Does Anyone Still Doubt We Languish in aPolice-State?

Becky Akers

1. LewRockwell.comOctober 29, 2011

Hard to keep track of what’s illegal these days.The most innocuous deeds can land a serf behindbars even as crimes worthy of a sociopath earnrulers the Nobel Prize.

And so the Feds order some drones to killAmerican citizens and others to sexuallyassault them. You might think cops who pretendthey joined “the force” to protect rather than lordit over us would hie themselves to DC and collarthe criminals preying on us.

But no. Instead, they waddle about ourneighborhoods, arresting us for “crimes” thataren’t, as they’ve done for decades – a reign ofterror so long that few Americans even notice anymore.

Yet those who do contend that we’ve descended further into the police-state. Why? Becausevictims used to have to smoke weed in public or drag-race down Main Street to draw cops’attention. Yes, laws banning marijuana are tyrannical, and the State has no authority, moral orConstitutional, to own, build, or patrol roads – but at least the peons knew where they stood: getcaught flouting Leviathan’s silly rules, and you’d pay for it. The prudent pothead toked up athome, the speed-demon floored it on deserted highways.

But now, not only do increasingly large numbers ofharmless actions violate specific, incredibly pettyregulations, but cops and courts stretch such vague termsas “disorderly conduct” or “child abuse” to cover behaviorthey – or anyone else –dislike.

Consider the case of Lawrence Massey, 37. You mightassume that Connecticut’s taxpayers would be grateful tohim: when he “found the carcass [of a deer] on the side ofRoute 9 southbound,” he “loaded it into his minivan, andbrought it home…,” saving them the cost of removal.

It seems Mr. Massey is separated from his wife; he pulled

into a parking lot across from the apartment where she and theirchildren live, unloaded his discovery, and proceeded to “showhis sons the classic hunting technique of ‘how to field strip adeer after it had been killed.’”

Until recently, Americans greatly admired such skill; indeed, itfed a good many of our grandparents. And note that Mr.Massey isn’t guilty of our wimpy times’ ultimate no-no: hedidn’t kill the deer. “It was all bloated,” one witness relates,“and it doesn’t get like that unless it’s been there three or fourdays.”

1. Mr. Massey was also courteous to the owner of the propertyhe was visiting: he “had put down plastic tarps in the parkinglot” and, later, “without being asked Massey cleaned up themess by loading it into the rear of his minivan to take ithome…”

Even so, I wouldn’t want a guy hunkering down on my asphalt butchering road-kill. So I canunderstand the manager’s asking him to move on.

But that’s not what happened. Actually, thanks to the passive voice that so often cloaks theState’s evil, we don’t know how events transpired: both reports describing Mr. Massey’s travailsonly tell us “Police were called” without divulging the snitch’s identity. If there was one: copsmaterialize everywhere anymore, at schools, private residences, in hospitals and airports. Theonly time we’re safe from them is when someone commits an actual crime. So perhaps pigscruising by the parking lot decided to have some fun.

Whatever. They arrested Mr. Massey. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. His only possiblewrong is trespassing, but if the lot’s owner hasn’t complained, what business is it of the cops?

Or perhaps the owner is our unnamed snitch. If so, whateverhappened to warning Mr. Massey first and resorting to strongermeasures only if he refuses to leave?

No, our hero’s mistake was surprising those around him with apastime they deem disgusting. “[S]everal mothers and theiryoung children were walking around,” though “a very strongsmell emanat[ed] from the carcass. … Police found Masseyholding a folding knife in his right hand with both arms covered inblood beyond his elbows … Several citizens … ‘found thisbehavior shocking and frightening and not an appropriate area[sic].’” I guess departing for pleasanter climes and minding theirown affairs never occurred to these meddlers.

The manly Mr. Massey goes to court in a few weeks. I’d like tothink the judge will throw the book at his persecutors while highlycommending the defendant, but somehow I expect the opposite.

Next we head to North Platte, Nebraska, for anothertotalitarian tale. Reports conflict as to whether abusybody (whom the UK’s Daily Mail dignified as “

1. a concerned member of the public“) sicced copson parents there, or whether our public servantssimply took it on themselves to interfere. But in theend, the State busted up two families and kidnappedtheir children – ostensibly because one mother tried tosafeguard her sons at night.

