Homeland Security wants to monitor journalists. Time to sound the alarm.

“The Department of Homeland Security intends to list and trackhundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and ‘influencers’ in traditional and new media alike.  If you find yourself skeptical of this proposal of mass state monitoring of the press, consider yourself a bonafide member of the ‘tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists,’ DHS representative Tyler Houlton said Friday.”

Read more: http://theweek.com/articles/766230/homeland-security-wants-monitor-journalists-time-sound-alarm

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American Muslims Were Put On No-Fly List By FBI For Refusing to Inform

“Today, a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against 24 FBI agents alleging that they had placed or kept law-abiding American Muslims on the No-Fly List in an attempt to coerce the men into spying on their communities.”

Read more: https://rightsanddissent.org/news/appeals-court-reinstates-no-fly-list-lawsuit-by-american-muslims-coerced-to-spy-by-fbi-victims-may-sue-agents-who-listed-them-for-refusing-to-inform/

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A Year Later, A Veteran Still Sits In Jail, Denied Bail For Leaking Now-Public Docs

“The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort/

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Uncle Sam’s Long History of Child-Snatching

“For long stretches of American history, it was commonplace for children to be snatched from their families.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/opinion/children-border.html

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Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.

“The reinvestigation of the assassination is led by Paul Schrade, who also was shot in the head as he walked behind Kennedy in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles but survived.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/05/26/who-killed-bobby-kennedy-his-son-rfk-jr-doesnt-believe-it-was-sirhan-sirhan/

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Deported veterans’ group ignores Border Patrol, repaints border wall mural

“A lot of people don’t realize US veterans, if they are not citizens, can get deported.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/border-wall-mural-repainted/index.html

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Privacy Localism Grows as Communities Take Steps to Limit Surveillance State

“It’s not just happening in California. Nashville, Tenn.Seattle, Wash., and Somerville, Mass., now have ordinances requiring local government approval for surveillance technology on the books.”

Read more: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2018/05/31/privacy-localism-grows-as-communities-take-steps-to-limit-surveillance-state/

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A South Carolina anti-drug police unit admitted it conducts illegal no-knock raids

“A confidential informant claimed to have bought pot from him for a total of $100. On April 16, 2015, the task force battered Betton’s door open with a ram, then almost immediately opened fire, releasing at least 29 bullets, nine of which hit Betton. An expert hired by Betton’s legal team estimates that over the course of his lifetime, his medical bills will run between $6 million and $17 million.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/05/31/a-south-carolina-anti-drug-police-unit-admitted-it-conducts-illegal-no-knock-raids/

Echoes from the past in modern-day Amerika:

 

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How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Secret Government Phone Tracker to Find Him

“Police might be tracking a lot more than we even know on our phones, often without the warrants that are usually needed for comparable methods of invasive surveillance.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/03/cyrus-farivar-book-excerpt-stingray-218588

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TSA Still Awful After 17 Years

“The mob scene generated by the bureaucracy creates a major security problem in itself with respect to possible lunatic bombers.”

Read more: https://www.cato.org/blog/tsa-still-awful-after-17-years

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