Category: Excessive Use Of Force


On the eve of a major address by President Barack Obama it is revealed that four Americans were killed overseas via drone strikes

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May 22, 2013
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Photo: AP Attorney General Eric Holder gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday, May 22,

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Holder says drone strikes since 2009 have killed four U.S. citizens

By Tom Curry and Chuck Todd, NBC News

On the eve of a major address by President Barack Obama on his counterterrorism policy, the Obama administration revealed Wednesday that drone strikes since 2009 had killed four Americans overseas – one of whom, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was targeted in Yemen because he’d planned and was planning terrorist attacks on the United States – principally the plot to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Eve 2009.

Three others who were not “specifically targeted” were killed in circumstances the administration did not explain.

The revelation came in a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to congressional leaders and chairmen of key congressional committees in which Holder said, “the president has directed me to disclose to you certain information” about the number of Americans killed by U.S. counterterrorism operations outside of areas of active combat such as Afghanistan.

Holder said the U.S. government was “aware of three other U.S. citizens who have been killed in such U.S. counterterrorism operations over that same time period (since 2009): Samir Khan, ‘Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed. These individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States.”

Jude Kenan Mohammed was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List and the FBI notice said, “On July 22, 2009, a Federal Grand Jury in North Carolina indicted Jude Kenan Mohammad for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons in a foreign country. Mohammad is at large and a federal warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for his arrest.”

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Adam Kokesh arrested for resisting arrest. Video reveals there was no resistance

Filed under: Activism, Corruption, Excessive Use Of Force, Freedom, Fundamental Rights, Government, Government Overreach, Harassment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Psy - Ops, Unethical — Leave a comment
May 20, 2013

Adam Kokesh is a Political Prisoner

Daisy Luther
Activist Post

The establishment has made no secret of the fact that they are not very impressed with Adam Kokesh’s planned Open Carry March on Washington DC this coming July 4.

But yesterday the situation devolved to a new low when Kokesh was arrested for….doing nothing.

The controversial talk-radio host of Adam Vs. the Man has been made a political prisoner.

A “political prisoner” is defined as:

A person who has been imprisoned for holding or advocating dissenting political views. source

Regardless of your personal beliefs on whether marijuana should be legalized, if you believe that freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, what happened at the May 18 “Smoke Down Prohibition” event in Philadelphia is a clear-cut violation of Kokesh’s rights. While other people there were actually breaking the law and smoking in an act of civil disobedience, Kokesh was not – he was simply speaking.

Adam Kokesh is being charged with resisting arrest…Check out the video – all I see is a man with his hands up (and no marijuana in those hands either). You don’t have to be an expert on the law to see that he went with the officers peacefully.


Does this mean that only popular opinions are protected by the Constitution? Does this mean that the Constitution is no longer in effect for those who disagree with the current laws? Or is this something more sinister? Perhaps an attempt to prevent Kokesh’s planned march on July 4 for occurring?

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An event to support the 138 million Chinese who have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations was held in front of the United Nations building in New York City

Filed under: Crossroads News : Changes In The World Around Us And Our Place In It, Excessive Use Of Force, Freedom, Fundamental Rights, Global Community, Government Overreach, Harassment, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Ineptitude, Police Brutality, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands — Leave a comment
May 19, 2013

Chinese Quit Communist Party, Heralding a New China

Rally in New York City Supports Peaceful Movement

By Joshua Philipp, | May 17, 2013

Last Updated: May 17, 2013 7:53 pm
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I have received extensive testimonies underscoring that the situation in China has gotten worse. The crack- down is pervasive and severe.

US Congressman Chris Smith, co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

NEW YORK—Members of the Chinese Communist Party are leaving the party by the tens of thousands, like the grains of sand slipping through the CCP’s hourglass.

An event to support the 138 million Chinese who have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations was held in front of the United Nations building in New York City on May 17. Hundreds of people, most of them Chinese, filled Dag Hammarskjold Plaza quietly holding banners, while speakers took turns at the podium, engaging the audience on what the Quitting the CCP movement really means for China today.

The “Tui Dang,” or “Quit the Party” movement is an embodiment of nonviolence and an awakening of conscience that is changing China. Introduced in November 2004 after an editorial series published by the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times revealed an uncensored history of the CCP, people began quitting by the tens of thousands, recording their decisions on a website maintained by supporters of the movement.

“In this way, the communist organization is quietly collapsing,” said Yi Rong, chair of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP.

