Snorting Columbia
Alvaro Vargas Llosa of The Independent Institute on Colombia — From Invincibility To Panic: The United States would do well to take heed of recent developments in Colombia that call into question its Andean...
Tagged: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts
Government Thievery
Radley Balko writing for Tech Central Station on We're From the Government and We're Here to Help: Dan Peruchi, father of four, enjoyed fixing up old cars and reselling them. Because the dealers he...
Kenai Says No To Repeal of Bill of Rights
Sara B. Miller and Seth Stern of The Christian Science Monitor on Odd bedfellows fall in line Residents of Kenai, Alaska, usually worry more about the number of king salmon in the river than...
Citizen, Your Papers?!
The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) is renewing their push for a de facto national ID card. They can call it anything they want – but its a frigging national ID card...
On To The Supreme Court (Hopefully)
The Center for National Security Studies has petitioned the Supreme Court (pdf) to review the two year old FOIA lawsuit regarding the secret detentions of Arabs and Muslims following the terrorist attacks on September...
Blue About JetBlue
For those who haven't heard about the JetBlue scandal featuring the unauthorized release of passenger data to Torch Concepts, a DoD subcontractor working on DoD data centralization projects, click here. For those wanting to...
There Has To Be A Better Way
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has sent a letter to the Senate today regarding a HUD plan to set up an extensive surveillance and tracking system of the nation's homeless. While helping the homeless...
We Can’t Afford This VICTORY
National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Group has issued its lastest Privacy Villain of the Week. The current offender is John Ashcroft: Attorney General John Ashcroft has kicked off a road show, a 10-day, 20-stop tour...
He’s Making His List, Checking It Twice
Jonathan Turley writing for the Los Angeles Times on Under Ashcroft, Justice Is Blind and Handcuffed: In matters of faith and law, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft generally distrusts the role of discretion — it...
U.S. Sends Canadian To Syrian Prison
Torture and confinement of the innocent is what Stuart Taylor's PATRIOT Act has wrought. Civil libertarians aren't just making this stuff up Stu.