The Internet is now becoming a new front in the phony terror war. Legislation like the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 that is in the forms of HR 1955 and S 1959 which seek to give the government powers to define thoughts and belief systems as homegrown terrorism, is on the brink of being pushed down our throats.

A lawsuit by the makers of Taser stun guns has prompted an Ohio court to order a chief medical examiner to delete any reference to the use of a stun gun as a contributing factor in the deaths of three men, a move rebuked as "dangerously close to intimidation" by the National Association of Medical Examiners.

Contributing Editor Catherine Austin Fitts, who was a Managing Director at Dillon Read before becoming Assistant Secretary of Housing under George Bush and who holds an MBA from Wharton makes things very simple. She points out that the four largest states for the importation of drugs are New York, Florida, Texas and California. She then points out that the top four money laundering states in the U.S. (good for between 100 and 260 billion per year) are New York, Florida, Texas and California. No surprise there. Then she rips the breath from your lungs by pointing out that 80 per cent of all Presidential campaign funds come from - New York, Florida, Texas and California.

Eavesdropping is easy. All it takes is a two-minute software install and someone can record your calls and monitor your text messages. They can even set up systems to be automatically alerted when you dial a certain number, then instantly patched into your conversation. Anyone who can perform a basic internet search can find the tools and figure out how to do it in no time.

But the scarier stuff is what your phone can do when you aren't even using it.

The companies market "detoxification products," meant to help someone pass a drug test.

But Chong says agents seized 10,000 DVDs of his documentary.

A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants; a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman.

A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge's order.

Virtually every abuse of the last eight years has its roots in the Bush/Cheney view of the President as Monarch, and John McCain clearly endorses its fundamentals. Indeed, when responding to a questionnaire on executive power circulated to all the candidates by The Boston Globe's Charlie Savage earlier this year, McCain (while paying lip service to nice principles and even taking the extreme position that he would never issue a signing statement) refused to say that there was even a single aspect of Bush's use of executive power that he found unconstitutional or otherwise objectionable:

A university has withdrawn a researcher's fellowship after he published an article claiming that the gas chambers of Auschwitz never existed.

As with all raids, the element of surprise is essential.

But what if cops busting down your door , pointing guns at you, and then realizing they're in the wrong place?

Well as they say "these things happen" ........

As revelations of the Bush administration's illegal surveillance programs continue to expose the criminal nature of the regime in Washington, new reports suggest that House Democrats are preparing to capitulate to the White House on warrantless wiretapping and amnesty for lawbreaking telecoms.

Schaeuble said. "They have in common their rejection of our free democratic principles."

YOU ARE FREE TO SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY - CLERGY SELL OUT TO ASSIST WITH MARTIAL LAW...

US police seen in kicking video...

In Google's continuing attempt to silence the pro-Palestinian community on the Blogesphere, they have been claiming that it is 'Robots' that are locking blogs, not actual people. In a post I wrote yesterday I countered that claim with the charge that it is a well organised cell of zionists at work.

That very 'cell' I spoke of now openly confesses and are proud to make Google censor the anti-zionist websites!

The evidence at trial showed that the defendant and his co-defendants were members of a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy, led by former Los Angeles police officer Ruben Palomares and including other law enforcement officers and drug dealers. Together, they committed more than 40 burglaries and robberies throughout the Los Angeles area between early 1999 and June of 2001. The robberies generally were committed after the group received information that a particular location was involved in illegal drug-trafficking. The robbery teams usually consisted of multiple sworn police officers in uniform or displaying a badge, who would gain access to the residence by falsely telling any occupants that they were conducting a legitimate search for drugs or drug dealers. Victims often were restrained, threatened or assaulted during the search. These assaults included firing a stun gun at a victim, striking victims with police batons and putting a gun in the mouth of a victim. When the group stole drugs, they would use co-conspirators to sell the drugs and they would split the profits among the group.

Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe.

The Above is a speculative map of known ICE DRO, FEMA, and Military personnel holding facilities in the United States, either Completed, Empty, In Use, or under construction in the United States.

