#secret police

[mckitterick]

State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as his personal militia

Veterans resign from a paramilitary police force ostensibly established for "civilian disaster relief," warning about its militaristic training and abuse.

DeSantis’ compliant, Republican-led state legislature pandered to the militarization, this year approving a massive expansion in the force’s funding, size, and equipment. Its budget increased from $10 million to $107.5 million of taxpayer money, and its size more than tripled from 400 secret police to 1,500.

On the governor’s shopping list were helicopters, boats, police powers, and even cellphone-hacking technology for this force that will operate outside of federal jurisdiction, and be accountable directly to kleinenführer DeSantis.

Major General John D Haas, Florida’s adjutant overseeing the state’s new paramilitary, confirmed the resigning veterans’ assertions that the state guard’s directives had changed. It's a “military organization,” he said, that will be used for “aiding law enforcement with riots and illegal immigration” without any oversight except from kleinenführer DeSantis.

original Guardian story: X

So now DeSantis is a wannabe Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin, or more aptly an Ernst Röhm, building a Brownshirts private army of thugs in service to the Reich.

Hey, Floridians, can you please nip this in the bud before it blooms into a corpse flower stinking up the entire continent? This guy is preparing to start a war against the people of his state, beginning with full-scale assault against whom he deems "undesirables."

We know how this goes from there.

#ron desantis #paramilitary #secret police #fascism #florida #the USA is looking a lot like 1930s Germany right now #my screencaps

[jetaimemacherie19]

Spy x Family Chapter 72 spoilers

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WHY HASN’T YOR BEEN INFORMED YET??? I think it’s safe to presume that Loid is unable to be contacted due to the fact he’s on a mission.....BUT YOR IS PROBABLY WORKING A DAY AT CITY HALL!!! Why has no one informed her yet? 

Time has clearly passed and all the children are hungry by this point. Remember this started off as a field trip day and they presumably left in the morning. By this panel it looks more in the late afternoon/evening time. Anya probably would be home by this point if it was a normal day. Is Yor freaking out at the bus stop wondering where her daughter is??

Not only that but 

Damian was clearly shown to police and SSS to have a “bomb” strapped to his throat. There’s no way that the Desmond family haven’t heard of this yet. Is Melinda not calling her friend WHO’S DAUGHTER IS IN THE SAME CLASS AND PRESUMELY IS ALSO ON THE SAME BUS AND TELLING HER WHAT’S GOING ON!?!?

WHERE IS YOR

#spy x family #spy family #spy x family manga spoilers #spy family manga #yor briar #yor forger #melinda #damian desmond #anya forger #loid forger #secret police #spy x family 72 #spy family 72

[smol-stardust]

Spy x Family ch. 68

Still disappointed that the secret police that showed up last chapter was just Fiona & Franky dressed up. I wanted Loid/Yuri drama, but we got that this chapter.

Also, since when did Loid go from being "Lottie" to being "Loi loi"?

Is this some character development between Yuri and Loid I spy?

I think Yuri just really wants a brother deep down, but hasn't grown to accept it yet. XD

Also I love that Yuri, who probably leads the "Get Yor a divorce so she can stay with me" club is the one feeding us all this TwiYor content. It's hilarious watching all three of their reactions in these scenes.

But as a reader, I'd like to thank Yuri for contributing to giving us TwiYor content

Also, is Anya studying?!?

You go girl. I feel you, studying is hard.

(or is Anya just studying to avoid being in Loid and Yuri's contests? Who knows)

Yuri, stop abusing your power as a secret police dude. You're terrifying people!

That was kinda sweet ngl. That Yuri bought Yor some childhood sweets.

It gives me nostalgia too, cuz I grew up on whistle candy. I'm pretty sure I annoyed the heck outta adults with my whistling lol.

Overall a funny and kinda heartfelt chapter. Yuri should come over more to satisfy our need of TwiYor content.

Wonder how operation B/C are going ? :)

#spy x family manga #spy x family chapter 68 #spy x family #agent twilight #twiyor #loid forger #anya forger #yor forger #yor briar #yuri briar #secret police #spy x family spoilers #manga spoilers #sxf

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Republican state legislators In North Carolina are establishing a new investigative body that Democratic critics have aptly compared to a “secret police force.”

