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Social Networking: The Challenges of Privacy and Openness
zoesera
by zoesera  11-4-2009   
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Crazy Sheriff Joe Arpaio facing FBI investigation for abusing his power by arresting his critics
ratilfar
by ratilfar  11-1-2009   
 We described Arpaio's incredible thuggery late last year in his dealings with the public, especially those who dare criticize him. An anti-Arpaio group called Maricopa Citizens for Safety Accountability, which formed last year in response to investigative reports and studies demonstrating that Arpaio's insane obsession with illegal immigrants was destroying his office's ability to actually deal with real law enforcement work, began showing up at county board meetings and asking to speak. Arpaio actually sent out his deputies in force to patrol these meetings, and they arrested people for merely applauding Arpaio's critics. If that sounds fascist to you, that's about right -- after all, some of the local neo-Nazis are Arpaio's biggest fans -- and he's been known to return the love.
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Speaking up for a 'moment of silence'
jay8h
by jay8h  10-25-2009   
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Olbermanic Stuck In The Jaws of Coulter
willhelm
by willhelm  10-21-2009    2
 The Bush campaign commercial about Dukakis' furlough program never showed a picture of Horton. In fact, the actors playing "criminals" passing through a revolving door in the ad were all white. -- Voters considered it relevant that a candidate for president was so beholden to the ACLU that he backed an idiotic furlough program that released first-degree murderers. And yet in Keith Olbermann's discussion of Bush's allegedly vile, racist use of Willie Horton, he used a phony version of the ad, doctored to include a photo of Horton. in fairness to Keith, he's never been a "content guy." He was a communications major. (The agriculture school Keith attended offered a degree in this field.) He lifts the material for his show from liberal blogs, overwrites it, and throws in his trademark smirking and snorts. But that's all he does because, again, he was a communications major.
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ACLU Discussion on Crack Cocaine Sentencing
sincitykitty
by sincitykitty  10-16-2009   
 October marks the 23rd anniversary of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which resulted in stricter punishments for low-level crack offenses, compared to powder cocaine offenses.
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Interracial couple denied marriage license in Louisiana
Lexica
by Lexica  10-15-2009    2
 More: If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said. "I try to treat everyone equally," he said. Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.… "It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzmann. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry." The ACLU sent a letter to the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and recommending "the most severe sanctions available, because such blatant bigotry poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the administration of justice." "He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it," Schwartzmann said.
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Texas DA Seeks to Use Seized Funds to Defend Herself in Lawsuit Over Unlawful Seizure of Same Funds
sincitykitty
by sincitykitty  10-9-2009   
 OMG! I think my head just exploded!
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Will Dog Fighting Videos be Protected by Freedom of Speech?
JackieDel
by JackieDel  10-7-2009    2
 If the Supreme Court rules to uphold the conviction of Stevens, the law will be reinstated and animals will once again be protected from people who make money from their suffering. It seems like it should be an easy decision for the Supreme Court, but since the concept of free speech has come into question everyone from book publishers to movie producers, photographers, artists and journalists have gotten involved. They have taken animal cruelty out of the equation and replaced it with their own interests that they believe will be damaged if Stevens loses. Even the ACLU has gotten involved. The New York Times went as far as filing a “brief” in support of Stevens. They said, “The 1999 law imperils the media’s ability to report on issues related to animals.” Media publications cite that they are concerned that hunting and fishing magazines will be censored and general reporting on animal issues will be limited.
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Fox News Has Hired A Supporter of Convicted Cop-Killer As An"Analyst" and "Contributor"
merrie
by merrie  9-29-2009    8
 and "started a literacy project that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high school students." It also says that he works with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, "focusing on drug informant policy." The ACLU favors legalization of all drugs. James Pera, a retired San Francisco Police Sergeant who saw first-hand the violence of the BLA and the Weather Underground, asked, "Why does O'Reilly pander to this tool of the left? I don't know. If they can bash the Obama Administration for not vetting left-wing radical Van Jones, shouldn’t they explain how Marc Lamont Hill was hired and who hired him?
