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If these RCMP and Canadian Government think for one moment that people are going to tolerate this crap, they better think again, you got it RCMP, just keep these criminals in the US government out of Canada and in their own country as they don't have the right to violate Canadians or their rights and freedoms. As this would be an act of treason against Canadians and their nation. ‘Mounties have spent $3 million on cross-border policing pilot projects; day-to-day threat is organized crime, not terrorism.

Carl Meyer
Embassymag.ca
May 21, 2012

The RCMP is planning to ease Canadians into the idea of United States law enforcement agents pursuing suspects across the land border and onto Canadian soil through “baby steps,” say two top Mounties.

“We recognized early that this approach would raise concerns about sovereignty, of privacy, and civil liberties of Canadians,” RCMP Chief Superintendent Joe Oliver, the Mounties’ director general for border integrity, told the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence on May 14.

“We said ‘Let’s take baby steps, let’s start with two agencies to test the concept, let’s demonstrate to Canadians and Americans that such an approach might work.”

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Mike Cabana, RCMP deputy commissioner for federal policing, also used the metaphor for an incremental approach in comments he made just before Mr. Oliver's.

"First of all, the discussion started with respect to marine environments. And secondly, baby steps," he said. A marine-based version "was seen as probably the most logical place to start to explore the possibilities."

Both officials were responding to a question by Conservative Senator Don Plett, who hails from Manitoba, as to why the Mounties hadn't gone further with Shiprider—the colloquial term for Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations.

That program will make it permanently legal for United States agents to be certified as police in Canadian waters. It is on track to be passed into law by the majority Harper government as part of its budget bill, C-38, in the form of amendments to the RCMP Act, the Criminal Code, and the Customs Act.

The plan to roll out cross-border policing over land is to start this summer, according to the Canada-US perimeter security plan.

The RCMP has told Embassy this land-based program could give US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration agents the ability to pursue suspects on Canadian soil.

Embassy has also revealed that the government is not ruling out that aerial police surveillance over land will occur as a result of the current amendments.

As a result, opposition members and academic observers raised several questions around national jurisdiction and police accountability.

But both Public Safety Canada and the RCMP say they are sensitive to these concerns and that Canadian law will remain supreme.

The Mounties say they need the legislation. Criminals, said Mr. Oliver, are "exploiting the fact that we have to respect our boundaries and we have to stop at the border."

"We've had instances where we've engaged in the attempts to interdict vessels in our shared waterways, and the vessel has fled into the other territory and has escaped apprehension," he said.

Mr. Oliver also revealed that while it is often seen in the context of national security, cross-border policing is typically used to pursue organized crime.

Canadian and US agents are consistently focused on the terrorist threat as the "number one priority," he said, but "the reality is that during our day-to-day interactions, the most prevalent threat that we encounter is organized crime, criminal entrepreneurs."

Costs revealed

The RCMP has invested $3 million since 2005 on pilot projects, training, and getting four standardized Shiprider vessels, said Mr. Oliver.

The RCMP has roughly 400 boats, smaller vessels that are often deployed in contract policing or federal policing, he said. But for Shiprider, the program is now moving to a standard vessel so officers can quickly find equipment.

Around 140 Canadian and US cross-border officers have been trained so far, say the officials, at the US Federal Law Enforcement Training Center site in Charleston, South Carolina.

This year there are three classes of 28 people. They said the training is continually modified based on lessons learned in the field.

Each of the training courses cost the RCMP around $75,000. The Mounties pay for the accommodation and travel of officers, but the US pays for the courses.

The two officials noted that entrenching Shiprider into law didn't necessarily mean they would have to go to the federal government and ask for more money—the desire was more about a legal tool to use at events.

"Even in the absence of dedicated resources, there will be things like the Olympics, like the G20. Well, this will provide us an effective legislative tool in our toolbox that we can deploy on an as-needed basis," said Mr. Oliver.

Partial data-sharing in place

The Mounties do not yet have a single computer network that allows all law enforcement and government agencies to share information in real time, said Mr. Cabana.

The closest, he said, is ASIS, an organization that networks different security professionals. It has eight chapters in Canada: Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, the Prairies, the Pacific, and Southwestern Ontario.

There are other initiatives, he added, such as Canada's Marine Security Operation Centres, which vacuums up and consolidates information from different marine environments. American agents are located at a site in the Niagara region, he said.

"There are processes and protocols that have been implemented...out of concern to ensure the privacy and security of Canadians and to make sure that the information that exists, Canadian information, is properly maintained and properly shared."

An RCMP intelligence analyst is also located at Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Detroit, said Mr. Oliver.

There are also the annual threat assessments from the Integrated Border Enforcement Team, which draw input from the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP, the US Coast Guard, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the US Customs and Border Protection.

cmeyer@embassymag.ca

J. D. Heyes
Natural News
May 18, 2012

(NaturalNews) The only worse thing about an increasing number of police departments collecting DNA evidence from suspects they arrest – before they’ve ever been actually convicted of any crimes – is that courts are continuing to back this egregious violation of civil liberties. So it was only a matter of time before the practice was expanded, so to speak, to cover all suspects, including children.

While local police haven’t yet embraced this tactic, the federal government appears to be on board with it. Documents recently released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), show that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering collecting DNA samples from children 14 and up, and is even considering collecting samples from kids younger than that.

Policy could affect 1 million people every year

The request appears to stem from a Department of Justice regulation requiring all federal agencies to collect DNA samples from all suspects arrested for federal crimes, including “from non-United States persons who are detained under the authority of the United States,” even if they haven’t been involved in any criminal activity.

The law supposedly exempts some classes of “aliens,” but according to reports, it appears DHS is prepared to begin taking samples from anyone the department arrests. And right now, that’s anyone 14 and older, though some records indicate ICE could lower the age further.

According to DHS estimates, as many as 1 million people subject to arrest or administrative detention annually may now be subject to DNA collection. The thing is, many of these people have not committed any crime. And the trend, thanks to the courts, is towards more DNA collection on anyone who comes into contact with the justice system, regardless of whether they are eventually found innocent or not.

ICE is the first agency within the purview of DHS to collect DNA under the Justice Department’s new guidelines. The policy is the result of pilot programs run out of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in San Diego, St. Paul, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, which began around July 2010. After the pilot program, the rest of the department’s HSI offices – some 200 of them across the country – will begin collecting the samples, and the perception is all other DHS agencies will start in short order.

Not everyone is on board

Some state courts are resisting the federal trend – or are trying to. Earlier this month, Maryland’s Supreme Court backed a lower court’s ruling that blocks police from collecting DNA samples upon arrest.

But in a slap at the civil rights of Maryland residents, state Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is planning to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In doing so, he’s trying to justify this sham by saying, in essence, that police should have the right to screen everyone who is arrested as guilty of committing some other crime as well.

“All this ruling does is allow people to get away with very, very serious crimes,” Gansler told The Baltimore Sun newspaper. “The reasoning by the Court of Appeals doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to most people.”

Only those who understand the Constitution, Mr. Gansler.

Stephen Mercer, chief attorney for the state office of the public defender’s forensics division, gets it. In supporting the state court’s decision to reject the procedure as unconstitutional, he says allowing police to collect DNA samples on all suspects is tantamount to putting them under “lifelong genetic surveillance.”

That there is some sanity left in Maryland’s legal community should make its residents feel a bit more secure “in their papers and effects.” At least for now.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.prisonplanet.com

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/28.12

www.eff.org

http://articles.baltimoresun.com

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Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
May 10, 2012

The term “terronoia” was used by James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy to describe what exactly the FBI was attempting to generate amongst the public with their entrapment of the 2010 Portland “Christmas Tree Bomber.” The FBI had conducted “sting operations” like that in Portland Oregon in the past, and certainly many times since then. These include the September 11, 2001 attacks themselves, where each and every “suspect”was either trained or being followed by the US military, US intelligence agencies, or the FBI prior to the attacks – and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing which turned out to be an FBI “sting operation” gone bad.

Most recently we have the “new and improved” underwear bombing narrative, now admitted to be the work of a CIA operative and constitutes a now tiresome storyline where sensational headlines create “terronoia” in the minds of millions of Americans before it is revealed that the entire plot was a production of the US government itself. In the small gap between “terronoia” and reality, exists a period where the corporate-media attempts to resell the merits of the TSA, their invasive checkpoints, and the scandalous irradiating “body scanners,” which we were told have been “vindicated” by this recent bombing plot being “foiled,” now exposed as government manufactured.

Meanwhile, real terrorists around the globe, guilty of blood-chilling atrocities on nation-wide scales are receiving arms, funding, training, air support, and diplomatic recognition from the US government – including in Libya, and more recently in Syria. In fact, many of the US funded, armed, and backed terrorists from Libya are turning up in increasing numbers in Syria’s so-called indigenous “rebellion.” Additionally, the US State Department has announced that it is close to making an announcement on the de-listing of the terrorist organizationMujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), guilty of killing both US troops and civilians, as well as carrying out to this day a terrorist campaign against not only Iranian military targets, but political and civilian targets as well.

Image: A screenshot from the US State Department’s website showing MEK listed as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” and listed as “29. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK).” Paradoxically the US State Department is currently aiding and abetting the organization, with its efforts, along with the UN, British and Israeli government’s, being the sole factor keeping the organization in existence. (click on image to enlarge)

US policy makers admit in the Brookings Institution’s “Which Path to Persia?” report that “undeniably, the group [MEK] has conducted terrorist attacks,” yet still promotes the use of these proxy terrorists to achieve US foreign policy in Iran. Brookings noted the necessity of “de-listing” MEK back in 2009, before closer, and more overt collaboration could begin. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) follows a similar pattern – verified by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center as having killed US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the militant group, listed by the US State Department as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” led the NATO-backed overthrow of Libya’s government in 2011 with US funding, weapons, training, air support, and diplomatic recognition.

