Police State describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force.
A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive. In the police state, rights are non existent and laws are selectively enforced.
The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force, which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.
News One Minister of Parlaments response to the OAFicial Secrets Act
11-26-2005
Boris Johnson, M.P. Blog
I'll go to jail to print the truth about Bush and al-Jazeera. It must be said that subsequent events have not made life easy for those of us who were so optimistic as to support the war in Iraq. There were those who believed the Government's
News Lord Ha-Ha says he wasn't trying to threaten the press
11-26-2005
The Guardian
The attorney general mounted a robust defence yesterday of his advice to newspapers that they risked breaching the Official Secrets Act if they published details from a confidential memo reportedly detailing a conversation between George Bush and Ton
News Dirty Bummer: Make the case for torture
11-25-2005
by Matt Welch (Reason Magazine)
Don't you want to know whether Jose Padilla, the American citizen held as an enemy combatant from June 2002 until this week, was indeed conspiringor even ringleadinga plot to set off a "dirty bomb" somewhere inside the United States?
News Australia's Howard pushes anti-terror laws
11-25-2005
Reuters
Australian Prime Minister John Howard faces opposition from all sides but is still expected to succeed in pushing through contentious workplace reforms and tough anti-terror laws starting next week.
News Eyes in the sky showed Daddy Bush Lying. How about Junior?
11-25-2005
Reuters
Satellite images could help determine if the CIA ran secret prisons in Europe. "With the help of precise geographic coordinates which I have obtained, it would be possible to obtain high-definition satellite images taken between the beginning o
News Why the Supreme Court should still hear the Padilla case
11-25-2005
Newsweek (via MSNBC)
I was told, hes still an enemy combatant according to the president and therefore they can still detain him at anytime.
News US Clergy face prison after protesting use of torture
11-25-2005
ekklesia
Three Catholic clergy are facing prison sentences in the US after acts of civil disobedience against a military training school which teaches torture techniques. Protests began 16 years ago, and since then 180 people have served federal prison senten
News Movie and Music Industries Threaten Your Liberties
11-24-2005
When the UK Presidency suggested to the EU that telecoms service providers and ISPs should be forced to retain information about the telephone calls you make and the sites you visit might help the recording industry fish for file-sharing networks, DR
News Airport travellers soon to reveal where they are going
11-24-2005
Washington Post
Released a phone-book-thick proposed rule that would give the federal government new powers to track the comings and goings of individual travelers and greater efforts by airlines and others to obtain personal contact information from travelers
News Shift on Suspect Is Linked to Role of Qaeda Figures
11-24-2005
New York Times
The Bush administration decided to charge Jose Padilla with less serious crimes because it was unwilling to allow testimony from 2 senior members of Al Qaeda who had been subjected to harsh questioning.
News Why did the Bush Administration Hold Jose Padilla for 3 Years as an Enemy Combatant? No Mention of a
11-24-205
Democracy NOW!
The Justice Department announced Tuesday criminal charges have been filed against Jose Padilla - the U.S. citizen who had been held without charge for over 3 years in solitary confinement on a military brig in South Carolina.
News Bush-Blair arguements part of government coverup and censorship
11-24-2005
The Guardian
Fears that fresh revelations about disputes between Tony Blair and George Bush on the Iraq conflict could damage Downing Street's intimate relationship with the White House prompted this week's unprecedented threat against national newspapers
News UK press gags news outlets over minutes of meeting discussing al Jazeera bombing
11-23-2005
by Larisa Alexandrovna (The Raw Story)
The Mirror, a UK publication which reported Tuesday on an alleged US plan to bomb an Arab TV station seen as anti-US, has been gagged from reporting any further on the memo and its contents by Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.
News British Thug Government warns media they had better not embarrass them further
11-23-2005
Reuters
Britain has warned media organizations they are breaking the law if they publish details of a leaked document said to show President Bush wanted to bomb Arabic television station Al Jazeera.
News When one stood alone against American Concentration Capms
11-21-2005
Orange County Register
If you're looking for courage, then you've got to look for those individuals who denounced injustice while it was happening. R.C. Hoiles' near-singular voice in denouncing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II has becom
News Police State! Coming? Or Already Here?
