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This is the heartless, heartbreaking, hypocritical injustice that passes for law and order in America today.
It is estimated that a dog is shot by a police officer “every 98 minutes.”
Arzy, a 14-month-old Newfoundland, Labrador and golden retriever mix, was shot between the eyes by a Louisiana police officer. The dog had been secured on a four-foot leash at the time he was shot. An independent witness testified that the dog never gave the officer any provocation to shoot him.
Dutchess, a 2-year-old rescue dog, was shot three times in the head by Florida police as she ran out her front door. The officer had been approaching the house to inform the residents that their car door was open when the dog bounded out to greet him.
Payton, a 7-year-old black Labrador retriever, and 4-year-old Chase, also a black Lab, were shot and killed after a SWAT team mistakenly raided the mayor’s home while searching for drugs. Police shot Payton four times. Chase was shot twice, once from behind as he ran away. “My government blew through my doors and killed my dogs.
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recalls Mayor Cheye Calvo, who described being handcuffed and interrogated for hours—wearing only underwear and socks—surrounded by the dogs’ carcasses and pools of the dogs’ blood.
A Missouri SWAT team raided a family home, killing a 4-year-old pit bull Kiya.
The SWAT raid .. was intended “to check if [the] home had electricity and natural gas service.”
In 1 out of 5 cases involving police shooting a family pet, a child was either in the police line of fire or in the immediate area of a shooting. For instance, a 4-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the leg after a police officer opened fire on a dog running towards him, missed and hit the little girl instead.
In December 2006, 12-year-old K. Harris was in the backyard of her Hartford, Connecticut, home. She was spending some time with her best friend: her dog, Seven, a St. Bernard. Then two police officers entered the property without a warrant.
Police, [supposedly] investigating the erroneous tip, had entered the property—without a warrant—where the dog and her owner had been playing in the backyard, causing the dog to give chase
One officer ran clear off the property, but the other, for whatever reason, felt it was necessary to turn and shoot the dog—not just once, but several times.
K. heard the shots as she was running to the front of the house. When she got there, the officer stood over the immobilized and whimpering dog. K. pleaded with him not to shoot again. But the fatal bullet was delivered.
[If you love dogs like I do this scene of a loving dog protecting his owner being shot by a cowardly piece of horsradish, as it lay whimpering on the ground with a 12 year girl pleading for his life, makes you sick to your stomach]
When Seven was killed, K. was devastated—depressed, suicidal, haunted by PTSD. Her father, Glen Harris, was her rock. Not only did he care for her physically and emotionally, but he set out on a bold legal course to unleash the power of the law. He sued the town and the police for infringement of their Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure (pets are considered chattel, or property, and there is no recourse beyond small-damages claims). Glen has put his savings on the line to pursue justice in the name of his daughter and his dog, in a time and place where justice is in short supply. [and MY Police State RULES]
Welcome to the neo-feudal state via corporatism, serf. We live in the Great White North just a few miles from the Canadian border. They will come for us last. This reply via a sat dish in the sticks.
This is just horrifying, we love our dogs and our dogs love us for we are their protectors. We live in New Hampshire a conceal state, And we live in the Great White North and no one messes with no one as someone may be packing heat. Am I?
Orwell’s dystopian vision, first published 70 years ago this June, was informed by the fascist and communist movements that triggered worldwide military conflict and the deaths of millions of people during the mid-20th century. But Orwell’s warning went well beyond the wars we knew. It cautioned, noted Erich Fromm in an afterword in the 1961 edition, against the loss of humanity and free thought, and the new, increasingly centralized “managerial industrialism, in which man builds machines which act like men and develops men who act like machines.” It showed how that could be used as a tool of totalitarian ambitions."
You'd think they would have a brain. But of course not.
Who in their right mind would buy security cameras from China? - a brutal totalitarian state?
Why your govt of course!!
Save a penny lose your soul.
Chinese-made cameras installed both within and without "secure facilities" to record moves, actions, voices, documents - and guess what you paid them!
------------ government intelligence - an oxymoron --
"ederal agencies are rushing to meet a deadline to rip out Chinese made surveillance cameras in order to comply with a congressional ban, but as Bloomberg reports, the task isn’t quite as easy as it seems: thousands of the devices are still in place and it’s looking as though most won’t be removed before the August 13 deadline. A complicated supply chain is making it difficult for authorities to understand whether security cameras are actually made in China or contain components that would violate US rules.
The National Defense Authorization Act included an amendment for fiscal 2019 that would ensure federal agencies don’t purchase Chinese made surveillance cameras. Zhejiang Dahua Technology and Hikvision are two companies named specifically because they have both raised security concerns in the US. Hikvision is 42% controlled by the Chinese government and Dahua was found in 2017 to have cameras with software backdoors that allowed unauthorized people to view them and send information back to China.
Despite Dahua saying they fixed the issue, the US government is still considering imposing further restrictions by banning both companies from purchasing American technology.
Representative Vicky Hartzler, a Republican from Missouri said: “Video surveillance and security equipment sold by Chinese companies exposes the U.S. government to significant vulnerabilities. Removing the cameras will ensure that China cannot create a video surveillance network within federal agencies.”
Speakers in your home are listening to and recording everything.
Your sex, your organsims or not, your private and initimate conversations -everything.
When companies are caught-out making and recording illegally - they always have some excuses
--oh well just use it for training, but we didn't record it
-well ok we did record it but we didn't keep the recording
-well ok we did keep it but we store it confidently
-well ok we are actually had our database hacked and being too f,,king lazy we didn't bother to encrypt it but the breach was limited to just a few
-well ok it was the entire thing and is being sold on the darknet.
etc, etc.
Until a rapacious class-action lawsuit lawyer nails them (are you listening LAWYErS out there? - millions are yours for the taking!!) they will only be white-washing senate hearings that the CEO use to promote themselves, laugh in your general direction and useless inept bought-and-paid for senators have some limelight time.
It keeps going and like a frog in slowly warming water you will be cooked. No civil rights for your kids, no constitution. nada.
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"Google Employees Eavesdropping On People Via 'Smart Speakers'
In April we reported that thousands of Amazon contractors have been eavesdropping on customers who own the company's Alexa devices.
..despite repeatedly claiming that they don't eavesdrop, ... Dutch broadcaster VRT - [reports} that the recordings are happening whether or not the speakers are activated.
'VRT NWS was able to listen to more than a thousand excerpts recorded via Google Assistant. In these recordings we could clearly hear addresses and other sensitive information. This made it easy for us to find the people involved and confront them with the audio recordings. -'
