activistpost--2020-02-18--Compliance 101: Gun-Toting Cops Endanger Students and Turn the Schools into Prisons

Just when you thought the government couldn ’ t get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties and the growing need to protect “ we the people ” against an overreaching , overbearing police state , the Trump Administration ushers in even more strident zero tolerance policies that treat children like suspects and criminals , greater numbers of school cops , and all the trappings of a prison complex ( unsurmountable fences , entrapment areas , no windows or trees , etc. )
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The fallout has been what you ’ d expect , with the nation ’ s young people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrested , tasered , tackled and taught the painful lesson that the Constitution ( especially the Fourth Amendment ) doesn ’ t mean much in the American police state .
For example , in Florida , a cop assigned to River Ridge High School as a school resource officer , threatened to shoot a student attempting to leave school for a morning orthodontist appointment .
In Pennsylvania , school officials called in the cops after a 6-year-old with Down syndrome pointed a finger gun at her teacher .
In Kentucky , a school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office handcuffed two elementary school children with disabilities , ages 8 and 9 .
A federal judge made the sheriff ’ s office pay more than $ 300,000 ( of taxpayer money ) to the families , ruling that the handcuffing of the students “ was an unconstitutional seizure and excessive force.
” Welcome to Compliance 101 : the police state ’ s primer in how to churn out compliant citizens and transform the nation ’ s school ’ s into quasi-prisons through the use of surveillance cameras , metal detectors , police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ downs , drug sniffing dogs , strip searches and active shooter drills .
If you were wondering , these police state tactics have not made the schools any safer .
Rather , they ’ ve turned the schools into authoritarian microcosms of the police state , containing almost every aspect of the militarized , intolerant , senseless , overcriminalized , legalistic , surveillance-riddled , totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the “ outside.
” Two years after President Trump announced his intention to “ harden ” the schools , our nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects of gun-toting , taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons .
America ’ s schools are about as authoritarian as they come .
From the moment a child enters one of the nation ’ s 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates , they will be exposed to a steady diet of : • politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them , • and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that , coupled with the rest , acclimate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they have no freedom of thought , speech or movement .
Young people in America are now first in line to be searched , surveilled , spied on , threatened , tied up , locked down , treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior , tasered and in some cases shot .
In my day , if you talked back to a teacher , or played a prank on a classmate , or just failed to do your homework , you might find yourself in detention or doing an extra writing assignment after school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nowadays , students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground , bringing LEGOs to school , or having a food fight , but the punishments have become far more severe , shifting from detention and visits to the principal ’ s office into misdemeanor tickets , juvenile court , handcuffs , tasers and even prison terms .
Students have been suspended under school zero tolerance policies for bringing to school “ look alike substances ” such as oregano , breath mints , birth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapons ( toy guns—even Lego-sized ones , hand-drawn pictures of guns , pencils twirled in a “ threatening ” manner , imaginary bows and arrows , even fingers positioned like guns ) can also land a student in hot water .
Even good deeds do not go unpunished .
One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “ liability ” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend .
A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ senior who was suspended for saying “ bless you ” after a fellow classmate sneezed .
In South Carolina , where it ’ s against the law to disturb a school , more than a thousand students a year—some as young as 7 years old— “ face criminal charges for not following directions , loitering , cursing , or the vague allegation of acting ‘ obnoxiously.
’ If charged as adults , they can be held in jail for up to 90 days.
” These outrageous incidents are exactly what you ’ ll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gets its way .
Increasing the number of cops in the schools only adds to the problem .
Thanks to a combination of media hype , political pandering and financial incentives , the use of armed police officers ( a.k.a .
school resource officers ) to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting .
Indeed , the growing presence of police in the nation ’ s schools is resulting in greater police “ involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the U.S. Department of Justice , these school resource officers ( SRO ) have become de facto wardens in elementary , middle and high schools , doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “ criminals ” in their midst with the help of tasers , pepper spray , batons and brute force .
In the absence of school-appropriate guidelines , police are more and more “ stepping in to deal with minor rulebreaking : sagging pants , disrespectful comments , brief physical skirmishes .
What previously might have resulted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the principal ’ s office was replaced with excruciating pain and temporary blindness , often followed by a trip to the courthouse.
” One SRO was accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line .
That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later , allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury .
In Pennsylvania , a student was tasered after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away .
When 13-year-old Kevens Jean Baptiste failed to follow a school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bus windows closed ( Kevens , who suffers from asthma , opened the window after a fellow student sprayed perfume , causing him to cough and wheeze ) , he was handcuffed by police , removed from the bus , and while still handcuffed , had his legs swept out from under him by an officer , causing him to crash to the ground .
Young Alex Stone didn ’ t even make it past the first week of school before he became a victim of the police state .
Directed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assignment involving a series of fictional Facebook statuses , Stone wrote , “ I killed my neighbor ’ s pet dinosaur .
I bought the gun to take care of the business.
” Despite the fact that dinosaurs are extinct , the status fabricated , and the South Carolina student was merely following orders , his teacher reported him to school administrators , who in turn called the police .
What followed is par for the course in schools today : students were locked down in their classrooms while armed police searched the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ handcuffed him , charged him with disorderly conduct disturbing the school , arrested him , detained him , and then he was suspended from school .
Not even the younger , elementary school-aged kids are being spared these “ hardening ” tactics .
On any given day when school is in session , kids who “ act up ” in class are pinned facedown on the floor , locked in dark closets , tied up with straps , bungee cords and duct tape , handcuffed , leg shackled , tasered or otherwise restrained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in order to bring them under “ control.
” In almost every case , these undeniably harsh methods are used to punish kids—some as young as 4 and 5 years old—for simply failing to follow directions or throwing tantrums .
Very rarely do the kids pose any credible danger to themselves or others .
Unbelievably , these tactics are all legal , at least when employed by school officials or school resource officers in the nation ’ s public schools .
This is what happens when you introduce police and police tactics into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time you add in the lockdowns and active shooter drills , instead of making the schools safer , school officials have succeeded in creating an environment in which children are so traumatized that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder , nightmares , anxiety , mistrust of adults in authority , as well as feelings of anger , depression , humiliation , despair and delusion .
For example , a middle school in Washington State went on lockdown after a student brought a toy gun to class .
A Boston high school went into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was discovered in a classroom .
A North Carolina elementary school locked down and called in police after a fifth grader reported seeing an unfamiliar man in the school ( it turned out to be a parent ) .
Police officers at a Florida middle school carried out an active shooter drill in an effort to educate students about how to respond in the event of an actual shooting crisis .
Two armed officers , guns loaded and drawn , burst into classrooms , terrorizing the students and placing the school into lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to instill fear and compliance into young people , they ’ re working .
As journalist Dahlia Lithwick points out : “ I don ’ t recall any serious national public dialogue about lockdown protocols or how they became the norm .
It seems simply to have begun , modeling itself on the lockdowns that occur during prison riots , and then spread until school lockdowns and lockdown drills are as common for our children as fire drills , and as routine as duck-and-cover drills were in the 1950s.
” The toll such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but when such police brutality is perpetrated on young people , the end result is nothing less than complete indoctrination into becoming compliant citizens of a totalitarian state .
Students treated like inmates and punished like hardened criminals .
This is the end product of all those so-called school “ safety ” policies , which run the gamut from zero tolerance policies that punish all infractions harshly to surveillance cameras , metal detectors , random searches , drug-sniffing dogs , school-wide lockdowns , active-shooter drills and militarized police officers .
Unfortunately , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weaponry like to trot out the line that school safety should be our first priority lest we find ourselves with another Sandy Hook .
What they will not tell you is that such shootings are rare .
As one congressional report found , the schools are , generally speaking , safe places for children .
In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock down the schools , these cheerleaders for police state tactics in the schools might also fail to mention the lucrative , multi-million dollar deals being cut with military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these school cops with tasers , tanks , rifles and $ 100,000 shooting detection systems .
Indeed , the transformation of hometown police departments into extensions of the military has been mirrored in the public schools , where school police have been gifted with high-powered M16 rifles , MRAP armored vehicles , grenade launchers , and other military gear .
One Texas school district even boasts its own 12-member SWAT team .
According to one law review article on the school-to-prison pipeline , “ Many school districts have formed their own police departments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forces of major United States cities in size .
For example , the safety division in New York City ’ s public schools is so large that if it were a local police department , it would be the fifth-largest police force in the country.
” There can be no avoiding the hands-on lessons being taught in the schools about the role of police in our lives , ranging from active shooter drills and school-wide lockdowns to incidents in which children engaging in typically childlike behavior are suspended ( for shooting an imaginary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , handcuffed ( for being disruptive at school ) , arrested ( for throwing water balloons as part of a school prank ) , and even tasered ( for not obeying instructions ) .
Instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters—which one would hope would be the objective of the schools—government officials seem determined to churn out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply , fear and march in lockstep with the government ’ s dictates .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only for the here-and-now—the children growing up in these quasi-prisons—but for the future of this country ?
How do you convince a child who has been routinely handcuffed , shackled , tied down , locked up , and immobilized by government officials—all before he reaches the age of adulthood—that he has any rights at all , let alone the right to challenge wrongdoing , resist oppression and defend himself against injustice ?
Most of all , how do you persuade a fellow American that the government works for him when , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been incarcerated in an institution that teaches young people to be obedient and compliant citizens who don ’ t talk back , don ’ t question and don ’ t challenge authority ?
Peter Gray , a professor of psychology at Boston College , believes that school is a prison that is damaging our kids , and it ’ s hard to disagree , especially with the numbers of police officers being assigned to schools on the rise .
Students , in turn , are not only finding themselves subjected to police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , tasers and excessive force for “ acting up ” but are also being ticketed , fined and sent to court for behavior perceived as defiant , disruptive or disorderly such as spraying perfume and writing on a desk .
Clearly , the pathology that characterizes the American police state has passed down to the schools .
Now in addition to the government and its agents viewing the citizenry as suspects to be probed , poked , pinched , tasered , searched , seized , stripped and generally manhandled , all with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children in the public schools are also fair game for school resource officers who taser teenagers and handcuff kindergartners , school officials who have criminalized childhood behavior , school lockdowns and terror drills that teach your children to fear and comply , and a police state mindset that has transformed the schools into quasi-prisons .
Don ’ t even get me started on the “ school-to-prison pipeline , ” the phenomenon in which children who are suspended or expelled from school have a greater likelihood of ending up in jail .
One study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made a student nearly three times more likely to come into contact with the juvenile justice system within the next year.
” By the time the average young person in America finishes their public school education , nearly one out of every three of them will have been arrested .
Nearly 40 percent of those young people who are arrested will serve time in a private prison , where the emphasis is on making profits for large megacorporations above all else .
Indeed , this profit-driven system of incarceration has also given rise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ financial incentives for jailing young people .
In this way , young people have become easy targets for the private prison industry , which profits from criminalizing childish behavior and jailing young people .
None of these tactics are making our communities or schools any safer , and they ’ re certainly not contributing to environments in which learning flourishes .
Incredibly , despite the fact that the U.S. invests more money in public education ( roughly $ 13,000 per child per year ) than many other developed countries , we rank around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , math and reading , and behind many other advanced industrial nations .
Without a doubt , change is needed , but that will mean taking on the teachers ’ unions , the school unions , the educators ’ associations , and the police unions , not to mention the politicians dependent on their votes and all of the corporations that profit mightily from an industrial school complex .
As we ’ ve seen with other issues , any significant reforms will have to start locally and trickle upwards .
For starters , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and organized and demand that school officials 1 ) adopt a policy of positive reinforcement in dealing with behavior issues ; 2 ) minimize the presence in the schools of police officers and cease involving them in student discipline ; and 3 ) insist that all behavioral issues be addressed first and foremost with a child ’ s parents , before any other disciplinary tactics are attempted .
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , if you want a nation of criminals , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners , run the schools like prisons .
If , on the other hand , you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters , who will actually operate with justice , fairness , accountability and equality towards each other and their government , then run the schools like freedom forums .
Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras , re-assign the cops elsewhere , and start treating our nation ’ s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates @ @ @ @ @ @

