Starvin Larry

“The Justice Department is claiming, in a little-noticed court filing, that a federal agent had the right to impersonate a young woman online by creating a Facebook page in her name without her knowledge. Government lawyers also are defending the agent’s right to scour the woman’s seized cellphone and to post photographs — including racy pictures of her and even one of her young son and niece — to the phony social media account, which the agent was using to communicate with suspected criminals.”

“Consider what the federal government is arguing here. It’s arguing that if you’re arrested for a drug crime, including a crime unserious enough to merit a sentence of probation, the government retains the power to (a) steal your identity, (b) use that identity for drug policing, thus making your name and face known to potentially dangerous criminals, (c) interact with those criminals while posing as you, which could subject you to reprisals from those criminals, (d) expose photos of your family, including children, to those criminals, and (e) do all of this without your consent, and with no regard for your safety or public reputation.

The mindset that would allow government officials to not only engage in this sort of behavior, but to then fight in court to preserve their power to continue it is the same mindset that, for example, allows drug cops to compel juveniles and young women to become drug informants, with little regard for their safety — and to then make no apologies when those informants are murdered. Or that would lead campus cops to let a teen slowly kill himself with heroin, because they could hold his addiction over his head to force his cooperation as an informant. Or that would allow a guy arrested on a possession charge to be abandoned for days in a jail cell, nearly killing him.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/07/once-youve-dehumanized-drug-offenders-its-easy-to-steal-their-identities/

Does anyone still have any doubt that we are living in a police state?

“Last year we learned of three incidents in New Mexico in which motorists pulled over for moving violations were subjected to forced anal cavity searches, x-rays and even colonoscopies because police suspected they were hiding drugs in their bodies.  I pointed out in January that the practice has also been used in Texas, Illinois, Florida and Kansas.

It looks like Oak Ridge, Tenn., has been doing it, too.”

“An Oak Ridge man who says he was forced in June 2011 to submit to a digital rectal exam for suspected drugs — and no drugs were found — has filed a lawsuit in Anderson County Circuit Court.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/09/more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee/

Warrantless cavity searches?

And there’s people who still do not believe we live in a police state….

“HARTFORD, CT — Governor Dannel Malloy has declared Connecticut to be in a state of public health emergency, enabling the indefinite suspension of certain civil rights. State bureaucrats have been granted the broad authority to forcibly detain suspected sick people without due process. The declaration came preemptively, as Connecticut has not yet seen a single case of the virus it purports to stop.”

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/connecticut-state-of-public-health-emergency/

“The Drug War, in addition to being unwinnable, has gained us more enemies than anything else over the last half-century. We’ve gained all these enemies because we cops have embraced drug enforcement and all the tactics that go with it. Every time we dig around someone’s groin for drugs, or breach a door for a no-knock warrant against a marijuana grower, or throw a flash-bang into a toddler’s crib during a raid, we turn more and more people against us. The excesses committed in our crusade to eradicate drugs have been so egregious, we’ve actually seen a grand jury in law-and-order Texas refuse to indict a marijuana dealer who killed a cop raiding his house. That grand jury, and much of America, decided drug use may be bad, but kicking in people’s doors to stop drug use is worse.

In most cops’ minds, “anyone involved with drugs” equals “bad guy”. I used to feel that way myself. And granted, a lot of drug users and dealers really are bad guys. But when we arrest for simple possession, we’re not discriminating between peaceful users and actual criminal thugs who happen to use or sell drugs. We don’t need to treat the kid smoking a joint in his apartment the same as the Mexican Mafia murderer who makes his living selling tons of weed and killing rival dealers.

For years I’ve heard drug users say, “Aw man, I ain’t hurtin’ nobody,” when we arrest them. For years, I’ve heard cops jokingly say, “Aw man, he ain’t hurtin’ nobody,” when they’re making fun of someone under arrest for drugs. I’ve said it myself. But now I realize a lot of them actually weren’t hurting anyone, and arresting them literally did nothing to protect the public. All we did was further overload the criminal justice system, create years of problems for people who weren’t criminals, and convince ourselves we had somehow accomplished something positive for society. And at the end of the shift many of us went home and had a beer, even though all cops know alcohol causes the same problems we accuse illegal drugs of causing.”

Healing the Rift Between Police and the Public

H/T The Grey Enigma

“NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office on Thursday was investigating an allegation that an NYPD officer stole more than $1,000 during an apparent stop-and-frisk in Coney Island.

The encounter at the Surfside Gardens public housing project on Sept. 16 was caught on cell phone video.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/09/brooklyn-da-investigates-video-which-appears-to-show-nypd-officer-taking-money-from-man-during-stop-and-frisk/

“Deeming eight incidents since 2010 as representing a trend of sorts from which unsubstantiated extrapolations of an “increased threat” can be made, the report presents a timeline graphic in a weak attempt to make its case. Government officials were targeted in seven of those, it says, with federal and local law enforcement targeted in five incidents and critical infrastructure targeted in three.

A review of the timeline incidents include some commonalities in the majority of highlighted investigations:

In the case of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia, where four members including the group leader were convicted of “conspiracy to kill judges and law enforcement officials,” the case was made for the government by an informant providing “about 100 hours of recordings.” Likewise, the senior citizen “Waffle House” conspirators were recorded by an FBI informant in their discussions about using castor bean plants to produce ricin…”

http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-once-more-relying-on-splc-inspired-conflation-domestic-threat-report

Click to access war_in_the_west_report.pdf

So, .gov is relying on a known liar,who makes shit up in an attempt to remain relevant,for their “intelligence assessments”?

Why not just rely on the rantings of Al Sharpton? Potok is like Sharpton-anyone who has views slightly to the left of Stalin or Mao is a right wing extremist,who also must be a racist,and anti semitic.

It appears that DHS is preparing to arrest anyone who opposes the leftist policies of the current admin,by using government “moles”,”informants”, “agent provocateurs”,etc. to get people to say anything on tape that could possibly be used to fabricate a case against them.

SWAT teams kick in doors and shoot the family dog at 4 am on a regular basis on the word of an “informant”.

DHS has their “if you see something, say something” snitch recruitment campaign underway,so a jealous ex,jilted lover,or an employee you fired can just make some shit up,tell DHS,and you get your door kicked in in the middle of the night,officer safety shoots your dog,and you get arrested,charged with a “crime”  when in reality-you did nothing wrong.

Remember,federal prosecutors have a 98% conviction rate-because the .gov agencies,the prosecutor,and the judge all work for team .gov.

Unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars laying around,you have no chance of beating any trumped up charges from team .gov.

This is not what the founders had in mind for government powers,this is an out of control government,with out of control “law enforcement”, using manufactured “evidence” provided by people like Mark Potok to arrest and convict people who have done nothing illegal,other than speak out against an out of control federal government,and have beliefs that differ from those of the leftists currently in control of our government.