Posting History for First and Fourth
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| Anatomy of a dysfunctional Federal District Court district. Hopefully this comes across as something other than only routine sour grapes. "The First and The Fourth" subject matter area is, if anything, at least as important as the most committed proponents ... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| How Hollywood sold America Total Information Awareness These guys would never violate the 4th amendment unless it was to keep us safe right?
In America people like to think of their hero's as being unimpeachable in character and motivations. That these ... |
Tool | 07/07/2013 | 113 | 124 | - | - |
| Imagine a smiling man, with only a few questions If you want a vision of the future, imagine a smiling man. In body Armor. With A weapon held at the low ready. Who only wants you to answer a few questions.
He's not threatening you, at ... |
detroitmechworks | 07/08/2013 | 21 | 23 | - | - |
| Want to know what can go wrong when the government collects data on you?
Here's an instructive look at what can happen when the government compiles massive amounts of personal data from millions ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 241 | 134 | - | - |
| “Todd Gitlin, Are ‘Intelligence’ and Instigation Running Riot?” Do you want to maintain your constitutional rights to engage in unhindered social protest against Keystone XL, the destruction of our climate, our overwhelming surveillance state, the veritable ... |
bobswern | 07/09/2013 | 14 | 29 | - | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Fixing the nation's spying laws We begin today's abbreviated pundit roundup with an editorial from The New York Times :
As Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times on Sunday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has for years ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 07/09/2013 | 65 | 30 | - | - |
| First Amendment Project: Caltrans broke law by confiscating anti-tunnel signs In the latest episode in the Brown administration's "Signgate" scandal, Restore the Delta Thursday released an expert legal opinion finding that the California Department of Transportation’s (... |
Dan Bacher | 07/11/2013 | 6 | 16 | - | - |
| U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlikely to end The ongoing revelations about the government's spying programs have changed public opinion on the issue, but the institutions responsible for reining them in have no incentive to act.
Cross posted ... |
danps | 07/13/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| White house warning russia to not give Snowden a propaganda platform Hi,
I don't write too often here, but I should really do it more often.
Living outside the US I can often see things that don't get much attention in the states and maybe a different reflection of ... |
tyfon | 07/14/2013 | 26 | 19 | - | - |
| Greenwald refutes reports on NSA/Snowden Glenn Greenwald has refuted a Reuters report that suggested that he or Snowden were blackmailing or threatening the US government with leaks of classified materials. |
CharlesII | 07/14/2013 | 631 | 137 | - | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #11: 101 unique arrests, things heat up Hundreds of observers crowded onto the third-floor balcony of the N.C. General Assembly to peacefully support the 101 civil-disobedience volunteers being arrested one floor below.
Amid sweltering ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/16/2013 | 31 | 65 | - | - |
| Take 2. Taking The Freeway. Taking It Down as Oakland Rises Up For Trayvon Martin. At about 7:30 PM this evening, after one of the most idiotic manuevers by the Oakland Police I have yet seen, Trayvon Martin verdict protesters went up the down ramp onto an already backed up I880, ... |
jpmassar | 07/16/2013 | 23 | 40 | - | - |
| The National Security Agency's Captive Audience 1972 Supreme Court Dissenting Opinion re
Government Surveillance
This case [ Laird v. Tatum] involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. Army ... |
Lynne Vogel | 07/16/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Warrior Cops--The New Men in Black If you hear someone banging on your door at about three in the morning, yelling, POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT. It’s unlikely you will be able to get up, put on something decent and get to the door ... |
ATexican | 07/20/2013 | 18 | 19 | - | - |
| BREAKING: N.C. Moral Monday #12: Spontaneous sit-in shuts down Gen. Assembly buildings When NAACP-NC President Rev. William Barber suggested from the N.C. General Assembly building's second floor (where civil-disobedience arrests were beginning to take place) that people sit down if ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/23/2013 | 84 | 171 | - | - |
| Under 300 Unique Phone Metadata Searches in 2012
That is a screengrab from a letter sent from the United States Department of Justice to the Judge hearing the NSA case. It illustrates the title to this diary with the following sentence: "In ... |
Tortmaster | 07/23/2013 | 43 | 9 | - | - |
| Dream Defenders Occupy Florida's Capitol - Day Eight They're still at it and they aren't going away. The Dream Defenders and their supporters have been occupying the capitol building in Tallahassee, FL since the Tuesday after George Zimmerman was ... |
nancyjones | 07/23/2013 | 21 | 35 | - | - |
| Republicans Bum Rush the democratic process and lay siege to your future. This originated as a comment in LaFeminista's We're not amused post from yesterday. I was surprised by the reaction and elected to post it as a diary, fleshed out and spell-corrected.