The same story is playing out in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan, where terrorists are being funded, armed, and trained by the US to fight both the Pakistani government as well as Iranians across the border - admittedly as a ploy to destabilize Pakistan and disrupt Chinese investments in the region.

Image: A visual representation of some of the Brookings Institution’s corporate sponsors. Brookings is by no means an exception, but well represents the incestuous relationship between US foreign and domestic policy making and the Fortune 500 found in every major “think-tank.” Elected US representatives charged with legislative duties, merely rubber stamp the papers and policies drawn up in these think-tanks. Brookings Institution, in their report “Which Path to Persia?” openly advocates the arming, funding, and backing of the MEK terrorist organization – despite admitting it has killed Americans and “undeniably” carries out terrorism.

From underwear bombers to Libya’s globetrotting death squads, it turns out that the US government itself is driving this omnipresent global threat and constitutes the premier state-sponsor of terrorism. From the very creation of Al Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan, to Al Qaeda death squads bombing targets across Syria today, the US is machinating behind the scenes to perpetuate its foreign policy through a false strategy of tension where the villains and “heroes” are of their own creation. It is only through apathy and ignorance that they succeed in foisting this narrative upon the public, as well as our daily patronage of the corporate-financier interests devising and driving this agenda.

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Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Just the day after reports that the CIA had foiled a plot involving a “sophisticated underwear bomb” targeted against U.S. airliners, the entire story has once again collapsed into a farce.

Just as the FBI has been caught directing every major domestic terror plot, it turns out that the supposed “bomber” was actually a CIA informant.

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“U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA,” reports the Associated Press.

“Officials say the informant was working for the CIA and Saudi Arabian intelligence when he was given the bomb. He then turned the device over to authorities. Officials say the informant is safely out of Yemen.”

So all the propaganda and fearmongering over this plot was once again over nothing -this was yet another staged incident just as the first underwear bomber event was a manufactured hoax from beginning to end.

Watch Alex Jones’ comments on this story from last night’s Infowars Nightly News below.

Mac Slavo
SHTFPlan.com
May 9, 2012

I see this little bicycle weave through the crowd and stop in front of the troops. He stood there for a few minutes. I’m not sure why.

-Julia Ioffe, Moscow Correspondent for the New Yorker

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The image, captured in Moscow, is a stark reminder that tyranny has spread its wings the world over.

Whether you’re living in Greece, the Peoples’ Republic of communist China, oligarch Russia or the democratic United States of America makes no difference. The battle between David and Goliath is being fought on many fronts and in many nations.

As a bloody skirmish between police and opposition activists in central Moscow was drawing to a close on Sunday a small boy on a tiny bicycle pedaled through the crowd and approached a line of hulking riot police.

He sat there for a moment, balancing on his training wheels, staring at the menacing troops who were decked out in blue camouflage uniforms and full riot gear, nightsticks at the ready.

A group of protesters who had been heckling the cops began jeering, “Here’s the guy that will storm the Kremlin. Be ready boys! Here he comes!”

Julia Ioffe, the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine, happened to be standing right behind him. She whipped out her iPhone and snapped a picture which she tweeted out to her over 6,000 followers with the caption “Russia’s Tianamen (sic) image.”

The photo quickly ricocheted around the internet.

Source: ABC

What was going through the minds of these armed and ready riot police as this toddler stared them down?

Today it was widely reported that the CIA thwarted a “plot by al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb.” This bomb, which was to be concealed in a pair of underwear, was designed as an improvement over what Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to use to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day of 2009. This bomb was upgraded and designed to specifically avoid metal detectors.

At first glance it would appear to be a job well done by the world’s leading domestic affairs meddlers.

But like all of these instances, it was routinely denied “there was ever any immediate threat to the public.” It was also revealed that:

The bomb plot had allegedly advanced to the point that a would-be suicide bomber was told to buy a ticket on the airliner of his choosing and decide the timing of the attack. It’s not immediately clear what happened to the would-be bomber.

It would seem that what the CIA recovered was essentially just a crudely made bomb. The supposed bomber was nowhere to be found. There is no evidence presented as to a real threat or plan to use it.

The truth was finally revealed as the would-be bomber was, in fact, a double agent of the CIA.

When considering the nature of the state, this new instance of government supported terrorism is unsurprisingly comparable to previous cases.

Looking back at the original underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the mainstream narrative nowhere matches the disturbing details. Not only was Abdulmutallab’s explosive device determined not to be functional but, according toundersecretary for management at the State Department Patrick Kennedy, his visa wasn’t confiscated and he was given access to the airplane for the purposes of conducting further investigation. This came at the request of federal counterterrorism officials.

As former Assistant Secretary to the U.S. Treasury and acclaimed commentator Paul Craig Roberts documents in regards to attempted terrorist attacks since September 11, 2001:

If we look around for the terror that the police state and a decade of war has allegedly protected us from, the terror is hard to find. Except for 9/11 itself, assuming we accept the government’s improbable conspiracy theory explanation, there have been no terror attacks on the US. Indeed, as RT pointed out on August 23, 2011, an investigative program at the University of California discovered that the domestic “terror plots” hyped in the media were plotted by FBI agents.

For example, the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York city subway plot, the plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago were all FBI brainchilds organized and managed by FBI agents.

RT reports that only three plots might have been independent of the FBI, but as none of the three worked they obviously were not the work of such a professional terror organization as Al Qaeda is purported to be. The Times Square car bomb didn’t blow up, and apparently could not have.

Think now about the airliner shoe-bomb plot, the shampoo-bottled water plot, and the underwear-bomb plot. Experts, other than the whores hired by the US government, say that these plots are nonsensical. The “shoe bomb” and “underwear bomb” were colored fireworks powders incapable of blowing up a tin can. The liquid bomb, allegedly mixed up in an airliner toilet room, has been dismissed by experts as fantasy.

Just this past May Day, the FBI reportedly foiled an attempted bombing of a bridge near Cleveland. But like many instances of domestic terrorism, this operation was aided andfacilitated by the FBI itself. On cue, authorities assured the public it “was never in any danger.”

Far from having their liberty secured, the American public is being lulled into a sense of infant dependency from engineered threats from abroad and at home.

The art of governing can be broken down into two easy steps: scare the citizenry into capitulation with manufactured threats and legislate yourself increasing amounts of power.

With the illusion of monsters from foreign countries breathing down their necks, those infatuated with “national defense” as some unworldly savior are more than willing to bow down and submit themselves to having their privacy torn to shreds for the feeling of security. They are no better than children who wrap themselves in a blanket for fear of an unknown boogeyman. The corporate media, never letting an opportunity of state worship go to waste, vets out the reports of threats with little if any vigor. The Associate Press actually found out about the newly “foiled” underwear bomb threat last week but submitted to White House demands to hold off on reporting the story. After all, there is too much money at stake to not buddy up with Washington and keep a frightened populace spoon-fed with false delusions.

The danger in such juvenile acceptance of war propaganda is the creeping hand of despotism that must emerge. For if the public is lead to believe danger lurks in every shadow of the world, it will demand greater and greater protection from exactly those who salivate at the chance to provide it. From the Patriot Act to the National Defense Authorization Act, private correspondence and due process have been casually tossed aside for the promise of safety. This vicious cycle is reinforced by contrived instances of impending doom. The ruling class creates them and then feeds off the panic.

Even Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleischer admitted that “fake” terror alerts were used in 2002 to quell growing criticism amongst the public and particular Congressmen.

The famous Randolph Bourne quote “war is the health of the state” is often invoked as a simple dictum to demonstrate the irrefutable connection between government usurpations of authority and organized combat on a massive, industrialized scale. Almost any respectable writer, historian, or economist will cite the phrase when addressing the topic of warfare. That’s because in just seven plain words the mentality and violent temperament of those who sit at the state’s controls are defined so explicitly, it completely disrobes the glory and prestige too often associated with bloodthirsty crusades of patriotism.

Murray Rothbard recognized the underlying immorality of the government’s war machine complex when he wrote:

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute domination over the economy and the society. Society becomes a herd, seeking to kill its alleged enemies, rooting out and suppressing all dissent from the official war effort, happily betraying truth for the supposed public interest. Society becomes an armed camp, with the values and the morale—as Albert Jay Nock once phrased it—of an “army on the march.”

The alleged Yemen “underwear” bomber was just another fabricated spook in the long line of mounting justifications to keep the war on terror and its profiteers going; no matter the cost. As long as the American people are still easily whipped into a frenzy over forged menaces from afar, their blood and treasure will go on to be squandered on military boondoggles and redundant intelligence agencies. War and fear end up becoming a way of life. And so does the state’s command over what could be a life of peace and tranquility for the nation it supposedly protects.

This isn’t conspiracy theory; just a recognition of the various hobgoblins, as H.L. Mencken described them, invented to justify encroaching totalitarianism.

James E. Miller holds a BS in public administration with a minor in business from Shippensburg University, PA. He is the chief blogger at the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada and a current contributor to his hometown newspaper, the Middletown Press and Journal.

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The CIA has thwarted a new plot that sought to blow up an American airliner using a new, more sophisticated underwear bomb.

Kurt Nimmo
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May 7, 2012

It may soon be a crime to wear a mask in Canada. The Harper government supports a bill proposed by Conservative backbencher Blake Richards that would slam protesters in prison for five years if they wear a mask during a demonstration.

The legislation is supported by the Conservative majority and will likely become law.

