Governments slowly racketing up the police state machine on the Sheeple. Piggish cops
rushing to destroy liberty, due process and justice, as puppets for big government, like a
gang of useful idiots.
You can do anything you want, as long as you don't break any of their rules........
"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
The only terrorist most Americans will ever encounter is a policeman with a badge, nightstick, mace and Taser. A Google search for "police brutality videos" turns up 2,210,000 entries.
Police Trained Nationwide That Informed Americans Are Domestic Terrorists - March 13/09
A secret report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center lists Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag and equates them with radical race hate groups and terrorists. [Click here for link to view document]
-------
Will Obama "Change" The Bush Police State Or Expand It? - Nov 5/08
Will liberals go back to sleep now the "messiah" has arrived?
Now that Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States we offer a challenge - will those who elected him be able to progress past their fawning idolatry and actually pressure Obama to deliver on his mandate of "change," or will the architecture of the Bush police state remain in place while the American empire expands? [Read full story]
Obama Website Scrubs Mandatory Community Service Call
Despite screenshots proving stronger language was memory-holed, Obama supporters dismiss story as hoax
Fox News Angrily Smears Nader For Daring To Criticize Obama - Nov 5/08
Two More U.S. Military Units Assigned For Homeland Security - Nov 4/08
Obama wants domestic “security force” as powerful as military, columnist compares it to Hitler Youth - July 17, 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded,” Obama told a Colorado Springs audience earlier this month.
New Bill To Allow Police Misconduct Be Hidden From Public - Feb 14/08
SWAT Goons Dispatched On Homeschoolers in Colorado - January 8, 2008
In Garfield County, Colorado, not only will the state determine if you should take your child to a doctor after a mishap, but if you don't comply with their on-high directives, they will dispatch a SWAT team to ensure compliance.
Stormtroopers featured in Port Clinton Ohio Memorial Day Parade -May 26/08
Police SWAT Team Holds Entire Family at Gunpoint for Hours - Patrick Burwell, Digital Journal Dec 5, 2008
Brannon Howse interviewed John Loeffler about his article on ChristianWorldviewNetwork.com on why SWAT police, armed for riot control weapons, packing automatic rifles and armored for a terrorist response stormed a family food cooperative in Ohio.
Military May Patrol Bar Zone In Canadian City - March 4/09
Welcome to the Police State
Google Video - Tuesday May 29, 2007
Documents with video footage the rise of the police state in America and the plan to bring in martial law under FEMA and a one world federal government.
Included: Military Police take-over at the G8 in Georgia, Waco, Seattle WTO, Oklahoma City bombings, drills and military take-overs in small towns, the real history of FEMA
Police shoot peaceful protester, then laugh about hitting her in forehead.
AP photog arrested while covering anti-war protest - September 2/08
Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times - Sept 19/07
State rules Taser death homicide
Man Attacked By Police At City Council Meeting - Sept 16/07
David Snyder released from jail after being bloodied at council meeting
Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested For Flying an Upside Down U.S. Flag - July 31/2007
Police officer recently returned from Iraq smashed into Kuhn's home, choked husband and then claimed they assaulted him
Professor Put On No Fly List For Criticizing Bush <[Click for audio]
Alex speaks with Professor of Jurisprudence, Emeritus, at Princeton University, Walter
F. Murphy, about having his name added to the Federal "No-Fly" list after giving a televised
speech that slammed Bush's executive overreach.
Homeland Security revives supersnoop Audrey Hudson - Washington Times Thursday, March 8, 2007
Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through
personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns
from lawmakers who have called for investigations.
The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total
Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast
privacy violations.
Homeland Security wants master key for the Internet - 02 April 2007
Will be able to snoop on everyone
Websites could be required to retain visitor info - August 9/2007
Air Force Seeks Full Spectrum Dominance Over "Any And All" Computers - May 14/08
"Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement" plans announced
Govt. May Have Massive Surveillance Program For Use In 'National Emergency,' - May 20/08
Columnist Arrested For Raising Voice ["Top of the world Ma"] June3/07
Vandalia, IL Police Call Filming A Felony - June 22/2007
FBI Wants Its Own Stasi - July 25/2007
Proposes building network of US informants
Celebration Of Americans Turning In Their Neighbors, Family Members - May 19/08
Officials, media praise "wonderful," "creative" informants for making a living from reporting friends to the authorities
Firefighters asked to report people who express discontent with the government
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story - November 29, 2007
It was revealed last week that firefighters are being trained to not only keep an eye out for illegal materials in the course of their duties, but even to report back any expression of discontent with the government.
White House Opposes Surveillance... Of Its Own Surveillance Policy - Feb 4/08
US wants all 10 fingerprints on entry
Couple face 20 years behind bars for "kissing and cuddling" on a plane as airline insanity
flies to new heights.
The Insanity of Homeland Security enforced airline security measures reached a new high
today as two American citizens were charged with violating the Patriot Act for "sexual
play" on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles.
 New
federal screening systems that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies to
detect concealed explosives and other weapons are coming to an airport
near you.The technology, called backscatter, has been around for several years but has not been widely used in the U.S. or Canada as an anti-terrorism tool because of privacy concerns. Now both the Canadian and US government are considering spending hundreds of millions to make the devices a routine checkpoint at major airports. Most likely, this is merely a scare tactic to herd the sheep into
getting a biochip. Automated airport screening intrusive Project could cost over $250 million, documents show
Phoenix Airport to Test X-Ray Screening __ Alex Jones - The Control Freak Grid [Variety of Topics touched on] You Tube - Monday, February 12, 2007 _______________  Homeland Security To Covertly Scan Behaviour Scientists and engineers have been asked to devise ways of analysing people's behaviour and physiology from afar, in the hope they may reveal clues about their mental state and even their future intentions, reports the London Guardian. [full report]
|
Officers Seen on Dashcam Video Conspiring to Frame Driver for Cop-Caused Accident - July 29/09
Cops Tase 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game - Nov 26/08
Eyewitness captures video, police falsely say taser intended for compliance
YouTube Link to above http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbZDnpDVEsg
UCLA Police Taser Student For Not Showing ID
NBC 11 - Thursday, November 16, 2006Comment: This is like something out of a horror movie, you can hear the guy screaming and
begging not to be tortured as they repeatedly hit him with the Taser shot. Tortured for not
showing ID in America, this is what "serve and protect" has come to mean.