In this ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/27/2013 | 17 | 28 | - | - |
| Harry Belafonte Visits the Dream Defenders WE FIGHT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OUR GENERATION BY DIRECTLY CONFRONTING THE SOURCES, SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS OF IT.
The Dream Defenders are in their 12th day of standing their ground in the offices ... |
JoanMar | 07/28/2013 | 21 | 31 | - | - |
| FISA Court: "To date, no electronic communications provider has challenged a 702 directive" See FISA Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton's letter in response to queries from Senate Judiciary Committee Chariman Patrick Leahy .
The FISA court is described as working much as described in my ... |
Armando | 07/29/2013 | 82 | 66 | - | - |
| Dream Defenders and The Special Session Is Happnin NOW, y'all Pay attention.
The Dream Defenders are a diverse group of progressives led by brown and black youth. As such, they have a special expertise in things like racial profiling and the school to prison ... |
nancyjones | 07/29/2013 | 11 | 19 | - | - |
| Protest arrests at New England coal plant I went to the Brayton Point coal plant protest down near Fall River in Massachusetts on Sunday and I diaried about my experience here:
New England coal plant protest
Rugbymom also diaried here:
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cordgrass | 07/30/2013 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| Defending the American Dream
Florida governor Rick Scott will give the keynote address to the Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit" scheduled for Aug 30-31 in Orlando, Florida. Ain't that some shit? |
nancyjones | 08/11/2013 | 18 | 13 | - | - |
| Democratic Senators Feinstein, Schumer Press for Assault on Independent Journalism
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law that would limit the law's protection only to "real reporters," not bloggers and other alternative media.
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perceptionisrealityshow | 08/12/2013 | 24 | 17 | - | - |
| NSA Monitored ALL Salt Lake City Texts/Emails For 6 Months Slipped into the WSJ article on the NSA surveillance programs and abilities was a tiny (but huge) bit of information:
For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, officials say, the Federal ... |
LieparDestin | 08/22/2013 | 202 | 158 | - | - |
| All Things Bookstore: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the “Howl” Trial Booksellers can become political. A good example of that comes from San Fransico in the 1950s when Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the proprietor of the City Lights Bookstore (which is still very much there ... |
Dave in Northridge | 10/15/2013 | 38 | 40 | - | - |
| Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self-Censor Yesterday PEN American Center , 90 years old organization with a goal to defend free expression in literature, released a worrisome report Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to ... |
ScrewedByLawyer | 11/13/2013 | 13 | 10 | - | - |
| Washington Times sues Homeland Security The original incident was diaried here - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250685/-Gun-Search-warrant-used-for-confiscating-journalist-s-files
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland ... |
ffour | 11/22/2013 | 2 | 9 | - | - |
| Bryan Fischer: If we say 'religion' really just means 'Christian', we're done!
Whatever.
Radio hatemonger and American Family Association bile fountain Bryan Fischer ... |
Hunter | 12/12/2013 | 216 | 181 | - | - |
| Obama pondering fate of NSA's bulk data collection | Joan McCarter | 01/09/2014 | 26 | 37 | - | 6 |
| Liberty or DAC. A Struggle Against "The Local Chapter of the NSA." A bit of street theatre took place Saturday, February 1st, in Oakland, just a block away from where Scott Olsen was shot and nearly killed by Oakland's Police Department during the first major ... |
jpmassar | 02/04/2014 | 5 | 17 | - | - |
| Police Utilizing Private Companies, Exploits To Access Data From Suspects' Smartphones "I'm thinking there's probably a wealth of information that just got tucked into your pocket," Norton says. "Something that we'd like to get our hands on." from the brute-force-attacks-that-don't-... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/26/2014 | 13 | 17 | - | - |
| American Sharia, #1: Louisiana begins process to make Bible state's official book I wish this was snark. From nola.com : Legislation that would make the Holy Bible the official state book of Louisiana cleared the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs with a ... |
Dave in Northridge | 04/11/2014 | 74 | 85 | - | - |
| Anatomy of a Murder: The Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and Religious Liberty
What would you do if you found out that a shocking murder plot was unfolding silently? What if this wasn’t just any murder, but the premeditated and carefully plotted unfolding of a terrifying ... |
Mikey Weinstein | 04/25/2014 | 11 | 50 | - | - |
| Religious Exemptions: The First and the Fourteenth This is the first of what I think will be three diaries that directly resulted from my experience at NN 14. Religious exemptions was identified as one of the five major post-marriage issues for the ... |
Dave in Northridge | 08/04/2014 | 41 | 25 | - | - |
| I'm old enough to remember "entrapment". I'm afraid that for younger cohorts of our citizenry the term "predisposition" is, largely, just another fancy word. For others of us, the connection to the erosion of Fourth Amendment rights/... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 13 | 21 | 1 | - |
| Bradley Manning the war on whistleblowers continues Standing up for the principle of righteousness in the face of adversity is a standard rarely encountered. Knowing a crime was committed Manning tried through inside channels to do the right thing. ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 07/10/2013 | 80 | 60 | 1 | - |
| All Access Imagine
A complete file of your medical records.
