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Monday February 8th, 2010
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No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register
posted 02/08/2010, 11:30 PM (Raw Story) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government
Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions -- or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.
The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act," passed last year and now officially on the books, states that "every member of a subversive organization, or an organization ... (more) This is nothing to joke about, this is Cass Sunstein's registration/taxation of so-called 'conspiracy theorists' in action. |
Audi Super Bowl Ads Portray Nightmarish Eco Police State
posted 02/08/2010, 11:30 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Incandescent light bulbs, plastic bags, orange peels, Styrofoam coffee cups, Jacuzzi hot tubs — these are crimes against the environment, according to automaker Audi. On Sunday, during the Super Bowl gladiatorial event, Audi ran a series of ads depicting an eco Gestapo cracking down on citizens engaged in serious crimes against the environment.
One of the ads depicts a police checkpoint where the Fourth Amendment is wantonly violated. In the recent past, such illegal checkpoi... (more) This is downright terrifying, this is the world they want to create if you actually read the eco-fascists writings, they're preparing everyone to live in this type of society with these trash ads, no way in hell this is some propaganda dreamed up by an Audi ad-man, this is pure new world order propaganda to prepare us to live in an eco police state. |
ACLU: Miami Beach cops arrest people for recording police misconduct
posted 02/08/2010, 11:18 PM (Raw Story) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Miami Beach has long had a reputation for being a refuge for gay Americans, but if the ACLU’s allegations against the city prove true, people who live alternative lifestyles may want to think twice about retiring to the vibrant little community just off the coast of southern Florida.
The ACLU’s Florida chapter says it plans to sue the Miami Beach Police Department after a gay visitor to the city was beaten and arrested by police when he tried to call 911 to report the police beati... (more) It's fine if they put cameras up on every street corner but don't you dare record their thuggery! |
Give me liberty or give me jail
posted 02/08/2010, 11:16 PM (Mountain Xpress) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
William Kevin Innes, an Asheville man arrested last June and charged with trying to pass off a private currency as legal tender, has sent a plea from jail asking community members for help in securing his release before his trial, which is slated to begin next month.
In the undated, handwritten letter, titled "Injustice Comes to Asheville," Innes asserts that his "alleged crime" amounts to no more than "trying to help small businesses by promoting the use of a local-acting, precio... (more) Utter lies and garbage, it was extremely clear the bills were not supposed to be federal reserve notes. The whole idea behind it was they are NOT Federal Reserve notes! They are silver backed certificates which can be used in place of the Federal Reserve's fiat money.
This patriot is being put through absolute hell over a blatant lie, not to mention AFAIK the government stole tens of millions of dollars worth of private citizens silver being kept in vaults. The government agents who are violating his rights and stole the property of his customers are the ones who need to be up on trial, they are full on blatant criminals. |
North Carolina City Imposes Snow Curfew, Bans Sale of Firearms
posted 02/08/2010, 11:11 PM (WXII12) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A state of emergency has been declared in King due to severe weather that started Friday morning.
There is a curfew in place for the duration of the state of emergency. Unless a person is a member of the King Police Department or the Emergency Management Program, everyone located within the city must be inside a house dwelling from midnight to 5 a.m.
There will be no sale, consumption, transportation or possession of alcoholic beverages, except for possession of con... (more) |
Oklahoma Law Makes Home Fotification Illegal
posted 02/08/2010, 11:10 PM (Tulsa Beacon) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Oklahoma has a new law that makes it a crime to "fortify" a citizen's home against possible entry by law enforcement.
State Rep. Sue Tibbs was one of the sponsors of a bill that makes it unlawful for "any person to willfully fortify an access point into any dwelling, structure, building or other place where a felony offense prohibited by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed, or attempted, and the fortification is for the purpose of preventing or delay... (more) |
NYPD repeatedly arrests wrong man
posted 02/08/2010, 11:02 PM (UPI) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] NEW YORK — A New York man repeatedly mistaken by police for a fugitive with the same name said legal action against the department has not stopped the arrests.
