Archives
- 2010.04.25: Filming a protest outside a Federal courthouse illegal
- 2010.03.31: ICE: Pumping Up Detention Quotas
- 2010.03.31: Targeting Muckrakers: Reviving an Unfortunate Legacy
- 2010.03.30: Couple have child taken away due to misdemeanor pot charge
- 2010.03.28: Does the First Amendment imply the right to hear any speech thaat might offend you?
- 2010.03.28: How do you tell when a terror watch list is bloated beyond all meaningfulness?
- 2010.03.27: Nine year old twins suspended from school for having "Gangster" style haircuts
- 2010.03.27: Circuit Court: Fine for Cops toTaser Pregnant Woman Three Times over Speeding Ticket
- 2010.03.13: Suspended: For Touching a Pill
- 2010.03.13: 8 Years in Jail for Stealing Shredded Cheese
- 2010.03.13: Utah Justice: Have a miscarriage get charged for murder
- 2010.02.27: Tampa teen jailed for wearing a clown mask
- 2010.02.27: 12 Year old Girl Cuffed by Police for Doodling at her Desk
- 2010.02.26: Planned Parenthood Target of Military Intelligence "Anti-Terror" Spy Operation
- 2010.02.26: "Public intoxication" law= police can arrest anyone anytime on suspicion of consuming any amount of alcohol
- 2010.02.25: Administration Record on Torture: Equivocation Meets Obfuscation
- 2010.02.25: Teacher calls cops on student for refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance
- 2010.02.21: Temper tantrum gets six year old handcuffed and "committed" to mental facility
- 2010.02.21: Wargaming "Counterinsurgency" Scenarios Against US Citizens
- 2010.02.21: Exposing the Costs of "Material Support" Laws
- 2010.02.14: Sting Operation: Target Jaywalkers
- 2010.02.13: Obama DOJ: No Expectation of Privacy for Cell Phone Users
- 2010.02.13: College Student Detained by TSA for Studying Arabic
- 2010.02.11: Criminalizing Undocumented Immigrants: When in Doubt Make Up a Law
- 2010.02.11: Terror Inc.: Business is Booming
- 2010.01.31: A "Driver's License" for Using the Internet?
- 2010.01.29: 4 Years in Jail for "Driving Under the Influence", while in a parked car, with keys out of the ignition
- 2010.01.29: Exigent Letters in need of Congressional oversight
- 2010.01.29: America: Constitution Optional?
- 2010.01.25: Pittsburg Undercover Cops Beat and Shoot Stun gun at student for having Mountain Dew soda
- 2010.01.25: 5 Days in Jail for Coconut Candy
- 2010.01.23: District Court: Government May Surveil as it Wishes Without Review
- 2010.01.20: Suicide: The Euphemism for Tortured to Death
- 2010.01.20: Surprise: FBI Used Patriot Act Loopholes to Invoke Nonexistent Emergencies to Conduct Surveillance
- 2010.01.18: Soldier in Afghanistan Facing 10 Yrs. in Prison for Receiving Picture of his 4 year old niece
- 2010.01.16: Do Presidents Have a Constitutional Right to Launch Drone Attacks on Civilians
- 2010.01.15: Soldier, and Iraq vet, a month away from discharge, being held indefintely without bail, for a "protest" rap song
- 2010.01.15: Unsigned Signing Statements and Self-Serve Law (or How Barack Obama is Like Dean Wormer)
- 2010.01.10: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses
- 2010.01.10: SC Congressman Introduces Law to Deport All Iranians Within 60 days Without a Hearing
- 2010.01.07: New airport security question: How much money do you make?
- 2010.01.07: Parents arrested for home schooling without state approval
- 2010.01.05: Spare the taser spoil the toddler
- 2009.12.31: School suspends 10 Year old for possession of, Peppermint oil
- 2009.12.31: Feb 23: Big Test Ahead for Bill of Rights
- 2009.12.26: Consititutionally "Spineless"
- 2009.12.26: $250 fine for waving one's hands
- 2009.12.22: 90 Years after the Palmer Raids: The War on "Evil Thinking" Rolls on
- 2009.12.22: Prisons increasingly adopting no letter, postcard-only, policy
- 2009.12.22: 79 year old arrested for selling political buttons in Washington, DC
- 2009.12.21: The Press Corps supine
- 2009.12.20: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, and We'll "Disappear" Them
- 2009.12.19: Colorado Supreme court rules that plays can no longer contain actors smoking
- 2009.12.19: 4 year-old boy suspended from Nursery school for long-hair
- 2009.12.16: Cruel (and not unusual) punishment
- 2009.12.16: 25 Days in Jail for giving water to illegal immigrants
- 2009.12.15: Drone War
- 2009.12.09: Woman hounded (and fined a year's salary) by the IRS for trying to live in Seattle on $10 an Hour
- 2009.12.08: NC State law invoked to bar city councilman from office
- 2009.12.08: Holding Rogue Governments Accountable
- 2009.11.28: "Disorderly conduct" at Wal-Mart= 15 Years in jail?
- 2009.11.27: 8 years in jail on terror charge; for a wheel lock and a $20 bill
- 2009.11.27: Deaf Man tasered for not hearing police command
- 2009.11.27: Lynne Stewart Talks to Amy Goodman Before Being Imprisoned
- 2009.11.27: More Groups Weigh in on Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
- 2009.11.23: Tiburon, Calif. photographing every car that passes through town
- 2009.11.23: Flying Death Squads
- 2009.11.18: RI Governor: Gay Couples can't be buried together
- 2009.11.18: 10 Year old tasered by Arkansas police
- 2009.11.14: Cruel (and all too usual) punishment
- 2009.11.14: Blaming the messenger
- 2009.11.14: Military Commissions Act by another name
- 2009.11.07: ICE: Not enough criminal fugitives. Let's Round us up some "incidentals"
- 2009.11.05: Second Circuit Court: Everything is legal in the name of the national security (and national security is anything the government says it is)
- 2009.11.05: America:Tased and Abused
- 2009.11.01: Rack and Screw
- 2009.10.30: Watford, UK Sets a new benchmark for absurdity
- 2009.10.30: Lemonade with trace alcohol banned to Maine minors
- 2009.10.29: American Stasi?
