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Man arrested for calling cop a nazi
Filed under: civil liberties, civil rights, dazer laser, human rights, police abuse, police brutality, police corruption, police crimes, Police State
New Laser Gun To Be Used By U.S. Police
Filed under: dictatorship, empire, judicial system, maryland, oppression, Police State, prison industrial complex
Man Could Face 5-Years in Prison for Recording Cops
Filed under: human rights, illinois, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, taser | Tags: james mandarino, police beating, ronald bell
Police Brutality: Cop Relentlessly Beats Unarmed Driver
UPDATE
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, Dictatorship, Empire, human rights, IBM, orwell, Police State, precrime, predictive analytics, prison industrial complex, slavery, u.s. constitution
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea
GIZMODO
April 14, 2010
There are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights!
They will use this software on juvenile delinquents, using a series of variables to determine the potential for these people to commit another crime. Depending on this probability, they will put them under specific re-education programs. Deepak Advani—vice president of predictive analytics at IBM—says the system gives “reliable projections” so governments can take “action in real time” to “prevent criminal activities?”
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution? What about article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? No? Let’s make this easy then: Didn’t you watch that scientology nutcase in Minority Report?
Sure. Some will argue that these juvenile delinquents were already convicted for other crimes, so hey, there’s no harm. This software will help prevent further crimes. It will make all of us safer? But would it? Where’s the guarantee of that? Why does the state have to assume that criminal behavior is a given? And why should the government decide who goes to an specific prevention program or who doesn’t based on what a computer says? The fact is that, even if the software was 99.99% accurate, there will be always an innocent person who will be fucked. And that is exactly why we have something called due process and the presumption of innocence. That’s why those things are not only in the United States Constitution, but in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights too.
Other people will say that government officials already makes these decisions based on reports and their own judgement. True. It seems that a computer program may be fairer than a human, right? Maybe. But at the end the interpretation of the data is always in the hands of humans (and the program itself is written by humans).
But what really worries me is that this is a first big step towards something larger and darker. Actually, it’s the second: IBM says that the Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom—which has an impeccable record on not pre-judging its citizens—already uses this system to prevent criminal activities. Actually, it may be the third big step, because there’s already software in place to blacklist people as potential terrorist, although most probably not as sophisticated as this.
IBM clearly wants this to go big. They have spent a whooping $12 billion beefing up its analytics division. Again, here’s the full quote from Deepak Advani:
- Predictive analytics gives government organizations worldwide a highly-sophisticated and intelligent source to create safer communities by identifying, predicting, responding to and preventing criminal activities. It gives the criminal justice system the ability to draw upon the wealth of data available to detect patterns, make reliable projections and then take the appropriate action in real time to combat crime and protect citizens.
If that sounds scary to you, that’s because it is. First it’s the convicted-but-potentially-recidivistic criminals. Then it’s the potential terrorists. Then it’s everyone of us, in a big database, getting flagged because some combination of factors—travel patterns, credit card activity, relationships, messaging, social activity and everything else—indicate that we may be thinking about doing something against the law. Potentially, a crime prediction system can avoid murder, robbery, or a terrorist act.
It actually sounds like a good idea. For example, there are certain patterns that can identify psychopaths and potential killers or child abusers or wife beaters. It only makes sense to put a future system in place that can prevent identify potential criminals, then put them under surveillance.
The reality is that it’s not such a good idea: While everything may seem driven by the desire to achieve better security, one single false positive would make the whole system unfair. And that’s not even getting into the potential abuse of such a system. Like the last time IBM got into a vaguely similar business for a good cause, during the 1930s. They shipped a lot of cataloguing machines to certain government in Europe, to put together an advanced census. That was good. Census can improve societies by identifying needs and problems that the government can solve. At the end, however, that didn’t end well for more than 11 million people.
And yes, this comparison is an extreme exaggeration. But one thing is clear: No matter how you look at it, cataloguing people—any kind of people—based on statistical predictive software, and then taking pre-empetive actions against them based on the results, is the wrong way to improve our society. Agreeing with this course of action will inevitably take us into a potentially fatal path. [Yahoo!]
Filed under: maryland, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State | Tags: John McKenna
Cops Beat-Down Student Then Charge Him With Assault
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 13, 2010
Charges against a Maryland student were dropped yesterday after video was released showing three unprovoked police officers violently beating him to the ground with batons following a basketball game last month.
As the video reveals, John McKenna, 21, was celebrating a Maryland basketball victory on the evening of March 3rd.
As the student walks down the street close to the university’s College Park campus, he is seen waving his arms and dancing jovially. He then slows, stops and backs away upon seeing several horse mounted police ahead of him.
McKenna is then set upon and viciously slammed against a brick wall by dismounted officers in riot gear, who pummel him with batons, knocking him unconscious according to his lawyer.
