When asked how these measures would effect the freedom of the press, Fernandez Diaz said, “We do not intend to stop the press from doing its job of taking pictures of police charges and other proceedings.

But we understand that in anti-terrorist operations or against mafias you have to have a more careful approach when it comes to disseminating images.”

The press is already skeptical though, Angel Casana, a lead writer for the national newspaper El Mundo, said in an online editorial that”If this proposal goes ahead, it is going to be impossible to know about events as they occur on the streets just at a time when streets are at boiling point due to the dire economic situation of many families,”

These protests are taking place all over Europe, and it is possible that these kinds of draconian measures will be advanced in other areas too.

It is important to reiterate that this has not become official yet, but this is being very seriously considered by those in power.

If enacted, this ban is likely to generate even more support among the general and totally backfire in the governments face, so they are being very careful about this delicate situation.

In addition RT reported that The dissemination of images and videos over social networks like Facebook will also be punishable under the legislation.

J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.

He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said it would not comment on what happened or on the potential lawsuit until its investigation is complete.

Michael Saffioti knew dairy could kill him. He grew up reading labels and carrying medication, and still suffered severe reactions whenever he was merely near dairy protein.

The stress made him anxious to the point of needing medication.

“Ultimately, he found and thought he was better functioning using marijuana,” said his mother.

Cannabis has an incredible ability to heal sick people and create more environmentally friendly industrial products. It is also one of the safest drugs known to our species.

Michael did not have a medical marijuana prescription, and his use put him in and out of the legal system. In the most recent incident, he and his mother went to police, armed with his medical history after he had missed a court date.

Like so many people across the country who use cannabis to help them cope with debilitating stomach ailments, Michael was still thrown in a cage and then treated like an animal because he didn’t have a piece of paper saying that he was allowed to consume this specific plant.

J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.

He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com .

Disgraced NYPD chief surfaces at perjury trial

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Federal inmate No. 84888-054 has saluted victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on his blog. He’s also used it to lend his opposition to an Islamic center near ground zero, and to honor his father this past Father’s Day.

The behind-bars blogging by convicted former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik is a bit of a mystery: Federal prisoners don’t have Internet access, except for limited email correspondence that’s apparently allowing someone to post for him.

In recent days, Kerik had a more direct line of communication with the outside world – only this time, it’s against his will, under oath and on a sore subject.

Prosecutors in the Bronx forced the one-time protege of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to testify as a government witness at the perjury trial of two contractor brothers who arranged for to have his apartment remodeled. The same investigation resulted in Kerik pleading guilty in 2006 and 2009 to state and federal false statement and other charges stemming from allegations that, while a city official, he knowingly paid on only $30,000 for renovations worth between $165,000 and $255,000.

“Fair to say you’re not happy to be here?” a prosecutor asked Kerik on Monday.

“Yes, sir,” responded Kerik.

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UK Police Taser Blind Man, Mistake Cane for Samurai Sword

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
October 17, 2012

You thought you’d heard it all when we reported on Houston PD’s assassination of a wheelchair-bound, schizophrenic, double-amputee armed with a pen; however, details on this latest police state fiasco are equally as shocking.

According to several news reports, UK police Tasered a 61-year-old blind man from Lancashire, England after misidentifying him as a suspect reportedly walking down the street with a samurai sword.

The Chorley Guardian reports that last Friday, as Colin Farmer, 61, made his way to a pub to meet some friends, he was approached by police, who, instead of identifying themselves, chose to blast Farmer with a 50,000-volt stun gun.

Of course, the kicker is the “samurai sword” was actually Farmer’s cane.

The man, who says the experience has left him “shaking like a leaf and scared to go outside,” is a two-time stroke victim and feared he would go into a third stroke during the unwarranted electrical onslaught.

Farmer gave the Chorley Guardian the gruesome details of his encounter, as the entire time he believed he was being mugged by a group of thugs:

“I didn’t even know the police were there,” said Mr Farmer, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors for 20 years.“I heard this man shouting. I thought they were shouting at some people.

“I certainly didn’t know they were police – and I certainly didn’t know they were shouting at me.

“I thought I was going to be attacked by some hooligans. The next thing they fire a taser at me, though I didn’t know it was a taser at the time.

