Congress Welcomes Drones Into American Skies ASAP February 5, 2012 Print Version By Michael Edwards Activist Post The stage has already been set and played upon for divisions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to patrol and strike undeclared war zones abroad. Even though lip service has been paid to express minor outrage over villages bombed [...]
Print Version Source: Think Progress The biggest critic of a massive prison privatization scheme in Florida was stripped of his chairmanship of the Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriation for opposing Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) plan to outsource prison oversight to the lowest bidder. Sen. Mike Fasano (R) is one of ten Senate [...]
FBI Uses Chainsaw To Tear Door Down In Terrifying Raid — On Wrong Apartment February 3, 2012 Print Version Source: Information Liberation In a scene straight out of a horror film, the FBI used a chainsaw to tear down a woman’s door in a terrifying drug raid, all on the wrong apartment. The innocent mother [...]
FL Police roll out video surveillance truck called ‘The Peacemaker’… January 30, 2012 Print Version Source: Sun Sentinel Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her. She’s not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that’s been parked in front of her [...]
SF 6-year-old charged with sexual assault for playing tag January 30, 2012 Print Version Source: CBS SF Local An East Bay dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being accused of sexual assault – a decision he said was an overreaction by school officials. The parent, who [...]
Six Million People Are Under Correctional Supervision in the U.S.—More Than Were in Stalin’s Gulags January 26, 2012 Print Version Source: NEW YORKER For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white [...]
Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: CBS NewYork They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Apple to keep an eye on New Yorkers? More and more people believe it’s [...]
LAPD: Joint Military Drills In Downtown LA January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: Phantom Report Maybe the Military Equipment Movement 1\19\12 near Santa Cruz, Southbound is headed toward Los Angeles, CA for the joint military| LAPD exercise. If you are a 11Bravo veteran [US ARMY], you know the branches of the military have Urban Warfare [...]
Sadism in the Cell: Thanks to a Vindictive Prison System, Abu-Jamal is Still in ‘The Hole’ Linn Washington Jr. January 20, 2012 Those intent on tormenting now ex-death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal have done it again, this time perhaps even exceeding their past efforts to painfully harass this man widely perceived as a political prisoner. The [...]
TSA Admits Wrongdoing in Cases of Two Elderly Woman Who Claim They Were Strip-Searched January 19th, 2012 Via: New York Daily News: In an about-face, the feds have admitted wrongdoing in the cases of two elderly women who say they were strip-searched at Kennedy Airport by overzealous screeners. Federal officials had initially insisted that [...]
NYPD developing portable body scanner for detecting concealed weapons January 18, 2012 Print Version Source: Gizmag The NYPD is developing a new device that can detect whether a perp is carrying heat without frisking him, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced today. The large mechanism uses infrared rays to scan a “form of radiation emitted from the [...]
UCSF Professor: “Society Will Pay a Huge Price in Cancer” Because of DHS Full Vehicle X-Ray Machines January 16, 2012 Print Version Source: CNet Internal Homeland Security documents describing specifications for border-crossing scanners, which emit gamma or X-ray radiation to probe vehicles and their occupants, are raising new health and privacy concerns, CNET has learned. [...]
Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards. January 13, 2012 Print Version By Arron Klein Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards. Such “cognitive [...]
Obama says he doesn’t even need NDAA to indefinitely detain Americans Natural News EXCERPT January 4, 2012 “My Administration has consistently opposed such measures. Ultimately, I decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides for our forces and their families and the national security programs it authorizes, but [...]
Library Sends Police To Collect Overdue Books From 5-Year-Old January 3, 2012 Print Version Source: CBS Boston CHARLTON (CBS) – A Charlton mom says her local library crossed the line when they sent police to collect her daughter’s overdue library books. Her mom says the 5-year-old girl was so afraid that she burst into [...]
