The US Is Now A Police State
February 12, 2010 - 10:39am
The US is Now A Police State
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02102010.html
"There is no more complete or compelling evidence of a police state than the government announcing that it will murder its own citizens if it views them as "a threat". Ironic isn't it that "the war on terror" to make us safe ends in a police state with the government declaring the right to murder American citizens who it regards as a threat...'
and with its compliant northern sattelite so quick to copy and 'harmonize' in all things expect these chickens to come home to roost here soon..
Judge Finds SOA Watch Activists Guilty for Carrying Protest against the SOA/WHINSEC onto Fort Benning, Issues Arrest Warrant for Michael Walli for Refusing to Appear for the Trial.
On Monday, January 25, 2010, U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth sentenced three human rights advocates to six months in federal prison for carrying a protest against the School of the Americas onto the Fort Benning military base in Georgia. This school, re-named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, is a controversial U.S. Army training school for Latin American soldiers.
Father Roy Bourgeois, a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of SOA Watch, the organization that works to close the School of the Americas said "Judge Faircloth has sentenced our sister and brothers to 6 months in federal prison for speaking the truth about the SOA/WHINSEC. We are saddened by the court's continued blindness and hardness of heart, but we are stronger than ever in solidarity. These sentences are symbolic of our nation's misdirection, but they are also great steps forward for our resistance movement. It is truer today, than ever before, that although they jail the resisters they have not, and cannot, jail the resistance!" ...
The "SOA 4" are:
Nancy Gwin, long-time activist from Syracuse, New York - sentenced to six months in prison
Father Louie Vitale, veteran and priest from Oakland, CA - sentenced to six months in prison
Ken Hayes, SOA Watch Council member from Austin, TX - sentenced to six months in prison...
Ironic isn't it that "the war on terror" to make us safe ends in a police state with the government declaring the right to murder American citizens who it regards as a threat...'
You could call it irony or you could call it a means to an end.
In all honesty I'm more pissed about the ticketing cameras my city has put up at certain busy intersections than this shit...
"There is no more complete or compelling evidence of a police state than the government announcing that it will murder its own citizens if it views them as "a threat".
Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left Bleeding by Hillary Clinton Police, “So this is America!” Sibel Edmonds
Right now, at this point, all I have to say to those who second-guess our nation’s police state status is this: “Shame on you!” As for my irate minority friends over here at Boiling Frogs, please help disseminate this news, because the scum bag media won’t;’ thank you.
Police state USsA.
The Obama Administration's War on Civil Liberties and Free Speech As Clinton Hawks 'Freedom to Connect,' Justice Department Shields 'War on Terror' Fraudsters, Targets WikiLeaks
Scarcely batting an eyelash, Madame Clinton told her audience at George Washington University that "the goal is not to tell people how to use the internet any more than we ought to tell people how to use any public square, whether it's Tahrir Square or Times Square."
Rich with rhetorical flourishes that should have evoked gales of laughter but didn't (this is America, after all), Clinton averred that "together, the freedoms of expression, assembly, and association online comprise what I've called the freedom to connect. The United States supports this freedom for people everywhere, and we have called on other nations to do the same."
Really?...
US hypocrisy is an art form. Republicans and Liberal Democrats are joined at the hip.
Really? You mean for the last hundred and fifty years or so it wasn't? Gee, I gotta get out more often
The Patriot Act: When Truth Becomes Treason
Ever wonder why the truth about 9/11 never got exposed? Why Americans don't have a clue about leadership fraud surrounding the War on Terror? Why Americans don't know if the 9/11 investigation was really successful? Why the Iraqi Peace Option draws a blank? Somebody has known the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden--- or his grave-for the past 10 years. But nobody's talking to the people. ...The Patriot Act reaches far beyond terrorism prevention. In my home state of Maryland, State Police invoked the Patriot Act to run surveillance on the Chesapeake Climate Action Network dedicated to wind power, recycling and protection of the Chesapeake Bay. They infiltrated the DC Anti War Network, suggesting the group might be a front for "white supremacists," and Amnesty International, claiming to investigate "civil rights abuses." Opponents of the death penalty also got targeted (in case they got violent).
Bottom line: truth tellers who give Americans too much insight on any number of issues are vulnerable to a vast arsenal of judicial weapons typically associated with China or Mynamar. In the Patriot Act, the government has created a powerful tool to hunt out free thinking on the left or right. It doesn't discriminate. Anyone who opposes government policy is at risk.
Anti-war activists in cahoots with white supremacists 'n the klan? - check
Violent Americans against the death penalty? - check
The govamint needs to spy on the lives of millions of Americans for the strangest reasons.