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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. – Orson Welles

Tracking You, Watching You…

Posted on August 31, 2005 by James Landrith

James Plummer, policy director for the Liberty Coalition, on Will the New National ID Track Your Movements? By the end of September virtually unaccountable bureaucrats inside the Department of Homeland […]

Time to Streamline Burdensome Airport Security

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Ivan Eland

Time to Streamline Burdensome Airport Security by Dr. Ivan Eland The federal government is thinking about revising excessive airport security measures in response to the air-traveling public’s growing resentment of […]

Tell The U.S. and E.U. To Byte Me

Posted on August 9, 2005 by James Landrith

The excerpt below contains more information on the scheme, favored by President Bush and other domestic surveillance advocates, to force European ISPs to maintain long-term records of all internet traffic […]

U.K. National ID Card Battle Heats Up

Posted on August 9, 2005 by James Landrith

More on the U.K.’s version of a national identification card: UK: The London School of Economics says the Home Office’s recent rebuttal of their critique of the Government’s identity cards […]

Red Light Cameras Go Bye-Bye

Posted on July 1, 2005 by James Landrith

Christina Bellantoni of The Washington Times on N. Virginia to turn off 'spy' cameras: Red-light cameras in Northern Virginia will be unplugged tomorrow, as a 10-year pilot program expires. A […]

Burning the First Amendment

Posted on June 23, 2005 by James Landrith

From the good folks at Veterans for Common Sense: Yesterday, the House passed H.J.Res.10, supporting a constitutional amendment banning the "desecration" of the Flag. Passing with only 8 votes more […]

UK National ID Card

Posted on May 25, 2005 by James Landrith

Statewatch has posted a copy of a bill to introduce the U.K.'s version of a national ID card: UK: Identity Card Bill published 25 May 2005 (full-text, pdf): http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/may/uk-ID-CARD-Bill.pdf Explanatory […]

Advocacy Letters Update

Posted on May 15, 2005 by James Landrith

I've gotten a little behind with my work at The Multiracial Activist. I've recently posted several coalition letters (co-signed by The Multiracial Activist) on the REAL ID Act, PATRIOT Act […]