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Charlie Veitch was arrested not just once but twice at the G20 Conference.
Here is a part of his biography written by Mr. Veitch: Hello everyone. This is a bio written by me so I will be honest and open. I am no different to all the other apes with over-clocked brains running around on the surface of this beautiful planet we call Earth. I have been very lucky in that I have had the opportunity to live in various cultures around the world, most notaby Brazil, Guinea (West Africa), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Caribbean and of course the United Kingdom. Growing up I had a very pleasant family life, with parents who nurtured me and provided me with unconditional love. Being someone who always had to change schools (Whenever my Dad got another job in the oil industry), I found myself having to think very quickly in terms of how to make new friends, seeing as I was always “the new kid” at school. This raised fantastic opportunities to make new friends and learn a lot about myself. Anyway, enough about my distant past. Around the age of 17 I got very interested in the nature of things and of reality, and so I did a degree at Edinburgh University in Scotland with Philosophy as my major for the four years of attendance, with other subjects such as Anthropology, Criminology, Forensic Medicine (The autopsy was intense. I had to leave the room feeling unwell) and Sociology. Still something was always missing. There was some truth which I felt none of the lecturers or tutors were able to give me. Upon graduation, I promised myself I would never wear a suit, nor would I work in an office. Fate threw me suited up into an office for seven years, and seven years exactly. This was my tour of duty in the illusory world of hierarchical control, greed, fear and systemic hypnosis. It’s fair to say I tried to push aside my yearning for more esoteric explanations of the reality I found myself in and distracted myself with womanising and drug taking at weekends, not to mention exotic holidays and fun hobbies. I was living a half-life, and no-one was more aware of this fact than I was. There were, of course, moments of stunning humanity in my time in “the office” working as a financial adviser and all round salesman for the corporate control grid. I met people who inspired me, people who helped propel me out of the locked way of thinking that a big corporation (in my case HBOS PLC) demands of the minds in attendance. But still I remained a slave, wearing my tie as I woke up before dawn to go and sell investments to unsuspecting people. Read the rest here..... UK satirist charged with impersonating G20 officer A self-described absurdist filmmaker and member of "the Love Police" is facing a charge of impersonating a peace officer. He appeared in a Toronto courtroom Wednesday. "I'm shocked and appalled. I've spent 48 hours in incarceration for things which were not crimes, I did not hurt or steal anything," Charlie Veitch told the Toronto Star on Wednesday. He is to re-appear in court on Aug. 23 after being released on $500 bail. Police announced the arrest late Tuesday in a news release. "On Thursday, June 24, 2010, the accused was filming the G20 Summit security fence area at Front Street/York Street," they said. "He was approached by a security officer and was requested to provide identification. He indicated that he was not carrying identification because he was working undercover as a peace officer." Peel Regional Police carried out the arrest as Veitch, 29, of England, was about to board an aircraft at Pearson International Airport. One YouTube video shows him telling a private security guard on June 24, two days before the G20 Summit started: "We're from British military intelligence. I'm here with the the Metropolitan Police. It's all fully authorized at the highest levels." The video doesn't appear to show Veitch flashing anything that imitates official identification. "We're not press because we're fully undercover. If we carried ID around we might be searched by protesters," he told the guard. When challenged again as to his identity, Veitched added: "I can't say. If you're going to radio that in, we're undercover, so it's best not to say." Another YouTube video shows Veitch conversing with other security guards and Toronto police officers. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are the police entertainment division. We know that protecting Toronto against all those anarchists and terrorists can get very boring, so we are here to remind you that we are on your side," he said using a megaphone. "We are the Love Police, and our job is to lower fear and raise love." Private security guards told Veitch and his crew they were on private property. They then moved onto the public sidewalk close to the security fence. Police approached and engaged in conversation. Veitch said the police had been "super cool." The officer said they couldn't film where they were because they were within five metres of the fence. He asked them to turn off the camera. "The Public Works Act states that," he said. Police asked to see Veitch's identification. He asked to see theirs. "Failure to identify yourselves under the Public Works Act is going to end up in you guys being arrested, which none of us wants," the officer said. "I hope that sounds fair." A badge number wasn’t visible in the video. Later, one of the film crew was arrested for not identifying himself. An officer said as soon as police determined his identity, he would be released. According to the alternative website PressForTruth.ca, the person arrested was Veitch. On Tuesday, it became known police didn't have authority under that act for arresting someone for not showing identification within five metres of the fence. Asked about it, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said, "… I was trying to keep the criminals out." At least 1,500 people showed up at police headquarters on Monday to protest police tactics used to quell demonstrators after the appearance of anarchist vandals caused chaos and damages. One person armed with a microphone, possibly Veitch, told the officers protecting the building that if they were not neo-nazi fascist police to raise their hands. "Come on, there's some of you in there," he said. On Wednesday, Blair told CTV Toronto: "I wasn't lying to anybody. I was telling them what I believed to be true." He said he did insist that every police officer be told about the limits to their authority around the fence, but the public was never informed. He said he regrets not issuing a news release, but pointed a finger at the provincial government and the G8/G20 Integrated Security Unit. According to the Globe and Mail, more than 1,000 people were arrested during the course of the G20 summit, but only 263 were charged with an offence more serious than breach of peace. Police spokesman Mark Pugash told the Globe that no one was arrested under the Public Works Protection Act who shouldn't have been.