Michael Terry, 37, said he was awarded a $120,000 settlement from the New York Police Department in 2005 after he was jailed for 28 days due to the mix-up with his name and that of a wanted Pennsylvania man, but he has been arrested twice since then due to the same name confusion, the New York Post reported Wednesday. ... (more) |
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Friday February 5th, 2010
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Intelligence Chief: U.S. Can Kill American Citizens Deemed 'Threat'
posted 02/05/2010, 6:51 AM (Washington Post) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are "taking action that threatens Americans."
Blair told members of the House intelligence committee that he was speaking publicly about the issue to reassure Americans that intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense "follow a set of defined policy and legal procedures that are very carefully obser... (more) |
Patriot Act - Eight Years Later
posted 02/05/2010, 6:41 AM (TruthOut.org) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
After 2009 - a year when federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism than in any year since the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and in today's atmosphere of heightened fear triggered by the aborted plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, Congress will begin again this month to consider reauthorization of key parts of the USA Patriot Act.
The act was passed by a frightened Congress, with very little debate, just 45 days after the terrorist attacks on... (more) |
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Thursday February 4th, 2010
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Obama grows the drug war, with enforcement a clear priority
posted 02/04/2010, 3:43 AM (Raw Story) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] It was not long ago when President Barack Obama's new drug czar, former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske, swept into Washington, D.C. and declared the "drug war" a public policy relic.
The Obama administration, he said, would move toward handling drug addiction as a medical problem, moving away from the brash enforcement tactics that hallmarked prior administrations.
"We're not at war with people in this country," Kerlikowske told The Wall Street Journal in ... (more) |
NORAD Sends F-16s Over Ohio in “Domestic Hostile Acts” Training Mission
posted 02/04/2010, 2:59 AM (CantonRep.com) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Look at the sky Thursday afternoon. You might see the "Fighting Falcons" overhead.
The Fighting Falcons, also known as F-16 dogfighter aircraft, will fly maneuvers over the Canton area as part of an air-defense training staged by members of the Toledo-based Ohio Air National Guard 180th Fighter Wing.
"There will probably be two or three in the air," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Gary Ross, serving at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado. "They will... (more) |
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Tuesday February 2nd, 2010
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Motorist fined for blowing nose
posted 02/02/2010, 8:51 PM (The Telegraph) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Michael Mancini, a father of two, said he put the handbrake on before wiping his nose but was asked to pull over by officers who were standing nearby.
He was told he was not in control of his vehicle and was handed a £60 fixed penalty and three points on his licence.
The 39-year-old, who runs a furniture restoration business in Ayr, said: ''The traffic was nose to tail in the high street and the traffic stopped and I thought that was quite a good time. I stopped th... (more) |
Arrested TSA worker asked girl to be his ’sex slave’
posted 02/02/2010, 8:51 PM (Raw Story) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A Transportation Security Administration employee in Florida is behind bars this weekend after a 15-year-old girl claimed he groped her and asked if she would be his “sex slave,” according to published reports.
Charles Henry Bennett, a 57-year-old TSA worker at Orlando International Airport, is being held without bail after he reportedly confessed to a version of the described events, even acknowledging his shocking request. The girl was allegedly 13 at the time. According to a po... (more) Bet you can't wait to have your kids marched through their naked body scanners! Ain't big brother great?! |
Obama Pledges Another $215 Million For Virtual Strip Search Scanners
posted 02/02/2010, 8:50 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The Obama administration has announced that a further $215 million dollars will be spent on installing virtual strip search naked body scanners, meaning the devices will be in no less than half the nation's airports by next year, but the historical record clearly shows that the scanners are a completely illegal violation of human rights.
"The $215 million proposal to acquire 500 scanners next year, combined with the 450 to be bought this year, marks the largest addition of... (more) |
US Terror Suspects In Pakistan: FBI Tortured Us
posted 02/02/2010, 8:50 PM (Associated Press) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
SARGODHA, Pakistan — Five American terrorism suspects alleged Tuesday that they were subjected to electric shocks and other torture by the FBI and Pakistani police, the latest wrinkle in a case that has added to sensitivities in U.S.-Pakistani relations.
