Prison Planet
We are born into limited freedoms, and fight for absolute sovereignty the whole of our lives. We create our own prisons, and are residents of a Prison Planet.
Periodically, I will post topical news issues in an effort to paint a more realistic picture of this prison I speak of.
It is my hope that these reports will be the spark of inspiration to move people to action, vs. complacency. Ignorance is not Bliss, I assure you - you are a prisoner.
Will you sit in your cell, falsely imprisoned, complacent to this injustice or will you be among the few who start a riot and revolt against the machine?
Be the change that you envision.
Periodically, I will post topical news issues in an effort to paint a more realistic picture of this prison I speak of.
It is my hope that these reports will be the spark of inspiration to move people to action, vs. complacency. Ignorance is not Bliss, I assure you - you are a prisoner.
Will you sit in your cell, falsely imprisoned, complacent to this injustice or will you be among the few who start a riot and revolt against the machine?
Be the change that you envision.
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Permalink Reply by SIN on -
Government "Strike Teams" Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims
Cops break down doors, threaten residents who question them as part of martial law conditioning, authorities prevent people from re-entering their homes
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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Shocking footage out of Cedar Rapids Iowa shows cops and government employee "strike teams" breaking into houses of flood victims and threatening anyone who questions their actions in complete violation of the 4th amendment right that protects against unlawful search and seizure.
No warrant, no knock home invasions are being carried out on the flimsy pretext of "checking for structural damage" as cops harass and threaten with arrest people who refuse to have their homes ransacked by thugs in uniforms.
Cedar Rapids police chief Greg Graham promised residents over the weekend that "Law enforcement officers are not entering homes," and that firefighters would only enter homes through unlocked doors and windows yet the video clearly shows locked houses being broken in to.
Watch the clip.
People who attempt to gain access to their home before it has been "cleared" by authorities are being apprehended, and those who attempt to drive around police checkpoints that have been set up in the affected areas are arrested at gunpoint.
"Each strike team consisted of six or seven people, including police, firefighters, utilities workers, and city employees," reports the Iowa Gazette.
Angela Tague, a member of the STAR 1 search and rescue team from Ames, ran into any angry homeowner on E Avenue NW.
"He was saying 'Where do you live?' and 'How would you like it if someone busted your door open?," Tague said.
Police Officer Josh Bell later had a heated exchange with the man, and told him that if he didn't go back inside his house and stop harassing the strike team, he would be escorted out of the area.
The man was visibly agitated about his broken door and pointed at Bell.
"It's wrong," the man said, over and over.
So people who are uncomfortable with jackbooted thugs breaking down their door without even knocking and express their distaste for it are to blame for "harassing the strike team"?
Respondents to the You Tube clip and the newspaper article expressed their outrage at the behavior of those in the video tasked with "helping" flood-stricken people yet doing nothing more than intimidating and invading their homes.
"You break down the door of my private residence and when I object you threaten to escort me off my own property. Fine example of police work. Did anyone think to knock first? Thomas Jefferson said that the main reason for citizens to be armed was to protect themselves from tyrannical government. If this isn't tyranny then I don't know what is. A man's home is his castle," states Steve Delaloye.
"A sad day for America when government thugs abuse the trust of the citizenry like this," writes one.
"So these cops and fire fighters are part time structural engineers, or what?? What are they inspecting for in the structures? Gas and electric could be shut off at the source, and any spills are so diluted they wont catch fire. The police chief said no police would enter any homes, and what do you know, mr fat ass cop goes piling through the window thinking he's T.J Hooker. Damn, this is just sad, sad , sad," adds another.
One Iowa resident expresses her anger that authorities will not let her re-enter her home.
"I sit here with tears streaming down my face. I have been trying to be patient and await to enter my home. Now today, I am told there will be no re-entry's until further notice. I cannot express how ****ing mad I am. I understand the houses can be unsafe. Just let me at least see my house, so that I can assess if it hit my top floor. I have pictures and memories on my top floor of my deceased mother, all I want to do is rescue those," she writes.
As we reported in 2005, Hurricane Katrina was exploited by the federal government and used as a martial law drill while victims were abused and treated like rats in a laboratory.
Door to door gun confiscations were ordered and cops ransacked homes and took weapons from multi-million dollar homes which were in the high and dry areas and completely unaffected by the hurricane. In some cases, residents were kicked out of their own homes for no reason.
Outrageous footage showed cops seizing handguns from the home of a grief-stricken old women as they assaulted and punched her in the face.
Where does the government think it derives the authority from to break into people's homes whose lives have already been devastated by massive floods on the flimsiest of pretexts?
The 4th amendment states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Even if there was a legitimate reason to inspect homes, why on earth do they not even bother to knock on the door?