RELATED: Americans To Be Tortured For Refusing To Show ID?
Police Use Taser Gun On Woman Having Diabetic Seizure
_____ . . .
Similar cases abound in the so-called land of the free, including the video
above in which a housewife, Abbey Newman, is assaulted and arrested for
simply refusing to tell the gestapo her name at an unconstitutional checkpoint.
Another case in which an Alex Jones listener, Ferrell Montgomery, was tasered
and had a dog set on him again underscores the brutal and sadistic nature of
the police. Like Tabatabainejad, Montgomery was repeatedly told to put his
hands behind his head and stand up while he was electric shocked and a
dog savaged him for not complying.
In November 2005, Deborah Davis was reading a book on a Denver bus
when a guard of a nearby federal building got on board and demanded everyone
show their ID. Davis refused, leading the guard to "call on federal cops, who then
dragged Davis off a public bus, handcuffed her, shoved her into the back seat of
a police car and drove off to a police station within the Federal Center."
So called "Visible Intermodal Protection and Response" teams — or VIPER teams,
may soon be permanently deployed to check ID's under the banner of counter-terrorism.
[Source link: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/161106torturedid.htm ]
UCLA Tasering officer: history of violence
Tasering of UF student sparks uproar - Sept 19/07
"Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a
case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a
wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self-
defense." (State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).
Report clears US police officers for tasering of student...
US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will take prints of all 10 fingers of
foreigners entering the United States and compare them with those found at sites
with ties to terrorists, the country's security chief said on Friday.
The United States now collects the prints of only the two index fingers of foreign
visitors. But it will gather prints of all their fingers and thumbs by the end of 2008,
Michael Chertoff, the secretary of Homeland Security, said.
15 year old girl brutally beaten by Seattle cops
Man Tasered at City Council Meeting For Wearing Baseball Cap
Terry Camp - ABC Friday, November 10, 2006 Video here
Man in coma since February 2006 jail Taser shock dies
Man Tasered, Shot With Bean Bag Rounds For Filming Warrantless Police Search Oct 17/2007
Acquitted Portland man sues after cops stated camera "could be used as a weapon"
Click on above Pic for Video of assault by female "peace" officer...
Cops Taser Drowned Dad's Distraught Son - Dec 4/08
California cops tasered a distraught son whose father was drowning after he and his brother complained that police were not doing enough to rescue their dad, while authorities prevented the two sons from making any kind of rescue effort themselves.
Pittsburgh Police Taser woman lying on the ground -You Tube | May 03, 2007
Cop threatens to "make stuff up" threatens to ruin young man's life and makes threats with violence for parking in parking lot. Then gives a sob story of his day to "justify" his threats after seeing he was on film. You have to see this video to believe it. Welcome to the police state thug patrol.
Missouri: Police Threaten, Detain Motorist for Parking After HoursThe incident began at around 2am. Darrow was to meet a friend who was working late and was going to pick him up. Darrow headed toward a 24-hour commuter parking lot in an unincorporated part of Saint Louis County in his 1997 Nissan Maxima. He put on his turn signal and entered the lot which, aside from Kenline's cruiser, was essentially vacant. After stopping the car, the police officer approached and began questioning Darrow about what he was doing. When Darrow declined to discuss his personal business, the police sergeant exploded. Although the video clearly shows Darrow driving properly and using his turn signal, the police officer insisted that Darrow had broken the law.
The Newspaper | September 10, 2007
A motorist who refused to discuss his personal business with a St. George, Missouri police officer was threatened with arrest last Friday. Brett Darrow, 20, no stranger to unconventional encounters with police, caught a St. George Police Sergeant named Kenline stating that he had the power to invent charges that would put Darrow behind bars.
"Try and talk back... to me again," yelled Sergeant Kenline. "I bet I could say you resisted arrest or something. You want to come up with something? I come up with nine things."
"Oh, while you were coming towards me you were swerving back and forth within the roadway," Sergeant Kenline said. "I might give you a ticket for that. You want me to come up with some more? When you turned in, you failed to use your turn signal, your right turn signal."
________
Woman, 92, Dies in Shootout With Police
AP - Wednesday, November 22, 2006
A 92-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday after she fired at three narcotics officers
trying to serve a warrant at her house, officials said. Neighbors and relatives said it must
have been a case of mistaken identity. Police said they had the right address.
Botched Drug Raid April 30, 2007
New York Police Corruption Surges - NY Post | October 22, 2007 Murray Weiss
THE number of NYPD cops using drugs, stealing property - even from the dead - and committing other acts of corruption, including extorting sex from female suspects, spiked sharply last year, according to a confidential NYPD report. [read full story]
Police Plant Evidence, Cover Up Shooting Death - May 20/08
________
Students Arrested for Reading "1984" Over School Intercom - May 22/08
Young Girl Facing Charges After Wetting Pants
2nd-Grader Suspended for Drawing of Gun - Oct 20/2007
Bob Herbert: 6-Year-Olds Under Arrest
13-Year-Old Arrested In School For Writing On Desk - Apr 5, 2007
In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school
offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students
on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old
girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker
Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.
Suspects were kidnapped by the U.S., often on the basis of faulty information
or lies, then sent to Arab states to be tortured until they confessed. The apparent
objective of this “rendition” program? To find a few kernels of useful information.
The Cheka and East Germany’s Stasi used the same practice.
DoJ Takes The Military Commissions Act Out For a Spin - Video WMP | Video MOV
US government to set up DNA bank as law enforcement tool
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest - April 17/08
Bangor Makes It Illegal to Smoke in Cars
Adultery could mean life in prison, court finds - January 15, 2007
Presidential absolutism: Bush claims unlimited surveillance powers
Secret DOJ Memo Says Fourth Amendment Has "No Application"
Security at airports 'increases risk of terror'
US government spying on nonviolent protestors"queues up to 300-strong in lines that coil around each other [.....] had themselves
become targets...
A well-placed suitcase containing several kilograms of explosive ... would result
in catastrophic fatalities and injuries as well as potentially destroying the infrastructure
of the building," Professor Hatcher told the Commons Transport Committee in a
written submission."
