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What's YOUR Terror Score?!?
Post Date: 2006-12-03 10:04:30 by Zipporah
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We all have credit ratings that follow us around like digital shadows. Now, starting this Monday, Dec. 4, every time you leave or enter the United States by air, land, or sea, your own government’s computers will officially judge the probability that you are a terrorist, make that judgement widely available, and keep your terror score on file for 40 years. By assigning you a computer-generated risk assessment based upon your travel pattern, your companions, your method of payment and even the kind of food you eat -- among other, as yet unknown tidbits of data -- the U.S. Department of Homeland security thinks it can make you safer. "When some unknown government computer, using ...
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool
Post Date: 2006-12-02 19:18:54 by Brian S
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The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations. The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him. Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the ...
An Overwhelming Second Amendment Victory for Citizens
Post Date: 2006-12-02 18:16:00 by BTP Holdings
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An Overwhelming Second Amendment Victory for Citizens Bush signs bill which prevents Confiscation of legal firearms During state of emergency By Mike Blair December 4, 2006 | American Free Press The American people, in their fight to maintain the Second Amendment 60;right to keep and bear arms,61; have won a major victory. Never again will citizens face the prospect of being relieved of their firearms needed for self-protection by National Guard troops and police during a national crisis as experienced by the people of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. As looters and assorted thugs terrorized New Orleans, National Guard troops and New Orleans police moved through the devastated ...
How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech
Post Date: 2006-12-02 08:11:40 by Kamala
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How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech By Selwyn Duke http://MichNews.com Dec 1, 2006 If people were asked about actor Michael Richards' epithet-laced outburst at a Los Angeles nightclub, there would be a lot of focus on the verbal assault but very little on an assault on freedom of speech. In truth, however, if there's anything at all relating to this story that rises above gossip-column fodder, it’s that it’s also fuel for demagogues who seek control over discourse in America. Representing the two targets of Mr. Richards’ bile, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss, “civil rights” attorney Gloria Allred appeared on Hannity and Colmes Thanksgiving eve. The ...
We Fight for Liberty by Having More Liberty and Not Less
Post Date: 2006-12-02 06:55:20 by Kamala
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We Fight for Liberty by Having More Liberty and Not Less By Keith Olbermann MSNBC Countdown Thursday 30 November 2006 And finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment about free speech, failed speakers, and the delusion of grandeur. "This is a serious long term war," the man at the podium cried, "and it will inevitably lead us to want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country." Some, in the audience, must have thought they were hearing an arsonist give the keynote address at a convention of firefighters. This was the annual Loeb First Amendment Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire - a public cherishing of Freedom of Speech - in the state with the ...
Massive Terror Screening Draws Outrage
Post Date: 2006-12-01 20:48:36 by Brian S
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Lawmakers and Businessmen Object to Terrorist Screening of American International Travelers WASHINGTON - A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked, two-story brick building in Northern Virginia. Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny of such government database-mining projects after reading that during the past four years millions of Americans have been evaluated without their knowledge to assess the risks that they are ...
The FIles
Post Date: 2006-12-01 17:59:33 by Zipporah
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I spent a fair part of my early years living quite near the Iron Curtain. My childhood included more than the usual fun of bike rides and playing in the woods – it also included tanks rolling through the street in front of my house, calls in the middle of the night that had my father disappearing for weeks, and planning where I would hide out when the Soviets came. On one of our school field trips, we went to Observation Point Alpha. We were told that if we stepped past the chain fence, we might get shot. Not a chainlink fence, but these little white posts connected by a single white chain. In retrospect, it was clearly an exaggeration by our guide, but most everyone in my class was ...
Expansion of Foreign Terra to Terra Americana
Post Date: 2006-12-01 16:26:09 by bluedogtxn
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Bush Signs Animal Terrorism Act into Law USAgNet ^ | 01 Dec 2006 | USAgNet Posted on 12/01/2006 12:28:34 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman President Bush has signed the 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,' which expands criminal prohibitions against the use of force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises and increases penalties for violations of these prohibitions. As defined by the bill, 'animal enterprises' include commercial and academic enterprises that use or sell animals or animal products for profit, food, agriculture, education, research and testing. This definition also includes equine activities such as rodeo, horse shows and similar lawful equine events. ...
Background on Webb-Bush
Post Date: 2006-12-01 13:45:16 by aristeides
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Background on Webb-Bush A lot of people think Jim Webb may have overreacted to the President Bush when he asked about his son Jimmy at a recent White House function. I've gotten a tip on the background to this confrontation, and it appears that Webb may have under reacted. As President Bush is well aware, a couple of weeks before this dinner the tank riding next to Jimmy's in Iraq was under fire and three marines died. My sources are telling me that the way President Bush approached Webb with his tone, it appeared he was asking the question of how Jimmy was doing in a mocking manner, while he was certainly aware of the tragedy that had hit his unit a few weeks earlier. Webb has ...
