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

Armed Federal Agents Terrorize Town In Unannounced Show of Force


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TellMeNow

18 hours ago

The writers here at Mr. Conservative have been reporting for several months now that the government is clearly preparing themselves for either civil unrest or an uprising. Although it was unknown at the time, the Department of Homeland Security, as well as other armed federal agents terrorized a small town in what seems to have been an unannounced show of force.
The incident occurred in Livingston, IL – a small little town with a population of about 850 people – where Blackhawk helicopters and MRAP (armored) vehicles swarmed in and parked on the school grounds. Needless to say, the town’s residents were taken back at the time as their obnoxious, and arguably blatant, show of force was explained to be unannounced.

Reportedly, “agents from Homeland Security, the US Customs and Border Patrol and local police agencies,” all converged on the town and set up a temporary base of operations on the local grade school ball fields. During that time, one resident explains that, “When all the armored trucks started showing up and everything it made me kind of nervous.”
Since that time, local news outlets haven’t been able to identify the root cause for the event and are still considering the occurrence a “mystery.” Although it’s merely speculation, it’s quite clear to see that this was a practice response to a hypothetical event in which civil unrest was present.

As the government continues to make it increasingly prevalent that they’re ready to take on the American people, demonstrations like this can only be seen as an act of intimidation. What do you guys think of this – is there any reason federal agencies would have a need to terrorize a small town like this? Let us know your thoughts on this in the comments below.
H/T: Mr. Conservative

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Cop tries to shoot dog, misses, hits 10-year-old boy


The Free Thought ProjectJohn VibesJuly 12, 2014

A ten year old boy in Georgia is lucky to be alive after he was shot by a police officer who was firing his gun at a dog. According to multiple reports, the police officer was in pursuit of a robbery suspect at the time of the indecent. A dog crossed paths with the officer and he decided to shoot at it.
His shot missed the dog and the stray bullet struck the young Dakota Corbitt who was playing nearby. It is still unclear as to why the officer felt the need to shoot at the dog in the first place, and there is no indication that the dog approached the officer in a threatening manner.

The bullet entered from the back of the knee and exited out of the front of the child’s leg.

Janelle Rich, Corbitt’s sister, told reporters of the horrific experience of her brother’s attack, and said that the officer seemed to have no remorse about what he had done.

“I ran out the house with one of my kids and saw my little brother on the porch pouring blood. He [the officer] was sitting there like he didn’t have a care in the world.” Rich said.

The officers name has not been released, nor has any information about his disciplinary action.

After the Dakota was shot he was rushed to Coffee Regional Medical Center and then transferred to Savannah Memorial Hospital where he was held for several hours for surgery.

The family waited in the hospital all night thinking that their son would need surgery. Luckily, hours later after lengthy examinations, they were told that the boy would not need surgery because no vital arteries were hit by the bullet. The full extent of the wound is unknown, and it is likely that the child will be traumatized for his entire life.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called to investigate the shooting, however since that is just another state institution it is doubtful that the family will see any justice.

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John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.

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This All but Proves that Police are Here For Revenue Collection & Revenue Collection Alone

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Matt AgoristJuly 12, 2014
David Bridson ran into a bit of bad luck last June when his car was stolen.

Not only did the thieves get his car, they also made off with his laptop and iPad.


But Bridson didn’t fret, after all with just a quick call, he’d have LAPD on the case.


A few days later, according to his Facebook page, Bridson had a major breakthrough in the case. “Anyone near XXXX south central ave? You could pick up my stolen iPad for me,” he posted on his wall. He’d been able to locate his stolen iPad using the iCloud’s locator function.


“I called the [police] station at 3:45,” David wrote. The response: “All the auto detectives have gone home for the day. I’ll give them the message and see if they want to do anything.”


Still having faith in the system, Bridson waited….and waited….and waited.


14 hours and no response later, David had to call back himself, and got the response: “So, the auto detective unit for LA says, ‘Yeah, sometimes we follow up on that if we have the personnel, but four of my detectives are on vacation, so I only have two and one is brand new. Sorry can’t help you.’”


Just to make this clear, Bridson had the GPS location of his stolen iPad, that was obtained from his stolen car and all the LAPD had to do was send a unit to the house; like fishing in a bucket!


No action was taken by the LAPD.


Days later Bridson gets a letter in the mail from Chief Charles Beck himself.


