Postcards From The Edge Of The Police State March 31 , 2014 .......True March Madness in Arizona -- Witnesses claim Tucson cops started violence; Police “were all dressed up for a riot and had no riot to go to” ....... Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals - Zero tolerance program slammed as attack on property rights ...... FBI, US military in hunt for one-time recruit planning ‘Fort Hood-style jihad’ ........ Thought crime advocates becoming more common - Liberal Fascist Calls For Global Warming Skeptics to be Arrested ...... Hundreds Protest Albuquerque Police Violence

Video: Riot Cop Brutally Attacks Female Student For No Reason ....

Witnesses claim Tucson cops started violence; Police “were all dressed up for a riot and had no riot to go to”

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
March 31, 2014

Videos uploaded to YouTube over the weekend show cops in Arizona intentionally inciting violence following a basketball game Saturday night by firing pepper rounds into crowds of students and attacking innocent bystanders

After the Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team lost in overtime to the Wisconsin Badgers, students poured out of bars onto the streets of Tucson to find close to a hundred militarized cops dressed in riot gear and weilding batons.

The police were deployed, according to officials, in order to prevent damage to property from alcohol fueled sports fans. The situation quickly broke down into a violent stand off.

While police claim that students began to throw smoke bombs and other projectiles, The Arizona Daily Independent reports that this only started to happen after cops were unnecessarily aggressive toward a couple of people who were caught up in the crowd.

The following video captures one of those incidents, showing a female student simply walking through the crowd and getting brutally knocked down by a riot cop for absolutely no reason.

The video shows the cop running into the girl, who is half her size and knocking her clear off her feet. The woman is lucky that her head did not smash into the concrete floor, and that a park bench broke the fall. Clearly shaken up and having to be comforted by other students, she was extremely lucky to walk away from the incident at all.

Tyler Charles, a student who saw the incident told reporters “The girl walked passed me and she had her drink in her hand. I don’t know if it had alcohol in it or not… But she literally walked pass me and the officer just rammed her and all of us guys around lost our shit.”

Phoebe Landolt, the student who filmed the incident said “I came later and I was told that 3 girls were trying to get to their car off of university (boulevard) and with no warning this girl was knocked over by the cop. Watching the video and seeing the scene in person I understand the purpose behind crowd control in a situation like that but what that officer did was completely unwarranted.”

The Tucson police department says it is “reviewing the video”.

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Local business owners and students told the media that the cops incited the violence, claiming that “police were all dressed up for a riot and had no riot to go to,” according to the Daily Independent report. The cops declared the crowd to be an unlawful gathering and began indiscriminately firing pepper and beanbag rounds, bystanders claim.

In another video, a man is seen approaching the police line with his arms outstretched. The police shoot him in the chest with pepper rounds and then barge at him, with one cop fiercely head butting him.

Scores of cops then drag the man away behind the police line. “Officers proceeded to hold him in place while one officer kneed the man once in the stomach, then punched him three to four times in the stomach and torso before the man fell to the ground.” the report states.

The man, since dubbed “The Terminator of Tucson”, later posted a picture of his wounds to Twitter:

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The student newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, reported that “Crowd members hit by the pepper spray were visibly affected, coughing and tearing up, with some even vomiting on the sidewalk.”

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When all was said and done, 15 people were arrested 9 of whom are students at the University of Arizona.

The University has seemingly accepted the police department’s version of events, stating that “a minority of Wildcat fans chose to engage in behavior that does not reflect the culture of the University of Arizona and Tucson communities,”

This is how cops in America now automatically react to relatively small crowds. If they are willing to brutally attack female students just for walking on a street, imagine what they will do in situations of large scale unrest.

Cops to Inspect Homes Without Notice For Illegal Rentals

Zero tolerance program slammed as attack on property rights

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 31, 2014

Authorities in Long Island have launched a crackdown on homeowners who rent their house out to tenants who have not been registered under a “zero tolerance” program that will see police conduct home inspections without notice.

Landlords in the Long Island community of Westbury will be targeted by a newly created police “Housing Enforcement Unit” that will “modify search warrant law to eliminate prior notice, aggressively use warrants and housing sweeps on a regular basis.”

Residents are being encouraged to report their neighbors to authorities if they suspect they are housing tenants who have not been registered with the government. Local station News 12 also gave out an email address and phone number encouraging viewers to, “report a suspected illegal rental.”

Maintenance rules and violation fines will also be raised under the new program.

Mayor Peter Cavallaro told News 12 that permitting property owners to call the shots on rentals “victimizes the community as a whole.”

Although the crackdown was launched after complaints by residents, its primary purpose appears to be a way to target landlords and homeowners who rent out rooms in order to help pay the cost of exorbitant property taxes.

Respondents to the News 12 report decried the move as a selfish attempt to prop up house prices at the expense of property rights and personal freedom.

“TAXES for your bloated New York nanny state politicians is what this is all about, they don’t give a damn about the people,” stated one YouTube user.

“Boo hoo hoo, my property value is declining. I know, let’s call the state goon squad to destroy the lives of people that may harm the value of our homes. This “community” action will backfire, causing property values to drop to zero in a zero tolerance “community,” added another.

