Showing posts with label tactics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tactics. Show all posts
John W. Whitehead: What’s In Store For Freedom In 2016?
You might want to sit down for this. As I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People,
we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the
same set of circumstances over and over again: egregious surveillance,
strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, ... MORE
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crime,
debt,
drones,
government,
police state,
privacy,
raids,
spying,
surveillance,
SWAT,
tactics
A Missouri Town Demands Substantive Due Process
by George Will. Is this the future? If Pagedale, Mo., is a glimpse of the future, the future is going to be annoying. Pagedale might represent the future of governance unless some of its residents succeed in their lawsuit against their government. If they do, it will be because they successfully invoked the principle of substantive due process. Pagedale is ... MORE
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due process,
fees,
fines,
government,
incentives,
politicians,
revenue,
tactics,
theft,
ticketing
How Cops Turn Young, Low-Level Drug Offenders Into "Confidential Informants," A Job That Might Kill Them
by Jacob Sullum. Drug war draftees. On November 22, 2013, his 20th birthday, Andrew Sadek sat down across a table from Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Weber at the Law Enforcement Center in Wahpeton, North Dakota. It was the day after cops had searched Sadek's dorm room at the North Dakota State College of Science, finding "an orange ... MORE
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blackmail,
drug war,
exploitation,
government,
incentives,
law enforcement,
police state,
tactics
John W. Whitehead: The Surveillance State Is Alive & Well
Life in the electronic concentration camp. Bottle up the champagne, pack away the noisemakers, and toss out the party hats. There is no cause for celebration. We have secured no major victories against tyranny. We have achieved no great feat in pushing back against government overreach. For all intents and purposes, the National ... MORE
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Constitution,
government,
NSA,
police state,
prisons,
spying,
surveillance,
tactics,
tyranny
Anthony L. Fisher: France Cracks Down On Civil Liberties
Warrantless raids, house arrests and more. Last Friday, France's parliament overwhelmingly passed a three-month extension of the national state of emergency, granting broad powers to law enforcement and significantly curtailing civil liberties. The Guardian summarizes some of the new security measures: Expanded powers to immediately ... MORE
Paul Joseph Watson: Obama's Compassion Toward ISIS
Obama Gave ISIS 45 minute warning before bombing. The Obama White House is giving ISIS a 45 minute warning before bombing their oil tankers by dropping leaflets advising potential jihadists to flee before air strikes in Syria. “Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them. Warning: air strikes are coming. Oil trucks will be ... MORE
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bombings,
compassion,
ISIS,
Islamic state,
military,
Obama,
tactics,
terrorism,
war,
warning
George Will: Freedom From Speech On American Campuses
The insulation of delicate snowflakes. Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the
Distressing E-mail about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you
would expect from someone who has risen to eminence in today’s academia.
He seems to be the kind of adult who has helped produce the kind of
students who are such ... MORE
Obama Administration Bankrolling Nonstop Protests
by Paul Sperry. Barack Obama’s presidency has been pockmarked by rioting, looting and
protests. That’s no coincidence. It’s what the former community
organizer sought from Day One. And it’s just going to get worse before
he leaves office. The senseless protests we’re seeing break out on the campuses of the University of Missouri,
Yale and other ... MORE
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agenda,
Obama,
political correctness,
politics,
protest,
protesters,
strategy,
students,
tactics
Stephen Moore: Does EPA Need Guns, Ammo And Armor?
Government's environmental SWAT teams. The Environmental Protection Agency spent millions of dollars over the
last decade on guns, ammo, body armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned
aircraft, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear and
other military-style weaponry and surveillance activities, according to a
new ... MORE
Marcus E. Howard: The Pentagon Has Squandered Millions Paying Pro Sports Teams To Honor Soldiers At Games
It's like paying a whore to say, "I love you." The Pentagon and National Guard paid professional sports teams to publicly honor soldiers at sporting events, according to a Senate oversight report released Wednesday that labeled the practice “inappropriate and frivolous.” Since the end of 2011, the military has spent $6.8 million on sports ... MORE
Danny Vinik: Obama’s Effort To ‘Nudge’ America
Government using behavioral science to shape behavior. For the past year, the Obama administration has been running an experiment: Is it possible to make policy more effective by using psychology on citizens? The nickname is “nudging”—the idea that policymakers can change people’s behavior just by presenting choices or information ... MORE
Do Badges Grant Special Rights? Cop Shoots Unarmed Marijuana Dealer in Face and Kills Him, Walks Free
by Matt Agorist. Derek Cruice was a kind and loving young man who was murdered in cold blood by state agents because he allegedly sold a plant that is legal in five states. In March, a heavily militarized police SWAT team, knowing that Cruice had never been convicted of a crime, descended on his home on Maybrook Drive in Deltona. Police ... MORE
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government,
law enforcement,
marijuana,
police,
police state,
raids,
SWAT,
tactics,
violence
VIDEO: Official Deception - The Benghazi Video Lie
Rep Jim Johnson (R-Oh) grills Hillary Clinton as to her role in deceiving the American people about the true cause of Benghazi attack the killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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Benghazi,
deception,
dishonesty,
government,
Hillary Clinton,
tactics,
terrorism,
testimony,
video
Proof The System Is Broken Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
by Carlos Miller. Serving the public like Colonel Sanders serves chicken. Juley Harris pulled into a Maryland gas station last December with his family and pumped some gas before stepping into the station’s convenience store and heating up a pizza. When he stepped out, a Charles County sheriff’s deputy was demanding his identification, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Undefined Words Are A Big Plus In Politics
Charlatans work the hot buttons. At the recent televised debate among candidates for the Democrats' nomination for president, Hillary Clinton declared that "the wealthy pay too little" in taxes and "the middle class pays too much." Some people might wish to argue about whether that is true or not, but no rational argument can be made on either ... MORE
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deception,
Democrats,
dishonesty,
politicians,
politics,
propaganda,
rich,
tactics,
tax,
tax rates
Woman Flips Off Mayor, So He Sends SWAT Team After Her
by John Vibes. Cops deployed as tools for politician. Tina Warren has been fighting her local government over rising water bills, leaving her at odds with the town’s mayor, Bill Kirkpatrick. Warren has been running a number of campaigns against his policies, and she has even been flipping the mayor the middle finger every time she sees him. Tina’s ... MORE
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