Mind if we come in? Verizon offers details on records releases

"Are people generally worried about their right to privacy or is it a question of whether or not a government should have unrestrained (and warrantless) power? To me the latter is the most serious of the two. Because what we are witnessing here is a disruption of basic civil...

FISA failure demonstrates why we need real progressives in Congress

"I'm still mulling over the massive Democratic capitulation that enabled Bush to pass into law the most sweeping violation of Americans' privacy yet--legalizing an illegal program, and making it stronger to boot. Why did this happen? Why did Democrats in both chambers...

Democrats sell out America thanks to spy bill vote

"What an absolute disgrace this is. Not only did the Democrats almost completely cave in to the Bush junta on this most critical issue they actually gave him more power. Unbelievable. How can any Democrat paint themselves as a logical alternative to the GOP when you have this...

George Bush using the Constitution to destroy the Constitution

"In an act of absolutely unmitigated gall, George Bush is using the power granted to the Executive Branch by the Constitution to force Congress to stay in session, that they might pass a law legalizing his warrantless wiretap surveillance program--the same program that...

The mockingbird's song isn't heard in Jena, LA

"Today is the 46th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's iconic novel about Southern race relations, To Kill a Mockingbird. This particular anniversary seems a bittersweet one, since the Jena 6 case suggests the central issue that Lee's novel explores - the...

The human face of net neutrality

"A friend of a friend recently asked me for help in describing Net Neutrality in order to get a comment published in the New Smyrna Beach Shadow, a local Floridian news site that focuses on unearthing graft, greed, and corruption in city and county politics. There's a...

NY City May Require Permit For Public Photography

Next thing you know Bloomberg will try and bring back Giuliani's horrific "quality of life" campaigns, eliminating street vendors, jaywalking, and everything else New York City! The city is considering a very poorly worded and overly restrictive ban on photography. Families...

DHS Announces National ID Card Scheme;: Are Your Papers in Order?

This is very, very scary. The Department of Homeland Security continues its mission to protect America by destroying it, trotting out the same 9/11 imagery as always.  The DHS neglects the looming fact that ID is useless as a security tool, unless the person checking the...

Cover Up

"The ex Supreme Court Justice John Major's appointed by Harper to conduct a public hearing into the Air India F.U. has discovered that like the Arar Inquiry the State has marshelled all their forces in a united front called National Security. The RCMP, CSIS, Foreign...

New Math

"This has to be some form of new math, right. "Terrorism suspect Mohamed Mahjoub will soon be living again in Toronto with his wife and two young sons after spending almost seven years behind bars without charges." Because if he has been in jail for seven...

Privacy or protection? By John Yoo (torture advocate and co-author of the USA...

Civil libertarians would have us believe that the war on terrorism has introduced a vast new national security state that is sweeping suspects off the street without charge, listening in on every phone call and throwing citizens before military courts. The only problem is...

Vista gets slated - by the Greens

"The Green Party has slammed Microsoft and it's forthcoming operating system, Windows Vista, in a withering attack on the company's "monopoly". Microsoft not only takes criticism for allegedly environmentally unfriendly policies, but for attacking civil liberties. The party...

Gonzales: Judges unfit to rule on terror policy

Civil liberties - checks and balances - vestiges of the past.  Who needs them.

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