I assume that the victims in this story areheartbreakingly poor: why else would four adults – amarried couple, a single mother named Ashly Clark,and another woman – share a double-wide trailer withthe couple’s two daughters and Ms. Clark’s boys, ages3 and 5?

Those boys sound like lovable little Huck Finns, so mischievous and adventurous they tried tocrawl through the trailer’s windows at night – “escaping,” as the Daily Mail would have it. Theirmother resolved this by putting them to bed in a “dog kennel” measuring 30¢ X 42¢; “Clarkfastened its gate closed with a wire tie. Its inside contained a small, decrepit mattress.” Yep:most of a poor woman’s possessions are “small” and “decrepit.”

Again, I’m trying to fathom the “crime” here. Were Ms. Clark wealthy, she might have hired ananny to watch her boys while she slept. Instead, as a single mother with limited options, shedevised a cheap but effective solution to protect her sons overnight.

Alas, her ingenuity displeased Our Rulers. They also condemn her housekeeping: the trailer was“filthy… When officers went inside, they were met with the stench of urine and found trash andanimal feces throughout the home…”

And so they stole not only Ms. Clark’s sons but her roommates’ 8-year-old and 8 month-olddaughters as well – though they frankly admit that “While the children were living in filthy

conditions, there was no evidence to suggest they had beenphysically abused or were malnourished…” Those pitiabletykes now suffer “in the care of the state.”

Satanic, Leviathan’s priorities. I’ve never yet met the childwho complained that his house was too dirty, but I’ve metand read about hundreds who pined to the point ofdepression for absent parents. Likewise, a “filthy” homeseldom kills a kid, but the “state’s custody” often does.

The cops weren’t content with kidnapping minors: theykidnapped every adult in the trailer, too, even the childlessfriend. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong

time! “‘All of the adults were aware of the situation and wereaware of the kids were being housed in the animal kennel and didnothing to stop it or report it,’ said Lt. Hoaglund. …[They’re]each charged with two counts of first-degree false imprisonment”– that’s rich, coming from tyrants who cage more people thanany other country on earth – “two counts of felony child abuseand misdemeanor child abuse, based on the condition of thehouse.” Shall we discuss the condition of the average airport,where goons force us to walk barefoot while their grimy pawsgrope us?

Take a lesson, thralls: if you want to gut a deer or keep a messyhouse, win an election first. Then you can not only slaughteranimals in your house if you like, you can also graduate to actualatrocities like theft, rape and murder – all with utter impunity.

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The nationwide crackdown on Occupy WallStreet has begun Madison Ruppert

1. Activist PostOctober 29, 2011

Multiple cities across the nation have beguntheir offensive against the people standing upfor the right to fair representation and a justeconomic system instead of the corporatistsystem which we are currently subjugated by.

Some of these have been brutal and viciousattacks on Americans, including what nowappears to be an intentional attack on ScottOlsen — a former Marine who served twotours of duty in Iraq before leaving the militaryin 2010.

In Oakland Olsen was struck in the head by a police projectile, causing a skull fracture whichput him in critical condition. Thankfully, Olsen is now conscious, although he is reportedlyhaving trouble speaking and his brain swelling is still a risk according to doctors. The mostdisturbing part of this incident is not that the police who are supposed to protect and serve arebrutally assaulting demonstrators but that the officer apparently meant to hit Olsen in the head.

As you will see in the following video, Scott Olsen was just feet away from the police barricadewhen he was hit in the head. The officer responsible clearly did not lob a tear gas canister as theyare supposed to do, but instead aimed at Olsen’s head.

1. You will then see activists rush to Olsen’s aid as he is lying on the ground, unmoving andbleeding from the head.

Notice the police officer move back behind two other officers then lob what appears to be a flashbang right next to Olsen’s body.

What appears to be a flash bang grenade goes off and the crowd disperses for a moment.

Footage of Scott Olsen being shot by Police at Occupy Oakland video below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEj_4fqDbnM

Keep in mind that the Oakland Police Department claims that they did not use flash bang grenadesagainst the protesters, although they willnot account for the other police agenciesinvolved in the assault.

