Fortress Big Apple
Fortress Big Apple, revisited
by Nick Turse
Common Dreams
09/08/04
The RNC gave the NYPD (coordinating with the feds) a perfect opportunity to stockpile weapons systems, high-tech equipment, and surveillance devices. It allowed them to refine, perfect, and implement new tactics (someday, perhaps, to be thought of as the 'New York model') for use penning in or squelching dissent. It offered them the chance to write up a playbook on how citizens' legal rights and civil liberties may be abridged, constrained, and violated at their discretion. In short, it gave them a free hand to transform New York City into a true homeland security statelet...
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0908-11.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Nick Turse
Common Dreams
09/08/04
The RNC gave the NYPD (coordinating with the feds) a perfect opportunity to stockpile weapons systems, high-tech equipment, and surveillance devices. It allowed them to refine, perfect, and implement new tactics (someday, perhaps, to be thought of as the 'New York model') for use penning in or squelching dissent. It offered them the chance to write up a playbook on how citizens' legal rights and civil liberties may be abridged, constrained, and violated at their discretion. In short, it gave them a free hand to transform New York City into a true homeland security statelet...
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0908-11.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 9. Sep, 18:39