Bush Will Deny Spying, Torture Info To Democrats
Post Date: 2006-12-01 10:07:14 by Brian S
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Fri Dec 1, 2006 4:36 AM ET By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is unlikely to allow the incoming Democratic majority in Congress to learn details about its domestic spying program and interrogation policy, a Republican senator said on Thursday. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who has criticized the Bush White House's secrecy about national security issues, said he would welcome detailed congressional oversight of the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping. "It would be ideal," said Specter, whose committee was blocked by the administration this year from conducting a full review of the ...
U.S. government quietly rates millions of travellers for terrorism potential
Post Date: 2006-12-01 09:57:34 by Brian S
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Canadian Press Friday, December 01, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - Without notifying the public, federal agents for the past four years have assigned millions of international travellers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals. The travellers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments, which the government intends to keep them on file for 40 years. The scores are assigned to people entering and leaving the United States after computers assess their travel records, including where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind ...
New Rules Compel Firms To Track E-mails
Post Date: 2006-12-01 09:54:12 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees thanks to new federal rules that go into effect Friday, legal experts say. The rules, approved by the Supreme Court in April, require companies and other entities involved in federal litigation to produce "electronically stored information" as part of the discovery process, when evidence is shared by both sides before a trial. The change makes it more important for companies to know what electronic information they have and where. Under the new rules, an information technology employee who routinely copies over a backup ...
Home-Cooked Food Is Back on the Menu in Fairfax
Post Date: 2006-12-01 07:43:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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Amid Outrage, County's Ban Vanishes Fire up those ovens! The casserole is back. The chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors yesterday nixed plans to bar residents from cooking food in home and church kitchens and donating it to homeless shelters. He blamed overzealous county employees for a policy that made Fairfax the subject of nationwide ridicule. "For goodness sake," Chairman Gerald E. Connolly said yesterday, "the tradition of church suppers -- whether for the homeless or for the congregation -- goes back hundreds of years. We're not going to outlaw that in Fairfax County." Connolly said that he was unaware that county health officials were ...
Video: Keith Olbermann blasts Newt Gingrich's 'sinister vision' (the internet censorship)
Post Date: 2006-12-01 05:43:40 by Zipporah
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In his latest "Special Comment" on MSNBC's Countdown, Keith Olbermann criticizes former House Speaker and potential '08 presidential contender Newt Gingrich's recent speech outlining his vision for America and the world--one that has ominous overtones of restrictions on freedom of speech and, as Olbermann describes it, amounts to fearmongering by "a cynical mind." Olbermann says of Gingrich, "He offered the time-tested excuse trotted out by our demagogues since even before the Republic was founded: widespread death, of Americans, in America, possibly at the hands of Americans. But updated, now, to include terrorists using the Internet for recruitment. ...
Government today....
Post Date: 2006-12-01 00:01:51 by richard9151
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A man I correspond with sent this out yesterday, and it so completely describes the governments of today that I marvelled at it! All modern "government" is in fact a private cartel that is controlled by a few dominant occultists behind the curtain, while using entertainment and acting as a means to convince the people subjected to the cartel power that it is an open government and that the people have a say in policy; actually people have no say in policy of the private government cartels and there are no true public governments in operation on earth. The purpose of "public" works today, although put forth as intended to provide services, is actually to ratchet down ...
North American Union Fact Sheet
Post Date: 2006-11-30 19:35:21 by christine
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It's a PDF file. http://americanpolicy.org/pdf/NAUFS3.pdf
KILLING HABEAS CORPUS
Post Date: 2006-11-30 17:38:05 by robin
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KILLING HABEAS CORPUSby JEFFREY TOOBINArlen Specter’s about-face.Issue of 2006-12-04Posted 2006-11-27President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland on April 27, 1861, two weeks after the Confederate attack on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter. “Lincoln could look out his window at the White House and see Robert E. Lee’s plantation in Virginia,” Akhil Reed Amar, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of “America’s Constitution,” said. “He was also facing a rebellion of so-called Peace Democrats in Maryland, meaning there was a real chance that Washington would be surrounded and a real threat that the White House would be ...
PRETTY FASCIST COMMUNISM
Post Date: 2006-11-30 07:36:55 by Kamala
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PRETTY FASCIST COMMUNISM Nancy Levant November 28, 2006 http://NewsWithViews.com We certainly have become enamored of pretty things in the United States. Pretty “communities,” pretty plastic surgery fixes, the pretty Hollywood “elite,” pretty interior decorations, and pretty landscapes that were once the homes to children and pets – you know – those things we use to call our houses and yards. It seems that America the nation has undergone a facelift. It’s out with the old - the tried and true – and in with all that is new, licensed, inspected, controlled, manipulated, and mandated by “renewal” projects, environmental ...
