As fans entered the stadium, police used biometric face-recognition technology to scan their faces. Unbeknown to the fans, these images were recorded and compared to a database of known police targets such as terrorists, troublemakers, and criminals. ... According to a study by the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York residents are secretly being videotaped on public streets, housing projects, outside buildings, and even in their backyards, through the use of hidden surveillance cameras. New York Police Commission Howard Safir believes the use of surveillance cameras will reduce the cri...

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Changes occurred in the reduction of the spoils system, established the secret ballot, and striped party leaders of their power to nominate party candidates. ... The shift of control came due to an economic surplus, which caused many Americans to change their opinions on economic polices. ...

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He noted that time is working against us--although living conditions in Cuba are deteriorating, Castro is tightening police state controls within the area. ... Kennedy was assassinated, he died knowing secrets that would remain tightly held for decades to follow. ... Newly declassified documents show that in the months preceding Kennedy's death, White House emissaries engaged representatives of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Kennedy's arch-enemy, in a series of quiet contacts and secret exchanges. For decades, the CIA's top secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion ha...

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The operations of secret escape networks began in the 1500s, and were later connected with organized abolitionist activity of the 1800s. ... Underground operations often relied on secret codes to alert "passengers" when travel was safe. ... Courts and police everywhere in the United States were obligated to assist them." ...

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"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a book that claims that Jews are secretly controlling the world or attempting to. ... The teacher viewed the student's comments to be more than just debated and informed the secret service. ... The police? ...

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A secret society, known as the Fists of Righteous Harmony began to emerge in China, the empress of China at the time used these members, referred to as boxers, to her advantage, to destroy any and all foreigners. ... Roosevelt extended the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 and declared that the United States would not allow any non-American intervention in Latin-American affairs and also police the area in order to guarantee that these countries met their obligations, this was the beginning of the American "philosophy". ... Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of...

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Once a gun or other weapon is in the hands of a criminal or an unqualified person, the licensing and registration system makes it easy for them to keep the ownership of the weapon a secret. ... Police officers outside secured around the school as medical workers prepared for the worst. ...

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When Prohibition came, old-time saloons vacated underground and became secret drinking clubs referred to as "speakeasies.... Anything was allowed at these explicit organizations; with night time entertainment and scotch sold for twenty five dollars a bottle, speakeasies stayed in business by paying off police and constructing intricate alarm systems to keep federal authorities out (The Twentieth Century 27-28). ...

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Would you like it if you were forced to think and act in a certain way? Leaders in countries such as Germany during WWII, used manipulation and brute force to control and lead the citizen's to follow them - no matter what. The United States and other countries didn't feel that they could just stand ...

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Changing the meaning of a word does not change the effect it has on a person. After the 9/11 incident the United States resorted to "Rough Interrogation" as a mean of extracting information from Al Qaeda members. Although there was a great urgency for information the United State's use of "not tortu...

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"First of all, it is no secret that our criminal justice system needs a major overhaul. ... (Willis) By legalizing this relatively social-harmless drug, police officers and judges could spend more time fighting serious crimes rather than having to worry about marijuana dealers. ...

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