Federal officials on Tuesday launched a controversial program in the District that targets illegal immigration, but not without a fight from some city officials who argue the effort undermines trust between police and local immigrant communities ( Read more... )

As the submitter of this item put it,
"perhaps not the first person you'd pick to
protest in this manner, but God bless him."


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Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace ( Read more... )

What do you think? Personally, I think it was an overreaction on the part of DHS to some innocent tweets, but I'm curious to hear other opinions.

Pair Detained in Twitter Homeland Threat Mix-Up: ReportsA young couple from across the pond was detained at a Los Angeles airport after Homeland Security agents mistook a couple Twitter quips for ( Read more... )

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality.

Source: The Guardian

• Naomi Wolf
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled ( Read more... )

By SCOTT SHANE ( Read more... )

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan let slip in an interview with the BBC that she had been on a conference call with the mayors of 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy Wall Street movement. That is, municipal authorities appear to have been conspiring to deprive Americans of their first amendment rights to freedom of assembly and freedom to petition ( Read more... )

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying ( Read more... )

((MODS: No interpol tag ( Read more... )

Police Department to Receive ICBM Missiles to Fight Junkies and Un-american Insurgents. Lawbreaker Beware!

A Decade After 9/11, Police Departments Are Increasingly Militarized

New York magazine reported some telling figures last month on how delayed-notice search warrants -- also known as "sneak-and-peek" warrants -- have been used in recent years. ( Read more... )