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• Call to reform repressive libel laws

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Intimidating and out-of-date laws are silencing free speech and scientific inquiry, a new report claims, amid increasing controversy over Englands status as "the libel capital of the world". The report, released today after a year-long inquiry, claims that libel law needs fundamental reform to move away from its ...
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• Finding the truth at Fort Hood | Dan Kennedy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Nidal Malik Hasans dangerous mental state is a legitimate subject for investigation, not an excuse for fear-mongering A senseless killing spree. A suspect with a troubled and troubling past whose extreme religious views may have played a role in his homicidal outburst. Questions as to why no one intervened before ...
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• Trevor Phillips faces calls to quit as chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Parliamentary committee accuses Phillips of sanitising internal criticism and having conflicts of interest The embattled chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today faced calls for his resignation after being accused of "sanitising" internal criticism and having conflicts of professional ...
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• Prosecutorial Immunity

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Last week the Supreme Court heard the case of Pottawattamie v. McGhee . The gist is whether prosecutors who fabricate evidence against persons accused of crime can be sued and held liable for money damages, or whether they are immune from suit.  The Crime & Federalism blog reports on the back-and-forth at ...
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• The Search for Answers in Fort Hood

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The country is unpacking the recent shooting at Fort Hood and analyzing the perpetrator intensely. Along with natural shock and curiosity, a principle reason for doing so is to discover what can prevent incidents like this in the future. When faced with any risk, including rampaging gunmen, there are four options: ...
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• FLA Dems’ Insane Clown Rightwing Posse

  
  Florida Progressive Coalition Blog — Authority: 510
  Over the past week plus, several incidents have illustrated the depravity of the Florida Democratic Party and the need for genuine principled, issues and values progressives, not the Party hacks, to get it together and take control of the party from these clowns who in some combination 1) are vicious rightwing shadow ...
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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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• Is authoritarianism on ebb in the UK?

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 121
  If you read the Independent, you might come away feeling relieved that the great tide of authoritarianism that has characterised New Labours years in power is starting to ebb
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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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• Events of Interest: Georgetown Law Panel on Biometrics (Nov. 10)

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown Law will hold an event today, “Biometrics and the Law.” From the site:Biometric ID systems have the capacity to automatically identify and track individuals based on stored data on their biological and behavioral characteristics, including facial features, ...
  15 hours ago

• 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 ...
  18 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 ...
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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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