Thread: The US Has Become A Worse Police State Than Orwell Could Imagine

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FBI Terror Report: Militia, Sovereign Citizens Greater Threat Than Islamic Terrorists

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Kit Daniels | FBI never directly mentions threat of Islamic extremism in America.

Checkpoints, ‘no refusal’ blood draws now standard fare during national holidays


The police state will be rolling out in full force this Labor Day weekend, as police departments in several states prepare to violate their citizens’ Fourth Amendment protections, under the guise of keeping drunk drivers off the road.

Adan Salazar | Infowars.com

Cops nationwide are warning holiday revelers they will be subject to mandatory blood draws if an officer merely suspects them of driving under the influence.
The practice, termed “no refusal,” involves police administering roadside sobriety tests, alcohol breath tests or forcibly extracting blood samples without a person’s consent, securing evidence which would aid a future conviction. A judge is typically on hand to issue search warrants, attempting to give the illegal blood draws an air of legitimacy in the face of blatant constitutional violations.
In states like Florida, police went one step further by erecting guilty-until-proven-innocent roadside checkpoints in the week leading up to the Labor Day weekend, where officers inspected driver’s licenses, proofs of insurance, vehicle registrations and checked for seat belt violations.
“Saturation patrols, bar and tavern checks, and checkpoints will also be held at various locations in Tennessee, Georgia and the southeastern states,” according to WDEF.com.
Police in Georgia will also be working alongside Alabama, and North and South Carolina law enforcement agencies in an effort titled “Hands Across the Border,” which emphasizes law enforcement entities’ authority to stop drunk drivers visiting from other states.
Local police across the state of Texas, in cities such as Dallas, Austin, Galveston and the Rio Grande Valley, are also enforcing no refusal blood draws ostensibly to stem drunk driving fatalities.
A report from a Fox affiliate in Georgia last year showed police constraining unwilling participants’ arms, legs, hands, and feet when they refused to relent to a blood draw, while one restrained man asked, “What country is this?”



Published on Jun 30, 2013
DUI Suspects Subjected to Forced Blood Draw - On "Suspicion" of Drunk Driving.. Needle stuck into arms, as they are strapped to a table against their will.

As if we needed any more proof of the direction this country is headed toward.

Ben Franklin once made the assertion: "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" I wonder what he would have to say about this forced theft of blood and assault of Americans strapping down who are not even proved to have committed a crime.

This is an obvious violation of the 4th Amendment regarding search and seizure, as these people are just accused of a crime, never found guilty, and the manner used is almost like torture- also is theft of their property- their blood, and their DNA will be stored indefinitely, even if they are innocent.

This seems like it's just another step toward the police and government letting the little people know we are all subjects- and they can do whatever they want to us and should not be tolerated.



“We all are American citizens and you guys have me strapped to a table like I’m in Guantanamo f***ing Bay,” complained Mike Choroski while several officers hovered over him.
“I’m a taxpaying American who refused something….I refused to do this….what happened to me in that room was unnecessary and nobody should have to do that,” said Choroski.
As police in numerous states use the pretext of “safety” to circumvent freedoms prescribed in the Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to protect American citizens from unwarranted “unreasonable searches and seizures,” the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld efforts to go after people who refuse to consent to blood draws, indicating this represents “consciousness of guilt.” In other words, states may prosecute someone for refusing a blood draw on the grounds that doing so represents an admission of their guilt.
“A January 2013 ruling affirmed that a warrant must be obtained for the process,” noted Paul Joseph Watson, adding, “although police could dispense with the warrant requirement in an ‘emergency.’”
The accuracy of results garnered through such procedures has been the subject of contention, however. “Breathalyzer tests have previously been proven to be inaccurate in a high percentage of cases, with many factors rendering the results ‘little more than scientific guesswork,’” reported Steve Watson in June. “Further research has shown that police officers often influence the results of breathalyzer tests, resulting in inaccurately high readings. Blood tests can also produce false high readings of alcohol levels if they are not conducted quickly and properly.”

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Where are the lawyers, there is no perception about it!!!!!

In Florida, Non-Submission to a Police Beating is “Attempted Murder”

By The Free Thought Project on August 31, 2014


Every day, somewhere in this supposedly free county, some version of this script is played out: A police officer spies an individual committing a harmless but “illegal” act, aggressively pursues the subject, inflicts physical violence on the victim, then escalates that violence to lethal or nearly lethal levels when the victim doesn’t immediately submit to the state-licensed aggression.