By John W. Whitehead
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes
Just when you thought the government couldn’t get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties and the growing need to protect “we the people” against an overreaching, overbearing police state, the Trump Administration ushers in even more strident zero tolerance policies that treat children like suspects and criminals, greater numbers of school cops, and all the trappings of a prison complex (unsurmountable fences, entrapment areas, no windows or trees, etc.).
The fallout has been what you’d expect, with the nation’s young people treated like hardened criminals: handcuffed, arrested, tasered, tackled and taught the painful lesson that the Constitution (especially the Fourth Amendment) doesn’t mean much in the American police state.
For example, in Florida, a cop assigned to River Ridge High School as a school resource officer, threatened to shoot a student attempting to leave school for a morning orthodontist appointment.
In Pennsylvania, school officials called in the cops after a 6-year-old with Down syndrome pointed a finger gun at her teacher.
In Kentucky, a school resource officer with the sheriff’s office handcuffed two elementary school children with disabilities, ages 8 and 9. A federal judge made the sheriff’s office pay more than $300,000 (of taxpayer money) to the families, ruling that the handcuffing of the students “was an unconstitutional seizure and excessive force.”
Welcome to Compliance 101: the police state’s primer in how to churn out compliant citizens and transform the nation’s school’s into quasi-prisons through the use of surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, strip searches and active shooter drills.
If you were wondering, these police state tactics have not made the schools any safer.
Rather, they’ve turned the schools into authoritarian microcosms of the police state, containing almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the “outside.”
Two years after President Trump announced his intention to “harden” the schools, our nation’s children are reaping the ill effects of gun-toting, taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons.
America’s schools are about as authoritarian as they come.
From the moment a child enters one of the nation’s 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates, they will be exposed to a steady diet of:
draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior,
overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech,
school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called “disorderly” students,
standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking,
politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them,
and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement.
Young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot.
In my day, if you talked back to a teacher, or played a prank on a classmate, or just failed to do your homework, you might find yourself in detention or doing an extra writing assignment after school.
That is no longer the case.
Nowadays, students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but the punishments have become far more severe, shifting from detention and visits to the principal’s office into misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.
Students have been suspended under school zero tolerance policies for bringing to school “look alike substances” such as oregano, breath mints, birth control pills and powdered sugar.
Look-alike weapons (toy guns—even Lego-sized ones, hand-drawn pictures of guns, pencils twirled in a “threatening” manner, imaginary bows and arrows, even fingers positioned like guns) can also land a student in hot water.
Even good deeds do not go unpunished.
One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “liability” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend. A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy. And then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed.
In South Carolina, where it’s against the law to disturb a school, more than a thousand students a year—some as young as 7 years old—“face criminal charges for not following directions, loitering, cursing, or the vague allegation of acting ‘obnoxiously.’ If charged as adults, they can be held in jail for up to 90 days.”
These outrageous incidents are exactly what you’ll see more of if the Trump Administration gets its way.
Increasing the number of cops in the schools only adds to the problem.
Thanks to a combination of media hype, political pandering and financial incentives, the use of armed police officers (a.k.a. school resource officers) to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting.
Indeed, the growing presence of police in the nation’s schools is resulting in greater police “involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without involvement from law enforcement officers.”
Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, these school resource officers (SRO) have become de facto wardens in elementary, middle and high schools, doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “criminals” in their midst with the help of tasers, pepper spray, batons and brute force.
In the absence of school-appropriate guidelines, police are more and more “stepping in to deal with minor rulebreaking: sagging pants, disrespectful comments, brief physical skirmishes. What previously might have resulted in a detention or a visit to the principal’s office was replaced with excruciating pain and temporary blindness, often followed by a trip to the courthouse.”
The horror stories are legion.
One SRO was accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line.
That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later, allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury.
In Pennsylvania, a student was tasered after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away.
When 13-year-old Kevens Jean Baptiste failed to follow a school bus driver’s direction to keep the bus windows closed (Kevens, who suffers from asthma, opened the window after a fellow student sprayed perfume, causing him to cough and wheeze), he was handcuffed by police, removed from the bus, and while still handcuffed, had his legs swept out from under him by an officer, causing him to crash to the ground.
Young Alex Stone didn’t even make it past the first week of school before he became a victim of the police state. Directed by his teacher to do a creative writing assignment involving a series of fictional Facebook statuses, Stone wrote, “I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the business.” Despite the fact that dinosaurs are extinct, the status fabricated, and the South Carolina student was merely following orders, his teacher reported him to school administrators, who in turn called the police.
What followed is par for the course in schools today: students were locked down in their classrooms while armed police searched the 16-year-old’s locker and bookbag, handcuffed him, charged him with disorderly conduct disturbing the school, arrested him, detained him, and then he was suspended from school.
Not even the younger, elementary school-aged kids are being spared these “hardening” tactics.
On any given day when school is in session, kids who “act up” in class are pinned facedown on the floor, locked in dark closets, tied up with straps, bungee cords and duct tape, handcuffed, leg shackled, tasered or otherwise restrained, immobilized or placed in solitary confinement in order to bring them under “control.”
In almost every case, these undeniably harsh methods are used to punish kids—some as young as 4 and 5 years old—for simply failing to follow directions or throwing tantrums.
Very rarely do the kids pose any credible danger to themselves or others.
Unbelievably, these tactics are all legal, at least when employed by school officials or school resource officers in the nation’s public schools.
This is what happens when you introduce police and police tactics into the schools.
Paradoxically, by the time you add in the lockdowns and active shooter drills, instead of making the schools safer, school officials have succeeded in creating an environment in which children are so traumatized that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, anxiety, mistrust of adults in authority, as well as feelings of anger, depression, humiliation, despair and delusion.
For example, a middle school in Washington State went on lockdown after a student brought a toy gun to class. A Boston high school went into lockdown for four hours after a bullet was discovered in a classroom. A North Carolina elementary school locked down and called in police after a fifth grader reported seeing an unfamiliar man in the school (it turned out to be a parent).
Police officers at a Florida middle school carried out an active shooter drill in an effort to educate students about how to respond in the event of an actual shooting crisis. Two armed officers, guns loaded and drawn, burst into classrooms, terrorizing the students and placing the school into lockdown mode.
If these exercises are intended to instill fear and compliance into young people, they’re working.
As journalist Dahlia Lithwick points out: “I don’t recall any serious national public dialogue about lockdown protocols or how they became the norm. It seems simply to have begun, modeling itself on the lockdowns that occur during prison riots, and then spread until school lockdowns and lockdown drills are as common for our children as fire drills, and as routine as duck-and-cover drills were in the 1950s.”
The toll such incidents take on adults can be life-altering, but when such police brutality is perpetrated on young people, the end result is nothing less than complete indoctrination into becoming compliant citizens of a totalitarian state.
Schools acting like prisons.
School officials acting like wardens.
Students treated like inmates and punished like hardened criminals.
This is the end product of all those so-called school “safety” policies, which run the gamut from zero tolerance policies that punish all infractions harshly to surveillance cameras, metal detectors, random searches, drug-sniffing dogs, school-wide lockdowns, active-shooter drills and militarized police officers.
Unfortunately, advocates for such harsh police tactics and weaponry like to trot out the line that school safety should be our first priority lest we find ourselves with another Sandy Hook.
What they will not tell you is that such shootings are rare.
As one congressional report found, the schools are, generally speaking, safe places for children.
In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock down the schools, these cheerleaders for police state tactics in the schools might also fail to mention the lucrative, multi-million dollar deals being cut with military contractors such as Taser International to equip these school cops with tasers, tanks, rifles and $100,000 shooting detection systems.
Indeed, the transformation of hometown police departments into extensions of the military has been mirrored in the public schools, where school police have been gifted with high-powered M16 rifles, MRAP armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and other military gear. One Texas school district even boasts its own 12-member SWAT team.
According to one law review article on the school-to-prison pipeline, “Many school districts have formed their own police departments, some so large they rival the forces of major United States cities in size. For example, the safety division in New York City’s public schools is so large that if it were a local police department, it would be the fifth-largest police force in the country.”
The ramifications are far-reaching.
There can be no avoiding the hands-on lessons being taught in the schools about the role of police in our lives, ranging from active shooter drills and school-wide lockdowns to incidents in which children engaging in typically childlike behavior are suspended (for shooting an imaginary “arrow” at a fellow classmate), handcuffed (for being disruptive at school), arrested (for throwing water balloons as part of a school prank), and even tasered (for not obeying instructions).
Instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters—which one would hope would be the objective of the schools—government officials seem determined to churn out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply, fear and march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
So what’s the answer, not only for the here-and-now—the children growing up in these quasi-prisons—but for the future of this country?
How do you convince a child who has been routinely handcuffed, shackled, tied down, locked up, and immobilized by government officials—all before he reaches the age of adulthood—that he has any rights at all, let alone the right to challenge wrongdoing, resist oppression and defend himself against injustice?
Most of all, how do you persuade a fellow American that the government works for him when, for most of his young life, he has been incarcerated in an institution that teaches young people to be obedient and compliant citizens who don’t talk back, don’t question and don’t challenge authority?
Peter Gray, a professor of psychology at Boston College, believes that school is a prison that is damaging our kids, and it’s hard to disagree, especially with the numbers of police officers being assigned to schools on the rise.
Students, in turn, are not only finding themselves subjected to police tactics such as handcuffs, leg shackles, tasers and excessive force for “acting up” but are also being ticketed, fined and sent to court for behavior perceived as defiant, disruptive or disorderly such as spraying perfume and writing on a desk.
Clearly, the pathology that characterizes the American police state has passed down to the schools.
Now in addition to the government and its agents viewing the citizenry as suspects to be probed, poked, pinched, tasered, searched, seized, stripped and generally manhandled, all with the general blessing of the courts, our children in the public schools are also fair game for school resource officers who taser teenagers and handcuff kindergartners, school officials who have criminalized childhood behavior, school lockdowns and terror drills that teach your children to fear and comply, and a police state mindset that has transformed the schools into quasi-prisons.
Don’t even get me started on the “school-to-prison pipeline,” the phenomenon in which children who are suspended or expelled from school have a greater likelihood of ending up in jail. One study found that “being suspended or expelled made a student nearly three times more likely to come into contact with the juvenile justice system within the next year.”
By the time the average young person in America finishes their public school education, nearly one out of every three of them will have been arrested. Nearly 40 percent of those young people who are arrested will serve time in a private prison, where the emphasis is on making profits for large megacorporations above all else.
Indeed, this profit-driven system of incarceration has also given rise to a growth in juvenile prisons and financial incentives for jailing young people. In this way, young people have become easy targets for the private prison industry, which profits from criminalizing childish behavior and jailing young people.
None of these tactics are making our communities or schools any safer, and they’re certainly not contributing to environments in which learning flourishes. Incredibly, despite the fact that the U.S. invests more money in public education (roughly $13,000 per child per year) than many other developed countries, we rank around the middle of the pack in science, math and reading, and behind many other advanced industrial nations.
Without a doubt, change is needed, but that will mean taking on the teachers’ unions, the school unions, the educators’ associations, and the police unions, not to mention the politicians dependent on their votes and all of the corporations that profit mightily from an industrial school complex.
As we’ve seen with other issues, any significant reforms will have to start locally and trickle upwards.
For starters, parents need to be vocal, visible and organized and demand that school officials 1) adopt a policy of positive reinforcement in dealing with behavior issues; 2) minimize the presence in the schools of police officers and cease involving them in student discipline; and 3) insist that all behavioral issues be addressed first and foremost with a child’s parents, before any other disciplinary tactics are attempted.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you want a nation of criminals, treat the citizenry like criminals.
If you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners, run the schools like prisons.
If, on the other hand, you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters, who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, then run the schools like freedom forums.
Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation’s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state penitentiary.


