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Invasion of the foreign supercops: Minister wants Americans to take over British police
MailOnline
Foreign crimebusters such as US supercop Bill Bratton will be given the chance to take over British police forces under radical new plans to be unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May.
And former Army officers will be recruited as police superintendents in an attempt to end the closed shop police culture blamed for bungled investigations and corruption. The changes, set to be fiercely opposed by police chiefs, rip up the centuries-old tradition of only British citizens serving in the police.
They also abolish the rule that senior policemen have to work their way up from being a bobby on the beat. |
| January 22th 2013 |
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Stephen Fry on American Prisons Facts
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Stephen Fry on American Prisons, from the TV show QI
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| January 1th 2013 |
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532 Taser-Related Deaths in the United States Since 2001
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| December 18 th 2012 |
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The shocking future of handcuffs: Police could soon be armed with restraints thatelectrocute prisoners
Daily Mail
Police could soon be armed with handcuffs that deliver an electric shock to arrested people who refuse to go quietly.
A U.S. firm has applied for a patent for a new kind of restraint that can literally shock detainees into submission if they refuse to cooperate.
The design is not limited to handcuffs, but also could be applied equally to ankle cuffs, straight jackets, restraining belts, neck collars and even facial restraints. |
| December 15 th 2012 |
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Napolitano Announces Expansion of Gestapo Zones from Airports to Malls and Hotels
Infowars.com
As we predicted, Homeland Security and national security state officialdom are in the process of expanding the police state and citizen humiliation grid from airports to hotels and shopping malls.
“The United States is stepping up security at ‘soft targets’ like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday,” reports AFP.
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| December 17 th 2012 |
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Rise of the Global Police State
The data being collected by the NSA, FBI and DHS is being converted to technological weapons against the American public. This surveillance will undoubtedly be used as criminal evidence for trial.
The inception of the NSA-GCHQ ECHELON system with the immensely profitable Surveillance Industrial Complex has become a technologically advanced interception system, as journalist Nicky Hager predicted in 1996. |
| December 17 th 2012 |
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When Pitt was in Budapest last October shooting World War Z, an upcoming zombie-thriller, TEK agents seized 100 machine guns, automatic pistols and sniper rifles that had been flown to Hungary for use as props in the movie. The weapons were disabled and came with no ammunition. But the Hungarian counter-terrorism police determined that they constituted a serious threat. |
| April 24th 2012 |
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75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police
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| December 5th 2011 |
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The US Senate is About to Declare War on Freedom and the American People
This bill S-1867 should send chill down the spines of all people no matter what the political persuasion is. Senator John McCain, Cal Levin and willing supporter Lindsey Graham who support this bill need to be recalled by their state Legislatures to see if these men are fit to hold office when not in session. Put them on house arrest until a grand jury completes its investigation, never to return to Washington. This bill gives the US Military the green light to arrest American citizens on American soil without being charged or without a trial. The right to Habeas Corpus is no more under this bill. |
| November 28th 2011 |
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S. 1253 will allow indefinite military detention of American civilians without charge or trial
A sinister bill has quietly been introduced, so expansive in scope and dangerous in nature that it makes the PATRIOT Act look like the Bill of Rights.
If these provisions are enacted, it would give the federal government the explicit power to imprison civilians, including American citizens, indefinitely with no charges or trial.
This would include individuals apprehended both inside and outside of the United States, meaning that this could give the federal government the ability to openly detain American citizens for their entire lives without so much as a single charge.
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| November 27th 2011 |
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How the War on Terror Militarized the Police
Ever since September 14, 2001, when President Bush declared war on terrorism, there has been a crucial, yet often unrecognized, shift in United States policy. Before 9/11, law enforcement possessed the primary responsibility for combating terrorism in the United States. Today, the military is at the tip of the anti-terrorism spear. This shift appears to be permanent: in 2006, the White House's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism confidently announced that the United States had "broken old orthodoxies that once confined our counterterrorism efforts primarily to the criminal justice domain." |
| November 11th 2011 |
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The US Is Fast Becoming a Third World Police State
As a P.T. (often referred to as perpetual traveller, permanent tourist or prior taxpayer), I have travelled to nearly 100 countries. During those travels there has always been one defining moment, upon entry into a country, which shows that the country is what is generally thought of as a "third world country".
