President Obama’s election campaign promise to create a domestic “security force,” that is “just as powerful, just as strong” as the US military is now coming to fruition as the TSA expands to turn American into a checkpoint-festooned hole where constant fearmongering about terror threats is the justification for the construction of a Sovietized police state.
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-security...es-5000-miles/
I wasn't aware the construction of a sovietized law enforcement bureaucracy required any justification after the enabling legislation passed.
That said, the general tolerance of state sanctioned groping ain't no good sign. Nor is the growth of the TSA.
Lots of news about the security apparatus expanding and penetrating without limits.
FBI Bestowing More Snooping Power to Agents, Testing Privacy Boundaries
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue a new edition of its manual, called the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, according to an official who has worked on the draft do ent and several others who have been briefed on its contents. The new rules add to several measures taken over the past decade to give agents more la ude as they search for signs of criminal or terrorist activity.
http://www.alternet.org/module/print...ndviews/613295
Activists: FBI raids an ‘attempt to intimidate anti-war movement
Two anti-war activists said Saturday that a 12-hour search of their Chicago home by the FBI was an attempt to intimidate them and silence the peace movement.
Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, said the government targeted them because they've been outspoken against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. funding of conflicts abroad.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/2...iwar-movement/
And from the criminals who outed Plame and took down Spitzer at Wall St orders:
Bush admin. asked CIA to discredit a liberal blogger: report
President George W. Bush's White House ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to find information to "discredit" a liberal University of Michigan professor who was critical of the Iraq war, according to a recent report.
Former CIA officer Glenn Carle told The New York Times' James Risen that while he was working as a counterterrorism expert for the agency in 2005, the Bush White House asked intelligence officials to uncover sensitive information about Professor Juan Cole on at least two occasions.
Carle said that his supervisor at the National Intelligence Council, David Low, returned from the White House one afternoon in 2005 with instructions to gather information on Cole.
"What do you think we might know about him, or could find out that could discredit him?" Carle recalled Low asking.
Low was undeterred after being warned by Carle that such actions would be illegal.
"But what might we know about him?" Low allegedly asked. "Does he drink? What are his views? Is he married?"
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The next morning, Carle said he intercepted a memo from Low to the White House with "inappropriate, derogatory remarks" about Cole's lifestyle.
"I couldn’t believe this was happening," Carle told Risen. "People were accepting it, like you had to be part of the team."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/1...e+Raw+Story%29
lol infowars
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Has nothing to do with the TSA. Or any branch of law enforcement. The tin-hats are missing the bigger picture, as always.
Wd you mind filling us in? infowars is 100% crap.
It was Obama's rallying cry to galvanize community service groups, it had nothing to do with a police state. He wanted, perhaps still wants, a civilian led community coalition designed to get everyone volunteering in some fashion or another - that's as powerful and as strong as the military but led by young people. However, when white people think of minorities organizing for the benefit of the inner city, they start to freak out over stuff like this...
That was years ago, and City Year never seemed to take off in the consciousness of America. But yea, InfoWars took Obama's words and ran with them, and the Tea Party Express rode that too, so I'm not surprised rumors of a conscripted police state still persist. It was a nice thought tho, if we could organize our communities and impliment standards of excellence and accountability on par with the military, but for things like education/low-income outreach/habitat for humanity type stuff.
Fighting for Our Privacy Rights, Against the FBI's New Powers
Recent reports say the FBI is drafting new rules giving its agents the authority to search databases for personal information, use surveillance teams to monitor law-abiding citizens, and even to sift through their trash.
Under the new rules, agents wouldn't have to show any "factual basis" of evidence to undertake that surveillance, and they wouldn't be required to keep records of their searches.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-jo..._b_878762.html
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DEAD OBL, having spent a few $100K (probably from oil US purchased from MiddleEast) is still beating America like a drum, laughing his ass off at the intrusive, police state he has provoked, as well as two wars America is still fighting and can't win.
Stopped reading right there, as I got all the information I needed to evaluate whether I should spend time reading the article.
Thanks for being up front about that and saving me the effort.
infowars?
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