- 2009.10.23: Jail time for shouting Fuck in an argument
- 2009.10.23: Arrested for driving La-Z-Boy while intoxicated
- 2009.10.21: Judge: FBI need not lift 5 year old gag order
- 2009.10.21: Our Cartoon Debate on PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
- 2009.10.21: Dragnet against Domestic Terror Targets "Food Not Bombs" Group
- 2009.10.18: 14 and 15 year olds now most frequently arrested sex offenders
- 2009.10.18: 17 year old Minnesota high School streaker arrested as 'Sex Criminal'
- 2009.10.16: Obama, congress looking to pass law against release of torture photos
- 2009.10.16: Louisiana Justice of the peace refuses to marry interracial couple
- 2009.10.15: Attorney General's New Rules say the FBI can investigate any American for any reason (or no reason)
- 2009.10.14: Surveillance on Steroids: NSA bulking up to mine Yottabytes of Data
- 2009.10.12: 6 year old faces 45 day suspension, "reform school" for bringing Cub Scout utensil to school
- 2009.10.12: Supreme Court punts on reviewing Fla. student's challenge of state's mandatory pledge of allegiance law
- 2009.10.11: Illegal for third parties to send books and magazine subscriptions to prisoners?
- 2009.10.11: Calif. town launches undercover sting to arrest day laborers
- 2009.10.05: Arrested for Tweeting about Police Activities During Protest
- 2009.09.29: Free Speech Means the right to have a powerful megaphone the size of a satellite dish that can emit sound "50 times greater than the human threshold for pain" shot at you
- 2009.09.29: Buying Cold Medicine for her husband lands Indiana grandmother in jail
- 2009.09.27: Michigan Dept. of Human Services fines and threatens woman with jail for babysitting without state "child care service" approval
- 2009.09.26: Photographer sues DOJ claiming FBI raided her home to find protest pictures
- 2009.09.26: Is Camo the new Blue?
- 2009.09.22: Armless (and unarmed), double-leg amputeed man in wheelchair apparently tasered for "resisting arrest'
- 2009.09.19: $15 million fine for selling "recalled" beanbags at a garage sale?
- 2009.09.19: Arizona takes couple's children away for for developing pictures of them in a bathtub
- 2009.09.18: The Iceman Runneth
- 2009.09.17: Outlawing Birth control pills?
- 2009.09.17: Professor Fired: Escorted from campus in police custody (No charge, nopublic accuser
- 2009.09.15: Torture, "Extra-Judicial Killings": A Grand American Tradition
- 2009.09.15: In the time it takes to read this blog post one more American will be arrested for breaking drug laws
- 2009.09.14: Court rules FBI agents can't be held responsible for pepper-spraying and beating journalists
- 2009.09.08: Texas mandates high schools incorporate Christian Bible into curriculum
- 2009.09.04: Indy cops try to squeeze the piss (and blood) out of DUI suspect
- 2009.09.03: Justice Dept. waging war on pain relief
- 2009.09.02: City gov mandates sex re-education classes to men caught soliciting prostitutes
- 2009.09.02: For Indiana Police"investigating" panel 3 cops pounding the crap out of a DUI suspect in custody= No excessive force
- 2009.08.31: No "evolution" T-shirts for HS band
- 2009.08.30: No charges, no problem
- 2009.08.29: School: Plaid is Bad
- 2009.08.27: One way to keep schools safe
- 2009.08.25: Cincinnati cop tasers driver on her knees with hands in the air.
- 2009.08.21: Another lawsuit challenging warrantless wiretaps gets bounced
- 2009.08.20: Cities prosecuting people for being publically poor
- 2009.08.19: Three months in jail for possession of ...Breath Mints
- 2009.08.19: Riots are good business
- 2009.08.15: Clermont, Fla. cops in mad pursuit of anti-Obama Joker poster pasters
- 2009.08.14: Is Bagram Gitmo 2?
- 2009.08.14: Woman tasered repeatedly during routine traffic stop infront of two children
- 2009.08.11: Professor fired for "non-collegiality" (aka researching medical impact of nuclear waste at lab heavily funding her university)
- 2009.08.10: No Freedom of the Press (When it comes to getting access to wiretap Records)
- 2009.08.06: 76 year old driving antique tractor tasered for bumping into police car at a parade
- 2009.08.05: Years in jail without a hearing
- 2009.08.04: National Archives proposes regulation to prohibit photographing US constitution and Bill of rights
- 2009.08.04: Banned in Bama
- 2009.08.03: Two years in jail for singing an anti-police rap song
- 2009.08.03: Idaho police ponder whether tasering a handcuffed suspect up the ass is a reasonable and necessary use of force
- 2009.07.31: Illiterate Bounty-hunters, aided by befuddled cops, try to invade wrong household in the middle of the night
- 2009.07.30: Grandfather and Pregnant woman tasered at virginia baptism party
- 2009.07.28: Deaf Man pepper sprayed for not obeying verbal police command to leave Men's room
- 2009.07.28: Military spy infiltrates student activist group in Wash. state.
- 2009.07.28: Talking, or making out, in parked car a suspicious activity
- 2009.07.22: Judges can shield Federal officials from civil accountability
- 2009.07.22: Wisconsin teen ordered to drive drunk
- 2009.07.21: Scholar Henry Louis Gates arrested by Boston police for trying to enter his own apartment
- 2009.07.20: Fender bender gets Phila. woman beaten at gunpoint by cop
- 2009.07.17: Write children's books? You sound like a likely pedophile.
