Category Archives: Criminalizing legitimate protests

Australian police chief links media raids to US-led “Five Eyes” spy network

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 9. June 2019 by

Australian Federal Police (AFP) spent seven hours ransacking a News Corp political reporter’s home in Canberra, and eight hours poring over and seizing files at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Sydney headquarters.

In an extraordinary admission, the AFP’s acting commissioner Neil Gaughan blurted out that the real reason for the raids was to protect the information that the Australian police and intelligence agencies receive from their “Five Eyes” counterparts. Five Eyes is a top-level network of intelligence agencies dominated by the US that also includes Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

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D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 9. May 2019 by

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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U.K. Supreme Court grants “judicial approval for the mass surveillance of UK protest movements”

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 6. March 2015 by

“Four senior judges have found that my rights have been violated unlawfully, whilst four others have disagreed. I cannot agree that the police in this country should be trusted with information about innocent people’s lawful political activities. In my view, without a new system of rules governing police surveillance, there is too much scope for the police to abuse their powers. I am therefore left with no option but to take this matter to the European Court of Human Rights for the sake of other innocent people whose lawful political activities are being monitored by the state.

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How Cops Became Soldiers

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 2. February 2014 by

For 30 years, politicians and public officials have been arming, training, and dressing cops as if they’re fighting a war. They’ve been dehumanizing drug offenders and criminal suspects as the enemy. And of course they’ve explicitly and repeatedly told them they’re fighting a war. It shouldn’t be all that surprising that a lot of cops have started to believe it.

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ail.com/home/nypd-anti-terrorism-unit-monitoring-wall-street-protests.html NYPD Anti-Terrorism Unit Monitoring Wall Street Protests

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 30. September 2011 by

http://dailybail.com/home/nypd-anti-terrorism-unit-monitoring-wall-street-protests.html NYPD Anti-Terrorism Unit Monitoring Wall Street Protests28 September 2011 The New York City Counter Terrorism Unit has been filmed watching the peaceful #OccupyWallStreet Protests. The officers, part of the New York City Counter Terrorism Bureau which has a police … Read more . . .

Filming police arrests made illegal

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 13. May 2010 by

Police fight cellphone recordings Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance By Daniel RowinskiNew England Center For Investigative Reporting / January 12, 2010http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/12/police_fight_cellphone_recordings/ Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers … Read more . . .

Italy: Restrictions on demonstrations

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 9. March 2009 by

Italy Interior Ministry directive on demonstrations in urban centres                     On 26 January 2009, the Italian interior affairs minister Roberto Maroni issued a "general directive for public demonstrations" concerning urban centres and "sensitive" areas. The directive invites prefetti (government representatives … Read more . . .

Indymedia centres raided across Italy

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 28. March 2007 by

Indymedia centres raided across Italy – update http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/feb/15italy.htm Following raids on social centres and a trade union office linked to Indymedia on 20 February 2002 (see below), the carabinieri also raided a Bologna office of the Association of Democratic Lawyers, … Read more . . .

G8 Summit: Police raid targets media activists and l’Usine Cultural Centre in Geneva

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 28. March 2007 by

G8 Summit: Police raid targets media activists and l'Usine Cultural Centre http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jun/05g8.htm Report posted to Nettime e-mail discussion list by Florian Schneider (http://www.nettime.org). For more information see GENEVA 03 autonomous media collective website (http://www.geneva03.org) "Just before nine o'clock on Sunday … Read more . . .