Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Stephen LendmanAmerica is the only country sentencing juveniles to life without parole
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Police State
10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free - by Jonathan Turley
• Washington PostEven as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own — the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade s
Criminalizing Dissent in America
Stephen LendmanAmerica heads for full-blown tyranny
Former prisoner can sue over order to cut dreadlocks
• TheRawStory.comA former prisoner can sue a state prison employee for ordering him to shear his dreadlocks, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
Amish men jailed for refusing to pay buggy fines
• www.cbsnews.comA group of Amish men were sent to jail in western Kentucky Thursday for refusing to pay fines for breaking a state highway law that requires their horse-drawn buggies to be marked with orange reflective triangles.
First NDAA; Now Enemy Expatriation Act
Chuck BaldwinOn the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the "Indefinite Detention Act," comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for v
Slip-Sliding into Tyranny! It's the new American Way
• Charles Goyette on Lew Rockwell.comPay close attention. This is how it happens… President Obama found a moment of reduced visibility, in an unwatched hour on New Year’s Eve, to sign the latest assault on the Fifth Amendment. In signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012
Homeland Security Is Monitoring The Drudge Report, The New York Times
• www.theatlantic.comIt's unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating a "Social Networking/Media Capability" program to monitor the top blogs, forums and social networks online for at least the past 18 months
Emerging Totalitarianism
• www.thedailybell.comUnder the newly enacted – sponsored by McCain (R-AZ) with approval of 93 (STUPID) Senators – National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the president was granted the right to arrest and detain any American citizens any place in the world without a ch
Rep. Paul Ryan warns anti-piracy bill may lead to Internet ‘censorship’
• www.rawstory.comTaking issue with its potential for abuse, Ryan said that SOPA could actually be a new kind of onerous regulation — the one thing Republicans hate most.
Freedom: An Endangered Species in America
Stephen LendmanAmerica's now a police state
Targeting Journalists Covering OWS Protests
Stephen LendmanPolice state America
South Korea plans robo-cops to police prison
• Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.comThe South Korean Ministry of Justice is hiring, but they’re not looking for human help at the moment: they want robo-cops.
Stephen Colbert TEARS INTO Obama Over The NDAA Bill
• www.businessinsider.comLast night Stephen Colbert took a brutal swing at the law that "unexpectedly" makes legal "what we've already been doing for ten years...we didn't see that coming! (due to bag over head)."
Urgent - Just Signed NDAA is Bringing Drones to My Hometown! I am furious. Article from Syracuse, NY
• www.dailypaul.comThe National Defense Authorization Act signed into law last week by President Barack Obama allows for the establishment of six national test sites where drones could fly through civil air space.
Radiation doctor says TSA naked body scanners can cause cancer
• www.naturalnews.comNo matter how many times the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims the machines are safe and pose no threat to travelers or personnel, naked body scanners that emit ionizing radiation are, indeed, a very serious health threat.
Why Obama Was So Wrong to Sign the NDAA into Law
• Paul LevinsonThink about what Richard Nixon might have done with his "enemies list" - of his political critics - had he had a law like the NDAA on the books and at his disposal.
Massachusetts Police Nab Five-Year-Old Fugitive Bibliophile
• jonathanturley.orgCharlton (Mass.) police have finally tracked down Hailey Benoit after months of fugitive hiding. This week the five-year-old went to the door and found justice waiting
A Man with a Camera vs. the NYPD
• Paul LevinsonAs the mass media focused on Bloomberg and Lady Gaga in Times Square on New Year's Eve, a brave journalist with a camera-phone stood up to the NYPD and their attempt to violate the First Amendment rights of protesters in secret.
Amnesty: By signing NDAA, Obama has given al Qaeda a ‘propaganda victory’
• www.rawstory.comWhile signing the bill, Obama issued a signing statement — a controversial way for the president to circumvent Congress’ intent — in which he pledged that the new laws would not violate Americans’ constitutional rights.
Final Curtain: Obama Signs Indefinite Detention of Citizens Into Law As Final Act of 2011
• www.jonathanturley.orgPresident Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating,
How Congress is signing it's own arrest warrants in the NDAA citizen arrest bill
• www.naomiwolf.orgThe amendment is so loosely worded that any American citizen could be held without due process. The language of this bill can be read to assure Americans that they can challenge their detention — but most people do not realize what this means
The Importance of a Second Slave Card
• www.lewrockwell.com/Jeff BerwickThe government that operates its crime operation in your region has total control over your movements. And, many people are finding out how easily that can be taken away.
WTF? (What the Fawkes?)
• ACLUThose who do not move cannot feel their chains. This morning in Suffolk county court, the ACLU of Massachusetts and our client moved. And we felt our chains. I had gone to court to listen to our legal team argue a case to protect the First Amendment
2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review
• www.informationliberation.comWelcome to the new total security state. The U.S. government now has at its disposal a technological arsenal so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. And these technologies are being used by the governm
Public School Clamps Down on Ten-Year Old for Pizza “Gun”
• The Independent InstituteAt an elementary school in Smyrna, Tenn., student Nicholas Taylor, 10, has been ordered to spend lunches for the rest of the semester at the lunchroom’s “silent table” because he allegedly picked up a piece of pizza and waved it around like a gun.
An execrable ancestor
• www.dailycaller.comThe execrable ancestor of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Frederick Douglass protested, “Under this [Fugitive Slave] law the oaths of any two villains (the capturer and the claimant) are suffic
Appalling Bahraini Prison Conditions and Treatment
Stephen LendmanBahraini monarchy brutalizing its people
Obama signs defense spending bill — with reservations (BUT HE SIGNED IT!)
• www.stltoday.com"The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it," Obama said in a signing statement appended to the measure. "In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions
28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers/Prison Camps
• www.endoftheamericandream.comIt has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being "educated" in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps.
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