Watching Melissa Etheridge on TV at the Live Earth concert persuaded Jonas Phillips and his wife, Kindra, to go out and do something about the Bush Administration’s abuses.
So they made a cardboard sign with “Impeach Bush Cheney” on it...
...Within a couple of minutes, Sergeant Randy Riddle did arrive.
“These were the first words out of his mouth: ‘Put down the sign. Put your hands behind your back. You’re under arrest.’
“I asked him why was I being arrested.
“He said, ‘I’m sick of this shit, you’re going to get your 15 minutes of fame, now, buddy.’ ”
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
US doles out millions for street cameras
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security is funneling millions of dollars to local governments nationwide for purchasing high-tech video camera networks, accelerating the rise of a "surveillance society" in which the sense of freedom that stems from being anonymous in public will be lost, privacy rights advocates warn.
...technicians are developing ways to use computers to process real-time and stored digital video, including license-plate readers, face-recognition scanners, and software that detects "anomalous behavior.Read the Story
"Being able to collect this much data on people is going to be very powerful, and it opens people up for abuses of power," said Jennifer King, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who studies privacy and technology. "The problem with explaining this scenario is that today it's a little futuristic. [A major loss of privacy] is a low risk today, but five years from now it will present a higher risk."
Thursday, August 9, 2007
When Will Americans Have Had Enough
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.
- Adlai Stevenson 1952
Here is the full text of that speech
And if you haven't read this one in a while, it is probably time to read it again.
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