Police State

TSA gets more oppressive.

Police State

Trump wants to cut TSA VIPR teams. It's about time he proposed a positive policy.

Police State

Resisting police for speeding, or any thing else, carries a summary death sentence.

Proposed bill in New York would empower cops to routinely download your phone's data during traffic stops.

Appeals Court says first amendment guarantees right to record police in public.

TSA failed to catch 17 out of 18 security tests.

Police State

Another in a long line of studies shows TSA is worthless, so molestations will become more invasive. More.

War on Drugs

DEA paid TSA agents to search bags.

Politics

One of the most profound quotes ever.

"The late Frank Zappa declared: “Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”"

Excellent.

Numbers belie black lives matter protests.

Former Navy SEAL-turned-transgender runs afoul of TSA. This is the kind of conflict government engenders.

Police State

Private contractors under TSA control perform better for cheaper than TSA agents.

"The article also cites a Homeland Security report which discovered that investigators were able to smuggle a test bomb past security checkpoints in 67 out of 70 tests."

Some security.

America's incarceration problem.

"Data provided by PrisonStudies.org is helping shed light on America’s incarceration problem, demonstrating that only the small archipelago of Seychelles, located in the Indian Ocean off East Africa, has a higher incarceration rate than the U.S. But when studied carefully, the rates demonstrate yet another trend: America’s white prison population has been increasing in recent years while the number of blacks in prison has been dropping — and nobody is talking about it."

Police are equal opportunity kidnappers.

Police State

Forget biometrics. Once hacked, they're useless because you can't change them.

Hackers 3D print master key to TSA-approved luggage.

Police State

Militarized police lead to abuses which lead to blowback.

Surveillance capitalism is creepy, but surveillance socialism is totalitarian, not the former.

Apple and Facebook helped take down Kissasstorrents. 

Almost half of TSA employees have been cited for misconduct.

Police State

UK grants Home Secretary power to ban end-to-end encryption.

TSA doing body searches at Louisville music festival.

Orlando mass murderer was long-time steroid user.

FBI warns Florida police of credible terrorist threat. That should help.

Police can and do kill dogs with impunity.

Police State

DHS funding audio surveillance in cities.

The dead Boston Marathon bomber may have been a double-agent working for the FBI.

TSA beats up brain cancer patient proving once again it has nothing to do with stopping terrorism.

Police State

Secret Senate bill would grant FBI warrantless and secret access to email and web history of anybody as if the Constitution didn't exist.

TSA delays on Memorial Day. 

Corruption by ousted head of security.

“Hoggan also was identified as one of the senior TSA officials who used forced transfers to punish agency employees who spoke out about security lapses or general mismanagement. Those allegations, first raised by TSA whistleblowers, caused considerable anger among members of Congress at three hearings held this month and last.

Three of the whistleblowers appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 27.

“Many of the people who broke our agency remain in key positions,” testified Jay Brainard, the TSA security director in Kansas. “These leaders are some of the biggest bullies in government.”

Brainard was given a forced transfer from Iowa to Maine in 2014.”

Of course the union wouldn’t like him. 

The deep state is exposed by rookie mistake.

"The US authorities have disciplined 41 Secret Service personnel for improperly accessing and leaking the personal information of a congressman who had scrutinized the agency, the Department of Homeland Security said."

The senior deep-staters get away with it.

Police State

Israeli firm claims software can tell if people are terrorists or pedophiles by looking at the faces.

TSA ousts head of security over long lines. I bet the union wanted him out.

Silicon Valley erecting barriers so FBI can't force companies to turn over data.

Even small cities are employing mass surveillance.

Police State

TSA threatens delays will get worse.

TSA in crisis. Union wants to hire 6,000 more perverts.

TSA's wasted money.

"Union leaders want you to think the fault lies with a stingy Congress unwilling to fork over enough money to fill screener shortages. White House spokesman Josh Earnest poured more partisan fuel on the fire last week by blaming the nationwide slowdowns on ‘’the inability of Republicans in Congress to govern the country.’’
What a load of flying horse hockey.
The 15-year-old Transportation Security Administration now has a massive annual budget of nearly $7.6 billion and a workforce of nearly 60,000. They had enough tax dollars to waste on an idiotic $1.4 million iPad app that randomly points left or right; $3 million on more than 200 useless explosive detection ‘’puffer’’ machines that didn’t detect explosives reliably; and unknown gobs in awards and automatic bonuses to senior TSA managers at a time when the agency was repeatedly failing internal tests of its ability to stop weapons, bombs and terror threats.
Yet, last week, with airlines, airports and customers all raising holy hell, Congress scraped together $34 million more to pay TSA screeners overtime and fund nearly 800 more screeners to address the summer travel crush.
It’s still not enough of course. It’s never enough."

No kidding.

Supposed civil rights defender comes to love and defend NSA.

Police State

Apple introduces more intrusive security to thwart FBI.

TSA exploits EgyptAir crash.

Tax and Spend

Climate research focused on modeling, not science, costing billions. That's an impressive gravy train.

I think this sudden TSA problem is intentionally designed to get more money, and I'm not alone although this is the first article I've seen mention it. Another convert believes this is another example of Washington Monument Syndrome.

Congressman X tells the truth about rulers.

China's economy is even more cronyist than ours, so I imagine their research is as well.

Police State

Police don't need technology to end high speed pursuits. They just need to get over their 'roid rage and stop chasing people to death.

TSA worker shortage blamed for delays.

Tor developer flees country in fear of FBI.

The fruits of war fall to the police and are used against us.

Police State

Cuts, not TSA activity, blamed for airport delays. TSA blames the passengers.

Feds caught planting secret microphones to record conversations in SF bay.

"FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.
Federal authorities are trying to prove real estate investors in San Mateo and Alameda counties are guilty of bid rigging and fraud and used these recordings as evidence." 

No doubt they're doing it everywhere.

Police State

Child porn suspect jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt his hard drive. So much for the constitutional protection against self-incrimination.

Supreme Court radically expands FBI hacking power, as if FBI cars about legal restrictions.

Despite spending $1 million for the iPhone hack, the FBI doesn't know how it works.

Judge Napolitano takes police state spying theory to its ultimate conclusion.

"Would all of our lives be safer if the government could break down all the doors it wishes, listen to all the conversations it could find and read whatever emails and text messages it could acquire?"

Of course not!

"Perhaps."

Is Napolitano an idiot? Not perhaps, but hell no. The government already does this, and it makes us less safe.

Dennis Hastert sentenced to prison for structuring, not any real crime.

Congress slams TSA in public, funnels it money when the cameras are off.

Police State

TSA screeners quitting in droves as agency gets worse, not better.