Is this what a Police State looks like?

[GostHacked]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/02/10982324-supreme-court-strip-searches-even-for-minor-offenses

Siding with security needs over privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches.

By a 5-4 vote, the court rejected a challenge from a New Jersey man who argued it's unconstitutional to force everyone to strip down for inspection. Albert Florence was arrested by a state trooper because of an error in the state's records that mistakenly said he was wanted on an outstanding warrant for an unpaid fine. Even if the warrant had been valid, failure to pay a fine is not a crime in New Jersey.

Florence was held for a week in two different jails before the charges were dropped. But at each jail, he was required to shower with delousing soap and undergo a strip search.

What police state?

[GostHacked]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/06/nsa-collecting-phone-records-for-millions-verizon-customers-report-says/

You really think terrorists are the target?

The Obama administration has been collecting the phone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a British newspaper report which raised new and troubling privacy questions.

A senior law enforcement official pushed back on the report early Thursday morning, telling Fox News that the Justice Department has not yet received a referral from the intelligence community, meaning "the process has not started yet."

But the administration has not denied the existence of the order. While the administration defended its authority to seize phone records -- and stressed that it does not monitor calls -- one civil liberties group called this the "broadest surveillance order to ever have been issued."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/supreme-court-rules-dna-samples-warrant-article-1.1361646

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can continue to take DNA from people they arrest without getting a warrant. The court’s five-justice majority said DNA testing was a legitimate police arrest procedure, like fingerprinting.

[Michael Hardner]

Neither of these things are so surprising to me, especially not the first issue.

You should be focusing more on drone attacks on civilians, which are approved and executed by unknown persons for unknown reasons on anyone, including US citizens that the government does not approve of.

[bush_cheney2004]

You should be focusing more on drone attacks on civilians, which are approved and executed by unknown persons for unknown reasons on anyone, including US citizens that the government does not approve of.

The technology may be different, but the objective is the same as any FBI stakeout and purposeful execution of a 1930's gangster....in the U.S.A.

[GostHacked]

Neither of these things are so surprising to me, especially not the first issue.

You should be focusing more on drone attacks on civilians, which are approved and executed by unknown persons for unknown reasons on anyone, including US citizens that the government does not approve of.

We are focusing that in other threads. However the NDAA does indicate that American citizens can be targeted and held indefinitely without being charged. The drone use within the mainland USA is part of this topic, but the foreign targets are not part of this specific topic.