The US government uses tax money, and worse yet, money borrowed from the Federal Reserve (which is paid off by printing new money thus inflation), to support select industries in which government employees typically hold stock. Over-priced no bid contracts are awarded to corporations for what are often unnecessary jobs, such as paying construction/engineering companies to rebuild things they've already paid weapons companies to destroy. This is state control of industry, and it is communism by definition. Corporations that don't comply risk losing lucrative contracts to their competitors. The US government, in this way, creates state assisted monopolies.

Billions spent on CCTV have failed to cut crime and led to an 'utter fiasco', says Scotland Yard surveillance chief...

His case is just an example of what the government is trying to do to those who believe - based on medical results - that raw milk is better for them than the processed milk available in most grocery stores, according to Nolt's supporters.

Processed milk, many believe, leads to clogged arteries, strokes and heart attacks.

After losing its congestion pricing fight, the Bloomberg administration wants a law to create a network of cameras to catch cars illegally using special bus lanes.

George Bush is building detention camps. Their purpose is "to support the rapid development of new programs," without specifying just what those "new programs" might be. But, read on to see if programs Bush already has in place are the ones he's planning on using to put you in one of those camps.

Chertoff said that once laws are written, the public should not second-guess government actions and claim that federal officials are overstepping their authority.

Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers...

The U.S. political system is, at best, "a work in progress" according to an evaluation from the pro-democracy group Freedom House, which finds significant flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system, counterterrorism strategies and the treatment of minorities and immigrants.

Why is the federal government soft on refugee crime but hard on thought crime? Why is it excruciatingly, painstakingly and expensively difficult to remove a refugee criminal like Hussein Jilaow from this country but so relatively easy to expel Ernst Zundel? Jilaow never published offensive rubbish about the Holocaust but he did hurt people with knives and guns. And what exactly did Zundel do? He distributed words. Crazy, delusional words, painful to some but a different order of pain than a shiv being shoved into your kidney, surely. But not in Canada, you say. In Canada words can kill.

The crime rate in the US has plummeted since the 1990s, so why is the incarceration rate reaching staggering new heights?

The Scottsdale-based stun gun manufacturer increasingly is targeting state and county medical examiners with lawsuits and lobbying efforts to reverse and prevent medical rulings that Tasers contributed to someone's death.

AMENDMENT XIII - SECTION 1

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population and almost 25 percent of the world's prisoners. Are Americans more criminal than other folks? Or are there incentives that give the US the dubious honor of leading the world in prison population.

Five sheriff's deputies had been indicted on charges related to the death of one of the men, who also had a history of mental illness. The judge further ordered that man's death be ruled as "undetermined" and to "delete any references to homicide and the death possibly being caused by asphyxia, beatings or other factors."

Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death...

URUKNET HAS BEEN HACKED ~~ ACTION ALERT!...

U.S. moving to clear backlog of executions...

I remember thinking that censorship was something done in the 40s by priests who had to approve the films that the Italian public was allowed to watch. When I was young and naïve, I thought it was something that only totalitarian or ultra-repressed societies would dare to use. I now know much better, and it's not only the Big Media that simply does not allow content in that they disapprove of, it is far more sinister. It seems as though the journalists are aware of what is expected of them and they produce it without needing to be steered.

Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj has hit out at the US treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison where he was held for nearly six and a half years.

Federal prosecutors in Detroit say letter carrier Darlene Cry illegally tipped off a postal customer that he was the subject of a "mail cover" -- a form of warrantless surveillance in which the envelope information on every card and letter received is secretly recorded by the Post Office, then passed to federal law enforcement or intelligence officials.

Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases have experienced 10 suspicious incidents including break-ins and arson.

These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because of the suspicious nature of each incident individually as well as the pattern collectively. Typically burglars do not break-into an office or private residence only to rummage through documents, for example, as is the case with most of the burglaries in these two federal cases.

Tens of thousands of cars will become almost worthless as a result of the decision to raise road tax on older models with higher carbon dioxide emissions by up to £245 a year.

Telecoms and the Bush administration talked about how to keep their surveillance program under wraps.

It's the only response a high-ranking neocon can provide, considering all the evidence and questions unanswered: anybody who believes 9/11 was an inside job, or for that matter questions the official fairy tale version, is insane.

Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) familiar with the situation say the mix-ups, in which marshals are mistaken for terrorism suspects who share the same names, have gone on for years -- just as they have for thousands of members of the traveling public.

It is possible to avoid all of this domestic spying a la the German Gestapo but most of the avoidance techniques are relatively unknown to the unsuspecting and innocent American population.

Informing them of their possibilities might be an interesting project for someone. The concept of leading a free, surveillance-free existence far from the drooling governmental snoops, perverts and knuckle-draggers is a heady one to contemplate."

Try to bear in mind while reading this, in order to comprehend just how ridiculous these laws are, that the german jewdicial system is throwing this man in prison for doing and saying nothing more than "Heil Hitler, Herr Friedman."

As more people become 'Netsavvy', the powers that be have become 'Netcensors'. We see this happening on a daily basis as we watch Websites get shut down, Websites blacklisted, and now the newest 'game' of hacking Websites.

The latter has become a favourite game of the zionists in recent weeks, hacking into the Websites that speak the truth. Two recent examples of this mischievous activity are What Really Happened and Tikkun Magazine. Both had their mailing lists hacked and subscribers received most annoying emails from them.

Conflict follows device that drives away teen loiterers...

The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.

The exception claimed by Cheney's counsel came in response to requests from congressional Democrats that David Addington, the vice-president's chief of staff, testify about his involvement in the approval of interrogation tactics used at Guantanamo Bay.

Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it.

In what appears yet another effort to strengthen his position in the executive branch, the attorney for Vice President Dick Cheney said in a letter released by Congress Thursday that the Congress "lacks the constitutional power" to conduct oversight over his job.

Cheney has long battled Congress over oversight. In particular, Congress has sought, and failed, to acquire information from his office regarding his meetings with oil company executives to discuss energy policy in 2001. Cheney was also the subject of a Washington Post series which detailed his attempts to strengthen the position of the vice presidency as a bulwark against inquiry.

WRH: The New McCarthyism...

Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen's Council on Health Care (CCHC). "The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research," she states.

What if?... or "What happened to Christopher Hitchens?"

After identifying some 7,000 pages of classified memos, e-mails and other records relating to its forced disappearance, secret detention and torture program, the Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release the documents.

THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY...

From the start, though, that protection came into question. Hours after Bush signed, a spokeswoman said the administration believed it applied only to whistleblowers who talked to a Congressional committee pursuing an investigation.

The name "false flag" comes from the old pirate's ruse of flying another country's flag during an attack, thereby shifting blame for the attack to a party that had nothing to do with it. Governments use false flag attacks to push their nations into dictatorship or war. As military experts, we fear that national terror drills, scheduled for May 1-8, could be used to camouflage a false flag attack in the United States.

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

There's a program up in Canada, called ALPR, (Automatic License Plate Recon) It's a way of scanning 3,000 cars an hour that the police pass on the highways.

They can check parked cars for stolen vehicles as well as find uninsured motorists.

Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff's deputy has described as "martial law training".

Guess who came calling? The DEA. The dispensary's manager, who was walking around outside when I strolled by, told me that a group of federal thugs agents smashed not only the ten-foot window you see above, but also over twenty glass display cases inside. They then proceeded to steal all the medicine. This isn't the first raid, either. The HNC was smashed to pieces last year by the DEA, on suspicion of carrying too much medicine, but were quickly cleared of any wrongdoing.

Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.

The Detroit Police Department's crime lab tests showed 42 shell casings were fired by the same weapon, while two other tests showed that the casings came from at least two weapons, Chief Ella Bully-Cummings said at a Friday news conference.

Now, Detroit attorney Marvin Barnett, who first discovered the error, said thousands of appeals could be forthcoming in criminal cases.

"We will get in our cars and you'll get in yours", said Flynn. It turned out to be a set up. The Rotiskeneketeh started moving off the road. Suddenly about 10 OPP jumped about 5 of our guys, threw them in the ditch, beat them up and arrested them. They hauled them off to jail. No reasons were given for the arrests or assaults. The OPP is certain not operating on an honorable nation to nation model. It is not even offering the kind of fiduciary protection for indigenous rights as it is supposed to, according to the supreme Court of Canada.

Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of 'Fear'...

Student gets $628 ticket for sitting on park ledge...