As a hefty officer takes a run up and delivers a forceful blow to the legs, McKenna, somehow still standing, is hacked to the ground.
The cops then continue to beat McKenna in the head and body around a dozen times in total as he lays crumpled and motionless, neither resisting nor able to defend himself.
Following the incident McKenna was astoundingly charged with “felonies on suspicion of assaulting officers on horseback and their mounts”.
Papers detailing the charges, sworn by Officer Sean McAleavey, state that McKenna and another man, Benjamin C. Donat, aged 19, “struck those officers and their horses causing minor injuries,” and that the horses retaliated and injured McKenna and Donat.
The documents state that the two men were running and screaming in the middle of the road, encouraging an unruly crowd to form.
Prosecutors dropped the charges upon seeing the video of the incident, which was shot by another student. It was discovered by a private investigator working on behalf of McKenna and a codefendant who was also charged with assault against police.
The video clearly shows McKenna was around six feet away from the officers on horseback and did nothing to threaten them or provoke retaliation. It also clearly shows that Donat was not even involved in the incident, despite the officer’s charging claims.
Filed under: human rights, katrina, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State
Officers Open Fire on Unarmed Katrina Victims
standard.co.uk
April 4, 2010
The US government and states have violated the human rights of victims of Hurricane Katrina, Amnesty International claimed today.
Its report Un-Natural Disaster says housing, health and policing policies have stopped poor communities rebuilding and returning to their homes since the 2005 hurricane, in which about 1,800 people died.
The White House denied the claims and Louisiana and Mississippi officials said they had gone to great lengths to help people recover from Katrina.
In the US a former New Orleans policeman faces eight years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice over a police cover-up during the hurricane.
Michael Hunter, 33, told federal authorities he saw a fellow officer shoot and kick unarmed, wounded civilians on a bridge in Katrina’s aftermath.
Hunter’s account of the shootings contradicts a police report that said civilians shot at officers on Danziger Bridge before the police opened fire, killing two people and wounding four others.
Hunter told a court he shouted “cease fire” after a sergeant with an assault rifle and other officers opened fire on a group of civilians who took cover behind a concrete barrier on the bridge.
“(The sergeant) suddenly leaned over the concrete barrier, held out his assault rifle, and, in a sweeping motion, fired repeatedly at the civilians lying wounded on the ground,” a court filing says. “The civilians were not trying to escape and were not doing anything that could be perceived as a threat.”
Two people were killed, 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, who was mentally disabled. Hunter’s statement said an officer shot Mr Madison in the back with a shotgun.
US District Judge Sarah Vance said Hunter participated in a “blatant and systematic perversion of justice” and shouldn’t be seen as a “hero” for taking responsibility. He will be sentenced on June 30.
Filed under: 4th amendment, 9/11, Big Brother, Dictatorship, Empire, Fascism, fusion centers, government crimes, Hegelian Dialectic, internet, NSA, Oppression, orwell, Police State, Problem Reaction Solution, US Constitution, War On Terror, warrantless wiretap
NSA Copying Internet Activity Worldwide
Filed under: bureaucracy, Dictatorship, Empire, government bureaucracy, middle class, Oppression, Police State, slavery
Man Almost Jailed Over One Penny Owed on Speeding Ticket
WFTV
April 6, 2010
An Osceola County man thought he’d paid off a parking ticket, so he was surprised to find out Monday that the Orange County Clerk’s office had issued a warrant for his arrest.
Luis Gomez owed exactly one cent on a speeding ticket he received one year ago. Gomez tried to call the court to resolve the problem, and then tried to pay online, but had no luck.
“They won’t take a payment of a penny online,” said Gomez.
Gomez works at a school in Orange County and feared he would get arrested on campus in front of his students.
Eyewitness News contacted the clerk’s office on Gomez’s behalf and was told nobody would be arrested over a penny. When they were told the paperwork said otherwise, officials in the office said it must have been a mistake.
Gomez drove to the clerk’s office on Monday afternoon to pay and was asked if he needed a payment plan. When he said no, he paid the cent and left with a receipt.
The status of Gomez’s warrant was still unclear on Monday night and he was told to follow up with the office on Tuesday.
Not only did it cost Orange County more to notify Gomez about the issue than a penny, Gomez had to pay $6 to park when he went in to pay.
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, DHS, Homeland Security, nanny state, orwell, Police State, War On Terror
Homeland Security to Develop Cell Phones That ‘Smell’ Poisonous Gas
Switched
April 14, 2010
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to make us into walking poison detectors. According to Physorg, as part of a program called Cell-All, the department will develop by the end of the year 40 cell phone prototypes that can detect poisonous gas in the air. Officials say cell phones available today can be modified to do this by simply inserting a chip that costs less than $1. When the chip detects a harmful toxin in the air, it alerts the owner by vibrating or making a noise. If the threat is serious enough, the phone will send a message with its findings to a central server. Then, that server will check phones near that location to make sure the findings aren’t in error. After determining the danger, authorities would be notified and possibly deployed.
