Civil Liberties

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• Violence meets violence in China

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 510
  A state news agency in China confirmed today that nine people have been executed for their role in the rioting that overtook the northern city of Urumqi in July. As reported earlier on this blog, the rioting had a long simmering ethnic component to it that pitted the majority Muslim Uighur population against the ...
  5 hours ago

• Our representative democracy at work-Maine’s got nothin on NYS

  
  rochesterturning.com — Authority: 529
  Anne Tischer just sent me this video of a town-hall with Senator Maziarz (operative syllable-arz).   He doesn’t even look at Anne when he “answers” her question.  This is what we’re up against.  His non-answer gets applause from the crowd. (H/T to Anne and Bess): I’m not going to write too much about ...
  12 hours ago

• Taking Land for Public Uselessness

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Over at the Washington Examiner , Tim Carney reports that Pfizer is abandoning its New London offices and deciding what to do with the property it gained in the infamous Kelo v. New London land-grab: The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. ...
  13 hours ago

• Quote of the day - Ghandi on disobedience

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 453
  “We will deny them our obedience.” Ghandi
  17 hours ago

• More stellar performance from ATF

  
  SayUncle — Authority: 668
  Seen at Joe’s : A judge found the actions of federal agents who refused to show Zanesville residents a warrant when asked are “completely unreasonable and unjustified.” … At the suppression hearing in July, Marbley made it clear to agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ...
  18 hours ago

• The 11/9 Anniversary

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 142
  Today, November 9, is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall . I would like to associate myself with these comments by Matt Yglesias : It’s hard to think of non-cliché things to say on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.... [Life in East Germany in its final days] is the ...
  18 hours ago

• Getting Rid of the EU

  
  Rob's Blog — Authority: 112
  Brian Micklethwait wrote about a free book from the Taxpayers’ Alliance about what Britain would be like once it left the EU, the idea being to present the positive side of the anti-EU argument. Mike commented , “At least as far as I’m concerned, the EU is not, in itself, the principle target – the ...
  19 hours ago

• Berlin Wall, 20 years later

  
  Chronicles of Dissent — Authority: 112
  Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down. Today, 1 in 8 Berliners wants the wall back up .
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• The Right to Speak in Non-Government-Approved Ways

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  School officials denied student Pete Palmer the right to wear a shirt supporting John Edwards’s presidential campaign at his Dallas-area high school. They cited the district’s dress code, which prohibited messages on student clothing except for those that supported school activities or district-approved ...
  20 hours ago

• But will do the Met police do something?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 686
  Friday last week the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) convened a new panel to talk about policing in the aftermath of the G20 protests fiasco. We received three accounts of the meeting and are publishing excerpts from each. Helen Lambert — Police State UK “Today is all about listening to you – we’re ...
  21 hours ago

• Update on UK Coucil Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Last year, the Poole Borough Council in the UK targeted for surveillance a family suspected of living in the wrong school zone. The council used powers it had under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), a law targeted toward terrorism and organized crime. I’ve written before about this ...
  1 day ago

• The Climate Torquemada – Joe Romm at the Climate Inquisition

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 506
  Two years ago, in Scenes from the Climate Inquisition , my colleague Steve Hayward and I observed that climate alarmists were growing ever more incendiary in their criticism of people who disagree with them. Not simply about the science, but about the favored policy choices of leftist environmentalists, many of ...
  1 day ago

• LGBT Lessons for Straight People: I Hate Gays But I’d Die for their Civil Rights.

  
  jaysays.com | — Authority: 422
  I like to read comments from readers on news articles. I’ve read so many that it is rare that I find one with a new point. I admit it. The general public is a broken record when it comes to their point of view.So I was surprised to find this comment. What intrigued me the most is that this person takes complete ...
  1 day ago

• Looking back to see ahead

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 510
  Tomorrow marks the 20 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which is typically seen as the end of the Cold War. I expect that the blogospherewill be filled with far more in-depth commentary on the subject tomorrow, but for today I would just like to point out one of the articles that is already out there and ...
  1 day ago

• On Stupak, Demobilization, and the Failure of Conciliation

  
  Mike the Mad Biologist — Authority: 534
  (from here ) Needless to say, Im disgusted by the amendment introduced by Democratic Congressvermin Bart Stupak which would effectively make most abortions not covered by health insurance, even though many are now. Given the tremendous numbers of women who have had an abortion , its not like hes going to put a ...
  1 day ago

• FBI Discloses Counter-Terrorism Handbook

  
  In General Counsel — Authority: 124
  Under its own procedural manual , which some civil libertarians find "alarming," was the FBI nonetheless proactive enough in investigating the the Ft. Hood shooter? The F.B.I.’s interpretation of those [Bush-era intelligence gathering] rules was recently made public when it released, in response to a Freedom of ...
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• Taser Time Utah

  
  who's your nanny? — Authority: 119
  Utah police  tased a DUI suspect after the man tried to escape from their squad car. The man was apprehended by the Utah Highway Patrol in the Salt Lake City area. He was traveling southbound down 1-15 Friday and pulled over on suspicion of DUI. When the UHP handcuffed him and placed him in the back of the squad ...
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• Rendition prosecuted abroad while U.S. courts do nothing

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 611
  The George W. Bush administration was the target of much criticism from human rights groups for, among other things, its policy of extraordinary rendition , in which detainees have been transferred for interrogation in other countries that are known for their use of torture. And human rights groups and individuals ...
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• Power 2010: Will it work?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 686
  Power 2010 is asking people to come up with ideas for the democratic and political reforms that are needed in Britain. You can submit them here , the deadline is November 30th. These ideas will then be considered by a panel of citizens chosen at random, and the five ideas that they like most will become the ‘Power ...
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• JUST KEEP TELLING THE TRUTH, NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, ABOUT THE EVIL THAT IS THE ZIONIST PROJECT

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  Just keep telling the truth. Ive never seen Norman Finkelstein more animated and relaxed. Norman really show some flashes of (mundane) genius here. This is not a blanket endorsement of Norman, however. He and I split company at the spirit. Norman is an atheist; whereas, Im looking forward to being completely in sync ...
  2 days ago

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