All Entries Tagged With: "civil rights"
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 [...]
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 [...]
Exceptions to free speech in the United States – Thanks Supreme Court for destroying the First Amendment!
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any lawrespecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Originally, the [...]
Ten Years After Decriminalization, DRUG ABUSE DOWN BY HALF IN PORTUGAL!!!
By E.D. Kain, Forbes Magazine, 7/05/2011 Drug warriors often contend that drug use would skyrocket if we were to legalize or decriminalize drugs in the United States. Fortunately, we have a real-world example of the actual effects of ending the violent, expensive War on Drugs and replacing it with a system of treatment for problem users [...]
Simple site explains text of NDAA “indefinite detention” clause.
From http://www.ndaa2012.us/ What’s all the fuss about the NDAA? When the executive branch can act as judge, jury, jailer (and in Anwar Al-Awlaki’s case, executioner), our most basic system of checks and balances is broken. Anwar Al-Awlaki was a very bad guy, but what about the next person the executive branch kills or jails? And the next [...]
The Judge Asks, “What If?” WELL WORTH WATCHING!
by Andrew P. Napolitano What if Democrats and Republicans were two wings of the same bird of prey? What if elections were actually useful tools of social control? What if they just provided the populace with meaningless participation in a process that validates an establishment that never meaningfully changes? What if that establishment doesn’t want [...]