Speakers ranged from the heads of several human rights organizations to people who have first-hand experience with the CCP’s system of forced labor camps and prisons, where Falun Gong practitioners are frequently tortured.

Many attendees were practitioners of the Chinese self-cultivation practice Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), which has been brutally persecuted by the CCP since 1999, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center, the official press office for Falun Gong. The CCP’s crimes—including over a 100 forms of torture—against the group were talked about by the speakers.

 

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Exclusive: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S., New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacre

Filed under: Black Ops, Complacency / Apathy, Conspiracy Theories, Corruption, crime, Depravity, Excessive Use Of Force, Fraud, Fundamental Rights, Genocide, Government, Government Overreach, History, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Irrational Violence, Lack Of Transparency, Loot and Pillage, Murder, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Provocation / Incitement, Secrecy, Special Interests, Torture / Water-boarding, Unethical, War Crimes, World News — 1 Comment
May 16, 2013

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Published on Apr 19, 2013

http://www.democracynow.org – In 1982, investigative journalist Allan Nairn interviewed a Guatemalan general named “Tito” on camera during the height of the indigenous massacres. It turns out the man was actually Otto Pérez Molina, the current Guatemalan president. We air the original interview footage and speak to Nairn about the U.S. role backing the Guatemalan dictatorship. Last week, Nairn flew to Guatemala where he had been scheduled to testify in the trial of former U.S.-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. Ríos Montt was charged in connection with the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region after he seized power in 1982. His 17-month rule is seen as one of the bloodiest chapters in Guatemala’s decades-long campaign against Maya indigenous people, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. The trial took a surprising turn last week when Guatemala President Gen. Otto Pérez Molina was directly accused of ordering executions. A former military mechanic named Hugo Reyes told the court that Pérez Molina, then serving as an army major and using the name Tito Arias, ordered soldiers to burn and pillage a Maya Ixil area in the 1980s.

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Published on Apr 19, 2013

http://www.democracynow.org – In 1982, investigative journalist Allan Nairn interviewed a Guatemalan general named “Tito” on camera during the height of the indigenous massacres. It turns out the man was actually Otto Pérez Molina, the current Guatemalan president. We air the original interview footage and speak to Nairn about the U.S. role backing the Guatemalan dictatorship. Last week, Nairn flew to Guatemala where he had been scheduled to testify in the trial of former U.S.-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. Ríos Montt was charged in connection with the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region after he seized power in 1982. His 17-month rule is seen as one of the bloodiest chapters in Guatemala’s decades-long campaign against Maya indigenous people, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. The trial took a surprising turn last week when Guatemala President Gen. Otto Pérez Molina was directly accused of ordering executions. A former military mechanic named Hugo Reyes told the court that Pérez Molina, then serving as an army major and using the name Tito Arias, ordered soldiers to burn and pillage a Maya Ixil area in the 1980s.

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Do citizens have a right to contract with a producer and grow food to their own standards?

Filed under: bureaucracy, Community, Crossroads News : Changes In The World Around Us And Our Place In It, Entrepreneurship, Environmental, Excessive Use Of Force, Food Production, Fraud, Freedom, Fundamental Rights, Government, Government Overreach, Harassment, Holistic Health, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Indoctrination, Irrational Violence, Natural Health, Nutrition, Organic, Poisons in Our Foods, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Psy - Ops, Secrecy, Small Family Organic Farms, Special Interests, Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands, The American Constitution, Unethical — Leave a comment
May 11, 2013

Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community

Activist Post

Things are heating up in Baraboo, Wisconsin as a long awaited food rights trial approaches.

Raw milk drinkers are outraged that Wisconsin DATCP is bringing criminal charges against a farmer who serves a private buying club. Do citizens have a right to contract with a producer and grow food to their own standards? That is what is at stake in this case. – Kimberly Hartke, Publicist Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund

Customers and Other Supporters to Attend Court with Farmer

Food rights activists from around North America will meet at the Sauk County Courthouse in this tiny town on May 20 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, whose trial begins that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land this husband and father in county jail for up to 30 months with fines of over $10,000…

The Wisconsin Department of Agricultural Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) targeted Hershberger for supplying a private buying club with fresh milk and other farm products.

DATCP has charged Hershberger with, among other things, operating a retail food establishment without a license. Hershberger repeatedly rejects this, citing that he provides foods only to paid members in a private buying club and is not subject to state food regulations.