- 2009.07.17: If you're a hiker you have no constitutional rights
- 2009.07.17: Get in the way of the profits of any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products (and you might just be a terrorist)
- 2009.07.13: Iraq war vet has protest flag confiscated by police at Independence Day ceremony
- 2009.07.12: Miami Shooting Spree. Two Apparently Unarmed Men Shot in 4 Days, by Same Cop
- 2009.07.10: Va. prison censors biblical passages from prisoner's letters
- 2009.07.10: Colorado judge: University has "quasi-judicial authority" to fire tenured professor for political reasons
- 2009.07.09: NJ Court: Bloggers not protected by shield law
- 2009.07.07: Shield Law: to protect super-size investment banks from transparency
- 2009.07.06: HS censors student mag for having Goth-looking font
- 2009.07.03: Shreveport, La. Mayor: Police have power to suspend rights when they stop a vehicle
- 2009.07.03: Court: Novel based on old JD Salinger character banned in US
- 2009.07.02: Maryland cop beats shit out of driver for taking too long to leave car during routine traffic stop
- 2009.06.30: Police raid gay bar, beating and arresting patrons
- 2009.06.29: Comic script about future police state gets author detained, interrogated at airport
- 2009.06.26: Judge:Pistol-whipping innocent bystanders while drunk within police "discretion"
- 2009.06.26: Police raid house of couple flying flag upside down
- 2009.06.25: In for a small pot misdemeanor, out dead
- 2009.06.24: Undercover students
- 2009.06.23: DC Public Schools remove all LGBT titles from summer reading list
- 2009.06.22: Spytown, USA
- 2009.06.21: Detroit Police: Stop and Cop a Feel
- 2009.06.20: 80 thousand bucks a song
- 2009.06.19: Circuit court: Emailing sexual fantasies to consenting adults a crime
- 2009.06.19: Bozeman, Montana: All city workers must provide Facebook passwords
- 2009.06.17: Teen denied diploma for throwing kiss to mother during graduation cermemony
- 2009.06.17: Congressional bill: 25 year federal sentence for 1st time pot offense
- 2009.06.17: Rogue Phila. Narc squad using bogus drug raids to fondle and finger rape female "suspects"
- 2009.06.16: Fla. man registered as sex offender for life, for sleeping with his future wife while a teenager
- 2009.06.14: Connecticut Attorney General: First Amendment protections for online speech weaker than for print
- 2009.06.14: Pennsylvania man arrested, and convicted, for complaining too much about local government
- 2009.06.12: Medical marijuana's legal in his state, but feds sentence medical pot dispenser to jail
- 2009.06.11: In "War" on the Scourge of Online Poker DOJ Freezes Assets of Poker Sites
- 2009.06.10: Civil Liberties=Right to Burn Books?
- 2009.06.09: Fla. HS Orders Valedictory Speech cut
- 2009.06.07: Unarmed, non-violent mentally-ill man beaten for taking a walk
- 2009.06.07: Tasered and put on Psychiatric detention for 72 hours for trying to warm-up car in freezing cold parking lot?
- 2009.06.05: When Jogging=Probable Cause for getting cuffed and thrown to the ground at gunpoint.
- 2009.06.05: Tasering citizens to forcibly obtain DNA sample fine, so long as it's not malicious
- 2009.06.04: Federal Judge Upholds law barring lawsuits against telcos for warrantless spying
- 2009.05.30: Cops pull over ambulance with emergency patient in back, rough up EMT for getting in their way on the road
- 2009.05.29: High School Girl running underground lending library for contraband books out of her locker
- 2009.05.27: No Lawyer Present. Interrogate Anyway, says Supreme court
- 2009.05.27: No Charges, No Evidence, No Problem
- 2009.05.24: Motion Picture Association says Movie fans have no fair use rights
- 2009.05.22: Fast Times at Paranoia Jr. High
- 2009.05.21: Surge in Do-It Yourself FBI Warrants
- 2009.05.21: Tennessee High School web filter flags all LGBT sites as inappropriate
- 2009.05.18: Congressmen push bill to make satellite TV providers criminally liable for "pro-terrorist" programming
- 2009.05.18: Chi police paint over mural on private property
- 2009.05.18: Texas Prisoner gets 60 years added to sentence for being caught with a cell phone
- 2009.05.17: Thirty-five months in federal detention, after being acquitted
- 2009.05.17: Blind Belgian Interpreter spends a year one night in Philadelpha
- 2009.05.13: Whoops! Maryland Police on "No-Knock" Dope Raid Bust Down Door at Wrong House
- 2009.05.13: Taking pictures with your Iphone of Rent-A-Cops Changing an ATM Machine is not against the law (but it's enough to get you cuffed, roughed up and arrestes)
- 2009.05.09: You have the right to an attorney (but not if you can't afford one, or the judge is too busy)
- 2009.05.09: Why Bill ostensibly about stopping "cyberbullying" could chill free speech on the web
- 2009.05.05: Fresno cop accused of stealing drug suspect's SUV to pay off informant who fingered said drug suspect
- 2009.05.05: The Law of Unintended Consequences
- 2009.05.02: You have the right to remain silent (but not talking will get you locked up indefinitely without a trial)
- 2009.04.29: Supreme Court: OK for FCC to punish broadcasters for allowing "fleeting expletives" to be aired
- 2009.04.28: U-California at Santa Barbara Professor charged with anti-semitism for condemning Israeli attacks in Gaza
- 2009.04.25: Immigrant detainees declared to be unfit parents because they're detained
- 2009.04.25: Cyclist Tasered 5 times for not pulling bike off the road for Ohio cop to enforce non-existant law
- 2009.04.25: Providing Satellite Link to Hezbollah TV channel Gets NY Man 6 Year Jail sentence
- 2009.04.19: CCSC Does it Again
- 2009.04.19: "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear,"
- 2009.04.18: Song of the Open road
- 2009.04.16: Don't Mention Cat Shit in Texas City
- 2009.04.10: NYPD Locks 19 College Protestors Inside Building to Pepperspray Them
- 2009.04.10: Veteran's Administration Confiscates Radio Reporter's microphone, headphones and digital recorder
- 2009.04.09: North Carolina to Enforce Nude Beach Ban
- 2009.04.07: DOJ: Bush Wiretaps were more than OK. Let's do more. (and declare it legal for the government to intentionally do the illegal)
- 2009.04.07: High Schooler suspended, threatened with expulsion for taking prescription birth control pill at school
- 2009.04.07: Carrying Too Much Cash on Board Threatens Safety of Airplane
- 2009.04.05: Washington State Court rules Littering Violation (by Car Passenger) is Justifiable Grounds for conducting Warrantless Search on Driver's Car
- 2009.04.04: "A History of Our Sewage Disposal system"
- 2009.04.03: How to try to shut down a troublemaking blogger
- 2009.03.31: Ayers Speech Cancelled: School Superintendent Says No Time for Lightning rods
- 2009.03.31: Middle School Institutes Strict "No touching" policy
- 2009.03.29: Police Invade High School in Mass Drug Raid- Find One piece of "Paraphernalia"
- 2009.03.28: County DA Pushing Sexual Abuse of Minor Charges on HS Girls for Exhcanging Slumber Party Pictures with Each Other on Cell Phones
- 2009.03.26: Highway Robbery, Police Style
- 2009.03.26: Cities, Towns Imposing Daytime Curfews for all Minors
- 2009.03.23: Police Break Up Fight Between Two Teens by Tasering One of Them to Death
- 2009.03.23: Please Don't Feed the People (or You'll be Arrested)
- 2009.03.21: Bowling Green College Dean Removes "Offensive" Sculture from Art Show
- 2009.03.20: DOJ: Unlimited Detention Without Charges OK, Just Stop using the Phrase Enemy Combatant
- 2009.03.20: Free Speech: If You Can Afford It
- 2009.03.18: Just Another Sunday Night in America
- 2009.03.18: Let Them Eat Drug Tests
- 2009.03.17: Unarmed, Non-Confrontational Pot Legalization Activist Shot in Chest during Raid for a "Few Tablespoons Worth of Marijuana"
- 2009.03.17: You Might Be a Terrorist If....