A complete file of your banking records
A complete record of your credit card transactions
A complete record of all your internet activity
A ... |
LaFeminista | 07/12/2013 | 80 | 36 | 1 | - |
| “This is too much, this is just like some third world country that we’re in all of a sudden.” That was a quote from a woman publicly humiliated by a Texas State Trooper her taxes pays the salary of.
The woman was treated so poorly by these troopers she broke down in tears.
The indignity ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 07/13/2013 | 270 | 285 | 1 | - |
| Contrary to WaPo, NSA Massive Domestic Spying Predates 2005 The Washington Post has a front page story featuring embattled National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander's hoarding complex.
“Rather than look for a single needle in the ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/15/2013 | 149 | 174 | 1 | - |
| Big Data and Big Brother The controversies surrounding the revelations about the NSA are bringing a lot of background information about recent developments in technology onto the radar screen. 20 years ago when internet ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/15/2013 | 79 | 42 | 1 | - |
| New suit challenges NSA surveillance
A large coalition of religious groups, privacy advocates, free speech, human rights and environmental organizations have joined with other groups in the Electronic Frontiers Foundation'... |
Joan McCarter | 07/17/2013 | 47 | 71 | 1 | - |
| NSA Extends Surveillance Program NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/19/2013 | 102 | 46 | 1 | - |
| Takeover of NC Speaker Thom Tillis' office Moments ago, a group of students and other North Carolinians moved into the office of N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and initiated a sit-in a la Wisconsin and Florida.
Those of us not at the ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/24/2013 | 17 | 72 | 1 | - |
| Obama meets with key lawmakers on NSA revelations, vows reforms
The debate between privacy and national security that President Obama has said he welcomes has begun, with ... |
Joan McCarter | 08/02/2013 | 144 | 47 | 1 | 16 |
| Obama: ‘We don’t have a domestic spying program’ Raw Story
The President was on the Jay Leno show last night and was provided an opportunity to assure Americans that they are not being 'spied upon'. What we do have are some mechanisms where we ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 08/07/2013 | 354 | 117 | 1 | - |
| Fears of NSA surveillance hurting the U.S. cloud computing industry By Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Thursday, August 8, 2013 18:49 EDT American technology businesses fear they could lose between $21.5bn and $35bn in cloud computing contracts worldwide over the next ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 08/08/2013 | 247 | 129 | 1 | - |
| Charlotte Moral Monday 8/19: Fighting for the soul of NC In just two days, Charlotte will host Moral Monday to protest the policies of Gov. Pat McCrory and NC's Republican-controlled General Assembly.
“We are not going to let the so-called religious ... |
SteelerGrrl | 08/17/2013 | 8 | 24 | 1 | - |
| Dream Defenders Go After Rick Scott & Co., Legally and Peacefully Using a clever and little-known tactic of calling for a Special Session, the Dream Defenders forced pro-Scott legislators to take sides. Who are the Dream Defenders? What have they done so far?
... |
nancyjones | 08/18/2013 | 65 | 98 | 1 | - |
| Bloomberg Editorial Board calls for a repeat of the Church Committee First I have to get this off my chest. I am pissed. If one more person tells me to or even implies that I should sit down and STFU I'm not likely to deal with them in a generous manner.
I feel ... |
Just Bob | 08/18/2013 | 92 | 63 | 1 | - |
| MN-Sen: Al Franken (D) Worries That New iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Might Be A Privacy Menace
So the new iPhone came out this week:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/09/20/sen-franken-has-concerns-over-iphone-fingerprint-tech/ |
poopdogcomedy | 09/21/2013 | 11 | 8 | 1 | - |
| Gun Search warrant used for confiscating journalist's files From here .
