Edwige : Sarkozy, the current EU chairman, tries to set up a police state in France

Written by Franck Biancheri

Under this nice feminine firstname, Edwige, lies a brutal and ugly political reality : a police database of a scope and nature unseen since Petain's regime.read more »

Airport Gestapo

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one million names on the “terrorist” watch list.

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By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

A new class of everyday spies, from paramedics to utility workers, are being recruited to be "terrorism liason officers." 

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By Jeffrey Denning

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...

A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.read more »

Washington Post

Unless you're a porn star, you may want to avoid flying out of Reagan National Airport. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is introducing millimeter wave scanners at its checkpoints there and other airports nationwide.read more »

12 Oaks at Woodfield apartment owners file federal suit alleging civil rights violation

Rolling Meadows police have barricaded all but 1 of complex's 13 entrances

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D.C. Setting Up Neighborhood checkpoints, warrantless, door-to-door searches

Lanier plans to seal off rough ’hoods in latest effort to stop wave of violence

Michael Neibauer and Bill Myers, The Examiner

WASHINGTON -

D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.
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Alexi Mostrous

Thousands of middle managers in local councils are being authorised to spy on people suspected of petty offences using powers designed to prevent crime and terrorism.

Even junior council officials are being allowed to initiate surveillance operations in what privacy campaigners likened to Eastern bloc police tactics.read more »

Canton Council proposes jail time for tall grass

By ED BALINT | REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

CANTON For residents tired of that overgrown lot that resembles a minijungle next door, the city wants to help by trying to put high-grass violators behind bars.read more »

By Wayne Madsen | Online Journal Contributing Writer

WMR -- In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's world of an "Israelized" America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel mistreats its own Arab citizens and Palestinians.read more »