Richards said the bill will give the police more power to prevent property damage. “I think it strengthens the right for peaceful protest. It’s only when individuals engage in criminal activity or become violent where this law would apply.”

It will also allow the police to more easily photograph demonstrators and identify and target them.

Richards’ bill follows a tuition hike protest in Montreal that turned violent last month. A student federation said the riot was caused by the police after they “quickly and brutally” intervened in the protest. The police said they were responding to vandals attacking the Montreal Convention Center.

Canadian police have a documented history of inserting agents provocateurs in demonstrations and then using their behavior as an excuse to attack non-violent protesters. In 2007, police “anarchists” were caught staging violence in Montebello during a NAFTA summit.

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Editor’s note: The article below was posted on April 12. It gained no traction in the media because it does not support the political agenda of the establishment like the Treyvon Martin self defense case does. The establishment is using the case to whip up racial hysteria prior to the election and also as a way to attack the Second Amendment.

Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel Adkins, a mentally disabled Hispanic, was walking his dog by a Taco Bell in Arizona when he was almost hit by a black man at the drive thru. Adkins and the unidentified man had an angry exchange, which led the 22-year-old black man to shoot Adkins, killing him, according to Fox News.

The man was driving his car with a pregnant woman in the passenger seat. At first, the couple said that Adkins was waving a metal object, such as a pipe. However, no weapon was found at the scene, according to the local news. The man who killed Adkins claimed self-defence and has not yet been arrested.

This case is quite reminiscent of the Trayvon Martin case, in which an unarmed black teenager was killed by a neighborhood watch man, George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, who claimed self-defence and started a media frenzy about racism and was even commented upon by the president. Interestingly, Daniel Adkins is not referred to in the local stories as a “white Hispanic” although that is how many sources described George Zimmerman. Why was the shooter not identified in the news, but George Zimmerman was? How is this case different than the Trayvon Martin case, which has dominated the mainstream media?

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Prisonplanet.com
Friday, May 4, 2012

Alex Jones interviews Dan Feidt, who recently produced alarming video documentation that shows police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit drugs and encouraged them to be informants.

ABC News
April 20, 2012

A new photograph obtained exclusively by ABC News showing the bloodied back of George Zimmerman’s head, which was apparently taken three minutes after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, gives possible credence to his claim that Martin had bashed his head against the concrete as Zimmerman fought for his life.

The revelation comes as his attorney and prosecutors prepare for Zimmerman’s bail hearing today, which could result in his being released from a Florida jail. Zimmerman, 28, is being held on charges of second-degree murder for the Feb. 26 shooting of Martin, 17, which could carry a life sentence if he is convicted.

The exclusive image shows blood trickling down the back of Zimmerman’s head from two cuts. It also shows a possible contusion forming on the crown of his head. The original police report that night notes that the back of Zimmerman’s head was wet, and that he was bleeding from the nose and head.

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RT
April 4, 2012

The ICC has refused Palestine’s bid for an investigation into the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza strip on the basis that Palestine is not a recognized state. Human rights groups have strongly criticized the move, while Israel has praised it.

A prosecutor from the International Criminal Court said the investigation would get the go ahead only if the UN or its Security Council recognizes Palestine as a state.

“I need Palestine recognized as a state because I am not the prosecutor of the world; I am the prosecutor of the countries who accept my jurisdiction. I need a country accepting me and then I investigate the crimes,” Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Al Arabiya on Monday.

Israel welcomed the announcement, the Israeli Foreign Minister saying in a statement that “Israel made it clear in the first place that the ICC has no jurisdiction in this matter.”

The Israeli military incursion into Gaza began in winter of 2008, when their forces entered Gaza with the aim of stopping rocket fire into Israel. Palestinian forces continued with their rocket bombardment in return for what they described as Israeli “massacres”.

The war came to an end in January 2009 when Israel declared a ceasefire, Hamas followed suit 12 hours afterwards.

The conflict is estimated to have claimed between 1,166 and 1,417 Palestinian lives.

Rights groups rounded on the decision, a spokesperson from Amnesty International branding the move as “dangerous” and “inconsistent with the independence of the ICC.”

“It also breaches the Rome Statute, which clearly states that such matters should be considered by the institution’s judges,” said Marek Marczyñski, head of Amnesty International’s International Justice Campaign on Tuesday.

The Rome Statute is the ICC’s founding treaty and allows states not party to the statute to accept the Court’s jurisdiction.

In 2009 the Palestinian Authority officially accepted the purview of the International Court, but the country’s lack of recognition as a state still remains the stumbling block impeding the investigation.

Israel is not subject to the Rome Statute and consequently denies the ICC’s has any jurisdiction in Gaza.

Over 130 governments have supported Palestine’s status as an independent state, but the General Assembly still classifies the Palestine Liberation Organization as an observer state, as opposed to a non-member state.

The nation filed for UN membership last September, but the Security Council has yet to reach a decision as to whether it will welcome Palestine as a member state.

The lack of clarity concerning Palestine’s international status that is making it difficult for it do ask for legal action from institutions such as the ICC, says Jeff Halper, co-founder and executive director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

“The Palestinians exist in a kind of a limbo. Because they’re not a state, they don’t have access to all the instruments of international law, or of the UN system. But at the same time, international law that does apply to the occupied territories is intended to protect them. Especially the 4th Geneva Convention is not enforced by the international community.”

Halper also told RT that this ambiguity is almost a catch-22 for the Palestinians, as they are left relying on the very people they believe oppress them to protect them.

“So on the one hand, they don’t have the instruments to protect themselves, and on the other hand the international community doesn’t accept its responsibility to afford protection for the Palestinians. It’s the hugest problem we have in international law and human rights – the instruments of law exist, the courts exist, the institutions exist. But the ability to implement international law on governments like Israel is completely missing,” Halper said.

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Jonathan Benson
Natural News
February 16, 2012

A Sacramento, Cal., family was recently bombarded by a news crew from KXTV News 10 and several officials from the Natomas Unified School District (NUSD) in Sacramento County for not vaccinating their daughter. Cayleh Morrison was one of several students in her neighborhood who legally refused the Tdap vaccination for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough), which prompted a surprise ambush at her home that is now the subject of a new lawsuit.

Courthouse News Servicereports that on September 23, 2011, Heyman Matlock, the student service director of NUSD where Cayleh is a student; a school nurse; and a camera crew from KXTV came unannounced to Cayleh’s home in an attempt to forcefully administer the Tdap vaccine to her. The crew not only trespassed private property, but KXTV cameras filmed the house, the family, and a list containing detailed personal and medical information about Cayleh and the other “truant” students, all of which was broadcast on television.

“Plaintiff Leisa Wells (Cayleh’s mother) answered the door and found Mr. Matlock and the nurse on her doorstep, and was shocked to find that she was being filmed head-on by a KXTV television news crew as the crew was standing on her lawn,” says the complaint. “Mr. Matlock stated that he was there with the nurse to administer a Tdap vaccination to Cayleh Morrison. Shocked at being filmed in this interaction and with the presumptuousness of Mr. Matlock’s approach, she told him forcefully to leave, and closed the door.”

While canvassing the neighborhood in pursuit of the other unvaccinated children, Matlock apparently also implied to KXTV that Cayleh and the other children were “under an obligation to be vaccinated,” which is entirely false. California law provisions that individuals can opt out of getting vaccinated for both medical and philosophical reasons (http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx).

But Matlock made no mention of this fact during his apparent vaccination crusade, which the lawsuit identifies as “intentionally disseminat[ing] negative information” that resulted in numerous “unwelcome contacts to the family from numerous places around the country.” The family’s contact information, of course, was visually displayed on screen during the KXTV report, as part of the charade.

Cayleh’s family is currently seeking damages for trespass, invasion of privacy, conspiracy, and unlawful dissemination of private information and school and medical records.

However, vaccine “non-compliance” stunts like this one could soon be replaced by forced vaccination of students in private, as drug company-backed legislation in California is currently pushing to allow secret vaccinations of young students without parental consent (http://www.naturalnews.com/033629_vaccinations_parental_consent.html). Sources for this article include:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/10/43779.htm

Suzannah Hills
Daily Mail
February 10, 2012

A police force has apologised to an animal rights campaigner after she posted footage on YouTube of a PCSO falsely accusing her of having terrorist links.

Activist Ali Firth, 49, was filming outside a pet store in Yorkshire on her video camera when the police community support officer demanded she stop.

When she refused, the PCSO then threatened to confiscate her camera under the Terrorism Act 2000 claiming she was part of a group with known terrorist links – all of which she caught on tape.

[...] ‘Never have I been called a terrorist. It’s ridiculous.’

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ACLU demands information relating to CIA “kill list” and drone strikes on Americans

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
February 3, 2012

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week against the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, and the CIA, demanding the release of any information pertaining to the deaths of three American citizens resulting directly from drone missile strikes in 2011.

Details regarding the deaths of accused Al Qaeda leaders Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Kahn, both American citizens, have been kept under wraps. Both men were reportedly killed in targeted drone attacks last year in Yemen.

The third US citizen to be killed was Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, who was killed in a drone attack two weeks after al-Awlaki and Kahn.

At the time Obama described the death of Awlaki as a “significant milestone” in the war on terror.

“Our government’s deliberate and premeditated killing of American terrorism suspects raises profound questions that ought to be the subject of public debate,” Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU writes.

“Unfortunately the Obama administration has released very little information about the practice — its official position is that the targeted killing program is a state secret — and some of the information it has released has been misleading.” Wessler adds.

The ACLU is specifically seeking to uncover a Department of Justice memo that is said by government officials to have provided the legal justification for the killing of a U.S. citizen without due process.