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist's confidential files. The reporter had written a series of articles critical ... |
ffour | 10/25/2013 | 20 | 38 | 1 | - |
| Christian extremist Klingenschmitt loses battle to shut down Right Wing Watch Given the fact that the extremist Christian right has only become more vicious and frothy as their dream of ushering in an American Theocracy continues to be our American nightmare, we need the ... |
Steven Payne | 11/20/2013 | 61 | 289 | 1 | - |
| This Thanksgiving Americans Prepare For a New War - A War on the Homeless. Have no doubt about it. It's war, and a new front has opened in Los Angeles, as the New York Times reported yesterday :
Facing an uproar from homeowners, two members of the Los Angeles City ... |
jpmassar | 11/28/2013 | 23 | 81 | 1 | - |
| NSA: u r pwnd It seems that our great protector the NSA is in the texting business in a very big way.
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
The National Security Agency has ... |
Richard Lyon | 01/16/2014 | 89 | 109 | 1 | - |
| White House sues Sprint for overcharging on compliance with federal phone taps heh. The Obama administration filed a suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Monday, alleging that Sprint overcharged the government $21 million for expenses it incurred while complying ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/03/2014 | 23 | 24 | 1 | - |
| Have you read the Amnesty International report on human rights abuses in Ferguson? Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, MO
I don't think I need to detail Amnesty International's widely respected pedigree here. Suffice it to say that the human rights ... |
KingCharlemagne | 10/25/2014 | 10 | 15 | 1 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #10: at least 64 arrested, 746 unique arrests so far
Rev. Frederick Battle is all too familiar with civil disobedience and what spurs people to fight power with peaceful assembly. The mild-mannered minister was arrested 51 years ago in Greensboro, N.... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/09/2013 | 101 | 174 | 2 | - |
| Secret court broadens NSA's powers, in secret
The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau has another must-read story on how the surveillance ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 95 | 195 | 2 | 4 |
| "Snowden Deserves an Immediate Presidential Pardon" Harvard professor Stephen Walt has called upon President Obama to grant Edward Snowden an immediate presidential pardon.
His call, published in the Financial Times , begins thusly :
In his ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/08/2013 | 739 | 253 | 2 | - |
| Coleen Rowley has questions for James Comey If you do not remember who Coleen Rowley is, she was an FBI Special Agent and Lawyer in Minneapolis, where she served as chief legal advisor, who became well known because of the paper she wrote for ... |
teacherken | 07/09/2013 | 24 | 84 | 2 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can Declare a No Fly Zone Part II So the last diary was very very long.
I could have cut it up into pieces, but I figured it was just better to put that out and explain it as best as I was able, the disturbing material I am reading. |
GreenMother | 07/11/2013 | 35 | 35 | 2 | - |
| BREAKING: The Guardian Reveals Microsoft's Close Collaboration with the NSA Today the Guardian published a new story on a number of top secret documents which prove that Microsoft--despite its (and other major tech firms recent denials of prior knowledge of the PRISM program- |
The Free Agent | 07/11/2013 | 366 | 264 | 2 | - |
| Greenwald “Blasts Media, MSNBC Over Edward Snowden Stories” (w/fmr. Sen. Humphrey's Update) ( UPDATE 7/16/13, 3:00PM EDT: Former Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-NH) has had a fascinating email exchange with Edward Snowden. See farther down, below.)
Continuing his efforts from the past few ... |
bobswern | 07/16/2013 | 582 | 152 | 2 | - |
| Detroit Free Press photographer arrested while filming another arrest
Another day, another incident of police arresting someone for filming them in public. This time it was Mandi Wright, a photographer from the Detroit Free Press :
As two officers ... |
Jen Hayden | 07/16/2013 | 100 | 185 | 2 | - |
| North Carolina legislature determined to suppress voter turnout. Old times there not forgotten The Rev. William Barber II
A bill with a fat package of changes in state voter laws will likely be passed by the North Carolina legislature this week. Many of the changes are specifically designed ... |
Meteor Blades | 07/23/2013 | 138 | 146 | 2 | 10 |
| Defund the NSA - ACTION (Now!)
Caucus Diary
This is a Caucus diary, a community diary created by The Caucus Project group at DailyKos.
