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2003-06 Audit Cites Probes of Citizens

By Dan Eggen Washington Post 3/14/08

The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits released yesterday. (more…)

I highly recommend the movie The Lives of Others, about the Stasi (secret police in the former East German Republic), and books by Judge Andrew Napolitano, Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws, and Jules Boykoff, “Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States.” Each has much to teach us about the consequences when governments disregard civil liberties and evesdrop on citizens, if we are willing to listen.

Katherine

American Friends Service Committee STOPMAX Conference

May 30 — June 1, 2008, Temple University Philadelphia, PA

We Need You!! We are calling on families, formerly imprisoned people, youth groups, community activists, civic leaders, lawyers, researchers, mental health professionals and concerned citizens to attend this 3-day grassroots organizing event. (more…)

(Ditto for Landmines and Sanctions)

by Paul Rockwell Commondreams 3/13/08

The human soul is difficult to fathom. One person alone is capable of both compassion and cruelty. (more…)

by John Pilger AntiWar.com 3/13/08

There is a decent, brave man sitting in a dungeon in a country where the British Empire began, a country of poets, singers, artists, free thinkers and petty tyrants. I have known him since a moonless night in 1971 when he led me clandestinely into what was then East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh, past villages the Pakistani army had raped and razed. (more…)

By BILL AND KATHY CHRISTISON Counterpunch 3/12/08

Admiral William Fallon’s resignation as CENTCOM commander and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s handling of same is the greatest and most public break in the Bush team’s handling of preparations for war against Iran that we are ever likely to see. (more…)

By Ed Kinane Information Clearing House 3/12/08

We keep hearing certain words – “democracy” is one, “terrorism” is another – that are seldom defined. The pretense is that we all know what these words mean. Yet that’s hardly the case. (more…)

By Stephen Lendman 3/13/08

Yassin Aref is a 37 year old Albany, New York resident and one of many Muslim victims of police state justice in post-9/11 America. (more…)