Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Murder Cop: Take Babies’ DNA
December 12th, 2006Via: The Sun: BRITAIN’S most senior murder investigator has called for DNA to be taken from babies. Commander Dave Johnston said it would build up a database to SOLVE crimes and PREVENT others. He said samples could also be taken from Britons renewing passports and from migrants arriving here. The head of the Met Police’s […]
Police Officer Escorts a Child to Use the Bathroom
December 11th, 2006Update: Justin Cook, the photographer who made the image below, wrote to me, requesting that I remove the image because he held the copyright and I wasn’t authorized to use the image. I indicated that I would not remove the image and that he should read about Fair Use. He asked me to remove it […]
Registered Traveler Program
December 5th, 2006Via: NY Times: READY or not — and some critics say not — the long-delayed Registered Traveler program is moving forward, with the single existing operator planning a succession of openings soon at four airports, while a competitor says it is about to join in. … The Registered Traveler program provides identity cards, which include […]
U.S. Government Terror Ratings Draw Outrage
December 3rd, 2006The enemy collaborator Democrats, who made all of this possible, along with the Republicans, are now squealing shock horror. Pathetic. Via: Yahoo/AP: A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from […]
Man Cuts Electricity Use by 2/3, Gets Audited
December 3rd, 2006Via: Christian Science Monitor: When high school science teacher Ray Janke bought a home in Chicopee, Mass., he decided to see how much he could save on his electric bill. He exchanged incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescents, put switches and surge protectors on his electronic equipment to reduce the “phantom load” – the trickle consumption […]
Feds Back Off Mandatory Livestock Registration – For Now
December 1st, 2006Good news? Maybe. Maybe not. My guess is that this will be back with a vengeance, and slammed through VERY fast under the guise of an “emergency”. The system will be up and running on a voluntary basis. After the “emergency” it’s just a flick of the president’s pen to make it mandatory. The hissing, […]
Gingrich: Reexamine Freedom of Speech to Meet the Threat of Terrorism
November 29th, 2006Would you like an order of freedom fries with that? Via: Union Leader: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism. Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a “different set of rules” may be needed to […]
Snitch Lies, Elderly Women Shot to Death While Defending Herself from Police
November 28th, 2006Do you get it yet? Via CNN: An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman’s house denies buying drugs there, authorities say. Undercover officers raiding the 88-year-old woman’s house shot her to death last week after she fired on them while they broke down her door in […]
UK: DNA of Suspects’ Families to Be Held by Police
November 27th, 2006Via Independent: Relatives of suspects in criminal investigations are to face having DNA tests and their confidential medical records released to the authorities if they refuse to co-operate with the police. Internal government guidelines on the use of the DNA database seen by The Independent on Sunday instruct the police to ask for medical files […]
Retired Spooks, Businessmen Serve in Internet Thought Police
November 25th, 2006I thought old, pink faced drunks just played golf and watched bad TV… Via Infowars: An organization of highly trained, committed and ruthless individuals with links to global intelligence agencies are using the Internet to try to foment terrorism in order to advance their unified political agenda. No it’s not Al-Qaeda, it’s Vigil, the elite […]