Hershberger says:

There is more at stake here than just a farmer and his few customers — this is about the fundamental right of farmers and consumers to engage in peaceful, private, mutually consenting agreements for food, without additional oversight.

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Robert Fisk on Syria’s Civil War, Chemical Weapons “Theater” & Obama’s Backing of Israeli Strikes

Filed under: Collateral Damage, Costs of War, Excessive Use Of Force, Fraud, Government Overreach, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Indoctrination, Lack Of Transparency, Main Stream Media Manipulations/Lies, Military Maneuvers, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Provocation / Incitement, Psy - Ops, Secrecy, Special Interests, Wars and Rumors of War, World News — Leave a comment
May 9, 2013

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Published on May 7, 2013

http://www.democracynow.org – As the United States moves toward increased intervention in Syria, we’re joined by Robert Fisk, the longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent. Just back from two weeks in Syria reporting around the capital Damascus, Fisk discusses what he calls the “theater of chemical weapons,” the latest in Syria’s civil war — a battle he says the Syrian government is winning — as well as his reaction to what he calls President Obama’s “pitiful” backing of the recent Israeli missile strikes. “Don’t ask me if they have used chemical weapons,” Fisk says. “It’s conceivable. There really isn’t any proof. What you have got to realize is that this is a propaganda war just as much as it is a savage war, killing many thousands of human beings.”

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The ill-treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli jails is “widespread, systematic and institutionalised”, a UN report says.

Filed under: Child Abuse, Collateral Damage, Costs of War, Excessive Use Of Force, Fundamental Rights, Government Overreach, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Irrational Violence, Police Brutality, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Security, Unethical, World News — Leave a comment
May 9, 2013

Palestinian children ‘mistreated’ in Israeli detention

Palestinian youths throw stones towards Israeli soldiers near Hebron (file photo)
The report said the majority of arrests were for throwing stones

The study, by the children’s fund Unicef, described some of the practices used in dealing with children as “cruel, inhuman or degrading”.

It acknowledged Israel had made some “positive changes” in its treatment of young detainees in recent years.

Israel said it would “work hard” to adopt the report’s recommendations.

According to the report, an estimated 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17 are arrested by Israeli security forces in the West Bank every year.

It said ill-treatment typically began with arrests carried out in the middle of the night and continued through to prosecution and sentencing.

The report said unacceptable practices included “blindfolding children and tying their hands with plastic ties, physical and verbal abuse during transfer to an interrogation site, including the use of painful restraints”.

It said during interrogation, some detained children had been “threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault, against themselves or a family member”.

 

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U.S. Government to fine companies that do not comply with wiretap orders that violate user’s privacy.

Filed under: bureaucracy, Complacency / Apathy, Corruption, Excessive Use Of Force, Fraud, Freedom, Fundamental Rights, Government, Government Overreach, Harassment, Indoctrination, Invasion Of Privacy I, Lack Of Transparency, Legislation, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Special Interests, Surveillance — Leave a comment
May 9, 2013

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Obama Supports Expansion of Wiretap Laws

 

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Spying without a warrant in America is a crime, a violation of privacy rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. Yet, the government is asking technology companies to commit this crime or be fined for insubordination.

The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration is “on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people.”

According to the New York Times:

The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.

The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, has argued that the bureau’s ability to carry out court-approved eavesdropping on suspects is “going dark” as communications technology evolves, and since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like Facebook and Google to build into their instant-messaging and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders. That proposal, however, bogged down amid concerns by other agencies, like the Commerce Department, about quashing Silicon Valley innovation.

While the F.B.I.’s original proposal would have required Internet communications services to each build in a wiretapping capacity, the revised one, which must now be reviewed by the White House, focuses on fining companies that do not comply with wiretap orders. The difference, officials say, means that start-ups with a small number of users would have fewer worries about wiretapping issues unless the companies became popular enough to come to the Justice Department’s attention.

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Benghazi Gate continues to unfold

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May 8, 2013

Benghazi Whistleblower’s Lawyer: Obama, Kerry Aware of State Dept. Obstruction

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Published on May 1, 2013

Victoria Toensin, legal counsel for State Department officials seeking to provide evidence for the investigation into the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi 9-11-2012, says that both President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are aware that the State Department is threatening and obstructing the investigation.

