City boosts ‘Minority Report’ surveillance powers 400%
At 349 Oak St. in Chattanooga, staffers work to serve the Tennessee office of homeland security, which sees little distinction between national security and policing. The city is in district No. 3. (Photo Google Maps) By David Tulis City government is making a major commitment to surveillance and data mining by quadrupling the size of […]
City surveillance powers rise 400% as crime analysis unit eyes precrime
An important development of the rise of the police state in our home city, with the cooperation and involvement of the Chattanooga Police Department. Tweet Pin It
New school, new venue in war against local economy
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Supt. Smith demands F$34 million more, yet silent on ‘eligibility standards’ in law
State government’s No. 2 expenditure is the school system. (Graphic Tennessee comprehensive annual financial report, 2014) By David Tulis Dr. Rick Smith is the man whose great will in matters of schooling superintends the wills of others in the local system. He intends there to be more cash to spend for administration, improvements and students. […]
Stingray snooping puts local cops, feds on man’s tail
Invasive surveillance brings a combat-oriented arrest in a quiet Rossville, Ga., neighborhood. (Photo WRCB TV3) With overwhelming force, deputies and officers stand at the foot of a staircase before storming a house in which they have gassed a fugitive with 20 tear gas shells. (Photo WRCB TV3) By David Tulis Local authorities arrested a fugitive […]
Corker says NSA collecting too little data on Americans
Sen. Bob Corker, whose government is collecting a woman’s cellphone call, meets with voters October 2014 in Benton County. (Photo corker.senate.gov) The program is actually not the program I thought it was. Not even close,I think you are going to see people on both sides of the aisle pushing, wondering why not more data is […]
Chattanooga Declaration asks breakup of U.S. to end totalitarianism, ease bankruptcy
The Farm Stand at Chattanooga’s Crabtree Farms draws members of the public who want fresh locally grown fare. The ideas of local economy and local food have implications for the size of nations. (Photo Crabtree Farms.) By David Tulis If the concept of local economy appears quaint and inward looking, consider its “foreign policy” implications. […]
A chief justice puts human face on doctrine of lesser magistrate
Tennessee county clerks face a possible anti-marriage ruling out of Washington in June. They should say “no, sir!” not merely on the basis of personal religious conviction, but on a firm footing in legal reasoning. To supply them with LEGAL reasons to ignore a pro-gay ruling I make available my little work, “Good Faith & […]
The inverted pyramid: How state uses consent to operate driver license scheme
Hispanic immigrants such as the Alfredo and Sylvia Perez family in Morristown, Tenn., are subject to harassment for using their cars without driver licenses. (Photo Southern Spaces) The Legislature shall have no power to suspend any general law for the benefit of any particular individual, nor to pass any law for the benefit of individuals […]
Fed-led brave new national economy: All propeller, no charts
The Zimbabwe dollar, late bastard brother to the American Federal Reserve dollar, suffers a like congenital deformation. Here, a 100 trillion dollar bill The greatest poison in your local economy and mine is the fluctuating medium of exchange known as the paper dollar and the excesses it engenders, starting with the greatest one of all, […]