All Posts Tagged With: "police state"
Yes, It Is a Police State
Since 9/11 the biggest threat to the American people is not radical Muslim terrorists, nor deranged domestic terrorists, but the terrorists with the blue uniforms, badges, and body armor.
16Jun2011 | Steven Horwitz | 58 comments | ContinuedAn American Stasi?
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that “there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities.” What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work for the [...]
22Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 22 comments | ContinuedA Million Terrorists?
In July the federal government added the millionth name to its “Terrorism Watch List”—and it may have been yours. Comprising just 16 names on September 11, 2001, this modern blacklist now functions as a catchall and cover for federal intelligence agencies. Since no one wants to be accused of overlooking a terrorist, bureaucrats have added [...]
1Nov2008 | Becky Akers | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Militarization of American Police
In the summer of 2006 a frail, troubled 18-year-old girl named Ashley MacDonald ran through a nearly empty Huntington Beach, California, city park in the early morning holding a small knife. An onlooker called the police and soon two large male officers showed up. They shot the girl to death with 18 bullets, claiming she [...]
1Mar2008 | Steven Greenhut | 38 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Must You Conform? by Robert Lindner
New York: Rinehart. 210 pp. $3.00. This is another blast of the Trumpet of Revolt. It comes from that “peculiar” called psychotherapy. I use the word “peculiar” in its precise medieval Canon Law meaning, as describing a “jurisdiction proper to itself.” Psychotherapy, and indeed all physicianship, today is assuming the empty seat of mental authority, [...]
1May1956 | Gerald Heard | 2 comments | Continued-
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