This mentality of the state results in catastrophic social consequences. As Peart told me during an interview at the offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights, despite having no intentions of being a criminal, his numerous stop-and-frisks gave him the creeping feeling that he perhaps he was, indeed, a criminal. Day in and day out, taxpayers are paying police to tell a generation of blacks and Latinos—on their way to work, school, a friend’s house or the park–that they are bad, bad people. That’s a pretty powerful way for the state to control people, when you’re not only controlling their movement, but their emotions and unconscious thoughts.

Each day, the U.S. police state grows larger, more powerful, more pervasive, and more menacing. When will the majority awaken to the realization that this threat has nothing to do with party politics, that it makes no difference whether a Republican or a Democrat occupies the presidency while our freedoms are demolished?

FISA gives the government unchecked authority to snoop on all Americans who communicate with any foreign person, in direct contravention of the Fourth Amendment. The right to privacy is a natural human right. Its enshrinement in the Constitution has largely kept America from becoming East Germany. Moreover, everyone in Congress has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, which could not be more clear: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects…" shall not be violated, except via a warrant issued by a neutral judge upon the judge finding probable cause of crime. If we let Congress, which is a creature of the Constitution, change the Constitution, then no one’s liberty or property is safe, and freedom is dependent upon the political needs of those in power.

On May 28th 2012 the Government introduced the “Justice and Security Bill” in the House of Lords. If passed, this Bill will make drastic changes to our system of justice and fair trials. Liberty believes that the proposals are dangerous and unnecessary. They will not only overturn centuries of common law fair trial protections for those seeking to challenge the actions of the State, but also undermine the vital constitutional principle that no one is above the law, including the Government.

And this is what makes the logging of our electronic communications so important. It is a central component in the apparatus of surveillance and control. Of course, the Ministers and the general authorities will never admit that this is its purpose. They insist on its need so we can all be kept safe from terrorists and other criminals. They tell us that no ordinary people will be affected – that those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear. Well, this argument should by now be seen with the contempt it deserves. We all have something to hide, even if it is not presently against the law. And the argument has been used again and again. How often have we been told that a deviation from the old constitutional norms is needed in the face of some exceptional danger, and that the new powers will only be used against that danger? How often have the new powers been immediately used to spy on and control ordinary people?

In order to comply with the new strategy, senior leadership at DHS must ensure that “environmental justice is appropriately integrated into their specific mission: maritime safety, security, and stewardship; federal assistance authority; emergency management programs; border security; transportation security; immigration services; law enforcement training; science and technology research; and mission support and asset management.”

Further, “[a]s the Department’s capacities and mission areas evolve in response to improved understanding of emerging threats to safety and security, the concepts of this strategy will be extended to match the commitment to environmental justice in those new areas.”

There now, don’t you feel safer?

There is also the question of Britain’s progressive slide, since about 1980, into totalitarianism. The British State knows things about us, and controls our lives, on a scale that is itself incompatible with our free traditions. It is now looking at ways to unify its knowledge and powers of compulsion, so that a law or institution set up for one purpose may be used for any other purpose. The name for this in German is Totalstaat – a word that sounds as bleak and harsh as its meaning. A total state is one in which every individual faces an amorphous mass of power that may be made irresistible in any place and at any time.

Is this what people voted for when they turned out Labour in 2010? If not, can we have our votes back?”

Thomas began using his office for political gain, in cooperation with Arpaio. County officials who were critical were arrested by Arpaio and Thomas would file charges that they were corrupt. He did this to a top county supervisor. When a court threw out the charges as baseless Thomas and Arpaio then worked together to arrest the judge and claim he was corrupt.

Are you going to permit the NSA to invade my privacy without probable cause or a warrant!

Do we actually have a "free" society if The Leviathan State can read everything we say and write? Are we truly more secure because those conversations are recorded in one central location, forever?

I do not consent to being spied on! I do not consent to the long-term storage of my personal communications.

