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Article (link only) is pretty good, but see the even better acid reply (in full below the fold) from a reader.
Article (link only) is pretty good, but see the even better acid reply (in full below the fold) from a reader.
I consider the corruption of the American judicial system to actually be worse that the corruption of the legislative branch of government. And the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, was present and contributed to this movement to skew the judiciary to reflect the views of the corporatist Theocratic Right, in my view, ought to be grounds for impeachment.
The JCN Story: How to Build a Secretive, Right-Wing Judicial Machine
Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago's Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'
• Homan Square ‘black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage
Video from The Guardian below the fold.
Continue reading “Mongoose: A Domestic Black Site in Chicago?”
Naive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology
Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware?
The days when police were seen as good guys seems to have passed, and we are a damaged society as a result.
Woman miscarries after Georgia cop who didn’t ‘appreciate her tone’ tackles and sits on her: lawsuit
Police beating leaves 57-yr-old Gujarat man paralysed in US
The so-called “Internet of things” seems to mean a lot of things. But for the government, which executes the orders of the 1% of the 1%, it's primary value is to spy:
Continue reading “Owl: For Military, Police, 1% – the Enemy is You”