Police State

On February 19, the Portland, Oregon, city council will vote on whether to jump feet first into membership in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, or to drop the mic and leave the stage altogether.

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Appearing in a documentary about how the FBI entraps and provocateurs terror suspects, former FBI assistant director Thomas Fuentes admits that the federal agency needs to “keep fear alive” in order to justify budget increases.

The post FBI Official: We Need to “Keep Fear Alive” to Justify Terror Budget appeared first on We Are Change.

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Surveillance footage from Vanguard Middle School in Baltimore shows a school police officer beating a 13-year-old girl with a baton during a scuffle involving two other students in October. All three girls were hospitalized with injuries they sustained from the officer, local NBC outlet WBAL reports.

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The ability to travel in the United States is about to become more restrictive as the TSA announces it will soon be enforcing new identification standards in American airports.

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DC Clothes Line

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Even though his actions didn’t harm or kill any people, Jeffrey Sterling, former CIA case officer, faces a maximum sentence of 100 years in prison and a fine of up to $2.25 million. His sentencing is scheduled for April 24.

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Natural News

WhoWhatWhy’s Boston Marathon Bombing team reports on the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, from the courthouse and beyond:

The post A Don Quixote Defense: Latest from the Boston Marathon Bombing Trial appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

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Rutherford Institute

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By John Vibes
The Free Thought Project

According to multiple recent media reports, Eau Claire County police officers were sent out onto the street to select people at random and forcibly take them in for jury duty.

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New Civil Rights Movement

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By Tana Ganeva
AlterNet

Last year, Tennessee became the first state to define drug use during pregnancy as a crime. Women whose newborns test positive for narcotic drugs can be charged with assault and punished with up to 15 years of prison.

Barrett Brown.

A feisty, confrontational journalist who exposed explosive details about the machinations of the national security apparatus and faced more than a century in prison has been sentenced to five years and three months.

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Vice

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By Tom McTague
Daily Mail

British spooks intercepted emails from US and UK media organisations and rated ‘investigative journalists’ alongside terrorists and hackers as potential security threats, secret documents reveal.

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Electronic Intifada

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Jamie Smith takes a stand as Washington bureaucrats attempt to force unwanted drugs on her children. (Photo courtesy KOMO News)

Police State USA

A state bureaucracy is threatening a mother with removal of an infant unless her entire family subjects themselves to flu shots.

“One Vote Less”

The life of Martin Luther King, Jr. was short.  He was born in 1929 into a racist, hate-filled society with entrenched bigotry enforced by uncivilized laws.  But, like Mohandas Gandhi, who took back his country from the British, MLK forced change on the United States through his inspired use of nonviolent resistance.

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Silver Doctors

As an honor student, she wanted to do something impressive, so she looked around for something more advanced.

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Alternative Media Syndicate

A homeless man was just arrested and spent the night in jail after police claim he was charging his cellphone in a public picnic shelter. That, apparently, is a serious, arrestable crime in Sarasota, Florida.

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Filming Cops

Citizens in Stockton, California have taken a new approach to activism.

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Express

The elite Special Forces have joined counter-terror police and 1,900 Army personnel in the biggest security operation since the 2012 London Olympics.

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Police are investigating the arrest of a juvenile female that resulted in an entire family being detained at a department substation located at Wal-Mart, charged with resisting arrest and interfering with an investigation.

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By Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge

Shutting down sledding hills is inspired by the same sort of simpering caution that keeps Americans shoeless in airport security lines and, closer to home, keeps parents from letting their kids walk a few blocks to school alone, despite the fact that America today is as safe as the longed-for “Leave It to Beaver” golden age.

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David M. Cady Jr.’s home was destroyed in a police standoff (YouTube)

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Raw Story

Painting by James LeGros

Were accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev imprisoned in another country and barred from speaking to the outside world, he’d doubtlessly be described as “being held incommunicado.”

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By Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project

Former Army Rangers and other citizens have donned their military attire and assault-rifles in response to police brutality.

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National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Reuters / NSA / Handout via Reuters)

Photo collage of the Boston Marathon Bombing. By DonkeyHotey.

We do not know what will come out of the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but one thing we are pretty sure of: we will not get the real, complete story of what actually happened.

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The Free Thought Project

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The Huffington Post

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The Free Thought Project

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Vice News

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The Free Thought Project

A Tale of Two Funerals

This essay is an opinion from Victor Wallis, who teaches history and politics at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. While WhoWhatWhy takes no sides in this debate, we believe the essay is worth your consideration.

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The media’s role in whipping up a contrived narrative based around racism and cop-hating in the aftermath of the Michael Brown verdict was a key contributing factor to the murder of two NYPD officers.

The post The Truth About the NYPD Murders appeared first on We Are Change.

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Remington Alessi was arrested on Saturday December 13 in Houston, Texas. He was arrested while engaging in a nonviolent protest against police brutality. He gives us his account of what he learned in the back of a squad car.

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By Cheryl Chumley
WND

Officials at a Virginia school turned an allegedly misbehaving 4-year-old preschooler over to law enforcement, where he was put in handcuffs and shackles and ordered to talk to jail inmates, according to a legal group intervening in the case.

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By Mia De Graaf and Darren Boyle
Daily Mail

NYPD supporters flooded the streets wearing black hoodies branded with the words ‘I CAN breathe’ in a sickening pun on Eric Garner’s last words.

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Newsmax

The New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the NYPD’s union, has issued this statement following the deaths of two police officers in an ambush:

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Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich is speaking out about a video posted to the Infowars website that has one of his deputies saying the department’s new military surplus MRAP is needed for dealing with Constitutionalists” among others who stockpile weapons and ammunition.

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By Paul Watson
Prison Planet

Police departments across the United States are now using a program that mines Internet comments and social media posts to determine the “threat score” of a suspect before cops arrive on the scene.

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By Rob Evans
The Guardian

Police asked a university to hand over a list of members of the public who were due to attend a public debate on its campus.

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Liberty Fight

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Guillermo Jimenez Presents Aaron Cantú

On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent Guillermo is joined by independent writer, analyst, and researcher Aaron Cantu. Aaron details the case of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father of six who NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo choked to death last July. The incident was caught on camera, and yet a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo and bring the case to trial.

The Boston Marathon bombing is much more important than has been acknowledged, principally because it is the defining domestic national security event since 9/11—and has played a major role in expanding the power of the security state. For that reason, WhoWhatWhy is continuing to investigate troubling aspects of this story and the establishment media treatment of it.

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Shahid Buttar

On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Shahid Buttar, a writer, poet, musician, and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.

Ferguson, Missouri, or Kiev, Ukraine?

The images out of Ferguson, Missouri, looked more like what one sees in Middle Eastern hot spots than in a Midwestern town: peaceful protesters from an alienated minority brutally dispered by law enforcers armed with military-grade weapons.

When the Thin Blue Line Turns Army Green. Credit: Tyson Manker

The Missouri National Guard’s deployment to quell rioting over the police killing of an unarmed black teen may mark the first time in U.S. history that putting soldiers on American streets isn’t an escalation of firepower.

The US Should Have Told Americans They Were Being Surveilled Right from The Start

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Kevin Gosztola