
FBI's Story of Finding Silk Road's Server Sounds a Lot Like Hacking
• Wired.comTo hear the FBI tell it, tracking down the secret server behind the billion-dollar drug market known as the Silk Road was as easy as knocking on a door.
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To hear the FBI tell it, tracking down the secret server behind the billion-dollar drug market known as the Silk Road was as easy as knocking on a door.
"Retinal obfuscation" gun a new tool for militarized law enforcement
All of us were bewildered and amazed many years ago, long before there were mass killings at schools, when full-time police officers started to appear at public high schools, with their police cars parked outside, as if the buildings were part of the
Your parents probably have dozens of cute photos of you as a tyke sporting nothing but your birthday suit. It's not illegal to take snaps of your kiddies in the buff, but it could be treated as a crime.
New York - In October, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield.
Through the 1033 program, the federal government has geared America's local police departments with military-grade equipment ? ranging from airplanes to bayonets ? worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
In 1968, students at Columbia University staged a mass uprising, joining other college campuses in protesting not just the war in Vietnam, but their school's collaboration with the Institute for Defense Analysis,.......
The connection between the armed showdown that took place in Nevada, and the riots taking place right now in Ferguson Missouri, look closer. Both events illustrate just how close the American public is to a breaking point,
"Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can."
Did you know it is possible for the government (local, state, or federal) to take away your house or your car without you ever having committed a crime?
Did you know it is possible for the government (local, state, or federal) to take away your house or your car without you ever having committed a crime?
"He'll probably leave now, because this is America"
"Why didn't we know?" A member of the Minneapolis City Council is demanding answers after officials were kept in the dark over unannounced military exercises involving black helicopters that started residents of the twin cities last month.
Still think you have "freedom" eh? Still think you're the actual parents of your children, and that you should be the ones making decisions about their lifestyle and heatlh?
The following video footage, captured by Avel Amarel and uploaded to Youtube, shows how easy it is to stop police state tactics dead in their tracks.
In a case that has some disturbing comparisons to the Bolger case out of Baltimore, a police chief in Atwater, Minnesota is accused of killing a boy's pet chicken and then leaving the hen's decapitated head near the chicken coop.
Interview of Orion Martin, originator of the Sidekik App project, topics include: brutal police assault and conviction of victim, the Sidekik App, live-stream recording, publishing and real-time legal representation, app connects to lawyer who speaks
Long before it became obvious to millions of people, I wrote about how the DHS was never intended to prevent terrorist attacks, rather it had always been intended to suppress the American citizenry.
High-speed chases are usually dangerous and can be deadly, but police are using new technology, both safe and discreet, that tracks the suspect(s) by GPS.The system is called "Star Chase", and so far it's been installed in twelve St. Pete Police cars
The stars of North Carolina's Moral Mondays movement took the stage on Labor Day at Charlotte's Marshall Park to condemn the state's record on voter suppression and racial profiling. Just a few hundred feet away, police cuffed and
Gratuitous police violence is out of control. Every day police murder 1.4 Americans, and beat, taser, body slam, and break into the homes of many others. Ferguson made it into the news, but Americans suffer police violence every day.
This past spring, Cecily McMillan rode a bus across a bridge to Rikers Island, home of the notorious New York City jail. When the Occupy Wall Street activist was released nearly two months later, she had left her old self behind.
This past spring, Cecily McMillan rode a bus across a bridge to Rikers Island, home of the notorious New York City jail. When the Occupy Wall Street activist was released nearly two months later, she had left her old self behind.
Checkpoints, 'no refusal' blood draws now standard fare during national holidays
From the Dept. of Insane and Dangerous Overreactions to Fictional Threats:
Maryland Teacher Writes Futuristic Novel About School Shooting . . School Board Sends Him For Evaluation While Police Raid His Home and Distribute His Picture
Two Northern California cities have made plans to rid themselves of armoured vehicles built to withstand roadside bombs that their police got for free from the U.S. Defence Department, in a move that follows criticism of the police handling of protes
Asked "whether it's proper to militarize the nation's city police forces," President Obama opined last week that "one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enf
James Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses Attorney General Eric Holder's hypocrisy on the Ferguson police shooting, and Holder's earlier role in covering up the Waco massacre.
6 days after the most recent SWAT raid in Caldwell, police in Boise dispatched a SWAT team in a combat-grade armed vehicle to arrest a man suspected of pointing a gun at a pedestrian. This raid, which took place late in the evening,