The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, shall be at the option of the Unitary Executive, and no Warrants shall issue because they are no longer required, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Senate OKs New Wiretapping Law [TPMMuckraker]
The air is rife with speculation that Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City will toss his hat into the presidential ring. Wev, you say - he'd certainly do a better job than the Dear Leader, the Worst.President.Ever.
But wait just a New York minute. Do we really want the man that was involved in this sort of special ops getting accesss to Bush's new toys at the FBI, CIA, DOD, and the rest?
For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews.
Hold on, you say, maybe it was police commissioner Ray Kelly, maybe Mayor Mike didn't know what was going on. Nope:
In February 2003, the Police Department, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s support, was given broad new authority by [District Court] Judge Haight to conduct such monitoring. However, a senior police official must still determine that there is some indication of illegal activity before an inquiry is begun.
Illegal activity like flying planes into buildings or using truck bombs? Well ...
At the other end of the threat spectrum was Joshua Kinberg, a graduate student at Parsons School of Design and the subject of four pages of intelligence reports, including two pictures. For his master’s thesis project, Mr. Kinberg devised a “wireless bicycle” equipped with cellphone, laptop and spray tubes that could squirt messages received over the Internet onto the sidewalk or street.
The messages were printed in water-soluble chalk, a tactic meant to avoid a criminal mischief charge for using paint, an intelligence report noted. Mr. Kinberg’s bicycle was “capable of transferring activist-based messages on streets and sidewalks,” according to a report on July 22, 2004.
“This bicycle, having been built for the sole purpose of protesting during the R.N.C., is capable of spraying anti-R.N.C.-type messages on surrounding streets and sidewalks, also supplying the rider with a quick vehicle of escape,” the report said. Mr. Kinberg, then 25, was arrested during a television interview with Ron Reagan for MSNBC’s “Hardball” program during the convention. He was released a day later, but his equipment was held for more than a year.
Maybe Mayor Mike should just go back to his old job. Wasting time on stuff like this at the expense of looking for real terrorists is the same authoritarian nonsense we've suffered since Bush took office. It's time for a new approach.
Where do we go to get our republic back? And how do we stop R. Kenneth Blackwell, master election thief and actual Bible thumper, from winning the governorship of Ohio?
Oh, and surprise - the Repugs are doing to do the same things again!
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So Kenny Boy and his Cheney, Jeff Skilling, have been found guilty of various criminal charges in the Enron debacle. Do you think the Dear Leaker will be rushing to the press room to talk about Kenny Boy, the felon that used to be his best buddy? The press sure aren't going to ask him - an hour after the verdict came down, the press mentioned Lay's name exactly zero times instead of asking Snowjob about the verdicts and his boss's reaction.
Why, exactly, do we have a White House press corps?
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The much-touted White House Civil Liberties Board, wherein the administration aims to protect our privacy during the War On Terror ... um, doesn't exist.
All Hail the Dear Leader!
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Deficits? What Deficits?
[via Raw Story] Bu$hCo's FY 2007 budget omitted a table included in previous years that lays out the impact of proposed policies on the deficit. Basically, it's omission -- "a single table among thousands and thousands of pages that follow a standard format each year -- likely signals that the Administration is trying to keep the focus off the massive deficits which the United States will incur after 2010."
Noting to see here, keep moving!
tags: 1984 george orwell impeach bush george bush bush budget
Google Defies the Dear Leader!
Google is Doubleplus Ungood!
Bu$hCo Oceania lawyers want a million or so Google search records. They need them to revive a law the Supreme Court said was no good.
Shame on Google for acting against Ingsoc and the Dear Leader! What are privacy rights worth when we could lose the war on terror Afghanistan Iraq Eastasia?
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So Orwell Was Off By 16 Years ...
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia! Click here. All your news should come from here.
And here's more doubleplus good news from the Ministry of Truth: we never sent prisoners to Syria to be tortured! We've never even heard of Syria. Bashar who?
And don't forget:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
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Two days ago we blogged about Stephen Dujack, whose planned testimony regarding Alito and CAP ("Concerned Alumi of Princeton") disappeared down the Old Memory Hole. A concerned Princeton student wrote us to say that they had written about Dujack (and his smearing by Limbaugh, Drudge, and the rest) in the Daily Princetonian. They discuss Dujack's address to the Princeton College Democrats and link to his 1986 article on CAP.
Anybody figure out how to stop Scalito yet? One more thing ... if Scalito was never a member of CAP as the Repugs now claim, why did he feature it on his resume?
tags: samuel alito stephen dujack concerned alumni of princeton CAP
Scalito Testimony You Won't Hear
As you might recall, Senator Kennedy and Judiciary Committee Chair Specter spent some time yesterday bitch-slapping each other over Scalito's membership in CAP ("Concerned Alumni of Princeton"). CAP was a group dedicated to keeping Princeton white and male. Now it seems that an expert on the group, Stephen Dujack, will not testify at the confirmation hearings as originally scheduled:
Late last Thursday, Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a list of witnesses to testify for the Democrats on Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination to the Supreme Court. I was on that list — a mere writer with a bachelor's degree — among all the distinguished household names. But by the end of the day Friday, I wasn't on the list anymore.
Ah, the old Memory Hole. Does it seem to you as though the Democrats, save Kennedy and perhaps Schumer, have thrown in the towel?
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