And yes, I suspect _I_ am being spied upon, as if I'm a criminal.

If we banned or restricted all activities that affect, harm or have the possibility of harming other people, it wouldn't be a very nice life.

Josh Lachovich has already highlighted the government’s hypocrisy in proposing this measure. The coalition parties’ manifestos and the programme for government all explicitly ruled out “database state” measures and, indeed, promised to roll back the surveillance state. Of course, these were all lies.

The depressing thing is how predictable all this is. “Pragmatic” erosions of our civil rights to date – CCTV cameras everywhere, centralized government databases of personal information, attacks on habeas corpus, covert surveillance operations by local councils and sundry encroachments onto people’s online privacy – have led naturally to this grotesque new plan.

4. We are told this new law is needed in a year that will see both the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth the Useless and the Olympic Games. Since the law will need to go through Commons and Lords, it cannot be ready in time. The stated excuse for the law must be a lie.

Watching football is not a crime! has been launched as a direct reaction to recent instances of police officers using Section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 as a way of stopping football supporters, usually in pubs, from attending matches.

In October 2011 the Government’s Justice and Security Green Paper announced plans to make drastic changes to our system of justice and fair trials. Liberty believes that the proposals are dangerous and unnecessary. They would not only overturn centuries of common law fair trial protections for those seeking to challenge the actions of the State, but also undermine the vital constitutional principle that no one is above the law, including the Government.

This sounds like a revival of the ideas in the "Information sharing: vision statement" of 2006 and part 8 of the Coroners and Justice Bill in 2009, as put forward by Jack Straw and defeated by this campaign and its allies. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/16/coroners_and_justice_savaged/

We may have to fight that battle all over again.

If there were doubt as to whether NO2ID is still needed, there isn't any more.

Among other things, tattoo artists — yes tattoo artists! — are advised to suspect (in what has become the FBI’s standard tortured style of English) “People or Groups Who Make repeated returns with multiple individuals requesting identical tattoos.”

Around 8pm, Metropolitan Police arrived en masse in Parliament Square, and ....unleashed upon our campaign, hour upon hour, of horror, in Parliament Square.

I don't think it changes that a peaceful assembly... is a peaceful assembly ...is a peaceful assembly...

And so, we have hundreds of photos to upload....

It would seem odd in this day and age that in the same way many people now know that being able to vote, does not mean you have a democracy, that anyone might think the fact you have a so called legal system, might mean you have..... justice.

You do not have to scratch much beyond the surface of either concept, and the superficial soon disappears, to make way for something entirely less honourable.

And so it is, with the new Westminster Magistrates, in Marylebone.

All shiny and new, but the... justice ?

Well it is .....still, somewhere else.

If Troy Davis is innocent, as many claim, that means that there are several murderers in Georgia, from the police to the prosecutors to the judges, and it also means they have gotten away with it. Meanwhile in Fullerton there are four police officers who are accomplices to murder who are getting away with it. Both cases emphasize the need to reform the whole of law enforcement by stripping prosecutors of their monopoly on criminal prosecutions and severely diminishing the nearly all-encompassing protections of official immunity. Essentially there is no accountability anymore, and that is the indicator of a police state.

Today, seven months after it all started in Bahrain, the movement is still alive and active, as well as more organized. Even when the international media is not watching, people like Mohamed Ali Alhaiki are breaking through fences to raise their own flag. They know, after all, that it’s not just a flag; it’s a dream which they are determined to turn into reality.

While I firmly believe that only one outcome — the end of the Westphalian nation-state — is possible, I’m surprised with the speed at which states are confirming my estimate of the situation by descending to the tactic of desperation: The frontal assault.

So for Cameron to blame the parents isn’t quite hitting the right target. Most of the people to blame live in the metropolises, vote labour or lib dem, work for the State or Soviets in one way or another – or the BBC its propaganda arm, and some may even have dined at his table. As to where the money will come from to compensate – assuming that could even be achieved - it should be from the great personal fortunes of prominent British socialists.

