Cops SWAT Innocent Family, Destroy Home Security Cameras To Cover Up Evidence

This is what a militarized police state looks like

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
February 4, 2014

Armed militarized police in Iowa smashed their way into the home of an innocent family last week and discovered that they were being filmed on home security cameras. The response paints a vivid picture, as one officer ripped a camera from the wall, while another covered up a second camera to prevent the raid being documented.

WHO tv in Des Moines reports that Ankeny police carried out the raid in search of “someone they suspected of using stolen credit cards to buy clothes and electronics.”

The cameras, stationed around the property on the inside and outside, captured the moment that up to a dozen armed police dressed in helmets, ski-masks and riot gear marched up to the home of Sally Prince and prepared to smash her door in over what turned out to be nothing more than unfounded suspicion of minor fraud.

“This is over property purchased with a stolen credit card,” Prince told reporters, noting that if police had knocked she would have allowed them to execute a warrant to search the house. “It doesn’t make any sense to go to such extremes for something that simple.” Prince said.

“I’ve been so traumatized, I don’t sleep at night,” Mrs Prince added saying she is now afraid of staying in her home because of the police actions. “The police are supposed to protect and serve, not make you in fear of them – And I’m totally terrified of them now,” Prince said.

The police department told reporters that “they knocked first.” However, the surviving footage shows officers battering down the door within a couple of seconds of reaching it. The police also stated that they “do not have a written policy governing how search warrants are executed.”

Police have long been required to “knock-and-announce” before raids, in order to allow those inside the opportunity to avoid potential violent confrontation, in addition to damage to their property.

Indeed, as is related in the report on this incident, Mrs Prince’s son, recently honorably discharged from the Army, was legally carrying a firearm, and had drawn the weapon when he heard a commotion. “I stood up, I drew my weapon, I started to get myself together to get out the door, I heard someone in the main room say police. I re-holstered my weapon sat back down and put my hands in my lap,” Ross noted, pointing out that things could have turned out very differently.

In the end, none of the items listed on the warrant were found. Two people in the house were arrested on non-related charges, one for a probation violation and one for possession of illegal drugs – which in itself raises questions.

Recently, federal appeals courts have ruled that it is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment to use a SWAT team to perform a regulatory inspection of someone’s home in cases like this.

This is what a militarized police state in America looks like. Increasingly, any kind of felony is being responded to with armed raids, often during which people and pets are injured or even killed.

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Black Friday....Actual footage of zombie plague sweeping America right now!

Videos confirm zombie plague sweeping America

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
November 29, 2013

Walmart was less concerned about the screaming mobs fighting over TVs during yesterday’s “Black Thursday” horror show and more worried about ejecting people for filming the carnage.

“I went to the Walmart in my parent’s town on Thanksgiving around 8pm,” writes the YouTube user who recorded the video above. “I was driving back to the hotel and I saw it PACKED! Therefore I went in, and expected to interview people about why they are there. Instead I saw this, videoed it, and was promptly kicked out of the store.”

The video shows dozens of people squabbling over televisions, with one man throwing another to the ground as a woman screams, “Oh my God!” Police stand nearby but do nothing to stop the melee.

Apparently, Walmart’s policy is not to train their staff to try to prevent mini-riots from breaking out, but to train them to target the people who film such scenes. Whether this is a deliberate effort to censor bad PR is unknown, but the video above already has hundreds of thousands of views and is likely to have millions by the end of the day.

But it wasn’t just Walmart that had apparently told their staff to censor people filming “Black Thursday” carnage, the video below, shot in an unknown location, shows an employee frantically yelling “stop now!” to someone who was filming a police arrest of a women who got into a fight with another customer over a TV.

The video is chilling because the woman appears to behave like an actual zombie even as the cops aggressively restrain her on the floor, desperately clinging onto the television she has just seized from another woman.

Reports from across the country confirmed that a zombie epidemic had once again gripped America, as Twitter was ablaze with stories of crazy lunatics going on violent rampages simply to secure electronic goods made by slaves in China which they cannot afford and don’t really need.

Social critic Mark Dice bravely ventured near crowds of consumer zombies in a desperate attempt to make them understand that they were ruining Thanksgiving.

Watch more videos of the zombie plague below.

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This article was posted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 6:15 am

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AP Photo: Checkpoint Cops Point Guns at Americans’ Heads

Fallujah-style security comes to Sacramento

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 28, 2013

After a gang member shot and injured several law enforcement officials before going into hiding in a Sacramento suburb on Friday, police responded by setting up a checkpoint and aiming guns at innocent people’s heads, an AP photo shows.

The photo, (credited to AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton) is captioned, “A California Highway Patrol officer and another emergency responder stop a vehicle at a checkpoint near the neighborhood where a federal immigration officer was shot and three local police officers were wounded during a violent confrontation with a suspect in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013.”

After an hours-long standoff, the suspect, 32-year-old gang member Samuel Nathan Duran, eventually surrendered after leaving a nearby house in which he had been holed up.

