Category Archives: Police State

U.S. drones to watch entire Mexico border from September 1 |

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 31, 2010
Source: Reuters Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said U.S. Customs and Border Protection would begin flying a Predator B drone out of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Wednesday, extending the reach of the agency’s unmanned surveillance aircraft across the length of the nearly 2,000 mile border with Mexico. “With the deployment of the Predator in Texas, [...]
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UK: Report recommends Government fight back by infiltrating internet sites to dispute theories

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 31, 2010
Source: The Independent The secret services must become more transparent if they are to halt the spread of damaging conspiracy theories and increase trust in the Government, claims a leading think tank. A Demos report published today, The Power of Unreason, argues that secrecy surrounding the investigation of events such as the 9/11 New York [...]
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Department of Justice Lists Survivalists, Constitutionalists in Extremism Guide

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 30, 2010
So, they’ve been reading my mail again! Source: Public Intelligence A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists “constitutionalists” and “survivalists” alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood. The 120-page, “Law Enforcement Sensitive” guide to “Investigating Terrorism and Criminal Extremism – Terms and Concepts” describes itself as “a [...]
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U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 29, 2010
Source: PogoWasRight.org Schools are increasingly invading student privacy both in school and outside of school. Are schools grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere? A PogoWasRight.org commentary. The increasing use of student surveillance and intrusion of school districts into students’ extra-curricular conduct should alarm us all. [...]
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Environmentalists seek to ban the "manufacture, processing and distribution" of lead shot, bullets and fishing sinkers under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 27, 2010
Source: FOXNews.com A coalition of conservation groups filed a petition earlier this month with the Environmental Protection Agency in which they argue that the use of lead in ammo and tackle is poisoning the nation’s lakes, ponds and forests. The environmentalists are asking the EPA to ban the "manufacture, processing and distribution" of lead shot, [...]
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Senate To Sneak Through Internet Kill Switch Bill

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 27, 2010
Source: prisonplanet.com The Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece of legislation that is almost guaranteed to pass – the defense authorization bill – in an underhanded ploy to avoid the difficult task of passing cybersecurity on its own. “It’s hard to get [...]
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Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 26, 2010
Source: Forbes American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While [...]
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Let’s not forget this gem from 2009- The UK Minority Report: Has ‘Precrime’ Finally Arrived?

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 24, 2010
Source: OpEdNews A recent article in the UK Independent entitled, Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists, heralds what looks to be the unofficial beginning of British law enforcement’s own "Pre-crime" program. For the first time, we can begin to see intelligence gathering and emerging technologies converging in a culture of pre-emptive law enforcement. Officials [...]
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Software Predicts Criminal Behavior

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 24, 2010
Source: ABC News Beginning several years ago, the researchers assembled a dataset of more than 60,000 various crimes, including homicides. Using an algorithm they developed, they found a subset of people much more likely to commit homicide when paroled or probated. Instead of finding one murderer in 100, the UPenn researchers could identify eight future [...]
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Germany to roll out ID cards with embedded RFID

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 23, 2010
Source: International Business Times The production of the RFID chips, an integral element of the new generation of German identity cards, has started after the government gave a 10 year contract to the chipmaker NXP in the Netherlands. Citizens will receive the mandatory new ID cards from the first of November. Various German authorities will [...]
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