Police State

Crime rates are dropping independent of police.

"Consider that in 1980, there were roughly 3,000 SWAT team-style raids in the US. By 2001, that number had grown to 45,000 and has since swelled to more than 80,000 SWAT team raids per year. On an average day in America, over 100 Americans have their homes raided by SWAT teams. In fact, there are few communities without a SWAT team on their police force today. In 1984, 25.6 percent of towns with populations between 25,000 and 50,000 people had a SWAT team. That number rose to 80 percent by 2005. "

That's crazy.

NSA provides more evidence laws are for serfs, not rulers.

"How is it that the government can charge Edward Snowden with espionage for telling a journalist that the feds have been spying on all Americans and many of our allies, but the NSA itself, in a public relations campaign intended to win support for its lawlessness, can reveal secrets and do so with impunity? That question goes to the heart of the rule of law in a free society. "

There is no rule of law. There never has been.

"Last week, the NSA leaked that it captured actionable intelligence of grave and imminent danger to our embassies in the Middle East. The implication it wants you to draw here is that because it caught al-Qaida operatives talking in code in Yemen about deadly deeds they plan to perpetrate in the Arabian Peninsula, somehow the NSA’s spying on 300 million innocent Americans is constitutional, lawful, effective and therefore worth the loss of freedom. "

And that was a bunch of propaganda. Calling that threat a hoax, and insider reports there was no unusual chatter to prompt those closings.

Politico cartoonist nails it.

Ron Paul puts the admitted 2,776 improper NSA intercepts into perspective.

"Though it made for a sensational headline last week, the fact is these 2,776 “violations” over the course of one year are completely irrelevant. The millions and millions of “authorized” intercepts of our communications are all illegal -- except for the very few carried out in pursuit of a validly-issued search warrant in accordance with the Fourth Amendment. That is the real story. Drawing our attention to the violations unfortunately sends the message that the “authorized” spying on us is nothing to be concerned about. "

Exactly.

Revelations prove Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and entitled to legal protection because of it.

Police threaten to force eviction of abused people because they call 911 too often.  They're not telling us the whole story about this woman. Why was she calling 911 if her ex-boyfriend was in jail? Why did she let him in her house? It sounds to me like she's her own worst problem.

UK police detain Glenn Greenwald's boyfriend for nine hours in a bogus anti-terrorism intimidation tactic.

"The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last under an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.
Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles."

He travels with a lot of crap.

UK police stop reporter on suspicion of pedophilia while he walking with his son.

Oakland residents looking for private security because the police are ineffective. Same in Baltimore. And New Jersey.

LeBron James police escort.