Archive for the ‘Police State’ Category

Natt Garun Business Insider February 28, 2012 Tweeters beware. The Department of Homeland Security is monitoring our social media activities to look for “Items Of Interest” (IOI) that could predict potential threats. Animal uncovered a full list of terms the DHS looks for, and some of these words are pretty general. Aside from names of [...]

Henry Blodget Business Insider January 5, 2012 On New Year’s Eve, President Obama signed into law a bill that eliminates one of the fundamental protections of the U.S. Constitution: The right for people not to be detained indefinitely by the government without being formally convicted of crimes. This erosion of the Constitution, which came in [...]

Kris Gutiérrez Fox News November 16, 2011 The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is weeks away from launching an unmanned aerial asset to help deputies fight crime. The ShadowHawk helicopter is six-feet long, weighs fifty pounds and fits in the back of an SUV. “We can put it over a fire, put it over ahazmat spill, [...]

KIMBERLY DOZIER Associated Press November 4, 2011 McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV [...]

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Wall Street Journal July 27, 2011 Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.? According to the general counsel of the National Security Agency, it may have that authority. Matthew Olsen, who is currently at the NSA and has been nominated to lead the National Counterterrorism [...]

Heather Mills KOB.com May 23, 2011 Saturday night, a certified TSA official will be at the Santa Fe High School prom to oversee student searches. This all comes after two Capital High School students, sisters, filed a lawsuit saying they were groped by a security agent at Capital High School’s prom last month. On Friday, [...]

Paul Bentley Mail Online May 10, 2011 A disturbing photograph which shows a baby being subjected to a full body search by airport security has caused outrage after it was posted online. The picture, which was uploaded to a social networking site, appears to show two TSA agents at Kansas City International Airport laughing as [...]

Alexander Higgins blog.alexanderhiggins.com May 9, 2011 Spying on U.S Citizens — Uncle Sam turns his multi-billion dollar espionage network on U.S Citizens. Massive spike in domestic spy operations, Over 12,000 “special ops” personnel deployed daily, 100′s of Thousands of secret surveillance requests rubber stamped by crooked judges, secret illegal spy operations conducted in over 75 [...]

RTR.org May 4, 2011 Annual year-end block party at Western Illinois University ends with riot police. Students attending the Wheeler Block Party were met by a Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force who used tear gas, LRAD sound weapons and crowd suppression tactics to force students into their homes. Gary Franchi is joined by eyewitness and victim of [...]

Alex Thomas The Intel Hub March 13, 2011 In recent months we have seen the TSA search and harass 9 year old boys, disabled women, women with prosthetic breasts, attractive women, and just about anyone else that they have felt like harassing. Millions of Americans have denounced these Orwellian tactics yet the Department of Homeland [...]