Wrongly Accused Man Settles Bomb Suit
Post Date: 2006-11-30 06:49:07 by noone222
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A lawyer the FBI wrongly arrested after the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings because of a misidentified fingerprint has settled part of his lawsuit against the U.S. government for $2 million. Brandon Mayfield, who was detained for two weeks in 2004, maintained that he was arrested because of his Muslim faith. "Not only does my detention as a material witness in the Madrid bombing underscore the fallacy that fingerprint identification is reliable, I hope the public will remember that the U.S. government also targeted me and my family because of our Muslim religion," he said in a statement Wednesday. The local FBI office said Wednesday that it was proud of its work in the case _ ...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT-GOING ARMED TODAY
Post Date: 2006-11-30 02:13:08 by HOUNDDAWG
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On another forum I responded to a person who asked about legally wearing an exposed firearm in California. Having actually worn firearms for many years and been harassed by people who despise guns and knowing several other people who learned the things I wrote the hard way, I'd like to offer the following for your approval and intellectual stimulation: "If you've never allowed inner city minorities to see you wearing a firearm then you're in for a big surprise. They'll surround you and say "We know why you got dat gun, honky, 'cause you don't like niggas' huh?" and you may be forced to shoot your way out. And, any liberal, campus radical anti ...
Judicial Immunity: License to Plunder
Post Date: 2006-11-29 23:15:01 by BTP Holdings
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Judicial Immunity: License to Plunder by Hari Heath Like 60;our61; president and 60;our61; Congress, the American 60;judicial61; system has fallen to such depths that it is unlikely to recover. 60;Public servant61; is no longer a defining term for any of these offices. 60;Our61; governing system has been turned on its head so that we people have been reduced to mere beasts of burden with a mushrooming 60;government61; strapped to our backs. This government demands ever more tribute for the 60;services61; it provides. How did we fall into this corrupted servitude? Accountability--or lack thereof. Why? Those who took an oath to abide by the terms of the contract which established ...
The Wrath over the Wreath and the exercise of Free Speech
Post Date: 2006-11-29 20:32:40 by Zipporah
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The Wrath over the Wreath and the exercise of Free Speech By: Nicole Belle on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 3:03 AM - PST By now, most of you have heard about the peace sign wreath: USA Today: "Pagosa Springs — A homeowners group says it will fine a resident $25 day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that has offended some other residents as an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. Lisa Jensen said she's not taking it down until after Christmas." [..] Kearns, who fired a five-member neighborhood panel that refused to cite Jensen, gives his ...
RIAA Legal Ruling Could Shut Down The Internet, U.S. government supports legal case that would criminalize making any files available on the world wide web
Post Date: 2006-11-29 14:54:02 by christine
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A landmark legal case on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America and other global trade organizations seeks to criminalize all Internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web - and their argument is supported by the U.S. government. Ray Beckerman, a lawyer representing clients in cases against the RIAA, recently took part in a conference call organized by http://DefectiveByDesign.org, an organization which opposes DRM Technology, content restricting programs embedded into software that blocks users access to music, movies, software and other forms of digital data. Beckerman describes how Internet users are randomly ...
Democrats Will Seek Republican Backing to Set Limits on Bush Surveillance
Post Date: 2006-11-29 10:32:40 by Brian S
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Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats, about to take control of Congress, say they will forge a bipartisan compromise to put limits on President George W. Bush's program of domestic eavesdropping of suspected terrorists. Democrats say they already have a starting point for a compromise, noting that bipartisan proposals this year require court warrants for eavesdropping. At the same time, party leaders will be treading carefully in an effort to assure Americans that they can protect privacy without sacrificing vigilance, and to discredit Republican charges they are weak on national security. ``How will the Democrats proceed? I think gingerly,'' said Steven Aftergood, who directs a ...
Freshly Baked Handouts Forbidden in Fairfax
Post Date: 2006-11-29 08:24:40 by DeaconBenjamin
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County Says Health Of Homeless Is at Issue The casserole has been canned. Under a tough new Fairfax County policy, residents can no longer donate food prepared in their homes or a church kitchen -- be it a tuna casserole, sandwiches or even a batch of cookies -- unless the kitchen is approved by the county, health officials said yesterday. They said the crackdown on home-cooked meals is aimed at preventing food poisoning among homeless people. But it is infuriating operators of shelters for the homeless and leaders of a coalition of churches that provides shelter and meals to homeless people during the winter. They said the strict standards for food served in the shelters will make it ...
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