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Virtual Obsession: Woman Arrested, Stalked Ex-Virtual Boyfriend

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:09:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Virtual reality led to virtual insanity and real crime. Shows that fantasy interaction produces a brainwashed state of mind in some, even violent obsession.

Of course this happens in real life too. "Crimes of passion" are among the leading crimes, just ask your local police dept. Women are not infrequently the aggressors.

There is nothing like the fury of a woman scorned

Clip Source: cbs3.com

Woman Attempts To Kidnap Ex-Virtual Boyfriend

Kimberly Jernigan, 33, allegedly attempted to kidnap her former virtual boyfriend on August 21.

CBS

New Castle County Police said 33-year-old Kimberly Jernigan of North Carolina was apparently distraught after her online relationship with a 52-year-old man from Claymont, Delaware came to an end.

The pair apparently met online in "Second Life." A virtual relationship began between the victim, whose character was a Lion, and Jerrigan, whose online persona was said to be a virtual woman.

When the two met in reality several months ago, police said the victim ended the relationship, sending Jernigan into a downward spiral.

In the beginning of August, Jernigan allegedly drove to the victim's Pennsylvania workplace and attempted to kidnap him at gunpoint. While she was unsuccessful, she returned two weeks later to track down the victim's Delaware address.

Jernigan is currently facing charges of attempted kidnapping, burglary and aggravated menacing.

Tags: internet, crime, relationships

SWAT Raids Mayor and Wife, Kill Dogs

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:45:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fascism! Their pet dogs were killed for "sport" and show! This is unbelievable, as if the mayor would turn and fight with automatic weapons and grenades. Excessive force and paranoia by the police department (vs a male and female), and ended up they were INNOCENT.

But the worst for the mayor might have been this:

The mayor, who was changing his clothes when police burst in, also complained that he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law, and said the officers didn't believe him when he told them he was the mayor.

They did not know he was the Mayor? Ineptitude!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Police raid Md. mayor's home and kill his dogs

BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. - Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.

In it were 32 pounds of marijuana. But the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple.

Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients.

The two men under arrest include a FedEx deliveryman; investigators said the deliveryman would drop off a package outside a home, and the other man would come by a short time later and pick it up.

Calvo insisted the couple's two black Labradors were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away.

Tags: police state

"My First-Hand Experience with Gov't Spies"

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:21:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: America's new government, including the states, in action:

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and the ACLU, we now know that "Lucy" was only one part of a vast, insidious project. The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted near 300 hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and Maryland's use of death row.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Opinion
COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

I have been a target of state police surveillance for activities -- in my case against the death penalty -- that were legal, non-violent, and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected. In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security, I am "Dave Z." This nickname was given by an undercover agent known to us as "Lucy." She sat in our meetings of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, smiling and engaged, taking copious notes about actions deemed threatening by the Governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich. Our seditious crimes, as Lucy reported, involved such acts as planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing up a petition. Adding a dash of farce to this outrage, she was monitoring us in the liberal enclave of Takoma Park, Maryland, a place known more for vegans than violence, more for tie-dying than terrorism.

Tags: homeland security, surveillance, terrorism, war, constitution

Book Review: ID Crisis, The Abuse and Tyranny of ID

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:34:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Give your Congressmen, governor, and state legislators a gift to restore sanity and liberty against REAL ID and the increasing total surveillance society. Remember the security merchandisers are lobbying them all everyday, selling their products at the expense of your liberty. This, along with the Constitution, is your ammo to fight back. Educate them with hard facts that refutes the effectiveness of ID methods as a means increasing security.

Harper is the leading expert on countering ID propaganda.

Clip Source: www.amazon.com

Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood (Paperback)

The advance of identification technology biometrics, identity cards, surveillance, databases, dossiers threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demands for identification in the name of security have increased. In this insightful book, Jim Harper takes readers inside identification a process everyone uses every day but few people have ever thought about.

Harper dissects identification processes and technologies, showing how identification works when it works and how it fails when it fails. Harper exposes the myth that identification can protect against future terrorist attacks. He shows that a U.S. national identification card, created by Congress in the REAL ID Act, is a poor way to secure the country or its citizens.

that transfer threatens liberty, enables identity fraud, and subjects people to unwanted surveillance.