1. The Daily Bail posted a picture ofsome of the ammunition used by police inthe attack which clearly includes a rubberbullet, which the Oakland Police alsoclaim they did not use:

In an article published on BusinessInsider, a Marine is quoted saying thatthe tactics utilized by police in Oaklandare not even allowed in a war zone.

Is there not something seriously wrongwhen our public servants are utilizing tactics on American civilians that American soldiers are notsupposed to use in combat on foreign soil?

Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan said in a written statement that the city has opened an investigationinto the use of force, including the use of tear gas on Tuesday.

However, the statement also said, “We are asking you not to camp overnight. Frank Ogawa Plazais open for free speech activities between 6 am and 10 pm.”

This is the kind of ludicrously un-American thinking that has plagued the response to the OccupyWall Street movement.

This is a nation with free speech which means that you cannot tell us when and where to speak freely.You might not like it, but we have every right to occupy a public space all hours of the day. Wehave every right to freely assemble whenever and wherever we want.

If it really is problematic for you, you might want to explore moving to a nation which was notfounded upon the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Oakland is just one of the many places in which police are launching an all-out offensive onpeaceful demonstrators who are sick and tired of the elite ruling class robbing America blind whileour politicians encourage it.

Indeed California now seems to be ahotspot for these anti-Occupation moves,contrary to what one might assume based

on California’s history as a blue state.

However, this is just more proof that the bi-partisan system in Washington is nothing other than atwo-party dictatorship in which both parties work towards the exact same goals and push anidentical agenda of control and oppression.

San Diego saw police actions against their Occupation at around 2 am in the morning.

OB Rag, an independent news organization out of Ocean Beach, California reports that at least44 people were arrested in the sweep which began at 1:45 am in Children’s Park without anyforewarning.

Police and the Sheriff’s department arrived outfitted in riot gear with batons and at least two menwere reportedly beaten in the process of being arrested.

Several of the demonstrators who were arrested were veterans and one man was apparently alegal observer although more specific details are not yet available.

All of the donated food and medical supplies at both occupation sites were confiscated by thepolice.

Previously Assistant Police Chief Boyd Long told demonstrators that they could remain inChildren’s Park so long as they did not set up tents.

Despite this assurance, Long told the OB Rag that they were clearing both sites and people hadbeen ordered to clear the areas before this.

Later, barricades were set up at the Civic Center Plaza and activists were told they could returnafter the area was power washed, but without any belongings.

A similar incident occurred at Occupy Nashville when, despite false assurances that arrests wouldnot occur until the next day, police rounded up activists in accordance with a new 10 pm to 6 amcurfew on the state Capitol grounds.

State troopers arrested some 29 demonstrators at 3 am and kept them in detention until 9 am atwhich point they marched right back onto theLegislative Plaza.

Thankfully, in this case a tiny bit of justice hasalready been seen when the magistrate of thecourt refused to even hear the charges in sayingthat the state didn’t give the activists adequateprior notice of the curfew since it was onlyannounced yesterday in the afternoon.

The Highway Patrol was advised by the judgeto release the protesters immediately but instead

they continued to hold them and issued criminal trespass citations.

This was a clear example of the state deceiving activists and the media in order to illegallycrackdown on the protests.

Yesterday Lola Potter, the Tennessee state spokeswoman told reporters that demonstratorswouldn’t be arrested until they had an opportunity today to apply for one of the new state permits

required to hold demonstrations at theState’s Capitol.

Despite the claim that they were “not goingto enforce it today” they indeed did justthat.

The Occupy Nashville movement is havingnone of it, calling the state’s policy “adirect violation of our constitutional rights”which indeed it is.

Undeterred, the activists held anothermeeting on the Plaza steps at 7 pm in

defiance of the state’s unjust actions.

Then in New York, where the Occupy Wall Street movement first began, the police is utilizingmore indirect methods to push the activists out of Zuccotti Park.

Instead of utilizing brutal police state tactics like we witnessed in Oakland, the city hasconfiscated all fuels and generators.

This comes as the cold encroaches and

1. a forecast includes more wet cold weather in the near future. Tomorrow has a 100% chance ofprecipitation and tomorrow night has a forecast of snow and 90% chance of precipitation.

The city claims that they are worried about the Occupy camp becoming a “fire trap” due togasoline powered generators.

However, no open flames are used in the camp and dishwater is brought in pre-heated, and themovement is even planning on setting up a volunteer fire brigade with fire extinguishers.