Homeland Security claims the service will be used on a volunteer basis, and that all information will remain anonymous and confidential. Still, we expect more questions about privacy to come up as details become available, especially since it sounds like this service will essentially track your cell phone’s location. But Cell-All could save the government time, money and manpower when it comes to responding to toxic gas threats.
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, bilderberg, biometrics, Control Grid, Dictatorship, Empire, Fascism, Health Care Bill, health care reform, human rights, medical industrial complex, microchip, nanny state, New World Order, NWO, obama deception, obamacare, orwell, Police State, PositiveID, Real ID, RFID, slavery, Verichip
Microchipping Americans Found in Health Care Bill
Daily Paul
August 30, 2009
“Buried deep within the over 1,000 pages of the massive US Health Care Bill (PDF) in a “non-discussed” section titled: Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521— National Medical Device Registry, and which states its purpose as:
“The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and ‘‘(B) is a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”
In “real world speak”, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/AAHCA09001xml.pdf
Filed under: british columbia, Canada, human rights, Oppression, police brutality, Police State | Tags: british columbia police, victoria police
B.C. Cop Kicks Man in the Ribs (Video)
Filed under: bank bailout, civil disobedience, civil liberties, civil rights, civil unrest, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, government bureaucracy, government control, human rights, Income Tax, insurance company bailout, main street, medical industrial complex, middle class, non compliance, Police State, Protest, strike, tax, tax strike, Taxpayers, tea party, US Constitution
Great American Tax Strike April 15-18th
Filed under: 1984, civil disobedience, civil liberties, civil rights, civil unrest, Dictatorship, Dissent, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, drone, Empire, Fascism, LRAD, Martial Law, militarized police, Military Industrial Complex, Nazi, New World Order, non compliance, NWO, Police State, political dissent, Protest, psychological warfare, Psyops, slavery, uav, urban warfare, War On Terror
Militarized Police State: LRAD on a UAV
Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission
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Cartoon: Verichip/PositiveID Infomercial
RFID Chip Implants Cause Cancer in Lab-Rats
VeriChip’s Merger With Credit Monitoring Firm Worries Privacy Activists
Filed under: ban, Dictatorship, drinking water, Empire, food police, government regulations, nanny state, New York, Oppression, Police State, utah | Tags: salt ban
NANNY STATE USA
NY Bill Makes It Illegal For Restaurants to Use Salt “In Any Form In The Preparation Of Any Food”
Information Liberation
March 10, 2010
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
The legislation, which Assemblyman Felix Ortiz , D-Brooklyn, introduced on March 5, would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation.
“The consumer needs to make their own health choices. Just as doctors and the occasional visit to a hospital can’t truly control how a person chooses to maintain their health, neither can chefs nor the occasional visit to a restaurant,” said Jeff Nathan, the executive chef and co-owner of Abigael’s on Broadway. “Modifying trans fats and sodium intake needs to be home based for optimal health. Regulating restaurants will not solve this health issue.”
Nathan is part of the group My Food My Choice , which calls itself a coalition of chefs, restaurant owners, and consumers, called the proposed law “absurd” in a press release issued on its Facebook page.
Ortiz has said the salt ban would allow restaurant patrons to decide how salty they want their meals to be.
“In this way, consumers have more control over the amount of sodium they intake, and are given the option to exercise healthier diets and healthier lifestyles,” Ortiz said, according to a Nation’s Restaurant News report.
But many chefs and restaurant owners said they are tired of politicians dictating what they can serve and what people can eat. They have opposed the city’s anti-sodium and anti-transfat campaigns.
“Chefs would be handcuffed in their food preparation, and many are already in open rebellion over this legislation,” said Orit Sklar, of My Food My Choice. “Ortiz and fellow anti-salt zealot Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City seek to undermine the food and restaurant business in the entire state.”
The American Heart Association encourages Americans to reduce their sodium intake and has advocated the reduction of sodium used by food manufacturers and restaurants by 50 percent over a 10-year period.
Utah: To legally collect rainwater you must register with the state and buy a “standardized container”
Information Liberation
March 10, 2010
Apparently in Utah having a law passed requiring citizens to register with the state and buy a “standardized container” in order to collect rainwater is a major victory. The government for decades has “owned the water rights” and deemed collection of rainwater a criminal offense. “The bill requires would-be harvesters to register online with the state and supply information about how much is to be collected and the collection point.” reports Deseret News.
