Lanier plans to seal off rough ’hoods
WASHINGTON-D.C. - ~Lanier plans to seal off rough ’hoods in latest effort to stop wave of violence~ WASHINGTON-D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence. Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show. Lanier has been struggling to reverse D.C.’s ...    Continue

Philly Cops Caught Beating Motorists on Video
PA - Yet another instance of cops acting like predatory pack animals. It should be obvious by now the police are out of control, a parasitical force unleashed on society at large. Cops no longer help ...    Continue

Gun Ban
Country - WASHINGTON - Americans have a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices declared Tuesday in a historic and lively debate that could lead to the most significant interpretation of the Second ...    Continue

Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs'
UK - Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in B...    Continue

California Toll Agency Wants Power to Seize Cars
California - Toll road officials in San Francisco, California want the authority to seize any vehicle accused of "cheating" on toll payments. A Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) presentation yesterday ca...    Continue

California wants to control home thermostats
California - The conceit in the 1960s show "The Outer Limits" was that outside forces had taken control of your television set. Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the eme...    Continue

Real ID: From No Fly to No Drive' Lists?
USSA - ABC breaks the ice for us: in the future, and not too far into it, the process of getting and renewing a driver’s license will become more difficult, stressful, and fraught with all manner of u...    Continue

DHS to Unveil New Driver's License Rules - RID's
Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules to be unveiled Friday by federal officials. Continue

We Are All Prisoners Now
USSA - "They’re locking them up today They’re throwing away the key I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?" ~ The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967) At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a...    Continue

FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database
USSA - The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion project to build the world's largest computer database of biometrics to give the government more ways to identify people at home and abroad, the Washington ...    Continue