“I just felt this thump in my back. As soon as the Taser hit me I hit the ground.

“I hit my head on the floor, then this policeman came around. I said ‘I’m blind, I’m blind. I’m blind’.

“This policeman knelt on me and dragged my arms round my back and handcuffed me so tight I’ve had bruises since.

“I said you’re hurting me, I’m blind – and there’s no way he could not have seen my stick on the floor.

“I walk at a snail’s pace. They could have walked past me, driven past me in the van, or said ‘drop your weapon.’

“It’s a sad excuse. They wouldn’t even stop when I said I’m blind.

“I was absolutely terrified. I thought any second I’m going to have another stroke and this one will kill me.”

 

He also told the Daily Mail, “I thought that I was honestly going to die and they were going to kill me. All my muscles turned to dust and I thought I was having another stroke.”

The incident prompted an investigation by Lancashire Constabulary. Today, the Lancashire Police Chief Superintendent released a public apology on the police department’s website, stating:

“On Friday evening we received a number of reports that a man was walking through Chorley armed with a samurai sword. A description of the offender was circulated to officers and patrols were sent to look for the man.

[…] Lancashire Constabulary deeply regrets what has happened. We have clearly put this man through a traumatic experience and we are extremely sorry for that. Officers have remained in contact with him and his family over the past few days to enquire about his recovery and we will continue to keep in touch with him and keep him informed of our inquiry.”

Farmer doesn’t believe the police’s version of events: “In your wildest dreams, you couldn’t mistake me for having a Samurai sword…I didn’t just drop down in a helicopter. I’d walked a few hundred yards. They must have seen me.”

According to Sky News, Mr. Farmer is seeking legal recourse against the police department.

The AP wrote that Lancashire police later arrested a suspect “in connection with the sword reports.”

If a Police Dog “Alerts,” Should You Lose Your Cash, Car and Other Property?

Maryland cops face trial for beating up students

Published: 16 October, 2012, 00:33

RT

The trial began today for two Maryland police officers accused of assaulting a college student with batons during a basketball game.

­Officers Reginald Baker and James Harrison face first and second-degree assault and police misconduct charges. The beating, which was captured on video, shows the officers striking University of Maryland (UMD) student John J. McKenna with batons during a fight that broke out at a March 3, 2010 basketball game against Duke University.

“I’ll tell you I lost several days sleep over it,” witness and former UMD student Nathan Cole said in court. “I really did. It really really bothered me.”

McKenna, now 24, suffered several injuries – including a concussion. He was among 33 people arrested at the university that night, and was charged with disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. Officers claimed that McKenna had attacked them and sustained his own injuries when he was kicked by one of their horses. But when a video contradicting their statements was released, the charges against the student were dropped.

The video shows McKenna skipping along the sidewalk, a few feet away from the officers on horseback, only to be slammed up against the wall by Baker’s shield. As McKenna falls to the ground, he is repeatedly beaten by the officers’ batons.

Now the police are being forced to defend themselves at the Prince George’s County Circuit Court. During the opening statements Monday, the officers’ lawyers argued that their clients’ actions were legal. The prosecution argued that the officers abused their authority and used unreasonable force.

“Did you hear that noise?” prosecutor Joseph Ruddy asked the jury, after loudly slamming his palm against a railing in the courtroom. “That was a baton striking John McKenna over and over and over again.”

Throughout his opening statement, Ruddy emphasized the officers’ abuse of power against students celebrating a basketball game.

“They abused that power, broke that trust and violated the law,” the prosecutor said.

“They must be held accountable for their actions,” he added.

Cole was the prosecution’s first witness. The former UMD student described the scene of the night of the incident, calling it a non-violent “celebratory gathering” – not a riot or a lawless gathering, as the defense referred to it.

If convicted, the officers face a felony charge of first-degree assault, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.

NYPD Officer Brutally Assaults Man in Synagogue

Simone Weichselbaum , Irving Dejohn
and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
NY Daily News
October 15, 2012

Kid Suspended, Interrogated by Cop For Healthy Kombucha Drink In Lunch Box

Ignorance, terror, and fear abound in the Public Fool System…

By Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
October 15, 2012

Having worked in a school system, there is an inordinate pressure to see terrorism and drugs behind every tray and box, at least in some districts, and a civic duty to act like a surrogate cop, confiscate and report such acts of terror to the proper authorities.

