Police State

Ubiquitous spying and lawlessness.

French ISPs threaten to leave country over surveillance bill.

The ignored lesson from the killer co-pilot crash.

"Those tamper proof doors were installed after 9-11, to prevent attacks on the pilots. But in this case it served to protect a mad pilot.
Bottom line: It is impossible to create a completely safe and secure world. Government regulations will never do it. Having tamper proof doors in planes is probably a good idea in most cases, in this case it wasn’t.
The idea that government can solve all problems is a myth."

Yep.

More on NSA's demand for front-door access to encrypted data.

Oklahoma cops kill an unarmed man already caught by another deputy.

"They said Bates believed he was holding a Taser and intended to incapacitate Harris when the fatal shot was fired.
An investigator who reviewed details of the shooting concluded that the deputy suffered a phenomenon known as "slips and capture."
Tulsa Police Sgt. Jim Clark, who was asked to investigate the shooting by the sheriff's office, has said Bates was a victim of a high stress phenomenon in which a person's behavior "slips" off the intended course of action because it's "captured" by a stronger response."

That's a complex excuse for murder.