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Eye in the Sky – 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked for Drone Certification
Eye in the Sky – 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked for Drone Certification Are drones coming to a police department near you? Possibly. Next thing you know, they’ll be pepper spraying you from 10,000 feet. From Yahoo News: Los Angeles (AFP) – Drones are increasingly making their mark in the arsenal of US police forces, operating in […]
First State Approves Drones with Rubber Bullets, Tasers, Pepper Spray, Tear Gas, Sound Cannons for Domestic Use
First State Approves Drones with Rubber Bullets, Tasers, Pepper Spray, Tear Gas, Sound Cannons for Domestic Use North Dakota has become the first state to approve government use of drones equipped with “less than lethal weapons”, including “rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers”. The bill passsed largely due to the inherent corruption of the US […]
Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests
Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government agencies and the U.S. Navy, but also from American law enforcement. LRAD […]
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues A year ago, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, was arrested in a McDonald’s in Ferguson Missouri. The fast-food establishment had been used as a staging area for several reporters, including theHuffington Post’s Ryan Rilley, who was also arrested. Here’s last year’s video clip of Mr. […]
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police department, their creed […]
Dozens arrested in anti-capitalism May Day protest in Montreal
Dozens arrested in anti-capitalism May Day protest in Montreal Eighty-four protesters arrested, Montreal police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators and bystanders Police arrested 84 people, including 27 on criminal charges, and used tear gas to disperse demonstrators at a night-time protest in downtown Montreal organized by a local anti-capitalist group called CLAC. Hundreds of […]
Rising Police Aggression A Telling Indicator Of Our Societal Decline
Rising Police Aggression A Telling Indicator Of Our Societal Decline A historially common marker of failing civilizations My first Uber lift was in South Carolina. My driver was from Sudan originally, but had emigrated to the US 20 years ago. Being the curious sort, I asked him about his life in Sudan and why he moved. […]
Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes
Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes Ottawa also sought legal advice on telco’s transparency reports Canadian police seek online and phone data from telecommunications companies in almost every criminal investigation, according to a briefing note to the federal minister for public safety, obtained by CBC News. The scale of the practice […]
MAPLE SPRING: THE RED SQUARE MOVEMENT RETURNS AS ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS HEAT UP IN QUEBEC
MAPLE SPRING: THE RED SQUARE MOVEMENT RETURNS AS ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS HEAT UP IN QUEBEC “They may have the toughest batons. They may have the thickest armor. They may have the largest newspapers. They may have the thickest wallets. But we have the longest breath. We have the courage of the oppressed. We have the strength […]
Police Gas Student Protesters In Quebec
Police Gas Student Protesters In Quebec Earlier this week we reported that the Blockupy movement — supporters of which set fire to the streets of Frankfurt earlier this month in an anti-austerity protest timed to coincide with the grand opening of the ECB’s new headquarters — had apparently spread across the Atlantic to the streets ofMontreal where students […]
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany turned the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk […]
Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State
Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State “Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.”—Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain It’s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop—entrusted with all of the powers of a […]
Let’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out Of Fear
Let’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out Of Fear A scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and the world. But theRCMP has a different take. A secret report by the national police force, obtained by Greenpeace, both minimizes the threat of global warming and conjures a spectre of threats […]