U.S. agents question teen: Girl ran anti-Bush page on MySpaceThe DOD documents reveal that the American Friends Service Committee
(AFSC), a Quaker organization committed to the principles of non-violence,
came under Pentagon surveillance
Marc Parent / Sacramento Bee | October 14 2006Julia Wilson, 14, got a surprise visit from two Secret Service agents Wednesday
at McClatchy High after the words "Kill Bush" appeared on MySpace.com. Hermom, Kirstie Wilson, says she should have been present when her daughter was
questioned. Sacramento Bee/Hector Amezcua
The latest Sacramento resident to be questioned by federal agents in possible
threats against President Bush is a 14-year-old girl with a heart on her backpack
and braces on her teeth, a freckle-nosed adolescent who is passionate about
liberal politics and cute movie stars.
Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives
against anyone critical of the "war on terror"
Newt World Order
- Europe Moves To Kill The Internet
New EU rules would prevent uploading video without a license- RIAA Legal Ruling Could Shut Down The Internet
U.S. government supports legal case that would criminalize making any files availableon the world wide web
Bush and co paving the way for power mad freaks like Gingrich
Newt Gingrich's latest attack on the First Amendment is a revealing insight into the long
term agenda of elite minds in America today. Those who would be successors to the Bush
Administration are even more bent on power and dominance and they see absolutely no
place for the freedoms America was founded on to continue to exist under their leadership.
Cops with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol Amtrak trains and randomly search carry-on bags in a dramatic tightening of security to be announced Tuesday.
Although some riders were unhappy with the idea of guns on the trains, most welcomed the new security plan. [full report]
Deletions in Army Manual Raise Wiretapping Concerns
NY Police Report Bomb to Frame Activist as Terrorist - April 28, 2007
"By the time the government finds out, you'll be in the hole thirty days" 9/11 Truther is Told By
Officer Who Admits to False Accusation of Having a Bomb
FBI lied to get ISPs to turn over data - July 13/2007
THE FBI'S counter terrorism unit sent a large number of fake emergency letters to phone companies, asking them to turn over phone records immediately.
___
Are You an Enemy Combatant?
Kurt Nimmo | September 27 2006 Slowly but surely, the Bush neocons and their perfidious allies in Congress are cobbling together a secret police apparatus that will eventually mirror Hitler’s Gestapo, Stalin’s NKVD, East Germany’s Stasi, and Chile’s Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia, to cite but a few examples. “The United States could detain more foreigners as enemy combatants under legislation Congress will debate this week after a last-minute change in the bill, lawmakers said on Tuesday,” reports Reuters. “Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key negotiator on the bill, said enemy combatants would now include those who provided money, weapons and other support for terrorist groups as well as those involved in actual operations.”
|
Did you know that if you are someone who defends the Constitution and your right
to travel, that the Anti-Defamation League believes you are a "dangerous extremist"
that needs to be monitored by police? So now you know where their loyalties are.
Check out their warning page to "law enforcement" officers.......
[See these pages also: Politics of Torture & Defining Terrorist]
Police Are Using Armored Vehicles May 08, 2007 AP
PITTSBURGH -- After six people were shot in the city's Homewood neighborhood in less than
24 hours, Pittsburgh police rolled in with a 20-ton armored truck with a blast-resistant body,
armored rotating roof hatch and gunports.
No guns or drugs were seized and no arrests made during the sweep in the $250,000 armored
vehicle, paid for with Homeland Security money. But the show of force sent a message.
The gun turret makes this armoured police vehicle perfect for mowing down defenders of
the constitution.
Militarized Police Celebrate Killing Americans - May 20/08 <[Must see!]
Pentagon Tests Raygun On Mock Anti-War Protesters - June 2/08
Pain compliance device used to disperse crowd as military-industrial complex tools up to deal with dissenters
Indianapolis To Become "Mock Battlefield" - May 29/08
Circle City to be site of three week long urban warfare training
America's Future: FEMA Permanently Occupies Real Town For Advanced "Terror Training" - March 26/08
Residents of New Mexico town say they are used to the "background noise"
Military heat ray gun zaps 60 Minutes reporter - March 1/08
San Jose Police To Use Crowd Control Sound Wave Weapons - Feb 26/08
What's good enough to force a terrorist out of a cave is good enough to make you fall into line
Soon U.S. Citizens Must Ask for Government Permission to Fly or Travel - Feb 28/08
The Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is moving forward to institute a rule that would require all passengers to go through a government review process before boarding any airplane that takes off or lands anywhere with in the United States.
The U.S. government already requires international passengers to participate in the Advanced Passenger Information System, providing their full name, gender, date of birth, nationality, country of residence, and travel document type and number to the TSA before boarding. Under the proposed Secure Flight Program, this procedure would also be required on domestic flights.
Forced Removal of Nipple Rings with Pliers in Gestapo Zone Now Normal
Behavior - March 28/08
Airline Insanity Merely A Beta Test For Police State Caste System
Draconian surveillance, identification, behavior modification measures being implemented right outside your door...
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 25 2006
Escalating security measures, body scans, lie detector tests and behavior analysis now being forced upon unwitting human livestock passing through airports are the first stage of an agenda to create a two tier caste system whereby only government authorized citizens will be able to travel and everyone will be subject to intense airport style harassment on city streets.
Recent incidents that caused delays and diversions on airliners - including the latest example where a flight was turned back due to a group of men using mobile phones - underscore the unmitigated hysteria created by the politically timed release of the alleged foiled plot announcement two weeks ago.
On August 14th a British Airways flight bound for New York was diverted back to Heathrow Airport because a mobile phone rang at the rear of the plane and its owner was not to be found.
Days later, United Airlines 923, bound for Washington from London had to be escorted to Boston by two F-15 fighter jets after a patently mentally ill woman began urinating on the floor and manically talking about having visited Pakistan and making vague references to bombs. Original reports that she had possessed a handwritten note alluding to Al-Qaeda were later dismissed.
Today all 12 suspects who were detained after Northwest Airlines flight 42, bound for Mumbai, had to be diverted , were freed. Passengers grew suspicious when the men began using mobile phones and cheering. On the face of it this is absurd - why would potential hijackers who would in the normal course of events be prepared to face fierce resistance from passengers want to make themselves conspicuous before any hijack attempt was made?
