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 YORKโMembers of the Chinese Communist Party are leaving the party by the tens of thousands, like the grains of sand slipping through the CCPโs 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 โTui Dang,โ or โQuit the Partyโ 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.
โIn this way, the communist organization is quietly collapsing,โ 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 CCPโs 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 CCPโs crimesโincluding over a 100 forms of tortureโagainst the group were talked about by the speakers.
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”.
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.
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 womanโs 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 childrenโages 1 and 4โwaited inside her car. During the second strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female officer โforcibly removedโ a tampon from Tarantinoโs 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 menโs 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 thereโs 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 โto help streamline the โblood drawโ warrants and collect blood samples from suspected impaired driversโ 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.
Bahraini police disperse protesters holding an anti-regime demonstration in the village of Diraz, April 27, 2013.
Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:43AM
The Bahraini uprising began in mid-February 2011, when the people started holding massive demonstrations against the Al Khalifa regime, which promptly launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring states to help quash the revolt.
Bahrain has arrested more than 22 people since February for participation in demonstrations against the Al Khalifa regime, police say.
The police made the announcement in a statement issued on Saturday. The statement added that search was still under way for more protesters.
Bahrainโs main opposition group, al-Wefaq, said on Saturday that 14 people had been detained during police raids on April 25 and 26.
Meanwhile, people held an anti-regime demonstration in the village of Diraz, west of the capital, Manama, on Saturday. The protesters shouted slogans against the Al Khalifa regime.
In recent weeks, anti-regime protests have increased in Bahrain as Manama hosted the controversial Formula One Grand Prix auto race.
On April 25, Bahrainis staged demonstrations to protest the detention of female activists who were arrested in connection to rallies against the Formula One event.
The Bahraini uprising began in mid-February 2011, when the people started holding massive demonstrations against the Al Khalifa regime, which promptly launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring states to help quash the revolt.
Dozens of people have been killed in the crackdown, and the security forces have arrested hundreds including doctors and nurses.
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture said on April 24 that he was deeply disappointed over a move by Manama to practically cancel his planned visit to Bahrain.
โThis was a unilateral decision by the authorities. Unfortunately, it is not the first time the government has tried to avoid responsibility for the postponement of my visit, which was originally supposed to take place over a year ago,โ Juan Mendez stated.
Amnesty International also condemned the move, saying the Manama regime was clearly โnot seriousโ about implementing human rights reforms.
Here weย haveย evidenceย of theย ruthlessย and depraved deeds of aย governmentย drivenย byย greed andย power.ย Theย psychological processย usedย toย turn theย citizens ofย aย country against fellowย countrymen/women.ย To demonize and criminalize innocentsย for theirย ownย ends.ย Theย rationalization behind the process isย twofold.ย
First it isย anย efficient and effectiveย wayย toย eliminateย a group ofย peopleย thatย pose aย threatย toย yourย ultimateย plansย ofย control .ย Byย ensuring thatย theย citizenryย atย largeย are indoctrinated toย believeย thatย theseย Falun Gongย practitioners posedย a threatย to the nation and it’s people.ย Labeling themย asย extremists,ย suicidal ,ย dangerousย andย deranged.ย Therebyย enlisting theย ย uninformed citizenry to participateย in the persecution andย ultimatelyย the execution of a peopleย who meantย harm toย no one, saveย those whoย could notย afford independentย thought……The Government.
Top Officials Implicated in Organ Harvesting in China
Police chiefโs research exemplifies regimeโs guilt
(Clockwise)Bo Xilai, Jiang Zemin, Wang Lijun. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
Before he kicked off the biggest political storm in recent Chinese communist history last February after attempting to defect at a U.S. Consulate in southwestern China, police chief Wang Lijun supervised the cutting of thousands of organs from the bodies of prisoners of conscienceโwhile they were still alive.
Wang was merely a mid-ranking officer in a dark conspiracy that reached to the top of the Chinese Communist Party.
In Jinzhou City in Liaoning Province in northeastern China, Wang Lijun ran a research laboratory in the same building as the security bureau he headed. His research focused on live, human organ extraction and transplantation.
He was working under the watch of Bo Xilai, the recently disgraced official who was head of Liaoning Province when Wang began his research.
The facts about Wang were revealed in 2006 when, three years after becoming director of the public security bureau, he was given an awardโbut not one for fighting crime. Wangโs team had done pioneering research on how best to transplant organs taken from prisonersโwho were possibly still alive when their organs were removedโand surgeons acting at his direction had honed new techniques over โthousandsโ of on-site trials.
