tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38345212008-01-28T09:44:03.945-08:00Bill of Rights Under AttackLorenzoBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-12101272384811392732008-01-28T09:37:00.000-08:002008-01-28T09:44:03.976-08:00Microchips Everywhere: Big Brother on Steroids
(TODD LEWAN, The Associated Press,January 26, 2008)
Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future: Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items _ and, by extension, consumers _ wherever they go, from a distance. . . . A seamless, global Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-8844321592749463832007-12-09T12:54:00.000-08:002007-12-09T17:34:57.564-08:00Bill of Rights Under Bush: A Timeline
Click the link above to see a very well-detailed (complete with links) timeline of how the Clinton-Cheney-Bush Crime Family has taken away your civil liberties.Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-30372786206016164022007-12-06T16:33:00.000-08:002007-12-06T16:42:02.719-08:00 Bush Uses Private Companies to Spy on You
(Tim Shorrock, CorpWatch, 27 November 2007)
The Bush administration is launching a new government agency that will rely heavily on private security contractors to conduct surveillance in the US.
A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance andLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-52617310065183886502007-07-20T21:35:00.000-07:002007-07-20T21:43:30.713-07:00Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States
(Sorcha Faal, July 19, 2007)
In one of his most chilling moves to date against his own citizens, the American War Leader has issued a sweeping order this week outlawing all forms of protest against the Iraq war. . . . President Bush enacted into US law an 'Executive Order' on July 17th titled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-56687476496926678572007-02-05T13:18:00.000-08:002007-02-05T13:28:12.097-08:00U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Racist Expansion of DNA Sampling
(Julia Preston, The New York Times, February 5, 2007)
The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest group affected. . . . The new Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-92021708751497686362007-01-31T06:26:00.000-08:002007-01-31T06:31:34.930-08:00The FBI is watching YOU!
(Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, January 30, 2007)
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. . . . Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1165457684165162472006-12-06T18:05:00.000-08:002006-12-06T18:14:44.226-08:00Fine Print in Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial Law
(Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor, December 1, 2006)
It’s amazing what you can find if you turn over a few rocks in the anti-terrorism legislation Congress approved during the election season. . . . Take, for example, the John W. Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2006, named for the longtime Armed Services Committee chairman from Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1162665951920912832006-11-04T10:40:00.000-08:002006-11-04T10:45:52.016-08:00U.S. privacy rights as bad as China, Russia and Malaysia
(The Red Tape Chronicles, November 1, 2006)
U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday. . . . Privacy International ranked 36 nations around the globe, including all European Union nations and other major democracies, and determined that in categories such as Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1161700373617301762006-10-24T07:28:00.000-07:002006-10-24T14:48:20.963-07:00Are You In the FBI's Secret Database?
(Michelle Chen, The New Standard, 23 October 2006)
The FBI is gathering hundreds of millions of pieces of personal information in the name of fighting terrorism and storing them in a vast, secretive data "warehouse." . . . The privacy-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice on Tuesday, demanding the Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1161139797101025012006-10-17T19:44:00.000-07:002006-10-17T19:49:57.120-07:00The Day King George Was Crowned - Dictatorial Powers Assumed
Bush gives himself power to disappear YOU!
"Mythical America, R.I.P."
