Civil Liberties News Archive


Hate crimes bill passes
It would give the U.S. Justice Department expanded authority to prosecute such crimes when local authorities don’t act.

Mayor Bloomberg: "We can’t just say everybody can go everyplace and do anything they want.”

DHS Doles Out Fed Cash to Deploy Military LRADs in U.S. Cities
The LRAD devices used against protesters and the residents of Pittsburgh last month were a beta test for things to come.

Only 28% Of High School Students Are Familiar With The Constitution
Frightening results of Constitution Day survey indicate vast majority of students have little understanding of political system

Obama Pushes For Renewal Of Warrantless Spying On Americans
President Barack Obama has once again betrayed his promise to restore liberties eviscerated by the Bush regime by pushing Congress to renew Patriot Act provisions that allow for warrantless spying on American citizens, even in cases where there is no link to terrorism whatsoever.

Obama Youth: Homeland Security Wants To Recruit Girl Scouts
T
he latest disturbing example of how the federal government, under the umbrella of Obama’s “civilian security force,” is recruiting young people to serve the state comes with the announcement that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to enlist the Girl Scouts.

No-warrant terrorism raids proposed in Australia
The Federal Government has unveiled plans to toughen its counter-terrorism laws, including a change to allow police to break into a suspect's home without getting approval from a judge

Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.

Obama Appointee Wants Soviet-styled Media
Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping “direct government support for public media” and creating licenses to govern news operations.

Man Detained As Terror Suspect For Photographing Police Car
Sleath was subsequently approached by the two officers in the car and was told he was being detained because he had breached Section 44 of the Terrorism Act.

Secret DHS Doc Predicts Violence in Response to New Gun Restrictions
Official document warns law enforcement “rightwing terrorists” will violently resist efforts to impose draconian gun laws.

Gordon Brown: Compulsory National Youth Service “will become a normal part of growing up in Britain”
The Prime Minister said a pledge to introduce compulsory community service would be included in Labour’s next general election manifesto.

China extends detention of leading dissident
Chinese police have extended the detention of leading dissident Liu Xiaobo, his lawyer said Tuesday, as rights groups urged Beijing to release the writer and make public the charges against him.

London's Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects
Metropolitan Police officers subjected suspects to waterboarding, according to allegations at the centre of a major anti-corruption inquiry, The Times has learnt.

Police getting more firepower
200 to be armed with assault rifles

Military Personnel Ordered To Comply With Illegal Private Gun Registration
Infantryman based at Fort Campbell leaks shocking directive ordering soldiers to submit information on registration, location of weapons as well as Concealed Carry permits, order was stopped according to base officials

Guardian Writer Hounded And Threatened Over Bilderberg Reporting
London Guardian writer Charlie Skelton has further detailed the constant harassment and stalking he has been forced to endure for daring to cover the 2009 Bilderberg meeting near Athens.

Former Top Rated NRA Senator to Introduce Gun Ban This Week
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat and member of the so-called Blue Dog Coalition, plans to introduce an assault weapons ban this week.

Newspaper: Britain Officially “Totalitarian State”
BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

Swine Flu A Hoax, But Martial Law All Too Real
The H1N1 virus itself has claimed less lives than a normal flu outbreak would be expected to kill, but the architecture of martial law in the form of draconian measures readied to combat a pandemic has been firmly locked into place.

Chinese police training manual offers tips on the best way to beat up offenders
A Chinese law enforcement agency has been using a training manual which advises officers on how to use violence without leaving incriminating evidence behind.

Combat Support Battalion Deployed to “Maintain Public Order” at Boston Marathon
On Monday, the National Guard deployed 400 Massachusetts National Guardsmen from the 126th Combat Support Battalion to keep the Boston Marathon race route clear for more than 26,000 runners, according to the U.S. Army website.

Insane Cop Arrests ABC News Reporter For Filming Traffic Accident

Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.

Obama Appointee Wants Soviet-styled Media
Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping “direct government support for public media” and creating licenses to govern news operations.