activistpost--2020-02-18--EPA Isn’t Allowed To Do Anything About Effects From Electromagnetic Pollution From Cell Phones And W

EPA Isn’t Allowed To Do Anything About Effects From Electromagnetic Pollution From Cell Phones And WiFi

Environmental Working Group ( EWG ) recently offered a one-year fellowship to study effects of EMF exposure on the public .
However , doctors , environmentalists , and scientists have been warning about how we are affected by increasing levels of Electromagnetic Radiation pollution ( “ Electrosmog ” ) for many years now .
Electrosmog includes cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation .
Experts have been insisting that we should be reducing sources of Electrosmog – not increasing them .
Unfortunately , the current “ Race to 5G ” drastically increases them .
Doctors , scientists , engineers , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a moratorium on 5G ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
5G opposition is worldwide .
Some cities and countries have already banned it .
The EPA can ’ t do anything about any of this though .
The Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) is the agency that is supposed to protect the public by regulating the telecom industry .
Instead , they ’ ve been catering to them since long before the Trump administration .
It ’ s much worse now because of the “ Race to 5G ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FCC for not protecting the public from radiation exposure ( see 1 , 2 ) and also 5G ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
Once upon a time , the EPA could try to do something about cell phones and other wireless radiation-emitting technology .
But that changed decades ago when employees wanted to start warning the public about risks .
Thanks to Environmental Health Trust for providing more details .
• The EPA repeatedly has stated that FCC limits are not protective of non-thermal effects , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • The EPA has repeatedly outlined safety concerns with current outdated limits and called for more protective limits .
• The EPA has was drafting safety limits for the public that considered long term exposure and non thermal effects .
The safety limits never saw the light of day .
• The EPA had a well funded division researching the human health risks from EMFs .
The work was defunded and research was all but halted .
• The defunding of the EPA meant that the USA has never developed safety standards for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story about the decreased funding to the EPA .
• A 1990 EPA report was drafted in which the EPA expert team recommended that power-frequency EMFs should be classified as “ probable human carcinogens ” and that RF/MW radiation be considered a “ possible human carcinogen .
This report was shelved and never released as a final .
• Instead of developing safety standards based on carefully planned independent scientific research , the US adopted radiation limits prepared by industry lead groups .
For example , the Chair of the IEEE group was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly show that the EPA was in the process of developing science based safety standards when funding was abruptly removed .
• The EPA public website text on Wireless was changed in 2014 ( the same date that the CDC webpage was changed ) minimizing safety issues and likely leading the public to believe that health concerns were minimal .
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By B.N. Frank
Environmental Working Group (EWG) recently offered a one-year fellowship to study effects of EMF exposure on the public. However, doctors, environmentalists, and scientists have been warning about how we are affected by increasing levels of Electromagnetic Radiation pollution (“Electrosmog”) for many years now.
Electrosmog includes cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation. Experts have been insisting that we should be reducing sources of Electrosmog – not increasing them. Unfortunately, the current “Race to 5G” drastically increases them. Doctors, scientists, engineers, and public advocates have asked President Trump for a moratorium on 5G (see 1, 2, 3). 5G opposition is worldwide. Some cities and countries have already banned it.
The EPA can’t do anything about any of this though. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the agency that is supposed to protect the public by regulating the telecom industry. Instead, they’ve been catering to them since long before the Trump administration. It’s much worse now because of the “Race to 5G”. There have been lawsuits filed against the FCC for not protecting the public from radiation exposure (see 1, 2) and also 5G (see 1, 2, 3, 4).
Once upon a time, the EPA could try to do something about cell phones and other wireless radiation-emitting technology. But that changed decades ago when employees wanted to start warning the public about risks. Thanks to Environmental Health Trust for providing more details.
What Does the EPA State About the Safety of Cell Phones and Wireless Technology? EPA Analysis and Reports on Cell Phones, Radiofrequency and Electromagnetic Fields This page contains a list of recommendations, reports and letters by the EPA on electromagnetic radiation. Executive Summary:
The EPA repeatedly has stated that FCC limits are not protective of non-thermal effects, nor effects of long term exposure.
The EPA has repeatedly outlined safety concerns with current outdated limits and called for more protective limits.
The EPA has was drafting safety limits for the public that considered long term exposure and non thermal effects. The safety limits never saw the light of day.
The EPA had a well funded division researching the human health risks from EMFs. The work was defunded and research was all but halted.
The defunding of the EPA meant that the USA has never developed safety standards for human exposure. Read a 2005 news story about the decreased funding to the EPA.
A 1990 EPA report was drafted in which the EPA expert team recommended that power-frequency EMFs should be classified as “probable human carcinogens” and that RF/MW radiation be considered a “possible human carcinogen. This report was shelved and never released as a final.
Instead of developing safety standards based on carefully planned independent scientific research, the US adopted radiation limits prepared by industry lead groups. For example, the Chair of the IEEE group was Chief Motorola Scientist. Documents pre 1996 clearly show that the EPA was in the process of developing science based safety standards when funding was abruptly removed.
The EPA public website text on Wireless was changed in 2014 (the same date that the CDC webpage was changed) minimizing safety issues and likely leading the public to believe that health concerns were minimal.

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activistpost--2020-02-18--Boy Scouts of America Files for Bankruptcy Amid Wave of Sexual Abuse Claims

The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy , seeking protection from a wave of sexual abuse lawsuits filed by men and boys who say the organization failed to protect them as Scouts .
The monumental filing seeks to reckon with all abuse claims at once in a final court process .
By seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , the national umbrella of the Boy Scouts signaled that it hopes to survive after compensating what are expected to be thousands of victims .
The move , while expected , is unprecedented .
Never before has such a large and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The organization filed the court papers Tuesday just after midnight local time in Delaware , where the case will work its way through a federal bankruptcy court .
The path to the proceedings can be traced back a decade to Portland , victims ’ lawyers say .
A Multnomah County jury awarded $ 19.9 million damages to a Portland man abused as a Scout .
It was the largest verdict against the group in its long history .
The trial also triggered the public release of internal files kept for decades that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of known abusers .
The files informed thousands of former Scouts about the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in the organization and the extent of the group ’ s knowledge , he said .
The records prompted hundreds of lawsuits , including several in Oregon .
But statutes of limitations precluded many former Scouts from filing legal claims .
That changed recently when lawmakers in the populous states of California , New York and New Jersey opened a window for victims to sue regardless of when they were abused .
A flood of claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ active lawsuits and , according to lawyers familiar with bankruptcy proceedings , will likely prevent future litigation tied to past abuse .
Sean Walton is a researcher and journalist for The Daily Sheeple , where this article first appeared .
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By Sean Walton
The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy, seeking protection from a wave of sexual abuse lawsuits filed by men and boys who say the organization failed to protect them as Scouts.
The monumental filing seeks to reckon with all abuse claims at once in a final court process. By seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the national umbrella of the Boy Scouts signaled that it hopes to survive after compensating what are expected to be thousands of victims.
The move, while expected, is unprecedented. Never before has such a large and established nationwide youth nonprofit filed for bankruptcy. The organization filed the court papers Tuesday just after midnight local time in Delaware, where the case will work its way through a federal bankruptcy court.
The path to the proceedings can be traced back a decade to Portland, victims’ lawyers say. A Multnomah County jury awarded $19.9 million damages to a Portland man abused as a Scout. It was the largest verdict against the group in its long history. The trial also triggered the public release of internal files kept for decades that revealed the identifies and crimes of hundreds of known abusers.
“If the files were not released, the Boy Scouts would have, I think, been able to weather the storm,” said Paul Mones, one of the lead attorneys on the case.
The files informed thousands of former Scouts about the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in the organization and the extent of the group’s knowledge, he said. The records prompted hundreds of lawsuits, including several in Oregon. But statutes of limitations precluded many former Scouts from filing legal claims. That changed recently when lawmakers in the populous states of California, New York and New Jersey opened a window for victims to sue regardless of when they were abused. A flood of claims followed. The bankruptcy case will halt active lawsuits and, according to lawyers familiar with bankruptcy proceedings, will likely prevent future litigation tied to past abuse.
Sean Walton is a researcher and journalist for The Daily Sheeple, where this article first appeared. Send tips to sean.walton@thedailysheeple.com.
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activistpost--2020-02-19--Nearly 10K Military Personnel From 110 Nations In Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak!