The men tossed a tissue with some of the allegations scribbled on it to reporters as they headed to their latest hearing in court, where a judge delayed formally charging the suspects for at least two more weeks.
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Scheme sees high street in darkness
posted 02/02/2010, 8:39 PM (Press Association) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A new Government scheme to get businesses to cut their emissions could spell the end of the all-night bright lights of the local high street, the Environment Agency (EA) has predicted.
Flat screen TVs, illuminated signs and brightly-lit window displays could all be switched off - instead of being left on overnight when shops and businesses are closed - as companies respond to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme.
The scheme will require businesses to record... (more) |
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Saturday January 30th, 2010
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The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy
posted 01/30/2010, 5:09 PM (The Independent) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
In the dark, in the silence, in a blink, the age of the autonomous killer robot has arrived. It is happening. They are deployed. And – at their current rate of acceleration – they will become the dominant method of war for rich countries in the 21st century. These facts sound, at first, preposterous. The idea of machines that are designed to whirr out into the world and make their own decisions to kill is an old sci-fi fantasy: picture a mechanical Arnold Schwarzenegger blasting a truck and mutt... (more) |
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Friday January 29th, 2010
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Dead Osama Bin Laden, Climate Change Warrior
posted 01/29/2010, 5:18 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Not only does the dead and buried Osama hate us for our freedoms, he also hates us because we have not prevented climate change. “Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera,” reports The New York Times.
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Army-sponsored report suggests new 'police force'
posted 01/29/2010, 5:13 PM (WorldNetDaily) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A newly released Rand Corporation report proposes the federal government create a rapid deployment "Stabilization Police Force" that would be tasked with "shaping an environment before a conflict" and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency.
But civil libertarians are worried just exactly what the force would do, domestically or overseas.
Page 16 of the 213-page report says the new elite unit's purpose depends on where it is and w... (more) |
US judge grants German homeschooling family asylum
posted 01/29/2010, 5:11 PM (Deutsche Welle) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Homeschooling has been illegal in Germany for most of the 20th century. But a decision in the United States granting asylum to a German homeschooling couple has revived an ongoing debate on the freedom of education.
An American judge on Tuesday granted asylum to a German couple who wanted to homeschool their children, bringing international attention to the debate in Germany over the rights of parents to freely educate their children.
The decision came from immigra... (more) |
Police incident provokes ire
posted 01/29/2010, 5:11 PM (Post Gazette) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Students from the city's Creative and Performing Arts High School marched to the City-County Building on Tuesday in support of a classmate who said police brutally beat him earlier this month, calling for action on a case that has drawn public outrage and the attention of the FBI.
The rally of more than 50 students, who cried at times and held handwritten signs, ended in front of council chambers, where protesters demanded an investigation of the officers involved in the Jan. 12 a... (more) |
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Thursday January 28th, 2010
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Tuesday January 26th, 2010
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TSA Agent Plants Cocaine on Passenger as 'Joke'
posted 01/26/2010, 12:45 AM (Philadelphia Inquirer) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
In the tense new world of air travel, we're stripped of shoes, told not to take too much shampoo on board, frowned on if we crack a smile.
The last thing we expect is a joke from a Transportation Security Administration screener - particularly one this stupid.
Rebecca Solomon is 22 and a student at the University of Michigan, and on Jan. 5 she was flying back to school after holiday break. She made sure she arrived at Philadelphia International Airport 90 minutes be... (more) |
One Year After Obama Promised to Close Guantanamo, What Has Changed?
posted 01/26/2010, 12:45 AM (AlterNet) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] On his second day in office, President Obama issued an executive order to shut down Guantanamo in a year. But the prison remains open, and prisoners still languish without trial.
The first 20 detainees arrived at Guantánamo's Camp X-Ray eight years ago, on January 11, 2002. Just over seven years later, President Barack Obama-on his second full day after taking office-issued an order to shut the prison within a year.