11-21-2005
by Tom Rose (LewRockwell.com)
The orientation and underlying concept of police enforcement in America have, indeed, been changing, but changing so quietly as to be hardly noticeable except by a few careful observers. The traditional orientation of police enforcement has been loca
News Tales of the Garrison State
11-21-2005
Birch Blog
Joe Foss is a 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner, born and raised in South Dakota. Ahmad A. Ahmad is a 22-year-old Jordanian native who has lived in the U.S. legally for twelve years. Each of them can describe, from personal experience, the cultivated
News A Conflict of Paradigms
11-20-2005
by Jacon Hornberger (FFF)
What does it actually mean to be free, and what is the legitimate role of government in a free society? Our Founding Fathers brought into existence the most unusual society in history. No income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare
News HILLARY CLINTON NAMED ENEMY COMBATANT
11-17-2005
by Andy Borowitz
In what some legal scholars are calling a crucial test of a controversial provision of the Patriot Act, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) was named an enemy combatant today and transferred to the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba.
News Who's Your Daddy?
11-8-2005
by Jacob Hornblower (FFF)
With his bird-flu plan, Bush has subtly reminded Americans that despite all the imperfections the federal government is still their daddy, that watches over them and takes care of them with such programs as retirement, health care, job security, educ
News Reports of Secret CIA Prisons Prompt Concern
Details of the post-Sept. 11 network of "black sites" were first reported in Wednesday's Washington Post, and the locations were confirmed by the Baltimore Sun. The report raised questions about how the CIA was treating its detainees in
News They Saw It Coming: The 19th-Century Libertarian Critique of Fascism
11-2-2005
by Roderick T. Long (LewRockwell.com)
To speak of a 19th-century libertarian critique of fascism might seem anachronistic, since fascism is generally understood as a 20th-century phenomenon. But it did not spring from nothing, and the libertarians of the 19th century saw it in the making
News Malevolent Hegemony of the United States
10-29-2005
by Michael S. Rozeff (LRC)
The rulers of the United States rule over far more than you and me. They control and strongly influence many foreign rulers of dependent satellite countries. This extended rule makes our Presidents the powerful emperors of a vast Empire.
News U.S. Passports to Receive Electronic Identification Chips
The regulations mean that as of October 2006, all new and renewed U.S. passports will contain radio frequency identification chips that will include a digital photo and all other information currently printed in passports.
Reference Link Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State
Harper's Magazine
Knowing the source of this piece makes it all the more disturbing. It is not every day that the editor of a respected national magazine publishes an essay claiming that America is not on the road to becoming, but ALREADY IS, a fascist state.... or wo
Entered by: Mike Wasdin
News MARTIAL LAW: COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU?
by Craig Roberts - In the past two decades I have witnessed a series of events that are extremely disturbing. Events, that if put together as pieces of a puzzle, seem to form a picture that is most disturbing-and even terrifying.
News Bush military bird flu role slammed
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A call by President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as akin to introducing martial law.
News How Long Can This Go On? by Paul Craig Roberts
George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his Oct. 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine the National Endowment for Democracy, the president of the United States said:
News UK: Blair announces sweeping police powers
Police and local authorities will be given sweeping summary powers to
fight crime and anti-social behaviour, Prime Minister Tony Blair has
said.
Opinion Ray McGovern: My Take
From Prison to Award for Iraq War Whistleblower
01-31-2009 Ray Mcgovern
In 2002-2003, our profession of intelligence analysis was systematically corrupted in order to deceive Congress out of its Constitutional prerogative to authorize war.
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-- UK: Blair announces sweeping police powers -- How Long Can This Go On? by Paul Craig Roberts -- Bush military bird flu role slammed -- MARTIAL LAW: COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU?
-- Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State
-- U.S. Passports to Receive Electronic Identification Chips -- Malevolent Hegemony of the United States -- They Saw It Coming: The 19th-Century Libertarian Critique of Fascism -- Reports of Secret CIA Prisons Prompt Concern -- Who's Your Daddy? -- HILLARY CLINTON NAMED ENEMY COMBATANT -- A Conflict of Paradigms -- Tales of the Garrison State -- Police State! Coming? Or Already Here? -- When one stood alone against American Concentration Capms -- British Thug Government warns media they had better not embarrass them further -- UK press gags news outlets over minutes of meeting discussing al Jazeera bombing -- Bush-Blair arguements part of government coverup and censorship -- Why did the Bush Administration Hold Jose Padilla for 3 Years as an Enemy Combatant? No Mention of a -- Shift on Suspect Is Linked to Role of Qaeda Figures -- Airport travellers soon to reveal where they are going -- Movie and Music Industries Threaten Your Liberties -- US Clergy face prison after protesting use of torture -- Why the Supreme Court should still hear the Padilla case -- Eyes in the sky showed Daddy Bush Lying. How about Junior? -- Australia's Howard pushes anti-terror laws -- Dirty Bummer: Make the case for torture -- Lord Ha-Ha says he wasn't trying to threaten the press -- One Minister of Parlaments response to the OAFicial Secrets Act --
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