According to The Boston Globe the new program will be targeting high crime neighborhoods (i.e. black and hispanic) under the premise that parents are not only scared about gun violence, but to respecting of their children’s privacy to search there rooms themselves. Luckily for concerned parents our police do not have such qualms about violating anyones privacy.
From the article:
In the next two weeks, Boston police officers who are assigned to schools will begin going to homes where they believe teenagers might have guns. The officers will travel in groups of three, dress in plainclothes to avoid attracting negative attention, and ask the teenager’s parent or legal guardian for permission to search. If the parents say no, police said, the officers will leave.
For those of you who missed it the Boston Police Department has just announced that they are actively profiling our children while they are in school (i.e. Government Indoctrination Center).
To show their mercy the police have decided not to charge anyone for firearm possession. How kind of them for not prosecuting us for exercising our Constitutionally Protected Rights, don’t you just love them?
If officers find a gun, police said, they will not charge the teenager with unlawful gun possession, unless the firearm is linked to a shooting or homicide.
Even in Soviet Russia and in China today you don’t see the cops announcing these programs, they just did/do it. How far we’ve fallen now, our masters openly announce the wholesale destruction of the Constitution and we just take it.
“I just have a queasy feeling anytime the police try to do an end run around the Constitution,” said Thomas Nolan, a former Boston police lieutenant who now teaches criminology at Boston University. “The police have restrictions on their authority and ability to conduct searches. The Constitution was written with a very specific intent, and that was to keep the law out of private homes unless there is a written document signed by a judge and based on probable cause. Here, you don’t have that.”
I wouldn’t call the feeling I get queasiness. I think it’s a lot more like utter contempt for the criminals running our government and their minions.
This is the opening paragraph from a story on WCBSTV.com:
Surveillance cameras rolling inside our local schools is nothing new, but what’s taking place inside Demarest’s public schools is truly cutting edge: a live feed from more than two dozen cameras with a direct connection to the police.
This is not freedom, or anything close to this. Dictatorial Governments of history dreamed of doing the kind of surveillance that is now commonly accepted as ok, let alone the things that are being pushed for now.
You’ll continue to get exactly the amount of this kind of tyranny you’re willing to accept. It’s completely up to you. How much more tyranny are you willing to live with?
Come on. By saying that the bill actually legalized activities that can never be legal under our Constitution they give undue credit to the Bush Administration’s argument. This is the propaganda right here, the really good stuff. This is how they get you, by legitimizing a ridiculous statement with another in the media.
The headline I want to see is “President Bush and Congress attempting to ILLEGALLY violate the 4th Amendment”
That is what has happened. Our Congress has once again demonstrated its complicity in enabling the Bush Administration to run completely amok.
Of course, so have I, and so have you, and so has everyone else. I’m fed up with the blatant disregard for anything besides their masters wishes. It’s time to dethrone the people behind the curtain, the ones who have so completely controlled America for the last 100 years that hardly anyone even speaks of them anymore.
Denying the truth, that America has literally been taken over, and our entire Government is an act, there to let us believe we have a Republic is what they want, it’s what they need. Without that their whole charade comes to a halt.
That’s right, our Congress has rubber stamped a bill written by the Bush Administration that is supposed to make warrantless wiretapping okay, even though the Congress has no Authority to grant Unconstitutional powers to the Executive.
From the article:
“After months of prodding by House Republicans, Congress has finally closed the terrorist loophole in our surveillance law — and America will be the safer for it,” declared House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican.
The terrorist loophole? Is this guy for real?
Face it folks, our country is basically gone. Every Congressman and Senator that voted yes on this bill is a traitor, point blank.
The questions is what are we going to do about it?
One of the more interesting aspects, other than a nationwide broadband WiMax service in the first place, is Sprint and Google actively working on location-based services that can track exactly where the device is.
“Assuming that a customer opts-in in a transparent way, we can do location in a couple of different ways. The first is, traditional advertisers would be very interested to know where people are. If they are close to restaurants or bars or other places of interest, we think advertising Email Marketing Software - Free Demo could become very meaningful to customers,” Cannistra said.
“A second way, on an opt-in basis, would be to locate where people on your contact list are. Wherever you are, say on a Friday night, you could see … on a map on your device, where your friends are,” he explained.
This would be cool, as long as it’s opt-in, and the Feds don’t have an API feed from it, but unless we get Ron Paul as President that probably won’t be the case.
A 57 year old woman chaperoning a school field trip accidentally left a butter knife in her carry on bags for the trip home. According to TSA employees Cecilia Beaman is now a terrorist. No due process, no appeal, hell, they don’t even give her any paperwork or a receipt for the confiscated property.
“You’ve committed a felony,” Beaman says a security screener announced. “And you’re considered a terrorist.”
Beaman says she was told her name would go on a terrorist watch-list and that she would have to pay a $500 fine.
“I’m a 57-year-old woman who is taking care of 37 kids,” she told them. “I’m not gonna commit a terrorist act.” Beaman says they took information from her Washington drivers license and confiscated and photographed the knife according to standard operating procedure.
She says screeners refused to give her paperwork or documentation of her violation, documentation of the pending fine, or a copy of the photograph of the knife.
“They said ‘no’ and they said it’s a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said ‘not at this point … you don’t have any’.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember the part of the Constitution that says your rights don’t apply in airports. I’m pretty sure they didn’t have airports when the Constitution was written, so I don’t see how that would be possible.
Despite that, through “federal regulations” they have decided that we can be subjected to any and every form of humiliating and degrading treatment.
How long until you have to go through the airport naked? They’re already rolling out advanced x-ray machines that can see through our clothes.