Perhaps the most ridiculous example of fear run amok occurred when passengers on a flight returning from Malaga Spain complained about two Asian men who they thought were potential suicide hijackers. The evidence? They were Asian! To the astonishment of the students they were marched off the plane at gun point before it took off.
- AP: Supreme Court upholds no-knock police search
- House Approves Wiretap Measure - Aug 5, 2007
- On Wild Horses and 'No-Knock' Searches
"As the smoke cleared, the police realized that they had made a mistake.
They had broken into the wrong house. The address on the search warrant and
the house raided were not the same. In the aftermath of this all-too-common
situation the results were:
A dead police officer, the one who was assigned to breach the bedroom door.
An embarrassed police department; they had failed to ensure the accuracy of
the informant's information.The woman who shot the officer was not prosecuted. The prosecutor found that
she had feared for her life and acted in self-defense."
- The Zero Tolerance Militarized Police State
- Christopher Bollyn Found Guilty after police setup
- Boy Charged For Meowing At Neighbor Lady
- Houston Police Attack Band - Video
- Student Tasered at City Council meeting for wearing baseball cap
-
Officer Shows Up To School Because Of 8-Year-Old's Overdue Books
Mental Health Screening: New Liberal Tool for Child-Control
Jan 31st, 2007 by Phyllis Schlafly
Mental health screening of all children is the goal of legislation
introduced into many state legislatures this year. Typical of these
highly controversial bills is the Missouri bill that would require
every Missouri school district, in collaboration with "the office of
comprehensive child mental health," to develop "a policy of
incorporating social and emotional development into the district's
educational program."
Sign Of Times: NJ School Cameras Fed Live To Cops - CBS, November 13, 2007
Court Allows Unlimited Police Power to Plant GPS on Vehicles
Eminent domain still worries homeowners - Jan 8/2008
Perhaps this would be a good time to reflect on a speech that was agreed to by ALL
western governments in defining who our enemy is...... Read it, learn it, act on it!
-
Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
the American Bill of Rights, and every charter of liberty ever written, are lies, to be
burned and destroyed and forgotten.”
[Source for above quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040921-3.html Speech to United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2004 11:00 A.M. EDT]
Veterans Disarmament Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns - Sept 12/2007
The Veterans Disarmament Act -- which has already passed the House -- would place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list. [full report]
FBI Translating Over 1,000 Wiretap Conversations a Day
US demands air passengers ask its permission to fly Oct 13/2007
Under new rules proposed by the Transport Security Administration (TSA) (pdf), all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the United States regardless of citizenship or the airline's national origin.
Currently, the Advanced Passenger Information System, operated by the Customs and Border Patrol, requires airlines to forward a list of passenger information no later than 15 minutes before flights from the US take off (international flights bound for the US have until 15 minutes after take-off). Planes are diverted if a passenger on board is on the no-fly list.
BBC: Concerns over Military and Police merging.
BBC / Matthew
Davis | March 21 2006
The recent killing of an unarmed Virginia doctor has raised concerns about what some say is an explosion in the use of military-style police Swat teams in the United States.
Armed with assault rifles, stun grenades - even armoured personnel carriers - units once used only in highly volatile situations are increasingly being deployed on more routine police missions.
Dr Salvatore Culosi Jr had come out of his townhouse to meet an undercover policeman when he was shot through the chest by a Special Weapons and Tactics force.
It was about 2135 on a chilly January evening. The 37-year-old optometrist was unarmed, he had no history of violence and displayed no threatening behaviour.
But he had been under investigation for illegal gambling and in line with a local police policy on "organised crime" raids, the heavily armed team was there to serve a search warrant.
As officers approached with their weapons drawn, tragedy struck. A handgun was accidentally discharged, fatally wounding Dr Culosi.
Two months on, investigations into the incident are still continuing, a delay which Dr Culosi's family says is compounding the "horror and burden of it all".
Salvatore Culosi Sr, the dead man's father, told the BBC: "I never knew him to carry so much as a pocket knife so it bewilders me how a detective could spend three months investigating my son and not know he is a pussy cat.
"If anything comes out of this it must be that another family does not experience this pain and anguish for absolutely no reason.
"Policy needs to change so these kinds of accidents never occur again."
'Excessive force'
Peter Kraska, an expert on police militarisation from Eastern Kentucky University, says that in the 1980s there were about 3,000 Swat team deployments annually across the US, but says now there are at least 40,000 per year.
"I have no problem with using these paramilitary style squads to go after known violent, armed criminals, but it is an extreme tactic to use against other sorts of suspects," he said.
Mr Kraska believes there has been an explosion of units in smaller towns and cities, where training and operational standards may not be as high as large cities - a growth he attributes to "the hysteria" of the country's war on drugs.
"I get several calls a month from people asking about local incidents - wrong address raids, excessive use of force, wrongful shootings - this stuff is happening all the time," he adds.
Every wrongful death of a civilian, or criminal killing of a police officer, fuels the complex and emotive argument over the way the United States is policed.
Those who reject criticism of the use of Swat teams argue that the presence of the units actually prevents violence through the credible threat of overwhelming force.
John Gnagey, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association, told the BBC: "What we find is that when Swat teams go out, shootings go down.
"We don't see it as escalating anything. We see it as reducing violence."
The NTOA rejects Mr Kraska's figures and says the actual number of deployments is far lower, but says there is a need for national training standards.
An NTOA study of 759 Swat team deployments across the US, found half were for warrant service and a third for incidents where suspects had barricaded themselves in a building - 50 were for hostage situations.
When criminology professor David Klinger looked at 12 years of data on Swat teams in 1998, he also found the most common reason for calling out teams was serving warrants, but that the units used deadly force during warrant service only 0.4% of the time.
Recruitment video
Last year the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) commissioned music video director JC Barros to make them a 10-minute film - To Protect and Serve - that would "get young men and women excited" about a career with the force.
More action film than recruitment video, it follows two LAPD officers who - in one day - capture a robbery suspect, are first on the scene when a gun-toting man takes a woman hostage, mediate a fight, and help to find a young kidnap victim.
Along the way they are supported by colleagues from bike patrol, K-9 dog teams, air support and, of course, the Swat team.