An important update regarding Wuhan China , which is ground zero for the coronavirus / Covid-19 outbreak , now reported to have gone global , as the Chinese government has now banned people in Wuhan from leaving their homes altogether .
One aspect which is very interesting and has been covered extensively here is Event 201 .
The exercise simulating a global coronavirus pandemic took place on October 18th 2019 only 6 weeks before the first case of the virus was reported in Wuhan China .
What not many people are talking about is that on this exact same day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ World Games held its opening ceremony followed by a U.S. men ’ s soccer match in Wuhan China , ground zero of the outbreak !
This report explores the possibility of a covert operation , which may have coincided with this event , using the event as cover to gain access to China , as nearly 10,000 military personnel from 110 countries were all in Wuhan China at the same time , only weeks before the outbreak began .
Did Bill Gates & World Economic Forum Predict Coronavirus Outbreak ?
An Inside Look @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020/01/did-bill-gates-world- economic-forum-predict- coronavirus-outbreak-an- inside-look-may-shock-you.html Interview : Author of US BioWeapons Act Believes The WHO & China Are Lying About The Coronavirus https : //www.activistpost.com/ 2020/02/interview-author-of- us-bioweapons-act-believes- the-who-china-are-lying-about- the-coronavirus.html Coronavirus A Bioweapon ?
White House Investigates , As Military Sets Up Quarantine Sites Across U.S. https : //www.activistpost.com/ 2020/02/coronavirus-a- bioweapon-white-house- investigates-as-military-sets- up-quarantine-sites-across-u- s.html U.S. delegation arrives in Wuhan for Military World Games http : //www.xinhuanet.com/ english/2019-10/15/c_ 138473332.htm Over and over again , the military has conducted dangerous biowarfare experiments on Americans https : //www.businessinsider .
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An important update regarding Wuhan China, which is ground zero for the coronavirus / Covid-19 outbreak, now reported to have gone global, as the Chinese government has now banned people in Wuhan from leaving their homes altogether.
One aspect which is very interesting and has been covered extensively here is Event 201. The exercise simulating a global coronavirus pandemic took place on October 18th 2019 only 6 weeks before the first case of the virus was reported in Wuhan China.
What not many people are talking about is that on this exact same day, October 18th, the 2019 Military World Games held its opening ceremony followed by a U.S. men’s soccer match in Wuhan China, ground zero of the outbreak!
This report explores the possibility of a covert operation, which may have coincided with this event, using the event as cover to gain access to China, as nearly 10,000 military personnel from 110 countries were all in Wuhan China at the same time, only weeks before the outbreak began.

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Did Bill Gates & World Economic Forum Predict Coronavirus Outbreak? An Inside Look May Shock You!
https://www.activistpost.com/ 2020/01/did-bill-gates-world- economic-forum-predict- coronavirus-outbreak-an- inside-look-may-shock-you.html
Interview: Author of US BioWeapons Act Believes The WHO & China Are Lying About The Coronavirus
https://www.activistpost.com/ 2020/02/interview-author-of- us-bioweapons-act-believes- the-who-china-are-lying-about- the-coronavirus.html
Coronavirus A Bioweapon? White House Investigates, As Military Sets Up Quarantine Sites Across U.S.
https://www.activistpost.com/ 2020/02/coronavirus-a- bioweapon-white-house- investigates-as-military-sets- up-quarantine-sites-across-u- s.html
2019 Military World Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 2019_Military_World_Games
7th International Military Sports Council Military World Games
https://www.defense.gov/ Explore/Spotlight/CISM- Military-World-Games/
2019 CISM MILITARY WORLD GAMES
https://www.dvidshub.net/ feature/2019MilGames?fbclid= IwAR2oFKM3GDAj1cubPOVjRytVT_ pMC56Y3LIvoSm67vmakIM8CoKNZf30 hpQ
Event 201
http://www. centerforhealthsecurity.org/ event201/
U.S. delegation arrives in Wuhan for Military World Games
http://www.xinhuanet.com/ english/2019-10/15/c_ 138473332.htm
Over and over again, the military has conducted dangerous biowarfare experiments on Americans
https://www.businessinsider. com/military-government- secret-experiments-biological- chemical-weapons-2016-9
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activistpost--2020-02-18--EPA Isn’t Allowed To Do Anything About Effects of Electromagnetic Pollution From Cell Phones And WiF

EPA Isn’t Allowed To Do Anything About Effects of Electromagnetic Pollution From Cell Phones And WiFi


activistpost--2020-02-20--UN Troops Featured in World Military Games in Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak

In this report we take a closer look inside the World Military Games opening ceremony held in Wuhan China weeks before the coronavirus outbreak .
Is it just a coincidence that a UN-themed pandemic simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak took place the same day as the UN-themed opening ceremonies in Wuhan , ground zero for the outbreak ?
We also examine which nation will fill the vacuum now that the world ’ s biggest economy has been crippled by the outbreak .
China destroys $ 600 million in cash to stop coronavirus spread on infected bank notes https : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Xiangshan Forum , and why is it important ?
https : //news.cgtn.com/news/ 2019-10-20/What-is-the- Xiangshan-Forum-and-why-is-it- important–KWbX9Xt0hW/index .
html Amid Coronavirus , the World Closes Its Doors to China : ‘ I Feel So Isolated ’ https : //www.wsj.com/articles/ amid-coronavirus-the-world- closes-its-doors-to-china-i- feel-so-isolated-11582060811 Amid the coronavirus outbreak , China is now also fighting deadly bird flu in chickens https : //www.businessinsider .
com/h5n1-deadly-bird-flu- emerged-near-center- coronavirus-outbreak-2020-2 Why the global battle over Huawei could prove more disruptive than Trump ’ s trade war with China http : //theconversation.com/ why-the-global-battle-over- huawei-could-prove-more- disruptive-than-trumps-trade- war-with-china-131828 Which Supply Chains Are Most At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //www.zerohedge.com/ economics/which-supply-chains- are-most-risk-answer-one-chart Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory ?
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By Spiro Skouras
Spiro is scheduled to be interviewed by Infowars.com about this report and more, today Feb. 21 at 1:30 p.m. EST — video link HERE.
In this report we take a closer look inside the Military World Games opening ceremony held in Wuhan China weeks before the coronavirus outbreak.
Is it just a coincidence that a UN-themed pandemic simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak took place the same day as the UN-themed opening ceremonies in Wuhan, ground zero for the outbreak?
We also examine which nation will fill the vacuum now that the world’s biggest economy has been crippled by the outbreak.
Links
Dominoes Are Falling – China Shutdown To Crush India’s Already-Crumbling Economy
https://www.zerohedge.com/ markets/dominos-are-falling- china-shutdown-disrupts- indias-economy
China destroys $600 million in cash to stop coronavirus spread on infected bank notes
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ news/world-news/china- destroys-600-million-cash- 21520944
Did coronavirus originate in Chinese govt laboratory?
https://www.thenews.com.pk/ print/615052-did-coronavirus- originate-in-chinese-govt- laboratory?fbclid= IwAR00g8apH06I0NdgQAd1TUcX3wSC lK3qOAGXfB7YsM6wysCOCQ098U5uBr E
What is the Xiangshan Forum, and why is it important?
https://news.cgtn.com/news/ 2019-10-20/What-is-the- Xiangshan-Forum-and-why-is-it- important–KWbX9Xt0hW/index. html
Amid Coronavirus, the World Closes Its Doors to China: ‘I Feel So Isolated’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ amid-coronavirus-the-world- closes-its-doors-to-china-i- feel-so-isolated-11582060811
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, China is now also fighting deadly bird flu in chickens
https://www.businessinsider. com/h5n1-deadly-bird-flu- emerged-near-center- coronavirus-outbreak-2020-2
China Approves Imports of Live Poultry From US
https://www.theepochtimes.com/ china-approves-imports-of- live-poultry-from-us_3240571. html
Why the global battle over Huawei could prove more disruptive than Trump’s trade war with China
http://theconversation.com/ why-the-global-battle-over- huawei-could-prove-more- disruptive-than-trumps-trade- war-with-china-131828
Which Supply Chains Are Most At Risk: The Answer In One Chart
https://www.zerohedge.com/ economics/which-supply-chains- are-most-risk-answer-one-chart
Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/article-8009669/Did- coronavirus-originate-Chinese- government-laboratory.html
CHINA FILES 84 PATENTS FOR CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY
https://bitcoinist.com/china- files-84-patents-for-central- bank-digital-currency/
Rituals, Events & Military Meetings ~ UN Agenda~ Prior To ‘Reported’ Virus Outbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=bgczmGOFXiA
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activistpost--2020-02-20--Vizibilezone Wants Pedestrians To Let Drivers Track Their Locations In Real-Time