Man Detained As Terror Suspect For Photographing Police Car
Sleath was subsequently approached by the two officers in the car and was told he was being detained because he had breached Section 44 of the Terrorism Act.

Secret DHS Doc Predicts Violence in Response to New Gun Restrictions
Official document warns law enforcement “rightwing terrorists” will violently resist efforts to impose draconian gun laws.

Gordon Brown: Compulsory National Youth Service “will become a normal part of growing up in Britain”
The Prime Minister said a pledge to introduce compulsory community service would be included in Labour’s next general election manifesto.

Americans Denounced As Terrorists While Criminals Embraced
Meanwhile, the tens of millions of real criminals who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally are not even mentioned in the “Threat Assessment” as being a threat - and are in fact set to be rewarded by the government with legal status and all the privileges that go with it.

Video: Campaign for Liberty Staffer Detained, Harassed in St. Louis

Police 'fusion' centers criticized for tracking Ron Paul, Barr, McKinney supporters

DHS, Military Police, Law Enforcement Plan Checkpoint in Tennessee
An Infowars reader has sent a page taken from the Hardeman County, Tennessee, Bulletin Times announcing a seat belt checkpoint to be conducted on April 4 “in conjunction with a Homeland Security training exercise by the 251st Military Police in Bolivar who recently returned from Iraq

More Cities Target Teens With Daytime Curfews
Comment from Old-Thinker News: Our ancestors weren't bound to their desks in school prison all day, they were able to gain their bearings in the real world and explore.

Police may be privatized by a foreign company in Chicago
They're private security guards, already on patrol, but they may soon have the powers of Chicago Police officers.

Missouri Apologizes to Paul, Barr & Baldwin Over MIAC Report
The uproar that ensued as a result of our original story about a document issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center which smeared third party supporters as potential domestic terrorists has forced the Missouri Department of Public Safety to issue an apology

Schenectady mayor considers options, martial law over police woes
"It's a contrived scenario," said the mayor. "But it's not beyond the realm of possibilities if you go that particular route."

Wake judge orders home schoolers into public classrooms
A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school.

Thai Bloggers Face Jail Without Bail for Discussing Monarchy
Suwicha Thakhor has spent two months in a Thai prison, accused by police of insulting the royal family. He says he should be allowed to express an opinion.

Lakewood, Fort Lewis start police liaison program with military
Fort Lewis and Lakewood police are working together to build a better understanding of what happens on ‘the other side.’ Lakewood police are enlisting the help of Fort Lewis for times when city cops need to cooperate with the Army

U.S. Army Puts Soldiers on the Street in Alabama in Response to Shootings
The U.S. Army dispatched soldiers to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, a small southern town where a rampaging gunman killed 10 people on Tuesday

Police will have power to secretly search homes
POLICE will be allowed to secretly search suspects' homes and remotely access their home computers for a month under the most draconian covert operation laws the state has seen.

Mobile prison cells will cage criminals on the beat
They will allow officers to process criminals, fingerprint them and issue, on-the-spot fines, bail or court summons without having to go back to a police station.

Guardsmen to conduct urban training at Arcadia in April
In addition to surveillance, searching and apprehension, the exercise will also give the troops valuable experience in stability, support, patrol, traffic control, vehicle searches and other skills needed for deployment in an urban environment

Whatever happened to free speech?
Britain was once renowned around the world for defending people's right to speak out. Not any more

Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

Superintendent warns against 'inappropriate comments'
The district, he said, expects students and staff to show respect for President-elect Obama and the incoming administration, as well as President Bush and the outgoing administration, and recognize that "while the election is a competitive process, our nation's greatness is displayed when all sides come together for a united country."

Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War
It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001.

Police placed in all city schools
Eight of the city's 38 schools will have a full-time police presence. Another 16 officers will cover the remaining 30 schools.

Whistleblowers sent to mental ward, Chinese paper says
Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistleblowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them to the local psychiatric hospital.

