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  • CANNES: Rude welcome for ’Bastardos’ star Ruben Sosa detained by border police
    24 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rude welcome for ’Bastardos’ star Ruben Sosa detained by border police
    By Charles Masters
    May 20, 2008
    CANNES — Mexican actor Ruben Sosa, who appears in the illegal immigrant drama "Los Bastardos" directed by Amat Escalante, had a hard time crossing France’s border to attend yesterday’s Certain Regard screening.
    Sosa was stopped by customs at Nice airport Monday and subjected to multiple searches before being tailed to Cannes by police who did not believe he was in a movie here, (…)

  • BIG BROTHER : You Can’t Picture This ??? (VIDEO)
    12 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    UK USED TO BE A FREE COUNTRY
    Thousands of UK residents have signed a petition against a law preventing photography and filming in certain public places. Yet this all turned out to be a misunderstanding, and no such law was proposed. Rajesh investigates the way we view the lens and the way it views us.
    http://current.com/items/88856223_you_can_t_picture_this
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19511055.html

  • Florida deputy seen dumping paralyzed man onto floor posts bail (videos)
    18 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Brian sterner
    This video image released by the Hillsborough County Police Dept. shows Brian Sterner, a 32-year-old paralyzed man, lying on a Tampa, Fla., jailhouse floor on Jan. 29, 2008, after he was dumped from his wheelchair by police deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, left, holding the chair.
    By Associated Press
    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa jailhouse floor has been released from jail after posting bail. (…)

  • The epitome of corporate facsism
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The FBI Deputizes Business Matthew Rothschild
    Crimes & Corruptions of the New World Order
    Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. (…)

  • edward thompson and the growth of britain’s police state
    21 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    from CHIMES OF FREEDOM blog
    Dipping into the late Edward Thompson’s Writing by Candlelight it begins to become clear how Britain has become an embryonic police state without any serious opposition by the libertarian/left. It also becomes clear that the destruction of freedoms has come not from either that section of the population or from Marxist subversives but from the authoritarian tendencies of the British establishment itself.
    Thompson wrote of this trend to the police state during (…)

  • Canadians 10 times more likely to be Tasered to Death by Police then Americans
    16 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week I came across the following site which lists the total number of Taser deaths in North America from October to November of 2007.
    With the use of Tasers, in the last few weeks, the police have killed the following nine people in the United States and Canada:
    - Sammy Baker - Quitman, Georgia - Oct. 1, 2007 - Robert Dziekanski - Vancouver, Canada - Oct. 14, 2007 - Quilem Registre - Montreal, Canada - Oct. 17, 2007 - Jarrel Gray - Frederick, Maryland - Nov. (…)

  • List of Taser Deaths Over the Past Two Months: Difference between Animals and Monsters
    7 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With the use of Tasers, in the last few weeks, the police have killed the following nine people in the United States and Canada:
    - Sammy Baker - Quitman, Georgia - Oct. 1, 2007 - Robert Dziekanski - Vancouver, Canada - Oct. 14, 2007 - Quilem Registre - Montreal, Canada - Oct. 17, 2007 - Jarrel Gray - Frederick, Maryland - Nov. 18, 2007 - Christian Allen - Jacksonville, Florida - Nov. 18, 2007 - Jesse Saenz - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Nov. 18, 2007 (…)

  • Racist Police arrest Campaigner for leafleting in Scotland
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Message from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group.
    "We are circulating this email around all the socialist, solidarity, campaigning and progressive organisations.
    On Tuesday evening in Dundee, 27 November, the police arrested a comrade from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group. Michael was distributing his organisation’s newspaper and handing out leaflets about the forthcoming Speaking Tour of Cuban comrades. The police arrived at the (…)

  • US says it has right to kidnap British citizens
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.
    A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
    The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on fraud charges. More than a dozen (…)

  • Sarkozy vows to bring rioters to justice
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sarkozy vows to bring rioters to justice
    By Nicola Clark and Katrin Bennhold
    Published: November 28, 2007 PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Wednesday to bring those who shot at police officers to justice as a wave of rioting by angry youths in the suburbs north of Paris showed signs of ebbing.
    "What has happened is absolutely unacceptable," Sarkozy said after he was whisked to a bedside meeting with a wounded police captain upon his return from a three-day state visit to China. (…)