The Perfect Police State
Title | The Perfect Police State PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Cain |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2021-06-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1541757017 |
A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State. Using the haunting story of one young woman’s attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.
Police State
Title | Police State PDF eBook |
Author | Gerry Spence |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2015-09-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1250073456 |
Legal legend Gerry Spence puts America's Most Wanted - its own law enforcement officers - on trial for rampant abuse of power. When the police become the criminals, the people become the enemy.
The Global Police State
Title | The Global Police State PDF eBook |
Author | William I. Robinson |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Discrimination in law enforcement |
ISBN | 9780745341644 |
A critical look at the terrifying ways the police are used to control'surplus' populations worldwide.
The Disordered Police State
Title | The Disordered Police State PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Wakefield |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2009-08-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0226870227 |
Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences—a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials—and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Andre Wakefield shows that the cameral sciences were at once natural, technological, and economic disciplines, but, more important, they also were strategic sciences, designed to procure patronage for their authors and good publicity for the German principalities in which they lived and worked. Cameralism, then, was the public face of the prince's most secret affairs; as such, it was an essentially dishonest enterprise. In an entertaining series of case studies on mining, textiles, forestry, and universities, Wakefield portrays cameralists in their own gritty terms. The result is a revolutionary new understanding about how the sciences created and maintained an image of the well-ordered police state in early modern Germany. In raising doubts about the status of these German sciences of the state, Wakefield ultimately questions many of our accepted narratives about science, culture, and society in early modern Europe.
Police State USA
Title | Police State USA PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl K. Chumley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Abuse of administrative power |
ISBN | 9781936488148 |
The Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize America today. The God-given freedoms they championed in the Bill of Rights have been chipped away over the years by an ever-intrusive government bent on controlling all aspects of our lives in the name of safety and security. NSA wire-tapping and data collection is Orwellian in its scope. The TSA, BLM, and IRS are all jockeying for control of our lives. Warrantless searches are on the rise and even encouraged in some communities. Free speech, the right to bear arms, private property, and freedom of religion all are under attack. The Constitution has been tossed on the same trash pile as the Bible. From traffic light cameras to phone tapping, from militarized police forces to targeting specific groups of people, the government is unfettered in its desire to control the American people. Police State USA chronicles how America got to the point of being a de facto police state and what led to an out-of-control government that increasingly ignores the constitution and exploits 9/11 security fears to justify spying on its citizens. Stunning new surveillance technology makes it easier to keep tabs on the people. The acquisition by police departments of major battlefield equipment emboldens officials to strong-arm those they should be protecting. The failure of the news media to uphold the rights of citizens sets the stage for this slippery slope. Police State USA tells how we might overcome and recapture our freedoms, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
Police State
Title | Police State PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Chapman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
The American Police State
Title | The American Police State PDF eBook |
Author | David Wise |
Publisher | Vintage Books USA |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780394724980 |