POLICE STATE THREAD!!!...

[andyman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvt-xPlj4M0

[seremtan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvt-xPlj4M0

a tear came to my eye watching this

[seremtan]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/39_say_u_s_legal_system_too_worried_about_individual_rights_over_national_security

39% Say U.S. Legal System Too Worried About Individual Rights Over National Security

I honestly had no idea it was this bad.

scratch the surface of any idiot who thinks "people have too much freedom" and you'll find an idiot who thinks *other* people have too much freedom

[Kat]

[Link is too long damnit]

39% Say U.S. Legal System Too Worried About Individual Rights Over National Security

I honestly had no idea it was this bad.

A lot of the statements made in that article reveal just how insidiously political bias skews thinking; when a Democrat thinks one thing and a Republican the opposite, does that reveal anything about the 'truth' other the above skewed perseptions of 'reality' (facts)?

[GONNAFISTYA]

Trooper Fights Paramedics With Patient Still In Ambulance

Oklahoma's Tulsa World newspaper reports on a bizarre scuffle this past week after a highway patrol officer pulled over an ambulance that was carrying a patient headed for the hospital, but didn't have its siren on. The patrolman apparently intended to issue a 'failure to yeild' citation to the ambulance driver, and was angered when he believed one of the paramedics gave him a middle finger.

Despite being told that the woman in the ambulance needed to get to the hospital, the trooper insisted that one of the paramedics be detained in his car. When he tried to handcuff a paramedic, a fight ensued, which was filmed by the husband of the patient.

Oklahoma

[seremtan]

dumb cops

also, dumb UK labour government who decided to make it illegal to film or photograph police like that guy was doing

[scared?]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... eheadlines

[GONNAFISTYA]

lol

Drunk cop beats a small, female bartender because she wouldn't serve him any more drinks....and his lawyer claims the bartender (less than half his size) "tossed him around like a ragdoll". FFS. Are there any honest people left in law enforcement/litigation?

I know...I know...the answer is "no".

link to video

I must say that having country music playing in the clip is the perfect soundtrack for the braindead, redneck violence on display.

[Tsakali]

my question is, there were two other guys at the bar, how can any self respecting male let a woman get literally beat down by some dude?

I know internet tough guy acts are stale, but honestly I couldn't stop myself from beating the dudes head in while witnessing that...I would be intrinsically unable to resist.

[scared?]

he would have kicked ur ass tsakali...

[Tsakali]

the way he was wobbling about? k...

[Fender]

DoD classifies protests as "low-level terrorist activity"

[seremtan]

jesus christ

hello bizarro world

[Fender]

Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number (UK) w/ video

[seremtan]

oh yeah, the british police have got the market in intimidation well and truly cornered. somewhere a memo is telling them that protest is "low-level terrorism"

[4days]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26 ... ine_games/

The Great Australian Firewall will try blocking websites that host or sell video games not suitable for children under the age of 15.

christ, the ozzie parliament's even more backward than our lot.

[seremtan]

australia

[DTS]

T-Power - Police State - Prospects For Democracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanrEg55g2M

[andyman]

T-Power - Police State - Prospects For Democracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanrEg55g2M

thanks for that hard information.

[Fender]

lol brits
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/ ... inutes.htm

[seremtan]

they've given up on making id cards compulsory btw, after various data-loss scandals and a dramatic turnaround of public opinion. the conservatives *say* they'll scrap the whole thing (and they're likely to get in next year) but frankly i think they're full of shit and will just continue with a downgraded version of the cards

[GONNAFISTYA]

What's this crap I hear about the Brits putting video cameras in people's homes to ensure that their kids "are eating, sleeping and doing their homework"?

From what I read there are currently over 1000 homes with the cameras already installed with a plan for 20,000 more.

[R00k]

You can't be serious.

Maybe parents are putting cameras in their own homes to watch their kids?

[scared?]

What's this crap I hear about the Brits putting video cameras in people's homes to ensure that their kids "are eating, sleeping and doing their homework"?

From what I read there are currently over 1000 homes with the cameras already installed with a plan for 20,000 more.

Posted by: benry | 08/3/09 | 1:09 pm

The mistake you have made is to take anything written by the Daily Express at face value. Perhaps it is a while since you were in the UK, but you should be aware that they print total and utter bollocks most of the time.
Firstly this story is at least a year old (and the trial scheme started in 1995), and secondly the most restrictive regime (with the monitors etc) is for a very small handful of families (not 2000) who cause extensive and very real misery to the lives of people around them and who have been escalated through the system. These are the real families from hell, “known” to social services, the police, the courts, just about everyone.
There are a small number (about 5 or 6) semi-secure units in the country (called “core residential units”) which house these extremely difficult families and are used as part of behaviour management programme. The most extremely disruptive families are moved to these units.
Most families that are part of these family intervention projects are dealt with by a combination of key workers and use of sanctions. They do not have CCTV installed in their homes
The alternative to these family intervention projects is jail - so this is a better regime than that.

[GONNAFISTYA]

I don't read the Daily Express and I read about this on Monday.

I'll try to find the link.