โAs we all know, the so-called โon the scene researchโ is the result of several thousand intensive on-site transplants,โ he said in his acceptance speech for the award.
He talked up his research: โFor a veteran policeman, to see someone being executed and to see this personโs organs being transplanted to several other personsโ bodies, it was profoundly stirring.โ
Secondly,ย thisย process being used toย indoctrinateย theย masses toย view thoseย who areย differentย asย evil andย dangerous.ย Therebyย providingย not onlyย a successful coverย for the governments evil purposes butย acceptance even encouragement toย punish these people.ย For theย greaterย goodย ofย course.
A Regime Makes War Against the Peaceful Falun Gong Practice
The Chinese Communist Party began its campaign to crush Falun Gong with an avalanche of propaganda depicting people who often meditate in parks as suicidal revolutionaries bent on destroying China.
Few Chinese believed the narrative, despite it being repeated hundreds of times. Up to 400 articles were published by each of the major newspapers within the first 30 days of the campaign.
Falun Gong was well-established, with over 28,000 practice sites across China. It was comfortably familiar to many, and public sympathy was with the group.
Then-Party chief Jiang Zemin began efforts to suppress Falun Gong in 1996, but the regimeโs efforts met with sit-ins and peaceful acts of civil disobedience that Chinese people hadnโt seen since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Jiang, who rose to power through supporting the crackdown on the student democracy movement, was both jealous and threatened by the fact that Falun Gong had attracted more adherents than the CCP had members. There were roughly 60 million Party members and up to 100 million Falun Gong practitioners.
He also wanted to wipe out the resurgence of Chinese traditional belief that Falun Gong represented, and in the persecutionโwhich would demand that everyone in China take sidesโhe saw an opportunity to solidify his power.
As he said in a letter that made the case for persecution, he could not tolerate that Falun Gong adherents believed in something beyond the materialism and atheism of Chinese communism.
For three years, the security forces had harassed Falun Gong practitioners. Following the publication in the city of Tianjin, just down the road from Beijing, of an article attacking the practice, adherents gathered asking the article be withdrawn. Police arrested 45 of them, and in response to pleas for their release, told the practitioners to ask Beijing.
Ten thousand Falun Gong adherents gathered at the appeals office in Beijing on April 25, 1999. It was a crowd so large police arranged them on the sidewalks around Zhongnanhai, the communist leadership compound.
That night Jiang wrote to members of the Politburo Standing Committee that โbehind the scenesโ Falun Gong masterminds were making a move against the regime. He called it โthe most serious incident since the political turbulence in 1989.โ
Practitioners had merely gone to appeal against mistreatment, asking the central government to uphold its own laws.
Jiang wrote that Falun Gong was competing with the Party for the masses. โWe must understand this issue as a political one, as one that involves the very existence of the Party and the nation. We must thoroughly investigate it and show zero tolerance!โ
Oneย wouldย ponder the use ofย this process inย anotherย country,ย sayย one thatย isย notย ย communist orย atย leastย notย yet.ย Comparing the process of theย criminalization ofย Falun Gong practitioners toย ohย let’sย say Americansย whoย question theย statusย quo.ย Peopleย whoย questionย governmentย andย theirย motives.ย Peopleย who have questionedย theย lossย ofย liberties, theย more andย moreย prevalent terrorย attacks onย Americanย soil.ย Thoseย who soย distrustย theย motivesย of theย governmentย ย that they question everything including theย incessantย needย ย toย nullify theย Constitution and the Bill ofย ย Rights.ย Unlawful wars,ย liesย to theย American People,ย subterfuge at every turn.ย All toย undermine andย demoralize the people.ย Labeledย asย conspiracyย nuts,ย nonย conformists, anti-government radicals, Christians, Conservatives, Strugglingย Middle Class, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, veterans andย gunย owners haveย all been lumpedย togetherย toย be labeled in this manner.ย Listedย as possible terrorists weย areย placed onย ย watchย listsย andย noย flyย lists by theย ย Departmentย of Homeland Security.ย
Terrorist watch listDHS’s new terrorist database rankles privacy groups
Published 15 August 2011
A new DHS plan to create its own version of the FBIโs terrorist watch list that is exempt from the Privacy Act has privacy groups concerned; under the proposed plan, DHS would create the Watchlist Service which would bring the FBIโs suspected terrorist list in-house and expand onย it
DHS plans a Privacy Act-exempt watch list // Source: dariknews.bg
A new DHS plan to create its own version of the FBIโs terrorist watch list that is exempt from the Privacy Act has privacy groupsย concerned.
