Showing posts with label police state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police state. Show all posts
VIDEO: It's Back: Federal Asset Forfeiture Laws
Government gives itself a license to steal. No crime necessary.
Police Humor: Cops Scam Woman Into Her Bringing Meth In For Ebola Contamination Test, Then Toss Her Ass In Jail
by David Kravets. Some hooks don't require bait. A Central Texas police department issued a "breaking news alert" on
Facebook, cautioning residents that meth and heroin in the Granite
Shoals area "could be contaminated with the life-threatening disease Ebola."
Last week's fake Facebook alert urged the public "NOT" to ingest those
illicit drugs ... MOREMatt Agorist: “Please Don’t Shoot Me” Body Cam Shows Innocent Unarmed Dad Killed By A Cop Begging For His Life
A simple execution. Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford
has been charged with the second-degree murder of Daniel Shaver, an
innocent father of two. The shooting was captured on his body cam. On
January 18, Brailsford, along with several other officers, responded to
a call about a suspect with a rifle in a hotel room. The ‘rifle’ was
nothing more ... MOREIllegal Drugs Should Be Decriminalized, Say Health Experts
by Lisa Ryan. Current policies are damaging. The war on drugs has failed – and certain illegal substances should now be decriminalized, according to some of the world’s leading health experts. Harsh drug control policies have done little to affect drug markets or drug use, experts argued. Instead, the war on drugs and zero-tolerance ... MORELancet Commission Recommends Drug Legalization
by Jacob Sullum. The last time the U.N. General Assembly held a "special session" (UNGASS) on drug policy, it was organized under the slogan "A Drug-Free World...We Can Do It." Pino Arlacchi, then executive director of the U.N. Drug Control Program, insisted "there is no reason" the world's supply of cocaine and heroin "cannot be eliminated in ... MORE
Civil Asset Forfeiture Allows For Abuse Of Police Power
by Allison Chavez. People need to be aware of the practice of civil asset forfeiture and understand their rights when dealing with the police. The police doctrine known as civil asset forfeiture is barbaric and needs to be more strictly regulated. Civil asset forfeiture is essentially an excuse the police employ in order to steal civilians’ property and ... MORE12-Year Old Girl Gets Arrested And Booked For Pinching Boy's Butt. It Was The Boy's Mother Who Was Butt Hurt
by Melissa Dykes. Public school is already a terrible place of fear, conditioning and over-reactions to prepare you for the real world of utter B.S. But this pushes even the insane limits of a politically-correct world that gets offended at every thing, arrests children for bubble guns and toy weapons, among other petty controversies that demonstrate how ... MORELaw Enforcement Now Snoops Private DNA Databases
by Jessica Chia. A filmmaker in New Orleans became a suspect in the 1996 murder of an Idaho Falls teenager after his father donated his own DNA to a nonprofit organization conducting a hereditary study backed by the Mormon church. Idaho Falls Police Department had a warrant to seize the genetic information later sold to Ancestry.com in an attempt ... MOREOliver Steinberg: We're One Nation, Under Surveillance
Another slip down the slippery slope. “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” The Star Tribune’s March 22 editorial endorses tax expenditures for “A needed boost for courthouse security.” Consider what it means: To enter a public building, we lowly taxpayers, at the ... MORECarey Welder: Nixon Advisor Admitted War On Drugs Invented To Crush Anti-War And Black Movements
A damning revelation comes to light. In 1994, a former Nixon policy adviser admitted the War on Drugs was
waged not to keep Americans safe, but to crush dissent. According to John Ehrlichman,
who served time in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal,
the Drug War was intended to disempower anti-war and black ... MOREPhysicians Face Moral Dilemma In Drug War Conscription
by Jeffrey A. Singer. Gov't wants the narco squad to be your doctor. America’s physicians have been conscripted as law enforcement agents in the never-ending War on Drugs, and it puts us in a moral dilemma. As media attention has turned to the recent national surge in prescription-opioid and heroin abuse, politicians feel compelled to be ready ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Fascism, American Style
They’re all fascists. “If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” ― Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States This is an indictment of every politician who has ever sold us out for the sake of money ... MORE
Betsy Woodruff: Ted Cruz And Donald Trump Want To Make America A Police State After Brussels
Fear-mongering for votes. We didn’t even have a body count in Brussels before Ted Cruz and Donald Trump started calling for a police-state trial run in America. Within hours of the bombs there that left dozens dead and more wounded, the top two Republican presidential candidates here were duking it out to see who could pitch the most ... MOREShining A Light On Police Seizures, Civil Forfeitures
by Nick Sibilla and Lauren Krisai. How a town of 7,000 can build a $4.1 million dollar police station. Mississippi has some of the strongest protections in the country for private property rights. But those protections are shockingly lax when it comes to a little-known police practice called “civil forfeiture.” Unlike criminal forfeiture, ... MORE
The Real Tragedy Is That The Presidency Matters
by Jeffrey Tucker. Freedom lovers everywhere are biting their nails this election season, wondering how the damage can be limited. Depending on who gains control, we could have trade wars, nationalized health care, the pillaging of Wall Street, more war in the Middle East, a VAT tax, direct surveillance of your smartphone, internment ... MORESurprise! NSA Data Will Soon Routinely Be Used For Domestic Policing That Has Nothing To Do With Terrorism
by Radley Balko. Everyone is presumed guilty. A while back, we noted a report showing
that the “sneak-and-peek” provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged
to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has
overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the New York Times reports
that National Security Agency data will ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Apple Is On Your Side
Somebody has to protect individual liberty. Obama’s order for Apple to let him hack your iPhone is not about
fighting terror—it’s about iPhone dominion. This is the equivalent of
gun control except in the tech sector. Terrorism is one of the top two
issues concerning Americans, including Millennials. You deserve to know
why and how Obama’s ... MORE
DC Cop Raids Are Undeterred By Lack Of Probable Cause
from the Washington Post. Government's domestic terrorists. Sallie Taylor was sitting in her apartment in Northeast Washington one evening in January 2015 watching “Bible Talk” when her clock fell off the wall and broke. She turned and looked up. Nine D.C. police officers smashed through her door, a shotgun was pointed at her face and she ... MORE
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