Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
UK Police: Designate Children as Pre Criminals Based on DNA
March 17th, 2008Via: Guardian: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert. Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said […]
Chinese Security Forces Swarm Tibet
March 16th, 2008The world smiles uncomfortably and applauds the gold medal fascism. Via: AP: Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet’s capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks leading a […]
Dubya: “I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines…”
March 14th, 2008I wonder if Bush knows the one about the most severely wounded American soldier? Via: Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush got an earful on Thursday about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years but been largely eclipsed by Iraq. In a videoconference, Bush heard from […]
House Agrees to Rare Secret Session on Spy Bill
March 14th, 2008The following passage is from, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer: “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on […]
U.S. Warship Built with Scrap Steel from the Ruins of the World Trade Center
March 4th, 2008“The trophy is meant to give the murderer the same feelings of power he experienced at the time of the kill.” —Death Reference, Serial Killers Via: AP: The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, was christened Saturday as a source of strength […]
Ralph Nader Running for President
February 24th, 2008The Obama cult is experiencing a Scanners moment right about now. Via: Washington Post: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said on Sunday that he is launching another long shot independent campaign for president of the United States. Nader, who will turn 74 this week, announced his presidential bid on NBC’s “Meet the Press” saying that neither […]
“What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?”
February 21st, 2008Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of “an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., […]
Britain Is Slithering Down the Road Towards a Police State
February 8th, 2008Via: Guardian: The machine is out of control. Personal surveillance in Britain is so extensive that no democratic oversight is remotely plausible. Some 800 organisations, including the police, the revenue, local and central government, demanded (and almost always got) 253,000 intrusions on citizen privacy in the last recorded year, 2006. This is way beyond that […]
Department of Homeland Security Copying Personal Data and Stealing Laptop Computers from Travelers
February 8th, 2008Via: Washington Post: “I was assured that my laptop would be given back to me in 10 or 15 days,” said Udy, who continues to fly into and out of the United States. She said the federal agent copied her log-on and password, and asked her to show him a recent document and how she […]
U.S. Citizens Will Soon Require Clearance by Department of Homeland Security to Return to Their Own Country
February 6th, 2008I wonder if the Department of Homeland Security can guess which finger I’m holding up right now? Via: Practical Nomad: Under new regulations and procedures announced to take effect over the next month, citizens of the USA will, for the first time, be required to obtain USA government permission in order to return home to […]