The goal of this diary is not to debate the policy position of the diarist; it is for ... |
joanneleon | 07/23/2013 | 177 | 117 | 2 | - |
| A giant sucking sound
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MattWuerker | 07/25/2013 | 39 | 44 | 2 | - |
| There's Good News and Bad News about the NSA and your Personal Passwords The Good News: apparently the NSA doesn't yet have the know-how (or more likely the horsepower), to quickly crack our personal passwords.
The Bad News: apparently the NSA wants this no-road-... |
jamess | 07/27/2013 | 189 | 174 | 2 | - |
| As Manning Faces Life in Jail, Architects of Torture & Extrajudicial Murders Face Talk Show Circuit While Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of the most serious charge he faced – aiding the enemy – he has been 'convicted' by a military court on 19 counts, several of which fall under the ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/30/2013 | 368 | 323 | 2 | - |
| New Guardian Report: NSA Can Use XKeyscore to Track All of Your Internet Activity The Guardian has another bombshell report on the NSA, based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The headline says it all: XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the ... |
Lost Left Coaster | 07/31/2013 | 278 | 136 | 2 | - |
| Love him or hate him, Glenn Greenwald Nails It Against a Beltway Insider Who Only Has Excuses. Watch this video. Nine minutes. |
gooderservice | 07/31/2013 | 384 | 157 | 2 | - |
| PBS Newshour Gets Played By NSA Lawyers The other night, to it's credit, the PBS Newshour had NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Russell Tice on for an interview segment, titled, "NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic ... |
joe shikspack | 08/05/2013 | 101 | 121 | 2 | - |
| Massive protest at California Chevron refinery a show of movement strength This weekend, Oil Change International’s newest campaigner and I joined dozens of dedicated community leaders, climate movement allies and friends, and a couple thousand new friends in a march to ... |
dturnbull | 08/06/2013 | 26 | 63 | 2 | - |
| Whoa: New York Times Now Has Snowden Docs Carried By Secret Courier into the US And now the plot really thickens, as the New York Times enters the fray. |
bink | 08/23/2013 | 247 | 298 | 2 | - |
| The NSA's Rank Incompetence ALMOST Overshadows its Authoritarian Agenda Egregious constitutional violations aside, highlighting the sheer level of incompetence and malfeasance at the NSA will ensure that congressional reform will indeed happen.
The U.S. government's ... |
markthshark | 08/28/2013 | 77 | 119 | 2 | - |
| Qwest CEO Who Resisted NSA Spying Finally Released From Prison After Four Years of Incarceration
Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was ... |
markthshark | 10/01/2013 | 95 | 238 | 2 | - |
| Police violate Fourth Amendment in order to get their hands on nifty gadgets How nifty?
The device is called a Stingray.
So super duper nifty.
What does a Stingray do?, you might ask.
Apparently it is a device that can be taken to a location it then pings all the cell ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 03/06/2014 | 305 | 279 | 2 | - |
| Introducing a new DKos Group: The First and the Fourth Our First Amendment is under siege and our 4th Amendment rights have been forced into providing lapdances in clandestine VIP rooms. Since the eruption of the Snowden-NSA-spying issue/scandal/... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/06/2013 | 90 | 96 | 3 | - |
| Greenwald Does NSA and Brazil The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians
As the headline suggests, the crux of the main article details how the NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/06/2013 | 232 | 134 | 3 | - |
| Julian Assange Spills the Beans --> PRISM "Facebook, in particular, is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented, um, here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names ... |
New Minas | 07/08/2013 | 200 | 89 | 3 | - |
| Freedom of Assembly on Trial in NYC: Veterans Who Fought for Liberty Are Forced to Fight Again World War II veteran Jay Wenk tolls a bell while Vietnam veteran Tarak Kauff reads the names of the fallen moments before their arrest on October 7, 2012.
