*Note: This is not a general blanket statement about police. We know there are many more decent, hard-working police officers than not and we respect you and what you do. Intro Music: The Pansy School Bus Boys PUPPETGOV w/ Billy Vegas www.puppetgov.com

The Port of Olympia Statement: "We oppose Olympia's complicity in a war whose disastrous effects have been felt worldwide and we will actively resist the use of Olympia's port to further that war.... Through nonviolent actions we intend to stop the Port of Olympia from becoming a revolving door of military machinery furthering illegal war. This war has taken the lives of 3,845 US soldiers, over one million Iraqis, and has displaced millions more. These weapons are returning to be repaired and refitted for further combat. We see this as a continuation of the war despite our nation's and the Iraqi people's overwhelming opposition to the war."

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Let the protests begin! http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6798/

Police State - The Militarization of the Police Force in USA http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/

Old Commentary By Devvy Kidd http://www.devvy.com/ http://www.newswithviews.com/ A Great Site For Economic News http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Bernake Admitting The Fed Caused The Depression http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59405

Police use force to remove protesters blocking Stryker convoys November 8, 2007 OLYMPIA — Members of Olympia Port Militarization Resistance (OlyPMR) blocked several convoys of military combat vehicles called Strykers beginning late last night and continuing into the morning. Dozens of protesters blocked the road with their bodies as one convoy after another exited the Port of Olympia. In each case, the convoys eventually passed after police shoved and struck protesters with batons and dragged them from the road in order to clear the way. The demonstration began at 9:00PM when about 100 people gathered outside the port entrance chanting anti-war slogans. Large numbers of police in full riot gear marched onto the scene around 11:15PM. At 2:30AM police doused a cluster of about 20 people with pepper spray in order to grab one man in their midst; Shyam Khanna was arrested and charged with pedestrian interference and resisting arrest. John Stiner was arrested earlier and charged with pedestrian interference. No other arrests were made. Protesters said that police force was consistently excessive. Several people reported minor injuries, including Emiliano Guevara whose lip was split open and received other facial injuries when he was hit with a baton. On Monday, the USNS Brittin arrived at the Port of Olympia, with a return shipment of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Combat Team. In May of 2006, OlyPMR attempted to block the outgoing shipment of this very same brigade; 37 people were arrested over a period of 10 days. The soldiers of the 3rd Brigade returned to Fort Lewis about 2 weeks ago, minus the 48 who died from injuries sustained in Iraq. When members of OlyPMR learned late last week of the incoming shipment, they released the following statement: "We oppose Olympia's complicity in a war whose disastrous effects have been felt worldwide and we will actively resist the use of Olympia's port to further that war. ... Through nonviolent actions we intend to stop the Port of Olympia from becoming a revolving door of military machinery furthering illegal war. This war has taken the lives of 3,845 U.S. soldiers, over one million Iraqis, and has displaced millions more. These weapons are returning to be repaired and refitted for further combat. We see this as a continuation of the war despite our nation's and the Iraqi people's overwhelming opposition to the war." OlyPMR has declared an intent to "contain" the equipment at the Port of Olympia so that it may no longer be used for illegal and immoral U.S. imperial pursuits. ****Music by Justice*****

The military industrial complex has absorbed a huge amount of our economy and the military has transformed local law enforcement by giving them billions of dollars in military equipment. We are rapidly being reduced to a nation whose economy primarily employs industry that supports the military, government, policing and prison systems. If we don't slam the breaks on this insanity and fast, our nation is going to become a total fascist police state. It's perched right on our doorstep as it is. Join the campaign to end tis insanity at The Kick Them All Out Project http://www.KickThemAllOut.com

