Administration Payback
Andrew Gumbel of the Independent Digital on US Anti-war Activists Hit by Secret Airport Ban: After more than a year of complaints by some US anti-war activists that they were being unfairly targeted by...
Tagged: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts
Bush Assumes Imaginary Powers
Bill Sammon of The Washington Times on Bush vows no 'compromise' on gay 'marriage' President Bush yesterday said he would not "compromise" on the issue of homosexual "marriage" and said administration lawyers are exploring...
Watching You, Tagging You, Bagging You
Robert O'Harrow, Jr. of The Washington Post on Surveillance Proposal Expanded – CAPPS II Would Look At More Air Passengers: A passenger-screening system designed to help capture terrorists could also be used to target...
First Amendment and the Feebs
Get caught reading this in public and the FBI may pay you a visit. And maybe throw in a little intimidation just for fun. Just. Plain. Sad. This is another reminder of how far...
More Boot on the Neck
Michael Moss of the New York Times (yeah, I know) on False Terrorism Tips to F.B.I. Uproot the Lives of Suspects: One evening in late April, the F.B.I. chief in Indiana, Thomas V. Fuentes,...
Secret Arrests Okayed
Longtime readers know that through my website publication (The Multiracial Activist), I am a plaintiff in a lawsuit launched by the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS) regarding secret arrests and detentions by the...
Tulia Railroad
Lee Hockstader of The Washington Post on 13 Imprisoned in Tulia Drug Sweep To Be Freed Today: It began one sultry summer morning four years ago, just before dawn, when masked police officers swept...
Liberty Trumps Security
Jacob Hornberger on Security and the Right to Liberty: As everyone knows, the federal government has seized upon the September 11 terrorist attacks to expand its power to harass and spy on both immigrants...
DEA Intimidation
DRCNet on DEA Uses RAVE Act Threats to Block Montana NORML/SSDP Benefit: An agent of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) used threats of RAVE Act prosecutions to intimidate the owners of a Billings,...
inJustice Stonewalling
A joint letter on secret detentions of immigration violators by the Department of Justice was sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary today. Tomorrow, the Committee will be grilling Herr Aschcroft on his...