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, […]
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. – Orson Welles
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 […]
Read moreU.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.
Read moreAdministration 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 […]
Read moreBush 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 […]
Read moreWatching 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 […]
Read moreFirst 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 […]
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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 […]
Read moreSecret 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 […]
Read moreTulia 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 […]
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