NSA official claims, "U.S. has already become a full-blown police state."

Most thoughtful Americans already realized we were living in a police state when their local police department got an ninja suits and APC to go serve warrants with...

Via CNS:.

Last year, high-ranking NSA official Bill Binney said, “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.” Now, Binney says that the U.S. has already become a full-blown police state.

Binney told Washington’s Blog on Wednesday that:

“The main use of the collection from these [NSA spying] programs [is] for law enforcement. [See the 2 slides below].”

“These slides give the policy of the DOJ/FBI/DEA etc. on how to use the NSA data. In fact, they instruct that none of the NSA data is referred to in courts – cause it has been acquired without a warrant.”

Police State Alert: Baltimore Police can't arrest you for videotaping them anymore, but there is always loitering

Baltimore Police have been prohibited from arresting people for videotaping them doing their job on a public street. Their response is to threaten to arrest people for loitering if they break out the cell phone camera.

When tech enterpreneuer Scott Cover happened upon a group of Baltimore Police standing over a handcuffed man near Cross Street market early Saturday, he pulled out his camera phone and started recording. Earlier in the day, he'd seen news reports of the Police Department affirming citizens' right to record officers performing their duties in public, and thought what was happening might - who knows - make for interesting video.

It's a scene that plays out regularly on Cross Street in Federal Hill as officers try to disperse late-night crowds. The officers will tell you that the patrons - with or without cameras - refuse to leave, and that everyone within earshot is an armchair expert on police techniques and seconds away from potentially inciting a riot. The bargoers will say the cops are often unnecessarily rude and aggressive, and don't want to be watched or filmed being unnecessarily rude and aggressive.

The officers on Saturday got Cover to stop filming, not by telling him to cease recording or seizing his camera. They told him he was loitering, and that he had to move along or risk arrest.
It's a caveat - some might say loophole - in the new general order publicly trotted out by police on Friday, three days before they're due in court to argue in a lawsuti brought by the ACLU that they are properly addressing citizen's right to record.

Police State Alert: NYPD Deploying Technology to Scan Pedestrians for Guns

Is using technology to give pedestrians a virtual pat-down as they walk down the street a step too far?

Police State Alert: Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone

Miami police shot a man to death. They claim they found a gun, but tit took them two days to locate the gun in the car. The Miami police seized and tried to destroy the cellphone cameras of all bystanders. One man had his cellphone seized while police pointed a gun at his head. police smashed his phone on the ground and took him into custody for questioning. The man managed to put the Sim card in his mouth before police smashed his phone. The video hasn't been released. Apparently, the man is trying to sell it. What kind of police state are we living in?

Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.

First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer.

Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling “you want to be fucking paparazzi?”

Then they snatched the cell phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground before stomping on it. Then they placed the smashed phone in the videographer's back pocket as he was laying down on the ground.