Also in question is a CIA “kill list” that Awlaki is said to have been added to more than a year before he was killed. The ACLU is demanding information on the process by which Americans have been added to the secret list. A previous Freedom of Information Act request for the material was ignored by the government.

The CIA and the DOJ refuse to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of records relating to a targeted killing program.

The ACLU says the response is incredible given that details have been published in the media and spoken of by government officials.

“Some officials, including President Obama, have spoken on the record about the program. They have publicly claimed responsibility for killing al-Awlaki, and they have more generally defended the government’s right to kill citizens after a secret non-judicial process.” The ACLU statment reads.

Last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta acknowledged that the U.S. has assumed the authority to conduct targeted assassinations of U.S. citizens on the recommendations of the CIA Director and the Secretary of Defense and pursuant to the President’s authorization:

This week, President Obama followed up those sentiments by publicly defending the secret drone killing program:




“The public has a right to know the evidence and legal basis for the deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens,” the ACLU’s Wessler said. “So chilling a power must be opened to public scrutiny and debate.”

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Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
January 31, 2012

Yesterday some 50 squatters were peacefully evicted from the Occupy movement’s “Bank of Ideas” located a mile and a half from the main site at St Paul’s Cathedral, just outside the borders of City’s Corporation of London. For the last three months, they successfully squatted the formerly vacant UBS-owned building, using it as an educational centre and meeting house Occupy London participants.

Protesters were grouped together as officers and privately contracted bailiffs whom the police curiously refer to as ‘enforcement officers’, moved in to take possession of the occupied property owned by UBS.

Then things went a bit wobbly. As the London Guardian reports:

Police and enforcement officers then moved to evict squatters from another building in the complex, also owned by a subsidiary of the Swiss banking group, during which observers claim a photographer was punched in the face by a bailiff who then allegedly drove his car towards at least one person and carried another on his bonnet for 50 yards.

Jules Mattsson, the photographer who claims he was punched, told the Guardian the alleged assault was unprovoked. “I went to get a couple of frames of him, and he just hit me.” He wrote on Twitter: ”I have a right to go about my job covering news without fear of assault.”

Shortly after using his car to plough through the crowd and after alleged assaulting two journalists, the driver in question attempted to make a swift getaway at full speed – only with a protester still hanging onto the bonnet of his car as he speeds down the road. Later, the driver who was UBS corp’s privately contracted bailiff and clearly a danger to the public, was neither detained by the police on site, or brought under any form of restraint.

This particular incident could easily be classed as much more than mere assault. More aptly, it could be classed as attempted manslaughter, or perhaps attempted murder, depending on how you interpret the incident. The reckless use of a motor vehicle where pedestrians and people are concerned normally carries a serious penalty, even if no fatalities occur. The courts will rule in this way because the automobile can be classed as a lethal weapon.

Interestingly enough, some protesters allege that these bailiffs were both violent and aggressive – whilst under the supervision of officers from the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police. If would have been prudent in this case if police had moved in and applied some excessive force for the purpose of restraining UBS corp’s crazed bailiff so as to protect peaceful demonstrators, press and innocent bystanders.

Normally, the state would be seen as a protector of one’s fundamental rights in this situation, including the security of persons and property. In this case, however, we see the state standing back and watching – as representatives of a privately owned corporation apply force which is both excessive and lethal, in order to secure the property of their off shore corporation employers, in the particular instance UBS bank of Switzerland.

Clearly in this case, the rights and desires of UBS bank have trumped the basic human rights of the Occupy protesters and the press who were on site to cover the event.

In recent years, and also following the G20 protests in 2008, police in London have frequently been accused of excessive force and using dangerous methods like ‘kettling’ in order to achieve their own operational objectives. In the case of police kettling, the state has recently sided with the police’s right to apply excessive force in putting down and ‘crowd managing’ peaceful demonstrations.

What we see here is the public coming in at the bottom of the state’s list of priorities on all counts – rather than the state serving and protecting citizens who are exercising their right to free speech and assemble afforded to them by the country’s constitution.

One can only wonder how many more of these Chinese-style suppressions will it take before citizens wake up and properly acknowledge they living in a fully functional, post-modern police state.

RT’s Laura Smith reported on the UBS event as well, and see also below additional raw footage of bailiff’s vehicle rampage, juxtaposed with the famous 1989 Tiananmen Square scene:








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Innovative TED Talks Once Again Tainted by Globalist Salesmen

Tony Cartalucci
Prisonplanet.com
January 6, 2012

UK politician Paddy Ashdown, during a recent TED Talk, claims power is shifting from nation-states to a global stage where the lawless global elite will somehow create “sensible” treaty-based global governance, citing the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a prime example. While he chastises the bankers whom he calls “money changers,” he fails to note that they along with other corporate-financier interests, hold dominion over the WTO and indeed all so-called “international institutions.”

Ashdown sees the world as interdependent at an unprecedented level and that tragedy in one nation inevitably affects all others. He also claims that the nation-state is no longer a viable proposition and cites a myriad of contrived global threats, the fraudulent “War on Terror” in particular, as evidence supporting his argument.

He concludes his sales pitch for “global governance” stating that we no longer hold individual or national destinies, but a global, collective destiny. In a way Ashdown’s words are true at face value – but for those reading Agenda 21, the duplicitous plots drawn up within the halls of the Brookings Institution, or for those who watched the global elite destabilize the entire Arab World, commit genocide, and install one puppet regime after another in 2011 with more to come in 2012, it is clear that Ashdown is peddling the global elites’ vision of a one world government where the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and London hold dominion over mankind within the confines of an inescapable scientific dictatorship.

That Ashdown began his talk warning of World War III and the inevitable reordering the world is about to undergo, should prompt us to again re-read “The Middle East and Then the World” and realize that instead of the revolutionary change Ashdown promises, we are simply getting more of the same – what elites throughout the ages have always aspired toward, global empire and total, full-spectrum domination over all of mankind.

Ashdown isn’t the first British politician to pollute the TED Talks with his globalist sales pitch.British PM Gordon Brown also attempted to spin his talk of global domination as philosophical and technological revolution back in 2009.

Video: Many truly inspirational talks are given before TED, but it is those like Ashdown’s and Brown’s that make many cringe before watching another.

For those interested in disappointing Ashdown’s vision of a global government run by the monied elite, it is essential that we identify these elite, boycott and replace their system entirely, and move toward a “global power shift” that leaves our destiny not in the hands of Ashdown’s global elite, but in the hands of “we the people.”

Jeremy R. Hammond
Alt-Market
December 27, 2011

This article, originally titled “Ron Paul: Propagandist Or Prophet?”, was written by Jeremy R. Hammond and published at Foreign Policy Journal

Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul “assures audiences” that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 “took place only because of U.S. aggression and military actions”. It’s “True,” she writes, that “we’ve heard the assertions before”, but only “rarely have we heard in any American political figure such exclusive concern for, and appreciation of, the motives of those who attacked us”—and, she adds, he doesn’t care about the victims of the attacks.

The vindictive rhetoric aside, what is it, exactly, that Ron Paul is guilty of here? It is completely uncontroversial that the 9/11 attacks were a consequence of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. The 9/11 Commission Report, for instance, points out that Osama bin Laden “stresses grievances against the United States widely shared in the Muslim world. He inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the Iraqi people as a result of sanctions imposed after the Gulf War, and he protested U.S. support of Israel.”

Notice that Rabinowitz doesn’t actually deny that the 9/11 attacks were motivated by such U.S. policies as these. Rather, Ron Paul’s sin is that he actually acknowledges this truth. The fact that other political figures choose to ignore or deny this fact hardly reflects poorly on Dr. Paul. Refusing to bury one’s head deeply up one’s arse, as Rabinowitz is so obviously willing to do, is hardly a character trait to be faulted.

From this position of willful ignorance, Rabinowitz then implores her readers that “a President Paul” would “be making decisions about the nation’s defense, national security, domestic policy and much else.” The conclusion one is supposed to draw is that anyone who could actually acknowledge the ugly truth that 9/11 was a consequence of U.S. foreign policy isn’t fit for office; only someone who is willing to delude him or herself that the U.S. was attacked because “they hate our freedoms” is worthy of the presidency. Anyone who wishes to changeU.S. foreign policy is unfit; only a person who is willing to continue the status quo should be allowed a seat in the Oval Office.

Rabinowitz warns that “The world may not be ready for another American president traversing half the globe to apologize for the misdeeds of the nation he had just been elected to lead.” It’s not clear who she has in mind with the “another”, but it’s by now a familiar refrain. “I’ll never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don’t care what the facts are,” President George H. W. Bush declared to the world after a U.S. warship had shot down an Iranian civilian airliner in Iranian airspace, killing all 290 passengers aboard, including 65 children. Surely, any president willing to apologize for the murder of innocent children must not lead the nation. The horror of the thought!

And then there is Dr. Paul’s position with respect to Iran. He recently urged his host in an interview “to understand that Iran’s leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had never mentioned any intention of wiping Israel off the map.” Here, again, it’s notable that Rabinowitz doesn’t actually dispute this. Dr. Paul is, of course, correct. The claim that Iran has threatened to acquire nuclear weapons to “wipe Israel off the map” is a complete fabrication of Western media propaganda, and mainstream corporate news agencies know it is a fabrication, but repeat it obligatorily anyway.

Rabinowitz presumably does, as well, so instead of challenging Dr. Paul on the facts, she quotes him saying “They’re just defending themselves” and writing, “Presumably he was referring to Iran’s wishes for a bomb.” In the interview referred to, Dr. Paul had said, “I don’t want them to get the nuclear weapon”, but pointed out that Israel’s defense minister, “Ehud Barak said that they’re acting logically, and they’re acting in their self-interest, and if he was an Iranian, he would probably think the same way” (Dr. Paul is correct on this, also; it’s true thatBarak has “quipped that if he were an Iranian, he would take part in the development of nuclear weapons”).