TASERS - Militarization of Police and Officer "Friendly" WARNING: Tasers are being purchased and deployed to "authorities" by the thousands. WARNING: Tasers are being purchased and deployed to "authorities" by the thousands. THE MILITARIZATION of OFFICER FRIENDLY in PREPARATION for DECLARING MARTIAL LAW on US CITIZENS. A TASER is a terrorist instrument of social control designed to intimidate the masses by punishing one individual in a public forum. TASERS have failed to replace firearms as lethal force but instead, have been added to the arsenal of "preemptive" weapons to "KILL" your First Amendment rights through a national campaign of intimidation. TASERS are a license for the practice of legalized SADISM by bad cops who can shoot you with a jolt of excrutiating electronic pain with impunity. The presence of "police" in a public forum has come to mean that you risk consequences of extreme pain, arrest, humiliation and a threat of death if you are otherwise inclined to speak truth to power. Immoral and illegal practices at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison mirror our corrupted federal government's civilian agenda for the incremental and insidious Orwellian intimidation of citizens to would "dare" to excersize Constitutional First Amendment rights on US soil. In sharp contrast to the UPD TASERING incident, police are not even allowed to be on a school campus in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. TASERS show potential for police brutality on a massive scale. TASERS have become little more than public pornography resulting in a creeping degradation of the human spirit. The medical consequences of ndividuals susceptible to mental trauma and PTSD at witnessing a friend or peer group member screaming and writhing in extreme pain have been completely ignored in a rush to deploy more and more TASERS -- particularly when the punishment by TASER is inflicted on a person who is perceived by the public to have COMMITED NO CRIME. The TASER is a de-humanizing weapon of social control. Demand that TASERS be removed from college campuses and police depertments while you still can. The indiscriminate use of TASERS and recent legislation is your warning that the government plans to declare MARTAL LAW for any reason they choose.

A fairly informative clip concerning the use of FEMA as a population supressor.

This is a lecture in English (Only the 1-minute intro is in German.) by Gerald Oberansmeyer, held at the Munich Peace Conference. The lecture analyzes the dangers to world peace of the ever-increasing militarization of the European Union (EU) and the passage in the proposed EU Constitution that would require each member country to commit a certain percentage of its GNP to military spending.

Resisting Port Militarization - Civil Disobedience and reaction of Police Force

A dance-drama performance as part of the International Labor Solidarity Mission report on human rights violation in various regions during Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's rehime. Testimonies and performances showed Arroyo's culpability in the worsening militarization and upsurge of political killings in the Philippines. Staged in May 2006 at the Philippine Educational Theater Association. Negros is one of sugarcane producing provinces in the country. SINAGBAYAN is Sining na Naglilingkod sa Bayan. See www.sinagbayan.multiply.com

http://gcnlive.com/NewsStory/3.html http://www.cato.org/raidmap/.

Founded by Enrique Morones in 1986, Border Angels is a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of inviduals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths have been results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions, in addition some have sadly been the results of racial-descrimination crimes. In this video, Enrique Morones eloquently describes the militarization of the border at the STOP BLACKWATER encampment, Potrero, California, 10/07.

The USNS Brittin unloaded Stryker vehicles and other military equipment at the Port of Tacoma, WA, bound for Fort Lewis. Resistance groups, opposing the occupation of Iraq, blockade intersections at the port, but also exit 123 and exit 122 in Lakewood, WA for some direct action. This is video from Aug. 1 and 2nd. 6 or more arrests have occurred at 4 different locations. Want to stay up to date? People are constantly posting updates on militarizations at the ports in Washington on: www.seattle.indymedia.org.

Air date 8 Nov 2007. This is a clip. Complete video here: http://blip.tv/file/475448 "With little scrutiny from Democrats in Congress and nary a whimper of protest from the liberal establishment, the United States will soon establish permanent military bases in sub-Saharan Africa," write Glover and Lee in The Nation. "An alarming step forward in the militarization of the African continent, the US Africa Command (Africom) will oversee all US military and security interests throughout the region, excluding Egypt." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071119/glover_lee

Clip taken from "9/11 Road to Tyranny" by Alex Jones for educational purposes.

Technology & Militarization of Police - lecture presented at Eastern Kentucky University on June 12th, 2003

This clip is from Northwest Cable News.

Enrique Morones is an angel. He is the founder of Border Angels, a non-profit organization supporting humanity. Here, he eloquently explains the militarization of the border at a workshop held for the STOP BLACKWATER encampment in Potrero, California on October 6, 2007.

Technology & Militarization of Police - lecture presented at Eastern Kentucky University on June 12th, 2003

During the Agricultural Ministerial held in Sacramento, CA, USA, in the summer of 2003, legal protestors were subjected to police abuse and the trampling of democracy. This footage captures my personal experience.

Wally telling the folks at Camp Casey 2007 all about Port Militarization Resistance, or how towns like Olympia and Tacoma said no to the U.S. military. For more Wally, check wallynotorious.livejournal.com.

Protest march following two weeks of non-violent resistance