POLICE ARE DOGS IN ANIMAL FARM
"If you want a picture of the future,
imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever."
~ 1984
Governments of the so-called "free" western world are setting up Police States similar to those in tin-pot dictatorships like Zimbabwe and big-time Communist nations like China and the Soviet Union. Police departments are constantly demanding "more tools" - a catch-all phrase for bigger guns and bigger weapons - with which to "catch the bad guys". But as is becoming painfully obvious to the thinking masses, these "new tools" are REALLY intended for use against the general population. The police themselves are nothing but "tools" of governments and corporations using them to establish and retain power.
A telling sign of corrupt regimes is how the politicians use police and dogs as bodyguards. In Animal Farm Orwell described how members of the Communist Party (represented as pigs) used the police (represented as dogs) to keep the citizenry (represented as every other animal) from toppling them from power.
See if you recognize similarities between the pigs and dogs in Animal Farm with the politicians and police of today. ~ Jackie Jura
exerpts from Animal Farm:
"... But just at this moment Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before.
At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. Snowball was racing across the long pasture that led to the road. He was running as only a pig can run, but the dogs were close on his heels. Suddenly he slipped and it seemed certain that they had him. Then he was up again, running faster than ever, then the dogs were gaining on him again. One of them all but closed his jaws on Snowball's tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time. Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.
Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back. At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.
Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech. He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others. The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing Beasts of England, and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates.
In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement. Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. Even Boxer was vaguely troubled. He set his ears back, shook his forelock several times, and tried hard to marshal his thoughts; but in the end he could not think of anything to say. Some of the pigs themselves, however, were more articulate. Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of disapproval, and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking at once. But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again. Then the sheep broke out into a tremendous bleating of ‘Four legs good, two legs bad!’ which went on for nearly a quarter of an hour and put an end to any chance of discussion."
...One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier.
When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. They had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. For the first time since the expulsion of Jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes. Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. The dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
...Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard. When they were all gathered together, Napoleon emerged from the farmhouse, wearing both his medals (for he had recently awarded himself ‘Animal Hero, First Class,’ and ‘Animal Hero, Second Class’), with his nine huge dogs frisking round him and uttering growls that sent shivers down all the animals' spines. They all cowered silently in their places, seeming to know in advance that some terrible thing was about to happen.
Napoleon stood sternly surveying his audience; then he uttered a high-pitched whimper. Immediately the dogs bounded forward, seized four of the pigs by the ear and dragged them, squealing with pain and terror, to Napoleon's feet. The pigs' ears were bleeding, the dogs had tasted blood, and for a few moments they appeared to go quite mad. To the amazement of everybody, three of them flung themselves upon Boxer. Boxer saw them coming and put out his great hoof, caught a dog in mid-air, and pinned him to the ground. The dog shrieked for mercy and the other two fled with their tails between their legs. Boxer looked at Napoleon to know whether he should crush the dog to death or let it go. Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go, whereat Boxer lifted his hoof, and the dog slunk away, bruised and howling.
Presently the tumult died down. The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their countenances. Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for years past. When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess.
The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders. They, too, were slaughtered. Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night. Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool — urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball — and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon, by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough. They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones. When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable.
...A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered — or thought they remembered — that the Sixth Commandment decreed ‘No animal shall kill any other animal.’ And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball...