Rabinowitz also disinclines herself to point out what Dr. Paul said next: “But there is a gross distortion to this debate that they are on the verge of a nuclear weapon. There is no evidence that they are on the verge of a nuclear weapon, and we shouldn’t be ready to start another war” (Dr. Paul is correct on this, too, and has rightly drawn parallels to the current propaganda about Iran and the lies that preceded the war on Iraq).

So, once again, we see that Ron Paul’s true sin is his failure to jump on board with the war propaganda. A further sin is that he said after 9/11 that “there was ‘glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq.’” But is the contention that those policymakers responsible for the war on Iraq were not happy that they now had the opportunity to do so sustainable? Is Rabinowitz unaware that in 1996, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser coauthored a document prepared for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, which made the case for overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s regime? Or that the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), whose membership was a virtual who’s who of so-called “neoconservatives” calling for war on Iraq, had a manifesto calling for regime change and stating that the “process of transformation” of the U.S. military into a force to “preserve American military preeminence” around the globe “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor”? That PNAC director Robert Kagan acknowledged that the 9/11 attacks were the “Pearl Harbor” he and his ilk were looking for,writing in the Washington Post that 9/11 must be used to “to launch a new era of American internationalism. Let’s not squander this opportunity”?

Yet again, it becomes evident that Ron Paul’s sin is that he is too willing to be honest with the American people and speak the truth about U.S. foreign policy. Just as Dr. Paul predicted and warned about the housing bubble and financial crisis of 2008, so did he predict and warn prior to 9/11 that U.S. foreign policy would result in what the intelligence community terms “blowback”. Ron Paul has a long record of speaking truth to power and making predictions that have come to pass.

Rabinowitz concludes, “It seemed improbable that the best-known of American propagandists for our enemies could be near the top of the pack in the Iowa contest, but there it is.” That Ron Paul has emerged in Iowa as a frontrunner is a hopeful sign that Americans are waking up to the realities of U.S. foreign policy and are tired of crude propagandists for U.S. wars and empire insulting their intelligence, as Rabinowitz—who is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board—does so well in her column.

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Are Citizen’s safe from Police? One has to wonder why corruption is at an all time high and the General Public no longer has any faith in the Police.



Police reviews, Police State, New World Order, violence in the streets,

There are disturbing images: police officers kicking, hog-tying, maiming suspects and, sometimes, innocent citizens. Captured on surveillance videos and by cellphone cameras. CTV's - W5 looks at cases in Victoria, Ontario where it seems no matter how damning the evidence, the officers involved get off with few penalties.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20111112/w5-copout-11112/

Mary Dartis, W5 Staff

Date: Sat. Nov. 12 2011 6:54 PM ET

On March 21, 2010 Tyler Archer was enjoying a night out in downtown Victoria. What Archer never imagined was it would end with him being featured in a video at the centre of a police controversy.

Archer insists he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He told W5 that he and a friend were walking down the street when a group of men, who had been thrown out of a local nightclub, came up to them and started a fight. Tyler ended up with a bloodied and broken nose. When police arrived to break up the fight, Tyler was relieved. His friend approached one of the officers -- Const. Chris Bowser -- to ask for help but, instead of assisting Archer, the officer ordered him to the ground.

"I remember them telling me to get my hands behind my back and I was trying to but it was kind of awkward. Like I'll be right on my face," Archer recounted. He claims that he tried to comply with the officer's requests but before he was able to Bowser kicked him in the ribs and repeatedly kneed him in the back.

The scene videotaped by a passerby and posted online went viral on YouTube within days. At the time, Victoria Police Chief Jamie Graham held a news conference and admitted that "the images were disturbing."

Graham ordered two police investigations into the incident: one by Vancouver police and the other by Calgary police. Bowser claimed that Archer was resisting him -- although the video appears to show Archer complying with the officer's orders. The Vancouver investigation found that Const. Bowser had not used excessive force. Based on that report, the Criminal Justice Branch of British Columbia decided no charges should be laid. The Calgary investigation, however, concluded that Bowser had used unnecessary force.

Regardless of the Calgary Police findings, Graham feels his officer was exonerated. In an interview he told W5 that Const. Bowser's actions that night might be grounds for a commendation.

"Everything the officer did in terms of gaining control of a set of circumstances, his calmness in what obviously was a stressful situation, while unpleasant to some and being perceived a certain way, might be worthy of a commendation," Graham said.

But the Archer case is not the first example of Victoria police excusing what appears to be excessive violence by its officers.

In 2004, college student Thomas McKay was celebrating the end of exams when he was arrested for public intoxication. He was taken to the Victoria police station. Surveillance cameras captured McKay being thrown to the ground while still handcuffed. His head hit the concrete floor, cracking his skull. As a result McKay suffered permanent brain damage. Yet, an internal investigation by Victoria Police determined the officer did nothing wrong. McKay later sued the City of Victoria and received an out-of-court settlement that is believed to be in the millions of dollars.

In another case, in 2005, 15-year-old Willow Kinloch was arrested for being drunk in public. The teenager was taken to the Victoria Police station. Surveillance cameras show three burly officers subduing her on the floor where she was left, handcuffed, and legs tied together; hog tied in a jail cell for four hours. Once again an internal police investigation found the officers had done nothing wrong. Kinloch later sued the officers involved and the City of Victoria and was awarded $60,000 in damages.

Despite several incidents, each with graphic videotaped evidence that suggests unchecked violence by Victoria police officers, the force seems unable or unwilling to admit wrongdoing by its own officers.

Not so, insists Chief Graham, who claims that he's not soft on policing his fellow cops. "I've been involved in many, many cases where I investigated other police. I don't have a problem doing that and I have found officers at fault, and I've terminated people" he said.

Yet critics suggest that British Columbia has a problem when it comes to police accountability. David Eby, Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said that allowing police to police themselves simply isn't working.

"You would imagine if someone is alleging that police are involved in a sexual assault or a corruption, or a serious injury to someone, that that would be the most thorough investigation, the most complete. And if a police officer is allege to have been rude to someone during a traffic stop then that's something that would be a little more casual. In fact it was the complete opposite," said Eby.

The B.C. government is currently in the process of creating an independent, civilian-led office that will investigate incidents, involving police officers, that result in death or serious harm. But critics are already complaining that the first two hires for this new civilian body were two former RCMP officers.

As for Tyler Archer's mother, Marnie Faust, she still can't believe that the actions of the Victoria police officer kicking her son -- captured so graphically on video -- could ever be justified.

"They still try and say there is nothing wrong with this" she said. "Who can watch that and not think there's something wrong with that?"

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20111112/w5-copout-11112/

W5 takes on the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) with a special investigation. Victor Malarek exposes questions about how effective the Ontario agency really is in 'Above the Law.'

A 21-year battle between Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, police forces, and various police associations has left the SIU a "toothless tiger," according to some.

Responsible for investigating police officers involved in the serious injury or death of civilians, critics say the SIU hasn't been able to do its job because of police interference condoned and even encouraged by police associations.

Not new problems for the SIU

When W5 sat down with Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, author of a 2008 report on the SIU, it soon became apparent that problems identified by the former SIU director persist to this day.

Marin's report entitled "Oversight Unseen," identifies crucial issues affecting the efficacy of the SIU.

The more glaring and disturbing problems identified by Marin include delays in police forces notifying SIU of an incident; resistance by subject and witness officers to disclosing their notes without prior vetting by a lawyer; shared legal counsel by the suspect officer and witness officers; and reluctance by police officers to submit to SIU interviews.

Notification to SIU

On the issue of delayed notification to the SIU, Marin asserts "when the legislation says immediate notification, how can you be more clear than the word immediate ... if a police agency decides to call three days later, they'll get I presume a complaint letter from the SIU which will or will not be answered. But there's no consequence for that police agency."

Police Notes and Interviews

The Ombudsman explains what should happen in a SIU investigation where police co-operate. "SIU cases with the right level of co-operation should always be resolved in a matter of days, not weeks and months."

The delay in the delivery of notes and interviews with officers can mean a protracted and weakened investigation.

In his 2008 report, Marin argued for more prompt interviews with witness officers, stating "our investigation found that the problem of delayed witness officer interviews has persisted to this day, and continues to compromise the integrity of the SIU's investigative process."

The Blue Wall

At the root of problems with the way the SIU conducts investigations is what Marin calls "the thin blue line." Marin says, "the police unions take control of the situation...they will defend and protect members regardless of whether or not they believe that person has committed a wrong doing."

Marin's observations echoed an earlier study on the SIU, released in 2003, for the Attorney General. Retired Justice George Adams also noted "the difficulty for the SIU has been in dealing with the PAO [Police Association of Ontario.]"

Larry Molyneaux, President of the Police Association of Ontario, stands by his association's position. In response to Marin's concerns, Molyneaux told W5, "I find that report being very biased and very theatrical, and I have no respect for that report whatsoever."

Molyneaux firmly believes that all officers must have the right to seek counsel prior to handing over notes or submitting to interviews and says sharing counsel only happens occasionally in remote areas of the province.

According to Marin, stronger legislation and support from the Attorney General is the only answer to achieving a more effective SIU. "That's why we've been emphasizing to the Ministry of the Attorney General that it has a role to play in backing up the SIU" said Marin. "The director of the SIU cannot cause consequences to happen to police agencies who thumb their nose to civilian oversight. So that's where the rest of government needs to come in and they've been rather invisible through all of this."