Have you ever felt unsafe crossing the street ?
You could look both ways before crossing the street and feel safe knowing you used common sense to navigate street crossings .
Or , you could download this app which alerts drivers to slow down and/or stop as you approach an intersection allowing you to cross the street safely .
An Israeli start-up company called Viziblezone ( VZ ) wants pedestrians , bicyclists , people on skateboards , scooters etc.
, to send their locations to vehicles in real-time .
VZ ’ s app could give anyone that that leases their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person or vehicle is in real-time .
TechCrunch say ’ s “ VZ transforms smartphones into smart beacons that cars can see and then avoid.
” And who doesn ’ t want to turn themselves or their vehicles into real-time smart beacons ?
Fast Company warns that VZ wants their product embedded in every new phone and car .
Imagine giving phone companies and auto manufacturers the ability to know where everyone is and where every vehicle is in real-time .
Can you imagine how valuable that ( smart beacon ) information could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will use VZ , Bluetooth , your vehicle ’ s infotainment center and services like EZPass , OnStar or SiriusXM to create a dystopian real-time tracking program .
( Click on the links to see how they track you . )
A Fast Company article from 2018 warns that Honda is also piloting smart intersection cameras to track everyone ’ s location in real-time .
The new system , designed by Honda , uses four cameras mounted around the intersection and Honda ’ s object-recognition software , which can identify anyone or anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ambulance to a stray dog .
If a crash is possible , the system beams an immediate warning to a device inside the cars that are taking place in the pilot .
What Mr. Raines really means , is by turning pedestrians ’ mobile phones into smart beacons , the tons of data VZ collects on an individual is a comprehensive $ olution which can be sold to governments and data miners .
VZ ’ s “ Technology ” page hints that the company will be able to predict where an individual will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s article also warns that VZ “ draws data from a pool of hundreds of thousands of people ” and its “ AI algorithms builds behavioral profiles ” on everyone .
VZ joins a long list of smart city devices masquerading as public safety devices that will ultimately profit Big Brother and private corporations at the expense of our privacy .
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By MassPrivateI
Have you ever felt unsafe crossing the street? You could look both ways before crossing the street and feel safe knowing you used common sense to navigate street crossings.
Or, you could download this app which alerts drivers to slow down and/or stop as you approach an intersection allowing you to cross the street safely.
An Israeli start-up company called Viziblezone (VZ) wants pedestrians, bicyclists, people on skateboards, scooters etc., to send their locations to vehicles in real-time.
Viziblezone has introduced a patent-protected, cutting-edge vehicle integrated “Pedestrian Detector.” The system identifies, tracks and protects pedestrians, even when they go undetected by a fast-approaching driver. The detector is designed to operate in any adverse weather and visibility, whether day or night.
VZ’s app could give anyone that that leases their software the ability to know where a person or vehicle is in real-time.
TechCrunch say’s “VZ transforms smartphones into smart beacons that cars can see and then avoid.”
And who doesn’t want to turn themselves or their vehicles into real-time smart beacons?

VZ will turn real-time smart beacons into big business
Fast Company warns that VZ wants their product embedded in every new phone and car.
The company’s vision isn’t to offer an app, but to donate the software to phone manufacturers to embed in their firmware so it’s available to everyone. Car manufacturers will pay to install the corresponding software in the operating system in cars.
Imagine giving phone companies and auto manufacturers the ability to know where everyone is and where every vehicle is in real-time. Can you imagine how valuable that (smart beacon) information could be?
Phone companies and auto manufacturers will use VZ, Bluetooth, your vehicle’s infotainment center and services like EZPass, OnStar or SiriusXM to create a dystopian real-time tracking program. (Click on the links to see how they track you.)
Activist Post Recommended Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
A Fast Company article from 2018 warns that Honda is also piloting smart intersection cameras to track everyone’s location in real-time.
The new system, designed by Honda, uses four cameras mounted around the intersection and Honda’s object-recognition software, which can identify anyone or anything approaching the intersection–from a cyclist or an ambulance to a stray dog. If a crash is possible, the system beams an immediate warning to a device inside the cars that are taking place in the pilot.
VZ CEO, Mosh Raines told Smart Cities World,
By turning the pedestrian’s mobile phones into accident prevention devices, VZ offers a comprehensive solution for pedestrian safety.
What Mr. Raines really means, is by turning pedestrians’ mobile phones into smart beacons, the tons of data VZ collects on an individual is a comprehensive $olution which can be sold to governments and data miners.
VZ’s “Technology” page hints that the company will be able to predict where an individual will be in the future.
The VZ behavior prediction model factors in individual profiles of pedestrians and drivers, as well as the attributes of the physical surroundings.
VentureBeat‘s article also warns that VZ “draws data from a pool of hundreds of thousands of people” and its “AI algorithms builds behavioral profiles” on everyone.
VZ joins a long list of smart city devices masquerading as public safety devices that will ultimately profit Big Brother and private corporations at the expense of our privacy.
Article source: MassPrivateI
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activistpost--2020-02-20--Woman Disabled by Electromagnetic and Wireless Radiation Exposure Runs for Congress

Cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation are sources of Electromagnetic Radiation ( aka “ Electrosmog ” ) .
Exposure is biologically and environmentally harmful .
It ’ s not just about cancer risk .
Some develop “ Microwave Sickness ” – a federally recognized illness , as well as Electromagnetic Sensitivity ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) – a federally recognized disability ( see 1 , 2 ) .
Many reports suggest that American embassy workers in China and Cuba were disabled by exposure too .
Activist and California resident , Liz Barris , was disabled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ awareness about this and effecting change ever since ( see 1 , 2 ) .
Now she is running for Congress .
LOS ANGELES , Feb. 17 , 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Legally disabled by wireless electromagnetic radiation as emitted by cell towers , cell antennas , WIFI , smart meters and all wireless radiation devices and infrastructure , Ms. Barris can no longer function in society without wearing protective shielding to block radiation as emitted from wireless infrastructure and devices .
With all normalcy from her life now gone , including having to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cell tower radiation , having to sleep in her car due to smart meter emissions and being cut off from normal society for nearly a decade , in the face of the new 5G roll out , she is now running for Congress in the 33rd District of Los Angeles despite her disability , in the hopes that she can raise awareness to this enormous problem while also implementing protective legislation , particularly regarding the imminent roll out of 5G for which there is nothing on the market for people like her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with , as the frequencies are out of range of what is typical for 4G .
Ms. Barris has been continually denied accommodations for her condition due to lack of education with the general public on the issue and hopes to alleviate this situation for people like her who can not tolerate the radiation from wireless device and infrastructure by bringing awareness to the issue .
The US National Toxicology Programs 10 year $ 30,000,000 study found “ clear evidence of statistically significant carcinogenic effects ” yet the public is still largely unaware @ @ @ @ @ @ @ show stroke , heart attack , kidney problems , neurological damage and lesser problems such as headache , loss of energy and ringing in the ears which if left unchecked can turn into bigger health problems .
Ms. Barris also believes her cancer was due to her exposure to the 3G antennas on a rooftop near her home in Santa Monica .
The fact that the US National Toxicology Program study outcome showed clear evidence of cancer and it is difficult to find areas of the world that are now not exposed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ms. Barris worried .
She hopes to raise awareness to this problem with her campaign , which has real solutions for a society that is addicted to their smart phones and WIFI .
Ms. Barris sees this as the challenge of her lifetime and is at the crux of her campaign .
If elected , Ms. Barris would seek support in Congress for the funding of solutions to this problem and would also begin requiring the Americans with Disabilities Act be adhered to and force accommodation on air planes which she says are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the WIFI in the fuselage which is magnified by the metal enclosure and claims makes her so sick that she is unable to function for days after a single 2 hour flight .
Ms. Barris helped organize and was a volunteer in a first of its kind study showing her neurological symptoms when exposed to electromagnetic radiation on an fMRI .
FMRI is purportedly the same procedure used to diagnose US Embassy workers in Cuba who were under sonic attack , later said to be an electromagnetic attack .
Ms. Barris believes her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emitting devices and infrastructure .
Also of concern is the US Dept .
of the Interior report stating birds , wildlife and foliage are dying due to ubiquitous cell tower radiation , as 5G is in the millimeter bandwidth , resonating with many insects exact size .