It appears that this is nothing more than a tricky tactic to pressure the activists to leave and stopexercising their right to free speech and assembly.

The president of the Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, also made a somewhat absurd statementto The New York Post, saying that the NYPD will sue “obnoxious” activists for physicalconfrontations with police.

Mullins said, “I am deeply concerned thatprotesters will be emboldened by the recentrash of violent acts against police officers inother cities. New York’s police officers areworking around the clock as the alreadyoverburdened economy in New York is beingdrained by ‘occupiers’ who intentionally andmaliciously instigate needless and violentconfrontations with the police.”

They will reportedly seek the “harshest possible civil sanctions –including monetary damages – against any individual protesterwho causes injury to [police].”

Unfortunately most protesters don’t have the attorneys on retainerto harass the police who brutally assaulted them for no reason.

These are just a few examples of how crackdowns are occurringacross the nation as those in power attempt to shut down theOccupy Wall Street movement which shows no signs of slowingdown or giving up.

It appears that politicians, even ostensibly “liberal” ones likeDemocratic California Senator Dianne Feinstein, are becoming fedup with the Occupation movement.

Immediately following the disturbingly vicious attack on OccupyOakland, Feinstein made a painfully ignorant statement that exposed her for what she truly is: yetanother elitist, corrupt, freedom-hating politician.

Feinstein said she did not think that the “protesters have the right to occupy forever.”

Sorry, Dianne, they have every right to occupy forever despite what you might hope.

“I don’t think people, for example, can sleep in a square for weeks on end. You have to havesome order to it,” she said.

Again, sorry Dianne but you don’t get to decide when and where people can assemble and speakfreely or for how long they do it, or in what manner.

Feinstein parroted the typical ignorant objection to the Occupy Wall Street movement in saying,“There are all kinds of different agendas going on [and it is] hard to figure out what people want,”as if that is some kind of indictment of the movement.

Feinstein doesn’t understand what people want because she is part of the 1% that is unconcernedwith the economic situation in our country and the implications it has for average Americans.

You can view Feinstein’s financial statements here which include a purchase of over $1,000,000in JP Morgan Chase just last year.

Obviously, despite her purported leftist leanings, she is just another Washington elite that seeks toprofit at the expense of the American people.

In 2009 Feinstein’s net worth was between $46,055,250 and $108,109,018. Can anyone expectsomeone of such massive wealth to understand the plight of most Americans?

Interestingly, the 2009 report of the top 16 richest members of both the House and the Senateincluded five individuals from California.

These include Darrell Issa with a maximum net worth of over $451 million, Jane Harman with amaximum net worth of over $435 million, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi with a maximum networth of over $108 million and Gary Miller with a maximum net worth of over $84 million.

Could this overrepresentation of multi-millionaires be related to the mistreatment of anti-corporatist demonstrators in California? While it is pure speculation, it seems to be a somewhatvalid conclusion.

Regardless, there is an irrefutable trend sweeping the nation encouraging the oppression andcrackdown on peaceful protesters seeking a new direction for thehijacked American economy and government.

Hopefully people will see this and it will encourage them to takeaction and fight back against the un-American restriction of freespeech in any and every way possible.

The last thing we need is to allow the Occupy Wall Streetmovement to either be co-opted by the Democratic party, unions,or any other group with an ulterior motive, or to be shut down

through police force.

Through bringing these issues to the forefront we can help keep the movement alive and kickingdespite the many attempts to marginalize it and/or co-opt it for questionable ends.

Madison Ruppert is the Editor and Owner-Operator of the alternative news and analysisdatabase End The Lie and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school, orother organization/cause. If you have questions, comments, or corrections feel free to contacthim at admin@EndtheLie.com

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Americans: Awash In Spin

Dr. Paul Craig RobertsInfowars.comOctober 29, 2011

I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’ssubjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are betterinformed than Americans.

1. Americans have no idea why they have been atwar in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for adecade. They don’t realize that their liberties havebeen supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Fewunderstand that hard economic times are here tostay.

On October 27, 2011, the US governmentannounced some routine economic statistics, andthe president of the European Council announceda new approach to the Greek sovereign debtcrisis. The result of these funny numbers and merewords sent the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index toits largest monthly rally since 1974, erasing its2011 yearly loss. The euro rose, putting theEuropean currency again 40% above its initial parity with the US dollar when the euro wasintroduced.