The Solidarity Federation is based in resistance through workplace struggle. We are not involved in the looting and unlike the knee-jerk right or even the sympathetic-but-condemnatory commentators from the left, we will not condemn or condone those we don't know for taking back some of the wealth they have been denied all their lives.

But as revolutionaries, we cannot condone attacks on working people, on the innocent. Burning out shops with homes above them, people's transport to work, muggings and the like are an attack on our own and should be resisted as strongly as any other measure from government "austerity" politics, to price-gouging landlords, to bosses intent on stealing our labour. Tonight and for as long as it takes, people should band together to defend themselves when such violence threatens homes and communities.

And the young people ripped up all the thousands of superfluous statutes.

They didn't need to fire the most senior police officers, because they had already run like rats, long ago, to pastures greener, perhaps at News International.

And then the police were all given ice - cream vans to drive around in, because the people had grown sick of the sound of their sirens wailing.

If enough people shunned the TSA thugs completely a large percentage of the staff would leave and eventually the system would have to change. Don't buy the claim that these people are just following orders. The TSA is a voluntary agency. No one has been conscripted to work there. These people voluntarily decided to act indecently toward their fellow Americans and we have every right to refuse to deal with the petty tyrants if we so choose. In a polite way, tell them to fuck off and die.

With the bill scheduled for a Senate floor vote, the DOJ issued an ultimatum to the leadership of the Texas legislature.

Either Texas backs off and continues to let government employees fondle innocent women, children and men as a condition of travel, or the TSA will cancel Texas flights. The Federal Government showed its willingness to bully the State of Texas if attempts to protect passengers from being forced to give up constitutional rights are not dropped.

Those who recognize the emergence of Police America and yet feel a need to stay should ask themselves a question: where is the limit at which you withdraw your cooperation and say "no!" to a state law or a state agent's order? Would you inform on a neighbor, as the authorities already urge you to do? Would you assist a friend or family member even if it made you criminally an accessory; if so, whom? Would you steal from or harm an innocent person on command? If ordered, would you assist a police officer to do so, or would you interfere and, so, become vulnerable to a charge of "obstructing justice"?

Those of us who oppose surveillance, phone hacking and the database state do so without any coherent theory of privacy. We draw on gut instincts, and comparisons with totalitarian states that the unconcerned find deeply unpersuasive. To the unconcerned we are the necessary alarmists whose very protests reassure them freedom flourishes and is well guarded.

The indignant and the resigned confront each other, unable to define, let alone discuss, their differences.

It is my personal belief that if the state cannot work with the people, (and keeping them in the dark is not even beginning to work with them) then I do not see any point in having the state.

It will never be right for a state to just pronounce from upon high, without giving reasons.

• End the obligation on Internet Service Providers and Telephone Comnpanies to retain information on subscribers and supply it to government.

Anti-file-sharing measures are disproportionate and should be stopped, and people should only be tracked via their telephones with a warrant.

• No restart for random stop and search.

The European Court ruled Britain’s random stop and search régime unlawful. Anti-terrorism stop and search powers should only be used where there is evidence of a specific terrorist threat.

• End the intercept modernization programne.

Stop any schemes intended to monitor and log our internet and phone use.

Stopping the database state is not just a matter of scrapping a few high-profile databases - as welcome as this will be. It means changing the culture of showing "ID" at every turn [3], embedding proper protections in law, in institutions and technology, and achieving real control over our own information. The nature of the campaign, too, may change, as it becomes even more a matter of education and forming public policy and less of organising direct resistance.

A number of recent news items point to a disturbing trend: the Prussianization of American culture. One of the peculiarities of the increasingly militarized culture of Prussia/Germany under Bismarck’s reich was that civilians became second-class citizens. It was common practice for citizens to step off the sidewalk and into the gutter to make way for anyone in uniform. We’re seeing the same tendency in the United States, as the respective rights of officials and ordinary citizens becomes increasingly a matter of status or caste rather than universal law.