By B.N. Frank
Cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation are sources of Electromagnetic Radiation (aka “Electrosmog”). Exposure is biologically and environmentally harmful. It’s not just about cancer risk. Some develop “Microwave Sickness” – a federally recognized illness, as well as Electromagnetic Sensitivity (see 1, 2, 3, 4) – a federally recognized disability (see 1, 2). Many reports suggest that American embassy workers in China and Cuba were disabled by exposure too.
Activist and California resident, Liz Barris, was disabled by exposure. She has been raising awareness about this and effecting change ever since (see 1, 2). Now she is running for Congress.
From PRNewswire:
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Legally disabled by wireless electromagnetic radiation as emitted by cell towers, cell antennas, WIFI, smart meters and all wireless radiation devices and infrastructure, Ms. Barris can no longer function in society without wearing protective shielding to block radiation as emitted from wireless infrastructure and devices. With all normalcy from her life now gone, including having to quit her job of 15 years due to cell tower radiation, having to sleep in her car due to smart meter emissions and being cut off from normal society for nearly a decade, in the face of the new 5G roll out, she is now running for Congress in the 33rd District of Los Angeles despite her disability, in the hopes that she can raise awareness to this enormous problem while also implementing protective legislation, particularly regarding the imminent roll out of 5G for which there is nothing on the market for people like her to either measure or block the radiation with, as the frequencies are out of range of what is typical for 4G.
Ms. Barris has been continually denied accommodations for her condition due to lack of education with the general public on the issue and hopes to alleviate this situation for people like her who cannot tolerate the radiation from wireless device and infrastructure by bringing awareness to the issue. The US National Toxicology Programs 10 year $30,000,000 study found “clear evidence of statistically significant carcinogenic effects” yet the public is still largely unaware of this known toxin. Other studies show stroke, heart attack, kidney problems, neurological damage and lesser problems such as headache, loss of energy and ringing in the ears which if left unchecked can turn into bigger health problems. Ms. Barris also believes her cancer was due to her exposure to the 3G antennas on a rooftop near her home in Santa Monica. The fact that the US National Toxicology Program study outcome showed clear evidence of cancer and it is difficult to find areas of the world that are now not exposed to this radiation, leaves cancer survivors like Ms. Barris worried. She hopes to raise awareness to this problem with her campaign, which has real solutions for a society that is addicted to their smart phones and WIFI. Ms. Barris sees this as the challenge of her lifetime and is at the crux of her campaign.
If elected, Ms. Barris would seek support in Congress for the funding of solutions to this problem and would also begin requiring the Americans with Disabilities Act be adhered to and force accommodation on air planes which she says are now off limits to her due to the WIFI in the fuselage which is magnified by the metal enclosure and claims makes her so sick that she is unable to function for days after a single 2 hour flight.
Ms. Barris helped organize and was a volunteer in a first of its kind study showing her neurological symptoms when exposed to electromagnetic radiation on an fMRI. FMRI is purportedly the same procedure used to diagnose US Embassy workers in Cuba who were under sonic attack, later said to be an electromagnetic attack. Ms. Barris believes her neurological damage was caused by wireless radiation emitting devices and infrastructure.
Also of concern is the US Dept. of the Interior report stating birds, wildlife and foliage are dying due to ubiquitous cell tower radiation, as 5G is in the millimeter bandwidth, resonating with many insects exact size.


activistpost--2020-02-19--Ring Updates Device Security and Privacy—But Ignores Larger Concerns

Amazon ’ s surveillance doorbell company Ring has announced extra layers of security and control for users after a wave of backlash from civil liberties and cyber security organizations like EFF and Mozilla .
Organizations raised major concerns over Ring ’ s lack of effort in protecting the data and security of users , including permitting multiple log-in attempts that allowed bad actors to take control of people ’ s Ring cameras ; not requiring two-factor authentication ; and allowing a number of undisclosed third-party trackers to harvest data from the Ring app .
Ring ’ s announcement declared that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for users—meaning that when a person logs in to their Ring account , they will have to enter a code emailed or texted to them to verify that they are the person attempting to log in .
After EFF ’ s report on Ring ’ s use of the third-party trackers , the company also has announced that they are temporarily pausing the use of most third-party trackers and are working on a way to allow users to further limit information sharing .
The announcement further states that customers will be able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trackers specifically for the purpose of receiving personalized ads .
These privacy reforms are a good step forward .
However , the density of surveillance networks created by Ring cameras combined with the rapid proliferation of partnerships between law enforcement agencies and Ring —with limited , if any , oversight , transparency , or restrictions—continue to pose grave threats to the privacy of all communities , and not just Ring ’ s users .
There are still a number of key reforms that Ring must make to signal that they are seriously considering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ First , Ring should end its rapid expansion of law enforcement partnerships .
Giving police direct access to request private footage endangers communities and facilitates near-constant surveillance by local police , encourages an atmosphere of mistrust between police and residents , exacerbates racial profiling and overpolicing , and may chill the exercise of First Amendment-protected activities such as canvassing and community organizing .
It also provides a way for police to access a widespread CCTV network without having to go through democratic processes or be subject to traditional oversight .
If these partnerships @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decided by the elected officials and communities who would be surveyed by these cameras every day .
Second , Ring should implement measures that require warrants to be issued directly to device owners in order for law enforcement to gain access to footage .
This would limit the ability of the police to implement widespread , sweeping surveillance .
This is akin to traditional surveillance systems , where law enforcement had to approach the owners of the footage directly , and in so doing inform them of the fact their footage is being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
One way to do that would be for Amazon to employ end-to-end encryption .
However , since Amazon currently stores Ring footage on their cloud , Ring should create a company-wide policy that requires that users be informed when police or other law enforcement agencies present a warrant to the company for footage and/or audio .
With this change , Ring users would know exactly who has access to their data , when , and why .
This provision would also require users to be informed when law enforcement agencies go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past its retention time .
Third , if any Ring users choose to share footage with a law enforcement agency for the purpose of aiding a specific investigation , police should not be able to share that footage with other agencies for unspecified purposes without the user ’ s knowledge .
Fourth , as a company , Ring has long maintained that it protects the privacy of its users—but the privacy of other members of the communities in which Ring operates are also in jeopardy .
In order to protect the privacy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passersby , Ring ’ s default settings should be adjusted to turn off automatic audio recording whenever the device is motion activated .
This will limit the number of conversations being surreptitiously and randomly recorded inside and outside of homes .
This small change will decrease the chance of accidentally recording private conversations in situations where sound travels , but the people being recorded may not see the camera .
Fifth , under no circumstances should Ring integrate face recognition software into its cameras , which would enable the worst type of privacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would mean that every person approaching a Ring doorbell would have their face scanned and cross-checked against a database of other faces without their consent .
If connected to government-run databases , this could make it impossible for people who have had encounters with the criminal justice system to do jobs that require approaching people ’ s front doors or walking in residential neighborhoods .
