police state
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The Militarization of Domestic Law Enforcement: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries. Continue reading
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THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012: Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act
According to Obama’s “signing statement”, the threat of Al Qaeda to the Security of the Homeland constitutes a justification for repealing fundamental rights and freedoms, with a stroke of the pen. Continue reading
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THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012: Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act
According to Obama’s “signing statement”, the threat of Al Qaeda to the Security of the Homeland constitutes a justification for repealing fundamental rights and freedoms, with a stroke of the pen. Continue reading
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SENIOR LAWYER SAYS “BEWARE OF COMING POLICE STATE”
Clayton Ruby defends Charlie Veitch, second person charged under Public Works Protection Act Continue reading
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Police arrest photographer for displaying Cameron “wanker” poster
David Hoffman said five police burst into his terrace home in Bow after a neighbour complained about the Class War poster in his ground-floor window. He said the officers told him he had broken the Public Order Act and threatened to return and arrest him if he displayed it again. Continue reading
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Police arrest photographer for displaying Cameron “wanker” poster
David Hoffman said five police burst into his terrace home in Bow after a neighbour complained about the Class War poster in his ground-floor window. He said the officers told him he had broken the Public Order Act and threatened to return and arrest him if he displayed it again. Continue reading
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Politically Timed ‘Terror’ Arrests – the Real Bob Quick Scandal By Craig Murray
So why did the government want us to see that Bob Quick was entering No 10? The only possible answer is that, had things gone more smoothly in the arrest of the ‘Terror suspects’, the government would have paraded the footage of Quick entering no 10 as evidence that it was really Glorious Gordon and… Continue reading
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Investigative journalism under threat from new regulations By Charles Arthur
Worries focus on the fact that every government department, local council and even quango can access this telephone and internet data, given a judge’s clearance. What will they use it for? Continue reading
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UK: “Police TSG has Violent and Racist ‘form”
TSG Police officers in abuse case accused of 60 other assaults Met reveals four were subject of dozens of allegations by black or Asian men. Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Lies and Innuendo in the Ian Tomlinson Case
You cannot separate this brutalisation of power from the illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of our own soldiers, on the basis of a lie but really to secure oil. Continue reading
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Fighting The War On Terror In London – One Gig At A Time
Since the end of last year the Metropolitan police in London have powers to close down any live music event where they have not been given the personal details including addresses and phone numbers of all performers involved at least two weeks in advance. Continue reading
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Sleepwalking into Slavery? By William Bowles
The great British public, apparently don’t think that home secretary’s Clarke’s proposed additions to the anti-terror legislation including the 90-day detention without trial, apply to them, at least as far as we know, as nobody has actually asked them. Perhaps they need to be reminded that almost identical laws were passed by the Apartheid regime… Continue reading
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The Blair Fear Project By William Bowles
23 November 2004 W A R N I N G Continue reading