-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- ErgoOne on Not a Normal Presidential Election
- Thought crime « Notes from underground on Thought Crime is *NOT* Crime! :(
- starship on Cherokee Nation: Slave Descendants Need Not Apply :(
- Home again | Square Holes on Is the Google Lunar X-Prize Breaking Rule #1?
- starship on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Gets a Present ;)
Important
Interesting
My Friends
Category Archives: Law
Profiles in Courage: Military Officers Who Opposed Torture After 9/11
The American Civil Liberties Union has posted a web page that tells the stories of a number of military officers and CIA employees who objected to the US use of waterboarding and other forms of torture after 9/11. I just … Continue reading
The Senate Report on CIA Torture of 9/11 Terrorism Suspects
There’s very little in the redacted executive summary of the Senate’s report on CIA “enhanced interrogation techniques” that is news to me, or most people who have been following this story for the past decade. I’ve been rather quiet because, … Continue reading
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Surveillance Self-Defense
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a new web site, Surveillance Self-Defense (ssd.eff.org). The site collects information about surveillance techniques that governments, large companies, marketing firms, criminal organizations, and some individuals are using to track you through the day. … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Politics, Security, Technology
Tagged privacy, protection, surveillance
Leave a comment
Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
Washington Post columnist George Will, a politically conservative columnist whom I often agree with about limited government and fiscal responsibility, but often disagree with on human rights issues, today posted a thoughtful and quite pointed op-ed on the use of … Continue reading
Thought Crime is *NOT* Crime! :(
Just seen on the Telegraph: a story about a woman convicted of a crime for downloading a banned magazine that promotes Islamicist terror. Her story, which the judge believed: she wanted to see what had convinced her brothers (both convicted … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Religion
1 Comment
The Supreme Court Steps Up to the Plate
Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that use of a GPS locator/tracker on a person’s car without a warrant is a violation of the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. All I can say is — it’s about d*mn time … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Politics
Tagged 4th Amendment, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution
Leave a comment
The State of American Freedom
Yesterday Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, wrote a troubling op-ed article, 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free, that was published in the Washington Post. I’ve read it twice. I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Law
Leave a comment
Thomas Haynesworth: “A Long Time Coming”
Today Thomas Haynesworth was granted a “write of actual innocence” by the Virginia Court of Appeals. Haynesworth had already been released from jail on parole because of evidence that he was innocent, but had been on the state sex offender’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Human Rights, Law, Science
Leave a comment
David Linhardt Snatches Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
And I couldn’t be happier. Here’s a link to the judgment (PDF File), which is posted on the Spamhaus web site. The final judgment: $3 to E360, costs for defending the lawsuit to Spamhaus. In my personal and strongly-held opinion, … Continue reading
Re-establishing the Correct Role for Police in a Free Society
For some time, I’ve been concerned at the deteriorating relationship between the police and citizens in the United States. While this isn’t happening everywhere, in entirely too many cities large numbers of police have been credibly accused and often convicted … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Politics
Leave a comment