Police State

Cops trained to claim cell phones could be firearms so they can seize them to prevent being recorded.

Miami police employ cameras, military vehicle to patrol the beach over Memorial Day weekend. Our government has gone nuts, allowing testosterone junkies to oppress us, and the scariest part is most Americans support it.

The unbelievable story of the FBI agent shooting a man he was questioning about the Boston Marathon bombers is already collapsing.

"Initially, FBI officials said Todashev, 27, became violent and lunged at an agent with a knife while he was being questioned about Tsarnaev and an unsolved 2011 triple murder in the Boston suburb of Waltham. The agent, acting on an "imminent threat," then shot Todashev, they said. However, later in the day, some of those officials had backed off that preliminary account, and it's no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting, The Associated Press reported."

This stinks.

"Sources told Fox 25 News in Boston that Todashev, a Russian national living legally in Florida, was about to sign a confession linking him to the Waltham slayings just before the shooting took place. "I heard a couple of loud bangs and saw a couple of cop cars riding by," said Jared Morse, who lives in the area. "They wouldn't let anyone out to see anything or anything like that, so they made us go back inside.""

Cops have no power to force people to go inside. This doubly stinks. Man killed was planning to visit his parents in Russia after the interview. The FBI hasn't even clarified how many people were interviewing him. They're still trying to get their lying stories straight.

Blogger tests the pressure cooker theory of the Boston Marathon bombing.

"“We don’t sell pressure cookers,” she said.
“How can a cookware section not sell pressure cookers? Anyhow, your website says you sell a line of Fagor pressure cookers.”
She replied, “We stopped selling them after the Boston Bombing.”
So it goes. Guns—even the gun used in the incident, still get sold in stores after the Newtown, CT, school massacre, but when someone makes a bomb with an ordinary kitchen implement, they are taken off the shelves. (What’s next, a demand for licenses to buy canning equipment?)"

At least it was voluntary. I understand that Macy's feared a backlash if they didn't remove those pressure cookers.

"After getting a calculation that a quart of black powder weighs about two pounds (a very general measurement, because the compound changes weight according to the humidity, and can be loosely or densely packed like any powder), and testing a bag of small nails to find that they weigh about six pounds per quart, and after weighing the pot itself, we found that the whole contraption, fully loaded with four to five quarts of powder, two quarts’ worth of nails and BBs, and a battery and ignition device, would weigh about 30 lbs. So we put a sufficient number of exercise weight plates into our container, shut the lid, and tried carrying it in two backpacks similar in construction to the ones on the two brothers’ backs."

Needless to say, the result doesn't match the photos of the backpacks carried by the brothers, but the blogger is making assumptions about the amount of powder, nails and BBs. This is interesting:

"As for Dzhokhar, the photo of a pack set on the sidewalk in front of a bunch of spectators, in the spot where bomb number two exploded bears no resemblance to the pack he was photographed wearing, which had wide black seam lines and zippers."

They are obviously different packs. BM suspect 1's pack might be the same as the exploded one in the picture, but the other one is not even close.

"Meanwhile, there were people on the scene near the finish line who were wearing backpacks that were both very dark black and large enough and full-enough looking to be containing a loaded pressure kettle. These men were observed and photographed wearing baseball caps and shirts bearing the uniquely drawn white skull logo of a Houston, TX-based mercenary-for-hire firm called Craft International Security (whom no governmental agency will admit to having hired). Curiously, images of several of the men wearing those packs show them to have an unusual white square image on the top of the pack, quite like the white square visible in the FBI’s image of the exploded black pack. The Craft personnel’s packs are made of material that looks remarkably similar to  whatever was used to make the exploded pack. (The man on the right below is photographed before the bombing. He is also seen, in an image taken after the explosion, running alongside a second identically-dressed Craft man wearing a pack and the company’s logo-emblazoned hat. Note that the left runner, interestingly, now no longer has on his pack. Where did it go?)"

His pack also seems to match the color of the exploded pack better.

"A copy of the transcript of a hospital bedside visit to Dzhokhar in Beth Israel Hospital by Federal Judge Marianne B. Bowler, who had finally called a halt to the interrogation (all conducted without a lawyer or witness present, despite reports that Dzhokhar had repeatedly requested and been denied an attorney), gives a good idea of how aware and capable of talking he actually was:"

He couldn't speak. He can only nod.

Riots in Sweden. British machete terrorist claims he wanted to start a war in London. If there were lots of people surrounding the terrorists, why did they let them behead their victim? The attack retaliation for the war in Afghanistan. Links between terrorism in Britain and the rebellion in Syria.

"That US overt and covert support of the insurgency in Syria, including its radical and al-Qaeda affiliated elements, is a known fact. Yet Kerry with a straight face simply fails to mention it. As in the days of Bush, the Obama administration is making its own reality. But we know that eventually these US-supported Islamist radicals with Western passports will come home -- and now we have a better idea of what might be in store for us when they do."

More blowback.

"But here is the really good part: Kerry in the above quote argues that a government using deadly military force on its own citizens without trial justifies foreign-sponsored "regime change" on the very day that the US government has admitted to using deadly military force on its own citizens without trial!"

Nice catch on the hypocrisy.

Opportunists jump on the British attack as excuse to monitor all electronic communication.

Antiwar.com sues FBI over surveillance. Background.

Private policing is superior to government policing.

"The key to effective protection, says Dale, is love. Not guns, not violence, not laws. His employees have to love their customers. They have to care about their customers' safety more than their own. They also have to be the kind of people who would rather not use violence first. This is the exact opposite of what the government advocates for its police officers."

The customer comes first. Government has no customers. It only has victims.

"The market is the true will of the people. Providers have to respond to the people's will or else they will be out of business. The state has no such pressure. At most it has to worry about its image a little, sort of the way a serial killer has to worry about mimicking human emotion so his victims will let their guard down. "

That's a great analogy.