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The Growing Police State

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June 2014

June 10, 2014

Another Terrorist Brought to Justice!

Honor student charged with two felonies for making a volcano for a science project

May 2014

May 30, 2014

We Kill People Based on Metadata

No. Seriously. Fortunately, it's just worthless foreigners we are reasonably sure need killing. And if...

May 14, 2014

22 Year Old Man with Down Syndrome Beaten by Cops

...for having a bulge in his pants. Turns out to have been a colostomy bag....

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Nascent Police States…

...select *for* people like this: 6 S.F. officers indicted over residential hotel searches One-third of...

March 21, 2014

A Grateful Nation Murders a 95 year old WWII Vet

...for refusing surgery and getting cranky.  The extremely dangerous 95 year old was confronted by a...

March 14, 2014

Warrior Cops Beat Innocent, Unarmed Man to Death

Nascent police states select for these goons. It's a great gig when the penalty for...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

“You Have No Rights”

The sort of goon a nascent police state--like ours--seeks, promotes, and rewards. Baltimore County cops...

February 27, 2014

Cops Murder 80 Year Old Guy in His Bed

Turns out he didn't have any drugs. But they did log some valuable target practice....

February 10, 2014

Homeland Security Seizes Fake NFL Merch

You may wonder "How is fake NFL merch a Homeland Security issue?" Ah! But you...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Deaf Cabbie Doesn’t Respond to Cops Yelling at Him

...so they beat him for seven minutes: Nascent police states--like ours--tend to select for these...

January 09, 2014

Ruling Class Quietly Continues to Prepare to Defend Itself from…

...or make aggressive war on, the rest of us. Florida police department now prepared for...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

TX Court Says Search Warrants Can be Based on “Future Crime”

Good. It's so wearying for the police state to have to wait around for you...

December 03, 2013

From our “Crime and Punishment in the Burgeoning Police State” Files

Here are three incredible stories: First, a judge gets something like a just sentence for...

November 2013

November 09, 2013

Today in Unbelievable Police State Outrage News

There is a coda to this: the man subjected to these outrages has been billed...

November 04, 2013

A Police State Tends to Select More and More *for* These Kinds of Goons

Cop savagely beats disabled man because of "bulge" in his clothes that turned out to...

November 01, 2013

In a Pagan World…

...the normal, room temperature state of the great mass of humanity is Master/Slave throughout almost...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Feel Safe–or You May be an Enemy of Freedom

October 09, 2013

TSA is Your Friend! Trust TSA!

September 2013

September 12, 2013

One of the Three Perps in this Video Takes Responsibility for Being a Criminal

As we devolve into a Police Surveillance State, it will be an interesting horse race...

September 10, 2013

Haw Haw! Crazy Redneck Bible Thumper Gets Tased! is pretty much the subtext…

...of this article. Definitely one of those "Life's Wacky Moments" sort of pieces. That's because...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Our Dear Leader is Just and Wise

I think the disloyal people who are making fun of him and questioning his just...

August 20, 2013

Police State Tries to Intimidate Greenwald

Fails.  It was the Brits acting as lackeys, but have no doubt this is orchestrated...

August 19, 2013

I love my country

...but I feel only a mixture of contempt and fear for my government: I no...

August 09, 2013

Cops Punch Out and Mace 14 Year Old Mentally Ill Girl

As the police state evolves, more of these people find an ecological niche in police...

August 08, 2013

As we devolve into a police state…

...the sort of people who know how to use the law to enrich themselves and...

July 2013

July 27, 2013

Jennifer Pierce Speaks the Truth

"Unless something changes soon, people will look back on this decade and the last as...

July 24, 2013

The Gestapo and the Stasi Taught Germans a Hard Lesson

...that we Americans are about to learn. I love my country. But I only fear...

July 17, 2013

The More Our Ruling Class…

...see us as enemies, subjects, and cattle the more we will see domestic police become...

July 11, 2013

The kind of language a paranoid police state uses…

...just before it starts rounding up the Catholics and other undesirables: "The FBI is asking private...

July 09, 2013

State of California Spays Human Herd

Fortunately, it was just subhuman female prisoners who were forcibly sterilized so no big deal. ...

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