See Something, Say Something... Rat Out Your Neighbor

Kurt Nimmo

The mega-hyped Boston bombing has given the police state a mega-boost. All across the nation, people are on pins and needles, afraid of the next terror bombing.

It doesn?t seem to matter that you are more than a thousand times more likely to die in a car accident than in a terrorist attack. People are suckers for government propaganda. If the government tells them terrorists are a threat, they usually believe it despite the fact dying or even getting injured in a terrorist attack is at best a remote possibility.

Authorities and cop shops all around the nation are gearing up for the next phase of the police state. Now that the establishment media has successfully convinced millions of Americans that al-Qaeda and Chechen immigrants are out to get them, it?s time to ramp up the Stasi police state.

For instance, in Pittsburgh, the cops are encouraging folks to call 911 if they "see something." Actually seeing something is more likely now because the new terrorists look like a lot of Americans -- white people from Europe. In the old days before Boston, it was difficult to see a terrorist. Most people on the street in America don?t wear turbans. They don?t look like Muslims from the 14th century. All of that changed on April 15, 2013, though.

"With the recent explosions in Boston, we are reminded once again that we must remain vigilant and aware of what is going on around us in our communities," Allegheny County Chief of Emergency Services Alvin Henderson told CBS Pittsburgh on Friday.

All of the non-stop fear mongering since the Boston Marathon has paid off in spades. There were 186 reports of "suspicious activity" the week before the Boston Marathon. There were 311 reports of suspicious activity in Allegheny County the week after the bombings, according to CBS News.

No actual terrorist bombs were found, of course. People are now seeing bombs where none exist. All the fear and dread is great for Homeland Security and the military contractors busily preparing to fill the skies with drones and put up thousands and thousands of cameras and microphones on utility poles from Bangor, Maine to Escondido, California.

Mr. Henderson said we?re all part of the "Homeland Security package" providing safety from phantom terrorists we only see on television. It?s our duty to see something and tell the authorities something, no matter how inconsequential.

In fact, according John White, a parking lot attendant in Pittsburgh?s historic Strip District, it is our responsibility to rat out our fellow citizens if we see something suspicious. "As citizens of the city of Pittsburgh, you have an obligation to your fellow neighbor. You have to watch out for anything and everything," White told CBS News.

All of this informing on fellow citizens will naturally require a further expansion of the police state. More cops will have to be hired. More grants from Homeland Security. More military equipment passed down to police departments from the Pentagon. More high-tech wizardry will need be invented.

Sooner or later, after the next terrorist false flag, somebody will decide the Fourth Amendment is antiquated and, really, too damn dangerous. Police lock downs will be routine following see somebody, say something incidents. Citizens will gladly obey like they did in Boston and Watertown. And they will stand on street corners and enthusiastically wave little plastic flags made in China and chant "USA, USA!" as the founding fathers roll over in their graves.

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School Calls Cops Over Water Pistol; Vows To Track Down Owner Using Surveillance Cams

Superintendent: ?You can?t take any of that stuff lightly?
Steve Watson

It is now a daily occurrence for school officials somewhere in America to freak out, call the police, and discipline students over anything vaguely resembling a gun. On Monday it was the turn of Malden High School in Massachusetts.

A teacher at the school reportedly glimpsed sight of a ?gun?, and alerted police who rushed to the scene only to discover a neon water pistol.

?A teacher reported hearing a clicking motion, and thought a student may have had a gun,? Superintendent David DeRuosi told reporters.

After school was dismissed, police located the harmless toy and filed a report, according to Malden Police Lt. Det. Marc Gatcomb.

??no persons were threatened that we know of,? Gatcomb wrote in an email.

Any rational person may have concluded that that was the end of the matter. Not in America 2.0, however.

School officials are now on the hunt for the culprit who brought the water pistol on to school grounds.

?You can?t take any of that stuff lightly today,? Superintendent DeRuosi said, adding that state of the art surveillance cameras that were recently installed as part of the school?s renovation, will help track down the student responsible, and allow officials to hold him or her responsible for such a heinous action.

Once apprehended, the student will face internal disciplinary action for the incident, school officials said.

As we have seen over the past few weeks, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, these kind of ridiculous knee jerk overreactions at schools are now a daily occurrence.

Earlier this month, a 7-year-old boy from Maryland?was suspended for unintentionally biting his pop tart into the shape of a gun. The incident was the latest in a long line of ridiculous suspensions and disciplinary actions against students for anything even remotely gun related. It prompted?Maryland?Sen. J. B. Jennings to introduce a bill to stop such idiotic over reactions being played out over and over again in schools.

