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Mission Of Police Has Morphed From Serve And Protect
Mission Of Police Has Morphed From Serve And Protect Again images of a cavalier and dismissive police officer with his knee on the neck of a handcuffed man that later died have brought people to the streets in protest of police brutality. This is not the first time police have overstepped their mandate. For years […]
Former Supreme Court Justice: ‘This is what a police state is like’
Former Supreme Court Justice: ‘This is what a police state is like’ The former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption, QC, has denounced the police response to the coronavirus, saying the country is suffering ‘collective hysteria’. This is an edited transcript of his interview with BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme earlier today. Derbyshire police have shamed our policing traditions […]
Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest
Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”—Viktor Frankl We still have choices. Just because we’re fighting an unseen […]
You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power
You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power “History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can […]
After Assange’s Arrest, Ecuador’s Creep Towards Authoritarianism Becomes a Sprint
After Assange’s Arrest, Ecuador’s Creep Towards Authoritarianism Becomes a Sprint The recent violation of Assange’s rights as both political asylee and citizen of Ecuador sends a chilling message to Ecuadorians who are being increasingly targeted for their political views both within Ecuador and abroad. QUITO, ECUADOR — Last week, Ecuador’s government gravely undermined not only its […]
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state? Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries Science fiction has long speculated on the danger of a dystopian future and machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI). But with the advent of big data, we no longer need to speculate: the future […]
Amazon Goes Full Orwellian
Amazon Goes Full Orwellian Bezos poised to become knower of all things, with strategic moves to collect info on individuals inside and out. “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it,” came a warning from George Orwell’s novel, 1984, that is rapidly, wickedly, becoming prophecy with new Amazon eye-in-the- […]
Comparing China and America: Economies Diverge, Police States Converge
Comparing China and America: Economies Diverge, Police States Converge I have followed China’s development, its stunning advance in forty years from impoverished Third World to a huge economy, its rapid scientific progress. Coming from nowhere it now runs neck and neck with the US in supercomputes, does world-class work in genetic engineering and genomics (the […]
Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed
Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”— Justice William J. Brennan, City of Houston […]
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge […]
Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People “A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter Police in a small Georgia town tasered a […]
How the United Kingdom Became a Police State
How the United Kingdom Became a Police State This article will demonstrate how the United Kingdom has steadily become a police state over the past twenty years, weaponizing its institutions against the people and employing Orwellian techniques to stop the public from seeing the truth. It will demonstrate, contrary to official narratives, that both overall […]
Police State in Slo-Mo
Police State in Slo-Mo For many years, I’ve forecasted that the US will evolve into a police state; that it will begin slowly; then as more and more freedoms are removed, the creation of the police state will accelerate. We’re now seeing that acceleration, as more and more Americans are detained, questioned, and having their […]
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime If you think we still have privacy rights or a 4th Amendment you are living in the past. Technology has moved past our individual rights and technology is now determining what day and time a crime will be committed in your neighborhood and produce a list […]
