Category: Police State/Abuse
Department of Homeland Security Prepares to Grab DNA From Kids
A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has revealed a plan by the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA from children 14 years old and up without a search warrant or criminal prosecution.
Minnesota moms threatened with criminal charges for distributing fresh food from local farms
The Minnesota government is taking its cue from California and declaring war on fresh milk, threatening to throw moms in jail for providing fresh food to infants and families
NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots
Over the last few years, we’ve noticed that nearly every victory the FBI celebrates against terrorism is actually about stopping its own terrorist plots that it feeds to hapless individuals displaying little to no aptitude for actual terrorism.
The TSA’s mission creep is making the US a police state
The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it’s checkpoints and roadblocks
Department of Homeland Security buying up enough ammo to wage seven-year war against the American people
DHS has awarded a contract to ammunition manufacturer ATK for acquiring 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammo
90% of Taser Death Victims are Unarmed
Although the Taser™ was invented to give law enforcement a non-lethal alternative to the handgun for subduing uncooperative or even violent suspects, more than 500 Americans have been killed by Tasers since their use began to take off in 2001
Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London
The London Olympics will host the biggest mobilisation of military and security forces seen in the UK since the second world war. More troops – around 13,500 – will be deployed than are currently at war in Afghanistan.
(UK) Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan
Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans.
TSA Forces Woman To Use Naked Body Scanner Three Times Because of “Cute” Figure
Female passengers say they are being targeted by TSA screeners for sexual harassment, with one Texas woman being forced to pass through a naked body scanner three times.
‘Piracy’ student loses US extradition battle over copyright infringement
Richard O’Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in the country.
‘Silly, gay and stupid’: Police inspector’s extraordinary outburst at boy, 15, as he used anti-terror law to stop him from taking pictures at military parade
Despite the public event taking place in the middle of the town centre, Metropolitan Police officers claimed it was unlawful to photograph the parade.
Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility, demand list of customers storing emergency food
As was the plan all along, the so-called “War on Terror” has officially devolved into a war on the American people
85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport
“I walk with a walker — I really look like a terrorist,” she said sarcastically. “I’m tiny. I weigh 110 pounds, 107 without clothes, and I was strip-searched.”