- 2009.03.16: Fire in a Crowded Theatre? Nope. Fuck in a Crowded Restaurant
- 2009.03.16: Homeschool Kids above Grade level, But Judge Decides to Force Mother to Send them to State school
- 2009.03.14: Trying to document Police Intiimidation of Parishioners Gets Priest Arrested
- 2009.03.14: Freedom of Information (except when we lose it)
- 2009.03.13: What do you do if You're a "Patriot", Pro- Entrepreneurial Mayor
- 2009.03.12: McCarthyism 2.0: What do you do if you're a Political Smear Machine-Without Constructive Ideas on a Deepening Recession, How to Catch Bin Laden, Health Care or Anything Else?
- 2009.03.10: Drug Warriors Will Never Willingly Put Themselves Out of Business
- 2009.03.09: Obama Administration Comes Out Unequivocally to Stop Fed Medical Marijuana Raids: Maybe. Kinda. Sorta.
- 2009.03.07: Oklahoma Lawmaker Seeks State Ban on Atheist-Evolutionist Richard Dawkins Speech at University
- 2009.03.07: Law and Order, Hayward Style
- 2009.03.06: Fla. City: OK for Store to Hang up American Flag but Not to Post First Amendment
- 2009.03.05: West Virginia to Mull Barbie Ban
- 2009.02.28: How to Lose Your First Amendment Rights on Campus: Try to Discuss the Second Amendment
- 2009.02.27: Bus Driver Gets Jaywalking Ticket for Saving Three People from Being Killed by Oncoming Truck
- 2009.02.27: Protecting America from Terrorist Mule-Drivers
- 2009.02.25: Tearful Atlanta Cops Express Remorse for Shooting 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston, Leaving Her To Bleed to Death in Her Own Home While They Planted Drugs in Her Basement, Then Threatening an Informant So He Would Lie To Cover It All Up
- 2009.02.25: Dirty Dancing Crackdown
- 2009.02.22: Proposed Tennessee State Law: Mandatory Drug and Alcohol Testing for Pregnant Women
- 2009.02.22: Obama Administration: No Legal rights for Suspect Detainees
- 2009.02.22: Oklahoma Driver Pulled Over for Political Sticker
- 2009.02.22: School Placing Children in Tiny Cells for "Time-Outs"
- 2009.02.20: Photographer Arrested for Breaking Nonexistent Law
- 2009.02.18: Under Arrest: For Texting in Class
- 2009.02.18: Book Dumping
- 2009.02.18: Teenage Son Arrested on Pot Misdemeanor Charge=Free Range Warrant for SWAT Teams to Raid Your House, Whenever
- 2009.02.17: Punk band's bicycle sticker closes down airport
- 2009.02.14: 11 States Push for Forced Ultrasounds on Woman Considering Abortions
- 2009.02.13: Pa. Judges: Kids (and the Constitution) for Sale
- 2009.02.11: Suit Claims: Nevada city School Pulls 12 year old girl out of class for forced pregnancy test
- 2009.02.11: Michigan Court Backs Law Forbidding Property Owner from Letting Weeds Grow on Lawn
- 2009.02.08: Party Patrol
- 2009.02.08: Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Angola Prison, Louisiana
- 2009.02.07: Detain First Ask Questions Later
- 2009.02.07: DEA Goes on Post-Inaugural Pot Raid Rampage
- 2009.02.06: Circuit Court: Library Book Ban OK if Book in Question Isn't Critical Enough of Communism
- 2009.02.06: Military Takeover of Federal Weapons Research Labs
- 2009.02.05: Police Arrest Father at Gunpoint, Seperate Him from His Kids for Going 1 MPH Over Speed Limit
- 2009.01.31: No Random Drug Tests, No Foodstamps
- 2009.01.28: Georgia County Ordinance: Six Months in Jail, $1000 Fine for Devices "Stimulating Human Genitals"
- 2009.01.26: From Fuel Cell to Jail Cell
- 2009.01.22: Spilled Bloody Mary + Spanking a Screaming Baby on Plane= terrorism
- 2009.01.20: Zero Tolerance for any Passionate, Partisan, or Provocative Opinions or Comments
- 2009.01.18: Obama Attorney General Choice OK with FBI Searches of Bookstore, Library Records
- 2009.01.17: Court Says: Bad Warrant Not a Problem for Police Collecting Evidence
- 2009.01.15: FISA Court: Federal Warrantless Wiretapping Legal
- 2009.01.14: Federal Government Bogarting Marijuana Research
- 2009.01.14: 14 Years in Prison without Being Charged for a Crime?
- 2009.01.14: Clearwater, Fla. Forces Bait and Tackle Shop to Tear Down Fish Mural in Front of Store
- 2009.01.11: Anti-Lead Toy Law May Also Bar Children from Entering Libraries
- 2009.01.09: Deported in Error? Tough Shit, Says Government
- 2009.01.09: Shot by Police for Stealing His Own Car in His Own Driveway and Trespassing on His Own Property
- 2009.01.08: Baltimore:Names of Police Who Kill or Wound Citizens to be Withheld from Public
- 2009.01.07: Jail Em (in Solitary confinement) if we can't take a joke
- 2009.01.06: Unarmed Man Shot in Back by BART Police while Detained Face Down
- 2009.01.05: Photographer arrested by Amtrak Police for Participating in Amtrak Sponsored Photo Contest
- 2009.01.05: LA Councilman Threatens Criminal Charges Against Statue of Liberty Mural
- 2009.01.02: Banning Novelty Lighters
- 2008.12.31: HS Paper Banned for Editorial supporting Gay Marriage
- 2008.12.30: 17 Years (and still imprisoned) for first-time non-violent drug possession offense
- 2008.12.30: Vigilante Voyeurism
- 2008.12.28: Jr. Scientist with Home Chemistry Lab Marked (Erroneously) by Police as Meth Mfgr. and/or Terrorist
- 2008.12.27: Diagnosis: Police State?
