THE POLICE STATE
CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights
The Stanford Prison Experiment ( 9 Minutes, 22 Megs)
Goose stepping may have encouraged people to follow Nazis
New Bill To Allow Police Misconduct Be Hidden From Public - Why do the police need masks?
Government wants the military to run state schools - Teachers urged to join MI5 - Why are we fingerprinting children?
Labour invents 33 new crimes every month - Is there a quota system for New Mexico's state police?
Judge Andrew Napolitano's Response to "...if you've got nothing to hide..." ( 5 Minutes, 1 Megs)
Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans ( 4 Minutes, 10 Megs)
Wiretap: The plot thickens in Harman drama - FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
Card controversy - Bill Would Require You to Identify Yourself At All Times
CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Wiretap Surveillance Before 9/11 ( 5 Minutes, 6 Megs)
CIA Chief Rewrites 4th Amendment ( 86 Seconds, 2 Megs)
Data on Americans mined for terror risk - FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data
N.S.A.’s intercepts exceed limits set by Congress - Whistleblower: NSA even collected credit card records
Big Brother Is Back - Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will 'ruin British way of life'
Fight against terror must mean the end of ordinary people's privacy, says ex-security chief
Man strip-searched and held for 24 hours over friend's 'joke text' about sabotaging a train
Anaheim police surveillance of poor may overstep federal law
Half of councils use anti-terror laws to spy on 'bin crimes'
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics - Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
The Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank - New security database angers many in France
Outrage as police chiefs are secretly told to hang on to unlawful DNA
Keeping DNA data is illegal. So stop - Police 'arrest innocent youths for their DNA', officer claims

DNA scan 'could cut cost of insurance - even if results kept secret
New law to allow police to collect DNA in secret from teacups
573,639: The disturbing number of Britons with no criminal record but now registered on Labour’s DNA database
High tech gadget instantly reveals identities
Data on 130,000 criminals lost
Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

Pay too much and you could raise the alarm - Right now, feds might be looking into your finances
Homeland Security Wants Your Help Spotting Terrorists
Revealed: Blair's secret stalker squad - Join the snooper troopers
Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours and report wrongs
Police's latest brainwave: Report people who wear too much 'bling' to Crimestoppers
America’s Secret Police? - Indy to enlist citizens in terrorist watch program
FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants - The FBI Deputizes Business
Operation Bright Eyes - AP IMPACT: Firefighter help on terrorism
Police sent on hypnosis courses
Missouri tracks scofflaws via pizza-delivery databases
Web site lets kids report school bullies incognito
Face recognition devices failed in test at Logan - Facial recognition is same as tossing coin
Four states adopt 'no-smiles' policy for driver's licenses
Face scanners to be introduced in British schools in new 'Big Brother' row
When you watch these ads, the ads check you out
New Video Surveillance Technology 'Recognizes' Abnormal Activity - Deception Detection
Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists - Quest for artificial nose to sniff out terrorists’ fear
Coming soon -- mind-reading computers - Scientists create machine that knows what you are thinking
Brain scanning may be used in security checks - Brain Scan Reveals Who Will Keep Their Promises
Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
FBI Listening to Cell Phones ( 1 Minute, 2 Megs)
DHS Wants Cell Phones to Detect Chemical, Radioactive Material
Government opts for secrecy in wiretap suit - US telecoms fight claims of illegal spying
New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls - NSA says it's too secret to be sued
Cell Phone Picture Called Obstruction Of Justice - Is it a crime to take pictures?
Man held in police station for eight hours after taking pictures of Christmas celebrations in Accrington
Father stopped from taking picture of his son, 4, on children's train ride 'in case he was a paedophile'
Police fight cellphone recordings - Man Arrested For Unlawful Photography
OUTRAGE: NJ Cop Puts CBS 2 Cameraman In Chokehold - Video recording leads to felony charge
Intimidation puts police in a bad light
Social services 'set up CCTV camera in couple's bedroom'
Police chief wants surveillance cameras in Houston apartments
Secret CCTV cameras fitted INSIDE people's homes to spy on neighbours outside