It is the moment when, upon arrival, you are charged a fee to enter the country. The reason generally being that the government of the country has so destroyed the economy and/or they have so little understanding of what creates wealth that they think that the way to make their country prosperous is to charge a fee upon entry rather than allowing people to enter freely and transact, trade and spend their money in the economy. Either that or the government is so desperate for money that it uses this as a significant source of revenue. |
| October 28th 2011 |
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From Naomi Wolf's arrest in New York to shootings in Tucson and Florida, forces face allegations of abuse of power
Officer Michael Daragjati had no idea that the FBI was listening to his phone calls. Otherwise he would probably not have described his arrest and detention of an innocent black New Yorker in the manner he did.
Daragjati boasted to a woman friend that, while on patrol in Staten Island, he had "fried another nigger". It was "no big deal", he added. The FBI, which had been investigating another matter, then tried to work out what had happened.
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| October 25th 2011 |
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Secret US panel OK's killing citizens
A number of top officials in the United States have confirmed the existence of a "secret panel" of senior government officials in the country that can order the assassination of American citizens with no judicial oversight.
According to the officials, the panel's recommendations first go through a group of National Security Council officials which consist of cabinet secretaries and intelligence chiefs for approval before reaching the US president who will then make a final decision on the extra-judicial killing, Reuters reported.
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| October 7th 2011 |
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New Zealand Is Now A Police State, Too
The Government plans to rush through an urgent law change next week to allow secret filming on private property by police.
Prime Minister John Key says that without the change, some "very serious criminals" will go free.
Mr Key said yesterday that a law would be passed under urgency next week, after the Supreme Court ruled that evidence from covert filming on Maori land in the Ureweras was unlawfully obtained. |
| September 21th 2011 |
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One month after major disturbances were provoked by the August 4 police killing of Mark Duggan in north London, the Metropolitan Police in the capital are intensifying raids on working class communities.
Entire neighbourhoods have been sealed off, with riot police smashing down doors and dragging people away. So far this has resulted in over 2,000 arrests in London alone, averaging approximately 100 a day since the riots began. The media, tipped off in advance, has filmed the build-up, the actual raids and the spectacle of youth being thrown into police vans. |
| September 2th 2011 |
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FBI using GPS to track activists
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| July 1th 2011 |
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The Death of American Democracy
The collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001, were the most frightening images that I have ever seen, up until May 24th, 2011, when Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the United States Congress and received 29 standing ovations, along with many other outbursts of sycophantic applause.
It was the final nail in a coffin, the construction of which began long ago, and in it all remaining vestiges of democracy were joyfully laid to rest—by those sworn to protect it-as it became clear that the United States was now controlled by Enemies Inside it's Gates. |
| June 26th 2011 |
 The militarization of American police–no doubt a blowback effect of the military empire–has become an unfortunate part of American life. In fact, it says something about our reliance on the military that federal agencies having nothing whatsoever to do with national defense now see the need for their own paramilitary units. Among those federal agencies laying claim to their own law enforcement divisions are the State Department, Department of Education, Department of Energy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service, to name just a few. These agencies have secured the services of fully armed agents–often in SWAT team attire–through a typical bureaucratic sleight-of-hand provision allowing for the creation of Offices of Inspectors General (OIG). Each OIG office is supposedly charged with not only auditing their particular agency’s actions but also uncovering possible misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency’s operation. At present, there are 73 such OIG offices in the federal government that, at times, perpetuate a police state aura about them. |
| June 15th 2011 |
| Operation Garden Plot
From the Rodney King riots to unannounced "training" exercises over American cities, the US military is being trained to turn the United States into a dictatorship.
Here you see the local police, dressed up like Nazi thugs, lined up military fashion to join the war games. Across America our "peace officers" have transformed into "law enforcers." Whereas the blue and white garbed friendly policeman of the past was someone you might call to help rescue your cat out of the tree or invite in for a cup of coffee, law-abiding Americans now dread a visit from the ski-masked, jackbooted thugs.
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| June 7th 2011 |
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Imperialism abroad is destroying what is left of our democracy at home. From warrantless wiretapping to warrantless door-busting, this is what a police state looks like.
 The late Chalmers Johnson often reminded us that “A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can’t be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.” His warning rings more true by the day, as Americans watch the erosion of their civil liberties accelerate in conjunction with the expansion of the US Empire.When viewed through the lens of Johnson’s profound insights, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling inKentucky v. Kingmakes perfect sense. On May 13, in a lopsided 8-1 ruling, the Court upheld the warrantless search of a Kentucky man’s apartment after police smelled marijuana and feared those inside were destroying evidence, essentially granting police officers increased power to enter the homes of citizens without a warrant.