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What they think of our left in Canada
fgviva
by fgviva  9-29-2009   
 I always thought they were out of touch
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Enough is Enough!!! Free the Scott Sisters!
mammabear89
by mammabear89  9-24-2009   
 I've personally taken the time to look into this case. I've read through the court transcripts.... the whole thing makes me sick! I'll gladly share more links for anyone who reads this, and finds it disturbing enough to investigate on their own.
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Police Harassment Greets G-20 Protesters
katsteevns
by katsteevns  9-23-2009    1
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'John Adams Project' Exposes CIA Agents to Terrorist Suspects
merrie
by merrie  9-10-2009    3
 The John Adams Project is a joint effort by the ACLU and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to locate, stalk, and photograph covert CIA agents and to show those photographs to terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The Justice Department is investigating the John Adams Project. It is a violation of federal law to identify covert CIA agents. An ACLU spokesperson justified the outing of covert CIA agents by claiming that they had been involved in the "torture" of Guantanamo terrorist detainees that ACLU lawyers are representing. The John Adams Project was featured on Tuesday night's O'Reilly Factor when an O'Reilly producer chased down one of the three lawyers involved in the John Adams Project and demanded answers about an operation that would seem, on the face of it, place the lives of covert CIA operatives at jeopardy. The lawyer in question was very defiant and angry at being questioned by a Fox News producer with the camera rolling.
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The Valerie Jarrett Show
merrie
by merrie  9-8-2009    1
 the leftist group Jones helped to found, and which launched the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck. The counsel's office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. "This wasn't simply Valerie Jarrett rubberstamping her guy," says a White House source. But Jarrett did view Jones as a critical member of the administration for her outreach efforts, in part, because he was so well known and respected in the radical-left world Playing to those types is another reason Jarrett's office approved the invitation of Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU's "national security project," to the White House Ramadan dinner last week. Jaffer, a Canadian citizen, attended the dinner, which President Obama said was being held for American Muslims. Jaffer is a cause célèbre to the far left for his career of litigating against
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IN man denied ‘No Gods’ license plates though state offers ‘In God We Trust’ plates
disenchantedcitizen
by disenchantedcitizen  9-8-2009    2
 As I understand it, the separation of church and state sprang from the concept that the state cannot impose its belief on the individual. The federal government has been doing exactly this since 1864 when the first coin was stamped with “In God We Trust”. In 1956 it became the national motto (http://candst.tripod.com/motto.htm), and it is supported by nearly 90% of Americans, which led the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the motto because, according to them, it has "lost through rote repetition any significant religious content”. Several years ago, the appearance of "In God We Trust" on our money was challenged in the federal courts. The challenge was rejected by the lower federal courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review the case. Since this message appears on U.S. currency, several states flags and seals, and license plates, many people falsely believe that the U.S. is, and was founded as, a Christian nation. I doubt you will convince them otherwise.
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Body odor a crime
wiganfootie
by wiganfootie  9-4-2009    1
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How Our Interrogations Got KSM to Talk
clip-on-tie
by clip-on-tie  9-1-2009    3
 Thanks to the ACLU, the whole world now knows what “torture” means in the United States. Here’s a partial list: Sleep deprivation “insult slaps” water dousing “walling” (slamming a detainee’s head against a wall) Apparently, American-style torture consists of attending a frat party.
