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Operation Stellar Wind
New York Times filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans’ personal data. The interview explores the details of the NSA’s operation code named “Stellar Wind,” a comprehensive digital spying regime targeting virtually every American citizen.
2 December, 2012
Tagged as NYT video Security State Information Economy surveillance state NSA civil liberties
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Hey there internet.
I was just informed that I have accidentally purchased TWO tickets to the upcoming ACLU:ENGAGE event at the VERY swank SIX10 downtown. I bought the first ticket on opening day and the second one last week when I was informed that “time was running out.” I am not a clever man.
Anywho. I have to give them the name of the other attendee… who doesn’t technically exist because they are a creature of my error and stupidity. Accordingly, I am looking for a date. My IDEAL date is a blind Anne Hathaway with low standards and a weakness for stocky men who eat Mexican food too quickly but, barring that, anyone with a passion for civil liberties and a strong back for sneaking silverware out of the lunch time plenary panel should send me a message ASAP. Even if you don’t come with me, you should still look into attending! Some super cool friends of mine will also be attending!
Oh yeah! I forgot. In addition to a great schedule of panels and workshops, the very funny Aasif Mandvi of Daily Show fame will be speaking. Remember when he embarrassed the entire state of Florida for their instance on continually electing idiots to public office? Good times.
Lurve you Ms. Hathaway,
Scott Kane
WHEN - Saturday, December 1st, 2012
WHERE - Venue SIX10 - 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL -
In other words, the federal government will still come after you if you smoke pot in Colorado or Washington.
I needn’t remind you, of course, that the DEA is ultimately under the control of the President.
No shit but you don’t see the dea busting dispensaries and medical marijuana user the dea ain’t gunna do shit
Oh yeah, the DEA has never gone after medical marijuana dispensaries:
- One Day After DEA Raids 71 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, CNN Declares Drug War Is Over
- DEA Quietly Raids 2 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
- DEA Tells Washington Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Near Schools To Shut Down
- Medical Marijuana Advocates To Appeals Court: Drug Enforcement Administration ‘Acted Arbitrarily’
- DEA tells 23 medical marijuana storefronts to shut down
- DEA digging into San Francisco’s medical marijuana dispensaries
Do your research before you post completely wrong things on the internet.
True facts about the world.
7 November, 2012
Originally from hipsterlibertarian
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Thank goodness the Obama administration stopped Bush’s efforts to spy on American citizens OH WAIT.
For the unfamiliar:
28 September, 2012
Reblogged from ccindecision
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
7 September, 2012
Sourced from penisofursus
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An Obama-appointed judge rules its indefinite detention provisions likely violate the 1st and 5th Amendments
A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. This afternoon’s ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by seven dissident plaintiffs — including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir — alleging that the NDAA violates ”both their free speech and associational rights guaranteed by the First Amendment as well as due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
A lone voice of sanity. Finally rising above the rumbling din of ignorance and fear-mongering. Very very very pleased with this.
Click above for the full article. Here is the opinion itself.
17 May, 2012
Reblogged from thepeoplesrecord
Tagged as Glenn Greenwald Obama Presidency Security State civil liberties NDAA executive authority police state
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Responds to a Question about the NJ Marriage Equality Referendum
Booker 2016
Booker / The Basic Tenets of Constitutional Democracy 2016
I really like these guys as a pair. Mayor Booker seems like an upstanding guy and frankly I’m just glad to see tBTofCD finally found someone to run with.
7 May, 2012
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… for the ACLU’s Symposium on the Affordable Care Act’s Contraception Mandate tomorrow.
While I’m rather happy and proud to given such an honor / opportunity, it’s not really what I’d like to be doing at 11.30 PM on a Tuesday… Sigh. Time to crack another beer I suppose.
Plus, it’s kind of hard to speak on the topic with too much bluster when you’re leading for a panel discussion between a professor of health law, a professor of family law, and the Executive Director / Author of “Our Bodies Ourselves”.
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The executive branch is claiming the authority to target and kill any individual anywhere in the world - including American citizens - without any judicial process or oversight and without any transparency or accountability, it is subverting the Constitution and international law in assuming the role of judge, jury and executioner.
Under the Obama administration, drone strikes have escalated and expanded in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. In Pakistan alone, the Obama administration has launched six times as many drone strikes as the Bush administration, in fewer years in office, killing hundreds of innocent people and devastating families.
Ultimately, efforts to end the expansion of US drone strikes and covert wars are not only a legal matter, but a political and ethical one on which the viability of a livable future and meaningful democracy is based.
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Leili Kashani, the Center for Constitutional Rights’s advocacy program manager
Drones Flying Under the Radar
(via socialuprooting)
6 April, 2012
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LATEST FACEBOOK LINKS
- Video: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Teams With ACLU to Promote Your Right to Photograph Cops
- UW scholar probes drug use among ancient civilizations
- Video: Kids caught in Mexico’s drug war
- Video: NYPD Kicks Door Before Shooting Unarmed Teen
- Sure, you can buy a cigar in Boston…if you’re rich enough.
- Today’s Teens Better Behaved Than Their Parents
EVENTS
Like I’m NOT going to show this to my Constitution in the Classroom kids.
That Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the kids love him.
7 February, 2012
Reblogged from fuckyeahdrugpolicy
Tagged as liberty civil liberties Benjamin Franklin video ACLU
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