Tag: police state

Do we really need Israeli-militarized American cops driving star-of-David-decorated tanks down our streets, setting up ethnic-ID checkpoints and dropping white phosphorus and cluster bombs on our neighborhoods?

Is the Obama regime preparing for mass arrests of Americans? Some indicators suggest this is a real possibility. Follow VT author Sherwood Ross as he explores the near future of oppression.

Is the U.S. "homeland" just another military occupation zone?

One characteristic of a totalitarian state is that it is as determined to subjugate its own citizens as it is to conquer foreigners.

Will Americans build giant middle finger statues to protest the post-9/11 police state?

When the government announced it was shutting down, dogs, drone victims, Syrians, and pot-smokers all breathed a sigh of relief.

- Veterans did not fight and die for a police state...military and Intel professionals are growing more concerned as officer Obie goes commando.

- Veterans did not fight and die for a police state...military and Intel professionals are growing more concerned as officer Obie goes commando.

We have fallen into the police state trap, the killer of civilization, down the slippery slope we go into a surveillance state, a climate of fear is developing, no one knows who's on which side, every one is suspicious of one another.

Over the last 12 years, the USA and UK have been putting the pedal to the medal to see how fast each can race to the bottom of the freedom and liberty trough.

The article below drew a hostile response from the CATO Institute and a myriad of suspicious "robo-sites" suspected of ties to terrorist organizations.

Maybe spooks are just like ordinary people, only more so.

When Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, apologizing for the sections that ended our consitution, civil trials, all human rights in America, I suspected something was going on I didn't see. How could Obama do this? How could he break so many promises?

You know you live in a police state when the president allows the military to continuously harass a prisoner against whom no crime has been proven by interrupting him every five minutes of the day to ask him, “Are you okay?” and forces him to stand to attention naked at roll call.

“I believe,” warned James Madison in a speech to the Virginia Convention on June 16, 1788, “there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week.

The more the Occupy Wall Street movement grows, the more apparent becomes the police state that has emerged from the Patriot Act.

We are not going away quietly, no longer buying the lies, no longer divided by "left" and "right." We are taking our lives back, not just in America or Israel or across the Arab world but Europe as well.

Homeland Security harassed 9/11 hero on tenth anniversary showing our movement towards fascism over the last 10 years.

As America's empire spreads abroad, it becomes ever more the police state at home. The methods used for the suppression of foreigners by military force and violence are eventually mirrored in the “homeland.”

Political donation laundering-rechanneling (PDLR) is a business in its own right, whether it is for pre-election donations or post-election maintenance contributions. In most cases, PDLR requires savvy strategists and planners, quick-witted implementers, friends and enablers in high-places, and a high degree of creativity, almost to the point of being artistic.

Pacified & Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing By Sibel Edmonds STAFF WRITER It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was...

Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin.

An Appeal to the International Community   By Sibel Edmonds for VT and BoilingFrogsPost In this urgent message delivered by ultra snail method of delivery due to...

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 … And Corrupt System of No-Checks & Many-Imbalances I go on line and check out the major newspaper headlines, and to my delight there is...

Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s New Healthcare Plan to Bridge TSA, Department of Health & Human Services, & the Tourism Industry Taking Medical...

The movement against TSA’s systematic degradation of our nation seems to be gaining a bit of momentum; long overdue. A few lawmakers are making some noise. Let’s hope it is not for show only. Pilots and related organizations have been making a little headway. And we have more than a few citizens coming up with and organizing actionable plans and ideas. I hope none of this ends up settling for ‘little bones.’ By that I mean quasi cosmetic changes like: giving our CNN’s Fitzpatrick what she is asking for - a heads up and notice signs for coming violations at check points, or installing separate screening detectors for the pilots and flight attendants, or having the screener police touch and violate you using three fingers instead of their entire palm. We seem to have momentum.