“Yes! Report an illegal rental ASAP. The American people have raised their voices loud and clear. They’re saying, “State supremacy forever!”, and “Police supremacy over all!” joked another respondent.

FBI, US military in hunt for one-time recruit planning ‘Fort Hood-style jihad’

Jana Winter
foxnews.com
March 31, 2014

The FBI is searching for a recent Army recruit believed to be planning a “Fort Hood-inspired jihad against U.S. soldiers,” FoxNews.com has learned.

The alert, whose legitimacy was confirmed by military and law enforcement officials, stated that a man identified as Booker had told friends of his “intention to commit jihad.” Booker, who is also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, was recruited by the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for basic training on April 7. But he was discharged last week, apparently after law enforcement authorities learned of his alleged plan.

Both the FBI and the 902d Military Intelligence Group at Fort Leavenworth are involved in the hunt.

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Liberal Fascist Calls For Global Warming Skeptics to be Arrested

Unhinged Gawker journo wants critics thrown in gulags for thought crime of questioning establishment

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 31, 2014

Image: Future fate of climate skeptics? (Wiki Commons).

The thinly-veiled totalitarian bent of the unhinged left has reared its ugly head once again with a demented rant by Gawker’s Adam Weinstein which calls for thought criminals who question man-made global warming to be arrested and thrown in prison.

“We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths. It’s time to punish the climate-change liars,” blathers Weinstein, before claiming that man-made climate change kills 150,000 people a year.

Weinstein cites the example of six Italian seismologists who were convicted of manslaughter in 2009 after they failed to connect a series of tremors the week before to a subsequent earthquake that killed 309 people, arguing that public figures who openly express the thought crime of questioning the scientific establishment should face similar punishment.

“Those denialists should face jail. They should face fines. They should face lawsuits from the classes of people whose lives and livelihoods are most threatened by denialist tactics,” barks Weinstein.

Demanding that, “malcontents must be punished and stopped,” Weinstein asserts that disagreeing with the content of scientific journals which promote man-made climate change is not covered by the First Amendment, arguing that skeptics be “punished for your self-serving malice”.

What’s next? Perhaps opponents of Obamacare are the cause of illness and death for uninsured poor people. Maybe they too should be thrown in a thought crime gulag for questioning Dear Leader?

Weinstein’s screed emerged just days before a major United Nations report released today which warns of doomsday-level consequences if humanity doesn’t immediately relinquish the bounty of freedom, happiness and prosperity which has been associated with CO2 emissions for some 250 years. The fact that climate scientists have been caught time and time again spectacularly overexaggerating previous dire proclamations hasn’t discouraged them from doubling down on their insanity.

Indeed, today probably marks the point when global warming alarmism went truly psychotic, with headlines such as this in major newspapers like the UK’s Independent which scream, ‘The Apocalypse is Coming: War, famine and disease are on way’.

Last week, Professor Richard Tol demanded that his name be removed from the IPCC report after he complained that its ‘sky is falling’ tone made it sound like “the four horsemen of the apocalypse”.

Commentators reacted to Weinstein’s Gawker piece by savaging its inherently undemocratic and fascistic tone.

“It’s good to have that on the record at such a popular website. Liberals who are that soaked in the ideology of catastrophic man-caused global warming are fascists,” wrote Jim Lakely, adding, “Our fascist overlords are clever, and will probably set up work camps in which the undesirables will work as Obamacare facilitators. No thanks. I’m an old-school dissident. I choose breaking rocks.”

PJ Media’s Rick Moran labeled Weinstein an “authoritarian douchebag” and a “sneering elitist,” noting, “People with ideas like Weinstein’s are the reason other people are buying guns. This should not be seen in any way as a direct personal threat against Weinstein. But he has to understand that when liberals talk like this, they are the ones threatening others. They are the ones who would take away what the Constitution guarantees. They are the ones that many people think they need protecting from.”

While control freaks like Weinstein will continue to spew doomsday rhetoric about man-made activity killing the planet, the only real relationship between earth’s temperature and human behavior is the fact that the longer it remains stoically flat – with no actual global warming for over 17 years – the more desperate global warming alarmists become in attempting to silence critics of their religion.

Hundreds Protest Albuquerque Police Violence

Peter Moskowitz
Al Jazeera
March 31, 2014

Protesting what they say is a consistently and increasingly violent police force, hundreds marched through the streets of Albuquerque, N.M., on Sunday, blocking traffic and shouting slogans. A social media campaign, which included an apparent hours-long takedown of the Albuquerque Police Department’s webpage by the activist group Anonymous, coincided with the offline events.

The protests came a little more than a week after a video posted to YouTube by local TV station KQRE showed the city’s police department fatally shooting James Boyd, a 38-year-old homeless man who was confronted by Albuquerque Police Department officers for camping in an unauthorized section of the city’s foothills.

The video, which has drawn nearly 900,000 views, was taken by a lapel camera worn by an APD officer, and showed a defiant Boyd talking to police from a distance. At one point an officer throws a flashbang, or a stun grenade, at Boyd, who then, according to police, pulled out a knife. Then, several shots are fired into Boyd’s back, and he falls to the ground.

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Watch Alex Jones’ special report on why the killing of James Boyd illustrates the out of control militarization of America’s police forces.

This article was posted: Monday, March 31, 2014 at 10:02 am