President George W. Bush has transformed an open federal government in Washington into one of "pervasive secrecy," a distinguished authority on communications and First Amendment rights says.

"Words wreak havoc when they find a name for what had up to then been lived namelessly" - Jean Paul Sartre

Tasing ends in death...

Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.

Man hit with Taser by Oxford police dies...

We, the undersigned, believe that is immoral to enshrine History in law.

The European Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs have agreed to make publishing bomb-making instructions on the Internet a crime. The French authorities are discussing making the publication on the Internet of any alleged pro-anorexia information a crime.

The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.

Carl Chew, a 6th grade science teacher at Nathan Eckstein Middle School in the Seattle School District, last week defied federal, state, and district regulations that require teachers to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning to students.

"I have let my administration know that I will no longer give the WASL to my students. I have done this because of the personal moral and ethical conviction that the WASL is harmful to students, teachers, schools, and families," wrote Chew in an email to national supporters.

Customs at Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol) searches through mobiles phones and laptops....

A Bush administration lawyer resisted a San Francisco federal judge's attempts Wednesday to get him to say whether Congress can limit the president's wiretap authority in terrorism and espionage cases, calling the question simplistic.

More protection against terrorists is coming to a subway station near you. Starting Thursday, special bomb teams - "Torch Teams" - will be toting submachine guns and bringing bomb-sniffing dogs onto the platforms and into the trains.

Taser Shock Sets Man On Fire...

Trials of Muslim Charities Likened to a Witch-hunt...

The U.S. government today will order commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the country under a security initiative that the industry has condemned as costly and burdensome.

Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren't 'Personal Data'...

In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in the U.S.), Chertoff made the startling statement that fingerprints are "not particularly private":

Bush Secrecy Policies have Transformed U.S. Government from "Open" to "Closed"...

BEWARE THE TRASH-BIN POLICE!!!!!!!...

LOCAL council bin police wearing head lamps are prowling neighbourhoods in the middle of the night to check whether residents are recycling.

At least one contractor hired by the City of Monash in Melbourne has been threatened with the sack after peering into rubbish bins by torchlight and spooking elderly homeowners at 1am.

TransLink Cops Will Continue To Taser Fare Dodgers...

Pigs, in their simple-minded, childish view of reality, always imagine themselves to be "the good guys" fighting an endless war against "the bad guys."

But the truth is something quite different from what their twisted little brainwashed minds imagine. Far too often pigs are the bad guys, and most of them will never dare to face that fact. Even those who don't beat up and torture their victims (out of view of the news cameras) cover up the crime for those who do. And they are all the violent enforcers of unjust laws. They are all the loyal servants of the criminal rulers of this crooked country.

Routine journeys carried out by millions of British motorists can be monitored by authorities in the United States and other enforcement agencies across the world under anti-terrorism rules introduced discreetly by Jacqui Smith.

Police will have powers to frisk people they suspect of carrying lasers and those without reason to have them - such as educators, architects or astronomers - will be fined up to $5000.

As the station, which bills itself as "the all-conservative radio station," was broadcasting a program on revisionism, transmission suddenly went dead. Without warning, the "Free Journal Show," hosted by Martin Peltier, was suddenly replaced by classical music. The show never resumed.

We contacted Henry de Lesquen, station manager, who explained the broadcast had been interrupted "by the government's Delegate for Editorial Matters, who considered some comments expressed by one of the participants unacceptable."

The parents of a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser for being too noisy intend to file a complaint against Ottawa police today, alleging that at least one officer went too far in the way he treated their son.

The Department of Homeland Security, which President Bush established after the terror attacks, is going through the same process that all of the federal government does every four or eight years, but observers say the prevalence of terror attacks on or around election times has DHS especially on edge.

In late 2006, Congress revised the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act to make it far easier for a president to declare martial law. Those changes were repealed at the end of this January as part of Public Law 110-181 (HR 4986), the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (signed into law by President Bush on January 28, 2008).

Sorry, wrong house: Drug squad's sledgehammer raid nets a dinner lady drinking tea...

In what some observers claim is a shocking violation of the First Amendment, a California court has ordered the domain name of the most prominent voice for homeowners to be turned over to the biggest homeowner association law firm, Peters and Freedman. (Technically, the domain name is to be turned over to a homeowner association, but observers claim that the real party in interest is the law firm.)

