Watch this video and decide for yourself if you think the Jan. 6 attack on the Capital was not in fact, a staged false flag. Then consider how many rights robbing pieces of legislation were ready and waiting just for the occasion.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. MenckenThe U.S. government is working hard to destabilize the nation.
No, this is not another conspiracy theory.
Although it is certainly not far-fetched to suggest that the government might be engaged in nefarious activities that run counter to the best interests of the American people, doing so will likely brand me a domestic terrorist under the FBI’s new classification system.
Observe for yourself what is happening right before our eyes.
Domestic terrorism fueled by government entrapment schemes. Civil unrest stoked to dangerous levels by polarizing political rhetoric. A growing intolerance for dissent that challenges the government’s power grabs. Police brutality tacitly encouraged by the executive branch, conveniently overlooked by the legislatures, and granted qualified immunity by the courts. A weakening economy exacerbated by government schemes that favor none but a select few. An overt embrace of domestic surveillance tactics if Congress goes along with the Trump Administration’s request to permanently re-authorize the NSA’s de-activated call records program. Heightened foreign tensions and blowback due to the military industrial complex’s profit-driven quest to police and occupy the globe.
The seeds of chaos are being sown, and it’s the U.S. government that will reap the harvest.
The training video is only five minutes long, but it says a lot about the government’s mindset, the way its views the citizenry, and the so-called “problems” that the government must be prepared to address in the near future through the use of martial law.
Even more troubling, however, is what this military video doesn’t say about the Constitution, about the rights of the citizenry, and about the dangers of locking down the nation and using the military to address political and social problems.
The training video anticipates that all hell will break loose by 2030—that’s barely ten short years away—but the future is here ahead of schedule.
Samsung AI Center’s Moscow research team have combined with Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology to publish a new document that shows how terrifying new software can be used to create 3-dimensional talking heads. The images are created via still images. The software’s creations are nothing short of stunning and scary. It can take a regular, common image of anyone and produce what appears to be a video communication from that person. Of course, the implications of such technology are unsettling. This means rival governments will be capable of serving up a completely fake video of politicians. It also means countries such as the United States could leverage such technology for its own purposes.
You need to read this!! Please go HERE to see the full report and examples of this terrifying technology. You know this will be put to no good use. Just another weapon in their arsenal of weapons to use against all of humanity.
Billed as the military’s latest “crowd control” technology, what this has typically meant is a new “non-lethal” weapon designed for use by militaries or police forces against unruly demonstrators or those standing against powerful state actors or corporate forces.
According to U.S. government documents, the aim of the ongoing project is to develop “a lightweight and energy efficient next-generation Ultra-Short Pulse Laser (USPL) system that can produce sustainable and controllable plasma at range capable of inducing a full spectrum of scalable non-lethal effects.” As a so-called “scalable” weapon, it will be able to shoot not only piercing sounds, but also “burn off” or “vaporize” human skin, and ultimately could be used to kill its target.
As the Daily Mail recently explained, the weapon will be able to “produce a range of effects”:
At the lowest setting, the weapon can produce speech, and it will be able to warn people up to 3,200 feet (1,000m) away by delivering voice messages.
When it gets closer, the weapon will deliver a ‘Flash-bang effect’ by sending an ‘acoustic blast of ~ 165+ dB at minimum distance of 100 meters’.
It will also be able to send a ‘Flash blind effects (6-8 million candela)’ momentarily blinding people at minimum distance of 100 meters
The highest setting of the current model will let loose ‘Full scalable thermal ablative effects’ through common natural clothing (i.e., fabric, denim, leather, etc.) at minimum distance of 100 meters. This would painfully vaporize the outer layer of skin – rather than burning it will be turned into gas.
Ultimately, as the government’s program plan lays out, the weapon would “have direct application to many other U.S. Government agencies as well as civilian law enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Department of Justice, the Secret Service, and Customs and Border Protection also desire this full spectrum of effects capability. The ability to non-lethally interdict a threatening person or persons has utility in many security and crowd control applications to include several municipal applications.”