The felon responsible for the shootings was a wanted parolee and was already known to police having been seen riding a bike earlier in the day. His description would have been well circulated and known intimately by those tasked with hunting him down.

So why were Americans innocently driving their cars through the suburb of Roseville subjected to treatment that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Stalinist Russia, or more recently in Iraq or Afghanistan?

As we saw during the Boston bombings manhunt, in complete violation of law, police seem to believe that so long as they are hunting a potentially dangerous suspect, the Constitution is null and void, and that martial law is in effect.

The militarized lockdown of Watertown, Mass., during which heavily armed officers went door to door without search warrants terrorizing families at gunpoint and ransacking homes, led Ron Paul to observe that the manhunt was more frightening than the attack itself, saying it resembled “scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic.”

Similarly, during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, police wildly shot and injured numerous innocent people, including women, who looked nothing like Dorner.

Is this America’s future? Cops pointing guns at innocent people’s heads in the name of security? Like residents of Fallujah and Kabul, are Americans a conquered people who are presumed guilty until proven innocent? To be treated as potential murderers and terrorists by having guns aimed at their head at armed checkpoints? To be asked to show their papers?

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

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This article was posted: Monday, October 28, 2013 at 7:04 am

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Internal TSA Documents: Body Scanners, Pat Downs Not For Terrorists but only for American Citizens

TSA’s ‘Administrative Record’ admits ineffective security theater

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
Oct. 17, 2013

The TSA has quietly admitted there is no actual “threat-addressing” basis for employing nude body scanners or invasive pat down procedures at airports, a notion many travelers who are weary of the federal agency’s borderline sexual molestation have long suspected but were hard-pressed to prove.

The TSA understands body scanners and pat downs are ineffective at addressing a threat for which they admit “there is no evidence.”

The evidence was found in sealed court documents, available through the PACER.gov website, regarding engineer and blogger Jon Corbett’s ongoing litigation over the constitutionality of the agency’s loathsome security practices.

In a redacted version of the appellant’s brief, filed by Corbett on October 7 with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, several portions of the Summary of Facts section were blacked out, raising questions as to the nature of the censored information.

But in a sealed version of the same documents obtained through PACER.gov (and available here), the redacted sections appear with incriminating clarity.

Through Redactions, TSA Admits Terror Threats are Slim to Nonexistent

Redaction shows TSA is aware explosives on airplanes “are extremely rare.’ (click to enlarge)

A section detailing how “The TSA Has Misled The Public As to the Likelihood of the Threat ‘Addressed’ By Nude Body Scanners and Pat Downs,” includes a blacked out portion concerning the TSA’s knowledge that “explosives on airplanes are extremely rare.”

“For example, the TSA analyzed hijackings in 2007 and found 7 hijacking incidents across the globe, but none of them involved actual explosive devices,” Corbett explains in the brief, adding that the last attempt to bring an explosive onboard an airplane through a U.S. airport occurred 35 years ago.

Another redacted section highlights the government’s concession that, “due to hardened cockpit doors and the willingness of passengers to challenge hijackers,” it would be difficult to have a repeat of 9/11.

“The government also credits updated pre-flight security for that difficulty assessment,” the brief states, “but the assessment was written before the en masse deployment of body scanners and before the update to the pat down procedure. Further, the government admits that there have been no attempted domestic hijackings of any kind in the 12 years since 9/11.”

The TSA also had the following section completely censored:

This begs the question, then, of what evidence the government possesses to rationalize that we should be so afraid of non-metallic explosives being brought aboard flights departing from the U.S. that we must sacrifice our civil liberties. The answer: there is none. “As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing.”

In the brief’s Summary of Argument, another redacted portion concerns the TSA’s understanding that body scanners and pat downs are ineffective at addressing a threat for which they admit “there is no evidence.”

By redacting certain parts of the brief, the TSA also inadvertently admits “it is aware of no one who is currently plotting a terror attack against our aviation system using explosives (non-metallic or otherwise),” and that, in addition to a cabin of empowered passengers who would make short work of a hijacker, the Federal Flight Deck Officer program, which arms pilots with firearms, makes targeting an airplane “to be the definition of insanity.”

Get the TSA Out of Our Pants

The redactions in Corbett’s court documents are a damning indictment of the TSA’s procedures, and only serve to bolster his claims’ truthfulness.

The 28-year-old entrepreneur arrived at his conclusions after admittedly “pawing through several thousand pages of the TSA’s ‘administrative record,’” which he says the TSA uses as the “alleged rationale behind why they must photograph us naked and literally put their hands in our pants to search us.”

The information contained within the redacted portions support what Infowars and others have long suspected: that the sprawling agency – which is in the process of extending beyond the airport and onto highways, train stations and public buses – was never meant to thwart terrorists, but was instead set up to purposely obstruct, annoy, harass and train the American public.

