Archive for the 'civil liberties' Category

Common Dreams “Why The Death Penalty is Wrong”

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Another take.

Why I Oppose the Death Penalty

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I’d rather let a guilty man rot in jail than potentially put an innocent person to death.

A Foreign Threat to Free Speech — Libel Tourism

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Its a little hard to explain to I’ll let the terrific Advice Goddess explain for me.
She has the links you need and knows what to do, so go, shoo. see you later folks.

Reason Four Why My Government Scares Me More than the Terrorists: F.B.I Wants Power to Spy Without Probable Cause

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

On Crooks and Liars.
For obvious reasons this is a terrible. I’d suggest that yur write/call your Congress Critters and Senators and ask them politely and respectfully not to support this.
If they don’t tell you unambiguously that they won’t support this kind of thing then they have been in office too long. Its […]

Daily Kos on the 4th Ammendment

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Boxer Dave sums it up beautifully:

— I argue that when you put recent events regarding searches and seizures together, what you see is the evolving creation of a New United States of America (NUSA), a nation that would have looked quite foreign and unacceptable to our forefathers.

I couldn’t agree more and folks.
Americas future is […]

The Right Way and the Wrong Way on Speech

Friday, August 15th, 2008

The Right Way from Oregon.
From Texas, The Wrong Way.
In short, as the Constitution states ‘Shall not pass a law abridging freedom of speech” — stick to that and you’ll have no problems.

24 Hour Curfews in the U.S. — Say it isn’t so!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

But it is.
In Arkansas.
Excuse me but there is thing called the 1st amendment that guarantees a right to peaceably assemble.
Oh heck. I’ll let the A.C.L.U explain it.

This order is blatantly unconstitutional on numerous grounds. First, such curfews have never been allowed under the laws of the United States, barring riot, insurrection, […]

Why people like Karen Fletcher take Bad Plea Bargains

Friday, August 8th, 2008

ajehals on Reddit summed it up in his post
The US system is massively stacked against people who don’t plead guilty, if you were facing 50 years in prison for a mass of collected offenses but are offered a deal of 6 month’s home detention if you plead guilty, what do you do? Obviously some […]

A Small Injustice, A Grave Threat to Liberty

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Karen Fletcher receives five years of probation, including six months of home detention, and forfeiture of her computer after pleading guilty Thursday to obscenity charges for running a Web site that had text stories that were sexual and violent involving children.

Now no one is saying that Ms. Fletcher is exactly public citizen […]

Tazers are Torture

Monday, August 4th, 2008

According to the UN via Aussie Daily Telegraph .
I am inclined to agree. A I see it the the weapon is just too much of a temptation to abuse and no amount of training will make up for that.
Used only on armed suspects, especially say knife wielders it can save lives but it is […]

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