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Looks about right, unfortunately. And still people have no clue about our insanely high incarceration rate, or maybe they just don't care.
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A Five-Step Guide to Police Repression, From Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_guide_to_police_repression_from_ferguson_to_baltimore_and_beyond_20150506
It is, in fact, no longer unusual but predictable for peacefully protesting citizens to face military-grade weaponry and paramilitary-style tactics, as the counterinsurgency school of protest policing has become the new normal in our homeland security state. Its techniques and technologies have come a long way in the years since Occupy Wall Street (and even in the months since the first protests kicked off in response to the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri). Here, then, is a step-by-step guide, based on the latest developments in the security sector, on how to police a protest movement in the new age of domestic counterinsurgency.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_guide_to_police_repression_from_ferguson_to_baltimore_and_beyond_20150506
It is, in fact, no longer unusual but predictable for peacefully protesting citizens to face military-grade weaponry and paramilitary-style tactics, as the counterinsurgency school of protest policing has become the new normal in our homeland security state. Its techniques and technologies have come a long way in the years since Occupy Wall Street (and even in the months since the first protests kicked off in response to the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri). Here, then, is a step-by-step guide, based on the latest developments in the security sector, on how to police a protest movement in the new age of domestic counterinsurgency.
In A Cop Culture, The Bill Of Rights Doesn't Amount To Much
https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...ture_the_bill_of_rights_doesnt_amount_to_much
Unfortunately, if you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is never held accountable for violating your rights and his oath of office to serve and protect, never forced to make amends, never told that what he did was wrong, and never made to change his modus operandi, then you don’t live in a constitutional republic.
You live in a police state.
https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...ture_the_bill_of_rights_doesnt_amount_to_much
Unfortunately, if you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is never held accountable for violating your rights and his oath of office to serve and protect, never forced to make amends, never told that what he did was wrong, and never made to change his modus operandi, then you don’t live in a constitutional republic.
You live in a police state.
DOVER POLICE OFFICER INDICTED AFTER VIDEO SHOWS SUSPECT KICKED IN HEAD
http://6abc.com/news/cop-indicted-after-video-shows-suspect-kicked-in-head/703334/
http://6abc.com/news/cop-indicted-after-video-shows-suspect-kicked-in-head/703334/
3 Disturbing Questions Concerning This Video of an Officer Punt-Kicking a Black Man In the Face
http://www.alternet.org/3-disturbing-questions-concerning-video-officer-punt-kicking-black-man-face
Everything about this video is wrong, awful, illegal, and disgusting. That's Lateef Dickerson on his hands and knees in front of Dover, Delaware, police officers.
Suddenly, Officer Thomas Webster, like an NFL punter, unloads a kick on Lateef's face, knocks him out cold, and breaks his jaw. The video is disturbing. Below it, though, I'll raise three questions that show just how broken the system truly is that allowed this assault to happen.
1. This video was filmed almost two years ago. The police refused to release it. It was only released after the ACLU filed multiple lawsuits and a federal judge forced them to release it.
What sincere justification exists for concealing this video for two years?
2. In March of 2014 a grand jury http://news.yahoo.com/dover-police-officer-charged-assault-video-released-212212652.html for any crime whatsoever.
Did this grand jury see the video that we see now? If not, why? If so, how in the world could they not have indicted Webster for assault?
3. Even with the video, Officer Webster almost escaped justice for this crime. Nonetheless, it's clear that the video is the only reason new charges were filed and Webster was arrested.
What national standards need to be in place concerning law enforcement videos such that departments are not able to conceal them for years at a time? Had this video been released immediately, the officer would've likely been arrested immediately.
The issue is that police are exposed to a disproportionate amount of black crime compared to other crime. On the surface this sounds like "blacks are more prone to crime." But the deeper issue is the prison industrial complex and how it affected the inner city community more than all other communities. How this occurred was through legislative racism in America, initially. After the civil rights act blacks were still in poverty. Before they could ever get out of the hole Nixon declared war on drugs [read: 1st wave of anti-constitutional legislation]. This war was later greatly expanded upon by Reagan. If you look at incarceration levels: 250k in the mid 40s, 400k whilst Tricky Dick was in office, and 9,000,000 in 2007. Most of this is a direct or indirect result of the publicly funded, privately owned prison industrial complex. I just cannot for the life if me find a biological or physiological reason behind why people with superior melanin levels somehow show a propensity towards drug racketeering; probably because there isn't one. In my opinion, it was placed upon inner cities. I'm not sure if pigment was a secondary factor in determining where drugs infiltrated, but the primary factor was poverty.. I'll let you, the reader (and hopefully objective reader) figure that one out. One thing I'm certain of is when you want answers, follow the money.
I believe you meant higher melanin levels. "Superior" is a touchy word when we're talking about race.
Didn't I say "melanin"?
That is why people need to look at who is closest aligned to the constitution when voting. I was in my 20s when I voted for Bush, and all these "unpatriotic" liberals and their damned constitution. I admit, I was wrong big time. In fact most constitutional convergence has been committed by a Prescott Bush underling, whether it be a blood toe or a recruit like Nixon or Reagan. If you were anti-bush and pro-constitution you were commun"ist." If you are now proconstitution you are rac"ist" and in 19.5 months when you oppose anti-constitutional legislation there's a good chance you'll be sex"ist."