His rhetoric was clear and decisive. "There... (more) |
Intel Boss Says Terror Interrogation Unit Will Be Used Domestically
posted 01/26/2010, 12:23 AM (Washington Post) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day should have been interrogated by special terrorism investigators instead of FBI agents, the nation’s intelligence chief said Wednesday, adding that senior national security officials were not consulted before FBI and Justice Department authorities questioned him and pursued criminal charges.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair faulted the decision not to use the “High Value Interrogation Group” (H... (more) |
Texas Schoolkids Tagged With GPS Tracking Devices
posted 01/26/2010, 12:23 AM (Prison Planet) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A judge has ordered 22 students at Bryan Highschool in Texas to carry GPS tracking devices in the name of preventing truancy, another example of how schools are now youth internment centers – preparatory camps for brainwashing kids to accept the prison planet.
“Bryan High students who skip school will soon be tracked 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” reports KBTX.
“It’s called the Attendance Improvement Management Program or AIM, and it has been used acro... (more) |
All the Reich Moves
posted 01/26/2010, 12:23 AM (William Norman Grigg) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] We will not recognize [American Fascism] as it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs. It will rise out of a congealing of a group of elements that exist here and that are the essential components of Fascism....
It will be at first decorous, humane, glowing with homely American sentiment. But a dictatorship cannot remain benevolent. To continue, it must become ruthless. When this stage is reached we shall see that ap... (more) |
"Papers please"; for reporter at Texas capitol shooting investigation
posted 01/26/2010, 12:20 AM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Like other reporters in the Austin-area, the Infowars team was immediately sent to the Texas Capitol building on news that a man, identified as Fausto Cardenas, had started shooting for no apparent reason.
There wasn’t much else to discover once we got there. The suspect had apparently harmed no one and State Troopers were quietly combing over the South steps with their investigation. Apart from reports about an angry visit to State Senator Dan Patrick’s office, there was no indi... (more) |
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Monday January 25th, 2010
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Saturday January 23rd, 2010
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Thursday January 21st, 2010
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Police use dogs and helicopter to swoop on pacifist student
posted 01/21/2010, 3:55 PM (This is London) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A pacifist is suing police for malicious arrest after he was held under anti-terror laws for staging a protest outside an Army base.
Politics student Jeremy Moulton, 19, has accused police of “overkill” after his home was raided by officers and dogs while a helicopter hovered overhead. He was arrested and cautioned after standing outside an Army cadet training base in Staines with a banner reading: “Stop training murderers”.
Officers then raided his home and the stu... (more) |
Cop Tases Jr. High Special Needs Students
posted 01/21/2010, 3:51 PM (NBC Chicago) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Two federal lawsuits each seek more than $10 million on behalf of two 12-year-old boys who allege a Kankakee police officer shocked them with a stun gun during an in-school demonstration.
The lawsuits were filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Urbana. Police officials in Kankakee placed the officer on administrative leave after he allegedly used a stun gun on students Tuesday as part of an unauthorized demonstration of the device at Kankakee Junior High School.
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Wednesday January 13th, 2010
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O’Reilly demands ‘deranged’ Bush heckler be arrested
posted 01/13/2010, 6:29 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] In his classic defamation segment, ‘Patriots & Pinheads’, Bill O’Reilly condemned the man who confronted former President George H.W. Bush at a Houston restaurant.
“On the pinhead front, President Bush is 85 years old. The other day he was in a Houston restaurant when a deranged person approached him.”
“The guy should have been arrested by the Secret Service,” O’Reilly stated after playing a You Tube clip of the incident. “However, we called them and they will not c... (more) |
Police Fight Cellphone Recordings: Witness arrested, charged with illegal surveillance
posted 01/13/2010, 7:44 AM (Boston Globe) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.
Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs.
“One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,” Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007... (more) |
UK bans Muslim group for anti-war march plans
posted 01/13/2010, 7:42 AM (Press TV) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] The British government has outlawed a Muslim group after it planned an antiwar rally in the southwestern town of Wootton Bassett.
