Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Idaho Is a Constitution Free Zone: U.S. Government Uses Criminal Defendant’s Communications With Defense Team to Prosecute Him
August 19th, 2011You may find it hard to have any sympathy for a guy like Edgar J. Steele, but if you think that what the government has done to him is ok, you’re worse than the Nazis that Steele has defended and promoted. One of my core struggles on here is against the fascist eugenics that Steele […]
Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority to Detain People for Taking Pictures “With No Apparent Aesthetic Value”
August 17th, 2011The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent esthetic value” is within […]
Britain: Police Could Get New Curfew Powers
August 16th, 2011Via: Guardian: New powers allowing police to clear the streets and create “no-go” areas for the public are being considered, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said. May said it was time to consider whether the police needed a power “to impose a general curfew in a particular area” in the aftermath of last week’s […]
As Economy Tanks, “New Normal” Police State Takes Shape
August 15th, 2011Via: Dissident Voice: Forget your rights. As corporate overlords position themselves to seize what little remains of a tattered social net (adieu Medicare and Medicaid! Social Security? Au revoir!), the Obama administration is moving at break-neck speed to expand police state programs first stood-up by the Bush government. After all, with world share prices gyrating […]
Pre-Crime: BART Admits Halting Cell Service to Stop Protesters
August 13th, 2011Via: San Francisco Chronicle: BART officials acknowledged this afternoon that they shut down cell phone and wireless data service in its downtown San Francisco stations to disrupt a planned protest. Their announcement sparked denunciations from civil libertarians and the apparent threat of a cyber-attack on the BART website. A statement posted on the transit agency’s […]
Britain: Photography in Public Places
August 9th, 2011HA, it’s attack of the reflective vest zombie army. Via: YouTube: Research Credit: JH
More Violence in British Capital After Riots
August 8th, 2011Via: Reuters: Groups of youths attacked shops and damaged a police car in north London on Sunday as police sent in reinforcements to prevent more rioting on the scale that laid waste to another area of the British capital 24 hours earlier. Scattered incidents broke out on Sunday evening in Enfield, a few miles north […]
U.S. Wants to Build Cybersecurity Protection Plan for Cars
August 4th, 2011Better make sure your car’s firewall and antivirus definitions are up to date. *grin* Via: Network World: As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such electronic control packages has also increased. That’s why the US […]
Rawsome Farm Buying Club Raided Again
August 4th, 2011Look at all of the agencies associated with this nonsense!? Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office: Agencies taking part in the ongoing investigation include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the California Franchise Tax Board; the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch and the department’s Division of Measurement Standards; the […]
ACLU Lawyer on License Plate Scanners: “What Kind of a Society Are We Creating Here?”
July 21st, 2011Via: Boston Herald: Civil libertarians are raising the alarm over the state’s plans to create a Big Brother database that could map drivers’ whereabouts with police cruiser-mounted scanners that capture thousands of license plates per hour — storing that information indefinitely where local cops, staties, feds and prosecutors could access it as they choose. “What […]