But Mr Kraska sees such initiatives as reflecting a changing culture of police work.
"These elite units are highly culturally appealing to certain sections of the police community. They like it, they enjoy it," he says.
"The chance to strap on a vest, grab a semi-automatic weapon and go out on a mission is for some people an exciting reason to join - even if policing as a profession can - and should - be boring for much of the time.
"The problem is that when you talk about the war on this and the war on that, and police officers see themselves as soldiers, then the civilian becomes the enemy."
US News report magazine, with caption which reads " Police departments across America are keeping tabs on ordinary citizens. Are you one of them?
[Click photo for story]
* Related [Canadian content] link: Government Thugs
*
UK Big Brother Has Eye On ID Card Refusniks
Eliminates opportunity for stay of execution
* New York cops convicted over hits for mafia
* America’s Secret Police? - Newsweek April 14/06
Intelligence experts warn that a proposal to merge two Pentagon intelligence units could create an ominous new agency.
Modern Gestapo Tactics
Henry Meyerding / Canyon News | March 19 2006
In our consumer-driven materialistic society, what is the best way to guarantee control over people? You control people through their money. The example of a Texas school teacher, as reported in Capital Hill Blue, who attempted to pay down his credit card debt and had his family's assets frozen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because their conduct was "questionable." Anyone who sends in a larger than "normal" payment to their creditors is reported to DHS by law and may look forward to the same consequences.Do you have hay fever? Do you take anything for it? If so, very soon you will need to produce identification at your pharmacy to buy your medicine. Why? Because the DHS is using provisions in the Patriot Act to require your local druggist
- to demand proof of identity
- to record your identity and keep it on file
- to provide those records whenever the government asks for them
The reason why Homeland Security is requiring druggists to be their unpaid informants? Because drugs are a threat to the nation. I'm no fan of drugs, but I didn't know that the DHS was supposed to be keeping me "safe" from everything. What about the next time I want to go to Canada. If I get sick in Canada I might bring that disease home with me. Sounds like a good reason to keep citizens from going abroad. And if I decide to keep some money stuffed in a mattress, so that in the event that DHS freezes my assets for six months for no reason, my children can eat regularly - that's very suspicious behavior.
Cops Caught On Camera Stomping More Heads
Drone aircraft may prowl U.S. skies
Declan McCullagh / CNET | March 30 2006
Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists. Now UAVs may be landing in the United States.
A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAVs for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities. Private companies also hope to use UAVs for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.
"We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory," Michael Kostelnik, assistant commissioner at Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection Bureau, told the House Transportation subcommittee.
Kostelnik was talking about patrolling U.S. borders and ports from altitudes around 12,000 feet, an automated operation that's currently underway in Arizona. But that's only the beginning of the potential of surveillance from the sky.
In a scene that could have been inspired by the movie "Minority Report," one North Carolina county is using a UAV equipped with low-light and infrared cameras to keep watch on its citizens. The aircraft has been dispatched to monitor gatherings of motorcycle riders at the Gaston County fairgrounds from just a few hundred feet in the air--close enough to identify faces--and many more uses, such as the aerial detection of marijuana fields, are planned.
That raises not just privacy concerns, but also safety concerns because of the possibility of collisions with commercial and general aviation aircraft.
"They're a legitimate user of the airspace and they need to play by the same rules as everyone else," Melissa Rudinger, vice president of regulatory affairs at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said in a telephone interview.
Pilots undergo extensive training on collision detection and avoidance. Planes that fly at night are required to have certain types of lights, for instance. Operating an aircraft near busy airports (in government parlance, "Class B" airports) requires a transponder that broadcasts its altitude. And during all flights that take place in poor weather or higher than 18,000 feet above sea level, the pilot must be in radio contact with controllers.
No such anti-collision rules apply to UAVs. Rudinger is concerned that UAVs--either remote-controlled or autonomous drones--will pose a safety threat to pilots and their passengers. She's not that worried about larger UAVs operated by the military that have sophisticated radar systems, but about smaller ones that have limited equipment and potentially inexperienced ground controllers.
"The FAA needs to define what is a UAV," Rudinger said. "And they need to regulate it just like they do any other aircraft, and integrate it into the system. The problem is the technology has advanced, and there are no regulations that talk about how to certify these aircraft, how to certify the operator, and how to operate in the national airspace system."
For its part, the FAA says it's created a UAV "program office" to come up with new rules of the sky. Preliminary standards for "sense and avoid" UAV avionics are expected in three to four years.
"Currently there is no recognized technology solution that could make these aircraft capable of meeting regulatory requirements for 'see and avoid,' and 'command and control,'" said Nick Sabatini, associate FAA administrator for aviation safety. "Further, some unmanned aircraft will likely never receive unrestricted access to (U.S. airspace) due to the limited amount of avionics it can carry because of weight, such as transponders, that can be installed in a vehicle itself weighing just a few ounces."
Complicating the question of how to deal with UAVs is the fact that there are so many different varieties of them. Some are essentially large model aircraft and weigh only a few ounces or pounds, while some military models are the size of a Boeing 737. Most are designed to sip fuel slowly, so they have long flight times and low airspeeds--meaning that they could be flying at the same altitude as a jet aircraft but at half the speed.
Egging on Congress and the FAA are manufacturers of UAVs, who see a lucrative market in domestic surveillance and aerial photography.
"It is quite easy to envision a future in which (UAVs), unaffected by pilot fatigue, provide 24-7 border and port surveillance to protect against terrorist intrusion," said Mike Heintz on behalf of the UNITE Alliance which represents Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. "Other examples are limited only by our imagination."
RCMP use billion dollar recon satellites (promoted as for "anti-terrorism") to monitor and harvest matured marijuana plants. [Related W5 story: RCMP caught trading passports for drugs with Hong Kong drug cartels]
Elaborate grow-op uncovered on Mount Seymour - Wed Aug. 12 2009, The Canadian Press
North Vancouver RCMP needed everything from satellites to pedal power as they busted a marijuana grow operation hidden deep in the heart of Mount Seymour, on Vancouver's North Shore.
