“Is Berkeley’s pledge actually achievable? Evidence from other cities suggests ambitious climate plans often fail.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/13/berkeley-climate-emergency-population-control/
“Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia bought body armor. Rep. Gregg Harper hired armed security guards for events back home in Mississippi. And Rep. Dan Dovonan fortified his Brooklyn and Staten Island offices with security cameras and buzzer systems. This is the new normal for members of Congress.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/06/11/politicians-fear-for-safety-as-threats-against-congress-skyrocket/
“The UK paid legal fees for the defense of Pinochet against efforts to extradite him in light of severe human rights abuses, later paying the same barrister again to aid Sweden in its effort to extradite a journalist, Julian Assange, without charge.”
Read more: https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/06/from-pinochet-to-assange-a-tale-of-two-extraditions/
“The feature disables data transfer through the Lightning port one hour after a phone was last locked, preventing popular third-party hacking tools used by law enforcement from accessing the device.”
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/13/technology/apple-iphone-law-enforcement/index.html
“Officials reportedly claim the move will increase security and potentially reduce congestion.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/13/china-cars-rfid-monitoring-surveillance/
“‘Law-abiding people’ must fear state surveillance because it makes it more more likely that they will become non-law-abiding without any change in their behavior.”
Read more: http://www.econlib.org/archives/2018/06/why_the_surveil.html
“The Founding Fathers never intended a secret police force to be an independent fourth branch of the federal government.”
“America is now one of the world’s chief, unrepentant, unapologetic, still-polling-positive-on…torturers. How did we get here?”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/confronting-america-the-torturer/
“The trials of the Catonsville Nine, the Chicago Seven and Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers — all of those events came after the Spock trial, each an escalation of the government’s response to dissent.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/when-the-government-went-after-dr-spock.html
“It is easy for us to forget just how extremely challenging the dissemination of dissenting ideas remained back in the days of print, paper, and ink.”
Read more: http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-great-purge-of-the-1940s/
