Homeland Security

Response to Outrageous Gov't Premise for Police Action Against Occupy Eureka

Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 2:24pm

Jan 7, 2011
Open Letter to Humboldt County District Attorney, Paul Gallegos:

We have reviewed your November 2, 2011 email to the Humboldt County Sheriff, County Counsel, and the County Administrative Officer in which you direct that the tents of Occupy Eureka be removed from the front of the Humboldt County Courthouse. The “go get 'em” email, obtained through a California Public Records Request, instigated, with no legal basis, the November 7 militarized raid, arrests, and civil rights violations by the Eureka Police Department [EPD] and the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department (and presumably the subsequent raids, arrests, and civil rights violations) and creates a conflict as you attempt to prosecute people arrested in those raids and related police actions. Most egregious, however, is that your email to the County is a malicious work of “shock and awe” deceit that should be retracted immediately. You wrote of Occupy Eureka protesters as if they might be terrorists with “explosives” in their tents. Redwood Curtain CopWatch is outraged and disgusted at your dangerous, wholly unfounded, and secret implications regarding non-violent Occupy Eureka protesters. Undoubtedly, thousands of people who will learn of your disingenuous and inflammatory Nov 2 email and the subsequent similar emails will also be appalled and offended by your actions.

 

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Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons

Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 11:25pm

A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting report.

Dec 21, 2011   Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communities. North Dakota’s largest city has averaged fewer than two homicides a year since 2005, and there’s not been a single international terrorism prosecution in the last decade.

But that hasn’t stopped authorities in Fargo and its surrounding county from going on an $8 million buying spree to arm police officers with the sort of gear once reserved only for soldiers fighting foreign wars.

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POLICE STATE And Yet Another Reason to SAVE RICHARDSON GROVE

Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:10pm

 You may ask, "What does saving the grove have to do with the police state?"....well....lets start from the beginning... The Interstate Highways were initially implemented by Eisenhower. How did he come up with the idea of these interstate highways? He got his grandiose plan from an army convoy he participated in, and from inspirations he got from Germany's autobahn, which he got to see because he was in the military during WWII. The history of the highways are rooted in militarization. Eisenhower's plan for the highways was even named "The National Defense Highway", this system was designed to move military equipment and personnel with greater efficiency and create a broader reach for the military.

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WalMart & Homeland Security Team Up for Nationwide Snitch-and-Spy Program

Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 8:36pm

By ANDREW W. GRIFFIN  December 8, 2010

Oklahoma Watchdog, editor

OKLAHOMA CITY  — This month, Arkansas-based retailer Walmart has announced that they are joining the Department of Homeland Security in their fight against terror taking part in their “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign.

At the DHS blog, Secretary Janet Napolitano states that “Homeland security starts with hometown security and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe.”

According to the site, this program initially started with New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and it was funded, in part, by a $13 million grant via the DHS Transit Security Grant Program.

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National Day of Action Against Racist SB 1070: May 29, 2010

Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 2:27pm

END BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINGENT
DEMANDING DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS & MIGRANT COMMUNITIES

O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective sends you greetings from occupied O'odham lands,

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HORRIFIC: Obama Legalizing Federal and State Military Control and Collaboration in U.S.

Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:43am

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary

      For Immediate Release                                      Jan 11, 2010

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Important Supreme Court Ruling for Undocumented Workers

Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 1:54pm

Supreme Court Limits Identity Theft Law

The Supreme Court has ruled undocumented workers using false papers cannot be charged with aggravated identity theft unless they knew their fake IDs belonged to a real person. The Bush administration frequently charged undocumented immigrants with felony identity theft, which carries a two-year sentence. Prosecutors had used the threat of a felony to persuade undocumented workers to plead guilty to lesser charges of document fraud.

Democracy Now! Headlines
May 5, 2009

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Aggravated identity theft was the tactic used against immigrant meat packers in the infamous Postville, Iowa raid of 2008.

Read about the Postville raid in these articles:

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Pentagon Wants to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in Communities Throughout U.S.

Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 11:44am

The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.

By Matthew Rothschild, August 12, 2009

http://www.progressive.org/wx081209b.html

 

The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster.

 

This request has already occasioned a dispute with the nation’s governors. And it raises the prospect of U.S. military personnel patrolling the streets of the United States, in conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.

 

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