All Entries in the "Civil Rights" Category
Indiana: Mother sends son to school with stun gun to confront bullies
A mother from Indiana, US, has said that she would gladly ask her gay son to carry a stun gun to school again, in order to confront homophobic bullies, even as the teenager now faces expulsion from the school. Her comments, to CNN’s gay anchor Don Lemon, come after Darnell “Dynasty” Young, was suspended from [...]
TSA screenings aren’t just for airports anymore
December 20, 2011|By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau Roving security teams increasingly visit train stations, subways and other mass transit sites to deter terrorism. Critics say it’s largely political theater. Reporting from Charlotte, N.C. — Rick Vetter was rushing to board the Amtrak train in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent Sunday afternoon when a canine officer [...]
Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger at Natural News, Monday, April 16, 2012 NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving [...]
Upstate NY Public School Bans Use Of The Word FREEDOM
by courtroomobservation on March 24, 2012 Students of the 8th grade at Spry Middle School in Webster NY were banned from using the word freedom and from wearing shirts bearing the word freedom at a school rally on march 4th , 2011 . Several weeks earlier students began organizing a protest campaign planning to shout the word ” [...]
ATF to accept public comments prior to outlawing shotguns
by Jack Minor The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is taking a rare step of allowing public comments prior to issuing a decision on a study that could result in outlawing certain types of shotguns currently available to citizens. The ATF completed a study regarding the importability of certain shotguns. The basis for a [...]
UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, April 15th 2012 The United Arab Emirates signed a deal with telecommunications company, Etisalat, to embed citizens’ national ID information into mobile phones. They will now be exploring a system that would utilize an NFC or Near Field Communication application, which allows cell phones to communicate data via radio frequency within very close [...]
Federal Court Recognizes Chalking Freedom in Orlando
Posted on April 15, 2012 from http://www.copblock.org Tim Osmar arrested for chalking, Dec 15 2011 After a cost of eighteen days in a cage and a few months of legal threats, there is good news to report on chalking freedom out of Orlando, Florida. The ABA Journal published yesterday that Timothy Osmar, who was twice arrested for chalking [...]
