Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Police to Get Access to Classified Military Intelligence
September 17th, 2009Via: U.S. Department of Defense: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 713-09 September 14, 2009 DoD Announces New Information-Sharing Access to Help Fusion Centers Combat Terrorism The Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) today announced an initiative to grant select state and major urban area fusion center personnel access to classified terrorism-related information residing in DoD’s […]
What Is American Police Force?
September 14th, 2009Update 10: Hilton Wrote a Check to Hardin Bed and Breakfast That Bounced Via: Missoulian: In announcing the suspension of a state investigation into American Police Force on Tuesday, state Attorney General Steve Bullock said he was “unaware of any Montanans who have been harmed financially by this company.” Meet Marcianna Smith. She is the […]
Cops Drawing Blood of Suspected Drunk Drivers
September 14th, 2009Via: AP: When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he’ll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver’s arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein. “I was looking at people’s arms […]
Glock’s Secret Path to Profits
September 11th, 2009You can’t even shake a stick at all the weird stuff in this one. Via: Business Week: Allegations of corruption permeate Gaston Glock’s empire. His former business associate, Charles Marie Joseph Ewert, now resides in a prison in Luxembourg, having been convicted in 2003 of contracting to have Glock killed. The murder plot—thwarted when the […]
High Desert Ghetto Birds Fly Over Neighborhoods and Announce Suspect Descriptions with Megaphones
August 21st, 2009In the best of times, the vast blast furnace of the California’s wastelands never made sense to me. And now, as we head into collapse, I can’t begin to imagine what will happen in a place like Victorville as order breaks down. Maybe something between Mad Max and Dawn of the Dead. Via: ExiledOnline: High […]
New Jersey City Considers Adult Curfew
August 19th, 2009Via: AP: Curfews might not be just for kids anymore in one city in northern New Jersey. Officials in Paterson are considering one for people of all ages in a bid to curb violence after a spate of deadly shootings. Several experts say they believe it would be the nation’s first curfew of its type […]
A Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan Detained by Police for Failure to Produce His Papers
August 15th, 2009Via: Telegraph: A novice policewoman picked up an “eccentric old man acting suspiciously”, completely unaware that it was Bob Dylan. The 22-year-old officer was dispatched after residents in the New Jersey town of Long Branch had phoned to complain that a man in the Latin quarter was acting suspiciously. When the officer asked the man […]
Britain: Police Told to Ignore Human Rights Ruling Over DNA Database
August 9th, 2009Via: Guardian: Chief constables across England and Wales have been told to ignore a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights and carry on adding the DNA profiles of tens of thousands of innocent people to a national DNA database. Senior police officers have also been “strongly advised” that it is “vitally important” […]
Woman With “Peace” Written in Icing on Cake Threatened with Arrest Outside British Parliament
August 8th, 2009Via: Guardian: The summer holidays provide the government with plenty of good days to bury bad news. Folks head off on holiday and journos head into the silly season, making it a perfect time to quietly lift the sluice gates of the pools of political sewage. This year is no exception. The government announced its […]
2012 Olympics: Laws Allow Police to Enter Private Homes to Confiscate, “Advertising of a Non-Commercial Nature, and Announcements or Notices of Any Kind”
July 24th, 2009Via: Guardian: The government was accused tonight of giving itself draconian powers to clamp down on protests at the 2012 Olympics. Critics said the powers were so broad they would potentially give private contractors the right to forcibly enter people’s homes and seize materials. Opposition parties and civil liberties groups criticised the powers as top […]