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The Transportation Security Administration has issued new guidelines blocking employees from accessing certain Web sites. CBS News reports that the list includes sites that feature any of the following: "chat/messaging, controversial opinion, criminal activity, extreme violence (including cartoon violence) and gruesome content, gaming."
That bit about "controversial opinion" is generating a backlash. In fact, TSA officials felt compelled to issue a response to CBS News, saying, "TSA does not block access to critical commentary about the organization and in fact expressly created the TSA IdeaFactory and the TSA Blog to promote diverse opinions." That's a good point, actually. TSA is pretty far out ahead of the federal pack in terms of allowing criticism of the agency on its own sites. But what about other sites that are "controversial"? That's a very broad category. Luckily, none of the opinions expressed at Fedblog are "controversial," right? Our view: This is another nail in the coffin of free speech in America. Written by Paul Joseph Watson Type the keywords “Internet censorship” into Google News and you will immediately understand to what degree the world wide web is under assault from attempts by governments globally to regulate and stifle free speech. From Australia to Belarus, from Turkey to Vietnam, from Pakistan to Egypt, from Afghanistan to Iran, huge chunks of the Internet are going dark as the Chinese model of Internet regulation is adopted worldwide. But why should Americans concern themselves with countries halfway across the globe adopting Chinese-style net censorship? Because under Senator Joe Lieberman’s 197-page Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, the United States would formally mimic China’s “great firewall” of web censorship. When Lieberman himself attempted to debunk claims that the bill provides Obama, and any following President for that matter, with a figurative ‘kill switch’ to disable certain parts of the Internet, he explained that the government was merely seeking to emulate powers over the Internet already enjoyed by the Communist Chinese. Firstly, despite Lieberman’s spin, the text of the bill clearly gives Obama the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight. Secondly, and even more alarmingly, Lieberman’s acknowledgement that the United States is seeking to emulate China’s policies on Internet control confirm that the entire cybersecurity agenda is primarily concerned with silencing political opposition to the state, since this factor completely dominates the Chinese model which Lieberman openly invokes as the ultimate goal of cybersecurity. China’s vice-like grip over its Internet systems has very little to do with “cybersecurity” and everything to do with silencing all dissent against the state. Chinese Internet censorship is imposed via a centralized government blacklist of any websites that contain criticism of the state, porn, or any other content deemed unsuitable by the authorities. Every time you attempt to visit a website, you are re-routed through the government firewall, often making for long delays and crippling speeds. China has exercised its power to shut down the Internet, something that Lieberman wants to introduce in the U.S., at politically sensitive times in order to stem the flow of information about government abuse and atrocities. During the anti-government riots which occurred in July 2009, the Chinese government completely shut down the Internet across the entire northwestern region of Xinjiang for days. In several regions, the authorities completely cut off the Internet for nearly a year, with many areas only now slowly starting to come back online. Major news and discussion portals used by the Muslim Uighurs in the area remain blocked. Similarly, Internet access in parts of Tibet is routinely restricted as part of government efforts to pre-empt and neutralize unrest. Major websites like Twitter, Google and You Tube have also been shut down either temporarily or permanently by Chinese authorities. News websites in China now require users to register their true identities in order to leave comments. This abolition of anonymity is used to chill free speech in that it prevents the user from engaging in criticism of the state for fear that they would be tracked down by authorities. Chinese authorities are now going further than merely maintaining a “blacklist” of banned websites byinstituting a “whitelist” of allowed websites, a move that “could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers”. Websites not pre-registered with the government would be completely blocked to all Internet users, meaning “millions of completely innocuous sites” would be banned. This equates to requiring government approval to set up a website, which would obviously not be granted if the person or organization making the application has a history of or is likely to engage in dissent against the state. President Obama himself has criticized Chinese Internet