Civil Liberties News Archive
Government Terrorists Terrorize Iowa
Homeowners
Government terrorists are continuing their agenda of terrorizing the
American people and destroying individual liberty
Supreme Court restores habeas
corpus
The Court struck down that section of the MCA because it purported
to abolish the writ of habeas corpus
We Are Change Colorado Member
Handcuffed, Ticketed for Handing Out Terrorstorm, Loose Change
As I was giving a DVD to an interested person, this officer who gave
me the ticket came up to me and told me that what we were doing was
“peddling” and that we would all have to stop immediately
D.C. police to set up
"Neighborhood Safety Zones", demand ID from citizens
Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police
Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate
“Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons
around those zones and demand identification from people coming in
and out of them
Legislating Tyranny
The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on
the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil
liberty that Bush justified in the name of the “war on terror
75-Year-Old Korean War Hero Fends Off Burglars
A decorated Korean War veteran in Carlisle fended off burglars at
his home early Friday morning
Christian Preaching In UK A 'Hate Crime'
The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing
a "hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they
returned
Middle classes losing faith in 'rude'
police who go for soft targets instead of the real criminals
The middle classes have lost confidence in the police, a stark
report has warned
FBI Solicits Informants To Spy On RNC
Protest Groups
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone
to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub
shoulders with RNC protestors
UK Teen Prosecuted For Calling Scientology A
Cult
A teenager is facing prosecution for using the word "cult" to
describe the Church of Scientology
Terror
Programs Targeting American Citizens
The U.S. government has repeatedly claimed that it was launching
aggressive programs solely at
foreign enemies, and then launched them at
American citizens
Feds Accuse Student Of "Terror and
Espionage" For Talking About Constitution
East
Texas pastor threatened by anonymous men in dark suits for giving
talk to Boy Scouts about bill of rights
Man Arrested, Put In DNA Database For
Allegedly Dropping Apple Core
Brownshirt "community support officer" thugs preying upon
law-abiding citizens, turning Britain into a hellhole using
justification of insane environmental laws
Cop Tasers Man for Sitting in Chair
Police raid like 'third world dictatorship'
MAJOR media companies have warned that politicians seem to be
willing to use the police to avoid embarrassing stories getting out
following a raid on a Perth newsroom
Global press freedom declines in 2007:
study
Global press freedom
declined in 2007 for the sixth year running, with worrisome
restrictions imposed in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam,
the rights group Freedom House has stated in a report
Police Forces Dressing In Black To "Instill
Fear" In Citizens
Psychological influence of uniforms cited by authorities
Concern as Ministry of Defence's 'private'
police quiz thousands of tourists
The Ministry of Defence's 'private' police force is using
wide-ranging powers to stop and search thousands of tourists and
other suspects, it can be revealed
Video: King George W. Bush's American Police State
Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to
Instill Sense of 'Fear'
The city's new police
commissioner, William Fitchet, says members of the department's
Street Crime Unit will again don black, military-style uniforms as
part of his strategy to deal with youth violence
Jackboot Stormtroopers Roam New York
Subways
Armoured police toting MP5 machine guns begin patrols of transit
system in name of fighting terror
Police May Search Even If Arrest Is Invalid
The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to
conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest
that turns out to have violated state law
U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other
nations
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population.
But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners
TansLink Cops Will Continue To Taser
Fare Dodgers
"Non-compliant" passengers will be tortured until they behave
properly
Video: Operation Sudden Impact (Martial Law Training)
Innocent photographer or terrorist?
"It's a sad state of affairs today if an amateur photographer can't
stand in the street taking photographs."
Feds to collect DNA from every person they
arrest
The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone
arrested by a federal law enforcement agency
Video:
New American Theology of Civil Submission
Pastor Mark Jeske says "I'm free to
make myself a slave"
Video: Oakland Gun Search Program
Police Remove Olympic Torch Bearer On
Orders Of Chinese Paramilitary Thugs
Communist Chinese-style political oppression comes to San Francisco
as cops shove woman to sidewalk for displaying Tibetan flag
Homeland Security Wants to Install Permanent
Checkpoint
Homeland Security wants to build a permanent immigration checkpoint
in central Vermont
Chinese dissident gets 3½ years for essays
A Chinese court Thursday sentenced an outspoken human rights
advocate to three and a half years in prison after ruling that his
critical essays and comments about Communist Party rule amounted to
inciting subversion
Video Of Woman Pushed Down Stairs Prompts
Calls For Charges Against Officer
Video showing a woman being pushed down some stairs by a police
officer that led to a battery charge against the woman has prompted
calls for charges against the officer
Students Call for Anti-Rove Demonstrators to be Tased
New Linkin Park music video shows martial law
Cops beat Tibetan protesters - in America
Disgusting video footage of New York cops clubbing and arresting
peaceful Tibetan protesters who were merely walking down the street
has gone relatively ignored beyond Youtube
D.C. Gun Crackdown Meets Community Resistance
Police Ask Residents To Submit To Voluntary Searches
Video: Tibet Crackdown
Video Shows Cop Tasering Already Restrained Disabled Man
FBI: Martial Law a Question of "When, not
if"
Rogthschild revealed that martial law is "going to be when, not if,
according to the FBI and Homeland Security
Fascist Morning Joe: Tase, Take 9/11 Truthers to Concentration Camps
Video: Fox Cameraman Kicked Off Public Property In Detroit
Report: 1 In Every 99 Americans Now Behind
Bars
For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American
adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the
surge in inmate population
Scan-It: Aiport X-Ray Playset For Kids
The device seems like a thinly veiled attempt to indoctrinate kids
into the modern world of security theater
Woman Beaten at Same Jail as Wheelchair Dumping
Amtrak: random bag screening, bomb sniffing dogs and guards with full auto weapons
Arrested, caged and DNA tested - for using
MP3
A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints
taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus
Toss From Wheelchair Brings Jail
Suspensions
A deputy roughly dumps a man out of a wheelchair, and he tumbles to
the floor
NORTHCOM Ready To Implement Martial Law
In a press release, the military command stated that the
organization is ready to respond to any homeland defense or civil
support mission requirement
Minnesota Cops, School District:
OK to Use Tasers On Students
Superior High School
scored a dubious first last week when law enforcement officers
subdued a student with a Taser stun gun
DHS official moots Real ID rules for buying
cold medicine
A senior US
Department of Homeland Security official has floated the idea of
requiring citizens to produce federally compliant identification
before purchasing some over-the-counter medicines
In the name of freedom, Britain is becoming a police state
Ever since suicide bombers caused 52 deaths on the London
Underground in 2005, we have reluctantly accepted further
encroachments on our liberties as a necessary evil.