This is so unfortunate because school staff can be some of the kindest, most giving people you’ve ever met; but the pressure and fear comes from on high.

We see kids’ lunches called non-nutritious and replaced with pink-slime nuggets or a child arrested for a plastic knife. Something similar happened this week in Newport, California when the lunch brigade noticed a boy’s glass bottle (safely inside a foam sleeve) and confiscated his healthy Kombucha beverage which is comparable to apple cider.

The next day he was required to visit the Vice Principal’s office where a uniformed cop was waiting there to give him the third degree.

The administration claimed the drink violated the no-drugs-and-alcohol policy.

The officer wrongly told the child that Kombucha was illegal and dangerous to mix with medicines or antibiotics – then asked him if and what medications he was taking.

He was interrogated and detained in the office the entire day – all the while without parental notification or representation.

It gets worse . . . .

But first . . . Kombucha is nothing more than a fermented tea with benefits of probiotics, enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, and more.

Many say it is detoxifying, energizing, and can prevent and help with cancer. It’s slightly fizzy, tart and can be fruit flavored and sweet.

Many, including more restaurants, enjoy it as a healthy alternative to beer and wine with one missing element – the alcohol!

While it can contain 0.5% ethanol alcohol (classified as non-alcoholic), the alcohol that would be produced gets fermented into acetic acid, which keeps the alcohol down and the healthy benefits up.

You may remember the FDA recalling or calling for the removal of Kombucha from store shelves claiming alcohol content.

This was a standard FDA M.O. of creating a scare to kick healthy beverage companies in the pocket book and, no doubt, why “Officer Daft” incorrectly claimed it was illegal – Kombucha is back on grocery shelves and can be purchased by any kid in America.

You can even make this stuff cheaply at home; an easy recipe appears in Sally Fallon’s (Weston A. Price) recipe book Nourishing Traditions.

There seems to be a bias against healthy, fermented products – this brings the war on drugs and schools’ no-alcohol policy to an absurd level.

Should school officials confiscate apple cider . . . sour kraut . . . yogurt? Someone get Jamie Lee Curtis on the horn! They don’t want this kid to have a healthy intestinal tract!*

Continuing – hats off to Sarah from The Healthy Home Economist blog for not only writing the story after the boy’s mother contacted her, but for also getting involved and calling the Vice Principal, who acted like nothing at all significant happened.

She writes:

Most outrageously, the Vice Principal told the boy that he may have to transfer out of that school and that she was looking into it. She even tried to enroll him in an alcoholics class for teens!

The boy ended up spending the entire day in the school office and then was suspended for 5 days for violating the school’s drug and alcohol policy.

The issue was also reported to the Newport-Mesa School District. Lest the school or the district deny the child was suspended or try to spin the story, the boy did indeed SIGN a 5 day suspension form.

She notes that he was assumed guilty and punished without anyone testing for actual alcohol content.

While the Principal finally retracted the suspension (without an apology), this will never undue the overreaction, emotional upheaval, humiliation, false accusation and mistreatment without parental contact.

Plus, since the school quickly reported the incident to Newport-Mesa School District, the buck was passed, which means the parents and child can face further harassment even though the Principal is done with the affair.

Many parents cannot or choose not to have an alternative education lifestyle for their kids, nor should they be forced to.

When children are enrolled in the public school system they are sadly, considered human resources.

But, if they are indeed considered wards of the State, then authorities should be held accountable to the fullest extent for children’s treatment and safety – the burden of proof and responsibility falls on them and should be adamantly demanded if another educational experience is not possible.

Of course, we can expect just the opposite.

Please consider discussing with your child these types of scenarios and what to do, so that they are not  knocked off guard by abusive, ignorant authorities without any representation.

School officials need to figure out that we care – we are watching, and if they shame the little ones, threaten their well-being and frighten them into oblivion, that we will shine the light on their shame, possibly at the expense of their jobs.

* There is no evidence that Kombucha can harm you while on medications.

