Fascism Has Come to America

SUBHEAD: Yes, we tortured Manning, but we can't tell you why -- because we want to protect his privacy!By Chris Floyd 5 March 2011 in Empire Burlesque - (http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2099-a-nation-stripped-bare-fascism-has-come-to-america.html)Image above: A conversion of Obama 2008 campaign poster. From (http://larryswire.blogspot.com/2010/07/

US to strangle WikiLeaks

SOURCE: Kenneth Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: The Homeland Security Committee chair Peter King wants to put a Cuban style trade embargo around the truth.By Julien Assange on 12 January 2011 on WikiLeaks - (http://wikileaks.ch/WIKILEAKS-PRESS-RELEASE.html)Image above: Homeland Security Chair Peter T. King. From (http://gawker.com/5715551/

Tortured Until Guilty!

SUBHEAD: The placement of human beings in solitary confinement is not a measure of their depravity. It is a measure of our own.By Lynn Parramore on 31 December 2010 in Huffington Post - (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-parramore/tortured-until-proven-gui_b_803018.html)Image above: Bradley Manning in a happier moment before solitary in Quantico brig. From (http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/

2011 - A Brave New Dystopia

SUBHEAD: The era of amusement is being replaced by the era of repression.By Chris Hedges on 27 December 2010 in Truthdig - (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227)Image above: Detail of Signet Books 1955 edition of George Orwell's "1984". From (http://blastr.com/2009/07/amazon-deletes-1984-from.php).The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s

TSA Radiation Exposure

SUBHEAD: TSA field agents have reason to worry about their safety. Not from the public but from radiation exposure.By Alison Young on 6 December 2010 for USA Today - (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-12-06-tsa-xray-inside_N.htm)Image above: A rather unhealthy TSA agent stands next to backscatter x-ray machine/ From (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2631515/posts).When

Real Airport Security

SUBHEAD: Current TSA procedures are invasive and ineffective. There are better ways to achieve safety.Video above: "Real Airport Security" need sniffer dogs. CNN Report from (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlDVLlAEUU).By C. Peril on 30 November 2010 for The Daily Kos - (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/30/923752/-TSA-male-agents-target-female-travellers-(w-poll))Up to now, TSA has

Porno-Scanner X-Ray Danger

SUBHEAD: Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report: hide your kids, hide your wife.Image above: This X-ray pin-up girl is just pixels. Not so TSA victims. From (http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/x-ray-pin-up-girls-are-just-pixels). TSA X-Ray BackscatterBy Jason Bell on 22 November 2010 in My Helical Tryst - (http://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/

TSA Humiliations

SUBHEAD: Stories of humiliations and TSA madness during airport pat-downs.Image above: Nazi soldiers directing Jewish "travelers" to their trains heading to concentration camps. From (http://www.blueheronpix.com/deliver_us_from_evil).By Staff on 19 November 2010 for UK Daily Mail - (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331346/

Resistance to Porno-Scanners Increasing

SUBHEAD: Pilot takes daughter through security. Overhears TSA officer say to coworker 'Heads up, got a cutie for you.'Image above: Have we come to this? A Playmobile playset of a TSA airport intimidation. From (http://airlinenightmare.com/blog/?p=3061).By SWFA (Pilot) on 13 November 2010 in Flytalk.com -(http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1147497-

Don't Scan Me, Bro!

SUBHEAD: Protests continue to mount over safety and privacy of new airport scanners.Image above: Detail of the original Xray-Specs comic book ad. From (http://chawedrosin.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/x-ray-specs/).By by Richard Knox on 12 November 2010 for NPR.org - (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/11/12/131275949/protests-mount-over-safety-and-privacy-of-airport-scanners)It's because of a