Saturday, July 19, 2008
Internet Archiver Served Secret National Security Letter. Response? .. CRAM IT!!!
Buried deep in section D1 of the Washington Post is a report that Brewster Kahle of Archive.org, served with secret national security letter tells the FBI to shove it. With the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU, not only was it crammed but brought back into the sunlight after Judge lifts the gag order contained in the letters. This makes a whopping 3 known cases where the gag has been lifted.
Greenhorn Police Chief in Flint, Michigan Takes it Upon Himself to CREATE LAW to Enforce
According to this Newsweek article, the newbie Police Chief of Flint, Michigan has his panties all in a bunch over "sagging", and seems to have decided to take the law into his own hands. Chief David Dicks has ordered his officers to arrest "offenders". In the opinion of this blogger, "sagging" is a form of expression, regardless of how laughable it is to see someones drawers hanging half off of their (_|_) butt. the ACLU is stepping in to protect our freedoms of expression, but willl they also protect us from the police from creating their own laws??
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