Wednesday, December 13, 2006
America's Police State is here....
A poster on AMERICAblog linked to an article that included this picture. This happened in Raleigh, North Carolina!
READ THE STORY HERE.
As a mother, this photo just pains my heart. I understand that this child's Mom or Dad or both have gotten themselves in some trouble, but come on! Having a gun like that around a child of that age is disgusting and frightening to me (and the child!)! Couldn't this officer just wait outside the door while this youngster relieved himself (he was probably scared to death after what had just happened too! Why make it worse than it already is!)?
I'm sure this little boy has had nightmares ever since. Breaks my heart.
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People need to wake up. Seems like most people must think this crap would never get out of control in our country, we're the good guys. Or maybe, we have to give up some of our freedom to fight the war on terror.
It is becoming clear, to me, that it is getting out of control.
Any one know of other instances of abuse like this, recently?
It is becoming clear, to me, that it is getting out of control.
Any one know of other instances of abuse like this, recently?
# posted by 
: 12/13/2006 08:12:00 AM
: 12/13/2006 08:12:00 AM
This police state has been felt for YEARS by many peoples who live here, but were not popular with either the MSM or the middle class,
Minorities have dealt with this for years, also people who choose to live outside the "norm" keeping legal, but not normal life styles opens you up to extra scrutiny, which since the 1980's has been dealt with by larger police agencies with "SWAT" tactics...it is just spreading now that the break between those who have made it, and those who are being left behind is opening up.
Intimidation is one way to keep the less desirable people "in their place" and police usually are the vector of official intimidation in this country.
Get used to it.
Minorities have dealt with this for years, also people who choose to live outside the "norm" keeping legal, but not normal life styles opens you up to extra scrutiny, which since the 1980's has been dealt with by larger police agencies with "SWAT" tactics...it is just spreading now that the break between those who have made it, and those who are being left behind is opening up.
Intimidation is one way to keep the less desirable people "in their place" and police usually are the vector of official intimidation in this country.
Get used to it.
Yeah Cliff. As Smoke said, "sad".
That does say it all.
Is there a blog that has a focus on this topic?
That does say it all.
Is there a blog that has a focus on this topic?
# posted by : 12/13/2006 08:24:00 AM
: 12/13/2006 08:24:00 AM
Let's see....the tasering of an unarmed student who didn't have his library card on him...that's one instance. Then there was the massacre of a man on his wedding day and they were unarmed....
Those are recent but there are tons more. Even here in Maine, the police have killed a person and then asked questions later. Sickening.
Okay, going to work!
Those are recent but there are tons more. Even here in Maine, the police have killed a person and then asked questions later. Sickening.
Okay, going to work!
Anonymous, anytime you want to search to find a blog about a topic you're interested in, go to Google and then click on "more" until you come to a list where it says, "Blogs". Type in the word that you want to see what Americans are talking about. So much fun! I'm addicted to it as are the rest of us!!
From TPM Muckraker;
In Utah, DHS Raids Raise Concerns
By Justin Rood - December 13, 2006, 1:16 PM
A troubling report from the DHS immigration raids yesterday, from the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune. In this case, DHS agents allegedly separated workers by their skin color -- light-skinned were considered citizens, dark-skinned got scrutiny. Predicatably, they swept up at least one dark-skinned U.S. citizen up with immigrant workers:
If only for a few minutes, Maria felt like an ''illegal alien'' in her homeland - the United States of America.
She thought she was going on break from her job at the Swift & Co. meat processing plant here [in Hyrem, Utah] on Tuesday, but instead she and others were forced to stand in a line by U.S. immigration agents. Non-Latinos and people with lighter skin were plucked out of line and given blue bracelets.
The rest, mostly Latinos with brown skin, waited until they were ''cleared'' or arrested by ''la migra,'' the popular name in Spanish for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), employees said.
''I was in the line because of the color of my skin,'' she said, her voice shaking. ''They're discriminating against me. I'm from the United States, and I didn't even get a blue bracelet.'' . . .
Women were crying as they were handcuffed with plastic ties and put on the buses. Some weren't allowed to get their belongings from their lockers. Maria, who declined to use her last name, argued with an agent because she was getting the coat for her 34-year-old niece, Blanca, who was arrested.
''She [the agent] told me, 'Do you think it's going to be cold in Mexico?' '' Maria said, holding back tears.
The paper confirms that the federal agents took an undisclosed number of people away in buses away to an undisclosed location.
More of the "NEW POLICE STATE" where immigration looks at SKIN color to determine if you "should" be here...........telling , and frightening if you think about it.
In Utah, DHS Raids Raise Concerns
By Justin Rood - December 13, 2006, 1:16 PM
A troubling report from the DHS immigration raids yesterday, from the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune. In this case, DHS agents allegedly separated workers by their skin color -- light-skinned were considered citizens, dark-skinned got scrutiny. Predicatably, they swept up at least one dark-skinned U.S. citizen up with immigrant workers:
If only for a few minutes, Maria felt like an ''illegal alien'' in her homeland - the United States of America.
She thought she was going on break from her job at the Swift & Co. meat processing plant here [in Hyrem, Utah] on Tuesday, but instead she and others were forced to stand in a line by U.S. immigration agents. Non-Latinos and people with lighter skin were plucked out of line and given blue bracelets.
The rest, mostly Latinos with brown skin, waited until they were ''cleared'' or arrested by ''la migra,'' the popular name in Spanish for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), employees said.
''I was in the line because of the color of my skin,'' she said, her voice shaking. ''They're discriminating against me. I'm from the United States, and I didn't even get a blue bracelet.'' . . .
Women were crying as they were handcuffed with plastic ties and put on the buses. Some weren't allowed to get their belongings from their lockers. Maria, who declined to use her last name, argued with an agent because she was getting the coat for her 34-year-old niece, Blanca, who was arrested.
''She [the agent] told me, 'Do you think it's going to be cold in Mexico?' '' Maria said, holding back tears.
The paper confirms that the federal agents took an undisclosed number of people away in buses away to an undisclosed location.
More of the "NEW POLICE STATE" where immigration looks at SKIN color to determine if you "should" be here...........telling , and frightening if you think about it.
Clif, thanks for posting that! You're right. The Police State will start with certain skin colors and will then bloom out from there. Frightening stuff.
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