It's getting to where maybe it's better to live in your car than in a house. That is, if you've got something to hide.

"The 10 or so individuals in the house all said that though they found the experience very jarring, they still intended to protest against the GOP Convention, and several said that being subjected to raids of that sort made them more emboldened than ever to do so."

40 years since 1968. It's the same old show.

[via fatfeistyfemme]

Today's Privacy Nightmare

Smart international travelers will interpret border searches as damage and route around them."Customs officers are trained to protect confidential information." Fat lot of good that does for those of us who have an affirmative duty not to let that information out in the first place! Lawyers are permitted to disclose confidential client information ( Read more... )

Um, no.

Man, fuck the South.

Turn the grow lights off, Midwestern hippies

If you have C-SPAN, turn it on. The House is going absolutely batshit over competing bills for an emergency overhaul of FISA. At issue (roughly): what to do when intercepted communications which the federal spooks thought were solely between foreigners outside the U.S., turn out to involve Americans. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Fourth ( Read more... )

I got to see this case argued before the WA Supreme Court while I was but a mere prospie, and now the results are in: Use sponges to seal your envelopes, murderers (and others ( Read more... )