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National ID Update: The Second Bill Passes
an urgent National ID Update...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 2:09pm PDT
Faulty 'No-Fly' System Detailed
The federal government's 'no-fly' list had 16 names on it on Sept. 11, 2001. Today, it has more than 20,000.
The list, which identifies suspected terrorists seeking to board commercial airplanes, expanded rapidly even though the government knew that travelers were being mistakenly flagged, according to federal records. The records detail how government officials expressed little interest in tracking or resolving cases in which passenger names were confused with the growing number of names ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 10:51pm PDT
The FBI Is Waging War On Americans
The FBI has been waging war on Americans for decades. Occasionally their illegal and unconstitutional activities have been curtailed by congress and the courts. Now that there is no separation of powers, the FBI and it's anti-American Attorney General, John Ashcroft, have pulled out the stops and are escalating their offensive....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 7:05am PDT
ACT NOW--NEW PATRIOT ACT
Act today -- House is voting on H.R. 10, trying to sneak in "PATRIOT Act II" powers under the guise of responding to the 9/11 Commission (which didn't endorse this legislation)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 2:38pm PDT
Latest Revelations on next "9-11"
She has figured out the next major 9-11 style attack will be on Novemeber
1st or 5th with nukes in various locations (although there is also a
possibility of a "rush" job on October 8...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:46pm PDT
SPECIAL TASER EDITION of Cmties United vs. Police Brutality Newsletter
This special edition of the CUAPB newsletter will explore areas of interest
related to the use of the electric stun weapon known as the Taser. Touted
by its manufacturer and revered by law enforcement agencies as a "less
lethal" alternative, we are just starting to see the practical effects of
widespread use of these devices...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:16pm PDT
Terrorized On the Boston Common!
This summer, I was able to gather enough money for a roundtrip ticket to Boston, where the democrats were holding their national convention. I had been misinformed that there would be many protesters on the Boston Common that particular day. In all of my worst nightmares, I never would have dreamed that I would have my 1st Admendment right of freedom of assembly, attacked in such an crude and unjustified manner, right on the Boston Commons, where American liberty was born!!!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 11:59am PDT
Your civil liberties: in grave danger
As you read this letter, a swiftly changing collage of Patriot II
provisions, repressive immigration changes, and privacy invasions is
rushing though Congress embedded in and under the disguise of legislation
responding to The 9/11 Commission Report....
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 1:04am PDT
Walk for Abolition in Montreal, Canada October 9!
Take part in the Walk for Abolition in Montreal, Canada October 9!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 3, 2004 10:24am PDT
Federal Court Strikes Down Patriot Act Surveillance Power As Unconstitutional
NEW YORK - Saying that "democracy abhors undue secrecy," a federal court today struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue "National Security Letters" to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial oversight. The court also found a broad gag provision in the law to be an "unconstitutional prior restraint" on free speech....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:03pm PDT
ACLU Decries Planned Election Dragnet in Muslim and Arab Communities
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today said that it will be monitoring a new plan by the FBI to, among other things, use "aggressive - even obvious - surveillance" techniques on individuals who are not even suspected of having committed a crime, in advance of the November 2 general election....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:02pm PDT
Police In Nebraska Harass Head Of ACLU For Showing Film Against The Patriot Act
LINCOLN, Neb. - The head of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that two Nebraska state troopers tried to intimidate him after he screened a documentary film critical of the federal Patriot Act.
Tim Butz, who filed a complaint Wednesday with State Patrol chief Col. Tom Nesbitt, alleged the troopers approached him after he screened the documentary film "Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties" at a community college in North Platte on Sept....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:09am PDT
Guantanamo Briton tells of torture and death threats
A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he saw two prisoners die at the hands of their American captors, before making a plea for his release in the first letter from a serving prisoner at the camp to be made public.
Moazzam Begg, held on suspicion of having links with al-Qa'ida, added that he had been tortured and subjected to death threats by his captors....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 11:46pm PDT
America must respect law at home, abroad
Bush trotted out his Iraqi puppet, Iyad Allawi, to echo his macho talk that all is well, even while Iraq is burning.
Americans and, more so, Iraqis are dying in record numbers. Foreigners are being kidnapped and beheaded. Oil pipelines are being blown up. The American plan to regain control of one-third of Iraq after the Nov. 2 election can only stoke more terrorism in the interim.
Notwithstanding the Bush-Allawi duet, the world is demonstrably not safer without Saddam Hussein. Iraqi in...
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 9:47am PDT
Cat Stevens Starts Legal Action Against U.S. Ban
LONDON, Sep 24 (MASNET & News Agencies) - Former British pop star Cat Stevens said he has started legal action against U.S. authorities after he was deported from the United States as a terrorist risk....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 11:12pm PDT
The Secret Service Investigates Serious Threat to the President’s Balls
Homeland Security placed the nation at the highest terror threat level yesterday, red, as news of a new and credible threat to the President made its way around the Internet. Sue Niederer, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq is reported to have publicly stated her desire to shoot the President in the “groined” area. Not since rumors alleging that Hitler had only one ball has a nation’s national security been threatened with such urgency....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 11:13am PDT
U.S. Muslims React to Exclusion of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, September 22, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference in Washington, D.C., in reaction to today's exclusion from the United States of Yusuf Islam, an internationally-known Muslim activist and educator....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 10:51pm PDT
Cat Stevens, on Government Watch List, Diverts Plane
A PLANE bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine today after passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens - showed up on a US watch list, a federal official said.
United Airlines flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between the passenger and the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 6:57pm PDT
The 9/11 commission plans to hit the road
Get this - "The conversation, after all, is about protecting the citizenry. What makes the most sense is seeing that the citizenry take part in that discussion." Right, so I do hope the CITIZENRY make their voices and the FACTS known for this sideshow . . . featuring those that tried to re-write the timeline, cover-up the crime, shovel the sh** about 'Islamic Terrorists' and generally play out their script like the whores they are. I look forward to the debacle this will be as the...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 4:54pm PDT