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Tag Archives: Police State

The Dakota Access Pipeline Must be Stopped

November 2, 2016 climate Corporate Greed Current Events Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection global climate change Oil Police Brutality Police State Racism Leave a comment

Trump is Dangerously Close to Invalidating Godwin’s Law

March 16, 2016 Civil Rights Current Events Discrimination Domestic Terrorism Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Police State Racism Republicans Terrorism Torture 24 Comments

NYPD Commits Black Woman to Mental Hospital after Illegal Traffic Stop

September 16, 2015 4th Amendment Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State 5 Comments

DOD Manual Declares that Military Officers have Power to Detain Journalists as “Unprivileged Belligerents”

August 26, 2015 1st Amendment Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice freedom of speech Indefinite Detention Media Media Freedom Military Police State Terrorism War War Crimes 2 Comments

Chelsea Manning Faces Indefinite Solitary Confinement for Possessing Toothpaste and Magazines

August 13, 2015 Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination International Relations Legal Injustice Military Police State Prison spying Terrorism Whistleblower 6 Comments

5 Strategies Police Apologists Use to Protect Officers after a Killing and Minimize the Deaths of Black Victims

August 6, 2015 BlackLivesMatter Civil Rights Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Media Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 5 Comments

CDC Report on Opiate Epidemic: Since 2002, Addiction up by 63% and Overdoses up by 387%

July 8, 2015 Criminal Justice Discrimination Drug War Health Policy Police Police State Policy Regulation 1 Comment

Removing the Confederate Flag from Statehouses is Good but Ending the Slavery that it Represents is More Important

June 29, 2015 Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Police State Prison Private Prisons Racism Republicans 35 Comments

Teen Imprisoned in Solitary Confinement for Years Without a Trial Kills Himself

June 12, 2015 Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Law and Order Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State Prison Racism 1 Comment

Rand Paul Temporarily Blinds NSA Domestic Spying Apparatus

June 1, 2015 2016 Election 4th Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Domestic Surveillance Legislature National Security NSA Police State political candidates Rand Paul Supreme Court Terrorism 1 Comment

Baltimore Explodes in Riots over Police Brutality

April 28, 2015 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Police Police Brutality Police State Leave a comment

SCOTUS Lets Police Violate Your 4th Amendment Rights by Claiming Ignorance of the Law

January 22, 2015 4th Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Law and Order Police Police State Supreme Court 5 Comments

American Police are Currently Engaging in Legal Multi-Million Dollar Highway Robbery with their “Civil Asset Forfeiture” Programs

September 10, 2014 Criminal Justice Legal Injustice Police Police State 2 Comments

A Preliminary Look at the Michael Brown Shooting

August 21, 2014 Criminal Justice Inequality Law and Order Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 10 Comments

From Fallujah to Ferguson: the Dangerous Militarization of American Policing

August 18, 2014 1st Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 19 Comments

The Eye in the Sky: American Police Develop Spy Planes to Video-Record Entire Neighborhoods

April 25, 2014 4th Amendment Constitution Criminal Justice Domestic Surveillance Police State spying 1 Comment

Torture Fails to Produce Results and the CIA Lies, Big Surprise

April 2, 2014 CIA Civil Rights Constitution Defense Policy extremism Foreign Policy International Relations Police State spying Terrorism Torture Transparency 2 Comments

Police Castrate Honor Student During Stop and Frisk

January 24, 2014 4th Amendment 8th Amendment Civil Rights Constitution Police Police Brutality Police State 12 Comments

60 Minutes NSA Segment Illustrates Everything that is Wrong With the American Media

December 19, 2013 Domestic Surveillance Edward Snowden Media NSA Police State propaganda spying Whistleblower Leave a comment

Egypt is Burning

August 17, 2013 Arab Spring Defense Policy democracy Egypt Foreign Aid Foreign Policy International Relations Military Police State Religion in Politics Terrorism Voting 5 Comments

A Whistleblower’s Choice: Loyalty to the Government or to the American People

June 12, 2013 Accountability Bradley Manning CIA Criminal Justice Defense Policy Domestic Surveillance FBI Government Secrets NSA Police State Transparency Whistleblower 5 Comments

A Letter to Domestic Surveillance Agencies

June 7, 2013 Civil Rights National Security Police State spying Leave a comment

Obama’s War on Press Freedom

June 3, 2013 Democrats DOJ Law and Order Media Obama Police State Republicans scandal spying warrantless wiretaps 2 Comments

Millay vs. Manning: Traitor vs. Patriotic Whistleblower

May 19, 2013 Bradley Manning Defense Policy Government Secrets Indefinite Detention Law and Order Police State Terrorism Whistleblower 2 Comments

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