“Congress shall make no law… abridging�� |
Richard Riis | 07/10/2013 | 63 | 139 | 3 | - |
| Chevron Granted Access to Nine Years of Activists' Email Information in Environmental Lawsuit This is another illustrative example of the insidious reciprocal relationships forged between our government and the huge corporations they represent. Frankly, after the Snowden revelations, I ... |
markthshark | 07/11/2013 | 166 | 240 | 3 | - |
| UPDATED: U.S. Pressures Latin America to Deny Snowden Asylum as He Meets With Human Rights Groups In its desperate attempt to persecute National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden , the U.S. government has taken on the role of oafish bully and is pressuring Latin American ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/12/2013 | 920 | 324 | 3 | - |
| Why Are Americans So Passive? This is a brief overview of a lengthy article currently posted at AlterNet. I was shocked and pleased to see it because I ask myself the same thing daily and am always thrilled to find out I'm not ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/13/2013 | 263 | 196 | 3 | - |
| DOJ Excludes Bloggers & Independent Journalists from New Protections Much praise was heaped upon the Department of Justice yesterday when it announced its new media policies , which shield journalists from being classified by the FBI as "co-conspirators" in criminal ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/13/2013 | 199 | 142 | 3 | - |
| Ex-NSA Chief Michael Hayden is SO mad at Snowden... There was an opinion piece on CNN yesterday by former NSA chief, Ret. General Michael v. Hayden. In it he bristles with outrage over Edward Snowden, comparing him to Benedict Arnold.
Before we ... |
Dumbo | 07/20/2013 | 167 | 212 | 3 | - |
| Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press The part of the First Amendment that prohibits “abridging the freedom … of the press” is now up against the wall, as the Obama administration continues to assault the kind of journalism that ... |
NormanSolomon | 07/22/2013 | 372 | 162 | 3 | - |
| One Nation Under Borg The source is a quick read so I encourage everyone to take a look . Just a teaser here:
DARPA insists that Atlas is not being designed for adversarial military tasks, but for humanitarian reasons—... |
Words In Action | 07/24/2013 | 180 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Mass Arrest of Singers in Wisconsin Capitol Wisconsin Capitol Police arrested and cited around 20 people today after declaring their singing of protest songs in the rotunda an "unlawful event."
Many of those arrested were senior citizens ( ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/24/2013 | 142 | 262 | 3 | - |
| Dick Durbin: Secret FISA court 'fixed,' 'loaded' Sen. Dick Durbin
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a bright idea for addressing one problem with the out-of-control surveillance state: reform the secret FISA court ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/29/2013 | 206 | 134 | 3 | 13 |
| Heroes of the Day Sing Truth To Power Closing down the building singing truth to power for an hour, after consecutive weekday noon-hour Solidarity Sing Along #624, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, day #4 of the illegal mass arrests of peaceably ... |
Wisco Wherls | 07/31/2013 | 19 | 61 | 3 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #13: What happens now? As many as 10,000 protesters took to the streets of downtown Raleigh to protest the repressive bills that made their way through the NC General Assembly this legislative session. Protesters wore red ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/31/2013 | 66 | 115 | 3 | - |
| Mr. President; really? Mr. President;
I watched your press conference today with a mixture of incredulous disappointment and outrage fatigue.
After all the revelations about the NSA and it's wholesale capture of ... |
facethemusic | 08/09/2013 | 283 | 289 | 3 | - |
| Time To Unite Against NSA Abuses: A Proposal We are entering a very dangerous period in history. Our national security is now firmly in the hands of for-profit private corporations and their lackeys in government. They have built a veritable ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/11/2013 | 34 | 70 | 3 | - |
| Progressive Magazine Editor Arrested for Taking Pictures of Singers in Wis Capitol Wrong on so many levels .
Sorry about the 2nd diary today, but I didn't see anyone else posting this.
The longtime editor of The Progressive magazine was swept up in arrests Thursday during the ... |
Puddytat | 08/15/2013 | 151 | 317 | 3 | - |
| Obama Admin Petitions Supreme Court To Allow Warrantless Cell Phone Searches The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable ... |
Heavy Mettle | 08/20/2013 | 302 | 149 | 3 | - |
| "Today I learned I got my freedoms back": 7 Americans ALLOWED off No-Fly List. Government's Secretive "No-Fly List" Regime Crumbling, says ACLU Marking the first major victory against the U.S. government's secretive 'No Fly List' on Friday, seven people who challenged their ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 10/12/2014 | 94 | 152 | 3 | - |
| Federal Judge Enjoins Walker Administration from Enforcing Wisconsin Capitol Permit Requirements I wish I had more time to analyze and write about this, but let's just say it was a good day for the Wisconsin chapter of the ACLU.
In addition to granting a 10 day injunction barring enforcement ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/08/2013 | 50 | 216 | 4 | - |
| The answer to the NSA and the FISA court: James Otis, "On the Writs of Assistance," February 1761 MAY it please your Honors : I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. I have accordingly considered it, and ... |
Superskepticalman | 07/09/2013 | 9 | 26 | 4 | - |