Category: Police State Repression

By Glenn Greenwald  It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less understandable, is that…

By Kenneth J. Theisen This week the Washington Post has been running a series of articles entitled “Top Secret America” The series is an investigation into the extensive growth of the U.S….

By Chris Floyd Imagine how great the "progressive" furor would be if the Bush Administration had suddenly denied a visa to an award-winning Colombian journalist because of his reportage on human rights…

By Margaret Kimberley  Under Barack Obama, the former professor of constitutional law, Americans’ civil liberties have shrunken drastically – to the point that his administration claims the right to execute its citizens…

By Kenneth J. Theisen    Under the guise of fighting “terrorism”, the U.S. Supreme Court put another nail into the coffin of the first amendment guarantee of free speech and association on…

 By Elliot Cohen  According to a June 18 AP article, Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has defended monitoring Internet communications as a "civil liberties trade-off the US must make to beef…

Press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights   Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to criminalize speech in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge the Patriot…

We received the following statement from the Ad Hoc Committee for Reason & Dropping the Charges: The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago (EHSC) claims that “the supreme aim of human life is…

By Craig Considine    Following the Times Square bomb scare, Joe Lieberman is introducing legislation that strips Americans of their citizenship if they ‘affiliate’ with groups or organizations on Washington’s ‘terrorist list’. …