U.S. Troops Asked If They Would Shoot
American Citizens
"He was asked if he could shoot his friends or family members if
ordered to do so"
Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies
called outrageous
It ended with her face down,
completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor.
American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss
Today Americans are on the verge of being asked for their papers,
although probably without the "please."
Video: Firefighters In Florida “Free Speech” Zone
Minnesota Man Tasered to Death for
Non-Compliance
Authorities are
investigating the death of a 29-year-old Fridley man shot with a
Taser by state troopers, who said he had become “uncooperative”
after a rush-hour crash Tuesday evening
Giuliani's Orwellian concept of freedom
"Freedom is about the
willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful
authority..."
Police Break Into House To Take Child To
the ER
A family home was the scene of an unannounced police raid because
the authorities suspected that the parents had failed to provide
proper medical care for their 11-year-old boy who suffered a head
injury.
Brown shows true colours in grim year for
liberties
For law and justice, the year that is just ending was, I believe,
one of the most depressing for many years.
Police academy says, ‘Go out and cause’ PTSD
A state police academy leader
has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging
one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder.
Police Begin Fingerprinting on Traffic Stops
If you're ticketed by Green Bay police, you'll get more than a fine.
You'll get fingerprinted, too.
Police, Protesters Clash at NO City Hall
Police used
chemical spray and stun guns Thursday as dozens
of protesters seeking to halt the demolition of
4,500 public housing units tried to force their
way through an iron gate at City Hall
Police brutality cases on rise
since 9/11
Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement
officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show.
Texas Readies Police State Tech for
Possible Hurricane Evacuees
"Texans seeking to escape the next hurricane or state emergency by
evacuation bus will first be submitted to criminal background
checks, the state's emergency management director says," reports the
Houston Chronicle
.
Police hold on to DNA records of youngsters
THE DNA
profiles of 2,805 children under the age of 16 are being stored on a
police database.
Pro-Lifer Attacked With
Club, Threatened With Arrest During Clinton
Protest
Pro-lifers with graphic signs were attacked by a
man wielding a club during a protest at a
Hillary Clinton campaign stop in Fort Madison,
Iowa, on Friday, yet responding police
threatened to arrest the pro-lifers if they did
not immediately leave the public sidewalk. The
incident was captured on video.
New York City sued for
harassing photographers
New York City police officers need better
training to distinguish between law-abiding
citizens who snap pictures of city landmarks and
those suspected of plotting terrorism, a lawsuit
filed on Thursday by the New York Civil
Liberties Union said.
Hearing Impaired Man Tased by Police
Donnell
Williams had just gotten out of the bath tub,
wearing only a towel around his waist, when he
turned the corner to see guns pointing right at
him.
Bill of Rights
Under Bush: A Timeline
January
Presidential directive delays indefinitely the scheduled
release of presidential documents (authorized by the
Presidential Records Act of 1978) pertaining to the
Reagan-Bush administration.
Londoners Interrogated
Over Journey Plans
Big Brother inquisitors posing as ticket
inspectors covertly record passengers
Fox Host Says Dissenters Should
Be Tased
During a discussion about a Code Pink member heckling
Hillary Clinton at a recent event, Fox News host Brian
Kilmead said that people who confront politicians are
"threatening" and should be Tased or "beaten to a pulp,"
as the establishment media continues to sell the idea
that anyone who disagrees with authority should be
brutally punished.
Naomi Wolf: America's Fascist Coup
Owes to Bush's Nazi Grandfather
Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year
after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were
being followed to a tee by the Bush administration,
spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the
origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's
attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America.
.
Gordon Brown reveals 'Fortress
Britain' plan
Train passengers face routine airline-style bag checks
and body searches as part of a new counter-terror
crackdown announced by Gordon Brown.
Biometric data to be made must to fly to UK
Biometric data
collection will be introduced as part of the
United Kingdom (UK) visa application process in
India from December 12.
Legislators, residents speak out
against REAL ID program
Handcuffed Woman Tased in
Police Station
It
appears far too many cops use the devices to electrocute
people simply because they refuse to cooperate, not
because they pose a threat to the officers.
"Fusion Center" Trained
Firefighters Search for Thought Crimes
It's like a chapter out of Orwell's 1984: the New York
City fire department is working closely with the
Ministry of Homeland Security.