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The Surveillance State Couldn’t Prevent The Paris Attacks – So Why Expand It?

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 Asa J 1392 Views Apple, Bashar al-Assad, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Christopher Cantwell, CIA, CIA Director John Brennan, commissioner Bill Bratton, copblock, copblock.org, counterterrorism, cryptography, cultural enrichment, cybersecurity, data encryption, director James Comey, diversity, edward snowden, facebook, FBI, foia, Foreign Policy Magazine, France, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of Information Act requests, French government, Google, Gun rights, iMessage, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Islamic extremists, Islamic militants, Islamic State, Judicial Watch, Lisa Monaco, mass-spying bill, mass-surveillance, Michael Daniel, migrate wave, Mujahideen, national security, new york police, NSA, Obama administration, Paris attacks, Paris terrorist attacks, Police State, President Barack Obama, privacy protections, refugee crisis, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Stasi, stefan molyneux, Surveillance, surveillance reform, surveillance state, Syria, The Guardian, the New York Times, tolerance, united kingdom, USA Freedom Act, WhatsApp, White House cybersecurity office

In the wake of the unfortunate and diabolical terrorist attacks perpetrated in Paris, the international surveillance and intelligence communities have

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NYPD Requests 450 More Cops For Counterterrorism

May 18, 2015May 18, 2015 Alia Atreides 1409 Views america, Commissioner William Bratton, counterterrorism, expansion, fearmongering, isis, Islamic State, israel, Joshua H, militarization, militarization of law enforcement, militarization of police, nypd, police militarization, Police State, war on terror

As if the War on Terror wasn’t terrifying enough, thrusting our military into an unjustifiable war that cannot be won,

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Articles Killer Cops Police Abuse Toxic Cops

To Terrify and Occupy: How the Excessive Militarization of the Police Is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents

October 7, 2014June 16, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 3005 Views 1033 Program, ACLU, Bou Bou Phonesavanh, cop block, copblock.org, counterterrorism, defense logistics agency, department of defense, department of homeland security, federal grants, habersham county sheriff, hobbs police department, incentives, institutionalized violence, Jason Westcott, justice department, matthew harwood, mrap, newport beach police department, norm stamper, personal responsiblity, pete kraska, police accountability, police militarization, Police State, Psychology, Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop, Security theater, Self-defense, swat, tampa bay, tampa police department, Terrorism, tomdispatch.com, war on drugs

Patti Silliman shared a link via CopBlock.org/Submit to a piece authored by Matthew Harwood, which opened by outlining the needless killing

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