The letter read, “Part of my job is to prevent automobile theft.” wrote Chief Beck. “That is why the LAPD is offering ‘The CLUB’ anti-theft steering wheel locking device to those who have been victimized. This device normally costs $30. However, the LAPD can offer it to you at our cost of $13 per device.”
You cannot make this absurdity up!


So instead of actually solving a cut and dry case in which the LAPD had the actual location of stolen goods, they ignored it.


Instead of solving a crime the LAPD would rather peddle 2 decades old technology for a profit!


Silly citizen, the LAPD is there to bust evil marijuana users, and vile travelers who’d dare to drive without a seat belt! They have no time actual crime!
That’s because stopping actual crime requires real work, and doesn’t pay nearly as much as road piracy and drug busts.


Kudos LAPD, for showing your true colors.

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YAHOO: “Online Rants, Anti-Government Radicals Fuel Fear Of U.S. Cop Killings

July 15, 2014





Jason Sickles takes note of the growing online discontent with the police in America, but unlike a real journalist, he never asks WHY people are angry. He just blames the victims and acts as if the police do no wrong. We know that nothing could be further from the truth. And while this article will make you angry, it does serve one purpose. It clearly illustrates (once again) that the mainstream media is a bought-out, corrupt propaganda arm for the state that is not to be trusted under any circumstance.
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By Jason Sickles
The celebrating began before the coroner could collect the bodies of Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, the Las Vegas patrol officers ambushed and executed while eating at a pizzeria last month.

“The good news is, there are two less police in the world,” read an entry on the Facebook page for CopBlock.org.

The post was visible for less than a day, but it attracted at least 6,300 likes and comments by the time the page’s administrators removed it.
Jerad Miller — who along with his wife, Amanda, gunned down the Vegas police officers before dying during a shootout with police — was one of Cop Block’s 780,000-plus Facebook fans.

The decentralized advocacy group says it disavows violence while spreading a belief that “badges don’t grant extra rights.”
But the Millers, described by investigators as anti-government extremists, had a deadly animosity for authority.
“Bout time to start killing cops, eh?” Miller, 31, wrote in May when he shared a viral video of police brutality on Facebook. “Maybe if we can kill all these despotic goons they will turn on their masters and once again be public servants and we can end this madness.”

After a historic decline in the number of police officers fatally shot last year, 2014 has rebounded to previous levels. Beck and Soldo are among 28 U.S. officers shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year. The most recent death came Sunday, when rookie Jersey City, N.J., Officer Melvin Santiago was ambushed by a gunman who reportedly told people he was “going to be famous” for killing a cop.

Such shameless bravado — online and off — and an exploding right-wing movement are creating anxiety about attacks against police.
“There’s a deep concern that there has been a measurable increase in violence against police officers, especially with firearms,” said Rich Roberts, spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations. The anti-police movement “seems to feed off each other online,” he said.

The FBI has increased warnings about possible threats to law enforcement, multiple police sources told Yahoo News. The bureau declined to confirm any change.

This follows a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report that included a warning about domestic extremists using the Internet to recruit members, share tactics and raise hate to an all-time high.

YAHOO: “Online Rants, Anti-Government Radicals Fuel Fear Of U.S. Cop Killings [continued]
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Online rants, anti-government radicals fuel fear of U.S. cop killings

Slayings of Las Vegas officers were praised in social media

By Jason Sickles, Yahoo 23 hours ago Yahoo News









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The celebrating began before the coroner could collect the bodies of Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, the Las Vegas patrol officers ambushed and executed while eating at a pizzeria last month.
“The good news is, there are two less police in the world,” read an entry on the Facebook page for CopBlock.org.
The post was visible for less than a day, but it attracted at least 6,300 likes and comments by the time the page’s administrators removed it.
Jerad Miller — who along with his wife, Amanda, gunned down the Vegas police officers before dying during a shootout with police — was one of Cop Block’s 780,000-plus Facebook fans.
The decentralized advocacy group says it disavows violence while spreading a belief that “badges don’t grant extra rights.”
But the Millers, described by investigators as anti-government extremists, had a deadly animosity for authority.
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Officer Alyn Beck was remembered as a loyal husband and dedicated father to his three children. (AP)

