By Tag "civil liberties" - page 2
Christmas Eavesdrop
You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why: The NSA is bugging your town They're making a list Checking it twice Government knows who's naughty or nice The NSA is bugging your town They see you when [...]
WI town uses armored vehicles to collect civil fine against 75 year-old man
The town of Stettin, Wisconsin decided to send 24 armed officers and an armored military vehicle to collect a civil judgement from 75-year-old resident Roger Hoeppner earlier this month. The dispute is over how Hoeppner chooses to use his own [...]
Georgia SWAT Team Has Sordid Past
Following up on the story of a toddler who was critically injured when a Georgia drug task force set off a flash bang while executing a no-knock warrant, WaPo's Radley Balko points out the same unit was responsible for the death of an innocent [...]
Might as well quit now
Via Wired UK: It's already too late to stop the ubiquitous tracking and monitoring of the public through biometrics, says Peter Waggett, Programme Leader at IBM's Emerging Technology Group. We need to stop worrying about prevention, and start [...]
Libertarians co-opting anti-NSA rally?
On Monday, Salon published an article by Tom Watson which argued that liberals shouldn't align with libertarians over the fight to roll back NSA surveillance. At issue is the Stop Watching Us rally, of which Campaign for Liberty is a proud [...]
Are the statists that afraid of us? Guess so
Earlier today, Norm Singleton joined Congressmen Thomas Massie and Steve Daines, Senator Ted Cruz, and more at a press conference on Capitol Hill to speak out against the National Internet Tax Mandate. Make no mistake, the only reason the [...]
Government tracking "truthiness"
In homage to late-night comedian Stephen Colbert, federal bureaucrats have named their new database "Truthy." However, unlike Colbert, there is nothing funny about this database. Researchers at Indiana University received nearly $1 million of [...]
Civil Liberties Hodgepodge
This week there's been a number of stories worth highlighting regarding your civil liberties. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled the administration must disclose the legal rationale behind the targeted [...]
The USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction
By: Michael Clayton Seemingly lost in the fold because of all the mess regarding Obamacare, last week, lawmakers introduced legislation to curtail the National Security Agency’s overreaching phone record collection program. The USA Freedom [...]
Campaign for Liberty Joins Rand Paul to Fight NSA
WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Campaign for Liberty joined Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and other organizations in denouncing the Obama Administration's unconstitutional surveillance programs affecting millions of innocent Americans. “Every American [...]