Disclaimer:  This is not bashing our government.  There are many fine individuals serving as police and crime fighters.  However, this section archives the actions and precedents of a system.    police state:  n. A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, esp. by means of a secret police force.   -The American Heritage College Dictionary 3rd. ed. Houghton Mifflin Co. 2000 "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."  Isaiah 1:19-20
Police State
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 Nightline Sells Martial Law media-criticism.com 4/22/4 ["Will the US be under martial law by June, 2004? That is the impression some are expressing after witnessing a recent episode of Nightline (4/7/2004), with Ted Koppel."]
 Bush wants more Patriot Act provisions infobeat.com 4/21/4 ["bail restrictions, easier subpoenas and expansion of the death penalty in cases of terrorism."]
 FBI said buried by security demands washingtontimes.com 4/19/4 ["The number of secret surveillance warrants sought by the FBI has increased 85 percent in the past three years"]
 U.S. Sees Terror Threats, Aims to Boost Security reuters.com 4/19/4 ["Ridge said Homeland Security will work with seven other cabinet agencies to set-up an inter-agency plan to enhance security on potential targets and infrastructure."]
 President Bush wants to increase government surveillance and more in Patriot Act II kstp.com 4/19/4 ["calling it 'essential law.'"]
 Bush: Renew Patriot Act or Else wired.com 4/18/4 ["would place the nation at greater risk of attack if it fails to renew the law's wide-ranging law enforcement powers."]
 Bush Urges Renewal of Patriot Act story.news.yahoo.com 4/17/4 ["A recent study concluded that while the Justice Department has sharply increased prosecution of terrorism-related cases since the Sept. 11 attacks, many fizzled and few produced significant prison time."]
 Air Marshals Use Behavior to Spot Threats guardian.co.uk 4/17/4 ["questions whether the program even works. ``I haven't seen any studies on it,'' he said.  He's particularly concerned behavior pattern recognition might become a pretext for racial profiling. "]
 GoldenEye-100 UAV Successfully Completes Initial Flight Test Program aurora.aero 4/16/4 [interesting obelisk in their banner graphic...]
 Senators Question TSA Denials wired.com 4/16/4 ["whether the agency violated federal rules by helping its contractors acquire passenger data, and why the agency told government investigators it didn't have such data."]
 Test Screening Planned for Trains at Maryland Station nytimes.com 4/16/4 ["Government security officials say they have discussed whether to compare the names of railroad ticket buyers to "watch lists," as is done with airplane passengers. Mr. Stessel said that Amtrak had the capacity to supply such names but had not been asked to do so."]
 Pakistan: Military gets legal role in governance gulf-news.com 4/15/4 ["'It is a dark day in our parliamentary history,' the MMA leader said, adding that in its present shape the law was tantamount to putting the country on the 'path of dictatorship.'"]
 Bush sees need to alter FBI, CIA indystar.com 4/13/4 ["One issue it likely will address in its final report is whether a separate agency to gather and analyze domestic intelligence, similar to the British agency MI5, is needed."]
 Gov. Bush lobbies for drug-tracking database sun-sentinel.com 4/13/4 ["of who is prescribing and who is using prescription drugs"]
 Airline's Disclosure Reveals Lies wired.com 4/12/4 ["American Airlines' announcement Friday that it shared more than a million passenger itineraries with four government contractors reveals that Transportation Security Administration officials have repeatedly lied about the development of the passenger-profiling system known as CAPPS II."]
 Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws wired.com 4/11/4 ["too powerful a technology and Wal-Mart and its suppliers are too cozy with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the companies to be trusted with the data gathered from radio tags on consumer goods, say a civil rights lawyer and a privacy law expert."]
 Bush & the Council for Revolution thenewamerican.com 4/9/4 ["Author/journalist Richard Rovere (CFR) has aptly described the Council as "a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation." It controls both major parties and has had a virtual lock-hold on the executive branch of the federal government since World War II."]
 Get Chipped adsx.com 4/5/4 ["VeriChip™ Pre-Registration Program"]
 Canadians exempt from new U.S. security rules 4/3/4 theglobeandmail.com ["...[the other] countries will not meet an October deadline set by Washington to have counterfeit-proof biometric passports that include identification features."  "Canadians, diplomats and Mexicans will be exempt from the process if they have precleared border-crossing cards."]
