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Strike-the-Root(Scarmig)

This includes the first part I posted yesterday,and contains the rest of the story. Really scary stuff, but then again, the readers here at Freedoms Phoenix already knew this. Let's bring on the police state,and get it over with.

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New York Times

An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Dept in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches, libraries, college campuses and other locations, newly disc

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AP

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security.

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AP

Immigrants arrested in the US may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.

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by Aaron Zelman (JPFO)

[WWII veterans] You won a long, hard, painful battle. But when you came home, you lost the war. You lost the Bill of Rights and freedom. And so we all lost. America is becoming a lot like the countries you fought against.

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Consortium News

If some last-minute polling trends showing a powerful Republican comeback through the Nov 7 elections, the end of America as we known it for more than 2 centuries will be at hand. (I wonder how much electronic voting will contribute)

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AntiWar

Defense Authorization Act allows the president to declare a 'public emergency' and station troops anywhere in America and take control of National Guard units without the consent of the governor in order to 'suppress public disorder.

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Mathaba

According to the government's information commissioner, Richard Thomas, there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in total or 14 for every man woman and child living in the UK. In addition, people's movement are recorded every step of the way, stor

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UPI

The new US intelligence czar is developing a computer system capable of data-mining huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning. Reminiscent of the axed Total Information Awareness program.

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by Jennifer Van Bergen (Tom Paine)

After President Bush signed the controversial Military Commissions Act, the Justice Department wasted no time in using its new power to deny due process to the detainees swept up in the “war on terror.” Now countless hours and dollars will be spent

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by Werther (CounterPunch)

Amid the onrush of Caligulan sex scandals, suspension of the Constitution, depressing bulletins from the Babylonian front, and all manner of bogus "events," a recent news item has passed with remarkably little public stir, despite being fea

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by Frank Morales (Uruknet) kudos Mark Y.

President Bush has signed into law, said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), what will actually encourage the President to declare martial law by weakening the Insurrection Act which had limited the President's ability to deploy troops within the US.

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Washington Times

The U.S. intelligence czar is developing a computer system capable of mining huge amounts of information about everyday events for patterns that look like terrorist planning -- reminiscent of the discontinued Total Information Awareness program.

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by Garrison Keillor (Salon)

Now the federal government is extending the frontiers of terror with the Military Commissions Act, legalizing torture and suspending habeas corpus and constructing a loose web of law by which you and I could be hung by our ankles in a meat locker for

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Telegraph.co.uk

Tony Blair called yesterday for the national DNA database to be expanded to include every citizen. He said there should be no limit on the development of the database because it was vital for framing innocent individuals.

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Reason(Ronald Bailey)

On Monday afternoon, the ACLU member's conference offered a number of panels on various assaults on civil liberties. I decided to listen in on a panel entitled, "Your Papers Please -- National ID Cards for America."

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Star-Tribune

Men ran at me, dropped into shooting position, double-handed semi-automatic pistols pointed at me, and made me put my hands against my truck. I was held at gunpoint, searched, taunted, and led into the house. I had no idea what this was about.