POLICE STATE THREAD!!!...

[seremtan]

very lol

[U4EA]

NSFW Warning

Now this is some bonafide police state shit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyANnZ5dDc

[seremtan]

very not lol

fucking cunts

[Therac-25]

G20 stuff.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/100 ... 20-assault

Investigators have asked 11 witness officers to identify the colleague accused of beating Barton during last June’s G20 summit. Eight of them were within the immediate vicinity of Barton’s violent takedown; one of them was also the officer’s roommate during the summit, according to the SIU.

None of the officers were able to offer a positive identification, leading many critics to suggest a “blue wall of silence” was at play.

No shit Sherlock.

[scared?]

wtf?!...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/26/f ... g-testing/

[4days]

wtf?!...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/26/f ... g-testing/

if you imagine that we live in a sane world run by altruistic people, this could be a positive step towards legalisation.

[scared?]

but it will be used to increase the prison population to about 4-5 million...gg america...

[seremtan]

the war on drugs

gg indeed

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

okay Swede.

[andyman]

lol http://i.imgur.com/fqQw2.jpg

[obsidian]

G20 case reveals 'largest ever' police spy operation. RCMP collaborated with provincial and local police to monitor activists.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... ml?cmp=rss

[scared?]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 4348.story

soon they will just take us out like in Pakistan...

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B01tykOd ... re=related

[seremtan]

lol...

[4days]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B01tykOd ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYnzVxXF ... re=related
wtf canada at least our undercover cops try to run off with the demonstrators - that's like proper bodysnatchers stuff.

unrelated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qhIZ8Px ... re=related

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

A group called StopNDAA.org has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to block the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which, they claim, gives the president power to arrest and indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without evidence.
The state of Virginia has declared the NDAA illegal. Arizona, Tennessee, Washington, and Cherokee County, Kansas have passed or are developing similar legislation, which will render it unlawful for local officials to cooperate with federal investigators or U.S. armed forces trying to arrest citizens under the NDAA. These challenges are being made under the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives states ultimate sovereignty. A group called the Tenth Amendment Center is offering local governments assistance in nullifying the NDAA in their districts. Severe criticism of the NDAA has been leveled by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. This is a very serious set of events that is very much underreported in the U.S. media.
The NDAA was signed into law by President Obama on December 31, 2011 and went into effect on March 1, 2012. Although the NDAA is designed to aid in preventing terrorism, critics say that the language is so vague that any U.S. citizen can be targeted. StopNDAA.org notes that political activists are especially vulnerable.

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/321389#ixzz1qWkxfp6n

[4days]

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

[seremtan]

...we will legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows to ensure that the use of communications data is compatible with the government's approach to civil liberties.

in much the same way that a bolt gun is compatible with an abattoir's approach to animal welfare. for a while there i thought the lib-con alliance were going to go a different way to labour's petty authoritarian fear-mongering

note the usual 'balance' boilerplate as well:

Chris Huhne, then the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman, said any legislation requiring communications providers to keep records of contact would need "strong safeguards on access", and "a careful balance" would have to be struck "between investigative powers and the right to privacy".

i.e. a middle ground between the government's ability to trawl through peopl's communications at will without a warrant, and your lack of privacy

[4days]

obviously privacy is the far bigger part of the issue, but the cost/practicality does my head in too. labour blatantly gave a blank cheque to someone to try and implement this IT retardathon and con/dem are honouring it (probably because they're invested in whoever got the contract /tinfoil) - same for the ID card system, which will go ahead under some other name.

we can take some small comfort from knowing that if a power-mad tyrant gets into office, none of their monitoring infrastructure will work properly and things will be more terry gilliam than michael radford - but it still sucks that any of this even came up in the first place. idk, if ID cards and state monitoring are the answer, you're asking the wrong question.

[Tsakali]

[Plan B]

Wow, that's one frustrated piggie.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Gee...that cop isn't an authoritarian asshole at all and is the PERFECT type of personality that should be someone responsible for public peace and safety. Give that man a raise and then make him Chief of Police.

[Plan B]

Yep, we live in a world that is not perfect.
Fucking cunts like these are unfortunately placed in positions of authority.
What to do about it? Nothing.

Ultimately, humanity sucks.
You can either get bitter and frustrated about this, or try to supress and avoid this reality.
I choose the latter.

[Tsakali]

DON'T TASE ME SIR

[seremtan]

if ID cards and state monitoring are the answer, you're asking the wrong question.

^ this

on the bright side, this whole thing might be nixed either by a backbench revolt, or by the project being delivered late, 50% over budget and not actually working, like most government IT projects