Despite admitting in her ruling that "plaintiff's motives in seeking the domain name are likely mixed; i.e., that plaintiff is likely motivated in part by a desire to close down the web site", Jane D. Myers , a lawyer employed as Commissioner by the Orange County Superior Court, ordered the web site to be turned over to them.

State and federal attorneys-general met in Adelaide late last month to canvass options for empowering the Australian Communications and Media Authority to order internet service providers to cease hosting racist and anti-Semitic websites.

The federal government is pushing a bill to force all telecommunications providers to facilitate lawful data interception across fixed and mobile telephone systems, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Instant Messaging (IM) and chat room discussions.

Sheriff Ray Westindorf, Sheriff of Charles Mix County in South Dakota and the SD Highway Patrol has initiated a police occupation of Indian Land on the Yankton Reservation. An out of state Hog Farm Corporation has set up shop on the Reservation against the wishes of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, local farmers and community members.

For the crime of writing a politically incorrect article on homosexuals, AIDS, and blood donations -- see "Offensive" Gay Blood Donation Ban Could Be Overturned Despite Aids Risk -- Prison Planet editor and writer Paul Joseph Watson is coming under fire in his native England.

Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman is the Senate co-sponsor of a little-noticed domestic anti-terrorism bill that could carry us several steps closer to the good old days of the House Un-American Activities Committee and Joe McCarthy. The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (S.1959) is currently in committee after passing the House last year with no media scrutiny and no real debate by a 404-6 margin. The primary sponsor of the Senate bill is fellow Republican Susan Collins of Maine.

The purpose of the measure is to create a permanent federal commission to scrutinize radicals and would-be terrorists, and to fund a series of university-based centers devoted to ferreting out and tracking the dangerous subversives among us. The latter would operate under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security. A handful of critics from the blogosphere and the legal world have called out the measure on grounds that it its vague mandate amounts to criminalizing dissent. But even in the civil liberties demi-monde, it seems to be making little impact.

After a deputy asked her to calm down and lower her voice, Reichman placed her hands on deputy Margaret Picerno and pushed Picerno, according to the report. Picerno then put Reichman in a chair and handcuffed her.

In a recent edition of the Austin-American Statesman a book review of Phillip Bobbitt's new book Terror and Consent goes into how the book calls for the shredding of the Constitution. The article written by James E. McWilliams features an image of the Constitution being torn with a big bold headline that states "Everything must go." The words "How to Fight Terrorism", are put in place of where the Constitution is torn. The article is blatant propaganda to make people think that the answer to fight terrorism is to destroy the Constitution. As disgusting as this is, the contents of Bobbitt's book advocates exactly what the picture depicts. Bobbitt endorses using nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations to take over the roles and functions of nation states. He also endorses giving the United Nations the authority to wage war without approval from the Security Council and the use of non-lethal chemical weapons to fight terrorism. If he really wanted to end terrorism using non-lethal chemical weapons, he should be endorsing the use of non-lethal chemical weapons on the headquarters of the CIA, British Intelligence and Mossad because that's where the majority of terrorism comes from. Of course, Bobbitt won't mention that fact.

A new bill in the Pine Tree State would make it a crime to peer at children in public. It's been asserted that some legislators can justify making any action a crime--as long as they add the magic words "for the children" to the mix.

Most notable is Mount Caramel's missing front door, a piece of evidence that survived the fire, according to photographs, but then mysteriously disappeared while in FBI custody. It had bullet holes in it that could help prove or disprove the ATF's claim that they were fired on first. Surely if this evidence supported their claim, it would have been produced in court. Why did it conveniently disappear?

Others need to be put under oath and questioned, including First Lady Hillary Clinton and former Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell, who was the de facto boss at Justice during the stand-off. A D0J source earlier told SOF, as was reported, that Hubbell received his marching orders on Waco from two people in the White House: attorney Vince Foster and the First Lady. That was confirmed by a congressional source, who said transcripts of Hubbell's conversations on Waco with the White House had all portions blacked out that involved Hillary Clinton.