William Norman Grigg
LewRockwell.com

We could refer to this as the “From Malum Prohibitum to Murder” model of police escalation. Citizens who aren’t killed in such encounters can expect to be punished for the impudence they display by surviving. Police officers responsible for the actual crimes of violence will not face prosecution, owing to the evil doctrine of “qualified immunity.” A recent episode in Florida resulted in several charges – including attempted murder – against a man whose only apparent “offense” was to refuse to submit to a beating by a police officer.
The assault began when an officer named Ronald Cannella who had attempted to pull over a man named Livingston Manners for allegedly running a stop light dragged the driver from his vehicle and threw him to the ground in a gas station. It’s quite likely that Manners, in justifiable fear for his safety, sought a well-lit area for the encounter with the brigand.
Security camera video shows that Manners was compliant and non-aggressive as the officer tried to “build the stop” by searching his vehicle. The officer eventually reached into the vehicle and pulled Manners from it, and the victim does nothing to resist, holding his hands face-up and to the sides. Cannella can be seen putting a forearm on the face and the throat of his victim, and then punching him repeatedly. Although no audio is available, it’s certain that this attack was punctuated with the rapist’s refrain, “Stop resisting!”
Cannella eventually places the victim on his back and appears to be attempting to place a chokehold on him. Manners defends himself with a maneuver similar to the “guard” position from Jiu-Jitsu, trapping the uniformed assailant’s arms and holding him at bay for roughly 45 seconds until the aggressor’s comrades arrive.
At no point in the struggle is Manners seen making an aggressive move, or touching the throat of the assailant. It is possible that the victim applied a lapel choke – but if he did so this came after Cannella had already repeatedly struck him and, apparently, attacked his own throat first.
Although Cannella claimed in his report that he feared for his life (the default emotional state of police officers, who are trained to see the public as enemy combatants rather than fellow citizens), and that during the ninety-second scuffle Manners choked him into unconsciousness, the cop is still on top and apparently in control when other officers arrived to beat and tase Manners into submission.

Cannella claimed that Manners “locked his legs around my body preventing my escape” while he “forcefully grabbed my throat and strangled me.” Yet in the video, Cannella displays no difficulty extricating himself and standing up once a fellow costumed enforcer arrived on the scene. Any breathing difficulty he experienced was most likely a reflection of his panic and poor cardiovascular conditioning, rather than actions taken by his victim.
In addition to the peculiar offense called “resisting without violence,” the charges against Manners include “attempted murder” for allegedly placing his hands on the throat of the armed and violent stranger who had him pinned to the ground, beating and attempting to choke him.
The report by the Miami NBC affiliate faithfully regurgitated the Hollywood PD’s line, describing the incident as a “vicious attack on a police officer” in which the Intrepid Defender of All That is Good and Decent was “choked unconscious.” The report likewise retailed the outrage expressed by Lt. Derik Alexander that a biker who arrived on the scene didn’t wade in to help the tax-devouring functionary subdue Manners. Although the biker’s motives were never explained, by not reflexively taking the side of the uniformed aggressor, he passed the Tom Joad Test.
Police frequently place unarmed victims in headlocks and chokehold-style restraints. If the standard being used to justify the attempted murder charge against Manners were applied uniformly, the use of such techniques by police would justify a lethal defensive response by the victim, or a citizen who came to his rescue.

The Best of William Norman Grigg
Republished with Permission from LewRockwell.com

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Family of Man Killed by New Mexico Police Say He Was Unarmed
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Cop Cam: Ferguson Police to Wear Body Cameras

By The Free Thought Project on September 2, 2014


Following the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, which sparked three weeks of protests and violence, officers in Ferguson, Missouri, are now wearing body cameras to film their work.
RT.com
Members of the Ferguson Police department wear body cameras during a rally August 30, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.(AFP Photo / Aaron P. Bernstein)
There have been conflicting reports over exactly what transpired between Brown and Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on August 9, with some witnesses claiming that the unarmed black teenager was attempting to surrender at the time of being shot, while others say he was struggling with the officer in an apparent attempt to seize Wilson’s revolver.
NYC police chokehold death proves need for cop-cams – public defendant
Experts say police body cameras would help to provide an accurate account of police-involved incidents, possibly resulting in fewer incidences of police abusing their powers.
Body cameras are becoming increasingly standard gear among US police forces, with about one in six departments using the devices in some form, Scott Greenwood, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, was quoted by ABC News as saying.
Safety Vision and Digital Ally donated mobile body cameras to the Ferguson police department in the hope of possibly preventing another outburst of violence hitting the streets of America.
“The city of Ferguson has gone through an unfortunate series of events and Safety Vision body cameras… will assist in capturing prima facie evidence for investigations involving vandalism, looting, and shots fired,” Safety Vision said in a statement on its website.
Meanwhile, Digital Ally, which produces tiny cameras that fasten to the shirt of police officers and relay images back to a centralized location, reported last week a 387 percent surge in its stock price since the slaying of Michael Brown on August 9.

Riot police clear a street with smoke bombs while clashing with demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri August 13, 2014.(Reuters / Mario Anzuoni)
“Since Ferguson, inquiries have increased, conservatively, five-fold,” Digital Ally CEO Stanton Ross told USA Today.

Human rights groups say the new technology has the potential to bring under control US police powers, which have come under increasing criticism for not only the introduction of military equipment, but military tactics as well.

“This is a technology that has a very real potential to serve as a check and balance on police power,” Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, told AP.
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the video cameras are popular among his officers.
“They are really enjoying them,” he said. “They are trying to get used to using them.”