I got involved in the "constitutionalist and states right" movement in the late 80s and early 90s. There were a lot of Nam Vets involved. Bunch of them out in West Texas and Idaho, all over. Had a lot of shit stashed away. Got together for meetings and training classes. We weren't considered left wing by a long shot, just anti-government. I got pulled over a couple of times for various reasons and when the cop would learn that I was a constitutionalist, we'd talk awhile, he'd shake my hand. never got a ticket.
Oh no, constitutionalism doesn't follow the right:lift paradigm. It expands it into an axis and goes north. You wanna marry a dude? Do you wanna smoke pot? Cool who the fuck is some slime-bucket to tell you what to do? My point is that we get caught up in left/right and those who voted for bush are feeling the same medicine we/I delivered in the early part of last decade. I now believe that the left/right is a conditioned/manipulated reality. At the end of the day, they both assault the bill of rights.
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You consider Bush a liberal?
When I defended the patriot act and other bill of rights violations as a naive bush supporter, anytime a liberal would resort to pointing out constitutional infringement, a typical response would be to call them a communist. Many of the same type of liberals call me a racist if I'm anti-obama and point out his constitutional infringement. At the end of the day, both sides are filled with rich people who, in their minds, are above the law and both sides trample the constitution.
Your right. But none of this is new. The constitution has been under attack since it's inception.
In terms of entitlements, wealth redistribution and socialized industry the whole republican party looks pretty liberal.
Most republicans are RINOs these days. The left panders to socially liberal and the right panders to the socially religious. Both try to impose their social beliefs on the populous. Fiscally, the right provides welfare for their corporate cronies, the left to those in poverty. Both are liberal in that sense too.
A Nation of Snitches
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_nation_of_snitches_20150510
Tyranny is always welded together by subterranean networks of informants. These informants keep a populace in a state of fear. They perpetuate constant anxiety and enforce isolation through distrust. The state uses wholesale surveillance and spying to break down trust and deny us the privacy to think and speak freely.
A state security and surveillance apparatus, at the same time, conditions all citizens to become informants. In airports and train, subway and bus stations the recruitment campaign is relentless. We are fed lurid government videos and other messages warning us to be vigilant and report anything suspicious. The videos, on endless loops broadcast through mounted television screens, have the prerequisite ominous music, the shady-looking criminal types, the alert citizen calling the authorities and in some cases the apprehended evildoer being led away in handcuffs. The message to be hypervigilant and help the state ferret out dangerous internal enemies is at the same time disseminated throughout government agencies, the mass media, the press and the entertainment industry.
“If you see something say something,” goes the chorus.
In any Amtrak station, waiting passengers are told to tell authorities—some of whom often can be found walking among us with dogs—about anyone who “looks like they are in an unauthorized area,” who is “loitering, staring or watching employees and customers,” who is “expressing an unusual level of interest in operations, equipment, and personnel,” who is “dressed inappropriately for the weather conditions, such as a bulky coat in summer,” who “is acting extremely nervous or anxious,” who is “restricting an individual’s freedom of movement” or who is “being coached on what to say to law enforcement or immigration officials.”
What is especially disturbing about this constant call to become a citizen informant is that it directs our eyes away from what we should see—the death of our democracy, the growing presence and omnipotence of the police state, and the evisceration, in the name of our security, of our most basic civil liberties.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_nation_of_snitches_20150510
Tyranny is always welded together by subterranean networks of informants. These informants keep a populace in a state of fear. They perpetuate constant anxiety and enforce isolation through distrust. The state uses wholesale surveillance and spying to break down trust and deny us the privacy to think and speak freely.
A state security and surveillance apparatus, at the same time, conditions all citizens to become informants. In airports and train, subway and bus stations the recruitment campaign is relentless. We are fed lurid government videos and other messages warning us to be vigilant and report anything suspicious. The videos, on endless loops broadcast through mounted television screens, have the prerequisite ominous music, the shady-looking criminal types, the alert citizen calling the authorities and in some cases the apprehended evildoer being led away in handcuffs. The message to be hypervigilant and help the state ferret out dangerous internal enemies is at the same time disseminated throughout government agencies, the mass media, the press and the entertainment industry.
“If you see something say something,” goes the chorus.
In any Amtrak station, waiting passengers are told to tell authorities—some of whom often can be found walking among us with dogs—about anyone who “looks like they are in an unauthorized area,” who is “loitering, staring or watching employees and customers,” who is “expressing an unusual level of interest in operations, equipment, and personnel,” who is “dressed inappropriately for the weather conditions, such as a bulky coat in summer,” who “is acting extremely nervous or anxious,” who is “restricting an individual’s freedom of movement” or who is “being coached on what to say to law enforcement or immigration officials.”
What is especially disturbing about this constant call to become a citizen informant is that it directs our eyes away from what we should see—the death of our democracy, the growing presence and omnipotence of the police state, and the evisceration, in the name of our security, of our most basic civil liberties.
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I believe that the govt has every thing to do with Ferguson and Baltimore. I believe they put certain people in an area and spark a fire so to speak, to get people amped up and rioting in the streets and to cause chaos. The govt wants this so they can user in martial law and have full control over the citizens.
[IMO, this is but the tip of an ever increasing police state. I think it unimaginable to have the war protests of the Vietnam Era today.]
Revealed: FBI violated its own rules while spying on Keystone XL opponents
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents
Revealed: FBI violated its own rules while spying on Keystone XL opponents
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents
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