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The police do not like to be photographed. They take away the offender’s camera. They say it’s illegal to make a record of what they are doing. Then they get sued. The city or county usually loses the case. The city or county pays money to the “criminal.” This is good. Bureaucracies change only when [...]
Continue reading →A woman saw an airport display of helicopters. She slowed her car, drove closer, and took pictures from her car window. She was on public property at all times. She planned to post it on her “Support Our Troops” website. She was approached by a policemen, who demanded to know what she was doing. He [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. Army has issued a manual to its military police. It is aimed at operations in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and other areas where Muslims resist occupation by U.S. forces. The interesting fact is that these techniques are universal. They can be applied anywhere. Examples: 8-1. Issues of apprehension, incarceration, recidivism, and programs to [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. Army is making headway in identifying pre-crime behavior. Anyway, that’s what The Army Times thinks. This was triggered by Wikileak’s release of documents collected by Bradley Manning. The Army wants to know what soldiers are doing on their computers. So, it is looking at their keystrokes, web searches, and downloads. The Army wants [...]
Continue reading →The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested an 80-year-old man who had the audacity to stand in front of a federal building and hand out a pamphlet on jury nullification. Jury nullification is better described as “hang the jury, not the criminal” when the law is wrong. The jury system under British and American common law, [...]
Continue reading →The FBI insists that it needs trapdoors to get into all social media sites. The goal, we are told, is to track terrorists. The current law allows this for all telecommunications carriers. But it does not apply to the Internet. The FBI want to close this loophole. The problem, the FBI says, is that it [...]
Continue reading →The technology of government surveillance keeps getting more powerful. This will not change. At the British Rugby World Cup, cameras were able to zoom in and read text messages on spectators’ smartphones. Of course, it works both ways. Smartphones will have similar capabilities within a few years. Details of police monitoring used for the first [...]
Continue reading →The town council of a small Kentucky town of 1850 residents passed a law requiring everyone who lives in town to buy a $10 car sticker. Local teachers decided to ignore the law. The town then set up roadblocks. The police checked each car for a sticker. Meanwhile, a wave of burglaries swept the town, [...]
Continue reading →This recruiting video was produced by the U.S. government. It invites local police to become informants. This is part of a national program: SAR (Suspicious Activity Reporting). We are told that terrorists are involved in pre-cursor activities — suspicious activities. It is possible for local police officers to become trained in observing and reporting these [...]
Continue reading →Salon, which is on the left, has published a detailed attack on Obama’ civil rights policies. It correctly points out that his administration is enforcing and extending the worst aspects of Bush’s administration. It befins with a look back at 2008. He was elected as the civil right’s movement’s “great hope.” Obama, a former constitutional [...]
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