Cops immediately attempt to break in or climb through windows uninvited because this procedure is all about sending a message - when a crisis unfolds we are the bosses and you - the peasants - will yield to our tyranny.
Lawsuits need to be filed immediately by people in Iowa and elsewhere who have had cops invade their homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment and a pretext needs to be set that will put a stop to the government's routine exploitation of natural disasters as an opportunity to impose martial law measures on needy victims that have already had their lives devastated.
With reports indicating that the Mississippi river is in danger of bursting its banks, the precedent that was set with Hurricane Katrina could be set to advance as government minions and jackbooted thugs across the country lick their lips at the prospect of kicking down more doors and harassing innocent people.
Contact the Iowa ACLU and demand they pressure the authorities to stop these illegal home invasions immediately.
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Permalink Reply by Crimson on -
ok yeah see we defend our home with force. the spear would be in someone before they announced they were cops.... tisk tisk bad cop no donut!
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Permalink Reply by DragonWulf on -
lmao@bad cop, no donut
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Permalink Reply by Chirotus Infinitum on -
They did that in New Orleans after Katrina and in Greensburg after that tornado. Ironically, it was a local anarchist group that made the most noise.
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Permalink Reply by DragonWulf on
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Wow... and I think that's all I can say....
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Permalink Reply by SIN on
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Fired US Attorney: ‘I was working for the Sith Lords’
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
David Iglesias, who was one of seven United States Attorneys fired by the Department of Justice for political reasons in December 2006, described his experiences to Jon Stewart on Monday’s Daily Show.
“They wanted us to file politically oriented prosecutions instead of just doing what our normal job is, which is enforce Federal law,” Iglesias stated, explaining that Justice Department higher-ups asked the US Attorneys “to file voter fraud prosecutions when the evidence wasn’t there beyond a reasonable doubt. It wasn’t just me. It was a guy in Missouri and it was a guy in Seattle, Washington.”
“What about the other 86 US Attorneys?” Stewart asked. “Are they doing those cases?”
“I want to give my colleagues the benefit of the doubt, with a couple of exceptions,” Igelsias replied cautiously. He mentioned former interim US Attorney Bradley Schlozman, who “could end up getting indicted” because “he rushed some voter fraud — ‘voter fraud’ — right before the election. … We can’t do that.”
“Talk about this other,” prompted Stewart. “There’s a case in Alabama, with the former governor of Alabama, Siegelman, who’s a Democrat, who was thrown in jail on charges brought up by the US Attorney’s office and then just let go.”
“Which is incredibly rare,” commented Iglesias. “Courts of appeal almost never release somebody while they’re serving time. … The court of appeals over in Alabama let Siegelman out — which tells me, really weak evidence.”
Iglesias then suggested it might be possible to go after the Justice Department officials who were ultimately responsible by “using the model we used against the Mob in the 60’s. You find a small fish, you threaten prosecution, you roll them, they give up the bigger fish.”
“It’s fascinating to know that we’re going to be treating this administration like the Gambinos,” remarked Stewart.
Stewart ended by asking Igleaias, “Is the greatest disappointment for you that you were a guy who believed in what they were doing? … Do you feel betrayed in that sense?”
“I thought I was working with the Jedi Knights and I was working for the Sith Lords,” Iglesias acknowledged, as the audience broke into applause.
“For the audience for this show, you could not have used a better example,” Stewart concluded. “I will see you at Comic-Con 2009.”
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Permalink Reply by SIN on
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The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration's other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story.
Iglesias has long served in the Navy as part of the JAG corps. One of his earliest cases, about an assaulted Marine in Guantanamo Bay, became the basis for the movie A Few Good Men. When Bush chose him to become the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, it was a dream come true. He was a core member of Karl Rove's idealized Republican Party of the future -- handsome, Hispanic, evangelical, and a military veteran. The dream came to an abrupt end when Senator Pete Domenici improperly called Iglesias, wanting him to indict high-level Democrats before the 2006 elections. When Iglesias refused, the line went dead. Iglesias was fired just weeks later. First, he was devastated. Then, he was angry. Now, he is speaking out.
Iglesias recounts his interactions with Bush, Rove, Alberto Gonzales, and other key players as he takes readers into his time at the Justice Department to reveal what top Republican officials said and did, and how they subverted justice.
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Permalink Reply by Chirotus Infinitum on
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"The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006."
Wow, such moves are totally unprecedented. Especially after the strong negative reaction to Clinton's firing of all of the US Attorneys when he took office -- oh wait, nevermind...
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Permalink Reply by Sapphire on -
SIN, this isn't news to at least a segment of the population. The previous administration's control of the judiciary was horrendous if inept. We were expecting to see court-packing ala FDR at any minute.
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