Of course, what this often means is using such a weapon—as has long been true with other “crowd control” technologies—in order to intimidate or put down public protest or organized demonstrations that are seen as threatening to powerful interests.
This article was chosen for republication based on the interest of our readers. Anti-Media republishes stories from a number of other independent news sources. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect Anti-Media editorial policy.
The following presentation was part of Left Out forum, which 9-11 Truth organized to coincide with the Left Forum held in June 2017 in New York. It featured Dr Kevin Barret (the speaker) and other activists who were denied permission to speak at the Left Forum.*
In his talk, Barrett traces false flag terrorism back to Operation Gladio. The latter was a US military operation in Europe involving bombings and other terrorist attacks targeting civilians that were falsely blamed on left wing groups (eg the Red Brigades, the Baadar Meinhoff Gang and the KGB).
The overall purpose of Operation Gladio terrorism was to influence European elections at a time when Communist politicians enjoyed large majorities in the polls.
The Purpose of Trauma-Based Mind Control
According to Barrett, this strategy represents a form of trauma based mind control or psyops (psychological operation). As with Gladio, the cumulative effect of such attacks is to swing the vote for right wing authoritarian leaders who promise people protection and security.
Barrett has collaborated with ex-CIA undercover officer Robert David Steele to conduct extensive research into the false flag attacks in London in 2005 and 2017; in Manchester in 2017; in Paris in 2015, in Nice in 2016; in Munich in 2016, in San Bernadino in 2015 and in Orlando in 2016.
In this presentation, he briefly summarizes the pattern of anomalies suggesting each of these events was staged by individuals with links to the US military and/or US intelligence.
He has written about them in a series of books – Another French Flag: Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernadino, Orlando False Flag: the Clash of History, and We Are Not Charlie Hebdo: Free Thinkers Question the French 9/11.
It’s Barrett’s view that both the British and French false flags resulted in the defeat of left leaning candidates (Corbyn in Britain and Melenchon in France) who were riding high in the polls – just like the Operation Gladio false flags of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
9/11: Mother of All False Flag Events
Barrett maintains 9/11 was the mother of all false flag events, in addition to decapitating the burgeoning antiglobalization move (sending 75,000 into the streets of Seattle in 1999), 9/11 and its aftermath transferred immense power to Bush’s neocon supporters (Cheney, Rumsfeld et all), enabling them to suspend civil liberties, increase surveillance and police state powers and carry out massive US military expansion in the Middle East.
*Barrett also mentions the “gatekeeping” function played by the “official” US Left as regards 9-11 and CIA and US military involvement in assassinations, false flag events and the funding of ISIS. I have always attributed this phenomenon to the infiltration of the US left by the CIA and CIA-funded gatekeeping foundations. See The History of CIA-funded Foundations and Does the CIA Fund Both the Right and the Left
(ANTIMEDIA) — Sgt. Terrance Yeakey was an Oklahoma City Police Officer, a first responder to the OKC bombing, and an American hero. Officer Yeakey, known to friends as Terry, saved the lives of eight people from the Alfred P. Murrah building on the morning of April 19, 1995.
Terry was a few blocks away from Timothy McVeigh and the now infamous Ryder truck-which was brimming with explosives-when it detonated and erased the lives of 168 people, including 19 children. Yeakey rushed to the blast site, and without regard for his own life, began pulling people from the rubble one by one. More
The dark side of social media: The Pentagon loves Facebook
Walk down the street these days and you’ll see half the people you encounter have their nose buried in their smart phones.
It’s not an accident.
It’s planned and encouraged – and it’s not for your benefit.
We helped break this story TEN years ago, and it’s only just reaching public consciousness now.
