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Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Ex-Philly_police_captain_blasts_American_policing.html">Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries</a>.” —Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain<br><br>It’s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop—<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Ex-Philly_police_captain_blasts_American_policing.html">entrusted with all of the powers of a government cop but not held to the same legal standards</a>—pulls you over and subjects you to a stop-and-frisk or, worse, causes you to “disappear” into a Gitmo-esque detention center not unlike the one employed by Chicago police at <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/behind-the-disappeared-of-chicagos-homan-square/385964/">Homan Square</a>?</span><div>
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Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State

Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries .” —Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain It’s one thing to know and...

Police State America: This map shows you just how many prisoners are in each US state

TheWake UpCall 0 Police State, US 9:54 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate#cite_note-5" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">incarceration rate in the US</a> is the highest in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the American Civil Liberties Union, although the US is home to only 5 percent of the world's population, it boasts <a href="https://www.aclu.org/safe-communities-fair-sentences/prison-crisis" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">25 percent of the world's prisoners</a>. About one in 100 American adults are behind bars, the <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/economist-explains-8" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Economist</a> reports. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If those stats aren't enough to shock you, consider that the state of New Hampshire alone has about the same number of prisoners as the entire country of Israel.</span></div>
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Police State America: This map shows you just how many prisoners are in each US state

The incarceration rate in the US is the highest in the world. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, although the US is home...

Your Child Is Being Taught to Accept Living In a Police State

TheWake UpCall 0 Police State 10:07 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had interjected themselves, and appropriately so, into the area of school safety. This article explores the premise behind the cooperation between DHS, FEMA and your child’s public school. Most of the policies and procedures make a great deal of sense and should be followed as a matter of course. However there are some very concerning elements which have surfaced with regard to school safety procedures, your rights as a parent and the safety of your child.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Prime Directive of School Safety</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first mandate for teachers and administrators in the public school setting is to keep students safe. This prime directive supersedes any other mission requirements related to the functioning of a public school. Teachers and administrators as well as support personnel have a moral, professional and legal obligation to tend to children who are in physical and/or emotional distress. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have prepared disaster related documents detailing the professional responsibilities for school personnel in disaster related scenarios. Increasingly, these programs are taking on a police state mentality and parental authority be damned.</span></div>
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Your Child Is Being Taught to Accept Living In a Police State

The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had interjected themselves, and appropriately so, into the area of school safety. This articl...

Police State: US Holds 25 Percent of the World's Prisoners!

TheWake UpCall 0 Police State, prison 4:48 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate#cite_note-5" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">incarceration rate in the US</a> is the highest in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the American Civil Liberties Union, although the US is home to only 5 percent of the world's population, it boasts <a href="https://www.aclu.org/safe-communities-fair-sentences/prison-crisis" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">25 percent of the world's prisoners</a>. About one in 100 American adults are behind bars, the <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/economist-explains-8" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Economist</a> reports. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If those stats aren't enough to shock you, consider that the state of New Hampshire alone has about the same number of prisoners as the entire country of Israel.</span></div>
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Police State: US Holds 25 Percent of the World's Prisoners!

The incarceration rate in the US is the highest in the world. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, although the US is home...

Australia is now officially a police state

TheWake UpCall 0 Australia, Police State 2:18 PM

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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Police state Australia" src="http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Police-state-Australia.jpg" /></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Victoria Police has exclusively revealed to the <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Herald Sun </span>that it will seek to use the new powers in up to 50,000 court cases each year.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has already briefed its prosecutors on the law.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If you’re convicted or found guilty of any offence, a court may suspend or cancel and disqualify your licence,” said Acting Senior Sergeant Richard Bowers, of the Victoria Police Prosecution Division.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The legislation does not govern or put a limiting factor on which cases it applies to. It’s any offence, and it’s completely open to the magistrate as to whether or not they impose it.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Unless a superior court gets hold of one of these cases and says ‘Well, this is an inappropriate exercise of discretion,’ it will remain open for use for a magistrate to use in any way they see fit.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the move has angered civil libertarians.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We are very disturbed at the lack of consultation, given this is such a sweeping and draconian measure,” Jane Dixon, SC, the president of Liberty Victoria, said last night.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“To deprive someone of their driving licence can often also deprive them of their livelihood.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We believe, for well-being, there should be a strong foundation between driving and the offending.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Australia police state" height="735" src="http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Australia-police-state-1024x768.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="980" /></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Victoria Police said it would advice its prosecutors to use the legislation in any case where the offending can be linked to using a vehicle, which it estimates at around 50,000 cases a year.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We will raise the legislation in circumstances where driving had been part and parcel of the offending,” Sen-Sgt Bowers said.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It may be an offence where the accused used a car to commit the offences; for example, residential burglaries, using the car to get around.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5959300518432319010" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In another change to the law, anyone disqualified from driving may be forced to fit an alcohol interlock device in their vehicle when the licence is reinstated, if the original crime can be linked in any way to alcohol or drugs.</span></div>

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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First-time offenders, and those guilty of even the most minor offences, will not be exempt from the new law.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are no set suspension or disqualification limits, giving magistrates free rein to cancel a licence for as long as they see fit.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sen-Sgt Bowers also highlighted drug trafficking and family violence cases as likely ones for the exercise of the law.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You have to look at each case on its merits and determine where is the best use of this legislation. We have left prosecutors with a fair bit of discretion,” he said.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It’s a deterrent and a preventive measure. From our perspective, anything that has the potential to prevent further offending is a good thing,” he said.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state">http://www.hangthebankers.com/australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-is-now-officially-a-police-state</a></span></div><br />
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Australia is now officially a police state

Tens of thousands more Victorians each year stand to lose their drivers’ licences under a new law police are vowing to exercise in court. Sw...

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