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Entries Tagged ‘police state’

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 [...]

Man Detained As Terror Suspect For Photographing Police Car

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Despite police claiming that an ambiguous section of the UK Counter Terrorism Act of 2008 would not outlaw taking photographs or film of police, a man was detained as a terror suspect this week simply for taking a photograph of a police car in order to document police misconduct.
62-year-old [...]