Ontario Attorney General, Chris Bentley told W5 the issue is being studied. "We have former Chief Justice LeSage who is doing some very important and good work right now, to see if we can not only improve communications but figure out how to deal with some of the issues that have been around for twenty years," said Bentley.

Five weeks after W5 caught up with the Attorney General, and two days before the W5 broadcast, LeSage's report was released.

After a 15-month review of the SIU and police relations, the three-page report calls for a number of significant changes including the recommendation that witness officers and subject officers not be allowed to share legal counsel. Lesage also recommended that officers involved in a SIU investigation not be allowed to communicate with each other about the incident.

The Attorney General has vowed to act swiftly on LeSage's recommendations.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20110408/w5-above-the-law-110409/

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Tony Cartalucci
Prisonplanet.com
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

From the remorseless liars that brought America into the Iraq War, have kept the US mired in Afghanistan for now over a decade, oversaw the genocide in Libyawrought by NATO-backed Al Qaeda terrorists, and are attempting to incite war with both Syria and Iran, comes a frothing, if not entirely elementary attack against one of the few obstacles that stands in their way of perpetual war fought at America’s expense but for their personal gain. That obstacle is Ron Paul and the Constitutional reawakening he has spurred.

Leading the charge is a slightly misfitting addition to the Neo-Conservative corporate-fascist propaganda machine, openly-homosexual warmongering “libertarian” James Kirchick. While Kirchick’s sexual orientation really is a matter of his own personal business, the necessity of him making it a public issue and the fact that those he works for have used anti-homosexual rhetoric to manipulate the American political landscape for decades is already a display of undermining and astounding hypocrisy.

Photo: James Kirchick, of the Neo-Con corporate-fascist “Foundation for the Defense of Democracies” leads the attack on Ron Paul. Having previously worked for the US State Department funded Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL), he is no stranger to peddling propaganda.

Kirchick’s argument is based on the same tired, already addressed “newsletter” published in Ron Paul’s name decades ago, and despite none of the articles cited by Kirchick actually even being written by Ron Paul, he still enjoys preceding each accusation with, “He says…” Kirchick’s servile obedience to the Neo-Con agenda, which has cultivated and is directing Ron Paul’s competition - Cain, Romney, Perry, and Gingrich – is fairly obvious to detect. However, it is now a matter of record that Kirchick literally sits, as a “fellow” within a Neo-Con corporate and US State Department-funded think-tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).

The FDD features as its “executive team,” the likes of James Woolsey and Clifford May while its “leadership council” includes Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Max Kampelman, Bill Kristol, and Senator Joseph Lieberman. Richard Perle, Eric Cantor, Gary Bauer, and Charles Krauthammer sit on the FDD’s “board of advisors,” while Reuel Marc Gerecht, Bill Roggio, and James Kirchick himself sit as FDD “fellows.” Truly exemplary of everything that is wrong with America, and everything Ron Paul and the ideals he promotes aim at fixing, the FDD is a weed that needs to be pulled from America’s political landscape. (For further reading regarding these names, please see “NED & Freedom House are run by Warmongering Imperialists,” “Neo-Cons for Human Rights?” and to see a good example of FDD’s contrived propaganda exposed and in action, “Neo-Con Infomercial: Iranium.”)

Of course, despite a “Democratic” president sitting in the White House, America’s foreign and domestic policy has been drawn up and carried out by corporate-fascists who hold sway over both sides of America’s political aisle. “Obama’s” military adventure in Libya, for instance, wasnot only supported by what Americans might call “Neo-Conservatives,” but the war itself was drawn up by them in the first place. This indicates an overarching agenda that transcends presidencies and the perceived political ideologies they supposedly adhere to. The necessity then, to keep puppets like Bush or Obama in place is realized, as any truly independent, principled president would expose and disrupt this long running charade.

From April, 2011′s “The Globalists Coming Full Circle:”

“Ten days after 9/11, General Wesley Clark visited the Pentagon where an officer from the Joint Staff warned him of an impending attack on Iraq. After the Afghan invasion, this officer shared with Clark a document handed down from the Office of the Secretary of Defense indicating plans to attack and destroy the governments of 7 countries; Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon and Libya. General Wesley Clark would go on to share this story in a 2007 speech given to the Commonwealth Club of California where he repeated this list.

Of course, the campaigns have already begun against each of the nations Clark listed. Iraq was invaded, decimated, and has been occupied by US troops since 2003. In 2006, Israel attempted to invade and dismantle Hezbollah in Lebanon but the conflict ended in a stalemate and an eventual Israeli withdrawal. Somalia was attacked by a proxy Ethiopian invasion force with US air support starting in 2007, but it too eventually ended in failure. A silent war has already begun within Iran, including covert military operations, the arming of terrorists, assassinations, and 2 failed US backed color revolutions. Sudan has been recently carved into two states and Syria is now being intentionally destabilized by US trained and funded activists.

And now, of course in Libya’s case, aerial bombardment by US, UK, and French warplanes has begun, while the CIA and MI6 are on the ground attempting to collapse the Qaddafi regime.

Wesley Clark would backtrack in his 2007 talk in California and recall a conversation he had in 1991 with then Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz regarding Desert Storm. Clark was told that America’s intervention in Iraq proved that the US could use its military force and the Soviets wouldn’t stop them. Wolfowitz said the US had 5-10 years to clean up the old Soviet “client regimes” before the next super power rose up and challenged western hegemony. Clark claimed that this, along with the aftermath of 9/11 constituted a policy coup where Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and the other members of the of Project for a New American Century had hijacked US foreign policy to destabilize and turn the nations of the Middle East upside down – much the way they are now. The “Neo-Conservative” element of this current round of destabilization goes deeper than the promotion of war, as the “Neo-Cons” have uncharacteristically dedicated themselves to “human rights” and “democracy” side-by-side with the likes of George Soros and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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We Are Change
December 19, 2011

We Are Change randomly meets up NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly on the streets on NYC and asks him about the numerous incidents of police brutality during Occupy Wall Street. Recorded 12.16.11.

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Saman Mohammadi
The Excavator
December 18, 2011

“Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.” – Joost A. M. Meerloo, “The Rape of The Mind.” (1956).

“Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. Culture could not be a striving if it did not first of all fulfil the imperative task of maintaining security and order. From the requirement of order springs all that is authority, from that of security all that is law. At the bottom of scores of different systems of law and government there are always the social groupings whose striving for betterment gives rise to culture.” – Johan Huizinga, ”In The Shadow of Tomorrow,” p. 42-43. (1936).

“In a government of law, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis.

The indefinite detention bill that was passed by Congress and approved by President Barack Obama is null and void.

Like every rotten piece of post-9/11 legislation, this bill is based on the false pretext that America is legitimately at war against terrorism and that the 50 states in the Union are part of the global battlefield. But this is a totalitarian myth.

America was not attacked by hidden terrorists from the Middle East – but by in-your-face traitors from within the White House with the assistance of criminal conspirators. These government gangsters and state terrorists unleashed global anarchy on September 11, 2001.

You and I have not directly experienced Washington’s violent anarchy, but we will soon. Expect the worst. Don’t expect to be safe from Washington’s long arm of death.

Every Iraqi, Pakistani, and Afghan will tell you what America’s war of terror is all about. It has nothing to do with keeping America and the West safe from terrorists.

The 9/11 lie has served as the cultural, political, and psychological bedrock for all the post-9/11 legislative changes in the West and the criminal wars in the Middle East.

If this lie is not destroyed and dethroned from the status of public orthodoxy, then the consequences of this lie will completely destroy our individual rights, our free societies, our democratic systems, and our common faith in the rule of law.

This terrible outcome is preventable if enough people wake up in time and recognize that the holocaust of truth by government gangsters always leads to the holocaust of human beings.

One critical point needs to be made a thousand times: The biggest enemy that threatens the liberty, security, and prosperity of the American people is not the invented terrorist group Al-Qaeda, or Iran, or China, but the hijacked and treasonous government in Washington. It is a failed terrorist state.

It is a matter of public record that members of the Obama administration, including President Obama, have committed federal crimes, war crimes, and the crime of treason. They have followed in the footsteps of their predecessors in the administrations of Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, and Johnson.

As a result, Barack Obama has no authority to be President, and the hijacked Congress has no authority to make any laws. They have lost the confidence of the American people.

A bad government has no authority over a good people.

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Sovereign Citizen movement subject of shadowy ADL/Ventura County confab

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department has teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League to sponsor a quasi-secret meeting in Camarillo, California that characterizes small government activists as violent terrorists.

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Entitled The Sovereign Citizen Movement: Exploring Their Ideology & Indicators, the conference is set to take place on January 5th, 2012 and is only open to “Public Safety Personnel”. The precise location of the meeting is only made known to “reviewed and cleared” attendees, a measure of secrecy crafted to imply that members of the Sovereign Citizen movement are a potential violent threat.

Indeed, a flyer for the event written by the ADL’s Joanna Mendelson characterizes the movement as a “right-wing anarchist” fringe group that uses “paper terrorism” to pursue its cause of restoring minimalist government and resorts to harassment, intimidation and violence.

“This seminar is sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and facilitated by the Ventura Country Sheriff’s Intelligence Unit,” states the flyer.

Click here to see the document in full.

The ADL’s close relationship with the Ventura County Sheriff’s office has prompted accusations that police have acted on ADL orders to harass local activists and Ron Paul supporters.

The Sovereign Citizen movement, which describes itself as “non-violent,” is routinely the target of smear attacks by groups like the ADL as well as the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The movement is based around the premise of adhering only to common law and using the legal system to escape from being a “federal citizen” subject to the mandates of the federal government.