Face recognition on Ring cameras would also give users , police , and Ring employees the ability to track the whereabouts of people who walk through the neighborhood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of their homes or otherwise deviate from their usual routines .
Ring is creating an environment where every time a person walks down a public street , their movements are being recorded , stored , and made accessible to a whole host of individuals , law enforcement agencies , and Amazon .
Ring ’ s technical reforms will better guard the security of customers , but do little to address the bigger threats to privacy that Ring poses .
Matthew Guariglia is a policy analyst working on issues of surveillance and privacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ federal level .
He received a PhD in history at the University of Connecticut where his research focused on the intersection of race , immigration , U.S. imperialism , and policing in New York City .
He is a frequent contributor to the Freedom of Information-centered outlet Muckrock and his bylines have also appeared in the Washington Post and Motherboard .
Matthew will be a visiting scholar in the department of history at UC Berkeley and serves as an editor of “ Disciplining the City , ” a series on the history of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ History Association ’ s blog The Metropole .
( Photo by Zack Garlitos ) Bill is a long time activist , programmer , and cryptography enthusiast .
He works on EFF ’ s Tech Projects team as a security engineer and technologist , and is the lead developer for HTTPS Everywhere and Panopticlick .
He has also contributed to projects such as Let ’ s Encrypt and SecureDrop .
Bill can be found talking to crowds of people on soap boxes and stages in far off places , or doing digital security trainings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and getting together with other techies to tinker , code , share , and build the technological commons .
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By Matthew Guariglia and Bill Budington
Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has announced extra layers of security and control for users after a wave of backlash from civil liberties and cyber security organizations like EFF and Mozilla. Organizations raised major concerns over Ring’s lack of effort in protecting the data and security of users, including permitting multiple log-in attempts that allowed bad actors to take control of people’s Ring cameras; not requiring two-factor authentication; and allowing a number of undisclosed third-party trackers to harvest data from the Ring app.
Ring’s announcement declared that the company is making two-factor authentication mandatory for users—meaning that when a person logs in to their Ring account, they will have to enter a code emailed or texted to them to verify that they are the person attempting to log in.
After EFF’s report on Ring’s use of the third-party trackers, the company also has announced that they are temporarily pausing the use of most third-party trackers and are working on a way to allow users to further limit information sharing. The announcement further states that customers will be able to opt out of sharing information with third-party trackers specifically for the purpose of receiving personalized ads.
These privacy reforms are a good step forward. However, the density of surveillance networks created by Ring cameras combined with the rapid proliferation of partnerships between law enforcement agencies and Ring —with limited, if any, oversight, transparency, or restrictions—continue to pose grave threats to the privacy of all communities, and not just Ring’s users. There are still a number of key reforms that Ring must make to signal that they are seriously considering fundamental problems that their technology poses.
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First, Ring should end its rapid expansion of law enforcement partnerships. Giving police direct access to request private footage endangers communities and facilitates near-constant surveillance by local police, encourages an atmosphere of mistrust between police and residents, exacerbates racial profiling and overpolicing, and may chill the exercise of First Amendment-protected activities such as canvassing and community organizing. It also provides a way for police to access a widespread CCTV network without having to go through democratic processes or be subject to traditional oversight. If these partnerships are being created, they should be decided by the elected officials and communities who would be surveyed by these cameras every day.
Second, Ring should implement measures that require warrants to be issued directly to device owners in order for law enforcement to gain access to footage. This would limit the ability of the police to implement widespread, sweeping surveillance. This is akin to traditional surveillance systems, where law enforcement had to approach the owners of the footage directly, and in so doing inform them of the fact their footage is being requested and the scope of the request. One way to do that would be for Amazon to employ end-to-end encryption. However, since Amazon currently stores Ring footage on their cloud, Ring should create a company-wide policy that requires that users be informed when police or other law enforcement agencies present a warrant to the company for footage and/or audio. With this change, Ring users would know exactly who has access to their data, when, and why. This provision would also require users to be informed when law enforcement agencies go to Ring to flag specific footage for preservation past its retention time.
Third, if any Ring users choose to share footage with a law enforcement agency for the purpose of aiding a specific investigation, police should not be able to share that footage with other agencies for unspecified purposes without the user’s knowledge.
Fourth, as a company, Ring has long maintained that it protects the privacy of its users—but the privacy of other members of the communities in which Ring operates are also in jeopardy. In order to protect the privacy of Ring users, their neighbors, and passersby, Ring’s default settings should be adjusted to turn off automatic audio recording whenever the device is motion activated. This will limit the number of conversations being surreptitiously and randomly recorded inside and outside of homes. This small change will decrease the chance of accidentally recording private conversations in situations where sound travels, but the people being recorded may not see the camera.
Fifth, under no circumstances should Ring integrate face recognition software into its cameras, which would enable the worst type of privacy invasion of individuals. Face recognition technology would mean that every person approaching a Ring doorbell would have their face scanned and cross-checked against a database of other faces without their consent. If connected to government-run databases, this could make it impossible for people who have had encounters with the criminal justice system to do jobs that require approaching people’s front doors or walking in residential neighborhoods. Face recognition on Ring cameras would also give users, police, and Ring employees the ability to track the whereabouts of people who walk through the neighborhood and identify when people are in or out of their homes or otherwise deviate from their usual routines.
Ring is creating an environment where every time a person walks down a public street, their movements are being recorded, stored, and made accessible to a whole host of individuals, law enforcement agencies, and Amazon. Ring’s technical reforms will better guard the security of customers, but do little to address the bigger threats to privacy that Ring poses.
Article source: EFF
Matthew Guariglia is a policy analyst working on issues of surveillance and privacy at the local, state, and federal level. He received a PhD in history at the University of Connecticut where his research focused on the intersection of race, immigration, U.S. imperialism, and policing in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to the Freedom of Information-centered outlet Muckrock and his bylines have also appeared in the Washington Post and Motherboard. Matthew will be a visiting scholar in the department of history at UC Berkeley and serves as an editor of “Disciplining the City,” a series on the history of urban policing and incarceration at the Urban History Association’s blog The Metropole. (Photo by Zack Garlitos)
Bill is a long time activist, programmer, and cryptography enthusiast. He works on EFF’s Tech Projects team as a security engineer and technologist, and is the lead developer for HTTPS Everywhere and Panopticlick. He has also contributed to projects such as Let’s Encrypt and SecureDrop. Bill can be found talking to crowds of people on soap boxes and stages in far off places, or doing digital security trainings for organizations. He loves hacker spaces and getting together with other techies to tinker, code, share, and build the technological commons. Er spricht auch gern Deutsch!
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activistpost--2020-02-19--Cop Arrested After Video Showed Him Assault a Little Girl, Grabbing Her by the Hair