- Legislature OKs personal collection of rainwater
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The Utah Legislature has passed a bill that would permit the personal collection of rainwater. The House unanimously approved the legislation on Wednesday. It has already cleared the Senate. If signed by the governor the measure would reverse a decades-old prohibition on rainwater harvesting in the state. Senate Bill 32 would permit the collection of no more than 2,500 gallons in a storage container. If it becomes law Utahns wouldn’t be able to just put out barrels in the backyard. The proposal requires registering with the state and buying a standardized container. Sen. Scott Jenkins, a Plain City Republican, is sponsoring the bill.
In 2000 there were riots and massive protests against the company Bechtel waging a hostile takeover of water rights in Bolivia, they too said rainwater collection was literally illegal.
It is unbelievable to me that in a third world country the people would riot and protest over their rights being trampled on yet here in America being granted the ability to apply for a license to collect rainwater is somehow a major victory.
Banned: Welcome to Nanny State Nation
The New ‘Move Over’ Traffic Law Few Know About
Rense
January 23, 2010
If a patrol car is pulled over to the side of the road, you have to change to the next lane (away from the stopped vehicle) or slow down by 20 mph…….
Every state except Hawaii and Maryland and the D.C. has this law.
In California, the “Move-over” law became operative on January 1, 2010. http://www.moveoveramerica.com/
My son got a ticket on Pleasant Hill coming back from Wal-Mart. police car (turned out it was 2 police cars) was on the side of the road giving a ticket to someone else. My son slowed down to pass but did not move into the other lane.
The second police car immediately pulled him over and gave him a ticket. My son and I had never heard of the law. It is a fairly new law that states if any emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, if you are able, you are to move into the far lane.
The cost of the ticket was $754, with 3 points on your license and a mandatory court appearance. I do not know how much the fine is in CA but it is too stiff to not let you know Please let everyone you know that drives about this new law.
It is true (see details at the following web address).
http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/moveover.asp
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, Britain, Camera Ban, corruption, Dictatorship, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, free press, free speech, nanny state, Nazi, Oppression, orwell, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, Surveillance, United Kingdom
UK: Protesters Against Police Crackdown on Photography
Taking Photos Is NOT A Crime
Filed under: body scanner, court security, courtroom security, DHS, Dictatorship, Empire, Flight 253, full-body scanners, government bureaucracy, Homeland Security, human rights, mutallab, nanny state, Police State, privacy rights, slavery, War On Terror
Attorney Refuses Body Scan On Legal Grounds
Filed under: 1984, atlanta, biden, Big Brother, big pharma, biometrics, cancer, Congress, Control Grid, dangerous vaccinations, deadly vaccinations, deadly vaccines, Dictatorship, Empire, Eugenics, Fascism, flu shot, Genocide, georgia, government control, gps, health and environment, House, Human Experiments, human rights, implantable microchips, john roberts, malthusian, malthusian catastrophe, mandatory microchips, mandatory vaccination, mandatory vaccinations, mandatory vaccine, medical Experiments, medical industrial complex, microchip, nanny state, Nazi, New World Order, NWO, orwell, parental rights, Police State, RFID, Senate, slavery, Spy, supreme court, Surveillance, Vaccine, Verichip, We Are Change | Tags: 2010 georgia legislative session, casey cagel, david ralston, don thomas, sharon cooper
Georgia: Mandatory Vaccination and Forced Microchipping
Hundreds of Public Workers Injured by Mandatory Vaccines
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, Child Abuse, CPS, Dictatorship, education, education system, Empire, Fascism, government bureaucracy, gps, justice system, nanny state, Nazi, New World Order, NWO, Oppression, orwell, parental rights, Police State, prison industrial complex, prison system, slavery, Surveillance, Texas | Tags: Bryan Highschool
Texas Schoolkids Tagged With GPS Tracking Devices
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
January 22, 2010
A judge has ordered 22 students at Bryan Highschool in Texas to carry GPS tracking devices in the name of preventing truancy, another example of how schools are now youth internment centers – preparatory camps for brainwashing kids to accept the prison planet.
“Bryan High students who skip school will soon be tracked 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” reports KBTX.
“It’s called the Attendance Improvement Management Program or AIM, and it has been used across Texas and the United States.”
Students who skip class are now forced to attend “truancy court” and be lectured by a judge before being mandated to carry a GPS tracking device.
“Students on the program are tracked with a hand-held GPS device between the time they leave for school in the morning and the time they check in for curfew at night.”
Watch the clip below.
Not only are children being treated as criminals if they skip class, parents too are being targeted if they turn up late to collect their kids. A story we broke back in 2006 highlighted how a junior high school in Indiana threatens parents with police and child protective service involvement if they fail to pick up their child on time after mandatory Friday classes for missed homework.
The school stated that if parents didn’t arrive at the agreed time to pick up their child, “arrangements have been made with the Tell City Police Department to have them housed at the police station.”
The letter then states that intervention by the police will also necessitate involvement of the Perry County Office of Family and Children. In other words – get stuck in a traffic jam and you could get your kids snatched by the state and fed into the pedophile-infested government “care” system.