Police State

DOJ supposedly reforming the justice system to end profit-based policing is like setting a bear loose in a chicken coup. This is more about federalizing the profit.

States with most speed traps.

Microsoft pushes trade secrets bill that would close more lawsuit trials.

The FBI can't decide if the California attack was terrorism or workplace violence.

"“We do not yet know the motive,” David Bow­dich, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said at a news conference. “It would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism.”
“At this stage, we do not yet know why this terrible event occurred,” President Obama said at the White House. “It is possible this was terrorist-related, but we don’t know. It is also possible this was workplace related.”"

It sounds a little over-planned and equipped for workplace violence.

Paris attacks prove the surveillance state is about controlling the people, not stopping terrorism.

"After executing 130 people in Paris, Nov. 13, and maiming many more, Abdeslam called his compadres in Belgium to ask for a lift home. I can’t vouch for the precise wording of the telephonic exchange between Salah Abdeslam and his contacts in Belgium, but the call took place, as BBC News reported. And it must have been quite a relaxed one, circumstances considered.
Still on the lam, Abdeslam knows he has nothing to fear. The French authorities were on heightened alert. The Kufar’s telephones had all been tapped. Yet Salah’s faith in the French fools was unshaken for a reason.
Without court orders, as The Guardian tells it, François Hollande’s socialist government taps phones and emails, hacks computers, installs “secret cameras and recording devices in private homes,” and infects French Internet and phone service providers with “complex algorithms” designed to “alert the authorities to suspicious behavior.”
Yet it all – the French Surveillance State – amounts to naught.
Like gun laws, spy laws oppress only law-abiding, harmless individuals.
As in all Western democracies, France’s Big Brother surveillance apparatus is as useless as it is oppressive.
France’s “protectors” knew nothing of the conversations taking place under their noses."

It should be dismantled. He is still at large.