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The administration quarantines dissent.
The American Conservative
By James Bovard
On Dec. 6, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft informed the Senate Judiciary Committee, “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty … your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and … give ammunition to America’s enemies.� Some commentators feared that Ashcroft’s [...]

[From Kuro5hin]
A bumper sticker? It can’t be. Who would care about a bumper sticker? As I sat across the table from three stoic Secret Service agents, I started to think about the country I live in. We were always told growing up that what separated America from everywhere else is the First Amendment and it’s [...]

Tax season is here and April 15th is near for U.S. citizens, and this was a good timing for those who do taxes on their computers. Gracie’s Broadband Reports security forum thread mentions Michelle Malkin’s article on people’s tax return information being exposed to the public due to P2P programs like Limewire and eMule. The problem is not the software, it is the way user share their folders/directories.

Progressives are Reaping the Harvest They Planted in 2004
By KEVIN ZEESE
Recently, progressives who supported the Democratic Party in 2004 are expressing dissatisfaction with how Democratic elected officials are voting on the funding of the Iraq war, minimizing bankruptcy protections for working families, weakening the right to file class action lawsuits against abusive corporations and shying [...]

Sgrena Sets the Record Straight
By Jeremy Scahill

Giuliana Sgrena would probably be the first to say that to focus on her case would be to miss the point on the extent of the daily, horrific violence Iraqis face at the hands of US soldiers. Sgrena is the Italian war correspondent that was shot by US forces as she was en route to the Baghdad airport after being freed from a month of being held hostage by an Iraqi resistance group. She knows better than most that if she and the senior Italian intelligence official killed by US troops as he tried to save her were merely Iraqi civilians, this would be even more of a non-story than it already is in the US press.

[From Duane's Weblog (from Pittsburgh, Pa)]
The Georgetown Living Wage Coalition announced on its website on Thursday that it has won its three-year fight for a living wage
for Georgetown University workers. The victory came after more than 20 students held a nine-day hunger strike, during which some students were hospitalized.

[From Wired News: Politics]
The Transportation Security Administration’s plan to take over all airline passenger screening is still too flawed to be implemented, a report from the GAO concludes.

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