Re: More shinannagins in the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland

State of War
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War #1 - Drugs
War #2 - Guns
War #3 - Child Pornography
War #4 - Terrorism
War #5 - Hackers


Welcome to America, land of unlimited Police State powers...

: The NYC police burst into the apartment, looking for drugs.
: In one room was a lone four-year-old black child.
:
: Four years old.
:
: The NYC Police officer took his gun and held it to the tiny child's head.
:
: NBC NewsChannel 4, showing the cutest little kid, talking hesitantly,
: "The Police man put the gun to my head, I was very a-scared!"


* "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7
*
* Hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph
* describing how some eavesdropping little sneak --- 'child hero' was
* the phrase generally used --- had overheard some compromising remark
* and denounced his parents to the Thought Police.

# "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
#
# The Police-taught DARE program encourages students to turn in
# friends and family by becoming a police informant.

: Real life: a child in school answers the friendly and inquiring police
: officer teaching about drug dangers that yes their parents have some
: of the displayed paraphernalia.
:
: A search warrant is issued, the parents are arrested, and
: the child is put into custody of Child Welfare workers.


# "The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995
#
# The Justice Department confiscated the home of an elderly Cuban-American
# couple in Miami after the couple was arrested for playing host to a weekly
# poker game for family and friends.


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