Tag Archives: Crisis Begets Opportunity

Officers on college campus begin carrying ‘assault rifles’

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“The university said the move is necessary with the recent terror attacks in Paris and last week’s mass shooting in California. School officials also cited the recent rise in on-campus shootings. While some welcome the news, others do not think it is a great idea, including Mayor Marty Walsh.  ‘I get worried about local police like that carrying those rifles. You need a lot of training and certainly it begins a slippery slope,’ said Walsh. The school has more than 60 police officers and 20 of them will be armed with the rifles. Students on campus had mixed reactions to the change.”

http://www.whdh.com/story/30708798/officers-on-northeastern-campus-to-carry-assault-rifles

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California Law Allowing Government to Seize Legal Guns Goes into Effect

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“Beginning January 1, gun regulations in California will give authorities the right to seize a person’s weapons for 21 days if a judge determines the potential for violence exists.  The ‘law gives us a vehicle to cause the person to surrender their weapons, to have a time out, if you will,‘ Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michael Moore told a local NPR affiliate.  You read that right — a government-imposed time out. Now go sit in the corner, and think about what you did.  Second Amendment and constitutional advocates have been understandably upset by the coming law, saying further rules in a state already rife with restrictive gun laws will only serve to punish law-abiding gun owners.”

http://theantimedia.org/california-law-allowing-government-to-seize-legal-guns-goes-into-effect-january-1st/

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France’s answer to terrorism: The Law of Suspects

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“Robespierre passed the ‘Law of Suspects’, allowing the government to essentially imprison anyone they wanted for any reason.  It was impossible to tell friend from foe back then; you never knew if someone was a loyalist, or a Christian, or an Austrian spy, or any number of counter-revolutionaries.  So people were required to carry special certificates indicating that they were good and dutiful citizens. Those without would be imprisoned, and potentially executed.  It turns out that ‘terrorist’ was originally a term used to describe the government officials who created and executed these oppressive tactics under the guise of keeping people safe from their enemies.”

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/frances-answer-to-terrorism-the-law-of-suspects-18244/

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France Changes Constitution To Protect “Emergency” Police Powers

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“Europe’s Patriot Act has finally taken shape: according to a proposed amendment, the French state-of-emergency police powers, such as to conduct warrantless searches and order house arrests, will be unconditionally shielded from court challenges.  In other words, a handful of government bureaucrats will soon be above any and all legal ‘checks and balances’, and will be provided absolute power to decide the fate of virtually any French citizen without due or any process. Now it is the turn of the ‘democratic’ western powers to unleash their own mini USSR on their citizens. You know, in the name of ‘preventing terrorism.'”

https://reason.com/archives/2015/12/29/with-every-call-for-encryption-restricti

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UK reviews home schooling amid fears children are being ‘radicalised’

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“It is unclear how many children and young adults are being home schooled but it is thought to be in the region of 20,000 to 50,000.  Parents do not have to inform their council that they are educating their children at home, leaving the government in the dark about the number of kids at risk of radicalisation through education at home. ‘For every parent doing a brilliant job, there may be someone filling their child’s mind with poison. We just don’t know. We don’t have reliable figures,’ the source said.  The Education Secretary’s new approach comes after the announcement of an investigation into the activities of unregistered schools and madrassahs.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3367640/Home-schooling-20-000-children-country-reviewed-amid-fears-radicalised-parents.html

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UK Police to Receive Hidden Browser History from Internet Providers

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“The measure will force internet providers to retain all ‘web browsing information’ which will help police to ‘hunt down and identify the most serious cyberbullies and trolls,’ Theresa May of Britain’s home security said.  The Investigatory Powers Bill will give internet providers a pseudo-police role allowing them to ‘override encryption if needed.’  The new regulation will persuade all cell phone and web companies to retain records of every citizen for at least a year, providing a data pool which police and security services can access.  However many citizens are concerned over such a library of personal data, which has historically been ripe for abuse by authorities and hackers.”

http://www.copblock.org/150699/police-to-pursue-online-trolls-and-receive-hidden-browser-history-from-internet-providers/

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Never Forget … Your Country Admits to False Flag Terror

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“In the following [56] instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/remember-your-country-admits-to-false-flag-terror.html

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The ‘No Fly List’ operates in secret, and its power to exclude is vast

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“It operates in secrecy, from an undisclosed location, administered by an office – the Terrorist Screening Center – that doesn’t accept public inquiries.  Few realize how many watchlists already exist until they find themselves in their crushing grip. There is, of course, a watchlist for maritime travel. And this month President Obama urged the use of the No Fly List to deny access to firearms.  Whatever one’s views of the second amendment to the constitution, the evidence is unmistakable. A list once confined to stopping hijackers and 9/11 style bombers has grown into the go-to tool for government officials who don’t like their predictive judgments questioned by lawyers and judges.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/23/no-fly-list-operates-in-secret-power-to-exclude

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China’s new anti-terror law copies West, with decryption on demand

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“Reuters quotes Li Shouwei, deputy head of the parliament’s criminal law division under the legislative affairs committee, as saying: ‘This rule accords with the actual work need of fighting terrorism and is basically the same as what other major countries in the world do.’  China’s pointed reference to what ‘other major countries in the world do’ underlines another reason why the current attacks on encryption by government officials in the West arenot just wrong, but extremely counterproductive. After all, the US and EU nations can’t criticise or challenge other countries for introducing intrusive surveillance laws that are almost indistinguishable from their own.”

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/12/chinas-new-anti-terror-law-copies-uk-no-backdoors-but-decryption-on-demand/

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Senators Want Social Media Firms to Hunt for Terrorists

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“Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Burr, R-N.C. — eager  to do something about ISIS’ social media prowess, whether or not it actually makes sense — have reintroduced a previously rejected provision that would force technology companies to report to the government any instances of ‘terrorist activity’ that they notice online. The measure was stripped out of the 2016 intelligence authorization bill in late September; now it’s being proposed as standalone legislation.  The proposed bill is ‘modeled on existing law requiring companies to report child pornography,’ according to a press release sent out by Feinstein’s and Burr’s offices.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/17/senators-want-social-media-firms-to-hunt-for-terrorists/

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