Tags: surveillance, police state, privacy, constitution, real id

America Becoming Land of Surveillance

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:07:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Despite lack of evidence that it is effective, or evidence that proves it is not from UK studies. But the security merchandisers are making a fortune and state and local governments are impulsively spending faster than a woman with a credit card:

.P. Freeman said the domestic market for such systems last year had doubled over five years, to $9.2 billion, and estimated that it would more than double again by 2010, to more than $21 billion.

You are paying for your loss of liberty, while they profit, which is insult to injury. It's worth wondering how many government officials own stock in security companies, which would be a conflict of interest in that lawmakers also profit through authorizing this spending.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Smile! More and more, you’re on camera

Public surveillance video mushrooms despite lack of evidence it works

Alex Johnson

Reporter

• Profile

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, local governments across the country set aside concerns over privacy and installed surveillance cameras in public streets and plazas.

Now — even after a damning report by the head of London’s extensive surveillance network and with little evidence that the systems work — police in many cities are trying to add thousands more cameras to their networks.

“‘Cameras Everywhere’ continues to be the best description of the trend in the video surveillance market,” security market analysts J.P. Freeman Co. said in a report in 2006 that estimated that a quarter of major U.S. cities were investing in the technology.

Officials in many cities are eager to take advantage of money from state and federal security agencies to install the cameras on street corners and intersections

Tags: surveillance, constitution, privacy, cctv, cameras, government spending

Military Check Point Setup in D.C.

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:55:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "sue us if you want". Okay, someone should.

BTW, shouldn't this be closer to the White House or Congress instead, in the District of Criminals?

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

D.C. Police to Check Drivers In Violence-Plagued Trinidad

D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area.

Starting on Saturday, officers will check drivers' identification and ask whether they have a "legitimate purpose" to be in the Trinidad area, such as going to a doctor or church or visiting friends or relatives. If not, the drivers will be turned away.

"In certain areas, we need to go beyond the normal methods of policing," Fenty (D) said at a news conference announcing the action. "We're going to go into an area and completely shut it down to prevent shootings and the sale of drugs."

Police will search cars if they suspect the presence of guns or drugs, and will arrest people who do not cooperate, under a charge of failure to obey a police officer, officials said.

if you do want to sue us, the courts are open

Tags: military check point, police state, constitution, fascism

CCTV and Surveillance Cams Ineffective

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:09:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Many UK studies have concluded same. But as with this article they always try to justify it anyway, despite the enormous cost of installing these police state grids. Let your state and local authorities know that not only do they trample the 4th amendment (treating all citizens like criminal suspects, without probable cause), but they do not deter crime or even catch many criminals.

The "security merchandisers" are busy reaping profits from the trampling of your liberties by seducing authorities with the latest toys and technology.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police

Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe.

The warning comes from the head of the Visual Images, Identifications and Detections Office (Viido) at New Scotland Yard as the force launches a series of initiatives to try to boost conviction rates using CCTV evidence.

Link to this audio
Owen Bowcott on why CCTV is catching few criminals

Use of CCTV images for court evidence has so far been very poor, according to Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, the officer in charge of the Metropolitan police unit.

Tags: surveillance cameras, cctv, crime, terrorism, homeland security

Chertoff Wants to Israelize US Airport Security

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:40:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Big Brother expansion while he signs an agreement with Israel (can he do that?) to "share technologies". Chertoff holds dual citizenship and is part of the neocon-Israeli fifth column revolutionizing America into a police state. I wonder how much the Israeli companies will profit from this "sharing".

By the way, what threat of terrorism? The probabilities are microscopic in comparison to crime or traffic accidents, yet we bow to the most extreme and expensive measures, none of which would stop a real suicidal terrorist? Everyone is treated as suspicious, and we call it "freedom"?

But don't worry, you will be treated as well as a Palestinian in your "homeland".

Clip Source: www.alertnet.org

INTERVIEW-Chertoff keen on Israeli airport security technology

JERUSALEM, May 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday he will seek to adopt novel Israeli methods, like behaviour-detection technologies, to better secure America's airports.

Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, known for its strict security measures, relies heavily on techniques that detect suspicious behaviour among travellers.

Chertoff, at a conference in Jerusalem for public and homeland security ministers from around the world, signed an agreement with Israel to share technology and information on methods to improve homeland security.