Islam4UK, which, according to British Home Secretary Alan Johnson, will be banned as of Thursday, had planned the protest at the Wiltshire town to honor the innocent civilian victims of the Afghanistan conflict.
The town's selection was symbolic, as it is famous for its somber ceremonies honoring British soldiers fallen in Afghanistan. ... (more) |
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Tuesday January 12th, 2010
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Sunday January 10th, 2010
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Myleene Klass warned after brandishing knife to deter intruders
posted 01/10/2010, 7:12 PM (The Guardian) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The TV presenter and Marks & Spencer model Myleene Klass has been warned by police for waving a knife at teenagers who were peering into a window of her house late at night.
Klass was in the kitchen with her daughter upstairs when she spotted the youths in her garden just after midnight on Friday. She grabbed a knife and banged the windows before they ran away.
Hertfordshire police warned her she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying ... (more) |
Chinese enslave addicts in 'rehab centres'
posted 01/10/2010, 7:09 PM (Scotsman) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] FU LIXIN, emotionally exhausted from caring for her sick mother, needed a little pick-me-up. A friend offered her a "special cigarette" – one laced with methamphetamine – and she happily inhaled.
The next day, three policemen showed up at her door. "They asked me to urinate in a cup," Fu said. "My friend had been arrested and turned me in. It was a drug test. I failed on the spot."
Although she said it was her first time smoking the drug, Fu, 41, was sent to one of China's ... (more) |
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Thursday January 7th, 2010
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TSA Agent: “I am god, I'm in charge”
posted 01/07/2010, 9:39 PM (NBC Los Angeles) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] They are the first line of defense in airport security but two troubling incidents involving TSA agents at LAX are raising concerns.
A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, "I am god, I’m in charge."
Meanwhile, a TSA Internal Affairs investigation turned up evidence of LAX TSA agents using drugs at an after-hours party.
TSA officials say a... (more) Note they are trying to link this to drugs and yet the link is not explicit, they connect two different stories with the word "meanwhile" because they are not related. Total propaganda yet the majority of the people who read this no doubt believe the guy must have just been some drug head and not a power mad government control freak. - Chris, IL |
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Wednesday January 6th, 2010
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Harassed War Reporter: We Must Stand Up To TSA Thugs
posted 01/06/2010, 7:39 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A war reporter who was detained, interrogated and handcuffed at Seattle airport for refusing to answer personal questions about his income has warned that Americans need to start standing up to TSA thugs because entering the country is now a more stifling experience than some of the worst police states on the planet.
"No country has ever treated me so badly," Michael Yon wrote in a Facebook message. "Not China. Not Vietnam. Not Afghanistan. Definitely not Singapore or India or... (more) "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass |
Breaking The Will Of The People: The Real Purpose Of Body Scanners
posted 01/06/2010, 7:39 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The clamor to ramp up airport security with invasive naked body imaging scanners has nothing to do with ensuring the safety of travelers. Rather it is part of an ongoing incremental push to break the will of the people and encourage mass subservience and meek obedience.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the body scanner push is that people are willingly accepting it. As Bloomberg news reports today, “Passenger acceptance of airport body scanners has increase... (more) |
Homeschoolers Arrested in New York: Slavery Returns to Amerika
posted 01/06/2010, 7:36 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] In a move designed to send a message to parents, a Montgomery County, New York, couple were arrested and ticketed for homeschooling their children and failing to register their them with the school district.
“Richard Cressy, 47, and Margie Cressy, 41, both of the town of Glen, never registered their four children or their home-schooling curriculum with the local school district, said the Sheriff’s Office,” reports WRGB, a CBS affiliate in Albany, New York. “The Superint... (more) |
New year brings over 40,000 new laws
posted 01/03/2010, 10:11 PM (MyFoxNepa) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Beginning Jan. 1, 2010, Texas college freshmen and transfer students will need to be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis before they can live on campus. Restaurants in California can no longer use oils, margarine, or shortenings with more than half a gram of trans fat per serving. And stores in Louisiana can no longer sell lighters that appeal to children.