- 2008.12.27: TN. Court Forbids Mother from Having Lesbian Partner Stay Overnight When Kids are Home
- 2008.12.24: Expectation of Privacy for Cell Phone Info?
- 2008.12.24: Undercover Narcs Case Wrong House, Shoot Family Dog for Barking, and Arrest Owner for Assault with Deadly Weapon (The Dog)
- 2008.12.24: Illegal to be "Annoying"
- 2008.12.20: Three Men in Unmarked Blue Van Beat and Abduct 12 Year Old Galveston
- 2008.12.18: San Jose Acknowledges: "Heart Failure" Death of Suspect Helped Along by Pepper Spray, Taser, Repeated Beating
- 2008.12.18: Solitary Confinement for Children
- 2008.12.17: Marines to Participate in DUI Roadblock Checks on Southern Calif. Highway
- 2008.12.17: CBC Reports Over 400 Deaths from Tasers Since 2001
- 2008.12.16: Just Because It's in the Public Interest Doesn't Mean the Public Has Aright to Know About It
- 2008.12.15: One Industry That Won't Need a Bail-Out
- 2008.12.15: Wash. School District Bans Bawdy Bumper-Stickers on Student Cars
- 2008.12.10: Okla. Police Find Man in Diabetic Shock, Then Taser and Handcuff him
- 2008.12.09: Wisconsin Bars 8 Year Old Blues Guitar Prodigy from Public Performances
- 2008.12.09: Ripped Off: NY School District Authorizes HS English Dept. to"Tear Out" Inappropriate Pages from Class Assigned Reading
- 2008.12.08: 10 Year Old Branded Sex Criminal for Life for Rubbing Against 8 year Old
- 2008.12.06: Michigan State: No Political E-Mails Allowed
- 2008.12.06: Son Tries to Go into Ocean to Save Drowning Father; Gets Tasered by Police
- 2008.12.04: Judge: Government Doesn't Need a Reason to Interrogate Travellers on Politics, Religion
- 2008.12.02: Man Claims Police Entered His Home Without a Warrant, Pulled him Outside and Arrested Him for Public Intoxication
- 2008.12.02: US Military Build-Up Continues as Mission Expands
- 2008.12.02: Tasers: Defining the "Dangerous Suspect" Down
- 2008.12.01: Soap is Dope
- 2008.11.30: Washington, DC Park Police Harrass Disabled Vietnam Vet for Handing Out Flowers
- 2008.11.30: Kentucky State Law Mandates Mission of Dept. of Homeland Security is to promote Religion
- 2008.11.27: Thanksgiving Costumes Banned at Calif. Kindergarden
- 2008.11.26: Connecticut Teacher Loses Career Due to computer Malware Infection
- 2008.11.24: Alburquerque Police: Snitches Wanted
- 2008.11.24: Georgia Woman Loses Home for Having Had Consensual Oral Sex as a Teenager
- 2008.11.21: Sheriff's Deputy Rips Off Motorist's Xbox Player During a Traffic Stop
- 2008.11.20: A Freedom of Choice Hero
- 2008.11.20: Hispanic Scholarship Fund Refuses to Help Children of Undocumented Immigrants
- 2008.11.19: FBI's Warrantless Do it Yourself Mobile Surveillance
- 2008.11.15: 93 Days in Jail for Having a Couch in his yard
- 2008.11.15: Under Arrest for Being Too Happy
- 2008.11.12: President Obama, Tear Down This Cage!
- 2008.11.12: 15 Year old boy under arrest for carrying around bag of parsley
- 2008.11.11: Hawaiian Police, DEA Intend to Ignore County Pot Referendum
- 2008.11.09: Colorado Streakers Arrested for Annual "Pumpkin Day" Party Run Face Could be Registered as "Sex Offenders"
- 2008.11.08: Man in Supermax Detention Because Roomate Stored Socks that May Have Been Donated to Alleged Terror Groups
- 2008.11.08: Colorado District Court Judge: OK to Bar People from Attending Bush Speech Because of Anti-War Bumpersticker
- 2008.11.06: Professor Threatened With Firing for Not Attending Mandatory Sexual Harassment class
- 2008.11.04: Obama (and Biden) on Civil Liberties
- 2008.11.04: Aberdeen, Scotland: Mandatory Drug Test Before You Can Walk into a Pub
- 2008.11.04: 5th Grader Suspended for Drawing (at the instruction of his art teacher) a Scary Halloween Picture
- 2008.11.03: Pushing Toward the Panopticon
- 2008.10.31: No on Proposition 8 Pro-Gay Marriage Web site knocked out by cyber-attack
- 2008.10.31: Man Spends Two Days in Jail for Letting Girlfriend Have Some Food from His plate
- 2008.10.31: BMI Busts Small Cafe for Playing CDs to Clientele
- 2008.10.30: Court Says Documents about Illegal Torture by US Government None of Public's Business
- 2008.10.29: McCain Campaign Pre-Emptively Ejecting Potential Non-Supporters from Audience
- 2008.10.29: Random Bag Checks for DC Metro Riders
- 2008.10.27: Multiple Felony Charges for 15 Year Old Who Hacked School Database and Alerted Principal About Security Gaps
- 2008.10.27: New Frontiers in Voter Supression
- 2008.10.26: Missouri Town Outlaws Teenage Trick or Treaters, Forbids Adults from Wearing Masks or costumes
- 2008.10.26: Pot Smoker Allegedly Gangraped by Cops at NYC Subway Station
- 2008.10.24: A "Public" Report the Public Can't See
- 2008.10.23: ACLU: 197 Million American Citizens Living in "Constitution Free Zone"
- 2008.10.22: A Couple of Interesting Electoral Season links of interest to civil libertarians
- 2008.10.22: Green Party Candidate in Arkansas Arrested for "Profanity" on Protest Sign
- 2008.10.20: Ilegal Cha-cha Lessons Land Texas Man in Jail
- 2008.10.20: Jail Time for Using Converted Garage as a bedroom
- 2008.10.17: Criminal Prosecution for Having the Wrong View of History?
