Archive for the 'civil liberties' Category

D.U.I Checkpoint Hysteria: Its Bosh

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Thought so.
Explained by a fellow called ColdSnickersBar on Reddit
This is some absolutely ridiculous alarmist bullshit. As a former Marine who was stationed at MCAGCC, I can verify that this kind of thing happens all the time, and it doesn’t have anything to do with you civilians.
Let me translate for you what is happening, but [...]

Martial Law in America?

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I hate to sound like Alex Jones or some 911 Truther but if this story is true why in the hell are US Marines manning D.U.I. checkpoints?
Can anybody confirm that this is true or not just some paranoid bosh?

Glen Greenwald Talks to Bill Moyers

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

This is important so go watch it or do as I did and download the mp3.
In this interview two of the last real journalists, Moyers and Greenwald explain what is going on in our country,with our freedom and our future as a free nation.
There is. no B.S. just hard truths [...]

Neil Gaiman on Defending Unpopular Speech

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Seen originally on Digg.
Neil Gaiman sums up why we must defend unpopular speech.

If you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.

The whole essay is on his blog so go… read …..
Let also add if you like fantasy, read [...]

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.

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