“Bout time to start killing cops, eh?” Miller, 31, wrote in May when he shared a viral video of police brutality on Facebook. “Maybe if we can kill all these despotic goons they will turn on their masters and once again be public servants and we can end this madness.”
After a historic decline in the number of police officers fatally shot last year, 2014 has rebounded to previous levels. Beck and Soldo are among 28 U.S. officers shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year. The most recent death came Sunday, when rookie Jersey City, N.J., Officer Melvin Santiago was ambushed by a gunman who reportedly told people he was “going to be famous” for killing a cop.
Such shameless bravado — online and off — and an exploding right-wing movement are creating anxiety about attacks against police.
“There's a deep concern that there has been a measurable increase in violence against police officers, especially with firearms,” said Rich Roberts, spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations. The anti-police movement “seems to feed off each other online,” he said.
The FBI has increased warnings about possible threats to law enforcement, multiple police sources told Yahoo News. The bureau declined to confirm any change.
This follows a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report that included a warning about domestic extremists using the Internet to recruit members, share tactics and raise hate to an all-time high.
Rich Stanek, who chairs the National Sheriffs’ Association Homeland Security Committee, said he proudly protects constitutional rights, but he worries social networking gives radicals such as Miller a false sense of recognition.
“They can post, blog and do so freely and anonymously without any accountability whatsoever,” said Stanek, sheriff of Hennepin County in Minnesota.
Escalating danger by anti-government extremists dominated a four-hour discussion on homeland security at last month’s National Sheriffs’ Association conference, said Stanek, who commands an 800-member department in Minneapolis.
“That’s the single greatest concern that faces our deputies today,” Stanek said.
Trent Nice, a former neighbor of Miller’s in Lafayette, Indiana, frequented his friend’s Facebook page.
“I shared a lot of his views, but would never do anything like that,” Nice told Yahoo News by email.
The week of the June 8 rampage, Nice gave an approving click to Miller’s Facebook manifesto predicting pending bloodshed and war.
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Officer Igor Soldo and his wife, Andrea, would have celebrated their son's first birthday on July 7. (AP)

“As far as me liking the post, if that’s what he intended when he posted it, then I severely misunderstood his post,” he wrote. “His heart was in the right place. His head wasn't.”
Meanwhile police near Lafayette, where the Millers lived before moving to Las Vegas, are reportedly keeping an eye on the 765 movement, a new anti-police group on Facebook.
Sam Bradbury, a group member, was jailed in late June for posting a detailed Facebook messagethreatening to kill multiple authorities and destroy a courthouse “in a blaze of glory.” Arresting officers also recovered six bags of bomb-making material from the 22-year-old’s home.
Bradbury is being held on federal charges of using electronic communications to threaten injury to a person and destroy property with an incendiary device. According to an FBI affidavit, Bradbury ended his Facebook rant by writing “FREE SPEECH EXERCISE FOOLS” in parentheses. But a judge ruled he did not have to accept Bradbury’s First Amendment disclaimer and ordered him held without bail until an arraignment later this month.
The Bradbury arrest is similar to a spate of recent prosecutions “for alleged threats conveyed on new media, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter,”according to a brief filed in a pending Supreme Court case. Free speech advocates want the court to clarify what constitutes a true threat in today’s digital world.
Mark Potok, an expert on extremism, said he believes it is rare for social media to inspire someone to kill.
“However, the kinds of people who are prone to those kinds of hatreds find validation and real community on the Internet,” said Potok, a senior researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Last week the SPLC issued a report warning law enforcement about the increasingly hostile anti-government movement, which it estimates has grown from 150 groups in 2008 to nearly 1,100 last year.
The economic crisis, proposed gun control, Barack Obama’s election, NSA spying and the militarization of police among other issues have spurred the resurgence, the watchdog organization said.
“There’s a hell of a lot of anger out there in certain corridors,” Potok told Yahoo News. “Jerad Miller was not the only one who saw police in the United States as Nazis.”
Miller found an approving audience for his conspiracy theories and political tirades online. Some Facebook posts were original, but he shared others from pages he frequented such as Patriot Nation, Taxation is Theft and Cop Block.
Cop Block co-founder Pete Eyre told Yahoo News the Facebook entry celebrating the Millers’ rampage wasn’t appropriate.
“There was blanket rejoicing over the deaths of two people and I don’t think that’s good in any situation,” Eyre said. “It didn’t fit Cop Block ideology. The site’s not an anti-police thing; it’s like a pro-personal empowerment site.”
Launched in 2010, Cop Block encourages the public to submit home videos, photos and stories of rogue officers for discussion.
Eyre said the Vegas entry was put up by a former volunteer who still had administrative access. The post and its removal provoked days of intense debate on the Cop Block Facebook page, which included the following comments:

“You don't promote accountability; you promote anti-police, anti-government behavior by publicizing criminals and making them out to be heroes.”