In other words, the court documents go a long way in proving the TSA is pure contrived security theater custom-made solely to indoctrinate Americans, through prisoner training, into blindly accepting obedience to authority as a normal way of life, not to mention a huge waste of about $7.91 billion in taxpayer money a year.

RELATED: TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For Joking About Security

TSA trying to make a monkey out of you.

Corbett has made quite the reputation of going after the agency.

Last year, he made headlines when he demonstrated how to thwart TSA body scanners simply by sewing an object onto clothing.

Corbett had also previously filed a lawsuit challenging the TSA after he was detained for an hour at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. He also regularly adds updates regarding his ongoing litigation on his activist blog TSA Out Of Our Pants!.

Updates to Jon’s case can be found on PACER.gov, case #12-15893.

Below are both the redacted and sealed versions of the Appellant’s brief in the case of Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration.

REDACTED Appellant’s brief.

SEALED Appellant’s brief.

This article was posted: Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 1:24 pm

Tags: activism, big brother, constitution, police state, terrorism, tsa

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NSA Goons Threaten Reporters With Attack Dogs

Security officers confiscate cameras

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
October 3, 2013

Anthony Gucciardi, with Infowars.com and Storyleak.com, along with Weldon Henson and film editor Josh, both with Infowars.com, traveled today to the National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center to take exterior footage of the spy grid facility.

Armed security guards confronted our crew in the parking lot of the data center, threatening them with attack dogs and confiscating their cameras, which the guards seemingly did not know how to erase.

The crew passed numerous warning signs and surveillance cameras on the access road to the center.

“This is complete surveillance state on us,” Gucciardi said, pointing at the gauntlet of surveillance on both sides of the road. “All these cameras yet we are not even allowed to film with an iPhone.”

He also commented on the natural beauty surrounding the facility.

“The NSA is just destroying it,” Gucciardi commented. “Corrupting it as a cancerous tumor on the beauty that is Utah, the United States and the world.”

After exiting their vehicle parked in a spot reserved for “low emission vehicles,” the crew walked towards an unmarked building in a search for public relations.

“We are going to ask them why they can spy on us and learn everything that we do during the government shutdown, where they are full-fledged and in full-force, but we can’t ask them a simple question,” Gucciardi said.

Before they could get to an unmarked guardhouse, however, a NSA security guard intercepted our reporters while caressing his sidearm.

Our crew explained that they didn’t want trouble, just a public affairs officer to answer some questions.

“He’ll [the PAO] probably talk to you on the phone,” the guard responded. “But you need to turn your cameras off.”

The guard’s back-up soon arrived and an officer shoved his hand into the camera lens and stated that the crew could not leave unless they surrendered their film.

“What about Google satellite photos?” Gucciardi asked the officer. “They have photos of everything.”

“Do they have to delete it?”

The officer referred to a U.S. Code to rationalize his unconstitutional demand as he confiscated the cameras and attempted to delete the film.

At one point the guards said they had attack dogs and there’s no telling what the dogs may do.

“They might eat you,” the guard stated.

A keen viewer sent us a U.S. Department of Homeland Security bulletin entitled “Photographing the Exterior of Federal Facilities,” which was given to nationwide “Protective Security Officers” such as the ones our reporters encountered today.

Released on Aug. 2, 2010, the bulletin’s intent is to “raise awareness of the public’s right to photograph the exterior of federally owned and leased facilities.”

“Remember that the public has a right to photograph the exterior of federal facilities from publicly accessible spaces such as streets, sidewalks, parks and plazas,” the bulletin reads.

This is exactly what our crew was doing and this DHS bulletin states here in print that their rights were violated.

“Officers should not seize the camera or its contents, and must cautious not to give such ‘orders’ to a photographer to erase the contents of a camera, as this constitutes a seizure or detention,” the bulletin continues.

Protective Security Officers wouldn’t need this bulletin, however, if they read one particular document: the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This article was posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 5:37 pm

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Police State Lockdown in Boston,USA

Officials in Boston have imposed what is being described as a “total lockdown” as police search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

ABC News reports:

Across the area, as police cars screamed down streets and helicopters hovered ahead, authorities urged the public to stay inside, their doors locked to anyone but a law-enforcement officer.

“There is a massive manhunt under way,” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said. “We are asking people to shelter in place.”

The lockdown initially affected more than 300,000 people in Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brighton, Allston and Belmont, but by 8 a.m., the entire city of Boston was paralyzed, officials said.

Travel in the city of over 600,000 is virtually impossible. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has suspended activity. All schools and public buildings are closed. “All city employees were told to stay in place and not come to work. If they are already at work, they have been asked to stay in place,” NBC Newsreports this morning.

In Watertown, Massachusetts, State Police confirm they are conducting a door-to-door, house-to-house search. “Police will be going door by door, street by street, in and around Watertown. Police will be clearly identified. It is a fluid situation,” Dailybhaskar reports.

According to CBS News, “Shelter in place” is usually used for chemical or biological attack.

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