This new entity, formally known as the Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations, or “Gov Ops” for short, will be chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R). It grants the state the authority to investigate various matters, including “possible instances of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, mismanagement, waste, abuse, or illegal conduct.”

Gov Ops, a product of North Carolina’s most recent state budget, was established via a comprehensive bill passed in late September. Despite Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s refusal to sign the legislation, the Republican majority in the state legislature pushed it through just 10 days later, thanks to their veto-proof majority and the state’s laws restricting the governor’s ability to make line-item vetoes. Gov Ops is slated to take effect next week.

Any way you slice it, Gov Ops seems like a recipe for government overreach and abuse. If you find yourself under investigation by Gov Ops, you won’t be allowed to publicly discuss any alleged constitutional violations or misconduct by the investigators. All communications with committee personnel would be treated as “confidential.” Shockingly, you’d also be denied the right to seek legal counsel regarding your rights if Gov Ops were to search your property without a warrant, irrespective of whether it’s in a public or private space.

Nora Benavidez, a senior counsel with the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press, told The Daily Beast, “This is a question for the courts ultimately. But the powers granted to the Gov Ops appear to give them overreaching investigative authority, which invokes constitutionality questions.”

A critical aspect of Gov Ops development lies in the language within the statute itself. The key phrase, as highlighted by Republican state legislators, is the investigation of “possible instances of misfeasance.”

It’s unsettling that North Carolina’s Republican state legislators are poised to wield unchecked partisan authority, devoid of any form of accountability, to determine what qualifies as “possible instances of misfeasance.” This newfound investigative power threatens to have far-reaching repercussions on fundamental civil liberties, particularly those closely intertwined with the state legislature—such as voting rights and abortion.

Consider the 2020 election aftermath. Following the election’s conclusion, several North Carolina Republican lawmakers—mirroring Trump and other far-right figures nationwide—demanded access to voting machines, relying on dubious sources and unfounded claims of voter fraud.

Initially, North Carolina Republicans asserted that they would work with police to obtain warrants for such inspections. However, with the advent of Gov Ops, committee leaders could now allege “possible instances of misfeasance,” eliminating the need for a warrant and keeping the public in the dark.

With the 2024 election looming, Republicans in the state legislature will redraw voting maps after the new conservative majority on the state’s Supreme Court legalized partisan gerrymandering. (The Princeton Gerrymandering Project called North Carolina one of the most gerrymandered states in the country.)

The redistricting process in the state has been grueling; since 2011, six different versions of maps have been drawn. The process has been conducted mainly behind closed doors, and North Carolinians continue to express frustration over how they’ve been locked out of the process.

A provision of Gov Ops will likely permit lawmakers drawing the maps to bypass public records requests: “lawmakers responding to public records requests will have no obligation to share any drafts or materials that guided their redistricting decisions.”

Now, let’s look at abortion. During a legislative hearing, state Sen. Graig Meyer (D) asked lawmakers, in a hypothetical scenario, if Gov Ops could access personal health records (like ultrasounds) that are required by the state to receive abortion pills. Sen. Meyer found that Gov Ops, with its widespread ability to investigate with zero oversight, could release information like this “to the public in a hearing” if it wanted to.

Benavidez explained, “At the end of the day, Gov Ops actions and requests for information are all protected as confidential, adding a layer of opacity which means people in North Carolina will have largely no idea what the Gov Ops entity is really doing.”

The consolidation of power by Republicans in North Carolina through Gov Ops is not just a cause for concern; it is a stark warning sign. The ability of state legislators to wield unchecked authority—shielded from the scrutiny of the voters they are obliged to serve—strikes at the heart of democratic principles.

Transparency and accountability are not optional in a democracy; they are its lifeblood.

When the process of drawing voting maps becomes cloaked in secrecy, when mechanisms to hold our elected officials accountable are dismantled, we risk losing our most cherished rights to our legislators, who should be our staunchest defenders.

Government powers like Gov Ops can potentially erode the very foundations of our democracy—which can’t work if politicians refuse to work for the people and have any accountability.