The grow op was spotted last week by a passing helicopter and RCMP used high tech measures ranging from global positioning to aerial photography as they pinpointed the stash. Click here for photo of RCMP's stash
The same production is put forward every year... The RCMP in Vancouver BC 'just happen' to stubble across hundreds of OUTDOOR "grow-ops" just in time for harvesting the buds at their PEAK. However this above story indicates just how much of YOUR hard earned money is going into this operation...
Watch below CTV clip showing how the bud is harvested JUST at the time the buds are ready for sale to the customer.. More than 400 separate grow locations are just now being harvested.
______________________
The program is called ISIS, short for "Integrated Sensor Is Structure." And the idea is to park an unmanned airship over a hot zone for a year, at nearly 65,000 feet in the sky. Up there, ISIS can spot enemy soldiers up to 180 miles away, target tanks and trucks, and watch out for incoming cruise missiles 350 miles in the distance -- a "detailed, real-time picture of all movement on or above the battlefield," one Darpa program manager says.
Conservatives rap Bush for spying on Americans
Capitol Hill | January 24 2006
When Al Gore accused President Bush of breaking the law by authorizing domestic wiretapping, Bush's defenders had a ready response.
"Al Gore's hypocrisy knows no bounds," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. "If he is going to be the voice of the Democratic Party on national security matters, we welcome it."
Bush's aides, though, might have more difficulty countering the rising tide of criticism from some senior Republicans and influential conservative leaders who are also troubled by the electronic eavesdropping he authorized soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, branded the wiretapping "clearly and categorically wrong" and set a Feb. 6 hearing on "wartime executive power."
Beyond Capitol Hill, prominent conservative groups formed alliances with established liberal organizations to present an unusual united front against the eavesdropping.
For his Martin Luther King Day address at historic Constitution Hall in Washington, Gore was introduced by Bob Barr, a former Georgia congressman who earned a reputation as a right-wing pit bull for his fierce attacks on President Clinton and his relentless championing of conservative causes.
Barr and other leading conservatives have formed a group, Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, to press for "substantive oversight hearings" in Congress on Bush's directive _ which was revealed last month _ authorizing warrantless monitoring of phone calls and emails by the National Security Agency.
"When the Patriot Act was passed shortly after 9/11, the federal government was granted expanded access to Americans' private information," Barr said. "However, federal law still clearly states that intelligence agents must have a court order to conduct electronic surveillance of Americans on these shores. Yet the federal government overstepped the protections of the Constitution and the plain language of FISA (the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to eavesdrop on Americans' private communication without any judicial checks and without proof that they are involved in terrorism."
"This is not a partisan issue," said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union. "It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns."
Among other members of the new group are Paul Weyrich, head of the Free Congress Foundation and the man who coined the phrase "moral majority," and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Since the controversy over the wiretapping erupted a month ago, some Bush supporters have tried to frame it as just one in a long string of partisan political fights.
In a column headlined "The Paranoid Style in American Liberalism," influential neoconservative William Kristol ridiculed Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Joe Biden of Delaware for criticizing Bush.
And indeed there has been plenty of partisan outcry. In addition to Gore's speech, scores of Democrats have excoriated Bush, while two liberal organizations _ the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights _ filed lawsuits in federal court Tuesday in a bid to end the eavesdropping.
But a host of well-known Republican politicians and conservative commentators have also criticized the president, from Sens. Specter, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Dick Lugar of Indiana to columnists George Will and William Safire.
"The president's decision to authorize the NSA's surveillance without the complicity of a court or Congress was a mistake," Will wrote.
Another new alliance of strange bedfellows, calling itself the Liberty Coalition, sponsored Gore's speech and scrambled to construct a Web site.
Dedicated to "preserving the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy," the Liberty Coalition includes dozens of groups from across the political spectrum _ such as the ACLU, Amnesty International, Mothers Against the Draft and Move.on Political Action on the left, and the American Conservative Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Free Congress Foundation and the National Taxpayers Union.
The groups are often at one another's throats over a crazy-quilt range of issues, from tax reform, civil liberties and cyber-piracy to budget restraint, gun control and anti-war protest.
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said gun owners should feel especially threatened by Bush's electronic surveillance.
"If the law is not reformed, ordinary Americans' personal information could be swept into all-encompassing federal databases encroaching upon every aspect of their private lives," Gottlieb said.
Bush has insisted that the eavesdropping is being used in very limited cases in which at least one party to the communication is based abroad and suspected of being linked to al-Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist group.
A number of constitutional scholars and privacy experts said the reaction to the domestic wiretapping should be understood within broader cultural, historical and political contexts.
On the cultural front, Americans of all political stripes are struggling to come to grips with an information explosion driven by the digital revolution in computing and other communications technologies.
The debate over electronic eavesdropping comes against the backdrop of ongoing concerns over identity theft, industrial espionage and other forms of digital crime, according to John Soma, professor of computer and technology law at the University of Denver and executive director of its Privacy Foundation.
In 2004, Soma said, lawsuits were filed after it was disclosed that Northwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways had complied with government demands to turn over their passenger lists. Now, he said, there is fresh controversy over Google's refusal to hand over its user logs to help the Justice Department track child pornographers.
"We still don't have a mechanism to ensure that the government's no-fly list is accurate," Soma said. "The only way you can get you're name off it is if you're Senator Kennedy. He calls someone up and says, 'You're not going to get your money next year.' Well, what about the other 280 million Americans?"
Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is among a number of celebrities whose names have inadvertently ended up on the no-fly list the government maintains to prevent suspected terrorists from boarding commercial flights.
Daniel Solove, an information privacy law professor at George Washington University, said Americans' fear of government intrusion dates to the country's founding, but he said it has been dampened since the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Certainly, before 9/11 there was a very strong libertarian streak in the Republican Party, with very strong views on privacy, sometimes even stronger than those of the Democrats," Solove said. "One thing that Americans have always bristled at is the government snooping or interfering in their private lives."
That fear of excessive government power has flared up throughout U.S. history, whether it was liberals upset over the suppression of Vietnam War protests or conservatives angry over the FBI's Ruby Ridge assault on an Idaho family in 1992.
On the political front, Republicans have shown increased willingness to break with Bush on key issues in recent months. Before Congress adjourned last month, various groups of Republican senators helped block both a long-term extension of the Patriot Act and loosened enemy interrogation procedures, while GOP House members upset over high government spending forced cuts in appropriations bills.
