Posts Tagged ‘police state’

Police State Tactics in New York

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Teams of police officers equipped with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs have become a part of the landscape of post-Sept. 11 New York, patrolling around Wall Street and such landmarks as the Empire State building.

Similar squads are set to begin daily patrols of the busiest sections of the city subways this month, in what officials describe as a first for a U.S. mass transit system.

So begins this article from the Associated Press.

The creeping tyranny which is swallowing this country is starting to bare its teeth. Ask yourself the simple question, “Why do police officers need automatic weapons?”

Submachine guns and machine guns are weapons designed to throw a lot of bullets in the general direction of the target in question, in hope that a bullet or two will hit the desired target, or that the spray of such a weapon will cause an advancing enemy to take shelter and cease their advance. Automatic fire is not fully controlled and highly inaccurate, which is exactly why such weapons are utterly useless in the role of civilian law enforcement!

There is only one reason for law enforcement to carry fully automatic weapons: intimidation.

Welcome to the new Amerika, where it seems everyday we’re closer to picking up where the Soviet Union left off.

Folks, this is going to continue until the People of this nation stand up and declare that we’re not going to be treated like criminals anymore. We’re showing all the signs of the nation’s various police forces stinking with the attitude of “us vs. them”, where the common populace is the enemy. As these Gestapo tactics continue and the tyrannical beast snaps at more and more ordinary citizens, more ordinary citizens are going to be hurt or killed without the slightest residual taint of reasonable cause.

If we continue on this march toward despotic rule, we the People will be eventually forced into making the decision of whether to submit to the Jack boot stomping on our face, or fight back.

Police State America

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I could add my two cents to this issue, but such would be redundant. Stephen Lendman has done the work for me. Rather than bore you with a re-hash of the information, just read his original article. It is very sobering and very frightening.

Reading, Writing and Waterboarding

Friday, December 28th, 2007

How do you know when you’ve gone too far? How to you recognize when your push for “security” is a thinly veiled excuse for tyranny? When you go for the children.

The stake through the heart of the USA has continued its plunge with a hefty hammer blow from Maryland’s Joppatowne High School, the first Maryland school to offer coursework to support the “anti-terrorism industry.” As the lead line in the USA Today article reads, “Call it vocational education for the 9/11 generation.”

That’s right, this Maryland school has not only enacted a three year course for training kids in the vocation of “Homeland Security”, but other Maryland schools and schools districts across the USA are actually attracted to it and looking to emulate it. The result, a new generation of kids who will be programmed to be paranoid snitches, even if they don’t go to work for the Homeland Security Department.

We’ve seen this kind of tactic before. They were called “Hitler-Jungen”, where children were drawn in under the concept of “securing the fatherland” in order to train and recruit for the Sturmabteilung of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Or in English, the Hitler Youth of the Storm Regiment of the Nazi Party. How long will it be before Homeland Security courses follow suit and become mandatory curriculum for students?

I have to ask, why is it necessary to offer high school courses for Homeland Security? What gain is there, other than to indoctrinate students into a mindset that they wouldn’t necessarily have otherwise? The vast majority of high schools have no curriculum for basic law enforcement techniques used by police, so why is it at all needed to teach “anti-terrorism” courses? Last, but certainly not least, what does it say about us that “anti-terrorism” has become a major growth industry?

People, wake up! This is how horrible things start. No good can come of this. As a nation we are paralleling late 1930′s Germany in so many frightening ways that it’s enough to make your head spin.

For once, can we learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes? Please?

Shocking Video

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

There have been many outraged articles over the recent YouTube airing of Jared Massey being Tasered by Utah Highway Patrol officer John Gardner, back on September 14th. That outrage seems to be two sided as well. Those who believe in the ultimate authority of the state are claiming that Gardner did what he was supposed to do and that Massey was being confrontational. Those who believe that the police are servants of the people and not their masters (such as yours truly) know that what Officer Gardner did was unquestionably wrong, even though Massey was mildly agitated.

Over a conversation with a couple of friends of mine over this, the topic turned to the fact that Gardner was using lethal force without provocation. At first, that argument seemed a stretch to me – Tasers are considered to be non-lethal devices, but it was quickly pointed out that not everyone dies from gunshot wounds, or stabbings, which are also considered lethal force. To call a device which last year killed over 150 people in the USA alone, a lethal device, is no great stretch after all.Which leads me to several disturbing questions concerning this incident. First and foremost is why the Taser was ever pulled.Utah law allows the use of a Taser for the following reasons:

  • When a person is a threat to themselves, an officer or another person.
  • In cases where the physical use of force would endanger the person or someone else.
  • When other means of lesser or equal force by the officer has been ineffective and a threat still exists.

Absolutely none of these protocols existed at the time of the incident. When Gardner talks about the incident with a fellow officer after the event is done, he states several times that the Tasered Massey because the man failed to comply with his instructions and demands. He actually threatens Massey several times with another dose of the Taser for not following instructions. When Massey’s wife asks the officer why he pulled the Taser (8:00 minutes in,) Gardner claims he did it because, “it looks like he was leaving to me”. He also did not inform Massey that he was under arrest until after he had already Tasered the man.

Sorry, Officer Gardner but that isn’t a good enough reason to use lethal force. Ever. That is the sign of tyranny in action.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that he was wearing a brown shirt.

Among the other notable moments from the video, is how Gardner lies through his teeth to the other officer on how the event happened, claiming to have given warning that he was going to deploy the Taser (9:45) “turn around right now or I Taser you” and other recollections of the event that the video clearly shows did not happen. The three part unedited video shows even more of these lies than this clip does. (All available on YouTube as well.) This alone should be enough to remove Gardner from the Utah Highway Patrol.

Update: Jared Massey has now settled out of court for a $40,000 settlement.