Has martial law begun in America? Soldiers & tanks are now the norm on America's streets
An excellent video compilation, created by David Vose, where he states “If I told the Frog he was Boiling in that water, he wouldn’t believe me. You are the frog and your water temperature is now putting you to sleep.”
His reference is a great analogy. We see numerous images of the massive militarization of our local & state police forces, where the line between soldiers and cops no longer exist, battlefield equipment is being used against citizens of America, one event at a time, one protest at a time, until seeing them appears to be the rule rather than the exception to the rule. Consider the statistics shown at the 4 minute, 19 second mark of the video, which states “SWAT Deployments: 79% Executing Search Warrants; 7% Hostage, Barricade, Active Shooter Scenarios – SWATS primary responsibility as of it’s creation used to be the Hostage, Barricade, Active Shooters events, yet that only accounts for 7% of what they now are being used for.
That is a change of massive proportions, yet treated as the norm.
https://www.intellihub.com/martial-law-already-america-soldiers-tanks-prepare-war-u-s-soil/
Police are using the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris to advocate for more spying, less freedom:
It's disconcerting to see those (DHS) who wish to suppress our civil liberties jumping at the chance to use the attack yesterday as a jumping off point. Here are just a few examples. The NY Post ran an article saying that this proves the NYPD shouldn't have stopped its "Muslim Mapping" program:
...we believe the city should revisit its decision to dismantle the NYPD’s “Muslim Mapping” intelligence program.
The program was designed to provide exactly the kind of intelligence that would have been useful to police in Paris once they identified their three suspects in Wednesday’s terror attack. Namely, where they might go to find shelter or assistance.
If you don't recall, this effort was recently disbanded after multiple reports noted that it was completely useless, with not a single useful piece of evidence coming out of the entire program. As Julian Sanchez points out, there's something terrifying to the logic of "all evidence shows this project was totally useless, but we have to keep it going because of all these threats!"
Don't believe the lies...
A year ago, both a court and the specially appointed task force set up to review the intelligence community's use of bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act noted that there was absolutely no evidence at all that the bulk metadata collection was ever used to stop terrorist attacks.
And yet... former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden went on cable news on Thursday morning to use the Charlie Hebdo attack as an excuse for why the program was so useful. After spending about four minutes talking about how these kinds of random small attacks are likely to be the new way terrorists attack, he then defends metadata collection:
Let me add another thought here too: You know, I was talking to you guys about 12 months ago, about these massive amounts of metadata that NSA held in storage. That metadata doesn't look all that scary this morning and I wouldn't be surprised if the French services pick up cell phones associated with the attack and ask the Americans, 'where have you seen these phones active globally?'.
Actually, metadata collection is pretty scary, it also includes a hell of a lot more than just those responsible for an attack. Metadata collecting didn't prevent a single attack, now did it?
It's sickening to see this kind of opportunist B.S. being used as another excuse to strip civil liberties & privacy rights from Americans.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150108/07011929629/sickening-police-surveillance-state-apologists-leap-charlie-hebdo-opportunity-to-advocate-more-spying-less-freedom.shtml