Peter Brookes, a national security analyst with the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Bush has not exceeded his constitutional executive power in authorizing the wiretaps.
"It's very challenging to walk the fine line between preserving civil liberties and protecting national security during wartime," Brookes said.
The electronic eavesdropping is one of a number of measures that have helped prevent another terrorist attack since 9/11, Brookes said, but the new audiotape message from Osama bin Laden is a reminder that the threat still exists.
"As we heard in the tape, this guy's still out there, and he still wants to attack the United States," Brookes said. "We can't let our guard down. One of our advantages over them is our technological advances."
Man charged after videotaping police (Nice to see the thugs protecting their
own right to privacy, even when they are on private property.)
By ANDREW WOLFE, Telegraph Staff - Thursday, Jun. 29, 2006
NASHUA – A city man is charged with violating state wiretap laws by recording a detective on his home security camera, while the detective was investigating the man’s sons.
Michael
Gannon, 49, of 26 Morgan St., was arrested Tuesday night, after he brought a
video to the police station to try to file a complaint against Detective
Andrew Karlis, according to Gannon’s wife, Janet Gannon, and police
reports filed in Nashua District Court.
The Gannons’ son, Shawn Gannon, 18, is charged with resisting detention and disorderly conduct, and his wife also was cited for disorderly conduct, she said.
Janet Gannon said the family plans to hire a lawyer, and expects to sue the police department.
The Gannons installed a video and audio recording system at their home, a four-unit building at 22-28 Morgan St., to monitor the front door and parking areas, family members told police. They installed the cameras about two years ago, buying the system at Wal-Mart, Janet Gannon told the police, according to reports filed in court. The Gannons have owned the property, which is assessed at $382,700, for the past three years, city records show.
Janet Gannon spoke with The Telegraph by phone Wednesday afternoon, before going to bail out her husband. She said they installed the system in response to crime in the neighborhood, and at their house.
“We’ve had two break-ins. One guy came right up our stairs and started beating on my husband, and we called the cops,” she said. Another time, after someone broke into a camper on their property, Janet Gannon said an officer suggested they were “too rich” for the neighborhood, and should move.
The security cameras record sound and audio directly to a videocassette recorder inside the house, and the Gannons posted warnings about the system, Janet Gannon said. On Tuesday night, Michael Gannon brought a videocassette to the police department, and asked to speak with someone in “public relations,” his wife said and police reported.
Gannon wanted to lodge a complaint against Karlis, who had come to the family’s house while investigating their sons, Janet Gannon said. She said Karlis showed up late at night, was rude, and refused to leave when they asked him.
“He was just very smart-mouthed. He put his foot in the door, and my husband said, ‘Excuse me, I did not invite you in, please leave,’ and he wouldn’t,” Janet Gannon said. “We did not invite him in, we asked him to leave, and he wouldn’t.”
After the police arrested the Gannons’ sons, Janet Gannon said, they “secured” the house, and told her and her sister-in-law they had to stay out of it from around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday until about 4 a.m. Wednesday.
Police said they were waiting to get a warrant to search the house, Janet Gannon said.
“They were waiting for a warrant to seize the cameras and the tapes in my house . . . because they said having these cameras was against the law. They’re security cameras,” she said, adding, “They said they could do that. They could seize my apartment.”
Karlis went to the Gannons’ home at about 11:30 p.m. Friday night and again at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, police reported. Karlis was investigating the Gannons’ 15-year-old son in connection with a June 21 mugging outside Margaritas restaurant, for which two other teens already have been charged, according to police reports. The boy also is charged with possessing a handgun stolen three years ago in Vermont, and resisting detention, police said.
The boy wasn’t home when Karlis went there, and the Gannons were “uncooperative” regarding his whereabouts, police reported.
The Gannons felt police were harassing the family, Janet Gannon said.
“There were six cops in my yard,” the first time police came, she said. “My husband was very upset. How many cops does it take to talk to a 15-year-old.”
Karlis didn’t know about the security camera until his second visit, when Michael Gannon told him to “smile” for the camera, police reported.
Janet Gannon said her husband explicitly warned officers of the camera, later adding “smile,” as a joke.
“I heard him say it,” she said. “He said, ‘Gentlemen, there’s a camera right there.’”
According to police, however, Janet Gannon told officers she didn’t remember her husband warning police about the security camera.
Police reported that Gannon “has a history of being verbally abusive” toward police, and that after his arrest, he remarked that the officers “were a bunch of corrupt (expletives).”
| Recent Wiretapping Charges coverage |
|
|
| Related nashuatelegraph.com coverage |
|
|
| Related Web links |
|
|
Andrew Wolfe can be reached at 594-6410
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/NEWS01/106290121
Lieberman calls for wider use of surveillance cameras
- July 1/2007California Toll Agency Wants Power to Seize Cars - Jan 11/2008
Links:
* Handcuffing Of 5-Year-Old A Picture Postcard Of America's Decline
This video is a picture postcard which illustrates the downfall of America into a police state divorced from any form common sense or reason.
Watch the video. The child is clearly having a tantrum which clearly of no danger to anyone. She lightly slaps a teacher with a level force that would barely swat a fly.
Before the police handcuff her, she is seen calmly sitting down and being quiet.
We feature articles about children being arrested for the most benign offences on this website on a weekly basis. Why is this happening?
){kind=link}
* US plans more internet monitoring laws
* Eminent Domain Threatens Florida
"For all those who don't like it, tough."
The project, potentially one of the country's largest eminent domain seizures, has placed Riviera Beach at the center of a nationwide battle over whether government should be allowed to seize property for private development.
Sources say no serious plot for NYC, just hate chatter
RawStory.com
Friday July 7, 2006
One former intelligence field officer says, and two other CIA officials
confirm, that the alleged plot by Muslim extremists to bomb the Holland
Tunnel in New York City was nothing more than chatter by unaffiliated
individuals with no financing or training in an open forum already
monitored extensively by the United States Government, RAW STORY has
learned.
"The so-called New York tunnel plot was a result of discussions held on
an open Jihadi web site," said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and
contributor to American Conservative magazine, in a late Friday
afternoon conversation. Although Giraldi acknowledges that the persons
involved - "three of whom have already been arrested in Lebanon and
elsewhere - are indeed extremists," their online chatter is
considerably overblown by allegations of an actual plot.
