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Entries for the ‘police state’ Category

Our man at Bilderberg: ‘You are not allowed to take pictures of policemen!’

The Guardian
May 17, 2009
By Charlie Skelton
I need to go back a day and tell you exactly how I came to be in an Athens metro station at 8am, grappling with two strange men, struggling and yelling: “Help me somebody! Security! Please! Someone get security! Get the police!” My voice still hurts. My brain is ready [...]

Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More

New York Times
May 13, 2009
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
The responding officers — eight teenage boys and [...]

DHS Document Lists “Alternative Media” As Potential Terrorists

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 4, 2009
A new Homeland Security document that received little attention during last week’s swine flu coverage shockingly lists the “alternative media” with other radical extremist groups and implies that people who disagree with the mass media’s version of events are potential domestic terrorists.
The “official use only” document is entitled “Domestic [...]