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The Fall Guy
merrie
by merrie  8-29-2009    2
 True, the president showed up at the CIA a few days later to reassure Mr. Panetta's demoralized troops. Don't "be discouraged" that you've "made mistakes," the president said, smiling, as Mr. Panetta stood grimly by. "That's how we learn." Mr. Obama vowed to be "vigorous in protecting" the organization. Later, at the White House, he announced plans to release photos showing detainee abuse"at the demand of the ACLU. Then came House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's full-frontal assault, claiming the agency had lied to her about waterboarding. This would have been an excellent time for some "vigorous" protection of the CIA, since agency documents flatly contradict the speaker. But with his domestic agenda in the hands of Congress, the White House was mum. It showed equal interest in defending Mr. Panetta against the threat of congressional investigations. This week the White House visited on the CIA director what ranking Senate Intelligence Committee member Kit Bond declared a "hat trick"
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New CIA Docs Detail Brutal "Extraordinary Rendition" Process
ratilfar
by ratilfar  8-28-2009    2
 All of these practices are carefully engineered to facilitate the interrogation process. Nudity, sleep deprivation and dietary manipulation are used as standard preparatory steps. It then details the standard "corrective techniques:" these are a series of physical assaults labeled with innocuous titles like insult slap, abdominal slap, facial hold and attention grasp. "Coercive techniques" used include: walling (slamming a prisoner's head against the wall, with some protective measures to avoid severe injuries), water dousing, the use of the stress position (known to the inquisition as the strapado, to the Germans in World War II as Pfahlbinden), wall standing (referred to by the NKVD and KGB as stoika) and cramped confinement. Because of substantial redactions, it seems unlikely that this list is complete. None of this information is surprising. In fact it all tallies perfectly with the description of the renditions program that can be derived from the report prepared by the Intern
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ACLU Flags Facebook on Privacy
blueridge
by blueridge  8-27-2009   
 and many users are minors, the majority careless
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NY Says No to Shackled Prison Births: 44 States Still Say Yes
zizzy
by zizzy  8-27-2009   
 In any case, it's a small, humane step for a very, very troubled American institution.
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Dem Potpourri: Obamacare, Kennedy and Bush-Era Torture
merrie
by merrie  8-26-2009    1
 August 25, 2009 Shifting The Conversation To Thicker Ice Obama rallies his base by trying to shift the national conversation to Bush-era torture. Glenn Greenwald, a sometime consultant to the ACLU, reminds us of the depth of his commitment to civil liberties as he discusses the newly-released CIA Inspector General report on enhanced interrogation: What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report ...Before saying anything about the implications of this Report, I want to post some excerpts of what CIA interrogators did. Every American should be forced to read and learn this in order to know what was done in their names . . . "Forced" to learn this stuff? I will defend to the death the right of every American to grill hotdogs and watch a ball game while tuning this news out. In another incident a guard racked a handgun and spun up a power drill near a hooded detainee. Geez, are we holding hardened terrorists or . .
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Wrist-slap and Tackle: Obama Goes Mild on CIA Torture http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/artic
disenchantedcitizen
by disenchantedcitizen  8-25-2009    2
 Holder has announced a tepid probe into some of the possible "excesses" committed by a few CIA interrogators, while letting the true architects and perpetrators of an elaborate, deliberate, inherent system of torture get off scot-free. Glenn Greenwald has many of the details here and here, among them the telling – and damning – fact that Obama and Holder have apparently decided that the "torture memos" prepared at the White House's order should be considered "settled law;" that is, only those agents whose tortures might have gone a bit beyond the already heinous tortures "allowed" by the White House memos are to be investigated for possible prosecution. As long as you stayed within the gruesome "guidelines" of the White House torture memos, then your atrocities are now to be considered "legal." This is yet another open reinforcement of the long-established covert practice of what we might call Nixon's Law: "If the president orders it, it cannot be illegal."
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US Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
papananook
by papananook  8-23-2009    2
 The military Beast is alive and well in Bagram!
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Suit filed over mass arrest during DNC protest.
The Infowarrior
by The Infowarrior  8-22-2009    1
 "Denver police have said they were trying to control the crowd moving from Civic Center. The officers testified in court that they had intelligence that anarchists planned to gather in the park, then move toward the 16th Street Mall to wreak havoc at delegate hotels and other businesses. The activists had posted that plan on a publicly available website."
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Detainees Shown CIA Officers' Photos
merrie
by merrie  8-21-2009    2
 The photos were taken by researchers hired by the John Adams Project, a joint effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, to support military counsel at Guantanamo Bay, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry. It was unclear whether the Justice Department is also examining those organizations. Both groups have long said that they will zealously investigate the CIA's interrogation program at "black sites" worldwide as part of the defense of their clients. But government investigators are now looking into whether the defense team went too far by allegedly showing the detainees the photos of CIA officers, in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes. If proved, the allegations would highlight how aggressively both military lawyers and their allies in the human rights community are moving to shed light on the CIA's interrogation . .
