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Adam Kokesh’s Mail from Jail

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Adam Kokesh’s Mail from Jail

“Adam is in a cage in solitary confinement, and he wants to reach out to his friends and fans in person. For the next few hours, he’ll be able to interact with his fans through the mail, and he’d like to be able to thank his supporters personally and answer any questions they might have.  While the government has desperately struggled to silence Adam, we shouldn’t forget about the positivity that defines his approach. I would love for everyone to send him messages about how they woke up to the liberty movement, and how they plan to spread the message of Liberty in their own personal lives. Let’s make sure that the Man can’t get him down.”

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Kafka’s America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance

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“A mechanism to protect the American people from unwarranted government surveillance became instead a bureaucratic mechanism to rubber stamp government applications for surveillance.  The Court is structured such that applications for surveillance are rarely ever denied. If a judge were to reject an application, that judge would have to immediately write a report detailing every reason for the rejection, then transmit the report to a 3-person court of review. If that court finds that the application was properly denied, it must also write a report, which is then subject to a writ of certiorari by the Supreme Court. No reviews are necessary if an application is granted.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/kafkas_america_secret_courts_secret_laws_and_total_surveillance

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How to Be a Rogue Superpower: A Manual for the Twenty-First Century

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“Highlighted in all this has been a curious fact of our twenty-first-century world.  In the Cold War years, asylum was always potentially available.  If you opposed one of the two superpowers or its allies, the other was usually ready to open its arms to you, as the U.S. famously did for what were once called ‘Soviet dissidents’ in great numbers.  The Soviets did the same for Americans, Brits, and others, often secret communists, sometimes actual spies, who opposed the leading capitalist power and its global order. Today, if you are a twenty-first-century ‘dissident‘ and need asylum/protection from the only superpower left, there is essentially none to be had.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175725/

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Shock report into FBI errors cast doubt on 27 death penalty convictions

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“The FBI is reviewing 2,000 cases convicted on hair samples after it has emerged that there has been widespread errors in forensic testing and how the evidence was portrayed in court.  As many as 27 prisoners facing the death penalty may have been wrongfully convicted along with potentially thousands of others across the country.  Since the 1980s, hundreds of convictions have been overturned on improper forensic science – which includes bite marks, blood analysis and shoe prints along with hair samples. Forensic testing has never been proved 100 per cent accurate by science – but at times, was presented by experts in court as if conclusive.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2369273/FBI-forensic-hair-analysis-errors-casts-doubt-dozens-death-penalty-convictions.html

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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden applies for temporary asylum in Russia

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“Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, a pro-Kremlin lawyer said Tuesday, after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of ‘trapping’ him in the country. Snowden, wanted by the United States for revealing sensational details of its vast spying operations, is now spending a fourth week in the transit lounge at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport without crossing the Russian border.  Washington has reacted sharply to the possibility that Moscow might offer Snowden a safe haven and accused it of providing him with a ‘propaganda platform.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/16/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-applies-for-temporary-asylum-in-russia-lawyer/

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Justin Raimondo: The Prisoner

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“All this subterfuge about America being the land of the free and an international exemplar of liberal democracy is thrown overboard very quickly, and suddenly it becomes a felony to reveal the decision of a duly constituted court. It becomes a felony to reveal that you’ve received a National Security Letter, or to discuss its contents. And the highest treason of all is trying to escape.  I wondered whether I had stumbled on a heretofore unknown episode of The Prisoner, the cult classic 1960s television series written by and starring Patrick McGoohan, in which a former British intelligence agent who has committed some unknown treason finds himself imprisoned in The Village.”

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/07/14/the-prisoner/

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Glenn Greenwald: U.S. should be ‘on its knees begging’ that nothing happens to Snowden

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“‘Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had,’ said Greenwald. “The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.’ Snowden is currently working with Russian authorities to secure temporary asylum in that country. He said Friday that U.S. officials are blocking every effort he makes to seek safe passage to any place that will not extradite him into U.S. custody.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/13/greenwald-u-s-should-be-on-its-knees-begging-that-nothing-happens-to-snowden/

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Glenn Beck calls for celebrating Ramadan by shooting all Guantanamo prisoners in the head

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“Let’s save some money… here’s the thing…  We can’t let them starve themselves to death? Damn right we can. We can also shoot them in the head, which is the other option and the one I’m for. SHOOT THEM. But, the other is let them starve to death and I’m totally fine with that. I don’t want to starve anybody myself; but I don’t want to do that. I want to be the country that we all love and appreciate. You know the one that is feared by its enemies, but should not be a country that is feared by all. But is feared by its enemies.”

http://libertyfight.com/2013/beck_says_shoot_everyone_at_guantanamo_in_the_head.html

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Louisiana Drug Lifer Struggles For Freedom… Someday

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“So what did Butler do to get life in ‘the Alacatraz of the South’? Possession of small amounts of marijuana and crack cocaine found on him after police stopped and frisked him as he rode away from them on his bicycle.  Last October 3, it appeared it had. On that date, the Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his conviction, ruling that New Orleans police officers ‘illegally searched Butler and seized his drugs without probable cause.’ The state Supreme Court then upheld the original life-without-parole sentence — because he had ridden his bicycle on a sidewalk as he rode away from police!”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/jul/10/louisiana_drug_lifer_struggles_f

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Marc Emery Released from Solitary Confinement

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“Emery has already served four years of a five-year sentence in the US for selling marijuana seeds online from Canada. With the permission of prison officials in the Special Investigative Service (SIS), photos of his band were put up on Emery’s Cannabis Culture blog in April. Emery was under investigation by the same SIS authorities who gave permission for the photos; they claimed that the pictures had been taken with a prohibited smart phone. Officials put him in ‘the hole’ while they looked into the matter. On Tuesday, June 11, Emery was released from solitary confinement after a staff person admitted he had taken the photos.”

http://www.hightimes.com/read/marc-emery-released-solitary-confinement

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