And boy are they being played out.

Last week a?third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with aplastic toy soldier, holding a gun, on top of it.

A ten year old Virginia boy who was arrested for taking a plastic toy gun to school is now facing apotentially permanent criminal record over the incident.

A student in Florence, Arizona was recently suspended because he had a?picture of a gun on his computer.

A six-year-old kindergartner in South Carolina?was suspended for taking a small transparent plastic toy gun to school for a show and tell.

A day before that incident we reported on the five-year-old in Massachusetts who faced suspension for?building a small toy gun out of lego bricks and play-shooting his classmates.

We also?reported on an incident that erupted when a discussion between two children about a toy nerf gun caused a lockdown and a massive armed police response at two elementary schools in the Bronx.

In another incident, a Long Island high school was also?placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.

In yet another recent incident, a five-year-old girl was suspended after a three hour grilling, and described as a "terroristic threat" when she?brought a pink bubble gun to school.

A South Philadelphia elementary student was searched in front of classmates and threatened with arrest after she?mistakenly brought a "paper gun" to school.

A 6-year-old boy?was suspended from his elementary school, also in Maryland, for making a gun gesture with his hand and saying "pow".

Days after that incident, another two 6-year-olds in Maryland?were suspended for pointing their fingers into gun shapes while playing "cops and robbers" with each other.

In Oklahoma, a five-year-old boy was also?recently suspended for making a gun gesture with his hand.

And finally, a 13-year-old Middle School seventh grade student in Pennsylvania was?also suspended for the same hand gesture.
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'For Your Own Protection'

by William Norman Grigg

There is no situation that cannot be made instantly and immeasurably worse through police intervention. A splendid illustration of this principle is found in a recent ruling from the the Arkansas Court of Appeals.

According to the court, police were entitled to arrest, taze, and beat a teenager who had done nothing more sinister than speak to his mother on the street in front of their home. A police officer accosted the young man ? who, as a juvenile, is identified only by the initials "R.R." ? after he saw him approaching a woman who was walking a dog.

The officer, who belongs to a social cohort of people who are distinguished primarily by their timidity, claimed that he was "concerned for the woman?s safety." His fears should have been allayed when it was established that the woman was the teenager?s mother.

If the cop had been an actual peace officer, he would have tipped his hat and left. But he was a law enforcer ? that is, someone through whose dark ministrations innocent people are transformed into "criminals" ? and so he insisted on detaining and interrogating the entirely harmless youngster. To that end he sent for "backup," and a thugscrum soon coalesced around the puzzled and terrified teen.

As the Court of Appeals summarizes, R.R. was "tasered several times, removed from the backseat [of a police vehicle], thrown to the ground, tasered again, kicked, handcuffed, and arrested." All of this was done because the young man "moved around and wrestled around while the officers held him on the ground, making it difficult for the officers to put the cuffs on him."

Because he didn?t permit himself to be shackled like a slave in front of his own home because he had been seen speaking to his mother, the teenager committed the supposed crime of "refusing to submit to arrest."

The trial court in the case also acknowledged that the victim was "a fine young man, an excellent student, and active in sports, clubs and church activities." The judge reportedly expressed dismay that "an innocent situation ? just completely got out of hand" ? which is, once again, the familiar and entirely predictable outcome when members of the State?s enforcement caste materialize. Despite these superficial expressions of regret, the Judge sentenced the victim to serve one day in detention ? thereby leaving him with a criminal record because he had been on the receiving end of a state-aggravated assault.

Like most communities in its section of the country, Pope County, Arkansas, where that incident occurred, is thickly populated with Evangelical Christians, whose numbers probably include most elected officials, prosecutors, judges, and police officers. At some point in Sunday School they probably read the 22nd chapter of the Book of Acts, which describes how the Apostle Paul, accused of disturbing the peace, was arrested by Roman occupation soldiers and taken to a local barracks to be questioned under scourging.

As the interrogator was preparing to whip the apostle, Paul pointed out to the centurion in charge that it was illegal to flog a Roman citizen unless he had been tried and convicted of a crime. This objection caused the interrogator to desist immediately, and prompted the officer in command to express the fear that he could face criminal charges because he had chained ? that is, handcuffed ? a Roman citizen.

Every day in this supposedly free country, police commit an act that was impermissible for their antecedents in imperial Rome: In the name of "officer safety," they handcuff American citizens who are not criminal suspects while conducting investigations. Police also routinely inflict summary punishment ? using batons, Tasers, pepper spray, or other means ? against those who resist being detained without cause. Within a few years police will have at their disposal handcuffs that can impart electrical shocks to detainees.

