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AfterDowningStreet.org

The role to be portrayed: "that of Detainees." -- "Operations are staged day and night, and in all weather conditions." -- The employer was identified only as a "government contractor."

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As indicated in my earlier post, the Homeland Security Checkpoint was up and running for a second day near mile marker 146 on Southern Arizona's State Route 86. I arrived at the checkpoint and videotaped the encounter shortly after 4:00 pm.

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BBC.co.uk

The scientist who pioneered genetic fingerprinting says he's concerned that the personal data of innocent people is being wrongly held by police.

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The government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect every laptop that enters the country, whether or not there is anything suspicious about the computer or its owner. The government says, is no different than looking through a suitcase.

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Officer.com

Two San Pablo police officers fired a total of 18 rounds at a woman who they say threatened her husband with a butcher knife Christmas Day, the department disclosed Friday.

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Daily Telegraph

We start the year in Britain with a challenge to our essential nature, for 2008 might turn out to be the year when we decide to rip up the Magna Carta. We are born free and have the right to decide what freedom means, each for ourselves, and to have

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www.foxnews.com/

This past December, the United States settled a trade dispute with Canada, Europe, and Japan over the recently enacted Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The problem is that the law carves out exemptions for some forms of gambling, such as

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George Orwell

One publisher actually started by accepting the book, but after making the preliminary arrangements he decided to consult the Ministry of Information, who appear to have warned him, or at any rate strongly advised him, against publishing it. Here is

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By Declan McCullagh

President Bush is expected to sign an $82 billion military spending bill that will, create electronically readable, federally approved ID cards for Americans. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved--which includes the Real ID Act--on Th

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Information Clearinghouse

Operation Falcon: Blueprint for removing dissidents and political rivals. The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of prot

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Washington Times

The Pope had his Index of Forbidden Books. Japan had its Thought Police against subversive or dangerous ideologies. And the United States Congress and President Bush have learned nothing from those examples.

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The Newspaper

Jurisdictions within Texas are expanding programs where police use force to draw blood from motorists accused of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). Last week, El Paso joined Harris and Wilson Counties in a "no refusal" program

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http://www.limaohio.com/

Luther Ricks Sr., to put it mildly, is living the American Nightmare. What else can you call it when police take your money because they’re suspicious you’re selling drugs, then fail either to file charges or to return your money? Public pressure isn

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Unknown

How to survive the 1st year of martial law. This has nothing to do with fighting back, just surviving. Hopefully it never comes, but why not be prepared in case it does?

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Agence France-Presse

The FBI is hoarding mugshots, handprints and fingerprints to make the world's biggest database of physical characteristics for security identification. Spokesman Richard Kolko confirmed a Washington Post report of the project

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