New Systems Keep a Close Eye on Online Students at Home
Talking Camera Tackles City Crime - Be quiet: the surveillance cameras might hear you
CCTV doesn't keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere - Spy cameras fail to focus on street crime
Road with 100 cameras is plagued by crime
Parents sue school after hidden cameras catch students undressing
Principal Places Hidden Camera in School Bathroom - Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students
FBI workers accused of spying on dressing room
NJ School Cameras Fed Live To Cops
'Smile, you're on camera!' Police to get 'head-cams' - San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers
'Eyes in the sky' for homeland security - Pentagon plans blimp to spy from new heights
'Flying saucer' police spy camera takes to the skies - Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
US group implants electronic tags in workers - Missouri law would fine employers for requiring microchip implants
U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
Microsoft wants to get under your skin
L.I. Shelter To Embed Microchips In Adopted Pets - Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors
Now the Government wants competence tests before you can be a dog owner
Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license? - 'Enhanced' licence could boost privacy, security risks
‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes - Hackers clone passports in drive-by RFID heist
Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins - Knock, knock: it’s the council bin snoops
Hitachi Creates RFID Powder
D.M. man refuses to give ID to police, is arrested
Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street
ACLU: 2/3 of US population lives in "Constitution-free" zone
Metal scans to combat knife crime
Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request - CITY CELLPHONE FOLLOWS TIME-CARD 'CHEATER' HOME
Police Using G.P.S. Units as Evidence in Crimes - ACLU: US Attorney used GPS to track cell phones
Feds push for tracking cell phones
Sprint Received 8 MILLION Law Enforcement Requests for GPS Location Data in the Past Year
Students Must Carry And Pay For GPS-Based Cell Device - Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets
MOVIE FANS TO GET BOMB FRISK - US Supreme Court says passenger can be frisked
Metro to Randomly Search Riders' Bags - New York Police Sued Over Subway Searches
Police stop more than 1 million people on street

Photo Ticket Cameras to Track Drivers Nationwide
DMV to use facial recognition software in Oregon
Stop, thief! OnStar will brake stolen cars
Automatic speed-limiting devices should be fitted to cars, Drivers could have speed limited by satellite devices
Police Swabbing Mouths During Traffic Stops In Serial Killer Hunt
Missouri: State Spies on Drivers Through Cell Phones
NYPD's 'Operation Sentinel' To Track EVERYTHING - Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police
Camera grid to log number plates
Tracking devices to cut car insurance rates
California Toll Agency Wants Power to Seize Cars
Transportation secretary says taxing how much we drive may replace gasoline tax
Kilometer tax avoiders face jail, fines

Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming?
Highway checkpoint asks drivers for blood, saliva - APD chief wants officers to draw blood on DWIs
CNN: Unlikely trio on watch list ( 4 Minutes, 10 Meg)
Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List - Senator Kennedy - Babies
Fly At Your Own Risk: More Security Breaches Found - Air marshals missing from almost all flights
Detroit bomb suspect on terrorism watch list
Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause - TSA agent steals $200K worth of gear, resells it on eBay
TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personal Info - National Archives loses hard drive with Clinton era records
Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota
New ID Rules May Complicate Air Travel
Airport Gestapo
Terror crackdown as passengers forced to answer 53 questions in airport inquisition

New airport agents check for danger in fliers' facial expressions
US 'licence to snoop' on British air travellers
Security scans will show sex organs - Airport admits 'strip search' body scanners WILL show people naked
Body scanners can store, send images, group says - New scanners break child porn laws
Shah Rukh signs off sexy body-scan printouts at Heathrow
Are planned airport scanners just a scam? - Christmas incident was "screw up" - Obama said
Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies' to foil new airport scanners
Could X-ray scanners work on the street? - Dutch police develop mobile body scans
Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, Committee Says

Court Installs New Security System
Federal oversight of subways proposed
State Claims Copyright to Laws - Congress, Ariz. school district sues taxpayers to stop questions
Gingrich defends free speech curbs
Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S.
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America
MPs seek to censor the media

We seek snitches, Albuquerque police want ad says - Conversation cops step in to school students
Homeschooling Banned in California as State Turns Parents Into Criminals for Teaching Their Own Children
Homeschoolers portrayed as terrorists
Canadian Falsely Accused Of Terrorism
Images of millions of Canadians to be screened against terrorist databases
US says it has right to kidnap British citizens
Md. Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists
Terrorist watch list hits 1 million - 15,000 want off the U.S. terror watch list - FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'
Arrested, caged and DNA tested - for using MP3
Italian police officers convicted of violence at 2001 G8 Genoa Summit
Police caught on tape trying to recruit Plane Stupid protester as spy
Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges
DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act - Mom says Patriot Act stripped son of due process
Man Charged Under Patriot Act in Laser Case, Toy Store, Gag Orders, Strip Club, PayPal, Governor, Cockfighting
Police will have power to secretly search homes - No-warrant terrorism raids proposed
Health and safety snoops to enter family homes
Cops can now 'take all your stuff' - FBI to Boost 'Black Bag' Search Ops - Gold 'find' in safe deposit raids
Councils get ‘Al Capone’ power to seize assets over minor offence
Computer Security Problems Found at IRS - Audit: ATF lost 76 weapons, hundreds of laptops
Italy posts income details on web - Miami Police Take New Tack Against Terror
School Shooting Drills: New Jersey - Michigan - Pennsylvania (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3) - Tennessee - South Carolina
Many Anti-Terror Plans Would Stop Parents From Picking Up Children
Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security - Terrorism alerts based more on political need than fact
Ala.: Anti-Abortion, Gay Rights "Terror"
Missouri report on militias, terrorists draws criticism: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8
Missouri Apologizes to Paul, Barr & Baldwin Over MIAC Report (pdf: 88 K)
Texas Training Pamphlet: Front, Back - Virginia Training Manual Lists Property Rights Activists As Terrorists
DHS: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment (pdf: 2 Megs)
DHS: Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the Coming Decade (pdf: 540 K)
FBI Could Investigate You
County demands pastor spend thousands on 'Major Use' permit to host friends
Names of judges found guilty of misconduct to stay secret
New Bill To Allow Police Misconduct Be Hidden From Public
Special license plates shield officials from traffic tickets
Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, cars - Property seizures seen as piracy

