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.
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?
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."
A Veteran is kicked out of a V.A. Medical Center for wearing a Veterans For Peace shirt. Even arrested. Yes, this country has gone completely insane.
If you're in the military and think that this administration cares about you or has even the slightest sincere respect for you, you are fooling yourself.
Western Union blocks cash deliveries if your name sounds Arabic. That's enough.
You're next, whoever you are.
Kentucky state government prevents state employees from reading left-leaning blog, while leaving all the right-leaning blogs available.
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.
Nice article on why racial profiling won't make our planes safe.
The mayor of New York City wants to track each and every legal U.S. worker by DNA or fingerprint.
And he doesn't see any difference between this and a Social Security card.
Sheer lunacy!
The government provides flash cards to prospective citizens to help them bone up on US civics. Question 80 goes like this:
Q: Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment.
A: The rights of freedom of speech, of religion, of assembly, and to petition the Government.
Notice anything missing? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Freedom of the press, maybe?
Great essay on the Dictatorial power that Dubya has grabbed.
The wisdom of the Second Amendment become clearer every day.
Congress wants to track every single thing you do online. They want your ISP to keep records of where you go online for a full year after you cancel a service contract.
Even the Democrats are getting on board. Shameful!
The Electronic Freedom Foundation is suing the Feds over their deal with AT&T to pass all Internet traffic through their dirty clutches.
The Feds are trying to dismiss the case invoking the "State Secrets Privilege." Basically, they're saying that the case would hurt national security.
Also, basically, it means we've moved to a full-fledged dictatorship where efforts to shine the light of true liberty on government actions is extinguished just because the state says so.
Just how many National Security Letter secret subpoenas is the FBI using these days? Roughly twice what they did before 9/11.
Every April 20th (4/20), marijuana fans everywhere light up at 4:20 pm. At the University of Colorado, they light up at Farrand Field.
This year, campus cops took photos of folks, posted it on their web site, and asked upright citizens (otherwise known as filthy snithches) to help ID these folks for $50 a lead.
I guess there's no real crime with which they could be dealing instead.
Dubya's ipod contains Beatles tunes. Beatles tunes can't yet be bought via iTunes. That means Dubya, or more likely his daughters, riped the tunes from CD. And the RIAA considers that to be illegal.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says that if you're homeless, you have a Constitutional right to sleep on public property.
Well, actually, it's more complicated than that. Criminalizing being homeless violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and punishment punishment.
Reporter exposes that police in South Florida don't like to give out complaint forms. Police retaliate by putting out a "Be On The Lookout" alert for him and by posting his personal information on their web site.
Downloadable parody of Monopoly. In "Patriot Act," players try to retain their civil liberties.
It's free! Print it out and play today!
The Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 basically suspends the 4th Amendment.
Really? Yes, really.
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