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1159580255293782702006-09-29T18:31:00.000-07:002006-09-29T18:37:35.336-07:00Molly Ivans warns: U.S. looks like Nazis
(Molly Ivans, Truthout, 27 September 2006)
With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta. . . . The bill also expands the definition of an unlawful enemy combatant to cover anyone who has "has purposefully and materially Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1153741535352800032006-07-24T04:40:00.000-07:002006-07-24T04:46:35.170-07:00Bush Has Become a Dictator Warns American Bar Association
(GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press, July 24, 2006)
President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice. . . . The ABA group, which includes a one-time FBI director and former federal appeals court judge, Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1153352047813092182006-07-19T16:30:00.000-07:002006-07-19T16:34:07.830-07:00Homeland Security Fascists Gave Pentagon Information on Anti-War Student Groups
(ACLU, July 17, 2006)
The Department of Homeland Security provided the Pentagon with information on anti-war protests at University of California campuses last year, according to the most recent government documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. . . . "Homeland Security was Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1152913949586107422006-07-14T14:45:00.000-07:002006-07-14T14:52:29.603-07:00FBI plans new Net-tapping push
(Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, July 13, 2006)
The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned. . . . FBI Agent Barry Smith distributed the proposal at a private meeting Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1148422345811679252006-05-23T15:08:00.000-07:002006-05-23T15:12:25.826-07:00Supreme Court Nullifies Fourth Amendment - home searches without warrant OKed
(David G. Savage, L.A. Times, May 22, 2006)
Police officers may go into a home uninvited and without a search warrant in order to break up a fight they have seen through a kitchen window, the Supreme Court ruled today. . . . Usually, homes are off limits to the police and government searches, except when officers have Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1148264733281692582006-05-21T19:18:00.000-07:002006-05-21T19:25:33.296-07:00Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
One saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course,Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1147359511570663362006-05-11T07:44:00.000-07:002006-05-11T08:01:46.003-07:00NSA has domestic phone call database
(MSNBC News Services, May 11, 2006)
The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. borders...In an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, the agency in charge (NSA) of a domestic spying program has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, USA Today reported on A Curmudgeontag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1146937039234331012006-05-06T10:22:00.000-07:002006-05-06T10:37:19.253-07:00U.S. government continues to escalate domestic spying
(Joe Kay and Marge Holland, World Socialist Web Site, 5 May 2006)
Nearly five months after the secret National Security Agency spying program was first revealed in the media, the US government continues its unchecked expansion of domestic spying powers. Several recent reports document this expansion, which is taking place on many fronts, Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1146827371577369912006-05-05T04:04:00.000-07:002006-05-05T04:09:31.590-07:00U.S. Congress Votes for Police State Laws
(Free Market News, 2 May 2006)
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted 327 to 96 in favor of passing a national intelligence bill reminiscent of laws created in police state nations, according to OnlineJournal and other sources. . . . The bill, HR 5020, proposes to create a number of sweeping changes to intelligence agencies in the name of Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1146607922455133072006-05-02T15:06:00.000-07:002006-05-02T15:12:02.466-07:00Feds Go All Out to Continue Domestic Spying
(Ryan Singel, Wired News, May, 02 2006)
When the government told a court Friday that it wanted a class-action lawsuit regarding the National Security Agency's eavesdropping on Americans dismissed, its lawyers wielded one of the most powerful legal tools available to the executive branch -- the state secrets privilege. . . . That privilege allows the Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1146139774460641292006-04-27T04:50:00.000-07:002006-04-27T05:11:19.606-07:00Pentagon Fascists Expand Domestic Spying Program
(Robert Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone, Apr 18, 2006)
The military has built a vast domestic-intelligence network to fight terrorism -- but it's using it to track students, grandmothers and others protesting the war . . . Last October, before the public learned that president Bush had secretly ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on AmericansLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1144932775411448002006-04-13T05:50:00.000-07:002006-04-13T05:52:55.423-07:00
Pentagon confirms it spied on gay groups
(Advocate.com, April 12, 2006)
The Department of Defense released documents confirming that the U.S. government conducted surveillance on gay groups, the military advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network announced Tuesday. . . . The surveillance documents, called TALON reports, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1144592188240355012006-04-09T07:04:00.000-07:002006-04-09T07:16:28.556-07:00Federal Jury Indicts Mentally Ill Patient For Threatening Bush
(Yvonne Lee, All Headline News, April 7, 2006)
East St. Louis, IL (AHN) - A Palestinian mental health patient has been indicted on two felony counts of "knowingly and willfully" threatening to harm President George W. Bush. . . . The Associated Press reports federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23. But it was only madeLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1144427170443400252006-04-07T09:20:00.000-07:002006-04-07T09:46:23.046-07:00Gonzales says court order no longer required to tap your phone
(Dan Eggen, Washington Post, April 6, 2006)
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Thursday left open the possibility that President Bush could order warrantless wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the United States. . . . Such action would dramatically expand the potential reach of the National Security Agency's Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834521.post-1141604665648524172006-03-05T16:19:00.000-08:002006-03-05T16:25:25.126-08:00Over 5,000 defendants' cases kept secret in US
(AP, March 5, 2006)
Despite the US Constitution’s guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years. . . . Instances of such secrecy more than doubled from 2003 to 2005. . . . An Associated Press investigation found, and Lorenzo