Showing posts with label search and seizure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search and seizure. Show all posts
NSA's Warrantless Searches On Americans
by Spencer Ackerman and James Ball. US intelligence chiefs have confirmed that the National Security
Agency has used a "back door" in surveillance law to perform warrantless
searches on Americans’ communications. The NSA's collection programs are ostensibly targeted at foreigners, but in August the Guardian revealed a secret rule ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Probable Cause Is Too Hard For NSA
Back to the days of general warrants. The demise of individual liberty. Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing the rights of all persons when the government is pursuing them is more specific than the Fourth Amendment. The linchpin of that specificity is the requirement ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: A Military Plot To Take Over America
Fifty Years Later, Was the Mission Accomplished? Director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May is a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security. Yet 50 years later, we find ourselves hostages to a government run more by military ... MOREDamon Root: Supreme Court To Rule On Cell Phone Privacy
Will High Court say yes to warrantless searches? The Fourth Amendment protects our “persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” That includes the cell phones in our pockets, and the many private messages, photos, and videos those devices contain. But what happens if we get arrested for a ... MORECops Go Car To Car Conducting Warrantless Searches
Twelve lanes of traffic brought to standstill. Thousands of motorists were brought to a standstill when police conducted a massive roadblock to find three crime suspects. Twelve lanes of traffic were shut down and swarms of armed government agents combed through a giant traffic jam performing warrantless vehicle-to-vehicle searches. ... MORELawrence M. Ludlow: TSA = Thousands Of Sexual Assailants
The degradation of travel. Ever since the blowback retaliation of 9/11,
the government has subjected people trapped in the United States with a
constant stream of propaganda, war-making tax-theft, police-state
spying, and outright physical and sexual molestation at airports.
Although oodles of self-deceived parrots (my apologies to that noble bird ... MORE
TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Luggage For Bitcoin
by Gregory Ferenstein. Davi Baker wasn’t quite sure how to comply with the TSA’s demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin.
Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security
personnel during an enhanced screening, and they wanted an additional
search of his belongings. “We saw Bitcoin in your bag and need to check,” ... MOREBrittany Varner-Miller: TSA Introducing Police State
Acclimating Americans to an inevitable fate? Ever since the attack on September 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems to be introducing Americans to what a police state feels like. After the terrorist attack on the twin towers, the TSA has been strengthening the security of the nation’s transportation ... MOREChristopher Elliott: TSA Gives Fliers A Bad Feeling
Are they starting to sense the government is not us? If airport security is so good, why do passengers feel so bad? That's a valid question, considering how the Transportation Security Administration seems to be spinning its performance lately. The agency wants you to believe the dark days of body scans and pat-downs, of liquids, ... MORE
Renee Lewis: LAPD Deploys Drug Detection Roadblocks
The state against citizens. The Los Angeles police department has announced a New Year’s
crackdown on intoxicated drivers – with checkpoints to be set up across
the county complete with breathalyzers and cheek swab tests that can
detect recent drug use, the L.A. Times reported. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer told CBS ... MOREAmie Stepanovich: Fourth Amendment Eroded
Our Constitution can't enforce itself. The Fourth Amendment protects Americans' right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure. But government lawyers have argued repeatedly that this right should be limited, and the Supreme Court has often agreed. Amie Stepanovich, director of the domestic surveillance project at ... MORE
Drew Zahn: Big Brother Tells Kids: TSA 'Isn't Scary'
Coloring books, cartoons to placate terrified tots. Four-year-old Isabella Brademeyer had just learned about “stranger danger” at school, her family said. Perhaps that’s why the little girl was terrified when Transportation Security Administration officers at a Kansas airport separated her from her mother, told her to spread her arms and ... MORESearch Warrants Based on a "Prediction of a Future Crime"
Eric Nicholoson on tyranny in the lone star state. Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg's home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were "fixing to" cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked ... MOREEver Vigilant, TSA Confiscates Sock Monkey's Toy Pistol
You can't make this stuff up. "Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday. May has a small business selling unique sock ... MORELouisiana Cops Can Force Drivers To Give Blood
The police state ushers in "no refusal." If you live in Louisiana, be aware that police seem to have a fairly
new power. If they suspect you to be driving drunk they can demand your
blood for an alcohol test and if you don’t want to give it they have the
power to throw you in jail until they get a court order demanding you
give them blood. ... MORE
Peggy Noonan: What We Lose If We Give Up Privacy
The danger of amping up what government can do. What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary, precious? Is it just some prissy relic of the pretechnological past? We talk about this now because of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency revelations, and new fears that we are ... MORE
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