Under the proposed plan, DHS would create the Watchlist Service which would bring the FBIโs suspected terrorist list in-house and expand on it. The list would contain names, dates of birth, biometric data, photos, passport information, driverโs licenses, and other critical information.ย The goal, according to DHSโs 6 July proposal, is to increase employee access to the FBI and Justice Departmentโs list โin order to automate and simplify the current method for transmittingโ the data to DHS component agencies including the Transportation Security Administrationย (TSA).โ
TSA currently uses the watch list for its Secure Flight program, which is aimed at preventing suspected terrorists from boarding planes by allowing the agency to instantly check ticketed airline passengersโ names against theย database.
Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in July, David Heyman, the assistant Homeland Security secretary for policy, explained that DHS had identified screening gaps in its review of the suspected terroristย database.
To address these security gaps, DHS โhas transitioned the Secure Flight program to use all terrorist watch list records containing a full name and a full date of birth and designates matches to those records as selectees subject to enhanced physical screening prior to boarding a flight,โ heย said.
What concerns privacy advocates though, is a particular provision in DHSโs proposal that states the department will โexempt portions of the system of records from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act because of criminal, civil and administrative enforcementย requirements.โ
The proposed provision has led privacy advocates like the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the American Library Associationโs Washington office, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights to issue a joint letter to DHS demanding that the department reconsider itsย proposal.
The groupsโ main concern is that these exemptions would remove critical safe guards put in place to protect the rights of citizens. Their letter stated, โsecretive government lists without any meaningful safeguards present a very real risk of โmission creep,โ in which a system is pressed into unintended or unauthorized uses. Under this proposal, the agency would have the right to maintain and rely upon information it does not know to be accurate, relevant, timely, or complete without recourse โ the right to subject citizens to arbitraryย decisions.โ
Ann Coulter: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Getting in Touch With Demonic Side
MSNBC on NYPD Police Brutality during Occupy Wall Street Lawrence O’donnell with “The Last Word”
Severe police action as thousands of Occupy protesters fill Times Square
Look aroundย folksย andย take aย real hardย lookย atย whatย isย happeningย aroundย you.ย Howย manyย ofย you areย questioning theย rationalizationย behindย ย theย eventsย that areย takingย place andย howย they areย beingย utilized toย fulfill anย agenda? ย Whatย agenda youย mayย ask?ย Well let’sย take aย lookย shallย we?ย The constant andย commonย denominatorย betweenย all theseย eventsย andย theย agendaย thatย they will ultimatelyย ย fulfill canย all be pinpointedย to one event ย in theย historyย ofย this Nation.ย Onย Septemberย 11thย 2001ย thereย becameย evident toย anyoneย whoย wanted to seeย a deadlyย agenda thatย markedย theย decent of thisย onceย greatย nation.ย Theย mentalityย thatย hasย goneย on to become theย battleย cryย ofย not onlyย theย administration but ofย ย Stateย and localย ย governments asย well.ย “Never let aย goodย crisis go to waste”, a statementย madeย infamousย ย byย Rahm Emmanuelย and parrotedย manyย times overย byย ย differentย figuresย within theย governmentย apparatus.ย
ย Dianne Feinstein Not letting a good crisis go to waste.
