To Joliet jail for NATO offenders?

04-30-2012 • http://www.suntimes.com, BY FRAN SPIELMAN

Mothballed for a decade, the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to serve as a detention facility for those arrested for serious offenses during the May 20-21 NATO summit.

Banks Working with Police to ‘Identify, Map and Track’ Occupy Protesters

04-30-2012 • http://www.commondreams.org

The nation’s largest financial institutions are preparing for the upcoming Occupy Wall Street’s May 1st demonstrations by working together and with police, according to Bloomberg News.

V.A. Threatens Veteran’s Benefits For Handing Out Bible Tracts & Dvd’s

04-29-2012 • http://govtslaves.info, Brian D. Hill

A normal 63 year old veteran, who could never have expected a confrontation with the VA Police, was threatened to lose his VA benefits and would have been possibly charged with a felony.

Newark Targets Newsstand After Owner Talks to Newspaper

04-27-2012 • Reason magazine

Last week, the Star Ledger’s Barry Carter wrote about the plight faced by a local newsstand owner in Newark, NJ who was having trouble getting the city to renew the license on his nearly 40-year-old business:

ACLU sues over Border Patrol stops in Pacific Northwest

04-27-2012 • Reuters

The Border Patrol is unjustifiably stopping people based on their skin color in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, just across the water from Canada, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday. Two Latinos and a blac

Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote

04-27-2012 • www.techdirt.com

Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.

State Threatens to Shut Down Nutrition Blogger

04-27-2012 • Carolina Journal Online

The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle. Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statute

FOIA Docs: US Cities Plan Spy Drone Fleets

04-23-2012 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

Lawsuit Provides Glimpse Into America's Drone-Filled Future

Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State

04-19-2012 • www.counterpunch.org

Just Say "Hi-Ho!" as They Strip Search You

All transactions to be conducted in the presence of a tax collector

04-17-2012 • www.sovereignman.com

The tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as to chase around widows and children to collect taxes owed.

Police Mysteriously Lose Video Of Megaupload Raid

04-10-2012 • http://govtslaves.info, Stephen C. Webster

Video footage of a police raid on the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is missing, and authorities claim they’re not quire sure what happened to it.

Documents show Britain initiated extraordinary rendition of Libyan woman

04-09-2012 • The Guardian

Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher.

Philadelphia student arrested for photographing police

03-31-2012 • http://rt.com,

A student in Philadelphia has been arrested for taking photos of a traffic stop outside his house.

New York police officers defy order to cut marijuana arrests

03-30-2012 • rawstory.com, By Alice Brennan, Ryan Devereaux

Survey shows nearly half of people charged with marijuana posession were not displaying the drug when they were stopped.

NEW YORK STATE: Are Police Building a Massive DNA Database?

03-26-2012 • http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Scott Lemieux

On March 19, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill expanding the ability of the police to collect DNA samples from citizens of the state.

Americans: The New Jews

03-24-2012 • The Dollar Vigilante

Throughout my youth I remember wondering how what happened in Nazi Germany could have occurred and how so many otherwise good people could be fooled into going along with such an obviously evil system. I always wished I could go back in time to unde

Sarkozy Proposes To Arrest People Who Visit “Terrorist” Websites

03-23-2012 • www.jonathanturley.org

We have previously discusses alarming moves in France to limit or deny speech through blasphemy prosecutions to hate speech to barring “antihistorical” speech.

This Could Happen To You

03-19-2012 • http://jonathanturley.org, by JONATHAN TURLEY

This video of Collinsville, Illinois K9 officer Michael Reichert violating the civil rights of two guys returning from a Star Trek convention.

Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Use of the Patriot Act

03-18-2012 • New York Times

For 2 years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the Patriot Act in a way that would be alarming if the public — or even others in Congress

President Obama signs Executive Order allowing for control over all US resources

03-18-2012 • The Examiner

On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war

New Executive Order Seizes Total Control over Civilian Activities

03-17-2012 • Farm Wars

This is an all-inclusive E.O. that executes total control over everything from home gardens to any form of transportation, to forcing people to work for the collective. Read it and weep.

Breaking the Bonds: Questions for Freedom

03-15-2012 • http://zerogov.com, by Bill Buppert

So I have come up with a list of dream research initiatives I would love to see answered. This is just the start and I would love to entertain others that I may have overlooked.

Town's police department shut down

03-15-2012 • http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Tom Gardner

Town's police department shut down after officer is accused of 'Tasering boy, 9, who refused to go to school'

Nashville Police Steal a Bike

03/10/2012 • www.lpmndc.org

On Saturday March 10, at 8:20 pm two Metro Nashville police officers and a Nashville MTA supervisor stole a bicycle chained to a post at Nashville’s Music City Central bus terminal.

Troops Used For Crowd Control At Texas Kite Festival

03-06-2012 • www.prisonplanet.com

Uniformed troops from the Texas State Guard were used for the purposes of crowd control during the Zilker Kite Festival in Austin this past weekend, with video showing the troops ordering parents and children to board school buses at the end of the e