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Civil Libertarians Are in Love with Big Brother’s Body Cameras

Guillermo Jimenez | Call me a cynic, but it seems like the wool has been pulled over our eyes. Following a rash of police-brutality cases in recent years, civil libertarians across the country — and around the world, even — are now nearly in lockstep behind the idea of body cameras as a means to curb the use of excessive force.

Socialist Equality Party (UK) demands the Undercover Police Inquiry release the names of all police agents and spies

Currently, barely any political organisations feature in the list of witnesses to the inquiry. This is especially peculiar, given that the focus of the inquiry is the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) which was specifically created as part of high-level political operations against the left. The SDS was established in 1968 under Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson at a time of revolutionary convulsions and rising class struggle in Britain and throughout Europe. It is known to have been provided by the Home Office with a “separate and secret budget” for its operations.

UN Panel Slams US For Police Brutality & Other Human Rights Violations

Its been over a year already since the United Nations report that condemned the United States for violating the terms of an international anti-torture treaty got swept under America’s rug without hardly anybody noticing. The U.N. panel took Washington to task for police brutality, military interrogations, and capital punishment protocols. Exactly the same human rights…