In an 1894 essay published by The Strand Magazine, Inspector Maurice Moser of Scotland Yard wrote that the earliest historical mention of handcuffs was in the fourth century B.C., "when soldiers of a conquering Greek army found among the baggage of the routed Carthaginians several chariots full of handcuffs, which had been held ready in confident anticipation of a multitude of prisoners."

"My personal experience of handcuffs is small, because I dislike them," wrote Inspector Moser of the restraints. He pointed out that in Belgium, which at the time was the seat of a substantial empire, "the use of handcuffs by police is entirely forbidden."

Like most police officers of his era, Moser was a relatively civilized man who found the act of shackling another human being to be barbarous and punitive. Handcuffing a human being certainly doesn?t enhance the safety of the person being restrained. Nor does it relieve police anxieties about the all-encompassing threat to that most sacred of considerations, "officer safety." Witness the large and ever-growing number of cases in which officers ? almost always in the plural, of course ? beat, taze, pepper-spray, and even shoot suspects who have already been handcuffed.

Last summer, police in Aurora, Colorado indiscriminately handcuffed and detained scores of people for the space of more than four hours following an armed robbery at a branch of Wells Fargo bank.

According to Officer Frank Fania, drivers and passengers in the vicinity "were handcuffed, then were told what was going on and were asked for permission to search the car. They all granted permission, and once nothing was found in their cars, they were un-handcuffed."

Once the victims were handcuffed, of course, they had no choice but to grant "permission" for their abductors to paw through their vehicles. What if they had withheld consent? What if they had refused to endure the indignity and injury of being handcuffed in the first place?

Fania insisted that the mass arrests were necessary and justified because it was a "unique" situation. But it?s more honestly described as mass application of the standard approach to "protective" detention of individuals who are not criminal suspects.

Owing to the semantic deviousness of police and prosecutors, citizens are increasingly unsure of their status when they are accosted by police: Are they under arrest, or subject to "investigatory detention"? If the citizen isn?t formally under arrest, is he free to leave? Can police draw their guns and threaten a citizen with lethal force if he is not formally under arrest?

That last question has been addressed in a recent ruling by Louisiana?s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, which held that those circumstances do not constitute a formal arrest ? at least when the legitimacy of that arrest is questioned by the defendant.

On June 8, 2010, Robert Carter of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana parked outside a convenience store. Acting on a tip from a snitch that Carter would soon arrive at the location to conduct a drug deal, two undercover detectives had kept the lot under surveillance. After Carter parked his car, the detectives used their unmarked vehicles to cut off his escape and approached him with guns drawn.

In a panic, Carter threw his car into reverse, severely damaging the unmarked car behind him.

During his bench trial, Carter claimed that the arrival of two armed men ? one of whom admitted in testimony that they didn?t clearly identify themselves as police ? made him fear for his life. After being convicted of felony malicious property damage, Carter ? a second offender ? was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On appeal, Carter insisted that the arrest was unlawful.

In a remarkable achievement in judicial sophistry, the appeals court ruled that what it called an "investigative detention" is not an arrest ? while insisting that Carter had no right to leave what the trial judge called "the arrested place [where] he?s supposed to remain." In practical terms this means that cops are permitted to detain any citizen at gunpoint without such an action qualifying as an "arrest" ? and therefore being subject to the restrictions supposedly guaranteed by the Fourth and Fifth amendments. Once the individual is detained, he can be shackled at the discretion of the officer ? and then beaten, jailed, and prosecuted if he objects.

The act of handcuffing another human being is a serious injury. When not done to restrain someone who has actually harmed another human being, handcuffing is a morally impermissible form of aggressive violence. It is meant to be a tangible demonstration of superiority that requires the victim to submit to the supposed authority of the aggressor. It is designed and intended to humiliate the victim. This is why it is done even to six-year-old inmates of government schools who are dragged away by police officers, nonagenarians who are abducted at gunpoint for neglecting to pay traffic tickets, or pregnant female inmates who are chained while giving birth.

This is also why police who are charged with crimes are often spared being handcuffed out of "professional courtesy" ? which in some cases has actually imperiled the arresting officer.

In the American Soyuz, any of us, at the whim of an armed stranger in a government-issued costume, can find himself being treated in the same way that the Carthaginians treated captured prisoners of war. At least Carthaginian soldiers didn?t insult the intelligence of their victims by insisting that they were being shackled for their own "protection."
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The Will Of The People Doesn't Mean Jack To Drug Warriors

by Dave Hummels

The Associated Press reports that eight former DEA administrators are urging the Obama administration to sue Washington and Colorado over their voter-approved moves toward ?marijuana legalization.

