Our proactive stance on terrorism. In 2012, a 7-month-old baby was designated as a "known or suspected terrorist threat" by airport security and placed on the no-fly list. That baby is now 4 years old and is one of 18 plaintiffs listed in a lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in April seeking damages for those who have ... MORE
Showing posts with label suspicion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suspicion. Show all posts
Thom Dunn: A 7-Month-Old Baby Is On The No-Fly List
Our proactive stance on terrorism. In 2012, a 7-month-old baby was designated as a "known or suspected terrorist threat" by airport security and placed on the no-fly list. That baby is now 4 years old and is one of 18 plaintiffs listed in a lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in April seeking damages for those who have ... MOREOliver Steinberg: We're One Nation, Under Surveillance
Another slip down the slippery slope. “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” The Star Tribune’s March 22 editorial endorses tax expenditures for “A needed boost for courthouse security.” Consider what it means: To enter a public building, we lowly taxpayers, at the ... MOREBetsy Woodruff: Ted Cruz And Donald Trump Want To Make America A Police State After Brussels
Fear-mongering for votes. We didn’t even have a body count in Brussels before Ted Cruz and Donald Trump started calling for a police-state trial run in America. Within hours of the bombs there that left dozens dead and more wounded, the top two Republican presidential candidates here were duking it out to see who could pitch the most ... MOREJacob Sullum: Want My Blood? Get a Warrant.
Balking at warrantless alcohol testing. Danny Birchfield drove his car into a ditch. Steve Beylund "nearly hit a stop sign while making a right hand turn into a driveway." William Bernard got his truck stuck in the river while trying to extract his boat. In his underwear. These embarrassing incidents—the first two of which happened in North
Dakota, ... MOREWalter E Williams: Who's Responsible?
What do we make of Hillary's observation? Hillary Clinton told a mixed audience, "I mean, if we're honest, for a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear". Before we get into the nuts and bolts of that observation, I'd like to ask a question. Would well-meaning, ... MOREFrom Free Country To Police State: Cal Mayor Forced To Give Up Electronics And Passwords To SFO Airport Gestapo
by Nathan Mattise. Just a routine warrantless search. Stockton, California Mayor Anthony R. Silva attended a recent mayor's conference in China, but his return trip took a bit longer than usual. At the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) this week, agents with the Department of Homeland Security detained Silva and confiscated his personal ... MORETimothy Williams: Facial Recognition Software Used To Identify Terrorists Now Deployed By The Local Police
'Public servants' treat citizens as potential suspects. Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country to pursue drug dealers, prostitutes and other conventional ... MOREWe Are All Terror Suspects Under The FBI’s Program
by Thomas S. Neuberger. What Big Brother is looking for. If you engage in any of the following activities, you could be on a terrorism watch list: Make suspicious comments regarding anti‑US, radical theology, vague or cryptic warnings that suggest or appear to endorse the use of violence in support of a cause. Make unusual comments ... MOREUSA Police State Celebrated As “Defense Of Freedom”
by William Boardman. One needs a wicked sense of humor these days to fully appreciate the present moment in American history, as a supposedly free country debates which police state practices to adopt, while ignoring any thought that maybe the United States should not be a police state at all. For a brief shining moment early on June 1, ... MOREAncestry.Com Is Now Sharing Your DNA With The Police
by Joshua Krause. The police state just took a very dark turn. We all know that private corporations tend to side with the government on privacy issues, and they’re more than willing to hand over our information when the government asks for it. Google and Facebook are pretty well-known examples of that, and they’ve been doing it for so long ... MORETSA'S Secret Behavior Checklist To Spot Terrorists
by Jana Winter and Cora Currier. Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. Add one point each. Arrogance, a cold penetrating stare, and rigid posture, two points. These are just a few of the suspicious signs that the Transportation
Security Administration directs its officers to look out for — and score
— in airport travelers, according to a confidential TSA ... MOREHow DNA Is Turning Us Into A Nation Of Suspects
by John W. Whitehead. Every dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a government that wants to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. By tapping into your phone lines and cell phone communications, the government knows what you ... MOREMontana Poised To Ban Government License Plate Cameras
by J.D. Tuccille. Cops in Big Sky Country aren't happy about it,
but Montana lawmakers look ready to ban the use of license plate
cameras by government agencies to track motorists' movements.
The legislative move comes after a stream of revelations of local,
state, and federal tracking and databasing of Americans' movements
by car, without cause ... MORENBC Miami: A Legal Way Around DUI Checkpoints?
You may not want to roll down your window. DUI checkpoints are used by multiple South Florida law enforcement agencies to try to keep the streets clear of intoxicated drivers. But, a local attorney says there’s a legal way around the checkpoints for any driver, while prosecutors say not so fast. “Normally what they look for is: ... MOREJim Monk: N.D. Bill Would Ban Use Of Sobriety Checkpoints
"Reasonable suspicion," what a concept! A bill in the North Dakota Legislature would prohibit the use of sobriety checkpoints. The Republican-sponsored measure says law enforcement may not perform a traffic stop unless the officer has "reasonable suspicion" of a violation. Senator Tom Campbell of Grafton says sobriety checkpoints ... MORE
John Vibes: Police Kill Unarmed Black Man By Mistake
"The officer was doing exactly what we want him to do” Tuesday night, 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon was shot and killed by a police officer, because the officer mistakenly thought that he was carrying a gun. The Phoenix Police Department has not yet revealed the name of the officer responsible for the murder, but the smear campaign, ... MORE
2/3 Of US population Lives In “Constitution-free” Zone
by John Stokes. "Your papers, please." In 2003, the Seattle Times reported on random "spot checks" of cars and luggage that border patrol agents were performing on US citizens who were taking the ferry between Washington State and the San Juan islands. Because most of the passengers on these ferries had not actually crossed an ... MORE
John W. Whitehead: A War on America’s Military Veterans
Waged with SWAT teams, surveillance and neglect. Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring ... MORE
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