 Free E-Mail With a Steep Price? wired.com 4/2/4 ["Google's plan to offer free Web-based e-mail has raised worries among privacy advocates that the service could make it easier for law enforcement to conduct surveillance of its users."]
 LA plans to seize cars of drunk drivers straitstimes.asia1.com.sg 4/1/4 ["Issues like due process and property rights to be resolved first"  "What's so troubling to me is that they are doing this as a civil proceeding so that you lose all of the protections that are present in a criminal prosecution"]
 GPS tracks state's youth offenders delawareonline.com 3/26/4 ["Pilot program is first of its kind in Delaware; if successful, it could spread to other agencies"  Proverbs 19:18]
 EU Leaders Pick First Anti-Terror 'Czar'  guardian.co.uk 3/25/4 ["will coordinate work done by the EU's foreign affairs and interior departments in an echo of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security"  also included: "Improving cooperation among their police and intelligence services;- Enacting laws on an EU-wide arrest warrant;- Increasing border controls and tracking of phone records;- Cracking down faster on terrorist finances; and- Creating a European database of terror suspects." "...solidarity clause"  "...nations around the world that their economic relations with the EU will depend on cooperation in the fight against terror"]
Met urges public to use new terror hotline guardian.co.uk 3/22/4 ["urging the public to report individuals they suspect of being terrorists."]
High school students offered rewards to stop crime kgw.com 3/22/4 ["Within minutes of a school-wide announcement about an unsolved crime, there's usually a line of students outside the office..."]
EU to share intelligence after Madrid bombs reuters.co.uk 3/19/4 ["France said it together with Germany, Spain, Italy and Britain -- the EU's five biggest members -- would lead the way in security cooperation and intelligence-sharing."]
Big Brother Is Watching abcnews.go.com 3/19/4 ["How Patriot Act Search Warrants Can Affect All of Us Online"] Feds launch operation to take control of Arizona-Mexico border mercurynews.com 3/16/4 ["The UAVs should be in place in June."]
Devices that scan index fingers for identities gaining popularity at retailers courierpress.com 3/16/4
Britain: Top police officer ready to put troops on street guardian.co.uk 3/15/4
AP Enterprise: Privacy Protecting Programs Quietly Killed Amid Anti-Terror Debate ap.tbo.com 3/15/4 ["the government is quietly pressing ahead with research into high-powered computer data-mining technology without the two most advanced privacy protections developed to police those terror-fighting tools."]
Justice, FBI seek easier Internet wiretaps, at customers' expense detnews.com 3/13/4 3/13/4
Kids Fingerprinted for Fla. School Bus Rides foxnews.com 3/13/4
Wisconsin, New York Unplug Matrix wired.com 3/12/4 ["became the latest states to drop out of a controversial interstate law enforcement data-sharing program shortly after joining it."  "They were probably offered some money for a cash-strapped department and some gee-whiz technology and didn't really even consider the issues of the security, accuracy and control of the system or even privacy"]
Matrix Expands to Wisconsin wired.com ["Even as states retreat from participating in a controversial interstate antiterrorism database that holds billions of records of ordinary Americans' activities, Wisconsin has decided to join the program."  "The information includes driver's license pictures, addresses, professional licenses, names of neighbors and relatives, and even domain-name registration filings and hunting licenses."]
As U.S. Detains Iraqis, Families Plead for News nytimes.com 3/7/4
U.S. Weighs Easing Border Rules as Bush, Fox Meet in Texas quote.bloomberg.com 3/5/4 ["who make short trips to the U.S. and stay close to the border wouldn't have to be fingerprinted and photographed under the plan"  "The money they send home, more than $13 billion a year, is Mexico's second-largest source of foreign income, after oil."]
Every child in England to go on safety list database news.independent.co.uk 3/5/4 ["Details of every child in England will be kept on an electronic database as part of an overhaul of children's services"]
With most countries likely to miss U.S. deadline for coded passports, huge visa backlog is expected iht.com 3/5/4 ["Twenty-seven countries... must begin providing passports with facial-recognition technology by Oct. 26. After that date, visitors from those countries without the technology in their passports will be required to get visas to travel to the United States."]
