Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Arraignment and Federal Indictments for Bernard Kerik, Close Giuliani Associate and Botched Nominee to Head Department of Homeland Security
November 9th, 2007Tax evasion, corruption, mafia connected construction businesses: Fuggetaboutit. Windfall stock options payout on taser related swindling: $6 million. A filthy, sycophantic crook like this almost becoming the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Priceless. Via: AP: Bernard Kerik, the police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani who nearly became head of the Homeland […]
LAX Security Screeners Miss 75% of Hidden Bombs
October 19th, 2007HA! Keep that in mind as you place your belt and your shoes in the plastic bin. Via: USA Today: Security screeners at two of the nation’s busiest airports failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60% of tests last year, according to a classified report obtained […]
Micro UAV Surveillance at Antiwar Protests
October 10th, 2007Via: Washington Post: Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. “I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little […]
U.S. Man Faces Potential 30-Year Prison Sentence for Stealing a Doughnut
October 9th, 2007Via: International Herald Tribune: A Missouri man could potentially face a 30-year prison sentence for stealing a doughnut from a store. Scott A. Masters, 41, of Park Hills, Missouri, has been charged with felony second-degree robbery in the theft of a 52-cent doughut from a Country Mart in Farmington, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) south […]
Woman Dies in Airport Police Custody
October 1st, 2007Via: NY Daily News: The daughter-in-law of one of New York’s top officials screamed, “I’m not a terrorist!” and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News yesterday. Carol Anne Gotbaum, 45, of the upper West Side, died less than an hour […]
“The Only Terrorist Most Americans Will Ever Encounter Is a Policeman with a Badge, Nightstick, Mace and Taser”
September 27th, 2007Via: Populist America: Bush’s “war on terror” quickly became Bush’s war on Iraqi civilians. So far over one million Iraqi civilians have lost their lives because of Bush’s invasion, and four million have been displaced. Iraq’s infrastructure is in ruins. Disease is rampart. Normal life has disappeared. Self-righteous Americans justify these monstrous crimes as necessary […]
Step Right Up: Public Demonstrations of Raytheon’s Directed Energy Pain Gun
September 26th, 2007Will it re-heat your freedom fries? Via: Daily Mail: “Where do I put my finger? There … OK? Nothing’s happening … is it on?” “Yes, it’s on. Move your finger a bit closer.” “Er … ow! OW!” Not good. I try again. “OWWW!” I pull my hand away sharpish. My finger is throbbing, but seems […]
The Department of Homeland Security and Russian Mind-Control Research
September 21st, 2007Via: Wired: The future of U.S. anti-terrorism technology could lie near the end of a Moscow subway line in a circular dungeon-like room with a single door and no windows. Here, at the Psychotechnology Research Institute, human subjects submit to experiments aimed at manipulating their subconscious minds. Elena Rusalkina, the silver-haired woman who runs the […]
U.S. Government’s Plan to Protect You From Terrorist Livestock
September 19th, 2007It’s baaaaaaaaack. Actually, it never left. But we knew that. Via: Alternet: NAIS would compel all owners of such animals to register their premises and personal information in a federal database, to buy microchip devices and attach them to every single one of their animals (each of which gets its very own 15-digit federal ID […]
Black Ops Jungle: The Academy of Military Industrial Complex Studies
September 19th, 2007Via: Mother Jones: Dedicated to everything from architecture to sports medicine, “career academies” claim to offer high school kids focus, relevancy, and solid job prospects. Now add a new kind of program to the list: homeland security high. In late August, Maryland’s Joppatowne High School became the first school in the country dedicated to churning […]
