Picture of a Police State

[Sasquatch]

Spin baby spin! 

Stop the grain ships! Stop the trains! Show those Wall Street bankers whose boss! They will wilt under our demands! 

All of this negative reporting just to make the OWS bunch look bad. 

[NCVol]

Spin baby spin! 

Stop the grain ships! Stop the trains! Show those Wall Street bankers whose boss! They will wilt under our demands! 

Well, that's why they're winning, the communists I mean, because as you can see they have awesome powers!  Hell, they've WON!!  A few union thugs try to stop a grain shipment and the communist friendly Obama sends in the Coast Guard, so the union thugs win again, you see.....in opposite land. 

All of this negative reporting just to make the OWS bunch look bad. 

Well, not to make them look bad, IMO, but to divert any attention from their admittedly plutocrat unfriendly message.

You do know the plutocrats have tender feelings - they've been whining like babies  that some people don't recognize their awesome incredible greatness and instead of thanking them for making 500 times the average worker as that average worker sees his income decline over the past decade, those poor ingrates and their political allies actually complain that while the plutocrats are raking home record shares of income and wealth, the rest of the country is going to hell in a handbasket.  Can you believe those people??????!!!!!

[Jeremy Roenick]

Another example of police way out of control.  Just another symptom of the emerging police state.

Cop turns off dash cam video in order to put the beat down on 66-year-old man with dementia.  Fortunately thru the power of technology the video was pulled from the hard drive anyway.  Can you say pre-meditated police brutality?  And oh yeah, this cop is still working the beat with little more than a reprimand.

officer beating 66-year-old man suffering from dementia

[Jeremy Roenick]

Here's a quiz to take.  Think you know the difference between the police and military?

Go take this 21 picture/answer quiz and find out.  http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=cop-soldier

I know enough to look for certain things, probably more than the average Joe and I still only got 13 of 21 correct (62%).

The line is blurring between law enforcement and the military.  Uniforms, gear, weapons and hardware.

[Dementia_Madness]

I got 13 out of 21 as well lol

[Jeremy Roenick]

Well, I sense absolutely no "acceleration" to this at all.  I guess once power corrupts, it pushes one to constantly press the envelope.

So we have NDAA that gives them the right to indefinitely detain Americans using military force.  Now we have Congress pushing for wider use of UAS (unmanned aerial systems) i.e. DRONES over US airspace.

Two thoughts...  1. Canada is looking better by the day.  2. The Patriot Act (which many Progressives howled about like wolves) is looking more and more like small potatoes in the rear view mirror.

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/02/faa_drones.html

Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.

A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace.

The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs the Secretary of Transporation to develop within nine months “a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system.”

[Jeremy Roenick]

This is disgusting.  Better not argue that next speeding ticket with a cop or they may tazer your   too.  Overuse of excessive force.  Another symptom of an emerging police state.

http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/02/03/1155055

Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies use Taser on woman blocking McDonald's drive-through

Deputies used a Taser on a woman who wouldn't surrender to them after she cut into a McDonald's drive-through line and then refused to move her car without being served, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

Evangeline Marrero Lucca, 37, of the 100 block of Snow Hill Church Road, pulled up to the window of the McDonald's on Legion Road, near Black and Decker Road, on Friday afternoon and held up the line for about 20 minutes

The tazer has become the weapon of choice for intimidation and fear across America. Because of it's "less lethal" status, it is now being overused to strike fear in the hearts of people and to titillate sick police officers.  Many times when a good wrestling hold, full-nelson or arm bar was good enough to apprehend a combative individual, those tactics are being cast aside in favor of the tazer.  Just think what weapons we haven't seen yet (sonic, directed energy etc) that will be deployed against the American people as society continues to unravel.

[NCVol]

They've used the LRAD boom boxes at least once against OWS, in NYC. 

[Jeremy Roenick]

Just the beginning NC.  They've got some directed energy weapons that they can simply point at a crowd and make you feel like your skin is burning off.  You can't stay put you have to move out of it's path.  You can see the obvious appeal of such weapons in crowd/mob control, but they're bring about a whole host of ethical and moral questions.  Are they humane?  That's very debatable.

Further to the use of drones over US skies.... Considering that drones have become the weapon of choice to wage "undeclared" US wars then it would only follow logic to assume that any use of drones over US skies is like waging an undeclared war on the American people.

See this vid.  Granted Obama was talking very tongue-in-cheek, I find a very eerily foreshadowing of events to come from remarks made well over a year ago.  As everyone in the room chuckles, I wonder if they still are now that Congress is asking to use drones over US skies...

Obama Jokes About Killing Jonas Brothers With Predator Drones

[Jeremy Roenick]

I've got one word for you....  "drones".  Get used to them.  You're going to start seeing them in our skies more and more.

Thanks a pant-load Congress.     They just declared war on the American people and to quote Sir Golfsalot...  "You'll never see it coming"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/

Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace.

The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.

The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.

OK, that's roughly 600 drones per state.  You chances of seeing one occasionally....  GOOD.

OK Obama supporters tell us how this is grounds to re-elect Obama and any clown in Congress that voted for this horrible legislation.  I'm all ears.

[Sasquatch]

I'm all ears.

So is Obama. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Seriously, when do the drones start dropping payload in the US? Pakistan sure has had enough:

*Pakistan blasts US blitz
*Hints they may hit back
*Pledges support for Iran

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4115452/Pakistan-blasts-lethal-US-drone-attacks.html

That last one is bad. I guess this could also go on the Iran thread. Obama is such a peacemaker.