Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Loose Units in Hemet Torching City Vehicles, Setting Potentially Deadly Traps for Police
March 25th, 2010Via: AP: Four municipal trucks were set ablaze in a rural Riverside County town plagued by bizarre booby trap attempts to kill police officers, and authorities said Wednesday the fire may be linked to the earlier attacks. “Everyone is worried, everyone is being careful,” Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart said. “You get scared a little […]
U.S. Forest Service Admits Putting Surveillance Cameras on Public Lands
March 19th, 2010Via: Island Packet: Last month, Herman Jacob took his daughter and her friend camping in the Francis Marion National Forest. While poking around for some firewood, Jacob noticed a wire. He pulled on it and followed it to a video camera and antenna. The camera didn’t have any markings identifying its owner, so Jacob took […]
Pitchfork Event on the Horizon
March 18th, 2010Via: Comrad Simba: The major questions of existence I’ve had are answered thus: 1. It’s all about the food. 2. The food issue will drive the zombies. Bubba may be all ammo’d and camo’d up for a rape and pillage fest, but he’s really only looking for a can of beans and a piece of […]
Police Misconduct: Injustice Everywhere
March 17th, 2010People submit diabolical cop stories to Cryptogon everyday. Clearly, there’s way too much of this happening for me to handle on Cryptogon. Yes, I agree, the endemic bad-cop situation is a nightmare. And it’s a nightmare that should be brought out into the open, but it’s simply far beyond the scope and capacity of what […]
Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
March 15th, 2010Via: Wired: Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting. Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of […]
Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement
March 4th, 2010Via: Public Intelligence: Law Enforcement Sensitive Also On: Cryptome
Cops & Judges Caught Using Secret Codes On Tickets
March 2nd, 2010This one is originally from Federal Jack, but I can’t find it over there. Via: Black Listed News:
The Fourth Amendment is Gone. “Welcome to the fish bowl.”
February 25th, 2010Via: Reason: Last week the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an en banc rehearing of the case United States v. Lemus, which dealt with a warrantless police search of a suspect’s home after he was arrested outside of it. As a result of the 9th Circuit’s denial, the search will stand, which has left […]
Law Enforcement is Tracking Americans’ Cell Phones in Real Time Without Warrants
February 23rd, 2010In summary, my thesis was that the NSA operation that Tice was involved with was related to tracking individual Americans, on the ground, in real time, using the mobile phone networks. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance If this is happening on an almost indiscriminate basis with law enforcement cases, how wide of a […]
Prisons Turn to the Wind for Energy
February 19th, 2010It’s clean. It’s green. It’s fascism. More: Clean, Green U.S. Prison Camp: The Guantanamo Naval Base Wind Farm Via: Christian Science Monitor: When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic and landed at Plymouth Rock, it was the wind blowing into their ships’ sails that pushed them across the water. That power of the wind will soon […]