One former chief, Peter Bensinger, fears that successful legalization efforts will lead to ?a domino effect? in the US.? Where have we heard that phrase before?? Bensinger continues breathlessly, ?My fear is that the Justice Department will do what they are doing now: do nothing and say nothing ? If they don?t act now, these laws will be fully implemented in a matter of months.?

So drug warriors are losing their minds over Colorado and Washington.? Good!? We can only hope that Bensinger?s dire predictions come true and that more Americans are indeed waking up to the absurdity of marijuana prohibition.

The former DEA bureaucrats argue, accurately, that marijuana remains illegal under the Controlled Substances Act.? Even in cases involving medical marijuana, the federal government may abuse the commerce clause as a rationale to criminalize users, growers and sellers of marijuana (per?Gonzales v. Raich).? The commerce clause has become the federal government?s drug war equivalent of ?catch-all disorderly conduct statutes in the states.

Unfortunately, these goons have a solid case to present to US Attorney General Holder.? In New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932), US Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said, ?It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.?? But today?s political class views federalism as archaic.

Hopefully the administration will choose to ignore this thuggish recommendation.? But if they do decide to litigate, this will be another sign that the feds don?t give a damn about the? will of the people.? Liberty-loving Americans should respond to this federal intrusion with a massive wave of civil disobedience.

Let?s start by publicly shaming the DEA heads mentioned by the AP: ?Bensinger, John Bartels, Robert Bonner, Thomas Constantine, Asa Hutchinson, John Lawn, Donnie Marshall and Francis Mullen.?? Get to know their names, libertarians.? They are your enemies!

Then, let?s publicize the efforts of these authoritarians to undermine the voters of Colorado and Washington.? Ask them why they continue to support a policy with openly racist origins which has resulted in mass incarceration.? Publicly reveal the motives? of the police agencies that enforce these laws .? When drug warriors drone on about ?protecting the children,? confront them with the horrific reality of wrong door raids, slaughtered family pets and children terrorized with flash-bangs.? Wherever an apologist for prohibition gives a speech or attends a meeting, he or she should be met by throngs of boisterous picketers.

As we expose these petty tyrants, we should also seek opportunities to throw a wrench into the machinery of prohibition.? A mass movement of jury nullification in drug cases may be a promising tactic. ?Prosecutors can use voir dire to remove one or two questionable jurors, but what if nullification becomes widespread?? They can?t remove all of us. ?In the future,? we should view jury duty as a chance to liberate non-violent people from the state?s clutches.

In Tao Te Ching, the Chinese sage Lao Tzu writes, ?The more laws are posted, the more robbers and thieves there are.? ?Time and time again, this observation has been proven correct. The violence of the drug war is perpetuated by government, yet officials insist they must keep fighting.? In their vile attempt to protect their old turf, former DEA bosses show their true colors.? They are gangsters with federal pensions.? They will do anything to ensure that they and their ilk continue to get their cut of drug war booty.? It is up to us to expose their racket and to finish the job sensible voters in Colorado and Washington started in November.
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Wrong Legislative Thought Of The Day: An Email Tax To Save The Post Office

by Timothy Geigner

There have been questions for quite some time now as to whether or not the traditional US postal system can survive the digital era. Frankly, the outlook isn't good, what with email replacing the sending of letters in large part and the postal service losing billions of dollars each year. The postal service itself tried to fight what I guess they thought was just a hip email trend by reminding everyone how terrible email is and how great letters are, or something. Sadly, it appears that campaign made little headway and the US mail system continues to look for a savior.

That's where Gordon Wozniak, Berkeley City Councilman and bad-idea generator, hopes to enter into the equation with his monumentally dumb idea of micro-taxing email, a service everyone uses, to fund the postal system, which nobody cares about.

Wozniak told the council: "There should be something like a bit tax. I mean a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would still make, probably, billions of dollars a year? And there should be, also, a very tiny tax on email," perhaps one-hundredth of a cent. He said this would discourage spam and not have much impact on the typical Internet user. Wozniak went on to suggest a sales tax on internet transactions that could help, in part, fund "vital functions that the post office serves."

