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The Growing Police State

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January 2013

January 24, 2013

Abortion Clinic Jackbooted Thug…

...attacks peaceful protesters. This little tin-plated fascist with delusions of running the SA or Bull...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

It’s a Shiny Happy Police State!

The NSA Tells Congress What to Think And Say About the NSA: Checks and Balances...

December 07, 2012

Big Brother: Making Our Lives Easy and *Fun*!

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Verizon has filed a patent for targeting ads that collect information...

December 04, 2012

The Police State Will Not be Mocked

NY Street Artist Arrested for Satirizing Drones I hope somebody in some court smashes this...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

There are still some bugs to be worked out of the Police/Surveillance State

One of them is when the Police accidently get their own selves surveilled when they...

November 20, 2012

Feel Safer Or You May Be An Enemy of the State

Senate Bill rewrite lets Feds read your email without a warrant I wonder if they...

November 16, 2012

The Taser States of America

Seems like hardly a week goes by that you don't hear about some power-drunk cop...

November 16, 2012

The People’s Democratic National Security State of Heaven

eats its own in an exquisite act of justice.  Even an atheist like Glenn Greenwald...

November 10, 2012

Orwell would be proud

"We want to make people feel safe" What is Baltimore doing to make people feel...

November 05, 2012

Our Post-9/11 Ruling Class

...working together to destroy your liberty while scaring you about the bogeyman. You can jigger...

November 05, 2012

The Police State Grows

Here in the Soviet of Washington, we now have drones patrolling the population. The general...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

See, Here’s the Thing: Zombies Aren’t Real

...which means that, cute and funny as all this is, what is actually happening is...

October 23, 2012

Daniel Nichols Finds a Reason to Vote for Romney

It's something like Dale Price's tongue in cheek remark that a Republican in the White...

October 23, 2012

Yup

Greenwald: [I]t is almost certainly the case that an Obama-led attack on Iran would generate...

October 15, 2012

Our Awesome God King

Counterpunch asks: “During his election campaign in 2008, Barack Obama promised to close the prison...

October 11, 2012

Wow!

The American Revolution was fought over stuff like taxes on tea and quartering of troops...

October 11, 2012

The People’s Democratic National Security State of Heaven

We *will* create a secular paradise of safety if we have to turn every last...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Fascism for the Irony-Impaired American

New cameras to watch the cameras that are watching you. I am not making that...

September 18, 2012

Journalists! Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors!

The God King appeals the recent decision of a court, striking down his claim to...

September 14, 2012

A $16 trillion deficit…

...is not nearly enough to stop Caesar from erecting a vast police state face recognition...

September 11, 2012

Equality!

Under Barack Obama, we finally have a nation where people of all colors, genders, sexual...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

Today’s Science Creepiness

This is the sort of thing that makes me want to move to a third...

August 20, 2012

Well, that’s one way of getting rid of all those expensive old people

Feel safe, or you may be an enemy of the state. First it was the...

August 17, 2012

The People’s National Security State of Heaven

Feel safer: First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National...

August 13, 2012

Cost of a Nosy Neighbor Drone: $300

Cost of a BB: 1 cent. I don't see this as a cost-effective investment for...

August 10, 2012

And while Americans were still quaintly obsessing….

...(on the Right) over how some guys in a cave in Afghanistan and (on the...

August 08, 2012

Our Ruling Class Hate Us for Our Freedom

Our nation's top military planners are now discussing plans for fighting Americans on American soil....

August 01, 2012

Because we don’t live in a police state or anything

“Currently,” said McCaul, “there are about 200 active Certificates of Authorization issued by the Federal...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

The Beautiful Thing About Being Catholic…

...is that John Barnes and I can come together for different reasons to heap contempt...

July 05, 2012

Our Ruling Class Explains “Shut up”

...to you puny subjects who think the government should not establish a police/security state. As...

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