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False Positives Equal False Justice
Source: mpp.org

This two-year scientific/legal investigation reveals a drug testing regime of fraudulent forensics used by police, prosecutors, and judges which abrogates every American's Constitutional rights.

Woman Arrested While in Labor Sues Police | Strollerderby
Source: blogs.babble.com

A Jacksonville, Florida mother has been given a green light to sue local police after they first tackled her and then arrested her for running a red light on her way to the ER. She was in premature labor.

Retired teacher 75, brutalized by Houston police officer
Source: KHOU.com

A retired Houston school teacher (who just happens to be Black) is suing the Houston Police Department (that just happens to be in Texas), saying she was the victim of police brutality.

New Police Technologies: An Exploration of the Social Implications
Source: puppetgov.com

Whilst developments in military hardware receive critical attention almost as a matter of course, innovations in police technology are only rarely focused upon.

In defiance of US federal order Arizona sheriff carries out immigrant raid
Source: WSWS

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona has publicly defied an order from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) limiting his office's ability to enforce immigration laws the day after it was handed down, leading deputies on an October 17 sweep that resulted  …

Oh, really? Taser International to police: don't fire at suspect's chest, may cause 'adverse cardiac event'
Source: Pandagon

Oh really, now—how long have I been blogging about this "electrical shock device" and the deaths, maimings and abuse heaped upon the guilty and the innocent, the elderly, the mentally disabled, the bedridden and wheelchair bound, as well as humans minding their own busin …

Pittsburgh Police Deny G-20 'Sound Cannon' Allegations
Source: ThePittsburghChannel.com

Maybe they should try to get rid of the YouTube videos then:

Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent
Source: dissidentvoice.org

"Anyone can tweet, but the truth is, sometimes speech can be criminal," John Burkoff, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Police State Canada 2010 and the Dark Side of the Olympics
Source: NAUresistance

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from February 12-28. It will be the largest security operation in Canadian history. Military planners will undoubtedly use it as a template for securing future high profile events.

A Nation of Snoops
Source: CounterPunch.org

As accommodating of police-state tactics as Congress has been, especially since 9-11, at least some members of that body have raised concerns and demanded investigations of some of those abuses by organizations like the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Montana town taken over by private foreign police force?
Source: Daily Paul

Hardin Montana may get more than it asked for....and NOT in a good way, either.

Sound Beam Weapons Turned On Americans
Source: EXILED ONLINE - MANKIND'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE

Here's some blowback anyone could have seen coming from 10,000 miles away–or however far Iraq and Georgia are from the USA: those crazy LRAD sound-beam weapons which were used to devastating effect by Georgia's authoritarian leader to crush massive pro-democracy demonstrati …

Honduras clash kills one, world pressure rises
Source: publicbroadcasting.net

A man was shot dead in a clash between police and supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, as international pressure mounted on the de facto government to allow the leftist back in power.

City council delays giving police new powers for G-20
Source: Freedom Fighter Radio

Legislation to allow police to cite people for wearing masks or hoods to conceal their identities with the intent of committing a crime got just two yes votes — from Ricky Burgess and Jim Motznik — and seven no votes, meaning it is defeated finally.

Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop?
Source: TIME

David Hackbart was mad and he wanted to show it, but he didn't think he would end up in Federal Court to protect his right to a rude gesture and demanding that the City of Pittsburgh stop violating the First Amendment rights of its residents.

Does deliberately keeping children from school to miss a speech reinforce the freedom of speech the Constitution upholds? (Poll)

America is toying with danger and ignorance in its latest action of some parents being allowed to remove their kids from school because of a short speech by its own President.

Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard 'round the world
Source: WorldNetDaily News

A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwell …

Obama Will Preserve Bush-Era Laptop Searches and Expand Them!
Source: The Washington Post

The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversig …

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | A menace to the public?
Source: dawn.com

A brief look at the inefficiencies of the Pakistan police and their failures to keep the order or instill a sense of security.

March of the state spies: One in 78 adults came under state-sanctioned surveillance last year
Source: the Mail online

Britain's extraordinary march towards a surveillance state is revealed today by shock new figures.

All Cars Would Have GPS Installed And Miles/Routes Tracked & Taxed Under New Government Proposal
Source: Oregon Daily Emerald

The Vehicle Miles Traveled program would track each car's mileage though a GPS installed in each vehicle and collect the number of miles traveled through an electronic reader every time a vehicle filled up the tank a gas station.

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?
Source: AlterNet.org

All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself powers only d …

Cambridge Cop Accidently Arrests Henry Gates......Again
Source: The Onion

Clearly Gates has not learned his lesson. Stupid old man.

Police State Here We Come

The question is no longer rhetorical. We are not yet living in a total police state, but it is fast approaching.

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