Of Snowden And The NSA, Only One Has Acted Unlawfully
by James Ball. And it's not Snowden. On 6 June 2013, the Guardian published a secret US court order against the phone company Verizon, ordering it on an “ongoing, daily basis” to hand over the call records of its millions of US customers to the NSA – just one of numerous orders enabling the government’s highly secret domestic mass surveillance ... MORELawmakers Move To End Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
by Grant Gross. If only we had a Fourth Amendment, this wouldn't be necessary. A new bill in Congress would require law enforcement agencies to get
court-ordered warrants before targeting U.S. residents in searches of
electronic communications collected by the National Security Agency. The End Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
Act, introduced ... MOREChriss Street: The Sun Is Engaging In Climate Change Denial
Another problem for Al. The sun is known to be the main driver of all weather and climate. With 99.86% of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of violent fire in the sky has recently gone quiet in what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century and actually flatlined in recent days. Weak solar cycles, like the current one, ... MORE
Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnap And Sexually Assault
Punished for not putting out. When Kim Nguyen called a cab after a few drinks, she thought she was on the right side of the law. But in spite of her best efforts, the 27-year-old pharmacist explains she was thrown from a police cruiser after Los Angeles police officers kidnapped and sexually assaulted her while she was waiting for that cab. ... MOREJacob Sullum: No Wonder Freddie Gray Ran From The Cops
Explaining the anger. When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They picked a charge after the fact. According to Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, that charge, carrying a switchblade, was legally unfounded. Gray's ... 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 ... MOREBaltimore’s Missing Fathers
by Ken Blackwell and Rob Schwarzwalder. The rioting in Baltimore is disturbing to all Americans, as the unresolved cause of Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody should be as well. It is right that political and religious leaders, community groups, business organizations and law enforcement officials are commenting about all the ... MOREFederal Court Deals A Huge Blow To Cellphone Privacy
More warrantless searches for Americans ahead. The government doesn't need a warrant to search cellphone tower location records, a federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled. In a potentially wide-ranging ruling, the court said that because cellphone owners technically "volunteer" their location to providers when they ... MOREJohn Stossel: Hillary's Armor
Borrowing Bill's teflon. "This vast right-wing conspiracy," Hillary Clinton said, "has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced." That was the "feminist" first lady's response when her husband was accused of having sex with a 21-year-old. Bill was more lawyerly. He said things like, "It depends upon what the meaning of the ... MORE Robby Soave: CNN Anchor Says That The Constitution Doesn’t Protect Hate Speech. She Should Try Reading It
Spoiler: Hate speech actually is protected. Chris Cuomo is co-host of CNN’s morning show. He’s also a former law
and justice correspondent for ABC News. He has a law degree from Fordham
University and is a licensed attorney. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is
his brother. In other words, this is somebody you’d expect would know what ... MOREWhen Violence And Lawlessness Are Acceptable
by Radley Balko. Yesterday, the Fox News show Fox & Friends devoted a segment to discussing the shooting of New York Police Dept. officer Brian Moore.
The discussion was framed in a particularly absurd way. Why, the hosts
asked, aren’t there protests and riots when police officers are killed,
as there are when police kill suspects? It’s the sort of question ... MOREIn Surprise Move, Puerto Rico Legalizes Medical Marijuana
by Daniel Kreps. In a surprise move, Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro García Padilla
signed an executive order legalizing the use of medical marijuana in the
U.S. territory. The order, which was heavily debated in Puerto Rico
since 2013 but never put to a public vote, went into immediate effect.
The Caribbean island joins 23 other U.S. ... MOREFree Coffee To Cops Policy Burns Starbucks
No good deed goes unpunished. A Raleigh police officer who was given a free cup of coffee by Starbucks is now suing the company after he spilled it and got burned. In the lawsuit, Matthew Kohr, a lieutenant with RPD, said the lid popped off the cup of coffee he ordered at the Starbucks on Peace Street in January 2012 and the cup collapsed. ... MOREFarmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Of Copyright
by Rick Falkvinge. Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea of the law. This week, there have been stories about farmers who can’t legally repair their John Deere tractors, as copyright monopoly ... MORE
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