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 Undercover T.S.A. Spies To Ride Houston Buses
04-18-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Paul Joseph Watson
A new program in Houston will place undercover TSA agents and police officers on buses whose job it will be to perform bag searches, watch for “suspicious activity” and interrogate passengers in order to ‘curb crime and terrorism’.
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News All transactions to be conducted in the presence of a tax collector
04-17-2012
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www.sovereignman.com
The tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as to chase around widows and children to collect taxes owed.
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News Homeland Security Unveils Monstrous SWAT Trucks
04-16-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, cryptogon.com
The vehicles are right out of Team America: World Police.
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News IRS Travel Ban: Revoking Citizenship By Stealth
04-16-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Efforts to pass a bill that would allow the IRS to deny travel rights to U.S. citizens who the feds merely claim owe $50,000 or more in delinquent taxes represents a de facto move to revoke the citizenship of Americans without due process and in comp
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News UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones
04-14-2012
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www.eff.org
The UAE has had a national ID system since 2004, with IDs carrying a chip similar to one on a credit card and holding a person's name, birthday, gender, photograph, fingerprint, and ID number.
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News Miami-Dade PD Releases Information about Its Drone Program; Will the FAA Follow Suit?
04-14-2012
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www.eff.org
Miami-Dade PD records include the Federal Aviation Administration-issued Certificate of Authorization (COA) to fly the MDPD drones. This appears to be the first time a law enforcement agency has made its COA available to the public without redactions
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Feature Article Police Checkpoint On Trial Terry Bressi
As previously reported, the final pretrial conference in my nine year running civil rights lawsuit against several Tohono O'odham police officers for conducting an illegal checkpoint operation in December of 2002 was held on March 19, 2012.
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News Spain accused of 'draconian' plans to clamp down on protests
04-12-2012
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Daily Telegraph
Under the laws, a minimum jail term of two years could be imposed on those found guilty of instigating and carrying out violent acts of protest under a new package of measures unveiled. But it has raised fears that the new measures could be used to s
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News UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released: Campus Police Force 'Very Dysfunctional'
04-12-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Pepper spraying incident 'should and could have been prevented'
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News Task force: Police shouldn't have used pepper-spray on protesters
04-11-2012
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AP
A University of California task force said Wednesday that UC Davis police should not have used pepper-spray on student demonstrators in an incident that prompted national outrage and calls for the chancellor’s resignation after online videos of the c
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News MILITARIZATION AND THE TRILATERAL NORTH AMERICAN POLICE STATE
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dana Gabriel
While bilateral initiatives have dominated North American issues over the last couple of years, the trilateral relationship has suffered.
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News The Police State Strips Away Its Mask
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Glenn Greenwald
April 08, 2012 "Salon" -- One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention.
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News Police Mysteriously Lose Video Of Megaupload Raid
04-10-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Stephen C. Webster
Video footage of a police raid on the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is missing, and authorities claim they’re not quire sure what happened to it.
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News Documents show Britain initiated extraordinary rendition of Libyan woman
04-09-2012
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The Guardian
Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher.
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Opinion
A Life Sentence, Then a New Life
04-09-2012 Menckens Ghost
"Escape From Camp 14" tells the story of one man's incarceration and personal awakening in North Korea's highest-security prison.
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News Infowars Nightly News: DOJ Attempts to Install Monitor in Sheriff Joe’s Office
04-08-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
The Department of Justice in Washington has accused Sheriff Joe Arapio’s Office of engaging in what they describe as ‘racial profiling and mistreatment of illegals aliens and hispanics’ and alleged ‘human rights violations’
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News Single Payer Doctor Carol Paris Packs It Up
04-08-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Russell Mokhiber
Dr. Carol Paris is a psychiatrist. She’s practiced for 13 years in southern Maryland. And she’s fought hard for a single payer system.
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News 'Necessary Force'
04-05-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by William Norman Grigg
"I always thought police were nothing but good and were there to protect people," testifies Elizabeth Polak, a registered nurse from Phoenix
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News Customer tips needy waitress $12,000. Police take money under RICO laws.
04-05-2012
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AP
A Minnesota waitress who says a customer told her she could keep a box containing $12,000 has sued after police impounded the cash as suspected drug money.
Stacy Knutson of Moorhead, Minn., filed a lawsuit asking that the cash be returned to her.
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Ronald Bogner
News Black in White Plains: The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
04-05-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Amy Goodman
“My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me.”
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News Career criminal arrested after kidnapping two kids in a carjacking
04-04-2012
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RawStory.com
A man described by police as among Britain’s most wanted criminals has been arrested in a vehicle carjacked from a young mother — and found with her two toddlers still strapped in the back seats.
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News Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings
04-04-2012
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Chris McGreal via Guardian.co.uk
Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison
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Headlines: Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings -- Career criminal arrested after kidnapping two kids in a carjacking -- Black in White Plains: The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain -- Customer tips needy waitress $12,000. Police take money under RICO laws. -- 'Necessary Force' -- Draconian Cybersecurity Bills -- Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Viktor Bout: Victimized by US Injustice -- Abdulhadi Alkhawaja: Dying for Justice -- Single Payer Doctor Carol Paris Packs It Up -- Infowars Nightly News: DOJ Attempts to Install Monitor in Sheriff Joe’s Office -- A Life Sentence, Then a New Life -- Documents show Britain initiated extraordinary rendition of Libyan woman -- Police Mysteriously Lose Video Of Megaupload Raid -- Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Near Death -- The Police State Strips Away Its Mask -- MILITARIZATION AND THE TRILATERAL NORTH AMERICAN POLICE STATE -- Task force: Police shouldn't have used pepper-spray on protesters -- UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released: Campus Police Force 'Very Dysfunctional' -- Spain accused of 'draconian' plans to clamp down on protests -- Police Checkpoint On Trial -- Miami-Dade PD Releases Information about Its Drone Program; Will the FAA Follow Suit? -- UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones -- Tarek Mehanna: Criminalized for Doing the Right Thing -- IRS Travel Ban: Revoking Citizenship By Stealth -- Homeland Security Unveils Monstrous SWAT Trucks -- --- -- NYPD Raid Occupy's Sleep-In Protest -- All transactions to be conducted in the presence of a tax collector -- Undercover T.S.A. Spies To Ride Houston Buses --
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