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PC World

Several privacy and civil-liberties organizations are mounting a legal challenge to prevent VoIP and other Internet-based communications from being subject to taps from law-enforcement agencies.

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CNC

Law enforcement and Newton Free Library officials were embroiled in a tense standoff for nearly 10 hours when the city refused to let police and the FBI examine library computers without a warrant. Police rushed to the main library [3 hours] after a

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Washington Post

What transpired was what the retired Army colonel most feared: He and his daughter were among a mass of protesters arrested, handcuffed and detained for as long as 36 hours, an ordeal that included hours confined on a bus and many more hours on floor

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Reuters

States can be sued in certain bankruptcy proceedings, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a case that pitted state powers against those of the federal government.

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Associated Press

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from an anti-war protester who was convicted of violating the boundaries of a "restricted area" established during President Bush's visit to South Carolina in 2002.

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Associated Press

Five years before Rosa Parks launched a bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, a uniformed black soldier balked at an order to board a bus through a back door and paid with his life.

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Associated Press

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying a lawsuit challenging the measure was likely to prevail on grounds of free speech.

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ACLU

The CIA is engaging in an unlawful practice –”extraordinary rendition” – abducting foreign nationals for detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons. Americans cannot tolerate kidnappings and secret prisons.

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The Nation

Seven Hampton students are facing expulsion hearings. Their "crime" was distributing "unauthorized" literature criticizing the Bush Administration's policies on AIDS, Hurricane Katrina, homophobia, the Iraq war and the Sudan

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Associated Press

A dozen war protesters including Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested for setting up camp near President Bush's ranch in defiance of new local bans on roadside camping and parking.

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UPI

The U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an "anomaly that has to be dealt with," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. The Geneva Conventions must be applied to detainees at the camp, Blair stressed.

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by Michael S. Rozeff (LewRockwell.com)

In "U.S. companies and Islamic law," Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen call for the U.S. government to outlaw the Dow Jones Islamic Markets index. No joke.

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by James Bovard (Future of Freedom Found.)

On October 15, 2003, the FBI sent Intelligence Bulletin #89 to 17,000 local and state law-enforcement agencies around the country. The bulletin warned of pending marches in Washington and San Francisco against Bush’s Iraq policy and stated,

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by Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX)

The privacy issue has been around for a long time. The brutal abuse of privacy and property of early Americans played a big role in our revolt against the King. The 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments represented attempts to protect private property and p

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Newsday

The world has known many nations where soldiers could jack people off the streets and dump them into a black hole of incarceration without charges or trials. Proudly, for 226 years the United States wasn't one of those nations. Now it is.

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