Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
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The Transparency Problem: The Government will not tell you why it’s Legal to Kill You
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 4:57pmBy Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie
President Barack Obama has leveraged heavy rhetoric on the subject of transparency for some time now, even going as far as to publish on the official White House website that his “Administration is committed to an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
If this is open government, I can’t begin to imagine what a closed government is.
After Anwar al-Awlaki was allegedly assassinated in Yemen, the New York Times sought to find out the legal basis for the Obama administration’s secretive “kill list” which apparently can now include United States citizens.
11-year-old Pennsylvanian is Youngest Person in the WORLD to Face Life Without Parole
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 2:31amTuesday, January 25th, 2011
GRAND JURIES: What You Should Know About Them and Their Impact on Political Movements
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 12:30pmIncluded Here (click on the Read More button below):
*What You Should Know About Grand Juries
*What a Grand Jury Does
*Being Served With a (Grand Jury) Subpoena
*Appearing Before a Grand Jury
*The Grand Jury as a Political Tool
City of Eureka. Eureka Cops Bully Houseless Youth
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 10:51pmThe City of Eureka proves itself again to care more about pushing its weight around, stealing, towing, searching, seizing, than it does about YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO PLACE TO LIVE.
Austin Mother of Five Gets FBI Visit for Exercising First Amendment: VIDEO included
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 06/12/2010 - 3:25pmKurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 11, 2010
In his book Friendly Fascism, author Bertram Gross argues that when fascism comes to America it will be “friendly” and lack the overt brutality of the classic varieties of German and Italian fascism.
Richard Nixon once said that average American is like a child in the family.
Nixon was merely expressing the dominant opinion of the ruling elite who consider us contemptible children in need of adult supervision. Hitler, too, considered the German people children in need of adult supervision.
For the elite, a political activist is the worst sort of unruly child, one that directly challenges the authority of the father who represents the state. In order to modify the behavior of a rebellious child the state must instill fear. It must intimidate but — as Gross noted — it must do this with a friendly face. It must uphold the pretense of “democracy.” A frog must be boiled slowly.
“No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions,” wrote Murray B. Levin.
Supreme Court Miranda Ruling: Suspects Must Explicitly Tell Police They Want To Remain Silent
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 3:36pmThe case is Berghuis v. Thompkins, 08-1470. CLICK HERE for the Supreme Court Ruling
Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up.
In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday – over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned Americans' rights of protection from police abuse "upside down."