“A cop died, opinions were stated... don't think a cop wouldn't be bragging about shooting you over some drinks with his cops buddies while he enjoys his 2 weeks paid vacation...”

By its own account, the 2011 blog post “WHEN SHOULD YOU SHOOT A COP” is one of Cop Block’s most read. A week before the Vegas slayings, a photo on Cop Block’s Facebook page portrayed a dead officer with the words: “This is what a good cop looks like.”
“Really? That’s the message we want to send?” asked Melissa, the wife of a Kansas police officer. “It makes my stomach turn.”
Melissa, who requested that her full name not be used for safety reasons, said she and other police spouses are frustrated by Facebook’s lack of action in response to their Cop Block complaints.

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A post from Jerad Miller's Facebook page four weeks before his deadly rampage. (Screenshot)

A Facebook spokesperson told Yahoo News in a statement: “People come to Facebook to share experiences of the world around them and on occasion this may result in the sharing of content that some may find upsetting. We encourage anyone who sees content that violates our community standards to report it to us.”
Photos promoting officer deaths posted as comments to Cop Block’s page on May 25 and June 1 were removed by Facebook after being contacted for this story.
“I understand the need for people to express their opinion, but I think there is a line that has to be watched,” Melissa said. “When does an opinion become a plan of action?”
Nice hadn’t seen Miller in a few years, but his Facebook connection earned him a visit from FBI agents after the Las Vegas murders.
“I told them if they wanted to investigate someone, go investigate Barack Obama,” he recalled. “They kinda just had a smirk on their faces when I said that, and said well we're investigating this right now. I don't know if (they) were trying to get background on him or find out if there are more crazies like him.”

Follow Jason Sickles on Twitter (@jasonsickles).



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Being from Las Vegas this hit home very quickly.... This was a very sad incident. There seemed to be no ryme or reason for these killings only a crime of opportunity that I know of, or reported at least. No where did I read that these two knew the police officers personally or other wise..Aside from that there is plenty of abuse that does go on here. There have been many incidents that have happend over the past 15 -20 years here and it seems to be getting more often of late...And not only in Las Vegas but all over the country..When word came out that Obama asked if our police officers and the military could fire on thier own citizens it seemed to wake everyone up...It does seem as though they can to me and that is a terrifying thing at least to me...I think our officers have a very hard job they are caught in between law abiding citizens, criminals sometimes themselves and I wish I had an answer. All I can say is things do have to change, there is too much abuse going on and less and less respect for both sides of the equation...Things need to change because if this all continues we could be in very big trouble. I really believe the citizens have very little trust left in the majority of our police officers... My opinion of course.

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Cop Caught Stealing Dying Man’s $3,700 and Golden Crucifix on Dash Cam
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The Free Thought ProjectJohn VibesJuly 17, 2014 A Connecticut state trooper is due in court this fall for sentencing, after he was found guilty of stealing from a motorcyclist who was dying on the side of the road. Dash


Cop Caught Stealing Dying Man’s $3,700 and Golden Crucifix on Dash Cam

The Free Thought ProjectJohn VibesJuly 17, 2014
A Connecticut state trooper is due in court this fall for sentencing, after he was found guilty of stealing from a motorcyclist who was dying on the side of the road. Dash cam footage from the officer’s patrol car showed him stealing cash from the dying man, as well as a golden crucifix.
On Wednesday afternoon, Aaron “AJ” Huntsman, a 19-year veteran of the state police, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of third-degree larceny and tampering with evidence.
Although your average person would face up to ten years under these same charges, officer Huntsman is looking at a maximum of a year and a half, plus five years probation. He even has the ability to plead for a lesser sentence, just because he is a cop.
The victim of the theft was 49 year old John Scalesse, a former executive of a company called JAS Masonry. Scalesse was killed on Sept. 22, 2012 after his motorcycle crashed into a construction company truck on the highway.
In his dying moments, Scalesse was approached by officer Huntsman, who was the first cop to arrive on the scene. Huntsman walked over to where Scalesse was laying, bent down and picked up Scalesse’s gold chain and a roll of bills containing $3,700.

When asked about the money by Scalesse’s grieving father, Huntsman had said that that he didn’t see any money at the scene. The lie ultimately became exposed when the cash was found under the front seat of Huntsman’s patrol car.
According to State Police, Huntsman continued to claim that he was innocent, even after he was shown a video of him taking the money.

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John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.

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