Long before social media, the US Army Corps of Engineers had their employees posing as “average citizens” parroting their press releases – as the bodies of people killed by the Corp’s ineptitude and corruption were still floating in the flooded streets of New Orleans.
“Nowadays, students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but the punishments have become far more severe, shifting from detention and visits to the principal’s office into misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.
These outrageous incidents are exactly what you’ll see more of if the Trump Administration gets its way.”
Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools already contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the “outside.”
Now the Trump Administration wants to double down on these totalitarian echo chambers.
Just when you thought this administration couldn’t get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties, they prove once again that they have absolutely no regard for the Constitution (especially the Fourth Amendment), no concept of limited government, and no concern for the growing need to protect “we the people” against an overreaching, overbearing police state.
America’s schools today are already about as authoritarian as they come. More
“As an incentive, Sheriff’s are paid money from the Federal Government every time there is a SWAT Team raid.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Whenever there is a mass shooting at an event or a school, instead of challenging gun rights, should not the people’s cry be, “where was the security guard?” If schools are a target of terrorism, then have a security guard at every large school in the U.S. That is a way better solution than taking guns or having gun control. Gun control in America doesn’t make a lot of sense when a person sees that the country has already drifted towards tyranny where there is a SWAT team-military mentality, presently stemming from law enforcement. For the record, SWAT Teams, now have at their disposal
two models of sub-machine guns that are frequently used which are the 9mm HK MP5, 10mm MP510. or, the .40 / .45 HK UMP or, a 5.7mm FN P90.
This is America, land of the free and home of the brave, right?
As an incentive, Sheriff’s are paid money from the Federal Government every time a SWAT Teams are used in a raid. There’s still more on this subject. Let’s not forget Waco where 80 people were burned to death by the government during the Clinton administration. None dare call it a massacre and yes, the Boston massacre done by the British was far, far less of an event but this small act added one more nail in the coffin of the 13 colonies and those people’s “unrest” which later became the America Revolution of 1776. In a “free” country such as America where there are gun happy law enforcement officers with fire power beyond measure, should not the people be alarmed?
There’s a new gold rush today, yet it truly remains a gamble when a person grows medical marijuana or recreational weed. But is it worth losing one’s land, their cash, their car or going to jail? Asset forfeiture is the key word here and it is alive and well in America. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is a federal agency that is on a mission. and it is called POLICING FOR PROFIT. The DOJ just changed the rules again to where this federal agency reinstated the “equitable sharing” program with states and local governments. The policy, once again creates a windfall of profits for these players.
Watch Mike Papantonio’s expose’ on asset seizures
here…
Civil asset forfeiture allows the government to freeze bank accounts, seize property and cash from Americans with no charge, while even the
mere suspicion of wrongdoing will get a person arrested. In most jurisdictions, the seizing agency gets to keep some or even all of the proceeds, creating a clear profit motive for the agencies who are involved in taking property.
“The equitable sharing program also provides an 80% kickback to the seizing local agency, which is a larger share of the proceeds than many states allow. As one might expect, the more a state restricts the use and abuse of civil asset forfeiture, the more state and local police tend to rely on the federal program instead. In short, equitable sharing creates a federal incentive for law enforcement to sidestep state law and chase profits under federal law instead.” (The Cato Institute)
If anyone is involved in a marijuana case you not only become a suspect, you may fall into the arena of probable cause, but also you may not even be charged or convicted, but all of your assets can be seized, and in certain cases, a person may even be denied a court hearing.
Five billion dollars in civil assets were seized in 2014 by law enforcement. That’s more than what was seized by real criminals. In plain language, what is this called? It is called Third World extortion!
“So, do we now have “special cases” to where the protection of the people and their rights should be taken for granted? It is quite obvious that Washington D.C. isn’t concerned one bit about any of this.”
Martin Cooper, an employee with Motorola, invented the cellphone on April 3, 1973. Though the first land line telephone had been around since 1876, cellphones and especially smart cellphones have opened up a Pandora’s Box when it comes to personal privacy and especially so since 9/11.