Obama Gun Control Press Conference afte Sandy Hook Shooting
Theย ย WTCย attack wasย usedย not onlyย toย usher inย anย illegal war ( whichย weย nowย have proof of havingย beenย planned years beforeย they wereย able toย implement it) , itย wasย theย beginningย of theย end of theย ย Constitution andย theย Americanย wayย ofย life.ย How was it theย end?ย Veryย simplyย itย helped toย usher in theย implementation ofย theย Patriotย Act.ย
Sept. 20, 2001 – Bush Declares War on Terror
Bill Cooper predicts 9/11 attack on the twin towers
ย Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3
So many, soย very many calledย for theย government toย doย somethingย andย protectย us from theย ย bigย badย terrorists and theyย complied.ย The Patriotย actย wasย enactedย andย thoseย ย cowards who could only think ofย beingย protectedย notย caringย how,ย convinced themselvesย thatย moreย governmentย wasย betterย and that theย governmentย knewย best.ย Did theyย onceย stop to thinkย what theyย wereย askingย for ?ย Didย theyย stopย to thinkย whatย theย endย resultย wouldย be? Did theyย onceย stop andย ย rememberย ย all thisย government andย othersย like itย hadย doneย when afforded uncheckedย power?ย ย Theย answerย to all theseย questions , unfortunately ย isย NO…….All theyย couldย thinkย aboutย wasย theirย fearย andย theirย needย to be protectedย atย all costs.ย Theirย response to thoseย whoย didย think andย remember was quite amusing and devastatinglyย sad…….”If you haveย nothing to hide, then you haveย nothing toย fear”.ย Thisย hasย becomeย theย cry of theย conformists andย apologists.ย They haveย opted for the head in theย sandย approach.ย Ifย the governmentย says it isย forย myย ownย good thenย itย mustย be true.ย Anyone denyingย me and mine theย safety beingย offeredย by theย government is wrong and thereforeย dangerous.ย Theย demoralization and alienationย campaignย hadย begun.ย Georgeย Bushย gave aย speech andย in itย I canย remember theย use ofย theย ย wordย terrorist overย and overย again ,ย culminating in this oneย statementย thatย saidย itย all andย frankly labeled everyone in oneย wayย orย another……”If you areย notย with usย , the you areย with theย terrorists!”ย That isย howย weย asย Americansย haveย lived ourย livesย everydayย since whetherย weย are aware of itย orย not.ย We are blackmailed and threatenedย on aย dailyย basis.ย Oh notย in aย confrontational inย yourย faceย kind ofย wayย ,ย no ofย courseย not .ย It isย more subtle thanย that .ย Aย quiteย ย sophisticatedย mindย game thatย ย isย moldingย theย majorityย ofย Americansย into theย hive mind citizens theyย striveย for .ย The usefulย idiotsย that Yuriย Bezmenovย theย ย Ex- KGBย Officerย thatย explains the stepsย necessaryย toย undermine a nation.ย
Ideological Subversion of Western Society
ย Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press, 1984 – Complete
For those ofย youย whoย areย ย beginning to haveย doubtsย andย areย ย openingย yourย eyesย to theย possibilityย ofย somethingย ย notย beingย ย quiteย right I say this……Theย devil isย in the details and inย orderย for you to see theย truthย ย youย must look at theย wholeย picture notย just theย frame thatย is beforeย you atย any oneย givenย momentย in time.ย Youย must pull back andย look atย itย asย aย whole.ย See Historyย asย itย hasย unfoldedย beforeย yourย eyes not inย theย wayย theyย haveย chosen toย present itย to you.ย Understand thatย the orchestration of thisย play hasย been aย veryย long time in the makingย ,butย who isย behind it isย notย asย importantย asย where weย will beย as aย nationย ย if theyย accomplish whatย theyย haveย setย out to do.ย
US-Canada Claim Iran-Al Qaeda Ties Despite US Funding Al Qaeda in Iran for Years
“To many, it came as a surprise that the RCMP is alleging that two terror suspects arrested in Canada on Monday were supported by al-Qaeda operatives in Iran.
The Sunni-based al-Qaeda and Shia Iran belong to different branches of Islam that have been at odds historically. But in recent years U.S. officials have formally alleged that Iran has allowed al-Qaeda members to operate out of its territory.”
Both at face value and upon deeper examination, this assertion is utterly absurd, divorced from reality, and indicative of the absolute contempt within which the Western establishment holds the global public. In reality, the West, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel in particular, have propped up and perpetuated Al Qaeda for the very purpose of either undermining or overthrowing the governments of Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, Libya,ย Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and beyond. Regarding Iran in particular, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker piece titled, “The Redirection: Is the Administrationโs new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” would state:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coรถperated with Saudi Arabiaโs government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
To conform andย go with theย flowย at this pointย in time isย tantamount toย suicide asย a nation.ย Youย mustย openย yourย eyesย andย view theย eventsย asย a puzzleย thatย mustย beย deciphered.ย It’sย true intent exposed so thatย you mayย see howย itย ย hasย developedย andย what it’s ultimateย intent entails.ย To doย soย requires discipline,ย timeย andย courage.ย Thereย areย manyย whoย wouldย soonerย shootย youย down and labelย youย crazyย than allowย youย toย goย down thisย road.ย Which youย choose isย entirely up to you ,ย however,ย if you areย reading thisย andย youย choose toย doย nothing, toย sayย nothing then you areย asย responsibleย asย theย criminalsย perpetrating these crimesย againstย ourย people.ย Yourย silence andย lack ofย resolveย making youย complicitย in theย crimesย thatย will beย heapedย uponย theย Americanย ย people when theย time toย ย unveil the finalย agenda arrives.ย Trulyย look atย whatย isย presentedย andย try toย understandย where it isย going andย whatย ย theย ultimateย resultย ย could be.ย That isย all anyoneย canย askย ofย youย That isย allย any ofย usย would require.ย Weย needย you toย wakeย upย and understandย whatย isย beingย done…….