Nasty cough, nasty run-in with the law
Why the police now have to ask teenage muggers: 'Do you eat chips?'
Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's - McDonald's employee who over salted burger jailed
Grandma Arrested At McDonald's
Officer Accused Of Threatening Starbucks Managers For Free Coffee
Circuit City Shopper Arrested For Refusing To Show Receipt
Teen Accused of Bomb Threat Spends 12 Days in Juvenile Detention After Daylight-Saving Time Snafu
NYPD Officers To Be Given Extra Money For Being More "Aggressive"
One in three recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have criminal records
Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q.
Two Secret Service officers injured at White House
School Security Guard Beat Teen Over Cake Spill
Police Looting in New Orleans ( 2 Minutes, 6 Megs)
Security Asleep on Duty at Nuclear Power Plant ( 2 Minutes, 6 Megs)
Cop Beats Up Female Bartender ( 3 Minutes, 7 Megs)
Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies called outrageous ( 6 Minutes, 12 Megs)
Anger over girls' strip searches
Officer shown choking suspect has history of suspensions
Town Council Member Attacked by Police For Leaving Meeting ( 5 Minutes, 13 Megs)
Missouri: Police Threaten, Detain Motorist for Parking After Hours
Missouri: Cop Website Contained Apparent Death Threat Against Video Vigilante
Missouri: Police Stake Out Brett Darrow Home
VIDEO: COP BODY-CHECKS BICYCLIST
Urbandale Man Dies From Bean Bag Rounds
Man Dies After Taser Gun Shock
Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times
B.C. man dies after being tasered by police
Sold as 'non-lethal,' Tasers killed 400 since 2001
Judge rules for Taser in cause-of-death decisions
Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome
One-third of people shot by Taser need medical attention
Tasers a form of torture, says UN
Lawsuit: Cops tasered 3 kids, threatened one with sodomy
Father wants answers in son's death following Taser jolt
Suspect dies in police custody
Man alleges police shot him in head with Taser
Parents question why Ozark police used stun gun on injured son
Family identifies man who died after taser strike
Deputy tasers high school student against direct orders
Police accused of firing Taser into head of innocent man
Detroit officer Tasered
Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times
Officer's Taser is used on girl, 9
School official asks police to stop Tasers
Guard Uses Taser on Man Holding Newborn

Dash Cam Records Deputy Beating Teen
ATF Raids Resident: "Delusional" For Thinking "Global Economy on Verge of Collapse"
3 Atlanta Police Officers Charged in Drug Raid Death of 92-Year-Old Woman
Md. mayor's dogs killed by SWAT after cops deliver pot
Shooting probe to stay secret
One Salinas officer says he thought he had been shot before opening fire
LAPD blames fingerprint errors for false arrests
New York police raid wrong apartment
Minneapolis police: A mistake, an apology and then medals
Police Break Into Wrong House And Taser Hearing Impaired Man
Oops ... police hit the wrong house in porn raid
False child porn charges lead to a lawsuit
Elderly couple hurt in raid on wrong house
Police to pose as burglars in the middle of the night in bid to cut break-ins
Lakeville police surprise sleeping man with 3 a.m. reminder to lock his doors
Police taking valuables from unlocked cars to drive home anti-theft message
Recording Nets Charges for NY Detective

Unborn babies targeted in crackdown on criminality
Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'
New Illinois Dumb Down School Grading System
Parking in your own driveway could be illegal ( 3 Minutes, 7 Megs)
Parking in your own driveway could be illegal
Indiana: City Threatens $2500 Fines for Challenging Traffic Tickets
Judge sentences man to 6 months in jail for yawning
Tampa man jailed on charge of wearing illegal mask
U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry
Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn - Brown lawn means jail time - Council proposes jail time for tall grass
Is it your civic duty to clear snow?
Kenneth City delays decision on neatness ordinance
Catching rain water is against the law
Man fined $200 for for-sale sign in car
Motorist fined for blowing nose
Man Who Fell Off Couch Laughing at TV Show Ends Up Pepper Sprayed, Arrested
Burglar in your home? I’d give him a cup of tea if I were you
City sues man for canceling trash service - Mother fined £300 for putting bins out early
Police hold mother-of-three for reading 'Independent' outside Downing Street
Park attendants ordered to interrogate adults spotted without children
Panel gives judge a ringing rebuke