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Benghazi Gate Obama Admin Calls Lawyer Of Whistleblower a Liar – 3 Whistleblowers To Testify

Massteaparty Massteaparty

Published on May 3, 2013

3 Whistleblowers To Testify Wednesday 11am In House Security Hearing
Benghazi Gate Obama Admin Calls Lawyer Of Whistleblower a Liar – 3 Whistleblowers To Testify

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Benghazi Whistleblowers Revealed Lawyers Interview With Geraldo Explosive Interview Part1

Massteaparty Massteaparty

Published on May 4, 2013

Benghazi Whistleblowers Revealed Lawyers Interview With Geraldo Explosive Interview Part 1

Obama Admin Accuses Whistleblowers’ Lawyers As liars

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Benghazi Whistleblowers Revealed Lawyers Interview With Geraldo Explosive Interview Part 2

Massteaparty Massteaparty

Published on May 4, 2013

Obama Admin Accuses Whistleblowers’ Lawyers As liars
Benghazi Whistleblowers Revealed Lawyers Interview With Geraldo Explosive Interview Part 2

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Benghazi Whistleblower Claims Clinton Tried To Cut Out Counterterror Dept – Lou Dobbs

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Published on May 6, 2013

Benghazi Whistleblower Claims Clinton Tried To Cut Out Counterterror Dept – Lou Dobbs

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Judy Miller On The Benghazi Whistleblower

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Published on May 7, 2013

Judy Miller, Manhattan Institute Fellow and Newsmax Contributor, joins Steve to preview the upcoming Benghazi whistleblower hearing and discuss Israel’s strike against Syria and now possibly Iran.

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On Target Pressure Points: Militarized Police

Filed under: bureaucracy, Excessive Use Of Force, Fraud, Freedom, Fundamental Rights, Government, Government Overreach, Guns, Harassment, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Indoctrination, Irrational Violence, Legislation, Main Stream Media Manipulations/Lies, Police Brutality, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Psy - Ops, Rule Of Law, Secrecy, Self_Defense / Crime Prevention / Security, Special Interests, Surveillance, The American Constitution, Unethical, War on terror — 1 Comment
May 8, 2013

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Published on May 7, 2013

In conjunction with the upcoming release of his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead sits down to discuss several “pressure points” that are threatening the Bill of Rights and undermining our essential freedoms. In part one of this special series, Whitehead examines the increased presence of militarized police.

 

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Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State [SHORT]

By John W. Whitehead
January 14, 2013

If you want a recipe for disaster, take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge, throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo.

The resulting concoction, I can promise you, will be a messy, noxious stew unfit for consumption, miserable to digest and with after-effects that will leave you reeling and clutching your stomach in dismay. Such is the nature of life in the emerging police state that is America today, where roadside police stops have devolved into government-sanctioned exercises in humiliation and degradation with a complete disregard for privacy and human dignity.

Consider, for example, what happened to 38-year-old Angel Dobbs and her 24-year-old niece, Ashley, who were pulled over by a Texas state trooper on July 13, 2012, allegedly for flicking cigarette butts out of the car window. First, the trooper berated the women for littering on the highway. Then, insisting that he smelled marijuana, he proceeded to interrogate them and search the car. Despite the fact that both women denied smoking or possessing any marijuana, the police officer then called in a female trooper, who carried out a roadside cavity search, sticking her fingers into the older woman’s anus and vagina, then performing the same procedure on the younger woman, wearing the same pair of gloves. No marijuana was found.

Leila Tarantino was allegedly subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view of passing traffic during a routine traffic stop, while her two children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino’s body. No contraband or anything illegal was found.

Meanwhile, four Milwaukee police officers have been charged with carrying out rectal searches of suspects on the street and in police district stations over the course of several years. One of the officers is accused of conducting searches of men’s anal and scrotal areas, often inserting his fingers into their rectums and leaving some of his victims with bleeding rectums. Half-way across the country, the city of Oakland, California, has agreed to pay $4.6 million to 39 men who had their pants pulled down by police on city streets between 2002 and 2009.

And then there’s the increasingly popular practice of doing blood draws at DUI checkpoints, where drivers who refuse a breathalyzer test find themselves subjected to forcible blood extractions to test for alcohol levels. Police in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, actually had a registered nurse and an assistant district attorney on hand “to help streamline the ‘blood draw’ warrants and collect blood samples from suspected impaired drivers” at one exercise in holiday drunk driving enforcement. A similar case, Missouri v. McNeely, which deals with a driver who failed a sobriety test, then refused a breathalyzer test and was subjected to a warrantless blood draw, is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

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