"They are not professionally trained terrorists, however, and had no
resources with which to carry out the operation they discussed,"
Giraldi added. "Despite press reports that they had asked Abu Musab
Zarqawi for assistance, there is no information to confirm that. It is
known that the members discussed the possibility of approaching Zarqawi
but none of them knew him or had any access to him."
Two other intelligence officials with experience in the field on
extremist operations concurred--and expressed concern that what could
have been an operation to eventually track known extremists (should
they eventually make actual contact with funds and training,) seems to
have been exposed for political gain.
Some see this latest "ploy" as a direct challenge to a New York Times
report this week of the disbandment of Alec Station, the CIA unit
responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden since before the September 11,
2001 attacks. Moreover, the article contends that officials say the
unit was "disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within
the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center."
Some members of Congress have said that they were not informed of the
unit's closure and expressed concern.
In response to reports that the unit was disbanded, Senator John Kerry
(D-MA), who ran against President Bush in the 2004 election, responded
earlier this week with a demand for the immediate reinstatement of the
unit.
"I fully support efforts to adapt our response to the evolving nature
of the threat," wrote Kerry in a letter to John Negroponte, Director of
National Intelligence Office of the Director of National, "but this is
not a compelling rationale for curtailing efforts to bring this mass
murderer to justice."
The alleged bomb plot, sources suggest, may have been to alleviate Bush
administration concerns that the Alec Station story would make them
appear to be "weak on terror." It is not clear this early on, however,
how much of a real and immediate threat the bomb plot may have been.
Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertof seemed unconcerned
earlier today, when the news first broke. Chertoff told the Associated
Press earlier today that, "It was never a concern that this would
actually be executed...We were, as I say, all over this."
The FBI, however, contends that the threat was very much real. "This is
a plot that involved martyrdom and explosives," targeting the "tubes
that connect Jersey and lower Manhattan," Assistant Director Mark J.
Mershon told the Associated Press today.
Special Agent Rich Kolko, a spokesperson for the FBI, told RAW STORY in
a late Friday phone call that, "Mr. Mershon clearly stated the position
of the FBI in this case."
Giraldi, however, says, "Despite press reports that they had asked Abu
Musab Zarqawi for assistance, there is no information to confirm that.
It is known that the members discussed the possibility of approaching
Zarqawi, but none of them knew him or had any access to him."
Additionally, Giraldi stated that, "In sum, the plot, if that is what
we would call it, was not well conceived, and there was no possibility
of flooding Wall Street. There was no connection to a cell in the US.
Finally, professional terrorists generally do not discuss targeting on
open channels. As it was being monitored from the beginning of the open
discussion, there was little chance anything concrete would have
developed."
Source:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/No_Plot_for_NYC_Just_Hate_0707.html
Alleged Toronto terror plot included two police agents
David Adelaide / WSWS | October 20 2006
Following the early June arrest of 18 young Toronto-area men on terrorism charges, government and media sources repeated ad nauseam that only prompt action by the security and intelligence services prevented a major terrorist atrocity.
The authorities’ contention that those arrested posed a real and imminent threat rested on two claims—both of which have proven threadbare. On the one hand, they pointed to a “terrorist training camp” held in rural Ontario during December 2005. On the other hand, the Toronto men’s intention to put into action their terrorist schemes was said to be proven by their alleged attempt to buy large quantities of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, from which bombs can been be made.
In the days immediately following the arrests, the World Socialist Web Site urged that “all of the claims of the government and the police concerning the alleged terrorist conspiracy, and the further revelations and speculations given out by the media, be treated with the utmost caution and a large degree of skepticism. None of the alleged facts presented by the authorities can be accepted uncritically as true.”
This warning was quickly vindicated when, in July, the identity of a first CSIS mole was made public. One Mubin Shaikh admitted to the media that he had been working for CSIS for two years, befriending members of the Toronto group and ultimately going on to lead the two-week “terrorist training camp.” This camp, which largely consisted of paint-ball games, was under blanket surveillance by CSIS and RCMP personnel, while a crack-Canadian Armed Forces special operations unit waited a short helicopter ride away for orders to intervene.
With last week’s news that a second mole was at the heart of the “bomb-making” part of the plot, the question is raised anew of the extent to which the alleged Toronto terror plot was—if not a complete fabrication of the security and intelligence apparatus—at the very least carried out with significant encouragement and “facilitation” from them.
Clearly, Canada’s security agencies were in a position to manipulate the alleged plotters—a group comprised almost entirely of young men. And manipulate them it did: The arrest of the 18 individuals followed shortly on the heels of an attempted purchase of fertilizer in which the seller turned out to be an undercover RCMP agent. [read full report here]
Also see how CSIS helped carry out the Air India bombing... we've assembled the evidence.
===============================================
- Scary 'Loose Lips' Propaganda Posters On Neo-Con Blogs
- Cops Arrest, Beat, intimidate AFP Journalist Christopher Bollyn
- Neo-Fascists Declare War On Truth Movement
- Nurse sues over ticket for anti-Bush bumper sticker
- NY gas smell shuts trains, forces evacuations
- US student loses free speech case BBC June 25, 2007
Suspect's Family: JFK airport plot 'a US setup' June7/07
Cashless society by 2012, says Visa chief March 2007
America is a police state - Neal Boortz May 13, 2003
Treasury Dept. Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power March 2008
Not-So-Safe-Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets
Resources to Search for Unclaimed Property in Your Name
By ELISABETH LEAMY - May 12, 2008
The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they're supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a "Good Morning America" investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn't really unclaimed and then use the money -- your money -- to balance their budgets.
Click HERE if you want more on Secret Societies destroying our lives.
Other interesting (internal) links to look at...
http://www.bcrevolution.ca/motives.htm
http://www.bcrevolution.ca/big_brother.htm
BioChips coming soon.... learn how they plan to track you 24/7 like cattle
Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012 Leaked? [Click here for link to article]
View for free..Two hour video "Terror Storm" exposes government sponsored terror against its
own people.
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. - Walt Whitman, 1860
If these issues are important to you, please help us maintain this site with a donation of your choosing... Click 'make a donation' button below. Thank You!
Looking for any old story we moved? Find it in our Archive Page....