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office
merrie
by merrie  8-20-2009    2
 and his son is a US citizen. He was also an employee of Handyman Maintenance at the time of the raid. The lawsuit claims that the Mora’s were detained for over 3 hours and denied food and water during this time. It also alleges that the experience was “humiliating” for Julian Mora since he is a diabetic and was forced to urinate in the parking lot. Almost lost in the story is the fact that the raid resulted in the apprehension of 60 illegal aliens, while the company itself did work for the Maricopa County government. The strategy for silencing Arpaio seems clear; Investigate and sue him into submission. An anti Arpaio website claims that the Sheriff’s office has been involved in over 5000 lawsuits and proclaims that 42 million has been spent defending Arpaio and his department. This is used as a justification for removing Arpaio, whether his efforts are sanctioned under the law is irrelevant to these groups. . . .
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'Loser pay' setup might discourage ACLU
jay8h
by jay8h  8-20-2009   
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NJ city considers adult curfew after crime spate
jay8h
by jay8h  8-19-2009   
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ACORN Teams Up With ACLU to Throw Out Penn Voter Law
merrie
by merrie  8-19-2009    1
 The statute says, "A person may not give, solicit or accept payment or financial incentive to obtain voter registration if the payment or incentive is based upon the number of registrations or applications obtained." During the voter drive, ACORN set quotas for workers that ended up seeing that quotes were met by creating fake voter registration cards. ACORN and the ACLU, it seems, couldn't care less about the integrity of elections and the legality of voter registrations. One thing that this ACLU lawsuit seems to prove, however, is that ACORN admits its guilt in the matter. If it were not guilty of falsifying thousands of Pennsylvania voter registration cards, why then would it need to get rid of the statute in question? ACORN is... issuing an admission of guilt. ACORN knows it perpetrated vote fraud and now wants to go back and change the law to paper over its guilt.
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"Big Brother".........soon at your Pizza Shop
leevardi
by leevardi  8-18-2009   
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ACLU, Tenn. schools settle case over gay-issues Web sites
wiccantexan
by wiccantexan  8-17-2009   
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Ordering a Pizza in 2012.....what a giggle !
leevardi
by leevardi  8-17-2009   
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Tortured Logic
BartendingBear
by BartendingBear  8-11-2009   
 Demand accountability for the illegal torture in your name. Click to the first clipped source to send the video to AG Eric Holder. The video includes appearances by Oliver Stone, 9/11 family member Patricia Perry, actors Rosie Perez, Noah Emmerich, John Doman and Reg E. Cathey, and musical composer Philip Glass, among others, reading directly from a memo authored by Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel under the Bush administration. The memo was released in April as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
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School officials face jail time for meal-time prayers
jay8h
by jay8h  8-11-2009    5
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ACLU Asks Florida Court To Protect The Rights Of Pregnant Women
wiccantexan
by wiccantexan  8-5-2009    1
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FELON ENFRANCHISEMENT AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE
foxyarse
by foxyarse  7-30-2009   
 People denied their basic right to voter....just because they might vote Democrat? Lol
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Attorney General Says Ending Racial Profiling Is Priority For Obama Administration
foxyarse
by foxyarse  7-30-2009   
 "In fact, FBI agents are now able to use these same intrusive techniques to investigate potential participants in public demonstrations. The following can be attributed to Mike German, ACLU Policy Counsel and former FBI agent: “Attorney General Holder’s statement set a new tone that racial profiling is unacceptable in all situations. The Bush administration had lowered the bar by allowing the use of race and religion as factors in national security and border integrity investigations. Holder sent a clear signal today that the FBI guidelines for investigations need to be redrafted. It makes no sense to use an ineffective law enforcement tool in our most important investigations.”
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In defense of veterans' religious memorials
jay8h
by jay8h  7-29-2009   
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Veterans fight to keep 75 year old memorial
kareval
by kareval  7-24-2009   
 This is an outrage and a disgrace...Lets hope the right judge makes the right decision.
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