When President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11, he said that the agency would "develop all-hazards plans and capabilities, including those of greatest importance to the security of the United States homeland, such as the prevention of terrorist attacks and preparedness for the potential use of weapons of mass destruction, and ensure that state, local, and federal plans are compatible."
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Will each day at #OWS bring yet more ridiculous police brutality and intimidation of non-violent protesters? What is the NYPD so afraid of?
So said NSA whistleblower William Binney, holding his thumb and forefinger close together.
Binney should know what he is talking about. For some 40 years, he worked with the giant NSA and was instrumental in automating its worldwide eavesdropping network. He told James Bamford why he left the NSA in 2001:
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In this video, Occupy Wall Street activists call on the movement to support their fellow New Yorkers, Muslims who have come under undue police surveillance simply because of their religion.
In what might be the coolest news of the day, the torrents website The Pirate Bay -- much despised by the recording and film industries, and harassed by prosecutors and police the world over -- has announced that it plans to store its servers on drones. The group says the Air Force is the only thing that could take down their operation once the system is mobile.
Drone servers!
How is it possible to rein in an out-of-control police force with nearly 40,000 sworn officers, thousands of support staff, an annual budget of $3.9 billion, a enough military weapons to outfit an army, a culture of total impunity and a political establishment that is solidly on its side?
Here's a better video of the NYPD's clearing of Liberty Plaza and of activist Cecily McMillian in police custody, apparently having a seizure while in handcuffs:
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The ACLU of Northern California is representing three young people pepper sprayed by a UC Davis police officer in a suit against the university police. The students were protesting tuition hikes that would prevent at least one of them from graduating. Watch.
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