Police chiefs
adopt drone code of conduct:
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The nation's police
chiefs have adopted a code of conduct for their use of drones, including
letting any images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, be open
to inspection by the public, and that the images not be stored unless they
are evidence of a crime or part of an ongoing investigation. The chiefs
also said that if they plan to fly drones over an area where they are
likely to spot criminal activity and where they would be intruding on
someone's "reasonable expectations of privacy," they should seek to get a
search warrant first. In their three-page document, the chiefs said they
are aware of privacy issues that have arisen with the prospect of an
explosion in both governmental and private use of drone technology.
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The Eye of Sauron: Something New Under the Sun: |
These are recent pieces
of the coming world. They have not yet all been completely deployed and
linked. Some are voluntary, for the moment. Others are in development. All
are coming. Add the now-routine tracking of passports, cameras that read
every passing license plate and record the time, NSA's automated monitoring
of email, Google's and therefore the government's knowledge of your
searches, GPS tracking of cell phones, detailed records of bank
transactions, and so on. Not all of these are instantly accessible by the
police. They can easily be made accessible, and they move in that
direction. In short, the technology exists for a detailed, unblinking,
unforgetting watchfulness of the entire population beyond anything
imagined, or perhaps imaginable, a few decades ago. This is not
Fred-drank-too-much-coffee. It is happening. |
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Veteran Detained For Psych Evaluation Over Anti-Government
Facebook Posts? |
A former Marine
involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident
anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support
from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment
rights. Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI and Secret
Service agents and Chesterfield County police questioned him Thursday
evening about what they considered ominous posts talking of a coming
revolution. |
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Lesbian who reported 'hate crime' attack staged incident, say
police: |
A Nebraska "hate crime"
that targeted an openly gay woman and that triggered responses from
candlelight vigils locally to Facebook postings of support nationwide was
staged by the alleged victim, authorities said Tuesday as they charged the
woman with lying to police. Charlie Rogers -- a former basketball player
for the University of Nebraska who identifies herself as lesbian -- told
police that three masked men entered her home on July 22, stripped her,
tied her down, and carved homophobic slurs into her body before attempting
to set her and the house on fire. But the Lincoln Police Department said
Tuesday that "the physical evidence conflicted with Charlie Rogers' version
of events" and that "extensive investigation revealed numerous
inconsistencies." |
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Va. judge orders release of detained veteran:
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A judge on Thursday
ordered the release of a former Marine who was detained for psychiatric
evaluation after posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook.
Prince George County Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett said at the end of a
one-hour hearing that the involuntary commitment order issued by a
magistrate against Brandon J. Raub was invalid because it contained no
allegation or basis to hold him, according to the head of a civil liberties
organization that represented the 26-year-old veteran. Raub, who served in
Iraq and Afghanistan, was taken into custody Aug. 16 after being questioned
by Chesterfield County police and federal agents about his Facebook posts.
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Stop Obama's MARTIAL LAW Executive Order!
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Barack Hussein Obama
has just signed a Presidential Executive Order, which would give him the
powers of a DICTATOR -- whenever HE thinks it's "necessary"
to institute MARTIAL LAW! He has given himself the powers to
declare martial law -- especially in the event of a war with Iran. It is a
sweeping power grab that should worry every American -- TAKE ACTION
NOW! |
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