Posts Tagged ‘ privacy ’

TSA Pat Downs: Feeling Safer Already

2010-11-23
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Rush Limbaugh, quoting an article in the Atlantic magazine, says that the TSA pat downs are deliberately being made intrusive and invasive in order to induce people to choose the X-ray machines. Too many people were refusing to go through the new X-Ray systems, choosing rather the older personal inspections. Of course that’s all...

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Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State

2010-10-25
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“I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747. That’s why we haven’t put them in our airport.”—Rafi Sela, leading Israeli airport security expert, referring to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, which has...

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Scanners: No Place to Hide in the Surveillance State

2010-10-02
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Scanners: No Place to Hide in the Surveillance State

The government can now do drive-by strip searches of your person and your home, including monitoring what you are doing in the privacy of your home....Everything you do in your house will be under scrutiny by government agents—and can and will be recorded and used against you at a later date.

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GPS and the Police State We Inhabit: Living in Oceania

2010-09-27
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GPS and the Police State We Inhabit: Living in Oceania

The concept of private property is dead and along with it, the right against unreasonable searches and seizures once protected by the Fourth Amendment.

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Wikileaks: Who’s Hiding What and Why

2010-08-03
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Two ways exist of looking at Wikileaks, the site that publicizes secret military documents and videos. The first is held self-interestedly by the Pentagon and by Fox News, the voice of an angry lower-middle class without too much education. These believe that Wikileakers are traitors, haters of America, who give aid and comfort to...

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Reason, Revelation Testify That Good Works Matter, by Steve Farrell

2008-01-17
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Reason, Revelation Testify That Good Works Matter, by Steve Farrell

Liberty Letters Quote of the Day: Benjamin Franklin, Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ Nothing could more perfectly express the optimism of Benjamin Franklin’s simplified form of Christian piety mixed with Enlightenment thinking than his affirmation of the harmony between prudence and benevolence: … for self-denial is never a duty or a...

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