It is probiotic and at worst, would simply cancel out the effects of antibiotics – that’s why doctors say to avoid yogurt while on them, but to eat plenty afterward to restore the healthy gut bacteria destroyed by antibiotics.

The Officer had NO business questioning the child about personal medications, especially without a parent present.

Intel Hub Note: The officer and school administrators involved are nothing more than low IQ THUGS who harassed a KID over a drink found in health stores across the country.

theintelhub.com will be contacting the school district as well as other possible courses of action to hold the school administrators and officer accountable for their ridiculous control freak actions.

Bungled SWAT Raid Leaves 12-year-old Girl Badly Burned, No Meth Lab Found

By Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
October 12, 2012

An early morning SWAT team raid on an alleged meth house produced no meth lab or arrests and instead left a 12-year-old girl badly burned by a flashbang grenade.

It all happened at a Billings, Montana home Tuesday around 6am.

While the Fasching family slept, a SWAT team assembled outside their home mobilizing a coordinated raid.

The grenade used was of the non-lethal “flash bang” variety, made to disorient and cause temporary vision and hearing impairment through a bright flash and a loud blast.

It was positioned into a window by a SWAT member using a metal pole called a “boomstick,” which acts as a detonator once the grenade is in place.

The window SWAT chose, however, was in a room where two girls were sleeping, and due to an unexpected delay the grenade fell off the boomstick and went off right next to a girl that lay sleeping on the floor under the window.

“A simple knock on the door and I would’ve let them in,” the girl’s mother Jackie Fasching told the Billings Gazette.

“She has first- and second-degree burns down the left side of her body and on her arms,” Mrs. Fasching stated. “She’s got severe pain. Every time I think about it, it brings tears to my eyes.”

The Billings police chief called the raid’s damage “totally unforeseen, totally unplanned and extremely regrettable.”

“Well, I’ll give him unplanned. Though I don’t think he meant it in the way I mean it. Sorry, but when you’re blindly shoving a flash grenade attached to a boomstick through a window, and you clearly have no idea who or what is in that room where you’re detonating, the possibility that an innocent person might get burned is not “totally unforeseen.”

It’s only unforeseen when you’re so caught up in your drug war that you can’t be bothered to take the time to consider the possible collateral damage your actions may cause,” The Agitator quipped. [some emphasis added]

Instead of issuing a formal apology, Billings Police Chief Rich St. John blamed gross negligence on the part of police intelligence who supposedly had “done their homework” prior to the raid.

“The information that we had did not have any juveniles in the house and did not have any juveniles in the room,” St. John told the Gazette. “We generally do not introduce these disorienting devices when they’re present.”

Damage done to both the house and the girl were photographed by Mrs. Fasching and provided to the Gazette. One image depicts the indention produced by the grenade on the bedroom wall.

Another shows the extent of Fasching’s daughter’s burns.

Although the Billings police department was clearly in the wrong, police chief St. John stated they would not admit their mistake until a formal investigation was concluded.

“If we’re wrong or made a mistake, then we’re going to take care of it,” St. John said. “But if it determines we’re not, then we’ll go with that. When we do this, we want to ensure the safety of not only the officers, but the residents inside.”

Fasching worries that her daughter will need counseling after the traumatizing event, but holds the police department firmly culpable.

“I would like to see whoever threw those grenades in my daughter’s room be reprimanded…If anybody else did that it would be aggravated assault. I just want to see that the city is held accountable for what they did to my children.”

Intel Hub Note: We now find ourselves in a country were armed, low IQ THUGS can attack children and openly state that they did nothing wrong.

Jurors sentence ex-HPD cop to life in prison for raping waitress

(KHOU)   An ex-Houston police officer broke down in tears after he was sentenced to life in prison Monday for raping a waitress in the back of his patrol car.

Abraham Joseph stood stunned when he heard the sentence. He stared at the jury as he tried to process what just happened to him, then began crying.

The former cop’s wife collapsed into the arms of another family member in the back of the courtroom.

The jury last week convicted Joseph of aggravated sexual assault by a public servant after a month-long trial.

During the sentencing phase, jurors heard from three other women who said Joseph also assaulted them and threatened to have them deported if they told anyone.