My reaction to the IRS singling out the Tea Party groups for scrutiny is frankly, "Welcome to the empire, tea partiers"
Jess Sundin: "Karen came to weekly meetings. We’re all volunteers, and so we make decisions together at those meetings, and she participated in those discussions, sometimes even chairing the meetings. Karen had a key to our office ( Read more... )

...And is probably joined by Huxley in the rotating exercise. Brave New World - does it already exist in our real world? How about Britain?

The London metropolitan police will soon have new extended rights, allowing them to download all data from the mobile phones of suspects and store it for unlimited amount of time. Regardless if any charges have ( Read more... )

I've got a question for the fine and upstanding members of this comm ( Read more... )

UK anti-terror plan to sweep up email, phone, online records
"Data on all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and online visits would be stored for a year in vast databases under a new anti-terrorism plan in Britain, The Telegraph reported Saturday on its website.

The report, which did not cite sources, said that phone companies and broadband ( Read more... )

We don't often concentrate on the good aspects to police states. While it is quite trendy and hip to have an a priori, absolutist stance with regards to privacy, government power and surveillance, I find such an attitude to be too crude an understanding.

Congress working on regulations for commercial drones in US airspace.Personally, I fully ( Read more... )