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Trump doesn’t want ISIS “using our Internet”

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“A week after saying the US should disrupt the Islamic terrorist group ISIS’ online recruiting by ‘closing that Internet up in some way,’ Donald Trump was given a chance to clarify what he meant at last night’s GOP debate. ‘You talk freedom of speech. You talk freedom of anything you want. I don’t want them using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth,’ Trump said at the debate. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) criticized Trump’s plan. ‘The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China?’ Paul said.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/trump-doesnt-want-isis-using-our-internet/

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Jacob Hornberger: From Crises Comes Leviathan

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“People’s fear drives them to demand that the U.S. national security establishment continue doing more of the things that produce the crises that are scaring them to death. Today, many of the fearful are demanding more bombing, more killing, more maiming of people in the Middle East – in the name of keeping us safe — and blocking out of their minds that that is precisely what the national-security state has been doing for decades in the Middle East that has produced the crisis that is now scaring them. And they are also now demanding that NATO absorb even more nations, while blocking out of their minds that is certain to heighten the crisis with Russia and scare them even more.”

http://fff.org/2015/12/04/from-crises-comes-leviathan/

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10 Ridiculous Things That Make You A Terror Suspect [2011]

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“Now, you don’t need to actually commit a crime to be hauled away to a detention center and held without charges while you are tortured; you just need to appear suspicious by sympathizing with anti-government views to be labeled a domestic terrorist.  What exactly constitutes sympathizing with a terrorist? Is questioning the imperial foreign policy and the destruction of civil liberties sympathizing with the enemy?  In the U.S., it seems that if you don’t agree with the violence and coercion America commits, then you’re an anti-American terrorist sympathizer, as evidenced by peace organizations being added to terror watch lists.”

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/10-ridiculous-things-that-make-you.html

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New Mexico Cities Refuse To Obey New Law To Shut Down Civil Forfeiture

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“This business of civil forfeiture came to the public’s attention in late 2014, when an attorney charged with overseeing one city’s forfeiture programs described civil forfeiture as a ‘gold mine‘ and property seized through civil forfeiture as ‘little goodies.’  The resulting wave of public outrage brought landmark legislation, as the state legislature voted unanimously to abolish civil forfeiture. But cities across New Mexico are refusing to follow the law. In Albuquerque, police and prosecutors continue to use civil forfeiture and have even announced plans to purchase a new, bigger parking lot to hold all the cars they expect to seize—a parking lot that will be paid for through civil forfeiture.”

http://ij.org/case/new-mexico-forfeiture/

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Scope of Secretive FBI National Security Letters Revealed by First Lifted Gag Order

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“Fourteen years after the FBI began using national security letters to unilaterally and quietly demand records from Internet service providers, telephone companies and financial institutions, one recipient — former ISP founder Nicholas Merrill — is finally free to talk about what it’s like to get one.  The FBI issues the letters, known as NSLs, without any judicial review whatsoever. And they come with a gag order.  But a federal District Court judge in New York ruled in September that the continuous ban on Merrill’s speech about the order was not justified, considering that the FBI’s investigation was long over and most details about the order were already openly available.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/30/scope-of-secretive-fbi-national-security-letters-revealed-by-first-lifted-gag-order/

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“Snowden Effect” in Action: NSA Authority to Collect Bulk Phone Metadata Expires

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“The government is ‘prohibited from collecting telephone metadata records in bulk’ starting November 29. The executive branch will now be able to obtain phone metadata by asking the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order telecommunications companies to turn over specific records. The end of the bulk collection program is a modest but real victory for former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, who provided documents concerning the program to Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald. The first article by Greenwald based on the documents leaked by Snowden, published on June 6, 2013, was about the bulk collection program.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/28/snowden-effect-in-action-nsa-authority-to-collect-bulk-phone-metadata-expires/

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Horrific outrage erupts over proposed mosque in Virginia

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“‘Nobody wants your evil cult,’ declared a man at a zoning meeting in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was lobbing his invective at several American Muslims there over a proposed mosque to be built there. ‘Every one of you are terrorists. I don’t care what you say. I don’t care what you think,’ the man said at the otherwise peaceable assembly.  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has insisted that thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered after the 2001 attacks. Ted Cruz says that only Christian refugees from Syria should be allowed to resettle in the U.S. The Democratic mayor of Roanoke, Virginia spoke favorably about Japanese internment camps during World War II.”

http://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=65581

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Supreme Court declines to require a warrant to get cell site data

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“Cell-site tracking has become extremely important to crime fighting in the wake of the high court’s 2012 ruling that they need a warrant to place GPS trackers on vehicles. Equally important, in all the cases on the cell-site location tracking, the government argues that cell-site records are not constitutionally protected. Instead, the authorities maintain that they are business records that the telcos may hand over if the government asserts that reasonable grounds exist to believe the data is relevant to an investigation.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/supreme-court-punts-issue-if-warrants-needed-to-get-your-cell-site-data/

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Stop-and-Seize Turns Police Into Self-Funding Gangs

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“With government unable to pay police as much as they need or would like, police are confiscating their revenue directly from the populace.  The threat to individual liberty from stop-and-seize is painfully clear.  Without requirements for an arrest or for a warrant, the power to confiscate cash is a clear diminution of property rights. Effectively, the police have been given official sanction to commit literal highway robbery without the threat of punishment. People whose property was seized must pay a lot of money and spend a long time in court for even the chance of getting it back, and police who seize money with no good reason don’t, apparently, suffer any threat of discipline.”

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-12/stop-and-seize-turns-police-into-self-funding-gangs

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Even its Creators Want to Shut Down the Asset-Forfeiture Racket [2014]

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“If you need more evidence that asset forfeiture should be eliminated, John Yoder and Brad Cates, the first two directors of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture Office, have a column in today’s Washington Post, and they unambiguously disown the bureaucracy they created and the evils it has spawned. I’m especially glad they include the government’s foolish and costly anti-money laundering laws as they discuss government run amok. A big problem is that these laws create perverse incentives for abusive behavior by bureaucracies.  Our presumption of innocence shouldn’t be eroded just because some bureaucrats are greedy to steal private property.”

https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/even-its-creators-want-to-shut-down-the-governments-asset-forfeiture-racket/

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