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  • Free Speech not allowed within 1/2 mile of UK Parliament
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Five anti-war activists demonstrating against a ban on unauthorised protests near Parliament have been arrested.
    A ban on protests within half-a-mile of Westminster which have not been cleared by police came into force at midnight.
    However, about 50 people wearing black gags to symbolise the "infringement" of their right to protest have gathered in Parliament Square in defiance. Ministers say planned protests can be held but the rights of protesters and workers in the area must be (…)

  • Judge Orders FBI to Tell How They Spy on Americans
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A federal judge in Portland ruled Thursday that Brandon Mayfield’s high-profile challenge to the USA Patriot Act can go forward.
    In a 48-page rejection of the Justice Department’s motion for dismissal, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken also ordered the FBI to open up files showing how agents secretly spied on Mayfield and his family.
    Federal law enforcement officials had released some details of the so-called sneak and peak searches of the family’s home in the spring of 2004.
    However, (…)

  • The Real Meaning of the Murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Real Meaning of the Murder of Jean Charles de Menezes Garbis Altinoglu, 29 July 2005
    The killing on 22 July, of a 27-year old Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes at a tube station in south London is a blatant example of state terrorism. From what has transpired, any unbiased person could understand that, what happened that day was a pre-planned cold-blooded murder by the police or the military.
    According to the account provided by the (…)

  • U.S. WANTS FBI TO INTERROGATE ISRAELI DIPLOMAT IN AIPAC LEAK CASE
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States wants the FBI to interrogate the Israeli diplomat who headed the political department at its Washington embassy at the time classified information was allegedly transmitted from a Pentagon employee to Israel through two men who were senior staffers at AIPAC, the American lobby for Israel. According to the Hebrew daily Haaretz and Channel 10 television, FBI agents are traveling to Israel where they intend to question Naor Gilon and perhaps others as well.
    The Israeli (…)

  • The more they tell us, the less we know
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the Official Story of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes develops, it gets weirder and weirder:
    1.The police were staking out the block of flats in which he was living because the address had been found in documents left in one of the abandoned rucksacks that didn’t blow up in the last series of attacks. That’s a good place to leave the address of your safe house!
    2.There were eight separate flats in the block, and he did not look like any of the suspects, but the police decided (…)

  • BILL O’REILLY IN DRAG
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BILL O’REILLY IN DRAG
    By William Fisher
    Michelle Malkin, sometimes known as Bill O’Reilly in drag, opened one of her recent syndicated rants with this question:
    “Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Civil-liberties activists, anti-war organizers, eco-militants and animal-rights operatives are in a fright over news that the nefarious FBI is watching them. Why on earth would the government be worried about harmless liberal grannies, innocent vegetarians, unassuming rainforest lovers and other ‘peaceful (…)

  • The Police State Act: A Report
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
    Congress passed legislation last week that reauthorizes the Patriot Act for another 10 years, although the bill faced far more opposition than the original Act four years ago. I’m heartened that more members of Congress are listening to their constituents, who remain deeply skeptical about the Patriot Act and expansions of federal police power in general. They rightfully wonder why Congress is so focused on American citizens, while bin Laden and other terrorist (…)

  • xford Law Prof alarmed at "police’s Mossad-style execution" of innocent ’suspect’
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Gardner is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, and occasional Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.
    Police state: Like many of my fellow-Londoners I am less alarmed by suicide bombers than I am by the police’s Mossad-style execution of a ’suspect’ (who turned out to be a completely innocent passer-by) on Friday 22 July. This is not because we are at greater risk of death at the hands of the police than at the hands of the bombers. (Both risks are pretty tiny, (…)

  • Is Your Printer Spying On You?
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is Your Printer Spying On You? Posted by Donna Wentworth July 24, 2005 Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer — and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias," right?
    Unfortunately, the scenario isn’t fictional. In an effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page (…)

  • Bush-Cheney Paranoia: ’Domestic Terrorism’ & the National Security Service (The New SS)
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (7-18-05) Talked with an FBI agent last week, someone I haven’t talked to in about ten years or so. He was with a domestic terrorism task force in the Western regional FBI office in the mid-1990’s. This was at the peak of what the FBI thought was a potential crisis with “domestic terrorism,” i.e. the so-called militia groups. As everyone knows, the militia groups reached their peak of influence in the mid-1990s.
    At that point, the FBI was becoming increasingly concerned. (…)