Of course they would.  Government, like the cockroach, hates sunlight.  From The Intercept:

“The arrests of journalists and filmmakers covering the front lines of the Dakota Access pipeline fight highlight the limits of press protections and the central role of police, prosecutor, and court discretion in deciding whether or not members of the press should face legal consequences when covering protests. The arrests and violent crowd suppression tactics also reflect the refusal of police to discriminate between peaceful protesters, aggressive agitators, and journalists.”

The tactics being used by the militarized thugs won’t be forgotten.  That’s why the protesters will win.

Through an endless geyser of propaganda.  See John Whitehead’s latest article on the topic.

Fake news dragged the U.S. into the Iraq War, the Drug War, and every other program where the result is a pillaging of taxpayers, present and future.

Warnings about “fake news” usually come from those who also despise the internet, and would like to see it controlled, China-style.  Indeed, the term “fake news” is authoritarian Newspeak for alternative opinions.

Also see this wonderful column by Fred Reed from earlier in the year, on the revolution of the internet.

The Intercept

The ‘Investigatory Powers Bill’, dubbed by critics as the “Snooper’s Charter”, has been approved by the UK Parliament, which means the British government now has sweeping power to spy on its citizens, and force internet service providers to record and store information on its customers’ internet activity for up to 12 months.

“Law enforcement agencies will then be able to obtain access to this data without any court order or warrant.”

The UK government has been engaged in this type of total surveillance for awhile now, thanks to Ed Snowden’s revelations, the Snooper’s Charter merely retroactively legalizes it.

Tries to compete with the CIA and other intelligence outfits, fails.  Wanted to fight against a Soviet invasion in Alaska for the explicit purpose of screwing the CIA out of the opportunity during the Cold War, FBI documents show. MuckRock

Said he would drop drug charges against her in exchange for “favors”. Copblock

Further proof that the Drug War corrupts character on both sides of the badge, with the innocent being victimized by the scum that rises to power on either side of the law.

Of course, hostility towards Russia keeps NATO in business. Reuters

Spanish government tries to ban memes.  A good political meme captures the essence of the ridiculousness of a situation involving a political parasite.  The best ones, the most popular, are those memes that have viewers nodding their head while laughing, because that particular meme made plain the truth.  A simple picture with a few words typed across it can turn the subject into a laughingstock, and in these days of instant social media, a good meme can tear through the cyberverse in seconds, and pretty soon everyone is laughing at Mr. or Mrs. corrupt so-and-so.  Memes are powerful, which is why the corrupt fear them.

FBI may have distributed half of all child porn on dark web. 24 websites may have been FBI-run, and visitors’ computers were exposed to malware that sent information about them to government computers. Half.

Crime lab chemist confessed to falsifying evidence for over 8 years, putting 20,000 drug convictions in doubt.  These people are still in jail as officials drag their feet. Unbelievable, yet all too believable.

Marijuana is the real winner of 2016. California weed will flow outward.  2016 is the extinction-level event for Prohibitionist dinosaurs.

As bad as Trump is, his election hasn’t instigated the wave of hate-crime that some of his detractors seem to want to happen.

Trump may pick a Bush-era torture architect to run the CIA: “Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service, helped developed the CIA black sites, secret prisons operated in foreign countries where interrogators used a range of torture tactics, including the use of “waterboarding,” the simulated drowning technique once used by the Khmer Rouge and Nazi agents to glean information from detainees.”

When Politics Becomes Your Religion, from the wonderful Rod Dreher at The American Conservative.  Everyone has seen political disagreements reach such a level of animosity that friendships and goodwill are utterly destroyed.  All this over garbage candidates Trump and Hillary?  Politics is poison.

Brainwashing Your Kids About Politics Is Not Healthy Or Cute.  Everyone brainwashed into believing Presidential politics is somehow desperately relevant to their lives or the future of the country were either screaming in ecstasy or bawling their eyes out on Tuesday.  They of course dragged their poor kids into the swirling emotional vortex.  As a child, I never would’ve believed that adults would behave like this.

Did the EM Drive violate physics?

DEA prepares to ban synthetic opioid, U-47700, also known as “pink”

FBI documents show why ordinary Americans should worry about current surveillance practices

Government had plan to destroy evidence linking Agent Orange to sick vets

Canadian spy agency has been illegally collecting bulk data for over a decade, court finds

Arizona battling opioid epidemic with the same tactics that gave it the opioid epidemic

Polls point to a win for recreational marijuana in California, Massachusetts on Tuesday. After California, the dominos will fall.  The only real concern should be the possible cartelization of the entire industry.  Let free markets reign in legal marijuana.

Julian Assange will be questioned by Ecuador over rape charges

Cop and K9 “partner” kick, maul subdued man for over a minute (video)

The “Will of the People” is a Myth

“Impossible” EM Drive really works, according to leaked NASA paper

Wind farms may be killing 80,000 bats per year, according to British study

A watershed moment for marijuana legalization: “The really big advantage of ending marijuana prohibition is not the possible health benefits, but eliminating the harm caused by the arrest and imprisonment of many thousands of people, many of them poor and disadvantaged. The FBI estimates that some 643,000 people were arrested in for marijuana offenses in 2015, including some 574,000 for mere possession. While only a small minority of these arrests lead to prosecution, the arrests themselves can be traumatic and dangerous, and can end up damaging the educational and employment prospects of those targeted. Arrests also often unavoidably create confrontations in which suspects and police officers could be injured or (in rare cases) killed. Over 12,000 people are incarcerated for marijuana offenses in federal prison. I have not been able to locate good recent data on marijuana-related incarceration in state prisons. But the numbers are likely to be much higher. All of these arrests and incarcerations inflict serious harm on suspects, and expend vast amounts of law enforcement resources that could better be employed combating violent crime.”

Hillary’s expensive plan for ‘National Service’.  Unleashing a vast, peacetime army of tax-subsidized flunkies, paid to promote loyalty to the State under the guise of patriotism or civic duty or whatever, would be nothing more than PR for a federal government that no one trusts any longer.  And it reeks of fascism.

Rogue FBI Twitter bot dumps months of FOIAs

San Antonio cop fired for feeding actual crap sandwich to homeless man

Public schools are probably the gravest threat to privacy today.  Taking hi-res photos, fingerprints, compiling detailed information on every student, bundling it up into a nice package, and then…what?  Do you think that data will be protected from the Surveillance State’s massive databases?

Wonderful essay by Tom Palmer on Hayek “the Dangerous”: Hayek’s thinking, which is vast and sprawling and a joy to explore, represents a danger to all those who have great ideas for the remaking of society, for the enlistment of the masses in their great plans for authentic existence. Hayek’s individualism was not like Ayn Rand’s, which some have accused (perhaps very unfairly) of shading into a philosophy of superhuman power and thus of rule by the able over the rest of us, but is radically different: it is rooted in the limitations of human reason and the importance of evolved institutions of social cooperation.”

FBI director Comey stands by previous conclusion that Hillary didn’t break the law. Got through those 650,000 emails quickly, huh?

Google has quietly dropped the ban on personally-identifiable web tracking

Researchers develop glasses that can fool facial recognition software

Bill Weld gives up on his ticket, shills for Hillary.  Every choice voters have this election season is a hideous one.

Tulsa cop arrested for violating protective order against her

Common myths about marijuana legalization

Justin Raimondo takes aim at the globalist political class bent on robbing us of our liberty and future

Obamacare premiums skyrocket in six states