Category Archives: Laws
Blasphemy-Dangerous or Necessary?
In an effort to rebuild our relationship with the United Nations, a effort that is being questioned by many Americans, the Obama administration has chosen to support an agenda that contradicts our own Constitution.
The United States has backed a new UN resolution on free expression which would be considered unconstitutional under its First Amendment — [...]
A personal information hellhouse
The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.
A cabinet decision to put the management of the multibillion pound [...]
Don’t you annoy me
Repeatedly annoying or insulting someone in Brighton could get you fined.
The City Council Thursday passed ordinance amendments aimed at protecting individuals from harassment, intimidation or interference by others in their daily activities.
City Manager Dana Foster stressed that the amended ordinance wasn’t adopted to muzzle anyone or infringe on their rights.
The ordinance makes it a civil [...]
Islamophobia disguised under ‘freedom of speech’
Writing to Islam Online, Sadia Ali Aden complains that the freedom of speech is a cover for hate speech directed toward Muslims.
The heartrending reality of bigotry and Islamophobia in today’s American environment is overwhelming.
The Islamophobes use the media as a propaganda tool to poison the minds of the American people under the disguise of “freedom [...]
Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abuses
Glenn Greenwald, in a Salon.com opinion piece, provides a refutation of the points in the previous Time article. While he doesn’t challenge the underlying premise that the U.S. government is acting in ways detrimental to and incompatible with our Constitution, he does question the conclusion Time reached, that Americans just don’t care.
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Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
Via Time Magazine online:
A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States since 9/11 suggests that the majority of Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security. Polling consistently supports that conclusion, and [...]
English police want a children’s DNA database
Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert.Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said a debate was [...]
North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong
Posted to CircleID by Al Iverson:
…WAY wrong. This is just mind blowing.
Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand?
No? Well, David Ritz has. And amazingly, he lost the case.
Here are just a few of [...]
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