While it's been plainly obvious to anyone with a brain that Dubya's illegal wiretapping of law-abiding US citizens is, well, illegal, it's nice to see a court agree.
Of course, this will end up in the hands of Dubya's stooges in the Supreme Court, you will strike it down.
Because they're evil. Especially Scalia.
Free State advocate and Libertarian is arrested for, gasp, trying to hand out flyers prompting IRS employees to quit.
If Libertarians really cared about their freedoms as much as they do about money, they'd have stopped voting for Republicans long ago.
As expected, the Dubya administration (in the form of that utter failure secretary of the Department of Homeland SecurityMichael Chertoff) is already using the foiled liquid bombing plans to England as an excuse to call for increased illegal spying on innocent US citizens.
The only surprise is that they waited half a week.
How long does torture-loving US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales think the US can hold folks in Gitmo without trial?
Forever and ever and ever and ever.
Guy standing in his front yard takes a photo of the cops arresting a drug dealer. So the cops trespass on his property and arrest him too.
Is it a police state yet?
Judge throws out one of the cases against AT&T saying that making AT&T disclose whether they've been helping the government illegally spy on its own citizens would somehow help our enemies.
It's a secret police state. There's no other way to put it.
Just like a rural cop laying in wait, federal air marshals are writing up folks simply to make a freakin' quota. No suspicious activity reported, no raises and bonuses.
Really? Yep. Management says "There may come an occasion when you just don't see anything out of the ordinary for a month at a time, but I'm sure that if you are looking for it, you'll see something."
The FBI wants to force ISPs and router manufacturers to allow a backdoor for government intrusion in your Internet activities.
Or you could just grab an old PC and throw SmoothWall on it.
Western Union blocks cash deliveries if your name sounds Arabic. That's enough.
You're next, whoever you are.
Gee, guess what! The government was trying to listen in on domestic phone call before 9/11.
Shocked? Surprised even? Didn't think so.
It's not just your phone calls that the Dubya administration is tracking. They're watching your banking habits, too.
Nice rant on how the Dubya administration is slowly but surely setting up a police state in the name of national security.
Nothing really new here, but a good read nonetheless.
An actual Republican actually stands up to the other Senators and criticizes them for avoiding serious debate on the War on Iraq.
Nice article on why racial profiling won't make our planes safe.
Remember back in May 2005, when Cheney said the Iraqi Insurgency was in its "last throes?" Cheney doesn't. Well, he does, he just interprets his own words differently than, say, a rational person.
Now the government is going to start data-mining social networks like MySpace.
Illegal? No. Creepy? Oh yes. Especially considering the number of convicted pedophiles at DHS.
A U.S. appeals court is upholding the government's ability to tap into your high-speed Internet access.
They know you're looking at this.
Do you really need to provide ID in order to fly? Well, no, you don't. And you might even get through security faster.
So, what do you get if you make a FOIA request for your phone records that the NSA has been tracking?
A denial, of course.
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the guy who blew the whistle on AT&T snooping on phone calls for the NSA. In this article, Klein lists out the documents supporting his claim.
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