One of the new systems presented at the conference, developed by the Israeli technology company WeCU, uses behavioural science, together with biometric sensors, to detect sinister intentions among travellers.

Tags: chertoff, israel, homeland security, police state, constitution, privacy

GPS Tracking Takes AIM at Students

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:24:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Proof public schools are juvenile detention centers and that "free public schooling", as it was called during Civil War Reconstruction has become mandatory institutionalization.

Home schooling takes students back from the government which claims authority to hold children captive for their own indoctrination.

Clip Source: www.txcn.com

GPS system tracks students to curb dropouts

Using satellite technology, a pilot program may be able to turn the tide on Dallas drop outs by stopping truancy in its tracks. It’s called AIM, which stands for Attendance Improvement Management. The program attempts to steer kids back on track by watching them everywhere they go.

Pacheco and several other students at Bryan Adams High wore ankle monitors last year. They were tracked by global positioning satellites, and that data was relayed to a monitor in the school.

This year, nine students in the tracking program carry hand held units that are about the size and shape of a cell phone. When they get to school each morning, they check in by hitting a small button three times. They do the same thing once during lunch and again when they get home each afternoon.

The signals show up as yellow dots on a website monitored by an attendant at the school.

If a student isn’t at the right place, the attendant calls parents or police.

Tags: schools, compulsory education, gps tracking, police state

U.S. Death Squads and Terrorism in Afghanistan

Thu, 22 May 2008 04:17:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: U.S. State-sponsored terrorism and rogue operations are being reported by a UN investigator. Nothing new, which is precisely the problem.

Clip Source: www.wsws.org

CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan

A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign intelligence agencies.

report provides a partial glimpse into the illegal actions of intelligence agencies, occupying forces, and Afghan police, as they seek to repress opposition to the US-led occupation and US-backed government.

Alston focused on civilian killings by US and other international military forces, citing 200 reported deaths in the first four months of 2008

a special correspondent for news agency Knight Ridder who was investigating the death squads, was killed with a bullet to the head

intelligence agencies in question include the CIA or US Special Operations Forces

extra-judicial killings.

victims “are widely acknowledged, even by well-informed Government officials, to have had no connection to the Taliban

Tags: afghanistan, war, terrorism, special operations, cia, death squads

Arizona State Senator(R): 9/11 Controlled Demolition

Tue, 13 May 2008 03:34:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Her commentary appeared in this newspaper. She makes a well sustainable argument that cannot be denied has merit.

• The theory that the buildings collapsed due to controlled-demolition explosives, however, is consistent with scientific principles and the facts. The “demolition” theory, in fact, is the only one which scientists have been able to corroborate. That is, “… all observations are in accord with the use of explosives in a time sequence.” (Legge and Szamboti, December, Journal of 9/11 Studies.)

The events of 9/11 led immediately to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and passage of the Patriot Act (what double-speak), both of which deprive us of Constitutional rights and have brought us to the brink of becoming a police state. Homeland Security is currently trying to force a national ID card down our throats, although some governors have politely (or not so politely) told Secretary Michael Chertoff where he can go.

Clip Source: www.eastvalleytribune.com

Backing my claims about 9/11 questions

Karen S. Johnson, Commentary

Metro Phoenix's East Valley region

A recent letter to the editor asked for evidence of my claims regarding the tragedy of 9/11. Below I present some points that are presently known. I won’t be able to convince anyone who doesn’t want to be convinced, but for those who are willing to deal with factual evidence, consider the following:

• 37 different people reported explosions in the basement of the World Trade Center Towers before the first plane hit, and seismic equipment recorded both the explosions and the impacts. In addition, people were injured by the explosions in the basement, providing well-documented evidence. Yet this evidence is ignored.

The media and government have promoted the “pancake theory” as the cause of the collapse of the Twin Towers — that is, fire weakened the steel support beams, causing the upper floors to collapse.

This theory is not consistent with scientific principles or the facts.

Tags: 9/11, controlled demolition, wtc towers

Plane Over D.C., NORAD Scrambles--Unlike 9/11

Fri, 02 May 2008 23:33:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Note the NORAD response, unlike 9/11, and ask yourself why? Answer: 9/11 war games were used for cover, confusion--evidence of inside knowledge of military ops at minimum. Timing is everything.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Threat level raised briefly; pilot interviewed

Plane intercepted after violating D.C. airspace

WASHINGTON - An aircraft violated the restricted airspace around downtown Washington Wednesday, prompting security officials to raise the threat level from yellow to orange and order personnel in the U.S. congressional buildings to prepare to evacuate.

Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the plane was diverted to a landing in a nearby city where the pilot was being interviewed.

Michael Kucharek, a spokesman with North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said two F-16s were scrambled after a plane heading south from the state of Maryland violated restricted air space around Washington.

A Coast Guard helicopter also was involved in the intercept and escort of the single-engine Cessna, according to Lt. Gene Maestas, spokesman for the guard's Mid-Atlantic region.

It was not immediately clear how close the plane had come to the Capitol building, where the U.S. Congress convenes.

Tags: 9/11, norad, terrorism

Facial Scanning Starts in UK

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:16:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: resist

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer

A face recognition system will scan faces and match them to biometric chips on passports. Photograph: Image Source/Getty

Airline passengers are to be screened with facial recognition technology rather than checks by passport officers, in an attempt to improve security and ease congestion, the Guardian can reveal.

From summer, unmanned clearance gates will be phased in to scan passengers' faces and match the image to the record on the computer chip in their biometric passports.

But there is concern that passengers will react badly to being rejected by an automated gate. To ensure no one on a police watch list is incorrectly let through, the technology will err on the side of caution and is likely to generate a small number of "false negatives" - innocent passengers rejected because the machines cannot match their appearance to the records.

biometric passports, containing a computer chip holding the carrier's facial details

Tags: security, police state, surveillance, privacy rights

NYC Goes Totally Paranoid, "Torches" Liberty for Security

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:31:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Homeland Tyranny: Insane pretense of security at high cost to taxpayers that would prevent nothing from someone determined. Welcome to propaganda in "real time", acted out to reinforce and justify more of the same. Between total surveillance and this it does not look or feel like freedom, but fascism, and it is.

Americans are more of a threat to each other (read crime statistics) and the mathematical probability of terrorism is microscopic in comparison. So all this is for NOTHING BUT SHOW! Not only Iraq, but now New York City is officially under Occupation.

Clip Source: wcbstv.com

Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway

M4 Carbine Rifles, MP5 Submachine Guns & Bomb Sniffing Dogs Part Of New "Torch Team" Anti-Terror Efforts

NEW YORK (CBS) ― The NYPD is pulling out all the stops to beef up safety of the subways. On Thursday it launched a new anti-terror effort called "Operation Torch," but the cost of the program is raising some eyebrows.

The NYPD's new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

Similarly equipped NYPD units known as "Hercules" teams have been patrolling the ground on Wall Street, the Empire State Building and other city landmarks.

"I think it's a waste of money," Michael Rivers said. "If someone wants to put a bomb in the subway how do you stop it?"

Tags: homeland security, fascism, police state, constitution

Architects and Engineers Respond to WTC Inquiry

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:37:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Richard Gage is a formidable and reputable architect who has established this increasingly powerful group challenging the official story of 9/11.

Undisputed Facts Point to the Controlled Demolition of WTC 7. The evidence for the Twin Towers also points to the same. It is irrational, from a physics standpoint, to believe otherwise.

The official story of 9/11 is the foundational premise, still, for an entire foreign policy of "regime change" and domestic agenda enabling an anti-constitutional police state that is "altering our way of life" (as we are told "terrorists" want to do). Show the truth of 9/11 and the entire neocon agenda collapses into rubble.

The website for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is here.

Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

Undisputed Facts Point to the Controlled Demolition of WTC 7

Response to NIST's Invitation for Written Comments

Documentation of spoken remarks presented on December 18 conference call with the NCST Advisory Committee

Emailed to NIST on January 3, 2008

Richard Gage, AIA – Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

I'm Richard Gage, AIA, a licensed architect of 20 years. I represent Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a fast-growing body of more than 230 architects and engineers dedicated solely to bringing out the truth about all three high-rise building collapses on 9/11. We believe that we have answers to your questions about the puzzling collapse of World Trade Center 7.

Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc., who was hired for the Building 7 cleanup, said that "molten steel was found at 7 WTC."

NIST left all of this crucial forensic evidence out of its report. Why? Because it didn't fit in with the official conspiracy theory.

Fire cannot produce these effects.

Tags: 9/11