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Showing posts with label Constitutional rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitutional rights. Show all posts
On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "No healthy democracy can endure when the most consequential acts of those in power remain secret and unaccountable"
The racism that fuels the 'war on terror' | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The racism that fuels the 'war on terror' | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "A new Gallup poll finds a majority of Americans oppose the drone-executions of US citizens on foreign soil. Then why do they support the Awlaki killing?"
U.S. cyber plan calls for more scanning of private Web traffic | Reuters
U.S. cyber plan calls for more scanning of private Web traffic | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country's private, civilian-run infrastructure."
Obama: Americans deserve to know more about drone war | Reuters
Obama: Americans deserve to know more about drone war | Reuters: (Reuters) - "President Barack Obama on Thursday promised to be more forthcoming with the American public on his administration's campaign of lethal drone strikes amid criticism over the targeting of suspected U.S. terrorism suspects abroad."
BBC News - Twitter hands over messages at heart of Occupy case
BBC News - Twitter hands over messages at heart of Occupy case: "Legal pressure has forced Twitter to hand over messages sent by an Occupy Wall Street protester."
US data whistleblower: 'It's a violation of everybody's constitutional rights' | Technology | guardian.co.uk
US data whistleblower: 'It's a violation of everybody's constitutional rights' | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "Former National Security Agency official Bill Binney says US is illegally collecting huge amounts of data on his fellow citizens"
Lawsuit asks U.S. to explain killings of Americans in Yemen | Reuters
Lawsuit asks U.S. to explain killings of Americans in Yemen | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The families of U.S.-born al Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki and two other U.S. citizens who were killed in Yemen are questioning the deaths in court in the latest challenge to President Barack Obama's conduct of drone attacks abroad."
Insight: Under siege: Stop and frisk polarizes New York | Reuters
Insight: Under siege: Stop and frisk polarizes New York | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Telly Hudgins has been stopped and frisked by the police too many times to count in the Brownsville, New York, public housing project where he lives. One occasion sticks in his memory. "I had my pajamas on and my slippers on and I'm emptying my garbage" at the trash chute. "They asked me for ID to prove I lived there. Who walks around in their pajamas with ID?" asked the black, 35-year-old counselor for the mentally handicapped. He says he complained about the search and was issued a summons for disorderly conduct."
Gay marriage in Washington blocked by opponents pending public vote | World news | guardian.co.uk
Gay marriage in Washington blocked by opponents pending public vote | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Same-sex marriage opponents are forcing a referendum after legislature legalized gay marriage earlier this year"
Insight: From Alabama, an epic challenge to voting rights | Reuters
Insight: From Alabama, an epic challenge to voting rights | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Four years ago, in this small city of gentle hills, tall oaks and nine stoplights, an invisible line was drawn a few miles north of the center of town. It stretched up beyond Highway 22 and looped west across Interstate 65, sweeping in recent housing developments, the brown-brick Concord Baptist Church and a new Wal-Mart. The narrow five-square-mile rectangle enlarged Voting District 2."
Montreal's 'casseroles' cook up a storm over Quebec's anti-protest law | World news | guardian.co.uk
Montreal's 'casseroles' cook up a storm over Quebec's anti-protest law | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Demonstrators in Montreal bang their pots and pans as anger grows at Bill 78, which places draconian restrictions on protests"
US anti-terrorism law curbs free speech and activist work, court told | World news | guardian.co.uk
US anti-terrorism law curbs free speech and activist work, court told | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Controversy over NDAA centres on loose definition of key words, such as who are 'associated forces' of named terrorist groups"
Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial | World news | The Guardian
Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial | World news | The Guardian:" Civil rights groups dismayed as Barack Obama abandons commitment to veto new security law contained in defence bill"
Supreme Court is asked about jails’ blanket strip-search policies - The Washington Post
Supreme Court is asked about jails’ blanket strip-search policies - The Washington Post
It should be illegal, it is humiliating and violates a person's body.
Analysis: Tobacco warnings latest business free-speech case | Reuters
Analysis: Tobacco warnings latest business free-speech case | Reuters
Corporations are more likely to get the right to free speech than citizens; and the FBI, CIA or NYPD will not bug or infiltrate the corporations as they do to individuals who exercise their free speech rights.
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