An online petition that would require all state, county, and local police to wear a camera while on duty has already attracted over 150,000 signatures.
Public Advocate Letitia James has endorsed video cameras for New York police officers following the death of Eric Garner as police attempted to arrest him for selling black-market cigarettes. A cell phone video captured the tragic incident, which showed one police officer applying an illegal chokehold on Garner.
The pilot program would cost $5 million and equip 15 percent of the city’s police officers with the devices.
Meanwhile, a St. Louis County grand jury has begun hearing evidence into the Brown killing and the US Justice Department has opened its own investigation.
Republished with permission from Russia Today

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REALITY OR MAKE-BELIEVE: “CIVIL RIGHTS” IN FERGUSON: Michael Anthony Peroutka



Published on Aug 26, 2014
If your home is like my home, you have a kitchen where you, among other things, prepare and maybe also eat your meals.
Again, if you are like me, you, of course, stand and walk around on the floor of the kitchen and you don’t try to walk on the ceiling or on any of the walls. And you don’t try to place, say, a bowl of soup on the wall because it would immediately spill to the floor.
The very idea of trying to operate your kitchen (or for that matter, any other room in your home) in this way, seems silly and stupid. Imagine trying to sleep in a bed that was placed vertically on the wall or bolted to the ceiling.
The reason this is such a futile thing to contemplate is that when you try to walk on the wall or the ceiling you are clearly and obviously trying to operate as if one of the physical laws of nature did not apply to you. We call it the law of gravity.
Ignoring the law of gravity or trying to live as if it doesn’t apply to you will only result in injury, chaos and unhappiness. In short – it’s a mess.
But suppose we don’t believe in gravity....

Philadelphia Police are Seizing People’s Homes and Not Because they Can’t Pay

By Cassandra Rules on September 2, 2014

The Philadelphia police are putting home owners on the street and it has nothing to do with their ability to pay the mortgage, nor are they being charged with a crime.



Christos Sourovelis works hard and owns a painting business. He has built a “dream house” in a Philadelphia suburb, and without warning, the city came along and siezed their home. Sourovelis and his wife, Markela, have never been charged, or accused of any wrong doing.
They are now suing the Philadelphia DA after their home was seized when their son was found with $40 worth of heroin.
A month and half after their son was arrested the police showed up. They opened the door and had their gun drawn on the families dog before Markela Sourovelis even knew what was going on.
This family isn’t alone. Civil forfeiture allows the city to seize any property without charging the home owner with a crime.
From 2008-2011 Allegheny, PA, filed only 200 petitions for civil forfeiture, in 2011 alone, Philadelphia filed 6,560 petitions.

“The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has turned this tool in to a veritable machine, devouring real and personal property from thousands of residents, many of whom are innocent, and converting that property in to a $5.8 million average annual stream of revenue,” Darpana Sheth, a lawyer with the Virginia-based Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public-interest law firm told CNN.

Civil forfeiture was authorized in 1988 as a means to go after drug traffickers to take away the “tools of the trade”, meaning anything used or earned from the drug business. However, because these cases are technically civil actions, property owners receive almost none of the protections that criminal defendants receive. Instead of them having to prove your guilt, you must prove your innocence.
The governent must only prove that a property, not the owner, was “more likely than not” involved in the perpetration of a crime.




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The Apple Company Helps Cops To Hide ‘Police Brutality’

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DNA
on
September 6, 2014


Since the Michael Brown incident in Ferguson, it seems like more and more videos are coming online depicting the police using excessive force. This is a very good thing because as a society we have to hold the police, as well as the government, responsible for their actions. Well Apple has recently patented a technology that may actually allow police to stop or interfere with your cell phone’s ability to record video where ever the police would decide to put this technology up.
Apple’s patent is currently active for the police-state technology and as Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks describes, “Those policies would be downloadactivated by GPS, and WiFi or mobile-base stations, which would ring-fence around a building or a ‘sensitive area’ to prevent phone cameras from taking pictures or recording video.” Here is what the patent itself describes as the use and “positive” aspects of the technology:
“As wireless devices such as cellular telephones, pagers, personal media devices and smartphones become ubiquitous, more and more people are carrying these devices in various social and professional settings,” the patent reads. “The result is that these wireless devices can often annoy, frustrate, and even threaten people in sensitive venues. For example, cell phones with loud ringers frequently disrupt meetings, the presentation of movies, religious ceremonies, weddings, funerals, academic lectures, and test-taking environments.”
The patent also goes on to say that police and government agencies way use it to “blackout” conditions where covert operations or situations where they don’t want people using cell phones. This technology could help police develop and sustain a police state before we even know it. Without video evidence of such events people won’t know it’s happening until it is happening to them. In which case, may be too late to do anything about it. Stay informed and be active in reporting any police brutality you see while you still can. Below is a video of Ana Kasparian talking about the technology and here is a link to the Apple patent:
Apple’s Police State Patent



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