The Arar ruling upholds the "legality" of a new, universal form of slavery, the United States government can deprive anyone in the world of their freedom, and dispose of their bodies as it sees fit: torture, "indefinite detention," or assassination
Last week, Democrat Congressman Bod Etheridge (D-NC2) attended a fundraiser headlined by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was asked by some students on the street whether he supported the “Obama Agenda.” He didn’t take it well.
With Puerto Rico on the fast track to becoming a U.S. state, the U.S. National Guard has wasted no time in training its people that if and when they join the union, Posse Comitatus will not be offered as part of the package deal.
What does it say about the the American government, its president, and its military today, that the the largest military/intelligence organization in the history of mankind has launched a global manhunt for Julian Assange, head of the Wikileaks...
Last week, Democrat Congressman Bod Etheridge (D-NC2) attended a fundraiser headlined by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was asked by some students on the street whether he supported the “Obama Agenda.” He didn’t take it well.
And once the young denouncer of the Bush approach to terrorism took power for himself, he quickly embraced that same approach almost in its entirety, defending its most egregious depredations – indefinite detention, illegal wiretapping, etc.
At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and civil rights activist would put up a folding card table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs; set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and
Suspects must break their silence and tell police they are going to remain quiet to stop an interrogation, just as they must tell police that they want a lawyer. Police can keep shooting questions at a suspect who refuses to talk as long as they want
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Senator John Coryn (R-Texas) have proposed a piece of legislation that would require consumers to present an ID before purchasing a prepaid cell phone, and would force direct providers to keep...
Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington learned that a dozen signed copies of the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last week by the federally-funded WestNET drug task force.
A lawyer for the detainees, Tina Foster, said that if the precedent stood, Mr. Obama and future presidents would have a free hand to “kidnap people from other parts of the world and lock them away for the rest of their lives” without having to prove.
“I would be very surprised if, when we see the proposal that they are cooking up, there weren’t a significant component of it that is about a window of detention,” said Mr. Wittes, who argued in favor of delaying initial hearings...
An American rights group is suing the police in Pennsylvania for issuing tickets, which carry a jail sentence, to people for swearing. The ACLU, which filed the lawsuits earlier, argues that the right to use profanity is protected by the U.S. Constit
The man’s “sole contention is that the District of Columbia’s firearms statutes violate his constitutional right to ‘keep and bear arms,’” Kagan wrote. “I’m not sympathetic.”
“The Government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech. It asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of the internet, posters...
Married to the concept of an endless “war on terrorism,” progressives of Kagan’s sort represent an imminent menace: an authoritarian tendency that could usher in an era of internal repression such as only writers of dystopian science fiction
“It reflects the changing nature of war and recent events,” Mr. Brown said Thursday. “War has moved into a new dimension. Individuals who pick up arms — this is what I believe — have effectively denounced their citizenship...
Lieberman's legislation would give the State Dept. the ability to revoke citizenship for any American citizen who "is found to be involved in a foreign terrorist organization,"
To be sure, Pelosi seemed open to the legislation but drew an obtuse par
Arizona now becomes the U.S. cultural experiment for police state practices. While due process attempts to self-manage are scorned by the Obama Administration, it does not mean Washington will deliver a better standard by moral comparison.
The Supreme Court seemed split on whether a law school can deny recognition to a Christian student group that won't let gays join, determining whether nondiscrimination policies trump the rights of private organizations to determine who cannot belong
WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of group sent a letter Tuesday to the White House, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee urging them to oppose a proposal by Senators Charles Schu
This is a montage of the comprehensive battle for your private information and the use of integrated technologies to sift and evaluate your data. Pretty chilling stuff.
I appreciate the rights of the public to engage the political process. However, it has come to my attention very recently that anyone engaged in political organizing of any kind may have been actively profiled by United States intelligence agencies.
Barry Hess announced his candidacy for Governor on the same day that folks were lined up next to the capitol lawn to see the Declaration of Independence. Musicians 4 Freedom took the opportunity to interview a small group of young girls waiting in li
Texans, beware: If you teach your kids that the “government is out to harm them,” police in Williamson County might just deem you an “unsuitable” parent. That startling claim, leveled by officers in Child Protective Services documents detailing an in
WTP Foundation Chairman Bob Schulz appeared Tuesday on FOX News’s “Freedom Watch” with Judge Andrew Napolitano to discuss how the little-known power of the 800-year old Right to Petition might help us save the Constitution.
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