Flutterby™! : Government overreach outrage of the moment

Government overreach outrage of the moment

2013-06-10 14:59:58.699733+02 by Dan Lyke 5 comments

Your government overreach outrage for the morning:

Jim Sensenbrenner: This abuse of the Patriot Act must end. In which one of the authors of the "PATRIOT" act is shocked, shocked, to discover that there is gambling at this establishment.
Politico's Philip Ewing: NSA memo pushed to 'rethink' 4th Amendment
John Gilmore on the liberationtech mailing list: Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?. Discusses Qwest's CEO saying "no", now serving a six year prison sentence.
Washington Post: Has the US become the kind of nation from which you have to seek asylum? Great look at, among other things, how our misapplication of plea bargaining has gone awry.

(Taken from here)

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-06-10 15:33:53.924954+02 by: hananc

PRISM? Come to Israel to study our surveillance state. http://2jk.org/english/?p=350

#Comment Re: made: 2013-06-10 15:47:03.316888+02 by: Dan Lyke

And I believe that you have there what happens when the police get too powerful: http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...i-and-martin-luther-king/302537/

#Comment Re: made: 2013-06-10 21:57:05.430565+02 by: spc476

Looks like we've reached peak government (I can only hope).

#Comment Re: made: 2013-06-10 22:22:12.574166+02 by: Dan Lyke

In the vein of that John Gilmore "what happens when you say no to the NSA" email up there, Jason Kottke looks at Three Felonies A Day: How The Feds Target The Innocent by Harvey A. Silverglate.

#Comment Re: made: 2013-06-11 03:56:49.822654+02 by: Jack William Bell

spc476 - Peak government?

Oh, far from it! Peak government would be a Nazi welfare state with Big Brother technology. We are only in the tool-building phase for that.

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