#us politics #news #republicans #the daily beast #conservatives #alt right #secret police #Gov Ops #Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations #Phil Berger #Tim Moore #Gov. Roy Cooper #government overreach #fourth amendment violations #fourth amendment #illegal search and seizure #warrants #Nora Benavidez #Free Press #Republican state legislators #civil liberties #voting rights #gun rights #abortions #confidentiality #gerrymandering #redistricting #Graig Meyer #YouTube #videos

[probablyasocialecologist]

It was only decades after their relationship ended that she began to understand that they got on so well because Dines was using a battery of grooming techniques perfected by colleagues in an undercover police division. The undercover officers in Dines’s unit presented themselves as vulnerable and alone in the world; often they would say they were recently bereaved or estranged from their families, preying on the women’s good nature, inviting their sympathy and love.

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Throughout the time they were together, Dines was married to someone else; his parents were alive and well. When his deployment was over, he left a note on the kitchen table telling her that he needed some space and abruptly disappeared.

There can be no clearer example of misogyny within the Met than the undercover police division’s treatment of these women, who were duped into relationships by officers who used them to construct convincing alter egos, to mask the surveillance work they were doing on small, mostly left-leaning and non-violent protest groups.

#police #spycops #surveillance #secret police #metropolitan police #special demonstration squad

[okochamasensou]

secret police transparents

#vocaloid #web graphics #hatsune miku #png #render #transparent #anime figure #project diva #anime plush #dark angel #secret police

[alekyareads]

Chapter 11 is out!

Looks of horror spread across the whole team’s face.  Berlint general Hospital from that day forward, would never cross the State Security Service and their power. For as all of them were Husbands, wives, grandparents. Who all had children.

#spy x family #anya forger #yor forger #damian desmond #yuri briar #loid forger #twilight #hennry henderson #secret police #a few real time period references lol #hope you find and figure it out #thorn princess #Anyhoo wrote this in the middle of class #Hope it turend out decent

[missyoshida]

Your girls are dreaming about you Loid.

Realize this is your family already PLEASE

#spy family #spy x family #spy x family anya #spy x family loid #spy x family yor #yor briar #loid forger #anya forger #sxf #yuri briar #spyxfamily #twilight #thorn princess #secret police

[beatsyncer]

so called anarchists when secret police comes on

#im included in this post. #yes i want to overthrow the government but i sing along to miku's song about eliminating the enemies of the state. duality of woman #hatsune miku #初音ミク #vocaloid #secret police #himitsu keisatsu #buriru p #seizure warning

[projectvoltageredux]

Concept sketch: Dark-type Miku

Pokemon: Obstagoon Song inspiration: Secret Police

To be honest, I'm not all that fond of Obstagoon's design, but It does have the best thematic fit though so I kept it on and combined it with Secret Police. I really do like the twin drill pigtails and I'm probably going to add a bunch more belts and chains to this design as I refine it.

#project voltage redux #hatsune miku #pokemon #vocaloid #dark type #obstagoon #secret police

[mangolon]

sometimes a family is a woman who’s been killing people since she was 14 and her brother who commits human rights violations on a nightly basis.

#spy x family #yor briar #yor forger #yuri briar #assassin #secret police

[intelligentchristianlady]

Constitutional violations enshrined in state law? Be very afraid. Your state could be next.

If you'd like a different source:

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-secret-police-sparks-fight-democrats-1831481

Or:

https://amp.newsobserver.com/opinion/article279823109.html

#secret police #North Carolina #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism #denial of legal counsel #unreasonable search and seizure

[1-800-bonk]

okay but hear me out….

secret police music video but instead of miku in the secret police outfit it’s hagane miku.

#hagane miku #miku #miku hatsune #hatsune miku #miku hagane #secret police #vocaloid #metal #heavy metal #utsu p

[kaitofigure]

Secret Police is such a banger

#KAITO #Kaito Shion #Vocaloid #Secret Police #Himitsu Keisatsu #KAITO Vocaloid #Vocaloid KAITO #Vocaloid fanart #Vocaloid art #was gonna draw Rin but uh </3 I gave up

[probablyasocialecologist]

An analysis of the political groups that were known to have been spied on by undercover officers between 1968 and 2010 shows that the police overwhelmingly spied on leftwing and progressive political groups.

#police #spycops #secret police #uk politics #special demonstration squad #🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[cml-san]

Currently at work, writing something down in a good old-fashioned paper sheet with a good old-fashioned pencil while listening to WTNV, and the sponsor came up saying:

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I was holding a pencil.

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv cecil #wtnv carlos #carlos the scientist #cecil palmer #secret police #vague yet menacing government organization