Police State Injustice: Canada's Security Certificate Process
Stephen LendmanIt assures a gross miscarriage of justice against innocent victims
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Police State
Warrantless-Wiretap Win Nets Victims a Paltry $40K
• WiredA federal judge on Tuesday awarded $20,400 each to two American lawyers illegally wiretapped by the George W. Bush administration, and granted their counsel $2.5 million for the costs litigating the case for more than four years.
Belarus Update: Things Heat Up. Ready for another European Civil War?
• PitchforksAtTheGate.comOpposition leaders arrested and severely beaten. Mass arrests. People held incommunicado. Coming Soon to a Country Near You. PS: how can 500 government police agents control 5000 protesters? You let them........
OpenBSD Chief Now Believes Gov't. Contractor Tried to Write Backdoors
• PC WorldThe lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system now believes a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.
Fusion Centers and Homeland Security: Watching Our Freedom Die
• PrisonPlanet.comAccording to numerous law enforcement advisories, training manuals, seminars and other literature, the federal government defines political activism, flying American flags, wearing Levi jeans, being nice,... all as signs of domestic terror.
Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks (Americans are now the greatest threat)
• abcnews.go.com"The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized
So you don’t think the fight is real? Consider the elections of Belarus…
• PitchforksAtTheGate.comThink these guys are interested in protecting your right? Think they give a shit about beating the crap out of you because they were told to? Because they can? Think these guys are any different from the guys here? International observers and
Plan to Turn Post Office Trucks Into Stasi Data Collection Nodes
• PrisonPlanet.comForget the StreetView data vacuum scandal. If an idea proposed for the money hole known as the U.S. Post Office is adopted, your friendly neighborhood postal person may be soon driving a high-tech data collection vehicle that would rival anything Goo
Monitoring America
• Washington PostNine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investig
Top Secret America
Washington PostSecret agencies sharing data on Americans with one another in the shadows.
Entered By: Powell Gammill
Metro to start random bag searches
• Washington ExaminerMetro plans to begin random searches of its riders' bags. Metro Police Chief coordinated with the TSA as part of a continuing effort to keep the system safe from explosives. Boston, New York and New Jersey will do similar searches
Court blocks Obama Admin attempt to spy on cell phones without warrant
• RawstoryThe Obama Administration's effort to obtain your location from cell phone towers without a warrant was rebuffed by a federal court. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the Justice Department cannot obtain information about which cel
Lynne Stewart Transferred to Texas
Stephen LendmanTo inflict more punishment, Lynne sent far from home
America's War on Islam: New Republican Offensive Planned
Stephen LendmanPlanned Republican witch-hunts on Muslims.
Washington subway police to begin random bag checks
• www.reuters.comOfficers will start random bag inspections on the sprawling Washington subway system, the Washington Metro Transit Police said on Thursday, a week after a man was arrested for making bomb threats to the rail system.
Europe tells Britain to justify itself over fingerprinting children in schools
• Daily TelegraphThe European Commission has demanded Britain justifies the widespread and routine fingerprinting of children in schools because of "significant concerns" that the policy breaks EU privacy laws.
The Espionage Act and the Death of American Freedoms
• Lew Rockwell PodcastA deeply worried Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America, fears that both TSA actions and the threatened use of the 1917 Espionage Act against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - Lew Rockwell Podcast
A sad day for the US if the Espionage Act is used against WikiLeaks
• www.guardian.co.ukNumerous US officials are calling for a resurrection of the US Espionage Act as a tool for prosecuting WikiLeaks. The dusting-off of the old law is all but certain. But the outcome of the constitutional dust-up that is sure to follow will result in t
Former Contractor Says FBI Put Back Door in OpenBSD
• PC WorldA former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system. This means the FBI may have developed secret ways to snoop on encryp
Chances dimming for Patriot Act reform
• RawstoryThe PATRIOT Act is up for renewal, but civil libertarians wanting major changes shouldn't get their hopes up, says a libertarian think tank. In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy last week, Attorney General Holder promised to implement policies designed
Haiti's Electoral Council Tries Alternate Ways to Legitimize Fraud
Stephen LendmanHaitians again denied democracy
Holder Defends Entrapment
Stephen LendmanEntrapment is illegal. Still a key FBI tool.
Is the Collapsing Empire and Its Police State Worth Fighting For?
• whiskeyandgunpowder.comIn 43 BC, over 2,000 years ago, warring consuls Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were duking it out with each other over control of Rome following Julius Caesar’s assassination the prior March.
Updating Mohamed Harkat's Persecution
Stephen LendmanA Canadian judicial lynching
FBI Sting Entraps Another Victim
Stephen LendmanAnother apparent victim of US injustice
WikiLeaks cables: Art looted by Nazis, Spanish gold and an embassy offer
• www.oceantreasures.orgUS officials offered to help Spain claim an undersea treasure haul of gold and silver coins discovered by a controversial American exploration company in return for Spanish assistance in the recovery of valuable art looted by Nazi Germany, according
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
• Ryan Singel via WIRED.comFederal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows.
Fingerprint scanner use raises privacy concerns in N.C.
• McClatchy NewsNext month, 13 law enforcement agencies in the region will begin using a new handheld device that lets an officer scan a person's fingerprints and seek a match in an electronic database - all without going anywhere. Police say taking fingerprints
More Fraud, Intimidation and Illegitimacy Assured in Haiti's Electoral Runoff
Stephen LendmanImperial Washington runs everything in Haiti
Watch Jesse Ventura Police State Episode
• Speak Truth 2 PowerWatch the full episode that was taken off TruTV's lineup.
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