Sniffer dogs government's best friend ("keep kids safe from drugs"). ToryParty, May 3, 2008
Enough to make you sick (LED flashlight incapacitator weapon in hands of police soon). Homeland Security, Feb 9, 2008
Shotgun taser on the way (intermediate police arsenal device like pepper spray & baton). TorontoStar, Jan 31, 2008
Taser shows off new stun gun (targeting civilians especially women) & Taser relations to coroner probed (denies he's an agent). GlobeMail, Dec 1, 2007
RCMP commission clears cop (who shot boy in back of head) & Cop threatens 'watch your back' (to cop who testified against cop) & RCMP attack like pack of wolves (mob & murder like gangsters). CTV/Prov/Cit Nov 30, 2007
Teen death causes prison furor (guards/supervisor criminal charges). GlobeMail, Nov 22, 2007 & Cop tasers man questioning ticket (whole thing caught on video) & Cops pepperspray, baton & taser man (in extremely critical condition) & Cops may face criminal charges (in death of polish immigrant). CTV/CP, Nov 21, 2007
Same old RCMP (commissioner silent for 34 days until taser video went public) & Vancouver cops buy 70 more tasers (so each can have own stun gun) & Use of tasers up 57% in Canada (first resort instead of last) & Safety Minister refuses to comment (says drunk driving bad as tasers) & BC Premier hasn't seen taser video (just watched part of it). CTV/CP/CBC, Nov 18, 2007. Go to DUI IS DUI, DUH & PREMIER SOURTOE COCKTAIL
Hundreds mourned Robert Dziekanski (two National Geographics on body of Poland & paradise British Columbia) & Taser death was murder: widow (RCMP should have been friend) & Mourners eulogise man, express outrage (funeral of Polish immigrant tasered to death by police). Canada.com, Nov 18, 2007
Canadian stun gun death on video (police kill immigrant at airport) & Cops tasering raises questions (police not looking good) & Police tasering 'really brutal' ("Hit him again"). BBC/CBS/VanSun, Nov 15, 2007
Witness saw police beat players (used tasers & pepper on Chile) & Canada cops assault soccer team (police-state brutality on players like Chile under Pinochet). NPost/TOStar, Jul 22, 2007
Only 1 in 40 cops respond to calls (don't target crime hotspots). DailyExpress, Mar 31, 2007. Go to POLICE NEW NO-SHOW NOW
UK peers slam school fingerprinting (kids victimized who don't comply). BBC, Mar 30, 2007. Go to FINGERPRINTING FUTURE FIRST Reader says the constant full-on police sirens give the impression crime is everywhere Taser use popular despite risk (shock delivers 50,000 volts; new model for consumers in pearl, silver, blue & pink). MinnesotaDaily, Jan 25, 2007 MI5 tracking 30 UK terror plots ('we just don't have enough spooks & secret agents'). BBC, Nov 11, 2006 MORE MURDER BY COP and JUSTICE BLINDLY BELIEVES COP Cop gets prison for 1999 manslaughter ("police not above the law") & Cop will appeal getting jail for murder ("If he gets away with it, the jails should be empty. Everyone should go home."). CBC/TorontoStar, Sep 28, 2006 & Police-custody death probes too slow (public has no confidence in police reviewing their own conduct). Vancouver Sun, Sep 25, 2006 PM candidate promises Martial Law (opposition withdraws ad exposing "soldiers with guns in Canadian cities") & PM hopeful pledges army in cities (100 regular troops & 500 reservists each). VancouverSun-TorontoStar, Jan 12, 2006 Top cop profits from UK tasers (fired 50,000 volts on wife in stunt; fell to ground screaming like a pig). The Times, Oct 30, 2005 Technology drives road safety revolution (cops equipped with handheld computer inspect biometric smart card licence). Telegraph, Oct 10, 2005. Go to 3.Surveillance & 20.Thought Police & WHO'S BEHIND ROAD CONTROL New microwave weapons for crowd control (fires 95-gigahertz microwave causing intolerable pain in five seconds). All Headline News, Sep 26, 2005. Go to MASER CROP CIRCLES & WEAPONS Sniffer dogs to detect tube bombs (used by police in London). BBC, Jul 20, 2005 & Jackals make perfect sniffer dogs (used all over USSR) Cops go beserk with taser gun (50,000 volts on 22-year-old woman). PalmBeachPost, Jun 10, 2005 Inquiry into teen's death by guards (pushed shackled-chained-handcuffed boy against elevator door which opened). Macleans, Jan 11, 2004. Go to COPS WHO KILL BLAME VICTIMS Infra-red searches don't violate privacy (police can snoop inside houses decrees Canada's Supreme Court). Globe & Mail, Oct 30, 2004. Go to 3.Surveillance Police test high-tech car zapper (delivers blast of radio waves; knock out vital engine electronics; targeted vehicle stalls & stops). Guardian, Jul 12, 2004. Go to 3.Surveillance & 20.Police Sweeping stun guns to target crowds (fire stream of electricity like water out of hose in single sweep with 10 million megawatts of power). NewScientist, Jun 17, 2004. Go to 13.Weapons & 7.Systems State of Emergency