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Tag Archives: Police Violence
Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, Militarization, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged civil liberties, digital rights, Economics, fascism, Freedom, Government, Kleptocracy, police state, Police Violence, Privacy, Public Health, surveillance state, Technocracy, tyranny
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The Police State’s Reign of Terror Continues … With Help from the Supreme Court
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.”—George Carlin You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Law, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged civil liberties, Dystopia, fascism, Militarization, police, police state, Police Violence, qualified immunity, surveillance state, Technocracy, warrantless arrests, warrantless searches
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One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, censorship, Compulsory Education, contact tracing programs, corporatocracy, Corruption, Despotism, fascism, Government, Government Contractors, heightened surveillance, law, Lockdowns, mandates, Mass Incarceration, Militarized Police, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Private Prisons, restrictions, schools, security industrial complex, surveillance state, US Legal System, war, war profiteers, war spending
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The Culture of Vehicular Attacks
On the Murder of Deona Marie Erickson By CrimethInc. On June 13, a driver attacked a demonstration in Minneapolis, killing Deona Marie Erickson. This is the result of years of right-wing efforts to normalize—and even legalize—vehicular attacks. Now the corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, freedom of speech, Law, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged activism, Anarchism, Breonna Taylor, civil liberties, Deona Marie Erickson, fascism, George Floyd, Government, Heather Heyer, law, Nicholas Kraus, police state, Police Violence, racism, Systemic Racism, Winston Smith
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The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power
By John W. Whitehead Source: Mint Press News The system is rigged, the government is corrupt, and “we the people” continue to waste our strength by fighting each other rather than standing against the tyrant in our midst. Because the system … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, elites, Empire, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, civil liberties, elites, fascism, law, Oligarchy, police state, Police Violence, qualified immunity, State Crime, tyranny, U.S. Supreme Court
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Are we about to see a Colour Revolution in the United States?
The familiar tropes are out in force, Trump may not weather this storm. By Kit Knightly Source: Off-Guardian It started with peaceful protests. It always does. Oppressed, poor or otherwise desperate people take to the streets because they don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, Color Revolutions, corporate media, Coup, Deep State, Democracy, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, insurgence, Mainstream Media, Martial Law, Militarization, police state, Police Violence, protests, state violence, Uprising
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That Change You Requested…?
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com All the previous incidents of white cops killing blacks were just too ambiguous to seal the deal. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (a murky business); Tamir Rice in Cleveland (waving the BB gun that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Covid-19, Derek Chauvin, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Financial Crash, George Floyd, insurgency, lockdown, Oligarchy, police state, Police Violence, protests, State Crime, Systemic Racism, Uprising
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Nationwide Uprising Against Failed State Triggered By Police Killings
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: CounterCurrents.org The nationwide uprising sparked by the murder of George Floyd and other recent racially-motivated events is a response to the bi-partisan failed state in which we live. It comes in the midst … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, police state, Racism, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged activism, corporate bailout, covid19, Derek Chauvin, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Failed State, George Floyd, insurgency, Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Pandemic, police state, Police Violence, Reclaim the Block, State Terror, Systemic Racism, Uprising
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