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| June 6th 2011 |
| More States Create Anti-Whistleblower Bills
 Here we go again! If you thought the recent legislation to criminalize those who film or photograph farm activity in states like Florida and Iowa is coincidental, it’s not. Similar bills are in process in Idaho and Minnesota, and other states are considering legislative action as well. Giant corporations like Monsanto are throwing money behind the Iowa version and possibly more in order further secure their “crop operations.”
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| April 16th 2011 |
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POLICE BRUTALITY IS LEGAL: Police Officers In ALA Who Severely Beat Up A Suspect Got They Job Back
 In Birmingham, Ala on Tuesday the five officers Heath Boackle, Barrett Dewitt, Thomas Cleveland, Kenneth Prevo and David Doran got reinstated to they job. The officers been charged with violating civil rights and fired immediately after a police chase what ended up with a suspect Anthony Warren crashing his car as he tried to enter the highway in Hoover during the chase. Anthony Warren ejected out of his car during the crash. The police officers violently attacked him when he was laying injured on the ground. The Jefferson County Personal Board approved the job reinstatement.
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| April 14th 2011 |
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Patriot Act fails!
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| February 10th 2011 |
| Obama seeks longer PATRIOT Act extension than Republicans
 Faced with a looming vote on a planned one-year extension of special powers authorized in the USA PATRIOT Act, the Obama White House did not object or propose reforms, as the president vowed to do as a candidate.The Obama administration instead asked Congress to grant those powers for an additional three years.
As a US Senator and candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama never actually argued for a repeal of the Bush administration's security initiatives. Instead, he's consistently argued for enhanced judicial oversight and a pullback on the most extreme elements of the bill, such as the use of National Security Letters to search people's personal records without a court-issued warrant.
While many in his own party opposed the PATRIOT Act outright, as president Obama has said repeatedly that the emergency measures remain a valuable tool for law enforcement engaged in national security prerogatives |
| February 10th 2011 |
| Do We Need the “Next Level” of State Security?
 When a university hires a football coach, the athletic director often declares that the new coach will take the team to “the next level.” What the director means is that he hopes the coach will lead State U’s team to a championship or a high-ranking bowl.
However, when Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole told USA Todayhe wanted to bring the TSA to “the next level,” he didn’t mean better service. No, Pistole meant something more sinister: He wants the TSA to be so completely ingrained in American life that weary people simply put up with it. According to USA Today: |
| January 11th 2011 |
| Elite Openly Flaunts Plan To Turn Cities Into High-Tech Slave Grids
 Not content with depicting children being slaughtered in the name of preventing non-existent global warming, climate change alarmists have embarked on a new propaganda campaign lecturing us all about how we will be forced to live in a “planned-opolis,” where car use will be heavily restricted, CO2 emissions will be rationed, meat will be considered a rare delicacy, the state will decide your career, and only the mega-rich elitists enforcing all these new rules and regulations will be exempt from them.
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| January 7th 2011 |
| America's Next Failure: the Police State
 Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police cannot protect you from burglaries, drive by shootings, rapes, domestic abuse, or murder—even with the help of most ordinary citizens. The situation is so bad that numerous legislatures have legalized the carrying of loaded weapons so that ordinary people can protect themselves which is a complete abdication of the usual view that people should not take the law into their own hands. So what in the world would make anyone believe that policing can protect us from terrorists?
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| January 11th 2011 |
| Big Brother: America's Police State Mentality in the Electronic Age
 In 2049, when the 100th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell political novel “1984” will be celebrated, it will be recalled that the immediate post September 11, 2001 period marked the beginning of a gradual decline in personal liberty and freedom, especially in the United States but also elsewhere, and the emergence of a great information-obsessed Leviathan. Freedom rarely disappears in one fell swoop. Its disappearance is rather the end result of a thousand encroachments.
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January 2th 2011 |
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FBI now spying on your garbage
 Reports say 100 Waste Management employees have already gone through a training program called Waste Watch, CBS 6 Albany/WRGB reported on Friday.
"Because our job is collecting trash from local neighborhoods and businesses, we are a useful resource to identify illegal activity, or to help prevent a minor mishap from turning into a dangerous situation," said Ken Bevis, district manager of Waste Management in Albany, New York.
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December 18th 2010 |
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The Thought Police State, 2010
 To those who keep on screaming about "who's behind these criminal-decisions" the answer is very simple: It's the majority of terror-stricken individuals that actually believe that only the new POLICE-STATE will keep them "safe" from all harm-which is a massive and treason-based LIE!
When the day comes to punish those behind this coup those of us that have been fighting this takeover must remember why it has been so successful (in favor of USI's corporate treasons and against the people of this country). |
| December 8th 2010 |
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