- 2008.10.14: Florida Man Jailed "Indefinitely" for Not Properly Sodding His Lawn
- 2008.10.10: Maryland State police acknowledge nonviolent protester's names were fed widely onto "Terror" lists
- 2008.10.10: 15 Year old Girl Jailed on Child Pornography Charges (for Sending Naked pics of herself on her cell phone)
- 2008.10.08: Don't Doodle in your Notebook (You May Get Detained by US Customs as an Intellectual Property Thief)
- 2008.10.07: Minnesota Man spends Two Months in Jail for Possession of Deodorant
- 2008.10.06: 30 Ohio High Schoolers Suspended for Wearing Hooded Sweatshirts
- 2008.10.04: The Arkansas Wicca Trial?
- 2008.10.02: College Says No Free Speech Without a Permit
- 2008.10.01: Domestic Satellite Surveillance Program Moves Ahead Despite Lack of privacy Safeguards
- 2008.09.30: What Financial Crisis?
- 2008.09.28: New Mexico School District to Institute "Publications Code"
- 2008.09.24: Your Thought-Dreams Can Be Seen (if DHS has its way)
- 2008.09.24: Posse Comitatus Anyone?
- 2008.09.23: Southern Baptist Bookstore Chain Pulls Magazine Cover for Having Cover Featuring Women Pastors
- 2008.09.23: Judge: Nebraska Shopkeeper to Face Jail time for Selling Salvia Divinorum Even Though Plant is Not Illegal in State
- 2008.09.19: Woman Facing up to 6 Months in Jail for Spilling Soda at VA Hospital
- 2008.09.19: Conn. High Schools to Require Mandatory Breathalyzer Tests for all Students Attending Sporting Events, Dances
- 2008.09.17: On Secret Service Orders Youngstown, Ohio Police Set-Up Roadblock To Prevent Anti-McCain Protest
- 2008.09.17: Court upholds suspension of 8th grader for Putting up Satirical MySpace Page Attacking School Principal
- 2008.09.16: 872,721 Americans Arrested for Pot in 2007
- 2008.09.12: Broken Pencil Sharpener Gets Fourth Grader Suspended
- 2008.09.11: Dress Codes for Fans at Alabama Sports Events
- 2008.09.09: Texas HS Student Jailed for Wearing Belt Buckle to School
- 2008.09.09: UVA: All Signs and Banners Banned at Sporting Events
- 2008.09.08: Targets of UK Anti-Terror Investigatory Powers: Noisy Kids, Barking Dogs, Smokers and Unauthorized Pizza Selling
- 2008.09.07: Banned in Boston
- 2008.09.06: If Robinson Crusoe Were to Wash Up on the US Shore After A Shipwreck Border Patrol Would Detain Him as an Illegal Alien
- 2008.09.04: RNC Organizers Charged: "Conspiring to Cause a Riot as Part of a Terrorist Act"
- 2008.09.04: Speedy Trial?
- 2008.09.03: Under Arrest for Wearing Baggy Pants
- 2008.09.03: FBI, Police raid cleans out all computers, hard drives from Berkeley Left-Wing Media Info-Shop
- 2008.09.02: Journalist Unlawfully Detained for Covering RNC Protests and Questioning Unlawful Detainment of Two Colleagues
- 2008.08.31: War Powers in Perpetuity
- 2008.08.31: St. Paul Police and County Sheriffs Launch Preemptive Strike on First Amendment
- 2008.08.30: Judge: No Public Right to be Informed on Secret rulings of Secret FISA Court
- 2008.08.29: Flint, Michigan Police Chief "Gags" His Own Officers
- 2008.08.29: College President Resigns Over Photos Showing Him at Keg Party
- 2008.08.28: No Pissing Allowed During Singing of "God Bless America"
- 2008.08.28: Minneapolis Police Seize Journalists' Notebooks, Cameras, Cell Phones, Money Without Warrant
- 2008.08.27: It's Now Ilegal for Journalists To Photograph Politicians and Lobbyists on a Public Street
- 2008.08.26: Denver Protesters Ordered to Disperse, Then Trapped and Prevented from Dispersing, Then Pepper Sprayed
- 2008.08.26: Denver Streets Blockaded (By Police)
- 2008.08.26: Woman Removed from Federal Building (And Threatened With Arrest) For Wearing Lesbian.com T-shirt
- 2008.08.26: State Department Plan to Smear First Amendment Protected Protest as "Eco-Terrorism"
- 2008.08.25: Denver: Protesters Arrested for Refusing to Give Their Names to Police
- 2008.08.25: Joe Biden -- Drug War Extremist
- 2008.08.23: NY State Police Riding the Drug War Gravy Train
- 2008.08.23: School Refuses to Let Student Back for Fall Semester After She Dyes Her Hair Pink
- 2008.08.22: California Town Busts Vegetable Stand Run by 11 Year Girl and Her 3 Year Old Sister
- 2008.08.22: Denver Police Bulletin: Protest Sign Handles, Bicycles, Hand-Held Radios and Maps Mark Protestors as "Potentially Violent"
- 2008.08.21: No Evidence or Even Suspicion of Criminal Activity? Let the FBI Investigate Anyway
- 2008.08.21: Family of 8 Year Old Boy on Terror Watch list since Age 5 Still Can't His Name Off
- 2008.08.20: Metal Cages Await Convention Protestors
- 2008.08.18: Two Teens Charged with Terrorist Conspiracy Over Batman Inspired Pranks
- 2008.08.18: Iowa Town Becomes "Open Air" Prison for Wives and Children of Detained Undocumented Workers
- 2008.08.16: Capital Punishment Texas Style (You don't Even Need to be Accused or Found Guilty of Murder to Get Fried)
- 2008.08.15: Handcuffed and ticketed for saying fuck in a private conversation
- 2008.08.15: Banning Clotheslines and Window Fans
- 2008.08.14: Give Us Your Poor Your Tired Your Huddled Masses (and We'll Kill them slowly in detention)
- 2008.08.11: Registering Injured and Homeless Vets to Vote is a "Partisan Activity"
- 2008.08.11: Federal Judge Gag Order on MIT Student Presentation at DefCon
- 2008.08.11: No Smoking Outdoors, anywhere in LA
- 2008.08.09: US Military Thinking Inside the Box
- 2008.08.09: Taser Patrols in High Schools
- 2008.08.08: City Govt. to Foreclose on Mortgage of Disabled Milwaukee Man Over Failure to Pay $50 Parking
- 2008.08.02: Govt: Customs Can not just inspect international travelers' laptops without cause but seize them too
- 2008.07.31: Texas HS to Force Students to Wear Prison Jump-suits
- 2008.07.31: 15 Years in Prison for stealing packages of bacon and sausage
- 2008.07.30: Alabama Law: Barred from voting for life for pot sale conviction