Historically, government intrusion of communications has actually been ongoing ever since the invention of the telegraph In 1877. Yes,it’s true. That was when the “Wichita Lineman” was still on the line and the Western Union company was King. And it may surprise many that in that same year government, in a special case, was demanding that the Western Union betray the confidence and the privacy of its patrons and surrender coded information.
However, the court ultimately sided in favor of the telegraph company, concluding that these open-ended demands for telegrams “would lead to consequences that can be contemplated only with horror, and such a process is not to be tolerated among a free people.” (Bloombergview.com) Thus, was the beginning of a cat and mouse game and a 4th amendment tug-a-war between government and “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, and effects, against unreasonable searches…and persons or things to be seized.”
In the proper context, when considering electronic surveillance, “things to be seized” today would amount to Internet spying and an extraction of text or a verbal cellphone message from one person to another and then placing it in a national data bank.
Now then, in the case with Apple Computer, the company was very explicit by saying that surrendering an encrypted code compromises the privacy of millions of persons using Apple cellphones, and it also becomes a serious 4th amendment issue, and even more so when one considers the implications that would result from cracking corporate codes that are meant to protect every users cellphone worldwide.
People want to have the confidence that their communication with others is not being compromised by an Orwellian State bent on absolute power and control such as what takes place in totalitarian regimes such as China. Being secure with one’s effects used to be the standard, but today, government and NSA believes that they no longer need to observe an unalienable right that originated in the Bill of Rights.
So, do we now have “special cases” to where the protection of the people and their rights should be taken for granted? It is quite obvious that Washington D.C. isn’t concerned one bit about any of this.
A change in the people’s privacy rights along with major intrusion began on 9/11 when the Bush administration went into high gear and contracted major telephone companies such as AT&T and paid them money to track and then store conversations which were either foreign or domestic and without warrants. There was no resistance from any major telephone company except one, and that was Quest Communications. At that time, Joseph Nacchio who was the CEO said, absolutely no, to NSA spying and that Quest Communications would not wiretap anyone unless a warrant was issued by a judge.
Nacchio was legally correct in his stance, however the government didn’t see it that way and it wasn’t very long after the standoff that Nacchio ended up in prison for over 4 years on “insider trading” charges brought on by the government. A frame up? Perhaps this sent a message to other CEO’s that are not willing to cooperate with the feds? Did Congress rush to pass a new law that would protect persons such as Nacchio for refusing to tap someones telephone lines unless warrants were issued? If they did, please, someone out there correct me.
And that’s a long story short.
Now then, considering America’s unique roots and being the only nation in the world that has a Bill of Rights which is meant to protect the people from their own government, a San Francisco based organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is busy pursuing a legal remedy in the courts that will hopefully protect the people from illegal wiretaps or wireless intrusion when there is no warrant. They are on a major mission to give America a far less intrusive country.
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small of a degree of it.”
Jefferson, letter (1791)
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
The Official Version of 9/11 goes something like this:
Directed by a beardy-guy from a cave in Afghanistan, nineteen hard-drinking, coke-snorting, devout Muslims enjoy lap dances before their mission to meet Allah. Using nothing more than craft knifes, they overpower cabin crew, passengers and pilots on four planes.
And hangover or not, they manage to give the world’s most sophisticated air defence system the slip.
Unfazed by leaving their “How to Fly a Passenger Jet” guide in the car at the airport, they master the controls in no-time and score direct hits on two towers, causing THREE to collapse completely.
The laws of physics fail, and the world watches in awe as asymmetrical damage and scattered low temperature fires cause steel-framed buildings to collapse symmetrically through their own mass at free-fall speed, for the first time in history.
Despite their dastardly cunning and superb planning, they give their identity away by using explosion-proof passports, which survive the destruction of steel and concrete and fall to the ground where they are quickly discovered lying on top of the mass of debris.
