sentenced to two years less a day of house arrest for dangerous driving causing death, while the charges against him were dropped.

Harvey-Zenk later left the police service.

The sentence prompted the government of then-premier Gary Doer to call an inquiry into the handling of the investigation and the criminal proceedings.

The inquiry concluded the police investigation was botched and the prosecution poorly handled.

The report, by retired Ontario judge Roger Salhany, slammed the controversial plea bargain, saying the deal "brought the administration of criminal justice into disrepute."

Following the inquiry's report, the province announced the RCMP would take over policing of the community of East St. Paul.

As per the report's recommendations, the province also referred the allegations against Mr. Bakema to the RCMP in British Columbia.

Mr. Bakema was removed as chief almost a year after Ms. Taman was killed.

He is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 5.

Justice Department Prepares for Expansion of Law Prohibiting ‘Material Support’ for Terrorism - Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Michael Deutsch | Federal prosecutors are intent on accusing public non-violent political organizers of material supporting terrorism.

November 14, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- -- In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community organizations. In carrying out these repressive actions, the Justice department was taking its lead from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion last June in Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project which decided that non-violent First Amendment speech and advocacy “coordinated with” or “under the direction of” a foreign group listed by the Secretary of State as “terrorist” was a crime.

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