Privacy Matters

Civil libertarians, much to our collective pain and anguish, have thus far failed to convince majorities of the US population that our legal rights should be protected in a perceived crisis. Emergency rule is The Rule and frankly, most Americans either don’t seem to care or aren’t paying enough attention.  

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On the Petraeus affair, drone strikes and the scandal that wasn't.

The Department of Defense and police in the area around the Hancock Air Field near Syracuse, NY appear to have implemented a novel method of stifling anti-drone war dissent.

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Wikileaks has released another batch of emails from the private intelligence company Stratfor. Among them are some interesting bits of information, including:

When the mighty fall on their own sword, let the lesson be that no one is immune from the violations that result from the degradation of the rule of law.