Meanwhile in Washington…………………
Hani Hanjour, having previously flunked Cessna flying school, gets carried away with all the success of the day and suddenly finds incredible abilities behind the controls of a jet airliner. Instead of flying straight down into the large roof area of the Pentagon, he decides to show off a little. Executing an incredible 270 degree downward spiral, he levels off to hit the low facade of the Pentagon. Without ruining the nicely mowed lawn and at a speed just too fast to capture on video.
In the skies above Pennsylvania……………………….
Desperate to talk to loved ones before their death, some passengers use sheer willpower to connect mobile calls that would not be possible until several years later.
During these events………………………………………….
President Bush continues to read “My Pet Goat” to a class of primary school children.
In New York……………………………………………………..
World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein blesses his own foresight in insuring the buildings against terrorist attack only six weeks previously.
In Washington……………………………………………………
The Neoconservatives are overjoyed by the arrival of the “New Pearl Harbor,” the necessary catalyst for launching their pre-planned wars.
In the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security was formed to protect Americans from terrorists on our own soil, but NOW the American people need protection from an enemy that is from within, and they are the unelected czars of the many rogue, state, county and federal and international agencies which include the U.N. Police, Interpol, Homeland Security, the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI who are now tracking innocent Americans with no warrants and monitoring whomever they please 24/7.
Additionally, instead of truly protecting our homeland, the government is also making a home for middle eastern Muslims and radical Somalians who are presently living in America by the tens of thousands but are now illegally crossing our Southern border crying “Asylum” which is the new buzzword to gain entry. And who’s helping to bring them in by the bus loads, and then driving them to Victorville, California? None other than Homeland Security.
Welcome to America! “A Customs and Border Patrol agent, who asked not to be identified, told World Net Daily that many more Africans and Middle Easterners are likely crossing over the Mexican border than what DHS is willing to admit.” You’re not going to get an honest number, because they all want to look good and get promotions from the people in D.C., and the border agent told WND. “I’m absolutely confident that is happening.”
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the new Somalia capitol of America which houses tens of thousands of Muslims, many of which are radical players who are intent on decimating the U.S. Constitution and ushering in Sharia law which is based on the Koran where there is no separation of church and state. Sharia becomes the infallible law of Allah.
“More than 100,000 Somalis have been brought to the United States legally since 1991 through the U.N. refugee resettlement program. Close to half of them have been resettled in Minnesota, with the rest dispersed throughout Seattle, Ohio, Maine, California, Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, Colorado, Georgia and several other states.”
The Somali community in Minnesota has had well-documented problems assimilating, running up a troubling record of crime and radicalization. Scores of Somalis have been arrested and charged with providing material support to overseas terrorist organizations such as al-Shabab, al-Qaida and ISIS.”
So this is how the present administration “protects” our homeland, utilizing Homeland Insecurity/1984 Doublespeak! This is an outrage. It is quite obvious that President Obama, a Muslim sympathizer, is not interested in protecting what most would consider as the mainstream American people who’s federal tax dollars are supposed to be used as protection from international enemies of the state…not bring the enemy to our shores and offer them a cup of tea and a free pass to Disneyland. Yes, it’s getting awfully Goofy. Multiculturalism of this kind is off the charts. Muslim’s who war with their own and also with Jews and Christians, cannot even get along in their own Middle Eastern countries, so why are we bringing them here?
There is a growing consensus that with bus loads of undesirable immigrants being placed in America that there is a sinister plan which aims to destroy the very foundation of the nation using extreme
radical elements and then rebuild America into an unconstitutional regime which will be ruled by a few.
To counter this agenda, the American people must pray and peacefully come together, city by city, county by county, and state by state to stop these radical elements that are intent on infiltrating the country through a rouge terrorist agenda bent on destroying one nation under God.