As always, a host of new laws take effect in the new year, ranging from the significant (same-sex couples will be able to ... (more) This is how they did it in the Soviet Union. |
Cop Went Wild With Taser, Diabetic Says
posted 01/03/2010, 10:09 PM (Courthouse News Service) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A suburban Chicago police officer Tasered a man 11 times while he was having a diabetic seizure, and the 56 seconds of needlessly inflicted electric shock, “inflicted … while he was lying unresponsive on the floor of his bedroom, permanently scarred [him] and caused him neurological damage that has not abated,” the man claims in Chicago Federal Court.
Prospero Lassi says he suffered a diabetes-induced seizure at home on April 9. His roommate called 911, and police from LaGrange P... (more) |
Pakistan: Over 700 Civilians Killed in US Drone Strikes
posted 01/03/2010, 10:07 PM (DawnNews) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] PESHAWAR: Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of over 700 innocent civilians.
According to the statistics compiled by Pakistani authorities, the Afghanistan-based US drones killed 708 people in 44 predator attacks targeting the tribal areas between January 1 and December 31, 2009.
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Wednesday December 30th, 2009
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TSA Agents Visit Travel Writers Who Posted Security Directive
posted 12/30/2009, 10:04 PM (Infowars) [Category: Tyranny/Police State]
TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger’s home in Niantic, Connecticut, after returning Frischling’s laptop Wednesday. Photo: Thomas Cain/Wired.com
Wired reports today that two bloggers who posted new airport search procedures in the wake of the exaggerated underwear bomber fiasco received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents.
“Special agents from the TSA's Office of Inspection interr... (more) |
Taser ruling sets standards for police, claims
posted 12/30/2009, 10:02 PM (San Francisco Chronicle) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Police need reasons to believe a suspect is dangerous before firing a Taser and can’t use their stun gun simply because the person is disobeying orders or acting erratically, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Monday.
The decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sets judicial standards for police and for people who claim they were victims of excessive force after police hit them with a Taser dart.
“The objective facts must indicate that the su... (more) |
Anglers Must Register With Feds Before Fishing
posted 12/30/2009, 9:58 PM (Associated Press) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] State officials say all Maryland recreational anglers must register with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before fishing in 2010.
The requirement is part of a federal initiative to help ensure the long-term sustainability of America's fisheries.
Although the survey is focused on saltwater species, some ocean fish travel between salt and fresh waters, so anyone fishing in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and coastal waters must register. ... (more) |
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Monday December 28th, 2009
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NY school suspends girl, 10, for peppermint oil
posted 12/28/2009, 6:16 PM (The Buffalo News) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A 10-year-old girl in New York has been suspended for bringing peppermint oil to her middle school and distributing it to other students.
The Commack School District said in a statement on its Web Site that the oil is "an unregulated over-the-counter drug."
The girl's mother, Corrine Morton-Greiner, said on Thursday that the implication that her daughter Sara was bringing an illicit substance to school was "infuriating."
Morton-Greiner asked school of... (more) |
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Tuesday December 22nd, 2009
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Monday December 21st, 2009
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Cop Admits to Pulling Gun on Snowballers
posted 12/21/2009, 8:37 AM (NBC Washington) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A plainclothes police detective allegedly pulled his gun out and waved it at a large group of people in a snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U streets NW Saturday afternoon.
An off-duty member of the Metropolitan Police Dept. was reportedly driving his personal car in the area when the car was suddenly pelted with a barrage of snowballs, according to a statement from the MPD.
The detective stopped his car, got out and approached a crowd of people that might ha... (more) |
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Sunday December 20th, 2009
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Saturday December 19th, 2009
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D.C. officer charged with felony murder in shooting
posted 12/19/2009, 6:17 AM (Washington Post) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] A D.C. police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony murder in connection with a fatal shooting about two weeks ago in Southeast Washington, police officials said.
In a case that appeared to be without recent precedent, police said Reginald Jones, who has been a member of the force for six years, was arrested in the death of Arvel S. Alston, 40.
Police said Jones "basically served as a lookout" and did not shoot Alston, who was killed in the 4300 block... (more) | Next Page
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