And what of any role played by the military, especially General Colin Powell. then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? The same congressional source said Les Aspin, then the Secretary of Defense, was opposed to any military involvement in any aspect of the Waco case. An Army source who was present said Powell flew to Texas just a few days after the initial failed raid at Waco, to personally debrief the Green Beret officers who led ATF training.

Prices of basic foods have sharply increased amid a rise in costs of commodities.

The crisis has led to riots in poor countries by people who have limited access to food.

The German State's reaction to those who wish to provide an alternative narrative for what has become known as the 'Holocaust' is a horrendous misuse of the principles of jurisprudence. The custodial sentences given to Ernst Zuendel, Germar Rudolf, Sylvia Stolz and others are a clear demonstration that nothing has been learned from the past. It is our firm belief that their sentences should be revoked and the law of Germany changed to reflect a real acceptance of the principles of free speech and the marketplace of ideas.

The pilot who took the photos wishes (for the obvious reasons) to remain anonymous, but these photos are purported to be of an area near Camp Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma in early April of 1995. Needless to say, just days after this photo was taken, the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed (along with internal cutter charges) by a Ryder truck full of explosives.

WACO - Who Shot First?...

Transit police on SkyTrain stations in Metro Vancouver have used Taser stun guns on passengers who didn't pay the fare and tried to run away, CBC News has learned.

Some travelers at key airports in New York and Los Angeles may be put through machines that see through clothing and provide a detailed image of a person's body beginning later this week.

The scandal-plagued Orange County Sheriff's Department is investigating whether jail staff used a Taser stun gun on a cat that was found dead on facility grounds.

Counterterrorism officials in FBI headquarters slowed an investigation into a possible conspirator in the 2005 London bombings by forcing a field agent to return documents acquired from a U.S. university. Why? Because the agent received the documents through a lawful subpoena, while headquarters wanted him to demand the records under the USA Patriot Act, using a power the FBI did not have, but desperately wanted.

The book looked at the role of archeology in what was essentially a political project: the Biblical validation for Jewish claims to what is now Israel.

In August of 2007, a petition entitled "Deny Nadia Abu El-Haj tenure" was posted on the Internet. It found its way onto a number of email lists and Web sites. The author of the petition was a Barnard alumna named Paula Stern. Writer notes that Stern's complaints against Abu El-Haj's work were inaccurate. Stern later predicted that Barnard and Columbia were going to lose a lot of alumni money if Abu El-Haj got tenure.

Had we wanted a monarchy, we had one! It didn't work out! Moreover, the one we had --King George III --was better than the cretinous would-be King who now arrogates unto himself powers he doesn't have and doesn't deserve. King George III was wrong and mad, but George Jr, a shrub, a lesser Bush, is merely ludicrous and slow witted.

"Clearly a line has to be drawn between freedom of speech, voicing of differing opinions - and material that just incites racial hatred, religious intolerance and violence. When that line is crossed, that material ought not to be freely available to all who log onto the web."

Jackboots arrest Jefferson b'day celebrant at Memorial...

In May 2007, Bush signed executive new orders NSDP51 and HSDP20 to replace REX84. The older order REX84 was an older directive to establish martial law in the event of a national emergency. Everything done in government is done for a reason, and these two new orders are no exception.

These new directives surprised and alarmed many real conservatives and true patriots at the time. These two orders established that the White House administration would take over all local governments under a national state of emergency, instead of Homeland Security.

Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State: Part II, A Climate of Fear is Maintained...

Employers would be able to read their staff's emails under proposed new national security laws being considered by the Federal Government.

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told Channel Nine the proposed changes would step up national security of Australia's computer networks.

"We want to make sure that they are safe from terrorist attack," she said.

General Strike, do not work, go to school or buy gasoline or anything else, withdraw most of your money from your bank, cancel your cable TV propaganda machine. Protest the Federal Reserve, big media propaganda and your enslavement!

The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.

Tim Joyce and Jenny Paton and their children were put under surveillance by Poole Borough Council for more than two weeks without their knowledge.

Six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the amber cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. The local governments in question have ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead.

Recent violence in Basra has convinced the administration of President George W. Bush that Iran and not Al-Qaeda is now the primary threat to US interests in Iraq, The Washington Post said Saturday.

