Archive for the 'Police State' Category
New Orleans: Residents on Notice of Upcoming Police Training
February 5th, 2009Via: KATC: The New Orleans Police Department is warning residents not to panic if they see helicopters flying around the city after dark. The department will be hosting military training in and around the city between Jan. 27 and Feb. 8. The training includes the use of military helicopters flying after dark throughout the city. […]
BART Police Execute Unarmed Man in Public; Shot in Back
January 6th, 2009Via: Mercury News: A BART police officer struggling to handcuff a 22-year-old man, stood up over the facedown Hayward resident and fired a single shot into his back while a handful of officers watched, a video taken by a train passenger apparently shows. The attorney for the family of Oscar Grant III, fatally shot by […]
NFL Encourages Fans to Send Text Messages to Security Staff to Report Troublemakers
December 30th, 2008Via: USA Today: Count Washington Redskins season-ticket holder Rick Cable as a big supporter of the NFL’s new Fan Code of Conduct. During the Redskins’ 23-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 3 at FedEx Field just outside Washington, Cable says, an obnoxious Steelers fan kept waving a “Terrible Towel” in the 47-year-old Cable’s […]
Oregon Moving Ahead on Maniac Fascist, GPS Enabled Mileage Tax
December 29th, 2008Via: Democrat Herald: A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads — via a mileage tax and satellite technology — could work. Now Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he’d like the legislature to take the next step. As part of a transportation-related bill he […]
U.S. Police Could Get ‘Pain Beam’ Weapons
December 26th, 2008Via: New Scientist: The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects. The two devices under development by the civilian National […]
Bailiffs Get Power to Use Force on Debtors
December 24th, 2008Via: Times Online: The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables. Under the regulations, bailiffs for private firms would for the first time be given permission to restrain or […]
California: U.S. Marines to Staff Vehicle Checkpoint Along with Law Enforcement Agencies
December 18th, 2008Via: DUI Blog: The Morongo office of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in conjunction with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department and the USMC military police will conduct a joint sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Friday, December 12, 2008, somewhere in the unincorporated/incorporated area of San Bernardino County. Research Credit: DT
British Government Must Delete the Genetic Profiles of Innocent People from DNA Database
December 6th, 2008Via: Guardian: The fingerprints and DNA samples of more than 857,000 innocent citizens who have been arrested or charged but never convicted of a criminal offence now face deletion from the national DNA database after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. In one of their most strongly worded judgments […]
SWAT Team Conducts Food Raid in Rural Ohio
December 6th, 2008Via: Crossroad: On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and […]
An Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama
November 28th, 2008Via: WAPF: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA From Sally Fallon Morell, President, the Weston A. Price Foundation November 16, 2008 Dear Mr. Obama, Congratulations on your recent victory in the American presidential elections. As the president-elect, you have many issues to consider as you prepare to take office. One issue I would urge […]
