Our two year old lawsuit against the Department of Justice's secret detentions got a little press today in The Washington Post: …the court will look at an appeal by the […]
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Tag: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. – Orson Welles
Tearing Down the Police State
Longtime readers of this weblog know that in addition to this trashy blog offering, I am also the founder of The Multiracial Activist and The Abolitionist Examiner. My publication, The […]
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Nice Quote
From Jim Henley: As we have been told over and over again, it is not "censorship" when radio stations blacklist the Dixie Chicks for their political views or listeners demand […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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