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Entries for the ‘Civil Liberties’ Category

Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe

WSJ
April 17, 2009
By Cam Simpson and Gary Fields
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and “militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups,” including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.
The initiative, dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, was outlined in [...]

Man Detained As Terror Suspect For Photographing Police Car

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Despite police claiming that an ambiguous section of the UK Counter Terrorism Act of 2008 would not outlaw taking photographs or film of police, a man was detained as a terror suspect this week simply for taking a photograph of a police car in order to document police misconduct.
62-year-old [...]

Obama Admin Seeks to Legalize And Expand Government Spying

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that the Obama administration is seeking to expand the government’s authority to carry out wiretapping under the auspices of national security.
The EFF points to the dismissal of its own litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping, warning that arguments made [...]

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Mother Jones
By Steve Aquino
April 2, 2009
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have [...]

Real Journalism Versus “Professional Journalism”

George Washington’s Blog
Monday, March 30, 20099
If Jon Stewart walked out of his studio with his camera crew, went to where establishment figures were speaking, and threw tough questions at them, you’d get something like We Are Change.
The We Are Change reporters have asked the tough questions - a la Stewart (well, minus the comedy) - [...]

Activists Arrested For Asking Bloomberg A Question Plan Countersuit

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, March 30, 2009
We Are Change New York members have described the “inhumane, insane and surreal” experience of being arrested by police for asking Mayor Bloomberg a question and promise that “the full story of this incident is yet to be heard.”
Luke Rudkowski, along with fellow We Are Change members Manny and [...]

Mandatory Service Bill Lives On

Infowars
March 29, 2009
It seemed like a victory, of sorts. Last week the Senate approved a bill to radically expand the AmeriCorps program. The bill initially contained language that proposed a study for mandatory service for all young people in the United States, but this language was removed as the bill moved through the Senate and [...]