for G-8 summit (martial law in constitutional democracy) & Military vehicles driving thru town. Yahoo! Jun 9, 2004. Go to 21.Crimestop & 7.Systems & GENESIS OF COMING UP FOR AIR Giant X-ray for drug searches (400 police scan bar patrons & see them bare naked). BBC, Mar 27, 2004. Go to 3.Surveillance 50,000 volts: Suspect usually complies (if not they get another shot of 'electro muscular disruption'). Independent, Mar 27, 2004. Go to 14.Experimentation & 13.Weapons Police chief wants Star Trek weapons (that switch peoples' brains off so that officers can move in). Birmingham News, Feb 16, 2004 CROSSWALK SAFETY POEM (newspaper refuses to print). Feb 14, 2004. Go to Ministry of Truth (Lies) & PREVENTION OF LITERATURE COURT GUARDS KILL TEEN (120-lb boy, handcuffed & shackled, kept calling out he was hungry, guards enter cell, grab by neck, bang back & forth against elevator door hard enough to shake witness's cell & man shouts 'Oh my God'). Edmonton Journal, Jan 24, 2004. Go to 34.Ministry of Love (Hate) Court OKs roadblocks to hunt criminals (motorists open to cop interference, unreasonable invasion of privacy, motorists will be trapped, a victory for law enforcement). Yahoo! Jan 14, 2004. Go to 21.Crimestop & 15.Life in Oceania
Big Brother Britain, 2004 (without any debate at all UK has highest level of cameras & gov't wants more cops). Independent, Jan 12, 2004. Go to 3.Surveillance & 20.Thought Police & 18.Newspeak (freedom no longer exists in UK- not even as a concept) Cops demand remote control of vehicles (stop anyone's car by pushing button to keep people safe & prevent crime). Guardian, Dec 22, 2003. Go to 2.Big Brother & 3.Surveillance & The Party Tells 'Why' Police using Rottweiler 'devil dogs' (ferocious reputation 'a bonus' for football crowds & chasing suspects). Scotsman, Nov 9, 2003 & USSR uses jackals crossed with huskies. Go to 7.Systems of Thought Cops raid school with guns drawn (order kids to ground, handcuff & use dogs to sniff for grass). MSNBC & KSAT, Nov 7, 2003. Go to SCHOOLS LIKE PRISON Blimps to replace police helicopters? (another "tool in the box"). Globe & Mail, Nov 3, 2003. Go to 3.Surveillance RCMP WATCHDOG WARNS CANADIANS (police misusing anti-terrorism powers). National Post, Jul 4, 2003. Go to POLICE STATE OF UNION Cops' message to people of Canada ('Do as you're told & you won't get hurt'). Province, Jul 1, 2003. Go to 37.We Are The Dead & 20.Thought Police & CANADA COPS UNLEASHED Police toss sting grenades (crowd doing nothing wrong; young people targeted). SanFranChron, May 28, 2003. Go to 7.Systems of Thought Police may shoot public (who try to leave scene after a nuke attack). Telegraph, May 13, 2003. Go to NUKES GO MAINSTREAM 8 years for kicking police dog (that was going for his face). AP, FloridaNews, May 11, 2003 Cop union leader investigated (sent death-threat to journalist for disclosing cop chief facts). Tacoma News, Apr 30, 2003. Go to 20.Thought Police Cops kill man with taser (electric jolt stops heart). Vancouver Prov, Apr 22, 2003 & Taser dem turns shocking (cop knocked-out in fall). Madison.com, Apr 22, 2003. Go to 13.Weapons & 20.Police Cops shout Taser! Taser! Taser! (shoot 50,000-volts at victim who collapses into foetal ball). Telegraph, Apr 17, 2003. Go to 13.Weapons & 42.The Party tells 'Why' Teens prey to smoke-police (age-defined criminal activity). Edmonton Journal, Apr 1, 2003 & Teens caught in cop sting (enticing and entrapping youth). Florida Ledger, Apr 1, 2003. Go to 21.Crimestop & 20.Thought Police & Snitches & DRUG WAR & PEACE & SCHOOLS LIKE PRISONS Schools using dogs on students (say they're exempt from 4th Amendment). AP, Feb 18, 2003. Go to SCHOOLS LIKE PRISONS Status symbol in DC: Bodyguards (gov't setting up Police State). WorldNetDaily, Feb 16, 2003. Go to TERROR BILL IS TERROR UK cops get stun guns (to prevent "suicide by cop"). Telegraph, Jan 30, 2003. Go to 20.Thought Police & Snitches School hires drug dogs (recommended by police, paid for by parents). Telegraph, Jan 28, 2003. Go to 21.Crimestop 37.We're The Dead and 7.Systems and 42.Big Brother Tells Why Jackie Jura email: orwelltoday@gmail.com
Surveillance video from Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina, shows 14 officers, some with guns drawn, ordering students to lie on the ground as police searched for marijuana. Students who didn't comply with the orders quickly enough were reportedly handcuffed. Police didn't find any criminals in the armed sweep, but they say search dogs smelled drugs on a dozen backpacks.The school's principal defended the dramatic sweep. ..."I was just upset knowing they had guns put to their head and a canine was barking at them and about to bite somebody," said Latonia Simmons, the parent of one student. "It was awful."
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