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Rand Paul’s USA Rights Act Would Protect Us From NSA Spying

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“It fixes the ‘backdoor search loophole,’ which now allows warrantless searches of the NSA-collected contents of Americans’ communications. It extends broad oversight powers to an independent agency. It guarantees the end of a controversial type of data search (called ‘about’ searches) that the NSA suspended earlier this year. It improves judicial oversight of the government’s surveillance regime. It provides better transparency and requires stricter reporting.”

Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/usa-rights-act-protects-us-nsa-spying

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U.S. widens surveillance to include individuals with no foreign connection

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“The change last year to a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities was made possible by a decades-old presidential executive order, bypassing congressional and court review.  The new manual, released in August 2016, now permits the collection of information about Americans for counterintelligence purposes ‘when no specific connection to foreign terrorist(s) has been established,’ according to training slides created last year by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-widens-surveillance-to-include-homegrown-violent-extremists-documents-idUSKBN1CU1H6

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Donald Trump didn’t create presidential dictatorship — he inherited it

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“Violating the Constitution is practically the job description for modern presidents. It was George W. Bush’s White House, not Trump, that asserted a ‘commander-in-chief override’ entitling presidents to ignore the law and the Bill of Rights. Congress utterly failed to thwart that outrageous claim.  Presidents have amassed vast authority because they are judged on their rhetoric and purported goals, not on their constitutional fidelity.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/10/18/we-wouldnt-freaking-out-dictator-trump-if-we-saw-our-past-tyrants-what-they-were-james-bovard-column/587500001/

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IRS Still Stealing Cash From Immigrant Business Owners

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“After the gas station went under, and Kwon’s wife died amid the stress of it all, after he moved from his neighborhood in shame and the Internal Revenue Service changed its policy so no other small business would get steamrolled this way — the agency won’t give Kwon his money back.  That’s $59,117.47 the IRS is holding on to.  As recently as August — the last time Kwon, now 73, asked for his money back — the IRS said no.  He’s heartbroken that the country he loves is treating him this way.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-irs-seized-59000-from-a-gas-station-owner-they-still-refuse-to-give-it-back/2017/10/16/57828500-b296-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html

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Alabamians Outraged As Civil Asset Forfeitures Soar

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“Fourteen states, from New Mexico to Connecticut, have passed laws in recent years to stop police from seizing property absent a criminal conviction.”

Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-18/police-just-fked-my-life-alabamans-outraged-civil-asset-forfeitures-soar

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Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court

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“It may seem unnerving that information contained inside the body — as opposed to kept in the home or worn on the wrist — could be used in a criminal investigation. But courts have yet to distinguish between data interior to the body and data stored on the outside. Data isn’t considered more protected or more private by virtue of its personal nature or where it is stored.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/your-own-pacemaker-can-now-testify-against-you-in-court/

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Deputy AG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand is Bad

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“Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech on Tuesday about what he calls ‘responsible encryption’ today. It misses the mark, by far.”

Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/deputy-attorney-general-rosensteins-responsible-encryption-demand-bad-and-he

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Parody a police officer on Twitter, go to jail in America

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“Something similar happened back in 2014, when police in Peoria, Illinois, arrested a man for impersonating the town’s mayor on Twitter.  The man (Jon Daniel) sued the city with the help of the ACLU and argued that the arrest violated his First Amendment rights. Ultimately, the city was forced to pay $125,000 to settle the case.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/miami-beach-cops-arrest-man-for-twitter-parody-of-police-spokesman/

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FBI Concocting A Terrorist Threat Out of Racial Justice Groups

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“If you are black and angry about police violence, you are a potential terror threat.  Or so says a newly released FBI Intelligence Assessment that concocts a non-existent movement they dub ‘Black Identity Extremists.’ According to the assessment, ‘premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement’ has been spurred on by ‘Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans.’  The problems with this report are manifold. First, and foremost, it places the blame for violence on actual concerns with police brutality and racial justice, thus delegitimizing dissent.”

Read more: https://rightsanddissent.org/news/take-action-fbi-concocting-terrorist-threat-racial-justice-groups/

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Let’s Make America Free Again: We’re Walking a Dangerous Road

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“We can pretend that the Constitution is still our governing document. However, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.  Here is what it means to live under the Constitution today.”

Read more: https://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/lets_make_america_free_again_230_years_after_the_constitution_were_wal

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