The victim ’ s aunt , Frances Jasmin , told Channel 9 investigative reporter Daralene Jones that the family was glad to find out the charged had been filed .
“ She was afraid to go to school .
She is afraid to talk to people .
She was like hiding .
She has a fear behind her head that anything can happen to them , until now , ” her aunt said .
The State Attorney ’ s Office released the following statement regarding the charges : As the video shows , Reid is seen whipping out his baton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pleading with him to stop abusing the small girl and let go of her hair .
“ Stupid little children !
” the raging deputy screams at the students .
In the video , another deputy appeared to be breaking up an argument between several students .
The deputy whose body camera was filming the incident was calm and trying to de-escalate the situation .
The girl was visibly frantic but the deputy was attempting to calm her down .
“ What ’ s going on ?
” the deputy asks .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over here .
Relax .
Sit down.
” “ Just breathe .
Calm down , ” the deputy says as the girl screams .
However , before she could calm down , deputy Reid inserts himself into the scene and proceeds to manhandle the small child , one-third his size , grabbing her hair .
During a press conference in November , Sheriff John Mina did not mince words when he said there was “ no doubt in my mind ” that the deputy acted excessively .
The sheriff explained that there was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his hands on the girl .
The video backs up this claim .
“ I want… the residents of Orange County to know this : That deputy ’ s behavior and actions violated many policies , our standards — but , more importantly , the vision and expectations that I have set as sheriff and definitely will not be tolerated , and I want our deputy sheriffs to know that as well , ” Mina said .
“ To me it looked like he lost control and his actions were totally inappropriate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was “ extremely upset , disappointed and outraged ” by the deputy ’ s conduct .
This week , we find out that he followed through with his statements .
“ This is , I think , an important step forward , and a precedent for the Orlando community and Central Florida community , in that the state is not going to tolerate excessive force and any abuse of force , against the citizens and especially our vulnerable children in schools , ” Edmond ’ s family attorney , Ryan Fletcher , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state .
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The victim’s aunt, Frances Jasmin, told Channel 9 investigative reporter Daralene Jones that the family was glad to find out the charged had been filed.
“She was afraid to go to school. She is afraid to talk to people. She was like hiding. She has a fear behind her head that anything can happen to them, until now,” her aunt said.
The State Attorney’s Office released the following statement regarding the charges:
On January 30, 2020, our office did in fact file an Information charging Harry Reid, the former Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy accused of pulling a girl by the hair, with one count of Battery. This is an open and active investigation which limits our ability to comment any further.
As the video shows, Reid is seen whipping out his baton and threatening the bystanders who were all pleading with him to stop abusing the small girl and let go of her hair.
“Stupid little children!” the raging deputy screams at the students.
In the video, another deputy appeared to be breaking up an argument between several students. The deputy whose body camera was filming the incident was calm and trying to de-escalate the situation. The girl was visibly frantic but the deputy was attempting to calm her down.
“What’s going on?” the deputy asks. “You’re acting wild, come over here. Relax. Sit down.”
“Just breathe. Calm down,” the deputy says as the girl screams.
However, before she could calm down, deputy Reid inserts himself into the scene and proceeds to manhandle the small child, one-third his size, grabbing her hair.
During a press conference in November, Sheriff John Mina did not mince words when he said there was “no doubt in my mind” that the deputy acted excessively. The sheriff explained that there was no reason for the deputy to put his hands on the girl. The video backs up this claim.
“I want… the residents of Orange County to know this: That deputy’s behavior and actions violated many policies, our standards — but, more importantly, the vision and expectations that I have set as sheriff and definitely will not be tolerated, and I want our deputy sheriffs to know that as well,” Mina said.
“To me it looked like he lost control and his actions were totally inappropriate,” Mina said. He added that he was “extremely upset, disappointed and outraged” by the deputy’s conduct.
This week, we find out that he followed through with his statements.
“This is, I think, an important step forward, and a precedent for the Orlando community and Central Florida community, in that the state is not going to tolerate excessive force and any abuse of force, against the citizens and especially our vulnerable children in schools,” Edmond’s family attorney, Ryan Fletcher, said.
We agree.

Article source: The Free Thought Project
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
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