Former diplomat wistleblower talks about US government secrets and corruption
ย FBI Fake Terror Plot History: Judge Napolitano
Patriotย Actย NDAA, Indefiniteย Detentionย Ofย American Citizens,ย Presidential Kill List, Fusion Centers, CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, Gun Control, Executive Orders, Unamannedย Drones, TSA, Lockdowns,ย Door to Door Illegal Searches, Warantlessย Surveillance, Personal Data Sharing, Militarization ofย localย police, Legitimization ofย Policeย Brutality, Veterans – Christians-Constitutionalists-Libertarians-Gun Owners- Activists beingย labeledย asย potentialย terrorists and the listย ย goes on andย on
FBI knew of PLOT TO KILL Occupy Wall Street activists; stayed silent, potential SNIPER ASSASINATIONS
FBI & DHS Under Obama Declared Occupy Wall Street Protesters TERRORIST To Protect Big Business
Occupy Wall Street
ย FOX News Attacks Occupy Wall Street Protests
On Fox News, Tea Party Good, Occupy Wall Street Bad
Fans of justice will be glad to hear that New York City will pay for all those books and all that media equipment that the police trashed when itย famously raided the Occupy Wall Street camp on November 15, 2011. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York just announced a $366,700 settlement in Occupyโs case against the city for the damage caused during the raid as well as all of the legal fees the movementโs poured into seeking retribution. Sound like a lot? Letโs itemize those expenses for you:
The Peopleโs Library ($47,000 in damages, $186,350 in legal fees)
Ray Bradbury probably turned over in his grave, when the New York Police Department went after the 5,500 donated books that Occupy was keeping for the people in Zuccotti Park.ย First covered in the media byย The New Yorker, the so-called Peopleโs Library was so popular it evenย earned its own blogย in the early days of the movement and maintained it long after Zuccotti was empty and the majority of its books destroyed. As Occupyโs lawyer put it, the settlement stood for a lot more than books. โThis was not just about money, it was about constitutional rights and the destruction of books,โ Normal Siegelย toldย The Village Voice.
The port city of Mombasa, Kenya, is at the center of a religious divide. It’s a predominately Muslim part of an otherwise Christian nation, and residents say it’s a region that has been neglected by the government. Kira Kay reports on the simmering tensions that have recently erupted into violence.
In Springfield, Illinois, Lucinda White was tasered by a cop after her boyfriend’s dispute with another individual over a fender bender went south. The 29 year-old called the police in an effort to settle the dispute, but later the eight months pregnant woman was brought down and tasered. According to the police report White was yelling, cursing and resisting arrest. RT’s Margaret Howell brings us more on the video that has gone viral.
(KMOV) — Taser policies are under the microscope after a video posted to YouTube shows a police officer using a stun gun on a woman whoโs eight months pregnant.
The woman screamed at officers that sheโs pregnant, but they delivered a shock of 50,000 volts to her leg in a parking lot in Springfield, Illinois.
That police department is defending the officerโs actions.ย News 4 spoke with St. Louis County Police, who say they donโt have an expressed policy against using a Taser on a pregnant woman.
Itโs not even a last resort option.
It all depends on the circumstances, which is a heavy decision for an officer.
On-lookers are clearly shocked as they watch as a Springfield police officer struggles with Lucinda White, then tasers her in the thigh.
โIโm pulling on my daughterโs father. I did not touch a police officer. I know not to touch a police officer,โ said White.
This is my eighth year as a full time Internet activist. The longer Iโm fighting this โWar on Evilโ, the more Iโm concerned with the effectiveness of resistance. No matter what our cause, liberty, false-flag terrorism, free Palestine, debt-free currency, New World Order, Illuminati, chemtrails, vaccination, cancer cures, drug prohibition, or historic revisionism, we must first and foremost make a conscience decision about whatโs more important to us, being right or resisting effectively.