The Land Of The Free.....

[Minimalist]

...and other anachronisms in America.

I thought I'd start this thread to annoy the fuck out of our resident republibertarianeo-conazis...just for the hell of it.


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16280...0%93-again

New York activist Gerald Koch has been subpoenaed for the second time to testify before a US grand Jury - a form of legal double jeopardy that has been used by the US government to coerce, intimidate and punish activists.

[Minimalist]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2013051...L3181.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

Warrants? We don' need no stinking warrants!

[Darth]

I thought I'd start this thread to annoy the fuck out of our resident republibertarianeo-conazis...just for the hell of it.

I don't get it.

[Minimalist]

You know....the people who think like this....




Give it time and what has become of the US will become clear.

[Minimalist]

http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?...ADaZhcYRo4

Entitled "Operation Ghetto Storm," MXGM's report is detailed and extensive in its findings and includes abundant annotations for the 313 wrongful deaths that they cite. "The practice of executing Black people without pretense of a trial, jury or judge is an integral part of the government's current overall strategy of containing the Black community in a state of perpetual colonial subjugation and exploitation," reads part of its preface, and one of the most horrifying aspects revealed by the report is that 66 percent of the "extrajudicial killings" were of individuals between the ages of 2 and 31.

[festive1]

Great book on this ^^^ topic: The New Jim Crow, By: Michelle Alexander
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1595586431...-1&pi=SL75

[Minimalist]

Or this video.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/michiga...-shooting/

Watch closely as a line of cops - firing squads stand in a line, btw...note that no one tries to get around behind him so they could take him down without gunfire.

As he moves away from the cops they open fire. Even if he had a knife how does someone moving away become so threatening that he has to be gunned down by these assassins?

And of course the dickhead District Attorney found no cause for state charges because "the officers' lives were in "danger."

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index....micid.html

[ideologue08]

Thanks for the links Min. I actually am very very happy that I don't live in the US because reading Glenn Greenwald's articles is very depressing http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...ty-liberty The land of the free is isn't exactly a good description of America. Obama and Holder are savagely destroying whatever civil liberties there's left. I honestly can't believe what they can get away with.

[Minimalist]

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin,

We didn't fucking listen...but then, we never do.

And Obama is just continuing the trend that Bush/Cheney started with their horseshit Patriot Act.

[Minimalist]

When it comes back to bite you in the ass.....


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16446...-terrorism

The ACLU was able to obtain documents of intelligence reports filed in 2011. They reveal that on September 30, the DHS-funded Boston Regional Intelligence Center, or BRIC, was collecting information about an upcoming Occupy Boston rally in Dewey Square, just two days after Russia sent them the second warning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis recently told Congress he “would have liked to know” that there was a potential extremist with violent intentions living in his city, and accused BRIC of failing to properly inform local law enforcement about a possible terrorist threat.

The DHS, which spent billions of dollars on fusion centers like BRIC, has been accused of gathering “crap intelligence” and using federal anti-terrorism programs and resources to spy on nonviolent protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, rather than stopping terrorists. When they should have been investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s extremist ties, the intelligence arm of the Boston Police Department was busy collecting information on peaceful antiwar activists from Code PINK and Veterans for Peace. That information was assembled in dossiers categorized under “Criminal Act,” “Extremists,” “Civil Disturbance,” and the more disturbing “HomeSec- Domestic.”

In fact, monitoring the Occupy movement became DHS’ key focus in October of 2011, when the movement’s power and influence was at its peak. Among the topics included in the DHS’ daily intelligence briefing was “peaceful activist demonstrations.” That section was included in the same briefings as “significant criminal activity” and potential domestic terrorist acts.