Its been a busy week on the civil liberties front. Here's the third coalition letter (this week) that my primary publication The Multiracial Activist signed on. This letter, in support […]
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. – Orson Welles
Detention Report
The Liberty and Security Initiative of the Constitution Project has released its bipartisan Report on Post-9/11 Detentions (pdf). Signatories include: Co-chairs David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union and David Cole, […]
Read moreLilienthal on PATRIOT Act II
From a statement today by Steve Lilienthal, Director of the Center for Privacy and Technology Policy at the Free Congress Foundation regarding “today’s expected mark up of H.R. 3179 — […]
Read moreCoalition Letter on Use of Torture
Here's another coalition letter my primary publication The Multiracial Activist signed on. This letter, which regards the use of torture by the United States, was sent to all members of […]
Read morePATRIOT Act II
I've signed my primary publication, The Multiracial Activist, on to another anti-American piece of dissent correspondence (sarcasm intended) regarding H.R. 3179, the "Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003" aka […]
Read moreIntelligent Surveillance
Kate Martin, of the Center for National Security Studies, has authored a new report for SAIS Review on Domestic Intelligence and Civil Liberties (pdf): Since September 11, domestic intelligence authorities […]
Read moreSecret Police State
As longtime readers know, my primary publication, The Multiracial Activist is a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits seeking to force the Justice Department to disclose the identities of those […]
Read moreLying Bastards
Ryan J. Foley of Associated Press on Feds Win Right to War Protesters' Records: In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades, a federal judge has […]
Read moreHiding The Evidence
Our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit was not certified. The Supreme Court will not hear us. Liberty took one on the chin today. When will she start fighting back?
Read moreCowardly Neo-Cons
James Bovard in American Conservative on “Free-Speech Zone”: The administration quarantines dissent. When Bush came to the Pittsburgh area on Labor Day 2002, 65-year-old retired steel worker Bill Neel was […]
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