Supreme Court: Individuals May Challenge Federal Law for Violating States’ Rights June 20th, 2011 Hmm. I didn’t think that such an apparently desirable decision would come about this late in the game. Am I missing something? This seems too good to be true. Via: Jurist: The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled in Bond v. [...]
Air Force Wants to Track You Forever With a Single Camera Click May 19th, 2011 Via: Wired: Don’t bother with the iris scanner or the fingerprinting machine. Leave the satellite-enabled locators and tell-tale scents back on the base, military manhunters. If an Air Force plan works out as planned, all you’ll need to track [...]
Secret Service Interrogates 7th Grader For Facebook Post Share | May 17, 2011 Print Version Source: Q13 FOX News A Tacoma seventh grader faced federal interrogation at school for what he posted on his Facebook page. His mom said it all happened without her knowledge or permission. ……. “A man walked in with [...]
Delayed-Notice Search Warrants Increasing -Agents Enter Homes Without Owner Knowing Share | May 17, 2011 Print Version Source: KOAT A special type of government search warrant that allows authorities to search homes without informing the owner for months is becoming more common, Target 7 has learned. Imagine someone walking through your neighborhood, coming into your [...]
Police Can Now Knock On Your Door, Listen for Sounds Suggesting Evidence Is Being Destroyed (Whatever That Means), and Then Break In—No Warrant Necessary May 17th, 2011 Game over. Via: Los Angeles Times: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in a Kentucky case, says police officers who loudly knock on a door in [...]
New Defense Bill Authorizes US Government To Launch “Defensive” Cyber Attacks Share | May 11, 2011 Print Version Suzanne Kubota – Federal News Radio Within the chairman’s mark of the 2012 Defense Authorization bill is language that would allow DoD to carry out clandestine operations in cyberspace against targets located outside the United States [...]
Senate Sneaks RFID Drivers License, Internet ID into Transportation Bill Share | May 4, 2011 Print Version By Adrian Wyllie – Liberty Underground TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday approved an amendment to include “electronic authentication,” as well as “biometrics” to Florida Driver’s licenses. In addition, the amendment [...]
Texas Bill Would Make Invasive Pat-Downs a Felony Share | April 30, 2011 Print Version FOX News FORT WORTH, Texas — A former Miss USA’s claims of being groped during a pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport could be a felony under a bill gaining momentum in the Texas Legislature. The bill would make [...]
Kucinich Responds to Defense Department Moving Pfc. Bradley Manning to a Maximum Security Prison at Fort Leavenworth Dennis J. Kucinich Demands Written Assurances of Protection of Rights and of Person Washington, April 19, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement in response to a report by the Associated Press that the [...]
44/52 ‘Tea Party Caucus’ members voted to renew Patriot Act http://www.examiner.com/la-county-libertarian-in-los-angeles/44-tea-party-caucus-members-voted-to-renew-patriot-act Fourty four out of the 52 Republican members the official ‘Tea Party Caucus’ voted to renew expiring provisions of the Patriot Act on February 8th. Seven out of the 26 Republican Congressmen who voted NO on the Patriot Act yeterday are listed on Michelle [...]
Britain: No Terror Arrests in 100,000 Police Counter-Terror Searches October 29th, 2010 Via: Guardian: More than 100,000 people were stopped and searched by police under counter-terrorism powers last year but none of them were arrested for terrorism-related offences, according to Home Office figures published today. The statistics show that 504 people out of the 101,248 [...]
Drug laws trump constitutional rights Published on 10-29-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: UAB Kaleidoscope Michael Lapihuska is facing a sentence that could be as severe as 10 years in prison, not for rape, burglary or assault, but for the possession of a single joint’s worth of marijuana. Michael suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress [...]
Senate candidate used active duty troops in security detail Published on 10-20-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: RawStory Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller caught national attention Monday when his security detail handcuffed an editor they said was a problem.Now Miller may have problems of his own. Two of the guards who helped “arrest” [...]
Video: Constitution “Silly Stuff,” Says Illinois Congressman Published on 08-24-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Youtube The new clip shows a citizen asking Hare, “Where in the constitution does it say that you can force people to buy health care?” to which Hare responds, “Oh boy, we’re not going there again are we?” [...]
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By Katherine Smith In September 2006, the world experienced a paradigm shift when a strong lobbying effort by grassroots organizations effectively derailed an initiative: A move that was tantamount to a declaration of war on Iran. U.S.: Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for Israel Lobby In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the [...]
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