Can this nightmare really happen in the U.S, the land of the brave and the free? The answer appears to be YES. “Cary Andrew Crittendon has been jailed in Santa Clara County, California for attempting to expose the judicial corruption in the courts in Santa Clara County. Currently, he is held on parole violations for “non-specific” charges. Apparently, no one knows what he violated, they just think he violated something. The previous charges that ended with the parole, the result of a frame-up verified by an attorney who was involved in the proceedings. A continuance has been secured until May 4th, 2015, to allow the prosecutor more time to fabricate a case against Cary which will most likely result in a long prison term if this is allowed to proceed.
The history of Cary’s case includes, but is not limited to:
1. The public defender assigned to Cary not only allowed, but failed to object to the known falsified report submitted by a detective closely associated with the court in question.
2. All exculpatory evidence proving Cary’s innocence was withheld and suppressed. Cary was not allowed to present any evidence in his defense, while his public defender stood silent.
3. All evidence produced by the prosecutor was fabricated and falsified with no actual corroborating evidence that Cary had, in fact, committed any crime.
4. The public defender refused to allow Cary to actually read the charges against him or to know what those charges were comprised of.
5. The judge involved in the previous jailing of Cary, refused to allow him any bond to secure his release. Obviously, exposing a corrupt court official is akin to a terrorist act.
6. A taped conversation with one of the attorney’s involved exists, where that attorney admits that Cary was set up and framed.
Today, Cary needs all the support we can generate for him. He is currently being held Elmwood Correctional Facility, Milpitas, California.
Please send a letter of support to:
Cary Andrew Crittendon Baracks 13 Bunk 5
Elmwood Correctional Facility
701 S. Abel Street Milpitas, California
NOTE FROM BOOMERS AGAINST ELDER ABUSE. If you agree with us that this situation is intolerable, please write Cary to support him during the nightmare he is going through. In the meantime, I’ll find out what else we can do.
“Millions of clear-headed people all over the world have paid close attention to the evidence that disproves the Big Lie, and thus they have seen through the propaganda that launched and then quagmired and bankrupted the US into two illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are naturally wondering what is going on, and why have they been black-listed?”
Why do Good People Become Silent About the Documentable Facts That Disprove the Official White House Conspiracy Theory About 9/11? – Part ONE
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“It is my firm belief that 9/11 skeptics—and true skeptics of any paradigm-shifting and taboo subject—who publicly expose lies and naked emperors are heroes who have come out of waiting, for we have suffered the ridicule and wrath of those emperors, their minions, and the just plain frightened.
“To survive as babies and young children, we automatically look to our parents (thought-leaders, TV anchormen, politicians, military generals and other parent figures) for confirmation of safety or danger (whether manufactured or otherwise).
“Thus, the need for a leader, an authority, appears to be genetically hardwired. If we have been reared in an authoritarian family and school system, then this tendency to rely on authority figures for confirmation of reality is likely reinforced. Conversely, if we are (gently) reared in a family, school system, and cultural context that rewards critical thinking and respects our feelings and needs, then the tendency to rely on authority figures would likely be weakened.
“In our American society, many of our officials routinely lie to and abuse us, but nonetheless, many citizens continue to look to them for truth and safety—especially when fear is heightened. This strong tendency to believe and obey authority is another obstacle with which skeptics of the official 9/11 account must contend.
“By unquestioningly believing and obeying authority, we develop and perpetuate faulty identities and faulty beliefs, and to top it off, we make very bad decisions, which often negatively affect others. This can be equally true for the four human proclivities studied by social psychologists: doublethink, cognitive dissonance, conformity, and groupthink.”– Psychologist Frances Shure, M. A., L. P. C. Excerpted from Part 3 of her 9 part series on “Why Do Good People Remain Silent – or Worse – about 9/11?” More
“The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought” – physicist Richard Feynman
Bearing that in mind, our basic task as 9/11 truth investigators is, simply put, to determine and to impress upon the public what the evidence shows. If said evidence unambiguously indicates who is responsible (as most of us tend to believe), then that’s automatically part of the burden of our message. If it only shows, as some insist, that the myth-producing official story is untrue and nothing more, then that is.