Have your thumb ready to ride the bus sptimes.com 3/4/4 ["Pinellas schools ponder a $2-million system that would require students to use their thumbprint to get on the bus."]
Bush Backs New Terrorism TV Series eonline.com 3/1/4
Target issues RFID mandate computerworld.com 3/1/4
Jamming Tags Block RFID Scanners wired.com 3/1/4 ["they could send someone into the event with an RFID reader to identify who is there and who they are associating with"]
Fighting for Right Not to Show ID wired.com 2/27/04
Dallas council votes for resolution denouncing federal Patriot Act dfw.com 2/27/04 ["joins three states and 225 local governments that have taken stands against the Patriot Act.  The measure states that city officials will uphold citizens' constitutional rights and monitor the implementation of the act."]
Homeland Security network starts fcw.com 2/24/04 ["By the end of the year all 50 states, the top urban areas and the Homeland Security Department will be connected through this secure network"  "In the future, more cities, territories and other U.S. entities will be included -- even the private sector, Ridge said. "It will be both user friendly, and will be used by more of our friends," he said."]
Defining the Domestic Role of the Military foxnews.com 2/23/4 ["A free society is not a militarized society"]
British spy agency to get 1000 more staff nzherald.co.nz 2/22/4
Security Efforts Turning Capital Into Armed Camp nytimes.com 2/22/4
TSA employees convinced JetBlue to hand over data reuters.com 2/21/4
High Court to Decide Bush's Powers in Padilla Case reuters.com 2/20/4 ["His case involved fundamental constitutional questions about Bush's powers as commander in chief."]
Coastal panel rejects plan for last leg of border fence signonsandiego.com 2/20/4 ["A plan to secure the western edge of the U.S.-Mexico border by adding two fences and patrolling roads across a sensitive reserve..."]
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project wired.com 2/18/4 ["...colleague at MIT, thinks such efforts will still go on at Darpa, too.  'I am sure that such research will continue to be funded under some other title'"]
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE STATE scoop.co.nz 2/18/4 ["A terrorist attack on American soil of the size and nature of September 11, would lead ---according to former CENTCOM Commander, General Tommy Franks-- to the downfall of democracy in America."]
Surplus Army Vehicles Find New Life in Era of Homeland Security biz.yahoo.com 2/17/4 ["Any Federal or State law enforcement agency whose officers have arrest and apprehension authority can qualify to receive surplus DoD personal property under the 1033 Program."]
CAPPS gains in TSA request fcw.com 2/4/4
Lawyers attack Blunkett plan for secret trials guardian.co.uk 2/3/4
Seven-state info store a potent repository of personal data miami.com 1/23/04
IRS backs off plan to flag free e-filers — for now usatoday.com 1/23/04 ["could lead to selective tax enforcement by the IRS, critics said."]
NASA/Ames, airline draw fire for using traveler data mercurynews.com 1/18/04
Church members wonder whether ‘big brother’ is watching churchcentral.com 1/16/04 ["makes them wonder whether police were keeping an eye on them during what they said were constitutionally protected religious and educational activities."]
If you're 'red', you could be barred by US straitstimes.asia1.com.sg 1/16/04 ["A plan to colour code air travellers to US according to their risk profile raises concerns about privacy and human rights"]
Supreme Court OKs Roadblocks for Police Information reuters.com 1/13/04 ["reversed an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that such checkpoints, designed to gather information, represented an unconstitutional search and seizure of evidence"]
Playing terror games in Las Vegas bbc.co.uk 1/9/4 ["The teams have each been given specific roles, with some playing the part of the FBI, local fire and police or even what is called faith-based response."]
Flight Sim enquiry raises terror alert theregister.co.uk 1/9/4 [people in America are paranoid]
U.S. Lowers National Terror Threat Level reuters.com 1/9/4
Interrogation, Torture, the Constitution, and the Courts findlaw.com 1/8/4 [Gitmo - "The government's assertion that torture and summary executions might be carried out without recourse to the law clearly shocked the court."]
Homeland-Security Neighborhood Watch, The nytimes.com 1/6/4
Is America a Police State? house.gov [by Congressman Ron Paul]
Stealth Implementation of "PATRIOT ACT II" thenewamerican.com 12/31/03 [Ron Paul (R-Texas) "[it] should outrage every single American citizen."]