In the post-9/11 climate of fear and paranoia generated by the state, distrust of government is defined as ‘homegrown violent extremism’. The establishment media has also been eager to denounce the Sovereign Citizens movement as likely terrorists.

Last year, the FBI admitted that it was spying on members of the movement, characterizing the group as “among the nation’s top domestic terrorist threats, along with animal rights/eco-terrorism, anarchists, and lone offenders with extremist agendas,” while encouraging Americans to act as Stasi-like secret police and inform on its members.

“First, ‘be crime smart’: don’t fall for the bogus claims and scams of sovereign citizens. And second, if you have information on any suspicious activities or crimes, please contact us,” the FBI told the Homeland Security Newswire last year.

The ADL routinely mixes in non-violent activist movements with white supremacists and genuinely violent and distasteful groups to demonize big government critics, constitutionalists and libertarians as domestic extremists. The organization is obsessed with eviscerating the free speech of its political adversaries.

Groups like the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center have created a cottage industry out of promoting fear of domestic extremism, a business model that continues to net such organizations millions in funding every year.

The ADL poses as a civil rights agency yet acts as a political lobbying group representing the interests of the US establishment and Israel. In his book Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Jewish author Norman G. Finkelstein documents how the ADL uses the labels of anti-Semitism and extremism to silence people who expose misdeeds and atrocities committed by the Israeli government.

As Sourcewatch documents, “The ADL also has a history of espionage against US citizens who are critical of Israel.”

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership have vehemently criticized the ADL for lobbying for “Nazi-based” gun laws that eviscerate the second amendment, illustrating how the organization exploits fears over anti-Semitism to push for gun control measures that actually disenfranchise Jewish-Americans.

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RT
December 13, 2011

Predator drones have been used to fight the war on terror worldwide. Recently Iran shot down a US drone flying over the country and now reports have surfaced indicating these same drones are being used on American citizens. Alex Jones, radio show host, joins us to help us dig deeper and find out why US citizens are being targeted.



Government Terrorism is on the rise in America.

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DHS chief is proud at being named after the fictional dictator of a totalitarian state

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, December 9, 2011

After being asked if the encroaching eyes of big government were giving the U.S. a bad name during a CFR event earlier today, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano responded by saying she was pleased with being dubbed “Big Sis” by the Drudge Report.

The comments appear after the 17 minute mark.

Discussing airport security, moderator Terry Moran stated, “There is this sense of encroaching eyes of government on us at every single stage, you get that all the time, so what do you say as you reach these agreements, push our borders and the United States’ way of doing things out into countries which have different traditions and values, perhaps? Is big sister watching?”

“I think ‘big sis’ is my moniker in the Drudge Report,” responded Napolitano.

“I knew I’d actually made it when I had my own name in the Drudge Report. You know, that’s the standard,” joked the DHS chief, pumping her fist in the air, and receiving a few chuckles in response from the CFR elitists in the audience.

Unfortunately for Napolitano, being named after a fictional dictator of a totalitarian state where the government keeps constant surveillance of its citizens is not something to be proud of.

Napolitano is obviously very pleased with herself for riling the privacy-oriented Matt Drudge and his millions of readers. Back in September, she also referenced the moniker during a Politico breakfast meeting.

“I think that what he means is we are watching too much—kind of an Orwellian view. He’s just wrong. I mean, he’s just wrong,” Napolitano declared.

As we subsequently documented, it is in fact Napolitano and the despised federal agency she fronts which has been repeatedly been proven wrong on privacy issues.

Homeland Security and its subsidiary the TSA have been caught time and time again lying about both privacy and health issues in a transparent ploy to undermine genuine concerns.

The DHS has repeatedly lied about the privacy and health threats posed by naked body scanners in an effort to keep the controversy under wraps, as well as withholding evidence.

It has also taken on the very “Orwellian” role Napolitano dismisses by placing journalists and others who have been critical of the TSA on terrorist watch lists.

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1. ‘Big Sis’ Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy
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3. Speaking in Paris, Napolitano Focuses on Lone Wolf Terrorism
4. Senate Tells Employees Not to Read Drudge Report
5. Napolitano lashes out at border critics
6. DHS Chief Napolitano: Military to Aid Civilian Cybersecurity
7. Drudge Fought The TSA… And Drudge Won
8. Statement by Secretary Napolitano on Senator Lieberman’s Retirement
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10. Terror Threat Highest Since Sept. 11 Attacks, Napolitano Says
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NBC News Content To Be Provided By Billionaire Obama, MoveOn Donors

Steve Watson | Powerful special interests masquerading as partisan media.

Powerful special interests masquerading as partisan media

NBC has reached an agreement to broadcast news content provided by a media organisation run by a team that has ploughed millions of dollars into campaigning for Barack Obama and donated large cash amounts to organisations such as the George Soros affiliated MoveOn.org and the now defunct ACORN.

The LA Times reports that NBC has opened up the newsrooms of all its affiliates across the country to ProPublica, which describes itself as an “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.”

NBC affiliated and Comcast owned radio stations will also broadcast ProPublica content under the agreement.

“The arrangement comes as Comcast moves to fulfill its commitment to federal regulators to strengthen local, public-interest programming in the wake of its purchase of NBCUniversal earlier this year.” the Times report states.

NBC stations will also produce their own stories based upon ProPublica’s output.

“We put the reporting at their fingertips and they can do terrific local stories with it,” said Richard Tofel, general manager for ProPublica.

The development represents yet another infiltration of corporate news media by special interests with their own political agenda.

ProPublica already delivers content to more than 50 different news organizations, including 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC World News, USA Today, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, Salon.com, Slate, MSN Money, MSNBC.com, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Business Week, This American Life, and NPR among many others.

The organisation operates with a bounty of $10 million per year from married billionairesHerbert and Marion Sandler, who are the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, formerly one of the largest mortgage lenders in the US.

The couple sold the company to the Wachovia Corporation for $26 billion in 2008. The ramifications for each party in the deal could not have been more contrasting when the financial collapse hit just months after the acquisition.

Though it claims to be nonpartisan, the intention behind Propublica’s output becomes clear with examination of other donations regularly made by The Sandlers.

Federal Election Commission database records show that they have donated hundreds of thousands to the Democratic Party and funded MoveOn.org to the tune of $2.5 million. They are or have also been involved with a host of other partisan organisations including ACORN, Media Matters and The Democracy Alliance.

The Sandlers also regularly contribute to the Center for American Progress, a Washington lobbyist group that has direct and weighty influence on Obama Administration policy.

As ever, globalist stalwart George Soros also has his tentacles in ProPublica, given that in 2010 it received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

In a revealing piece for The American Thinker, Ed Lasky comments that the Sandlers “are not merely out to elect Democrats, but to also permanently realign U.S. politics and shift our society and culture in a far-left wing direction.”

The level of news content ownership and distribution by corporations and special interests groups has reached such an extreme that Americans can no longer turn on the television or tune into the radio without being bombarded by carefully crafted and paid for propaganda from both ends of the political spectrum.

It is no surprise or coincidence that we have witnessed a seismic shift in audiences away from the dinosaur media and towards the alternative online media. However, with groups such as ProPublica and MoveOn, we are now witnessing an attempt on behalf of powerful special interests to masquerade as alternative grassroots media sources, when in reality they merely represent an attempt at reinvention on behalf of the exposed establishment.

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GINGER THOMPSON
NY Times
December 4, 2011

WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials.

The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders, those officials said, to identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are.

They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.

The officials said that while the D.E.A. conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years. The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency’s effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, and blur the line between surveillance and facilitating crime. As it launders drug money, the agency often allows cartels to continue their operations over months or even years before making seizures or arrests.

Full article here

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Guardian
December 1, 2011

Corruption around the world remains a deeply entrenched, global concern according to Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) - the world’s most credible measure of of domestic, public sector corruption.

This year, two thirds of countries covered by the index were given scores less than 5 – which means they are considered significantly corrupt.

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Les Whittington
thestar.com
December 1, 2011

OTTAWA—Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in Canada along with the RCMP as part of far-reaching changes in Canadian-American border operations to be unveiled next week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama.

The joint action plan to be announced at the White House will also break new ground by introducing exit-entry records that will track the movements of everyone who leaves the United States or Canada, with the information available to authorities in both countries.

In the months and years ahead, the deal between Ottawa and Washington will reshape security, travel and commercial arrangements at the border in a variety of profound ways — some of which have already raised alarms among Canadians.

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KeVIN Bankston and Lee Tien
Eff.org
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Proposal Would Gut Privacy Laws, Allow Unprecedented Data-Grab by Government

We’re for better network, computer, and device security. Unfortunately, “cybersecurity” bills often go off track—case in point: the “ Internet kill switch. “ The latest example comes courtesy of the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee. Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) are introducing “The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011“(PDF).

The bill would allow a broad swath of ISPs and other private entities to “use cybersecurity systems” to collect and share masses of user data with the government, other businesses, or “any other entity” so long as it’s for a vaguely-defined “cybersecurity purpose.” It would trump existing privacy statutes that strictly limit the interception and disclosure of your private communications data, as well as any other state or federal law that might get in the way. Indeed, the language may be broad enough to bless the covert use of spyware if done in “good faith” for a “cybersecurity purpose.”

This broad data-sharing between companies wouldn’t be subject to any oversight or transparency measures (users can’t restrict companies’ sharing), while the only oversight for sharing with the federal government, ironically, would be through the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—which hasn’t existed since January 2008.

Worse yet, the bill doesn’t limit what the federal government can do with the data or private communications that ISPs and others hand over, except to say that it can’t be used for “regulatory” purposes—apparently it can be used for law enforcement and intelligence targeting purposes.

