Arrested for reading the US Constitution

10-13-2007 • Yannone Blogspot

Mark Yannone provides a video of three women recently arrested in a public space for reading the Constitution while a pro war rally was taking place off at a distance.

Wash. High Court: Campaign Lies Are Protected Speech

10-6-2007 • AP

A sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a law which bars political candidates from deliberately making false statements about their opponents violates the First Amendment right of free speech.

Missouri: Residents Fed Up with Roadblocks

10-06-2007 • The Newspaper

Although local police insist that the stops are designed to cut down on drunk driving, it is far more common for the stops to generate nothing but revenue from seatbelt and paperwork violations.

Californian cities vote on smoking ban in apartments

10-5-2007 • The Independent

Two California cities are pushing anti-smoking legislation to previously unseen limits by banning tenants from lighting up inside apartment buildings.

Bloomberg calls surveillance-camera critics 'ridiculous'

10-2-2007 • Propoganda Matrix

"It's just ridiculous people who object to using technology," the mayor said, adding that he had not talked with anyone in London who wasn't "thrilled" at the presence of security cameras in their capitol.

Bush Meets With and Honors Man 3 Days After He Attacked Gold Star Father

10-2-2007 • After Downing Street

Here are three pictures which show that the administration is not too choosy in the terrorists it invites for eggs and bacon.

Delta (15K) I often wish that I was born 100 yrs. earlier. In fact I have had the nagging feeling that I was birthed into the wrong time channel most of my life. Back in 1999 a disciple of Edgar Cayce wrote a book about reincarnation, in which she

A person's entire life could be recorded by a network of intelligent surveillance sensors

8-26-2007 • BBC News

Martin Sadler of PC firm Hewlett Packard warned the amount of personal data that could be collected would lead to difficult ethical dilemmas. "Maybe the first time you know you are pregnant is when a targeted piece of advertising comes through o

Point, Click... Eavesdrop:

8-29-2007 • Wired

The FBI has built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device,

Feds pay $80,000 over anti-Bush T-shirts

08-17-2007 • AP

A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the ACLU announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, TX

Police can now enter homes of DUI suspects without a warrant

8-15-2007 • CBS 13TV

[Old, but wow.] Police may enter Californians' homes without warrants to arrest those suspected of driving under the influence, the California Supreme Court ruled in a case testing the scope of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasona

AT&T calls censorship of Pearl Jam lyrics an error

08-10-2007 • Reuters

AT&T Inc said on Thursday a company it hired to handle the cybercast of a live concert by US rock bank Pearl Jam erroneously omitted lyrics criticizing US President George Bush that were in a song performed by the band.

In Bush we trust --- Or, else.

8-7-2007 • San Francisco Chronicle

This is Bush's most brazen defiance of the Constitution, which is no small feat for an administration that sets its own rules on electronic surveillance, torture, kidnapping, designating "enemy combatants" arrested on US soil, held ind

Facing prison, armless driver says he's turning in his keys

8-1-2007 • AP

There was a time when nothing could keep Michael Wiley from behind the wheel - not even a triple amputation that makes simple tasks like tying a shoe impossible. Even police, who busted Wiley so many times that it's now a felony for him to drive,

When Will We Have Had Enough?

7-22-2007 • Youtube must see

Billy Vegas Puppetgov at www.puppetgov.com

A fitting irony greets McCain’s campaign

7-22-2007<b> • by George Will (Washington Post)

McCain went out of his way to stick his thumb in the eye of critics: he underscored the fact that suppressing inconvenient (to politicians) speech is exactly what he and his McCain-Feingold allies—Fred Thompson was an important one—had in mind.

Should US cities try a London-style camera network?

7-11-2007 • Christian Science Monitor

The speed with which London's ubiquitous surveillance cameras helped identify would-be bombers has prompted calls for extensive closed-circuit television networks in the US. In the first such public effort in the US, New York is planning to be

Army judge rules Ehren Watada can be prosecuted again

7-8-2007 • Sealttle Times

Trying 1st Lt. Ehren Watada again for his refusal to deploy to Iraq won't violate his constitutional right not to be prosecuted twice for the same crime, an Army judge ruled Friday.

When presidents pardon their own crimes

07-06-2007 • Counterpunch(David Swanson)

George Mason(1725-1792), the father of the Bill of Rights(1791-2002), argued at the Constitutional Convention in favor of providing the House of Representatives the power of impeachment by pointing out that the Presdident might use his pardoning powe

NYC man held for reciting 1st Amendment

7-5-2007 •

Reverend Billy was arrested on harassment charges last week while reciting the First Amendment through a megaphone in Manhattan's Union Square.

Peace walkers stopped at Rocky Mountain National Park

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Two young peace activists said they were stopped at an entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday and ordered to remove peace placards on their chests before entering the park.

We don't have to make this stuff up in Amerika

6-29-2007 • NY Times

Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks

The moment of truth is here

6-25-2007 • Yannone

"We the people humbly ask this court to admit that we are the masters and you are the servants." This request cannot be mistaken for supplication, for, in the United States of America, only one peaceful response remains to a people who clai

Supreme Court gives Bush victory on faith-based initiatives

06-25-2007 • Raw Story

On a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a group of taxpayers did not have standing to sue the US government for its funding of faith-based initiatives with federal money. The decision, Hein v Freedom from Religion Foundation, was written by