censorship as a hindrance to the free flow of information and allowing citizens to hold their governments accountable, and yet Lieberman wants to hand Obama similar powers. The model Lieberman has identified as the goal of cybersecurity is centered around keeping people oppressed by eliminating any means of widespread dissent and preventing people from organizing politically. It has nothing to do with providing security against foreign hackers and terrorists and everything to do with strangling free speech critical of the state. However, this is not merely a war on free speech, it’s a war on Internet anonymity. Even if the government shuts down portions of the web, new networks are guaranteed to pop up to take their place. Indeed, as people who have attempted to downplay concerns about the ‘kill switch’ have rightly pointed out, Obama could already attempt to shut down the Internet using the Communications Act, the PCNAA legislation merely codifies this power formally into law. The real threat posed by the wider cybersecurity agenda is the implementation of an individual identity system for all Internet users. This is what was proposed by Obama’s cybersecurity co-ordinator Howard Schmidt in a paper compiled with the aid of the National Security Council. The strategy revolves around, “The creation of a system for identity management that would allow citizens to use additional authentication techniques, such as physical tokens or modules on mobile phones, to verify who they are before buying things online or accessing such sensitive information as health or banking records,” reports the FInancial Times. Only with this government-issued “token” will Internet users be allowed to “able to move from website to website,” a system not too far removed from what China proposed and rejected for being too authoritarian. So in this sense, the cybersecurity agenda will ensure a world wide web even more draconian than the Chinese model, where the threat of the government identifying individuals, now that anonymity is removed, who engage in “hate speech” critical of the government and revoking their license to use the Internet, will inevitably chill free speech from the very outset. To trust the federal government with the power to regulate free speech by means of a licensing system for the Internet and not expect the state to abuse such power is the height of stupidity. Cass Sunstein, Obama’s information czar, openly wrote in a 2008 paper of his desire to combat “conspiracy theories”(ie any information communicated primarily through the Internet which represents a threat to the image of the state) by empowering the government to tax or even ban outright opinions of which it disapproves. This is what cybersecurity is all about, eliminating the voices of the oppressed as big government seeks to quicken its takeover of America with the aid of silent obedience. The cybersecurity assault on the Internet is also dovetailed with an attack from a slightly different angle. Numerous private networks, from transport hubs, to libraries, to universities, to federal government agencies have installed filters that censor political websites which engage in the “hate speech” of dissenting against the state. Since the entire Internet consists of a fusion of privately-owned networks controlled by corporations such as Verizon, AT&T and Qwest, how long before such filters are standardized? Lieberman’s kill switch bill and the broader cybersecurity agenda has little to do with over hyped threats from foreign hackers and terrorists and everything to do with placing a muzzle on the last outpost of true free speech – the Internet. The state wants to turn the world wide web into a clone of cable television, a sterile medium controlled almost entirely by mega corporations and regulated by FCC bureaucracy and red tape. Your political blog, no matter how many millions of readers it has the potential to attract, has no place in this newly regulated Internet police state. Tale action – call your Senator and demand that they vote against Lieberman’s Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or kiss your right to unrestricted, unregulated, and anonymous free speech on the Internet goodbye. The bill has already been approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and is now awaiting a vote by the full Senate. Find your Senator from the list here or call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Tell your Senator’s office that you will vote them out of office if he/she votes in favor of PCNAA. Comment from Mr. News: They did this in the states. Here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act Now they are doing this in New Zealand: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2009/0045/latest/DLM2136536.html We are pleased to announce that our network American Freedom Radio has upgraded their online streams. Please make sure to visit the listen to page, click on the links and enjoy the upgraded quality. This is an important next step.
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