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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
These words were not only deemed worthy of inclusion in the bill of rights, but were recognized as so important that they became the VERY FIRST WORDS of the US constitution. There is an alarming erosion of personal liberty underway in the country. The phrase "...may contain objectionable content" seems to be popping up everywhere.
What exactly is objectionable content?
Which censors do you trust to determine what is objectionable content? Once a film, article, web site, TV program, or literary work is labeled as having objectionable content, what effect does that have on the accessibility of the material?
The editor of this web site believes that it is the patriotic obligation of thinking Americans to actively oppose the efforts of government, corporations, and religious fanatics to extend their control of communications media and the behavior of individuals.
Look for some discussion of the Fourth Amendment here soon too. We've got to get people talking about this stuff. The cops in this country are getting out of hand. The courts have handed federal and local police much broader powers to intrude into our personal lives.
Visitors are encouraged to send suggestions regarding the content on this site including the links page.
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Objectionable Content Blog
11/05/07
Gagged National Security Letter Recipient Condemns Excessive Secrecy As Government Appeals His Case
from ACLU press release:
NEW YORK – The U.S. government today appealed a New York federal court ruling striking down the National Security Letter (NSL) provision of the amended Patriot Act.
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The appeal comes in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a still-anonymous Internet Service Provider (ISP). The ISP received an NSL demanding private information about a client and imposing a “gag order” preventing the ISP from disclosing its identity as the recipient of an NSL. NSLs are used to obtain access to subscriber, billing or transactional records from ISPs, to obtain a wide array of financial and credit documents, and even to obtain library records – all without prior judicial review. |
11/06/07
US House of Representatives Sends Cheney Impeachment Resolution to Judiciary Committee.
Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) read his resolution to impeach our war criminal Vice President Dick Cheney (video) on the floor of the US House of Representatives today. Dennis had attempted to introduce articles of impeachment on prior occasions, but was blocked by his Democrat and Republican colleagues.
The resolution, supported by 22 other members of Congress, was allowed today and the House voted to send the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee. The House had voted to allow a one hour debate on the impeachment resolution only after a large number of Republicans voted to do so. Their motive was to isolate the few Democrats who actually support impeachment, who they regard as extremists, and to embarrass the rest of the Democrats who are just too chickenshit to even touch this discussion.
The majority of Congressional Democrats joined the 218 to 194 vote to send the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee. They did this not because they support impeachment, but rather as a parliamentary trick to kill debate on the issue before the full House.
Read the articles of impeachment
For a history of the notoriously evil Dick Cheney, see the Washington Post's four part series, Angler.
11/08/07
US Senate wants to let phone companies violate American's privacy rights.
Remember TIA? The Total Information Awareness program that Congress rejected several years ago was a plan to have DARPA develop highly sophisticated software running on supercomputers to spy on Americans. The electronic dragnet was intended to gather data from an enormous number of private and government sources including banks, airlines, the IRS, credit card companies, phone companies, internet providers...just about every source imaginable.
The plan was so outrageous, that even a post 9/11 Congress rejected it. When the NSA launched it's now famous illegal wiretapping program, it revived a piece of TIA. Many other chunks of the project also exist in segregated systems. Wide scale internet and telephone eavesdropping can not be performed without the help of the telcom companies.
Now the senate is debating changes in the law to give immunity to telcoms for breaking the law. The government ordered these companies to violate their customer's privacy, and all complied with the illegal requests except one. The refusal of Qwest Communications to cooperate with the NSA's illegal surveillance program illustrates that these companies know full well that they were criminally negligent in supporting the illegal wiretapping.
AZ senator John Kyle, who sits on the Judiciary Committee deciding the rules, is among those who want to provide liability immunity to the phone company conspirators who "fulfill their patriotic duty and do what the government asks". He falsely frames the issue solely around foreign intelligence gathering in this NPR story. PATRIOTIC! What could be less patriotic then supporting stomping on the fourth amendment?
How ridiculous it is that lawmakers are actually discussing letting telecommunications companies off the hook for cooperating with illegal government wiretapping. Shouldn't they be going after the Bush administration for committing these crimes? In 1974 impeachment charges were approved by the House Judiciary Committee against Richard Nixon for ordering wire taps against 17 people, and today the President gets away with eavesdropping on millions!
The mainstream news media bears responsibility here too. Few realize that the New York Times sat on the warrantless wiretapping story for a full year before it was shared with the public.
Had it not been for an AT&T. employee named Mark Klein, we may never have found out. Read more about the hero who blew the whistle in the Electronic Frontier Foundation article.
11/09/07
Mukasey Confirmed
Incredibly, The senate confirmed the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general late last night! This came after Mukasey refused to denounce the tortures (cartoon) practiced by the US government against prisoners held illegally by the military and the CIA. Looks like we have new top gestapo cop suitable to follow in the footsteps of his criminal predecessors Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft.
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