Archive for the 'civil rights' Category
It’s Been Dead for Some Time Now
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters [...]
Booman Makes a Funny
In the wake of the Senate’s totally predictable failure to repeal DADT (and also predictable failure to hang the filibuster around the GOP’s necks as a vote against the troops), Booman Tribune makes an inadvertent funny:
Not for the first time, I find myself seeing the Democrats’ strategy to be as clear as mud. From what [...]
Time for Another Round of “No Shit, Sherlock”
UPDATED BELOW
sigh:
I simply do not understand the enthusiasm gap, and you manic progressives can figure out how you are going to change your script from blaming Obama for not being liberal enough, because this is Feingold we are talking about.
Really, John? You don’t understand the enthusiasm gap? Because I’ve been reading your site for [...]
Heckuva Job, George, Dick, Jay, John, Rummy…
NO FUCKING DOI:
The Bush administration insisted that “enhanced interrogation techniques” — torture — were necessary to extract information from prisoners and keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks. Never mind that it was immoral, did huge damage to this country’s global standing and produced little important intelligence. Now, as we had feared, it is also making [...]
Harry Reid Throws Stones from his Glass House
Oh dear:
Harry Reid is breaking with the President, claiming that while he respects freedom of religion, he’s not willing to support an Islamic center near Ground Zero.
Specifically, says Reid spokesman Jim Manley, he thinks the “mosque” should be built “some place else”:
The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects [...]
Put On a Happy Face (Big Brother is Watching).
Put On a Happy Face (Not a Relentlessly Negative One)
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity:
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to [...]
when racist idiots get what they want
Most of the shopping center on the corner of 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road in Phoenix is vacant. Merchants blame a law intended to drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona. (Nicholas Riccardi / Los Angeles Times)
here’s some news of the utterly predictable: Phoenix Arizona’s economy is collapsing because they chased away all the Latinos:
Every time [...]
Who Decides Who’s a Terrorist?
On Monday, in the first case since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to test free speech against the demands of national security in the age of terrorism, the ideals of an earlier time were eroded and free speech lost. By preserving an extremely vague prohibition on aiding and associating with terrorist groups, the court reduced [...]
Read More..>>The Progressive President Who Hates Due Process
This just makes me want to vomit:
The Obama Administration is applying an old exception to the Miranda rule in a new way in order to interrogate terrorism suspects before reading them their rights, several experts tell TPMmuckraker, finding what one law professor calls a “middle ground” between those who want suspects put through the criminal [...]
Thank You, Officer Escobar
Officer Martin Escobar is suing the Arizona state government for violating the civil rights of Latinos:
Officer Martin H. Escobar claims in the suit that the law will “seriously impede law enforcement investigations and facilitate the successful commission of crimes.”
He also says there are no “race-neutral criteria or basis to suspect or identify who is lawfully [...]