Let's set aside for a moment that the proliferation of spam blocking software and appliances has mostly erased spam emails for anyone interested. If Wozniak wants to propose tax law, he should at least familiarize himself with the relevant laws on the books, including the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act, which bans internet taxes entirely. Seems like kind of a big roadblock, no? Fortunately, Wozniak's idea is not only dumb, but it's also completely unworkable, as noted by Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain:

"To the extent that the cheap flow of flat rate first class mail has positive effects for society at large, the insistence that the Post Office be revenue-neutral may not make sense," Zittrain said. "Taxing email as an alternative, however, is a terrible idea: bad in theory and truly unworkable in practice. There have been proposals to see fees imposed on email by service providers ? or recipients themselves ? as a way of minimizing spam, but to impose an external tax on it when there are ready substitutes (Facebook messaging, anyone?), and when collection would be a nightmare, seems a non-starter. There is no reason to tax electronic mail users in particular to save the Post Office, any more than it would make sense to tax coffee drinkers to do it."

In response, Wozniak said that despite not being an expert on internet taxes (wut?), he still thinks the idea deserves to be considered because "many billions of emails are sent every day [and] an email tax could raise substantial sums." By the way, he delivered that statement...wait for it...via email.

Well, I'm not a bad-idea tax expert, but since there are so many bad ideas generated every day, we could solve every financial crisis everywhere by taxing the hell out of bad ideas. Let's start with yours, Mr. Wozniak. After all, the postal service needs you.

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DHS To Purchase MORE Firearms As Arms Build-Up Intensifies

Forbes asks if huge ammo buys should become ?national conversation?
Paul Joseph Watson

Just days after announcing a 5-year, $4.5 million contract with Heckler & Koch, the Department of Homeland Security has released details of an identical agreement with weapons manufacturer Sig Sauer, as Forbes publishes an article calling for a ?national conversation? about the DHS arms build-up that has been dismissed by the media as a conspiracy theory.

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A solicitation for a no bid contract?posted on the Federal Business Opportunities?website contains details of a DHS agreement with Sig Sauer to provide weapons parts under the remit of a $900,000 dollar a year contract set to run for five years.

The?PDF document?accompanying the solicitation is virtually identical to an?agreement announced last week?for Heckler & Koch to provide firearms replacement parts for the exact same fee and time period.

Despite our article drawing attention to the fact that the supposedly ?redacted? figure of $4.5 million on the original agreement with Heckler & Koch was in fact visible, the same error appears in the Sig Sauer agreement, suggesting that only the name has been changed.

Although controversy surrounding the DHS? purchase of some?2 billion rounds of ammunition?has dominated concerns about the federal government?s apparent arms build up, the DHS also purchased?7,000 fully automatic assault rifles?last September.

Despite the fact that some mainstream media outlets and leftist websites have tried to downplay concerns about the arms build up as paranoid conspiracy theories, the influential?Forbes Magazine today features an article?by Ralph Benko asking if the issue should become a ?national conversation.?

?At the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. 1.6 billion rounds, therefore, would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years. In America,? states the article.

?Why, indeed, should the federal government not be deploying armored personnel carriers and stockpiling enough ammo for a 20-year war in the homeland? Because it's wrong in every way,? writes Benko.

Not according to the likes of Media Matters, Huffington Post, the Atlantic Wire and others,?all of which claimed the issue was ?debunked??merely because a DHS spokesperson told the Associated Press that the ammo buys were made in bulk to ?save money? on training bullets. As Benko points out, the federal agency has bought enough bullets to last for a century of target practice.

In reality, most of the bullets purchased by the agency are hollow point rounds, which are more expensive than standard training bullets and therefore unsuitable for target practice. Last week,?former Marine Richard Mason told reporters with WHPTV News?in Pennsylvania, ?We never trained with hollow points, we didn't even see hollow points my entire four and a half years in the Marine Corps.?

Those outlets reporting that the issue had been explained also failed to clarify how a single quotation from a representative of the very government agency being scrutinized could possibly mean that the matter had been adequately investigated and ?debunked.?
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Woman injured in LAPD manhunt says cops won't pay taxes on replacement truck

By Arturo Garcia


The attorney for a woman who was mistakenly targeted by Los Angeles police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner in February has accused the department of breaking its promise of a new truck for her.

?You tried to murder the woman, you put 102 bullet holes in her truck,? Glen Jonas told KNBC-TV on Monday. ?Now you?re telling her she can?t have a 4-wheel drive.?

Jonas his client, 47-year-old Maggie Carranza, refused a police offer of a new Ford F-150 truck if she agreed to pay taxes on it, in part because it meant Carranza would have to pay an additional $10,000 in personal income taxes she cannot afford. He said the department?s offer also barred Carranza from selling the vehicle for a year.

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what was the total number of rounds fired?so we know how many missed the truck completely.these 2 were lucky that this group of cops were such bad shots.now the mental midgets egos are leading again and doing everything they can to make it not their fault. criminals don't pay for their damage.

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