Based on how this proposal diverges from the White House’s own cybersecurity proposal from May 12, we hope and expect that the Administration isn’t happy with this House Intelligence bill for several reasons—insufficient privacy protections, lack of oversight, skepticism about efficacy. Perhaps at the top of the list is concern over the fact that the bill allows information sharing with any federal agency—including the National Security Agency (NSA)—thereby threatening civilian control of domestic cybersecurity efforts.

As Rod Beckstrom, former Director of DHS’s National Cybersecurity Center, said when he resigned in March 2009:

“NSA currently dominates most national cyber efforts…. I believe this is a bad strategy…. The intelligence culture is very different from a network operations or a security culture [and] the threats to our democratic processes are significant if all top level government network security and monitoring are handled by any one organization (either directly or indirectly).

Considering how greatly this bill would change the law and cybersecurity policy generally, the timing is especially shocking: the bill, introduced today, was only shown to privacy advocates such as EFF yesterday, and yet the Committee intends to “mark-up” and vote on whether to recommend passage of the bill TOMORROW.

Lawmakers should not rush to approve such a broad expansion of government power to obtain private information about its citizens without so much as a hearing on the bill. EFF flatly opposes this bill, and urges House Intelligence Committee members to oppose the bill and support any amendments to make it more privacy-protective if and when the Committee considers the proposal tomorrow. Eviscerating our online privacy protections won’t strengthen our cybersecurity, it will only undermine it.

Political Vel Craft
November 16, 2011

As more people became dissatisfied with federal government controls and land grabs, it was inevitable that local law enforcement would eventually see the bigger picture. At the northern California fairgrounds of Yreka last month, seven California sheriffs and another from Oregon gathered with a large group of citizens to say that they are finally going to do something about it.

“A giant has been awakened,” said Plumas County, Calif. Sheriff Greg Hagwood, “and they didn’t count on that,” speaking of the federal bureaucracy.

With exposure of the Emergency Management Center in San Luis Obispo a few decades ago, California began to offer the rest of the nation some evidence of the psychological conditioning aimed from the federal level at state, county and city law enforcement.

Dean Wilson, sheriff of Del Norte County (Sacramento), is a great example of this great awakening. He received the loudest and longest applause for his candor in confessing past faults after apologizing for not understanding the central government assault and land grab being committed against the people and what he should have been doing about it. Only in the past year has he done a turnaround and begun to behave as a county sheriff instead of an extension of federal law enforcement.

“I had spent a good part of my life enforcing the penal code, but not understanding my oath of office,” he told the audience. “I was ignorant and naïve, but now I know of the assault against our people by the federal government.”

Host sheriff John Lopey of Siskiyou County, speaking about the federal environmental intervention, said: “I have told federal and state officials over and over that, yes, we want to preserve the environment, but you care more about the fish, frogs, trees and birds than you do about the human race. When will you start to balance your decisions to the needs of the people?” Later he told the audience, “We are right now in a fight for our survival.”

Glenn Palmer, sheriff of Grant County, Oregon, said, “If an elected official has not taken an oath of office, he does not belong in office.”

AFP readers are familiar with the work of former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, who has spent the latter half of his life teaching sheriffs that they are the top law enforcement officers in their counties despite continuing federal intervention attempts. The ears that were deaf for so long may finally be starting to hear.

“It’s becoming a national movement now,” Mack told AFP, citing Immigration and Naturalization Service failure at the Mexican borders, the phony drug war, plus IRS and other unconstitutional intervention within these states.

His plans to take this movement national will be launched at a January meeting, where he anticipates 200 sheriffs will be in attendance.

“The county sheriff is the last line of defense guarding our people’s liberty,” he said.

Retired USAF Col. Richard Niemela of Reston, Va. has been exposing the federal monster for years.

He told AFP: “It’s the surreptitious domination by international globalists insidiously using unauthorized and illegal tactics to render null and void those historic and unique powers of the sheriff.”

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Ventura Decries “Fascist” America After Judge Tosses TSA Case

Lawyer told case could not go to jury trial due to “secrecy reasons” over “national security”

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, November 4, 2011

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura said he would now refer to the country of his birth as the “Fascist States of America” after a judge dismissed his case challenging airport pat downs, adding that his only recourse now would be to run for President.

“Ventura made his comments outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where in January he sued to challenge the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security procedures,” reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “The suit was thrown out because Congress set up the law so that all such challenges must be brought directly in Circuit Courts of Appeals, wrote U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.”

“They said they don’t have jurisdiction,” Ventura told reporters. “Well my question is if the federal courts don’t have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?”

A further detail that Ventura revealed on the Alex Jones Show which has not been picked up by mainstream media reports is the fact that Ventura’s lawyer was told the case could not go to a jury trial due to “secrecy reasons” related to national security.

“You cannot know what’s legal for the TSA to do or not, it’s considered national security, so there’s no way to know if you’re being abused or not,” said Ventura, adding, “The judge said it in the ruling, it’s secret and we have no way of knowing whether the Governor was abused or not.”

Speaking to the Alex Jones Show today, Ventura spoke of his fury about how an American citizen was not even allowed to go to court to defend the Bill of Rights, adding that from now on he would refer to the U.S. as the “Fascist States of America” and would refuse to stand for the national anthem.

Vowing to “never fly commercial” again, Ventura gave a passionate press conference today, expressing his anger at TSA grope down procedures that force people like himself with metal implants to go through humiliating pat downs every time they pass through airport security.

“I want a trial by jury. They tell me I can have a jury decide my fate!” Ventura said, refering to the judge who dismissed the case as a “coward”. “If given a jury, I will win,” he added.

Ventura said the fact that he would have to go to the lengths of becoming President simply to have his day in court with the TSA was ridiculous. Asked by a reporter whether he was planning to run, Ventura responded, “I’m thinking about it.”

“I will not, in a free country, be treated like a criminal,” said Ventura, adding that he and his wife intended to apply for Mexican citizenship.

Referring to 9/11, Ventura questioned the reasoning behind the whole war on terror. “George Bush said we were attacked because they were jealous of our freedoms. So we take away our freedoms so they won’t be jealous anymore?” he said. “I think they’re winning.”

During his interview on the Alex Jones Show, Ventura put out a ‘come and get me’ plea to the Libertarian Party, indicating that he will run for President if they approach him. Ventura has also said he would seriously consider being Ron Paul’s Vice-President pick if the Congressman was successful in the Republican nomination or if Paul ran as the Libertarian Party candidate.

Former Governor chastises establishment press over indictment of his patriotism

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura today slammed the media for lying in their suggestion that his effort to seek Mexican citizenship meant he was giving up his U.S. citizenship, calling the smear an attempt to portray him as unpatriotic.

Ventura set the record straight during an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, saying he had been misquoted on “wanting to give up my U.S. citizenship, I never once stated that,” adding that he was merely seeking dual citizenship because he and his wife lived half the year in Mexico anyway.

In the aftermath of his press conference on Friday, some reports announced that Ventura was “abandoning his citizenship” and running away to Mexico in response to a judge tossing out his case against TSA groping in airports.

“I love my country, not my government,” Ventura remarked in response to reports that had characterized him as unpatriotic.

“I never said that I’m giving up my U.S. citizenship, that’s a lie….they don’t even focus on what the case is about,” said Ventura, criticizing the media for focusing on provocative statements rather than why Ventura was denied a trial.

However, Ventura did repeat his vow to recognize the national anthem differently, saying he would bow his head in shame because he now lived in a country which didn’t allow him his constitutional rights.

Ventura said he had “run into a brick wall” with the mainstream media in their failure to adequately report his case against the TSA, revealing that an interview scheduled yesterday with CNN was cancelled. In a separate local radio interview, the host accused Ventura of acting like Kim Kardashian, claiming he was pursuing a vendetta against the TSA merely to generate publicity for his TV show.

Ventura explained how the judge in the TSA case sat on the ruling for 10 months, a delay that prevented Ventura from taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals and exercising his right to a jury trial.

“They will not let any constitutional decision go to a jury, I cannot have a jury trial, they’re not allowing me….they threw me out of court, they waited 10 months so that my 60 days after filing to go to the Court of Appeals would expire while I waited for her to make the decision,” said Ventura.

“I can’t go in front of a jury of my peers and have them decide whether my constitution, bill of rights, 4th amendment is being violated because the government won’t let me – now that’s oppression, that is not freedom,” added the former Governor.

Ventura warned Americans not to sit back and pretend that TSA abuse was only occurring at airports, pointing out that TSA VIPR teams are also now being deployed on regular highways.

“Don’t you realize that in a matter of years you’re going to have to show an ID to go to Iowa if you live in Minnesota,” said Ventura, pointing out that Border Patrol agents were also now being stationed hundreds of miles inland.

During the interview, Ventura also re-iterated his ‘come and get me’ plea to the Libertarian Party, indicating he would run for President as a third party candidate in an effort to bring further attention to America’s decline into a police state.

Watch the interview with Jesse Ventura below.



HEADLINE NEWS

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 7, 2011

Filming the police is dangerous to your health. In many parts of the country it can result in arrest and imprisonment.

In Oakland, California, it can result in being shot with a “non-lethal” weapon, as the man in the video below discovered. He wasn’t violent of threatening the cops. His crime appears to be that he dared film riot cops without their permission. He was considered the enemy because he was with Occupy protesters.

In fascist dictatorships or countries taken over in military juntas, the police and military usually shoot and kill citizens who dare resist their authority. If you think it can’t happen here, remember Kent State and Jackson State where students were killed for the crime of protesting against the government.

It is a small step from rubber bullets to live ammo.



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