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• Secret inquiries: further erosion of civil liberties

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 540
  So NL is ditching its plans for the ‘Big Brother’ database where every scrap of electronic communication etc. sent would be stored. The Home Office confirmed the “Big Brother” scheme had been delayed until after the election amid protests that it would be intrusive and open to abuse. Although ministers ...
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• Breaking the law without breaking the law

  
  Pickled Politics — Authority: 538
  Holocaust denial is idiotic. It is contrary to a massive weight of evidence, and you will find no respectable historians holding such a position. It is usually a view held by those who think Jews are subhuman, or evil, or involved in some sort of conspiracy (and usually all three). In short, it is nasty and ...
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• Is the Supreme Court about to discover a new right?

  
  Betsy's Page — Authority: 572
  It was just a few years ago when the Supreme Court decided that "cruel and unusual punishment" included the execution of someone who committed a crime a few months short of his 18th birthday. Now the question before the Court is whether or not it would be cruel and unusual to sentence someone to a lifetime sentence ...
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• The case for libel reform

  
  Next Left — Authority: 659
  John Kampfner writes for Index on Censorship about todays publication of the Index on Censorship and English Pen inquiry into our libel laws: Free speech is not for sale. All civilised societies need libel laws. People are entitled to redress when maliciously and falsely impugned. But Britain’s laws are not ...
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• Daily Mail (UK): Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The Daily Mail has a story that reminds me of Operation Terrorism Information and Prevention System, the TIPS program proposed by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2002 (read more about TIPS after the jump). The Daily Mail reports:A council is enlisting 2,000 resident spies to report anti-social behaviour by their ...
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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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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. ...
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• Quote of the day - Ghandi on disobedience

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