Civil Liberties

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• Europes 1788 moment | David Marquand

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The EU must look to late 18th-century America for the kind of debate it needs about its future It is hard to think of a more telling example of the British medias propensity to get the wrong end of the stick than the hue and cry over the two latest additions to top-level EU officialdom. Herman Van Rompuy, the new ...
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• Tacoma Police Killings

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 733
  National Review Online invited me to offer comments on the four police officers who were murdered in Tacoma, Washington.  Here’s an excerpt: The vicious killing of the police officers in Tacoma, Washington, may well have political repercussions for Mike Huckabee, as others have noted here. The primary ...
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• The Swiss Minaret Ban: Some Things Never Change

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 733
  In the Letter Concerning Toleration , John Locke wrote, Nobody… neither single persons, nor Churches, nay, nor even commonwealths, have any just title to invade the civil rights and worldly goods of each other, upon pretence of religion. Those that are of another opinion would do well to consider with themselves ...
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• Is Cato ‘Liberal’ on Criminal Law Issues?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 733
  Kent Scheidegger, who blogs over at Crime and Consequences , takes issue with the recent New York Times article that said liberal and conservative groups are finding common ground on criminal justice issues.  He makes some fair observations but then he had this to say about Cato: The picture is somewhat ...
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• Andrew Napolitano Gets Down To Basics.

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  Andrew Napolitano is a former judge on the New Jersey Supreme Court who has his own Fox News show and generally offers the standard over the top fare that has come to be associated with Fox "coverage." But today in the LA Times , he offers a very good defense of the decision to try terrorists in civilian courts, ...
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• Activists again urge disbarment for Yoo, Haynes

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 475
  Two Bay Area lawyers who played roles in the Bush Administration’s legal justifications for torture should be disbarred, according to papers filed Friday in Washington, D.C. Disbar Torture Lawyers , a group of non-governmental organizations with more than a million members, filed complaints with the District of ...
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• ID Cards In Manchester

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 160
  Dave Page is opting out of the spiffing new Manchester ID cards opportunity. Wonder why?I don’t need to carry about vast quantities of paperwork with me on a daily basis to prove my identity or address. I rarely need anything more than my bank card to talk to my bank. A card that lives in [...]
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• SCOTUS: Dont Release Torture Photos

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Congress already made sure the Obama administration wouldnt have to release photos of detainee abuse, but on Monday, the Supreme Court told the government the same thing: no worries. A federal appeals court ordered the photos, which the ACLU is seeking under the Freedom of Information Act, released earlier this ...
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• Supreme Court Throws Out Abused Detainee Photo Ruling

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 769
  The Supreme Court has thrown out a ruling ordering the release of photographs of detainees being abused by American captors, citing a change in federal law that allows the defense secretary to withhold such pictures. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which made the ruling, will have to take another look at a ...
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• Wired: Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 476
  Wired reports the Obama administration is seeking to reverse a recent ruling (pdf) by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concerning search of digital evidence.Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal ...
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• Civil disobedience and other ways to get your message across

  
  rochesterturning.com — Authority: 482
  With our recent problems regarding peaceful demonstrations in the city of Rochester, maybe it’s time to learn the dos and don’ts of public activism. Repeal of DOMA and DADT are the driving issues and the Local LGBT community has put together an evening workshop to help us sort it all out: Rallies, ...
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• Update: California city to record every car coming and going

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 476
  The San Francisco Chronicle has an update to a story I discussed earlier this year. Tiburon, a town near the San Francisco Bay, will use cameras to record the entrance and exit of every vehicle.The Town Council voted 4-0 late Wednesday – with Vice Mayor Miles Berger absent – to install six cameras that recognize ...
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• Problems with CRB? Get in touch

  
  Richard Baum — Authority: 413
  The froth and bother of Bury Council’s business that I write about on here barely registers a flutter of interest. But when I write about Criminal Records Bureau checks, and the problems that a lot of people are having with them, my metaphorical phone rings red hot. Some time ago I was made aware that enhanced ...
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• United against the state | Henry Porter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  There is a new alliance between the left and right in America, inspired by the threat to liberty – can the same happen here? The New York Times has revealed an interesting new alliance between US conservatives and liberals that has formed against the criminalisation of the public by a slew of vaguely drafted ...
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• Taking a photo of a sunset gets you stopped by the cops now!

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 521
  Brighton sunset Thanks to Twitter (specifically Copwatcher ) I discovered this gem. A BBC photographer was stopped by the cops for photographing a sunset over St Paul’s Cathedral . This utterly beggars belief! The number of times I have wandered around the South Bank armed with a camera taking photographs of ...
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• Democrats readying bribes to get 60 votes on health care reform

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 565
  Let the bribes begin! Health care debate begins today at 3pm in the U.S. Senate. There was probably a time (likely before I was born) when our lawmakers weren’t so blatant and open about bribing for votes. In some ways it is refreshing (at least they are open about it). Mostly it is just sickening. Details of the ...
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• The Preacher & The ‘Terrorist’

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 575
  Aisha Ghani on Overlooking ‘Overlooking’Saturday, Nov 14th – Today I learn that conversations in delis are political. All I ordered that morning was a cup of coffee. The guy at the register, perhaps dedicated to the idea of service, gives me that and something I’m still having trouble digesting. He had been ...
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• Against the ban on minarets

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 683
  Swiss voters have supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets . More than 57% of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons – or provinces – voted in favour of the ban. In Switzerland a referendum on any new piece of legislation can be held if the sponsor collects 100,000 signatures from the citizenship ...
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• Washington Post Calls for Abolition of Solitary Confinement

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  An editorial in Saturdays Washington Post , called "Solitary Disgrace," calls for an end to the widespread use of long-term lockdown in Americas prisons and jails. The Post s editors write : At one time shunned in the United States, solitary confinement is becoming a tool increasingly used by corrections ...
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• Roundup of Privacy Stories from Thanksgiving Holiday

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 476
  Here are a few stories of interest from the last few days:WHAS11: Louisville police reveal use of GPS tracking, sometimes without a warrantWHAS11 in Louisville, Kentucky, reports on the warrantless use of GPS (a location-tracking technology) by police. (For more on the legality of warrantless GPS tracking by law ...
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