We can’t reliably provide all the details of how and why, because we don’t have all the evidence. And that’s where theories, involving conspiracies or otherwise, come in – possibly right, but at the risk of making us an uncertain trumpet when we lack proof fully substantiating our claims. But yet, all that is needed is what the evidence clearly indicates. Emphasizing what we cannot prove divides and obscures that which we can. More
“In other words, the twenty-first-century war on terror has melded thoroughly with the twentieth-century war on drugs, and the result couldn’t be anymore disturbing: police forces that increasingly look and act like occupying armies…”
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The direction being achieved by militarizing our cops is to train them to be an occupying force under the control of the Federal government and its minions instead of being
our friendly public servant whose job was once to “serve and protect”.
As most Americans firmly oppose the current morphing of local police from protects and serves and community policing to federally militarized and federally subsidized occupying force.
In the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., an unarmed 18-year-old black man was killed by police in broad daylight.
By now, what’s happening in Ferguson is about so many second-order issues— the militarization of police with systemic racism, and how citizens can redress grievances, among other things—that it’s worth remembering what actually happened…
Last week Ferguson was sending shock waves across America and around the world. Many viewers first tuning into the national news thought they were observing a 3rd world riot that we so often see coming from places like the Middle East, Russia, China or some out of control banana republic. No these pictures were coming from Ferguson Missouri in the heartland of America. We as Americans need to examine the problem of the militarization of our police.
Dr, Edwin Vieira, Jr. writes in his new book that we now have a choice to make – do we want to continue to live in a police state, or do we do something about it.
As Karl Bickel, a senior policy analyst with the Justice Department’s Community Policing Services office, observes, police across America are being trained in a way that emphasizes force and aggression. He notes that recruit training favors a stress-based regimen that’s modeled on military boot camp rather than on the more relaxed academic setting a minority of police departments still employ. The result, he suggests, is young officers who believe policing is about kicking ass rather than working with the community to make neighborhoods safer. Or as comedian Bill Maher reminded officers recently:
“The words on your car, ‘protect and serve,’ refer to us, not you.” More
There’s a new convenient buzzword being bandied about, quite a bit lately, by people who seem hell-bent on usurping the protections offered to Americans by the U.S. Constitution. I am speaking of a term ‘Bad Actor’, which I seem to be hearing more and more from politicians or public safety officials, these days. Sounds an evil and threatening prospect, doesn’t it?
Yes indeed it does to me, at least, and that’s surely because it’s supposed to unnerve and scare somebody just like myself, and you as well, of course. It’s a slogan-like soundbite beginning to bubble around seemingly everywhere in the mainstream media to make you think that you are being protected by some big brother operative in the guise of ‘Uncle Sam’. The problem, however, it seems to me, with such a broad and indiscriminate label or classification is that even if one were to look up the definition of these two words in conjunction with one-another, they would discover that any such distinction were it to be imposed upon a U.S. Citizen, does not necessarily allude to criminal behavior at all, or moreover, to some terrorist design or intention. Hell, ‘Bad Actor’ could simply be slapped upon someone who is having a bad day.
With only a preliminary examination of the term in question for the purpose of this article, one on-line dictionary, defines Bad Actor as follows :
1. A mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person. While another, comes up as:
1. One that consistently behaves or reacts poorly.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that you were a student riding a city bus to school in Houston, Texas, and some TSA official approached you while in transit and demanded to have a look in your backpack for no apparent reason whatsoever (yes, such outrageous things have now arrived, and will increasingly become commonplace in the United States). And let us also suppose, that this government someone or other – invading your privacy and harassing you as such, made you feel as though you were being violated? Which, in turn, compelled you to complain passionately or indignantly; or even to refuse to comply with the procedure? More