Identity Crisis wired.com 12/24/03 [verification, not identification]
Tapes Show Abuse of 9/11 Detainees washingtonpost.com 12/19/3
Minn. Shuts Down Controversial Police Database local6.com 12/19/03
Concerned Conservatives, Not Chicken Littles massnews.com 12/12/03 [Patriot Act mis-use]
Profiling System Takeoff Delayed wired.com 12/12/03
Feds hype conviction rate in terror fight, critics say denverpost.com 12/9/3
Tough New Tactics by U.S. Tighten Grip on Iraq Towns nytimes.com 12/6/3 ["soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire"  "imprisoning the relatives of suspected guerrillas"]
Outside View: On-Star online to U.S. gov. raidersnewsupdate.com
Return of the KGB msnbc.com 12/3/3

Only dictators ban television news seattlepi.nwsource.com 12/1/3 ["...hardly fits my idea of how to spread democracy in the Middle East."]
New surveillance guidelines fuel debate in California boston.com 12/1/3 ["Put bluntly, it is a mistake of constitutional dimension to gather information for a criminal intelligence file where there is no reasonable suspicion"]
Miami Puts on Battle Gear for Trade Protests wired.com 11/20/3 ["protesters gathered to demonstrate against a meeting on linking 34 nations of the Americas into the world's biggest trade zone"]
Martin plans domestic security unit canada.com 11/19/3 ["Concept would be similar to U.S. Department of Homeland Security"]
Armored Vehicles Patrol Quiet, Empty Streets click10.com 11/18/3 [Miami for WTO talks]
A life turns upside down in post-9/11 FBI raid recordonline.com 11/17/3
UK: Blunkett outlines biggest shake-up of police forces for 30 years news.telegraph.co.uk ["...overhaul of the police structure in England and Wales for 30 years was proposed..."]
Patriot Act Redux abcnews.go.com [Must Read. "It's not just the length of the document, either, but also its awesome scope, and, some say, its audacity."]
Putin oversees rise of security apparatus news.ft.com 11/3/3 ["...more than half of Mr Putin's informal 24-member politburo consists of people affiliated with the former KGB."]
Police chiefs back proposals for British FBI guardian.co.uk 10/28/3
Biometric borders coming washtimes.com 10/28/3 ["...tamper-proof visas and a huge computer database of names, fingerprints and photographs..."  for Oct. 2004]
'Smart stamps' next in war on terrorism washingtontimes.com 10/27/3 [will start with commercial and bulk...]
Venture to Offer ID Card for Use at Security Checks nytimes.com 10/23/3 [prove you're innocent]
EMERGENCY RESPONDERS TAKE OVER PART OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE FOR DISASTER DRILL wbir.com 10/23/3
Georgia Won't Join Anti-Terror Database newsday.com 10/22/3
Feds Want All-Seeing Eye in Sky wired.com 10/19/3
Senators join forces to roll back parts of Patriot Act washtimes.com 10/15/3
Panel Ponders New Intelligence Agency news.yahoo.com 10/14/3 [would break down barrier between FBI and CIA]
Mexico: Tracking Junior With a Microchip wired.com 10/13/3 [promoted by lead Mexican foundation]
In visit here, Ridge says every American should be involved in security effort stltoday.com 10/10/3 [Rumsfeld polling the sheep...]
Nearly Everything That People in the U.S. Eat Will Soon Have to Be Registered With Government ap.tbo.com 10/10/3 FDA bill: fda.gov
Spy-cams don’t belong in schools news-press.com 10/8/3 ["...they simply didn’t stop misbehavior in any way that police officers on the street couldn’t do better..."]
