Angola 3 News interviewed Jeanne Theoharris who wrote an article this April at The Nation on the arrest, imprisonment and legal battles of Syed Hashmi, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in New York City prison with “Guantánamo-like conditions”.
Posts Tagged ‘Patriot Act’
Fascism: Why Can’t It Happen Here?
Posted: 6 October 2009 by Kevin Carson in National News, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, CIA, COINTELPRO, Democrats, doublethink, Ed Schultz, fascism, FDR, founding fathers, GARDEN ACT, GOP, Howard Zinn, Jose Padilla, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Liz Cheney, Lord Acton, Michelle Bachmann, nationalism, Newspeak, Oklahoma City bombing, Patriot Act, police state, Posse Comitatus, progressives, Red Scare, Republicans, Shays Rebellion, terrorism, US, War on Terror, Woodrow Wilson
Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) Research Assosciate Kevin Carson on the ignorant bliss of “American exceptionalism”. (more…)
Obama Recommends Congress ‘Renew’ Patriot Act Domestic ‘Surveillance Methods’
Posted: 18 September 2009 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: Big Brother, Bush Administration, Congress, David Kravets, Dennis Blair, Dick Durbin, domestic surveillance, fascism, FISA, law, libertarian, liberty, lone wolf, Obama, Patrick Leahy, Patriot Act, privacy, Russ Feingold, terrorism, US, War, War on Terrorism, Washington Post, wiretapping
The Washington Post reports the Justice Department “recommended that Congress move swiftly with legislation that would protect the government’s ability to collect a variety of business and credit card records and to monitor terrorism suspects with roving wiretaps” set to expire 31 December 09.
National Security: The Last Refuge of Scoundrels
Posted: 10 April 2009 by Kevin Carson in National News, Political ScienceTags: anti-Statism, Bill of Rights, bipartisan, civil liberties, Congress, Constitution, Democrats, DOJ, fascism, FISA, George Bush, government, law, libertarian, liberty, national security, Newspeak, NSA, Nuremburg, Obama, Patriot Act, Republicans, state secrets, telecommunications, US, War, wiretapping
Kevin Carson on the privileges of statesmen that they grant to themselves and extend to one another. (more…)