- 2008.07.30: Bicyclist Gratuitously Assaulted and thrown to the Ground by Police officer
- 2008.07.29: 35 Years in Solitary Confinement
- 2008.07.29: Chicago Police Accused of Using Torture to elicit admissions of guilt
- 2008.07.25: Michigan county pols, sheriff set to shut down local muckraking newspaper
- 2008.07.24: US Military Holding Canadian Journalist in Indefinite Detention Without Charges
- 2008.07.24: TSA Strip-Searches 71 Year Old Man in Wheelchair With Metal Knee
- 2008.07.23: New Orleans DA Pushing 5 to 20 Year Felony Sentences for Repeat Pot Possession
- 2008.07.22: Lousiana Police Electrocute Handcuffed Man in Grocery Store with 9 Tasers in 14 minutes (Two After He was Already Unconscious)
- 2008.07.22: Attorney General Seeks to Undermine Courts Jurisdiction on Detainees
- 2008.07.21: Universal Music to Fair Use Doctrine: Drop Dead
- 2008.07.20: 100 Years of Jail Time for Providing Medical Marijuana to a 17 Year old Amputee?
- 2008.07.20: Federal Judge Orders Reporter to Divulge Confidential Sources
- 2008.07.19: Seattle Police Raid Medical Marijuana Co-op, Seizing Over 500 Private Patient Files, Computer Hard Drive
- 2008.07.18: Maryland State Police Accused of Spying Undercover on Anti-War and Anti-Death Penalty Groups
- 2008.07.18: RNC Protesters Have Freedom of Assembly (As Long as They're Down the Block and Rally When Nobody's in the Convention Center)
- 2008.07.18: Blind Woman Tased by Dayton Police
- 2008.07.16: Jail time for having out of date address on driver's license
- 2008.07.10: DHS Mulls Mandatory Stun Gun GPS Bracelets on All Passengers
- 2008.07.10: Justice Dept. Public Oversight and "Watchdog" Organization Decides Public Doesn't Need to Know About Its Findings
- 2008.07.08: UK Bureau on the Lookout for Racist Tendencies in Nursery Schoolers
- 2008.07.08: Jersey Mall Clerk Faces Jail time for Having BB Gun in Car
- 2008.07.08: Philadelphia Outlaws Giving Tours of City Without Fee, License
- 2008.07.03: IRS Set to Use Credit Card Co.'s to Snoop on Small Business Transactions
- 2008.07.03: Woman's Children Seized by County on Basis of Bogus Drug Test
- 2008.07.03: HS Teacher Gets 18 Month "Suspension" for Using Best-Selling "Freedom Writers" Text to Teach Creative Writing
- 2008.07.03: California Institutes Checkpoints to Search for Use of Cellphones in Cars
- 2008.07.02: 8 Boston Cops Accused of Beating 22 Year Old To Death Over Snide comment
- 2008.07.01: Four Years in Jail Without Being Convicted or Even Tried for a Crime
- 2008.07.01: DNC Protests to be Penned in Behind Chicken Wire
- 2008.06.30: "I don't have to slow down, I'm with FEMA!"
- 2008.06.30: In Flint, Mich. Saggy Pants= Probable Cause for Arrest
- 2008.06.28: Police, Social Worker "Snatch" 8 Year Old Outside Playing Without Even Notifying Parents
- 2008.06.27: Man Has Apt. Raided and is Charged for Making Terrorist Threat After Posting Anti-cop you tube video
- 2008.06.27: Drinking Raindrops Against the Law
- 2008.06.26: Journalist's data checked by the government for approval
- 2008.06.25: Indiana Federal Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Random Computer Searches of Sex Offenders
- 2008.06.24: NC Court: Driving on Expired License Grounds for Police Search of Entire Car
- 2008.06.24: Tennessee State law requires universities and colleges to notify parents on any disciplinary action involving drink, drugs
- 2008.06.24: Supreme Court: Dept. of Homeland Security Can Waive Federal Laws at its Discretion
- 2008.06.24: UCAL Administration Intends to Ignore Law Protecting Free Speech Rights for Student Journalists
- 2008.06.22: Transsexual Beaten and Maced by Memphis Cops for Refusing to Respond to Word Faggot
- 2008.06.21: Watts HS Teacher Loses Job for Teaching Too Many Radical "Afrocentric" books
- 2008.06.20: HS Student/Hacker Facing 38 Yrs. in Jail for Trying to Change His Grades on School Database
- 2008.06.20: No Warrant, No Problem
- 2008.06.19: How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it
- 2008.06.19: Conducting Military Heliocopter Manuevers Above Site of Denver Democratic Convention "Routine Preparation for the Global War on Terrorism"
- 2008.06.18: Bogus Child Porn Prosecution Leaves Massachusetts Man a Social and Professional Leper
- 2008.06.17: 4th Graders Suspended for Sharing lip Cream
- 2008.06.17: Solitary confinement, strip searches, beatings, sleeping on metal slabs
- 2008.06.17: Highway Robbery
- 2008.06.17: Wisconsin Town Asserting Power to Seize Bicycles, Scooters and Skateboards from Citizens
- 2008.06.17: US Run Detention Camp in Afghanistan Worse than Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib says New Report
- 2008.06.17: Bloggers in Jail
- 2008.06.16: ICE Agents Hold Woman with legal Temporary Status Card for 24 Hrs. Without Food or Water, Suit Claims
- 2008.06.14: Court Rules Mother Not Spending Enough time with Kid. Solution: Send Her to Jail
- 2008.06.11: Welcome to the Adult World: Shut Up or Get Arrested
- 2008.06.11: High School Closes Down School Newspaper Over Flag Burning Editorial, Cover Photo
- 2008.06.11: Store Refuses to Sell BBQ Sauce to 25 Year Old Woman Without ID
- 2008.06.11: No Hats Allowed Anymore in Yorkshire Pubs
- 2008.06.11: Nebraska Judge Bans Use of the Words Rape and Sexual Assault in Court Cases
- 2008.06.09: Heavily Armed Cops in Commando Uniforms Raid Detroit Art Gallery
- 2008.06.09: Democratic House Moves Bush's Call for Further Restricting Access to Unclassified Info Forward
- 2008.06.08: Tyler student, 17, gets 8 years in prison for phone threat | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- 2008.06.07: US quits Human Rights Council
- 2008.06.07: Fla. HS Refuses to Allow Student to Attend Graduation Due to Rap Lyrics
- 2008.06.06: Main Street USA, Police State
- 2008.06.04:
- 2008.06.04: Jail Time for Sex-Ed teachers?
