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  • The Online Movement Against Warrantless Spying, 2008 and Now


    Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority Authority: 515
    In the 6-day period between July 2 and July 7 2008, as the Senate prepared to pass a regime of warrantless surveillance under the auspices of the FISA Amendments Act , ten thousand Americans added their names to a declaration opposing the legislation and calling upon presidential candidate Barack Obama to vote ...
    3 hours ago

  • The Long War on Terror: Obama Administration Renews the Patriot Act


    Enduring America — Authority Authority: 607
    From William Fisher of IPS News via AlterNet : With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic ...
    2 days ago

  • Free Lynne Stewart!


    SF Gray Panthers — Authority Authority: 124
    Protest the Jailing of Lynne Stewart.   One of the first victims of the Patriot Act, she she was convicted of aiding and abetting terrorism in the course of her legal work. Based on her years of defending the most exploited, and government infringement of attorney-client confidentiality in the case, she was ...
    2 days ago

  • Sign Open Letter to Barack Obama: Roll Back the Surveillance State


    Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority Authority: 515
    The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has posted an open letter written to Barack Obama on the subject of spreading surveillance by the United States Government. The letter reads: Dear President Obama, In your response to Get FISA Right’s July 2008 Open Letter on my.barackobama.com, you promised to run “a ...
    3 days ago

  • Shared Sacrifice is Code Speak for More Taxes


    The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority Authority: 433
    Here we go again. It seems never ending, doesn’t it, the innovative ways our leaders can concoct to tax Americans to death.Of course, they have no choice, they are spending money more recklessly than Charlie Sheen at a Beverly Hills nudie bar.This latest is from Kay Bell:Officially dubbed the Share the Sacrifice ...
    5 days ago

  • Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions


    Mountain Sage — Authority Authority: 135
    By all means, pander to the “tough on terror” idiots who think so little of their liberties. NEW YORK – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA ...
    5 days ago

  • CHANGE: Obama Keeps Key Patriot Act Provisions


    Bucks Right — Authority Authority: 139
    Lefties are weeping in their steaming mugs of Earl Grey tonight as the hope and change they were promised in the War on Terror continues to be proven another false Obama campaign promise.Over the objection of some of the more America-hating liberals in the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee has quietly moved ...
    5 days ago

  • Obama Quietly Backs PATRIOT Act Provisions


    Antiwar.com Original — Authority Authority: 139
    With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA PATRIOT Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms.And it is reportedly doing so over the ...
    5 days ago

  • Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions


    Stupidica — Authority Authority: 175
    NEW YORK, 23 Nov (IPS) - With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms. And it is ...
    5 days ago

  • Internet Under Siege


    Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority Authority: 576
    by Phil Giraldi — AntiWar.com It is ironic that President Barack Obama would travel to China and speak against government control over the internet.  If the American Department of Homeland Security has its way new cybersecurity laws will enable Obama’s administration to take control of the internet in the event ...
    5 days ago

  • Why Tap NSA Rather than FISA to Start the Search for Terrorists


    Joejolly's Weblog — Authority Authority: 136
    Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first enacted in 1978 ( Public Law 95-511 ) and later amended by the Patriot Act. It is at the center of the controversy concerning domestic spying by the NSA. It was passed after revelations of massive domestic spying ...
    5 days ago

  • ZoNation: Defending Palin, Calling Out Liberals


    Big Hollywood — Authority Authority: 799
    Double Dosage!!! Sorry, I got a bit behind on Shhhtuff, so I hope I can do a lil’ catch up with ya! Here’s me lookin’ out for my womens like Sarah Palin, and a vid lookin’ at naughty Nidal after the jump.
    1 week ago

  • Lieberman’s Investigation Into the Fort Hood ‘Terrorist’ Attack


    The Washington Independent Blog — Authority Authority: 155
    Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos has a nice roundup of yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing , called and led by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who opened the morning session with an announcement that the shootings of 13 soldiers on the U.S. Army base was a “terrorist” attack as opposed to a ...
    1 week ago

  • Human Rights First report tells us that broad immigration laws label bona fide asylum seekers as “terrorists”


    Restore Fairness Blog — Authority Authority: 120
    According to a Human Rights First report released last week, since 2001, over 18,000 refugees and asylum seekers who pose no threat to U.S. security have not received protection from the U.S. government due to the overly broad provisions of Immigration law, and the expansive way that they have been interpreted by ...
    1 week ago

  • Patriot Act and Amendments — made clear


    Schaffer Law Library Blog — Authority Authority: 108
    With all the proposed amendments to the Patriot Act, one can surely lose their way through it all!  Thankfully, the Center for Democracy and Technology made a PDF chart of the current law and proposed amendments.  Check it out and clear your confusion. Thanks to ALA online. Posted in Law in the News, US ...
    1 week ago

  • Editorial: 9/11 trial location not the issue


    Daily Titan — Authority Authority: 548
    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, along with four other alleged conspirators held in Guantanamo Bay, were recently notified that they would be removed from the Naval base and sent to New York City to receive a civilian trial. They will be charged by federal prosecutors in a ...
    1 week ago

  • Holder Promises to Produce Evidence Requested on USA Patriot Act


    The Washington Independent Blog — Authority Authority: 155
    Testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, Attorney General Eric Holder promised to produce the evidence, withheld by the Department of Justice, that some Democratic Senators believe is necessary for an informed debate on the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. As I reported yesterday, Sens. Ron ...
    1 week ago

  • CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 UPDATE:The People are Drawing a Line in the Sand for America


    The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority Authority: 139
    FROM JOHN WALLACE – NY DELEGATE We have just passed the half way mark for the Continental Congress of 2009.  Here is what’s happening: Beyond Elections. Beyond Petitions.Beyond Tea Parties.ST. CHARLES, IL – The first time free people assembled as a Congress of the People for such a critical point in the ...
    1 week ago

  • Senators Ask Holder to Declassify Evidence on Patriot Act


    The Washington Independent Blog — Authority Authority: 155
    Anticipating that the debate over reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act will soon come to the Senate floor, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday asked Attorney General Eric Holder to declassify key information about how the law’s “business records provision” ...
    1 week ago

  • Dead Fish Walking


    The Vigilant Lens — Authority Authority: 131
    From China we get video of a fish.  A live fish.  A live fish having just survived being deep fried, only to be filmed and devoured in front of itself, as it waits for merciful death to take it someplace a little nicer.Many things come to mind. My first reaction was, this must be how [...]
    1 week ago

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