Civil Liberties

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• Im Officially a Journalist

  
  who's your nanny? — Authority: 123
  After years of being accused of being a shitty journalist by people who didnt know the difference between a news story and an op-ed, I can now say Ive officially published my first article as a reporter, and its a scoop. So folks -- you know who you are -- you can let me have it if you find the piece rife with ...
  10 hours ago

• "the gray area": in which i am detained, harassed and threatened at the border

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 135
  In September, I helped a war-resister friend of mine take care of some paperwork. Unable to obtain his birth certificate, he needed a friend with a US passport to attest to certain facts. As I slid my passport under the window at the US Consulate, I thought to myself, I wonder what will happen the next time I use my ...
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• Loving Our Veterans

  
  Last Free Voice — Authority: 100
  Loving our VeteransBy Don Meinshausenfreedonnow@yahoo.com Despite the holidays of Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day there is little appreciation for veterans. Oh there may be a few generals and politicians pontificating and maybe a parade and a concert but that’s usually seen as patriotic blather for the media and ...
  11 hours ago

• Where Was The Libertarian Party?

  
  Last Free Voice — Authority: 100
  Election Day 2009 has come and gone. Relatively speaking, this election was as insignificant as any off-year election is, as opposed to a mid-term election, but it still could have been an important year for the Libertarian Party, if we had simply bothered to show up. There were six elections / ballot initiatives ...
  11 hours ago

• Another Gitmo official quits

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 144
  Even though Phillip Carter is a former WaPo staffer, this story on him resigning as asst. SecDef for detainee affairs doesn’t even pretend to try to dig for possible deeper reasons for the resignation, contenting itself with the official boilerplate about “personal and family reasons.” Whatever the reason — ...
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• Gay Rights & Destroying the Term Faggot

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  FaggotInside this word lay a history of hate for homosexuals. In every derogatory sense it was used to humiliate and disparage. In a recent episode of South Park “F-Word”  the show used satire to bring up an excellent point about the changing meaning of the word.As South Park pointed out, the word started as a ...
  12 hours ago

• HIV Travel Ban Update

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum — Authority: 148
  The HIV travel ban will officially be lifted on January 4.   Its about time.
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• Wikileaks 9/11 Pager Message Dump: Who Was Tapping All Those Messages?

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 749
  The muckrakers at Wikileaks have unleashed a trove of pager messages from 9/11, allegedly intercepted by "an organization that has been archiving US telecommunications prior to 9/11." (Now...
  14 hours ago

• A look at the terror watchlist

  
  SayUncle — Authority: 659
  By the numbers : An audit by the DoJ found a 35% error rate based on spot checks of names on the list. But some of our legislators want to use that to deny you your civil rights.
  15 hours ago

• Knock Knock

  
  SayUncle — Authority: 659
  Who’s there? I ate mop. In NC : The Greenville Police Department and Pitt County Sheriff’s Office will be going door to door late Tuesday afternoon to educate people on gun laws and why it is important to report gun crimes.
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• Wake-up call for the cops..??!!

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 538
  So British policing needs a wake-up call …says Denis O’Connor Laughably ACPO argues: The Association of Chief Police Officers welcomed the report, but argued it was already taking steps to balance facilitating protest and balancing human rights. Its lead on uniformed operations, Chief Constable Meredydd ...
  17 hours ago

• Zionist Jews in New York Congress, Mayor Bloomberg and Atty. General Holder Move Against Second Amendment

  
  Pragmatic Witness — Authority: 100
  Senator Gillibrand and Representative McCarthy have introduced the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009. Ostensibly designed to prosecute gun traffickers, the bill would also deny the Second Amendment to anybody on the so-called terror watch list. The legislation is supported by New York City Mayor Michael ...
  21 hours ago

• Revealing Clothing

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 129
  JERUSALEM — British researchers have discovered what sensible men have always known:Striking the right balance between revealing too much and being too conservative in how much skin is on show has long been a dilemma for women when choosing the right outfit for a night out.However, a study by [...]
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• Ongoing Tally of UC Protest Arrests

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 568
  This post is a way for me to keep track of the arrests in the current wave of protest at the University of California — for my own reference and for others’. As of the afternoon of November 24, unless I’m missing some, there have been 113 arrests… Wednesday, November 18 14 at UCLA : twelve students, two ...
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• The Torture Tapes: What We Know Now

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 131
  Theres a certain beauty to the Freedom of Information Act. Even when the government wont give you something under it, they still have to give you a list of what it is theyre not giving you. So when the government decided that it would not release the documents the ACLU has been seeking regarding the CIAs ...
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• Benamar Benatta: Another Detainee Canadians Transferred to Torture

  
  DhafirTrial — Authority: 124
  From:  Toronto Action for Social Change Benamar Benatta: Another Detainee Canadians Transferred to Torture; Take Action to Demand a Public Inquiry into Canada’s First 9/11 Rendition to Torture While headlines rightfully scream about the scandal of Canadian troops transferring Afghan detainees to torture, an ...
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• The Nets Finally Win!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Unfortunately, that win comes as another blow to property rights : The last major obstacle to a groundbreaking for the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn fell Tuesday when New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, dismissed a challenge to the state’s use of eminent domain on behalf of the ...
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• Quote of the Day: Repression is not the answer

  
  Savage Popcorn — Authority: 128
  We need to find new, more modern and more effective ways in Europe to protect intellectual property and artistic creation.Repression alone will certainly not solve the problem of internet piracy. - EU information society commissioner, Viviane Reding on cutting internet access without due process.
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• Laws matter; politicians don’t

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 694
  IT news site The Register has spotted the first person ever to be sent to jail for refusing to give the police the keys to their encrypted files under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Unsurprisingly, he’s not an extremist or a terrorist or any kind (neither white supremacist nor Islamist ...
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• Battle of the Ilyas and More on the Chicago Gun Case

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Josh Blackman, my coauthor on “ Opening Pandora’s Box? Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Incorporating the Second Amendment ,” has inaugurated a series of podcasts devoted to law and liberty. He’s already has an interview with PLF’s Timothy Sandefur (also a Cato adjunct ...
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