The new law vastly increases the danger from the actions of government provocateurs. If there is an incident now like the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993, it would be far easier for the president to declare martial law -- even if, as then, it was an FBI informant who taught the culprits how to make the bomb. Even if the FBI masterminds a protest that turns violent, the president could invoke the "incident" to suspend the Constitution.

The Man Banned By Digg...

"it seems to me that this administration has justified its crimes by NOT suspending the state of emergency that went up on September 11, 2001. They are using emergency powers if you look at the whole of the spying, military actions inside the US, etc. I would wager that if asked, this administration will admit that we have been in a state of emergency for their tenure in office."

While You Slept Your Congress Took Away Your Constitution...

News last week of former White House lawyer John Yoo's recently disclosed 2003 memo positing, among other things, that the president's authority as commander in chief allows him to override federal laws prohibiting "assault, maiming and other crimes" against suspects in the "war on terror" was followed by a second revelation: an alarming footnote on page 8 referring to another secret memo, written shortly after 9/11, and, in the name of national security, dispensing with the Fourth Amendment.

Well, initially, liberal pundit Noam Chomsky has said that he would submit to fascism if it would help combat global warming:

I don't care if Godzilla is about to attack . . . submitting to fascism is always a bad idea.

News last week of former White House lawyer John Yoo's recently disclosed 2003 memo positing, among other things, that the president's authority as commander in chief allows him to override federal laws prohibiting "assault, maiming and other crimes" against suspects in the "war on terror" was followed by a second revelation: an alarming footnote on page 8 referring to another secret memo, written shortly after 9/11, and, in the name of national security, dispensing with the Fourth Amendment.

In the age of the "war on terror," according to the footnote, the Department of Justice "recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations." (Emphasis in the original.)

For asking simple questions about the racist, Apartheid state of Israel, or asking questions about the Zionist version of the Holocaust™, the State Department wants to toss people in jail.

Chertoff may have had another reason for hyping threats of cyber terrorism. Money.

Congress appropriated $150 million in funding for the program this year, Singel notes. The administration has sought $192 million for 2009.

Oakland cops: Mind if we search your house for guns?...

D.C. officials are giving police access to more than 5,000 closed-circuit TV cameras citywide that monitor traffic, schools and public housing -- a move that will give the District one of the largest surveillance networks in the country.

Civil libertarians are worried that a little-known anti-terrorism bill now making its way through the U.S. Congress with virtually no debate could be planting the seeds of another USA Patriot Act, which was hurriedly enacted into law after the al Qaeda attacks of Sep. 11, 2001.

Civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), say the measure could herald a new government crackdown on dissident activity and infiltration of universities under the guise of fighting terrorism.

"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue.

The advocacy of Peace is apparently now illegal in the State of Israel. Just say the word.... just pray for it.... and you are 'put away'..... It's a CRIME!

Reuters is reporting that the Jerusalem employees of RAMFM, the only radio station promoting peace and communications between Israelis and Palestinians who were arrested yesterday as the police carted away all the station's equipment, have been released but are on house arrest for a week during further investigation.

This is being pushed by none other that Rep. Jane Harman, who's behind the "Thought Crime Bill" that is now sitting on that Senator from Tel Aviv's desk, Joe Lieberman.

This hearing ties in nicely with certain elements in the US government that want to censor the Internet, since it's such a dangerous source of.... REAL NEWS.

Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government's ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent American citizens.

Nathan J. Hochman, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Tax Division, announced the creation of the National Tax Defier Initiative or TAXDEF. The purpose of this initiative is to reaffirm and reinvigorate the Tax Division's commitment to investigate, pursue and, where appropriate, prosecute those who take concrete action to defy and deny the fundamental validity of the tax laws. ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court.

One of the most astonishing facts about the Bush presidency is simply that it continues to exist.

Only a combination of certain critical conditions have kept the man and his government from suffering the same fate as Mussolini or Ceaucesceu. A politically naive public, a neutered opposition, a compliant press, a Constitutionally-fixed term of office, a truckload of fear, a moderately sufficient economy and a remotely plausible victory in an unpopular war have all conspired to encourage a surly public to simply wait out the clock for the demise of the Creature from Crawford.