Washington Post: 20,000 More U.S. Troops To Be Deployed For “Domestic Security”

D.C. Metro to Randomly Search Riders’ Bags
Metro officials yesterday announced plans to immediately begin random searches of backpacks, purses and other bags in a move they say will protect riders and also guard their privacy and minimize delays

Video: Brain Scans Being used In Indian Judicial System
CNN's Liz Neisloss reports on a controversial new forensics technology being used for crime solving in India.

Student Arrested for “Terrorist” English Class Story
A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday that the “writings” that got him arrested are being taken out of context.

Criminalizing dissent
US states are spying on political activists and classifying them as terrorists in order to stifle protest

One in three recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have criminal records

Video: U.S. Army prepares to invade U.S.
The plans to implement martial law in America have been taking shape for decades

Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control"
Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.

Guidelines expand FBI's surveillance powers
Justice Department officials released new guidelines Friday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States, alarming civil liberties groups

Average Brit Breaks Nanny State Laws Once a Day
Many may not know they have done anything wrong, while others simply might not care.

Milford Schools Adopt Breath Testing For Alcohol
School officials say if a student refuses to take the Breathalyzer, the student could be suspended for 10 days

Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors Targeted
Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of
Internal Revenue Service rules

Anti-terrorism laws used to spy on noisy children
Councils are using anti-terrorism laws to spy on residents and tackle barking dogs and noisy children.

Sudden death after arrest may be "new syndrome"
Young men who die suddenly after being arrested by the police may be victims of a new syndrome similar to one that kills some wild animals when they are captured, Spanish researchers said on Tuesday

RNC Protesters Charged as Terrorists Under Minnesota Patriot Act

Police raid headquarters of RNC protesters

Civilians being given police powers on the rise
The Tories have accused the Government of "policing on the cheap" after ministers revealed that the number of civilians given police powers has increased by nearly 500 over two years

Police tell owners: 'We're inspecting your guns'
Investigators searching community for firearm used in murder

Law and order: Curfew America
War zone security has arrived in the US as cities are shut down at night by police struggling to control a deadly wave of gun crime

MSNBC: Bush creating 'embryonic police state'
Under the proposed changes, law enforcement agencies would be allowed to target groups and individuals on the basis of suspicion of participation in terrorist acts or providing material support to terrorists

Baby shower celebrants claim cop brutality
"Mommy, it burn," Adima, 1 1/2, said yesterday as her mom, Dionne Whitaker, recounted a violent encounter with Philadelphia police over the weekend

'Gitmo On The Platte' Set As Holding Cell For DNC
CBS4 News has learned if mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denve

Major International Transport Hub Censors Political Websites
While media accuses China of blacklisting sensitive information, censorship is taking place right here at home

Video: NYPD Officer Beats Man With Metal Baton

Fliers Complain About X-Rated Security Screenings
For arguing with a TSA agent, Robin Kassner wound up being slammed to the floor

Video: Series of Police Check Points set-up in Wa DC Neighborhood

Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi
Presidential candidate wants domestic “security force” as powerful as U.S. military, columnist compares proposal to Hitler Youth

Video: CNN: ‘Top secret’ weapons to be used at political conventions

Fusion Centers: Implementing the Control Grid
In order to sell us on surrendering our rights, the government told us they would establish “fusion centers” around the country to collect intelligence on al-Qaeda and assorted other amorphous bad guys, an explanation that made sense to a lot of people after September 11, 2001

Utility Workers Hired As Stasi Informants In Colorado, California, Arizona
Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado, Arizona and California to watch for “suspicious activity” which is later fed into a secret government database

Glenn Beck: I Wouldn’t Detain Terror Suspects, I’d ‘Shoot Them All In The Head’
"We’re going to shoot them all in the head. If we think that they are against us, we’re going to shoot them and kill them, period. "

Constitutional expert: FISA bill 'is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment'

Video: Inside a NWO Control Grid Tradeshow

FBI & Homeland Security behind martial law exercises in Indianapolis
For over two weeks 2,300 Marines have been using the city of Indianapolis and its civilian population as a “simulated urban combat zone” under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security

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.