Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Why The Supreme Court Was Wrong

August 22, 2007 – 8:31 pm

After having read all the reasons why the recent decision of the Supreme Court concerning school desegregation was wrong, I have come to the conclusion that we have all missed the boat. The purpose of integration was not to make black kids smarter by sitting them next to white kids. If you judge the process based on that criteria, it has been a failure. If you talk to the people who were on the front lines of bringing this issue to the forefront or read their stories, it was never for that reason.

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Gov’t Sends Record of Illegal Wiretapping to Those It was Wiretapping…

August 16, 2007 – 11:23 pm

Prior to the recently passed Protect America Act, warantless interception of international communication was illegal. In 2005, the NSA allegedly engaged in such interception. The parties that got illegally wiretapped have taken the government to court. Now the government is saying that a court can’t declare the wiretapping illegal because the records of it are “state secret” or “privileged.” Oh, on top of that, in a 2005 press conference President Bush denied such warantless wiretapping ever happened. […]

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Short Plainspeak Primer on New FISA

August 11, 2007 – 11:20 am

You may want to bookmark this link.

A surveillance law, called the Protect America Act, which is an amendment to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, pushed through Congress and signed by Bush last Sunday, will allow the government to monitor phone calls and e-mails without a warrant. If you engage in any international communication, this will impact you.

Here is what you need to know and how to act. […]

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