Rep. Paul Ryan warns anti-piracy bill may lead to Internet ‘censorship’
• www.rawstory.comTaking issue with its potential for abuse, Ryan said that SOPA could actually be a new kind of onerous regulation — the one thing Republicans hate most.
Contents Pages by Subject
Police State
Rights? In The New America You Don’t Get Any Rights!
• www.endoftheamericandream.comOne of the unique things about the Constitution of the United States was that it guaranteed certain rights for its citizens. Those rights provided the foundation for an era of freedom and prosperity that was pretty much unprecedented in human histor
5 Things You Should Know About the FBI's Massive New Biometric Database
• Tana GenevaCivil libertarians worry about the roll-out of Next Generation Identification, a massive expansion of the agency's current biometric database.
Bill Known As Enemy Expatriation Act Would Let Govt. Strip Citizenship Without Conviction
• AddictingInfo.orgInternment camps, here we come!
Freedom: An Endangered Species in America
Stephen LendmanAmerica's now a police state
Why They're Fascists
Larken RoseThere is a very simple reason why politicians such as Gingrich and Santorum end up being fascists.
Targeting Journalists Covering OWS Protests
Stephen LendmanPolice state America
South Korea plans robo-cops to police prison
• Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.comThe South Korean Ministry of Justice is hiring, but they’re not looking for human help at the moment: they want robo-cops.
What Will 2012 Bring?
•The Sovereign debt crisis threatens both the European Union and Euro, currency wars are underway and the US and China are trading trade barbs.
A Betrayal of the Founders
•Though voicing “serious reservations” about encroachments on civil liberties in a military authorization bill, President Obama signed the law anyway to avoid a nasty veto fight with Congress
Stephen Colbert TEARS INTO Obama Over The NDAA Bill
• www.businessinsider.comLast night Stephen Colbert took a brutal swing at the law that "unexpectedly" makes legal "what we've already been doing for ten years...we didn't see that coming! (due to bag over head)."
Former SS Boss Proposes Global Email Fusion Center
• www.infowars.comRonald Noble – the former head of the Secret Service, the BATF, and secretary general of Interpol – wants to create a fusion center with the ability to track and trace your email.
Urgent - Just Signed NDAA is Bringing Drones to My Hometown! I am furious. Article from Syracuse, NY
• www.dailypaul.comThe National Defense Authorization Act signed into law last week by President Barack Obama allows for the establishment of six national test sites where drones could fly through civil air space.
Radiation doctor says TSA naked body scanners can cause cancer
• www.naturalnews.comNo matter how many times the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims the machines are safe and pose no threat to travelers or personnel, naked body scanners that emit ionizing radiation are, indeed, a very serious health threat.
Chalking the Police - The Conclusion
DrewFor those that have been following this blog, you might remember that myself and eight others were arrested while protesting the Manchester (NH) police - after four of its officers were cleared of wrong doing in the Strange Brew incident. It took abo
Rahm Emanuel on duration of NATO-G8 rules: ‘I made a mistake. Real simple, OK.’
• www.suntimes.comHe “made a mistake” when he claimed that extraordinary security measures he proposed to handle protesters who descend on Chicago for the NATO and G-8 summits would be temporary and repealed after the events are over.
New York firebombing raises alarm over spread of Islamophobia
• The RawStory.comNew York police arrested a man Tuesday over the firebombing of a mosque, but some say the incident reflects much deeper tensions faced by Muslim New Yorkers — and that police are partly to blame.
Why Obama Was So Wrong to Sign the NDAA into Law
• Paul LevinsonThink about what Richard Nixon might have done with his "enemies list" - of his political critics - had he had a law like the NDAA on the books and at his disposal.
Massachusetts Police Nab Five-Year-Old Fugitive Bibliophile
• jonathanturley.orgCharlton (Mass.) police have finally tracked down Hailey Benoit after months of fugitive hiding. This week the five-year-old went to the door and found justice waiting
A Man with a Camera vs. the NYPD
• Paul LevinsonAs the mass media focused on Bloomberg and Lady Gaga in Times Square on New Year's Eve, a brave journalist with a camera-phone stood up to the NYPD and their attempt to violate the First Amendment rights of protesters in secret.
Amnesty: By signing NDAA, Obama has given al Qaeda a ‘propaganda victory’
• www.rawstory.comWhile signing the bill, Obama issued a signing statement — a controversial way for the president to circumvent Congress’ intent — in which he pledged that the new laws would not violate Americans’ constitutional rights.
Final Curtain: Obama Signs Indefinite Detention of Citizens Into Law As Final Act of 2011
• www.jonathanturley.orgPresident Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating,
How Congress is signing it's own arrest warrants in the NDAA citizen arrest bill
• www.naomiwolf.orgThe amendment is so loosely worded that any American citizen could be held without due process. The language of this bill can be read to assure Americans that they can challenge their detention — but most people do not realize what this means
The Importance of a Second Slave Card
• www.lewrockwell.com/Jeff BerwickThe government that operates its crime operation in your region has total control over your movements. And, many people are finding out how easily that can be taken away.
WTF? (What the Fawkes?)
• ACLUThose who do not move cannot feel their chains. This morning in Suffolk county court, the ACLU of Massachusetts and our client moved. And we felt our chains. I had gone to court to listen to our legal team argue a case to protect the First Amendment
2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review
• www.informationliberation.comWelcome to the new total security state. The U.S. government now has at its disposal a technological arsenal so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. And these technologies are being used by the governm
Public School Clamps Down on Ten-Year Old for Pizza “Gun”
• The Independent InstituteAt an elementary school in Smyrna, Tenn., student Nicholas Taylor, 10, has been ordered to spend lunches for the rest of the semester at the lunchroom’s “silent table” because he allegedly picked up a piece of pizza and waved it around like a gun.
An execrable ancestor
• www.dailycaller.comThe execrable ancestor of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Frederick Douglass protested, “Under this [Fugitive Slave] law the oaths of any two villains (the capturer and the claimant) are suffic
Appalling Bahraini Prison Conditions and Treatment
Stephen LendmanBahraini monarchy brutalizing its people
Obama signs defense spending bill — with reservations (BUT HE SIGNED IT!)
• www.stltoday.com"The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it," Obama said in a signing statement appended to the measure. "In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions
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