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By Dave Lindorff

If this were a country that honored the rule of law, Attorney General Holder would not need to promise not to torture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35684.htm



Chomsky says 'Snowden Should Be Honored' For 'Telling Americans What The Government Was Doing'

Video

If you look at anyone who s spent any time poring through declassified records, you find that overwhelmingly the security is the security of the state from its own population and that s why things have to be kept secret.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35680.htm



Taken

Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we are losing?

http://is.gd/VU7h1p



Talk About Police States

By William Boardman

Our current 'conversation' is about the size, shape, and authority of our police state apparatus, not whether or not we should have one.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35774.htm



America s Emerging Police State: A Brief History

By Justin Raimondo

The 'legal' and political outlines of an American police state have been emerging from the fulcrum of war and the turbulence of our domestic politics since World War II.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35783.htm



US; The Real Global Terror Alert

By Finian Cunningham

These American leaders should be in prison, not promulgating to the rest of the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35784.htm



Obama s Press Conference: The Smiling Face of a Police State

By Barry Grey

At Friday's press conference, President Barack Obama resorted to outright lies in his defense of the massive and illegal surveillance programs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35816.htm



The Rule of Law: Unjust and Violent

By Robert J. Burrowes

How can we resist legal systems that perpetrate injustice and inflict violence?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35866.htm



Civil Forfeiture, Police Piracy, and the Third-Worldization of America

By The Polemicist

The practice of civil forfeiture has become a lucrative system of 'policing for profit,' a system that has literally legalized highway robbery and turned police into pirates.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36351.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Living in a One-Superpower World (or Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon Lady)

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Whistleblowers, like Edward Snowden, are not given the same advantage as covert operatives who have committed crimes in the name of the War on Terror and ''disappeared'' with the help and protection of the US government.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/17844-now-you-see-him-now-you-dont-living-in-a-one-superpower-world-or-edward-snowden-vs-robert-seldon-lady



What 'Orange Is the New Black' Gets Right about the Prison System and What It Leaves Out

Jesse Lava, Truthout: While many crime dramas are guilty of 'sensationalizing crime and dehumanizing criminals' Netflix s new drama 'Orange is the New Black' takes a hard look at the realities of crime and punishment in the American prison system that many shows never dare to touch.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18070-what-orange-is-the-new-black-gets-right-about-the-prison-system-and-what-it-leaves-out



When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: a Critical Pedagogy Manifesto

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: Rather than create autonomous, critical and civically engaged students, the un-reformers kill the imagination while depoliticizing all vestiges of teaching and learning.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18133-when-schools-become-dead-zones-of-the-imagination-a-critical-pedagogy-manifesto

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Obama on Encouraging Whistleblowers (2008): Down the Memory Hole
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/gary-north/encouraging-whistleblowers%E2%80%A8/

Everyone Is Now A Terrorist According to The US Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/anthony-gucciardi/police-state-paranoia/

The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/john-w-whitehead/all-hail-the-police-state/

A Government of Wolves
http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/384-a-government-of-wolves/

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'The triumph of the security state'
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/government-corruption/the-triumph-of-the-security-state-.html



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