This blog documents the slow slide into chaos that our society is maneuvering (did I say slow? Really, in fits and starts) Some stories are funny, but most can be viewed as terrifying, if you value freedom.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Unconfirmed report of foreign invasion
read commentary
It's coming, folks ...
read commentary by former police officer.
Stimulus subtrafuge to increase police state
read article
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Is this the first implementation of our police state?
Larry Welborn
Orange County Register
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:25 UTC
Santa Ana, California - A Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that there is legal justification to keep the Central Men's Jail under medical quarantine - at least for a couple of days - to control a swine flu outbreak.
Judge Thomas Goethals said the "significant medical public health event" in the men's jail is good cause to temporarily suspend constitutional guarantees to speedy trials, preliminary hearings and arraignments for some criminal case defendants.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
England is waaaay ahead in police statism
Original Article From the Daily Express (UK)
SNOOPING residents are being offered rewards of up to £500 to spy on their neighbours.
Taxpayers’ money is being used to pay “covert human intelligence sources” who report bad conduct to authorities.
Anyone who photographs dog fouling, litter being dropped, graffiti crime or fly tipping which result in prosecution will receive a cash reward. ...
The local council scheme is being launched in London and could eventually be rolled out across the country.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Rolling Stone Magazine - China's All-Seeing Eye
Police State 2.0 might not look good from the outside, but on the inside, it appears to have passed its first major test.
"Come help us spy!" the Chinese government has said to the world. And the world's leading technology companies are eagerly answering the call.
The global homeland-security business is now worth an estimated $200 billion — more than Hollywood and the music industry combined. Any sector of that size inevitably takes on its own momentum. New markets must be found — which, in the Big Brother business, means an endless procession of new enemies and new emergencies: crime, immigration, terrorism.
China is becoming more like us in very visible ways (Starbucks, Hooters, cellphones that are cooler than ours), and we are becoming more like China in less visible ones (torture, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, though not nearly on the Chinese scale).
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
OK, UK is TWO steps ahead of us ...
MUSLIM crime victims could gain the right to have their cases overseen by police from their own religion, it emerged last night.
Police in London already give victims the right to ask for a Sikh officer to be involved in an investigation but the scheme could be introduced for other religions elsewhere.
article here
Friday, July 24, 2009
UK Police one step ahead of us - moving to police state
Police have been handed 'Chinese-style' powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the London 2012 Olympics.
Little-noticed measures passed by the Government will allow officers and Olympics officials to enter homes and shops near official venues to confiscate any protest material.
Scotland Yard denied it had any plans to use the powers.
Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison said: 'We have no intention of using our powers to go in and take down demonstration posters.'
You're (Probably) a Federal Criminal
Federal law now criminalizes activities that the average person would never dream would land him in prison. Consequently, every year, thousands of upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible federal law and end up serving time in federal prison.
read article here
Friday, July 10, 2009
Definition of a police state: no oversight
Read Article (not much detail yet, this is a breaking story)
Monday, July 6, 2009
This is using food as a cover for martial law
* HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.”
[This - "that has been used to transport or hold such food" - would mean all cars that have ever brought groceries home or any pickup someone has eaten take-out in, so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is using food as a cover for martial law.]
Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of all food in a geographic area.
[This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.] See this DailyKos entry.Friday, June 26, 2009
9/11 FEMA VIDEOGRAPHER AT GROUND ZERO GOES PUBLIC
As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!"
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I learned that FEMA and several other federal agencies had already moved into position at their command center at Pier 92 on September 10th, one day before the attacks!
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We are asked to believe that all four of the “indestructible” black boxes of the two jets that struck the twin towers were never found because they were completely vaporized, yet I have footage of the rubber wheels of the landing gear nearly undamaged
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When the North Tower fell, the US Customs House (Building 6) was crushed and totally incinerated. Much of the underground levels beneath it were also destroyed. ... At the far end of the security office was the wide steel door to the vault, a combination code keypad in the cinderblock wall beside it. But the wall was cracked and partially crumbled, and the door was sprung partially open. So we checked inside with our flashlights. Except for several rows of empty shelves, there was nothing in the vault but dust and debris. It had been emptied. Why was it empty? And when could it have been emptied?
Read the rest here.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
National Prison Rape Elimination Commission report released
The report is here.
Some excerpts:
"More prisoners reported abuse by staff than abuse by other prisoners: 2.9 percent of respondents compared with about 2 percent.
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Even when prisoners are willing to report abuse, their accounts are not necessarily taken seriously and communicated to appropriate officials within the facility. “When I told one of the guards I trusted how tired I was of putting up with abuse [by other youth in a Hawaii facility], he told me to just ignore it,” Cyryna Pasion told the Commission.
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Victims and witnesses often are bullied into silence and harmed if they speak out. In a letter to the advocacy organization Just Detention International, one prisoner conveyed a chilling threat she received from the male officer who was abusing her: “Remember if you tell anyone anything, you’ll have to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life.”
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Rates of sexual abuse appear to be much higher for confined youth than they are for adult prisoners."
What would a police state be without bad police?
If we are to have a true police state, we need more bad cops!
Here's the article:
Officer concludes distinguished career while being investigated by the FBI