US Begins UAV border-surveillance flight tests uvonline.com 10/7/3
French home secretary announces chip ID card silicon.com 10/6/3
Pasco County: Sheriff Rolls Out New GPS System tampatrib.com 10/5/3
Japan: Small Town Plans GPS Tracking System for Teens guardian.co.uk 10/3/3
Rental car tracking device helps cops northjersey.com 10/2/3
UK: Smart cards track commuters bbc.co.uk 9/26/3
Congress Puts Brakes on CAPPS II wired.com 9/26/3 [delayed]
Austin, TX: City's resolution also opposes passage of USA Patriot Act II statesman.com 9/26/3
States Join in Building Terror Database customwire.ap.org 9/25/3 [yes, it still grows - steers around federal laws]
Bill Would Close Pentagon Research Office thestate.com 9/25/3 [the fate of it's most controversial aspect remains secretive]
Panel to Close Pentagon Terror-Spy Office news.yahoo.com 9/25/3 [disinformation-keeps everything running, just different names]
Spy camera test heraldsun.news.com.au 9/23/3
Patriot Act, Part II nytimes.com 9/22/3
Administration Creates Center for Master Terror 'Watch List' nytimes.com 9/17/3
Terror Law Nabs Common Criminals wired.com 9/15/3
Bush seeks new legal powers to fight terror news.ft.com 9/11/3
President Asks for Expanded Patriot Act washingtonpost.com 9/11/3
Bush Urges More Police Powers Vs. Terror news.yahoo.com 9/11/3
Bush's Counterterror Proposals Could Be a Hard Sell news.yahoo.com 9/11/3
Has post-9/11 dragnet gone too far? csmonitor.com 9/11/3
The snoop in your coupe msnbc.com 9/10/3 [GPS]
Anti-terror laws increasingly used against common criminals zwire.com 9/10/3
Big Brother takes grip on America observer.guardian.co.uk 9/8/3 [British paper]
The Quisling Effect: Government is not the only destroyer of freedom backwoodshome.com 9/5/3 [must read]
News Snippets Re: Bush & Ashcroft & Ridge on liberties cuttingedge.org 9/7/3
This war on terrorism is bogus guardian.co.uk 9/7/3 [pretext to use force in global domination]
Ridge unveils revamping of security agency sunspot.net 9/3/3
DHS has 1 in 12 federal employees post-gazette.com 8/26/3
Pilotless plane to fly routinely in civilian airspace newscientist.com 8/21/3 [GlobalHawk]
Tampa police eliminate facial-recognition system  gainesvillesun.com 8/20/3 [no arrests in two years]
There's a prison industrial complex at work in Florida tallahassee.com 8/20/3
`Tourture in Israel has again become routine' haaretz.com 8/19/3
Ridge: Blackout Was 'Initial Test' for Homeland Security System foxnews.com 8/19/3
Indoctrinate your kids: LEGO 'World City' Police sets etoys.com 8/19/3
China Readies Super ID Card, a Worry to Some nytimes.com 8/19/3
US notches world's highest incarceration rate csmonitor.com 8/19/3
Police try spy cameras for better cruise control freep.com 8/14/3
U.S. Backs Florida's New Counterterrorism Database washingtonpost.com 8/5/3
UK: Black box in car to trap speed drivers observer.guardian.co.uk 8/5/3
Russia: Return of the nosy babushka csmonitor.com 8/1/3 [KGB, anyone?]
New checks to label fliers' terror risk ajc.com 8/1/3
Japan yens for RFID chips  theregister.co.uk [new Yen bills to have RFID chips] 7/30/3
Big Brother on the Highway dw-world.de 7/30/3 [paying tolls per mile in Germany starting late August]
164 muggings a day in [gun-free] London thisislondon.com 7/29/3
Prototype Isolation and Treatment Facility to Be Built yahoo.com 7/25/3
UK: Smart software linked to CCTV can spot dubious behaviour newscientist.com 7/17/3
The Constitution: America's ultimate battleground worldnetdaily.com 7/15/3
'Big Brother' Cameras Coming To High-Crime Neighborhoods nbc5.com 7/14/3
Media Leviathan, U.S. Intelligence Form Secret Cabal americanfreepress.net 7/14/3
Big Brother Gets a Brain [computers connecting cameras] 7/11/3 villagevoice.com
Homeland Security Issues Rules To Implement Safety Act informationweek.com 7/11/3
General Ashcroft's Detention Camps The Village Voice 7/7/3
US push for global police force Sydney Morning Herald June 30 2003
8-year-olds face electronic tagging worldnetdaily.com [dangerous precedent being set in Scotland] 6/27/03
Department of Defense Logging Unverified Tips wired.com [Gestapo anyone?] 6/27/03
Being tracked down by your mobile  bbc.co.uk 6/27/03
Hate crime police raid 150 homes bbc.co.uk 11/13/02
infowars.com - good source of current events (secular) 6/27/03