On National Public Radio a half-wit analyst declared, emphatically, that the latest US governmentstatistics proved that the recovery was in place and that therewas no danger whatsoever of a double-dip recession. And half-brain economists predicted a better tomorrow.

Europe is happy because the European private banks, thecreditors of the European governments, have agreed to eat 50%of Greece’s sovereign debt and to be recapitalized by publicmoney handed to them by the European Financial StabilityFacility rescue fund. The President of the European Council,Herman Van Rompuy, thinks that Greece’s debt is the onlysovereign debt to be written down and that the debt of Italy,Spain, and Portugal will somehow be bailed out through othermeans, including a Chinese contribution to the EFSF rescuefund. Obviously, if all EU sovereign debt has to be cut by 50%as well, the rescue fund would not be up to the job.

For our corrupt financial markets, anynews that can be spun as good news cansend stocks up. But what are the facts?

For facts one has to turn to seriouspeople, not to the presstitute media.Among those who give us real facts isJohn Williams of shadowstats.com. In hisOctober 27 report, Williams exposes thehappy second quarter 2011 economicgrowth figure of 2.5% as nonsense.Every other economic indicatorcontradicts the spin. For example,personal consumption is reported to have increased 1.7%, but this surge in consumption tookplace despite a 1.7% collapse in consumer disposable income! In other words, if there was anincrease in personal consumption, it come from drawing down savings or from incurring higherconsumer debt.

A country’s consumers cannot forever draw down savings or go deeper into debt. For aneconomy to recover, there must be growth in consumer income. That growth is nowhere to beseen in the US. A large percentage of the goods and services sold to Americans by Americancorporations are now produced abroad by foreign labor. Thus, Americans no longer receivedincomes from the production of the goods and services that they consume. The Americanconsumer market is on its way out.

The Dow Jones rose 339.51 points on the phony good news, but consumer sentiment is in thebasement. John Williams reports that “consumer confidence hit the lowest levels ever recorded in2008 and 2009” and that consumer confidence has now “fallen back to that 2008 level.” But thestock market boomed. Somehow a population 23% unemployed with debt up to its eyeballs is

going to spark an economic recovery.

Recovery can only happen in the delusionalworld created for us by the concentrated media.No longer permitted to utter one world of truth,the presstitutes proclaim non-existent recoveriesand weapons of mass destruction and demonizeWashington’s chosen opponents.

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe hasdistracted Americans from the much worst crisisin their country. After two decades of exportingUS manufacturing and middle class jobs, andafter a decade of consumer debt growth that hasresulted in millions of foreclosed homeownersand massive credit card and student loan debt

that cannot be paid, consumers have no income growth or borrowing capacity with which to fuelan economy based on consumer demand.

European banks, already ruined by purchases of Standard &Poor’s and Moody’s AAA ratings of junk derivatives, nowfind themselves threatened by sovereign debt. Greece’s debtcrisis, caused with Goldman Sachs’ help in hiding the truedebt of the country as was done for Enron, has brought tolight that Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain, in addition toGreece, have more debt than the governments can service.

In the EU, unlike the US and UK which have their owncentral banks that can create new money to bail out the over-indebted governments, the EU central bank is prohibited bytreaty from printing money in order to purchase bonds frommember states that cannot be redeemed.

Regardless of the treaty prohibition, the EU central bank hasbeen lending Greece the money to pay its bond holders. Theimposed austerity that is part of the deal created politicalinstability in Greece.

Now that European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has announced a 50% write-off byprivate banks of Greek sovereign debt, can the same treatment be denied Portugal, Italy, andSpain?

The European Central Bank is following the lead of the Federal Reserve and creating new moneyto bail out debt. The cost will be paid in inflation and flight from the euro and the dollar. As anindication of the future, despite the positive spin on the news and the rise in US stocks, on

October 27 the Japanese yen roseto a new high against the USdollar.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is thefather of Reaganomics and theformer head of policy at theDepartment of Treasury. He is acolumnist and was previously an

editor for the Wall StreetJournal. His latest book,“How the Economy WasLost: The War of theWorlds,” details whyAmerica is disintegrating.