- 2008.06.03: Child Protection Services Takes Custody of Infant at Hospital Because Mother Took Prescription Drug
- 2008.06.02: An Epidemic Of School Censorship
- 2008.06.01: Photographer Gets Beaten and Has $50 Thousand Worth of Photo Equipment Smashed by Albuquerque Police
- 2008.05.29: Kindergarden Teacher Leads Collective Verbal Abuse and Humiliation of 5 Year Old
- 2008.05.29: 20 Civil Liberties Laws Every American Should Know
- 2008.05.28: Fla. County gives HS Teachers OK to Read Students' Text Messages
- 2008.05.25: NYPD Launches Stealth Surveillance Copter
- 2008.05.24: Why Taser Em (When You Can Just Spray Them with Magic Mist that Makes Them Want to Comply)
- 2008.05.24: City of the Future? (Shop till you drop until the state's hyper-surveillant gaze)
- 2008.05.22: Pittsburg Prosecutor Declares New War on "Masking Products" that Help People Pass Urine Drug Tests
- 2008.05.22: Tall Grass Against the Law in Canton, Ohio
- 2008.05.20: Bush Executive Memo (Yet) Another Blow to Freedom of Information
- 2008.05.20: Sting Operation Busts 78 Year Old Florida Man for Being a Good Samaritan
- 2008.05.18: Report Documents Children and Families of Polygamy Sect Abused (After they Entered State "Protective" Custody)
- 2008.05.18: New Britain, CT. Police Raid Wrong home in Child Porn Investigation, Rip Man's Catheter Out
- 2008.05.15: ICE Forced Drugs on Detainees
- 2008.05.14: Government Razes Man's Home and Possessions While He's in Court Seeking Access to Rescue Belongings
- 2008.05.14: Pomona Police Go On DUI Binge
- 2008.05.13: Man Gets Ticketed on Fla. Beach for Wearing Speedos
- 2008.05.12: Father Gets Six Months in Jail Because 18 year old Daughter Flunked GED Math Test
- 2008.05.10: Georgia Governor Signs Law Outlawing "Marijuana Flavored" Candy
- 2008.05.10: 4 Days in Jail-For Walking a Bicycle Across His Front Lawn "Under the Influence"
- 2008.05.09: Arrested, Strip-Searched, Jailed- For Making a Right Turn without Signal Lights
- 2008.05.08: New Twist in the War on Undocumented Immigrants: When they Try to Leave the Country, Arrest Them and Throw Them in Jail
- 2008.05.07: Post-Modernist Prof Sues School Claiming Students asking too many Subversive Questions
- 2008.05.06: The War on Metal
- 2008.05.05: No Alarming, Annoying or Uncivil Speech Allowed At the University of Louisville
- 2008.05.05: Judge Orders All References to Tasers and "Stun Guns" Removed from Autopsies
- 2008.05.05: High School Teacher Claims She Was Fired for Being Part-Time "Bikini Girl" Waitress on Charter Boat
- 2008.05.04: $32 worth of Salvia Leaves Bought on eBay May Mean Years in Prison
- 2008.05.03: Child Permanently Removed From Parents by Child Protective Services on the Basis of Anonymous and Erroneous Accusation
- 2008.05.02: Who Needs a Declaration of War? The Bush Adminstration Apparently Has Already Written Its Own on Iran
- 2008.05.02: Cal State Bars (Another) Teacher for Refusal to Sign "Loyalty" Oath
- 2008.05.02: U.S. still has Nelson Mandela on terrorist list
- 2008.05.01: Federal Appeals Court Says: OK To Deny College Aid to Students With Drug Conviction Records
- 2008.05.01: No-Fly List Grounds Air Marshals, Too
- 2008.05.01: Afghan Woman, raped, forced to watch her child killed, and then jailed for "escaping her house" by Anti-Taliban Govt.
- 2008.04.30: High School Principal Compiled Secret List of Student "Couples", Gay and Straight
- 2008.04.29: 7 Year Old Boy Removed from Father and Placed in State Custody Over mistaken Order of Hard Lemonade
- 2008.04.28: No "Legal Weed" Even if it's Beer
- 2008.04.27: MSNBC: CIA torture given legal cover
- 2008.04.27: Daley: Chicago police to get assault rifles -- chicagotribune.com
- 2008.04.27: Pa. State Troopers Raid Mennonite Farm for Raw Milk Sales
- 2008.04.27: New Law Bans Playboy or Penthouse for Soldiers
- 2008.04.27: Under Arrest: For the Crime of Complaining to City Government
- 2008.04.26: FBI Lobbying for "Omnibus" Internet Monitor and Surveillance Powers
- 2008.04.26: High School Bans Distribution of Counter- Military Recruitment Leaflet on Campus
- 2008.04.26: Police Kill unarmed man using 50 shots, full Acquittal for the cops
- 2008.04.26: Student gets $628 ticket for sitting on park ledge
- 2008.04.25: Zion, IL: impersonate a gorilla, get suspended
- 2008.04.24: Memphis Cops Get Green Light to Seize Vehicles of Suspected Johns
- 2008.04.24: Publisher to fight Mass. ban on law books for prisoners
- 2008.04.24: Supreme Court: State Law, Even Illegal Arrests Can't Limit Police Prerogative to Search and Seize
- 2008.04.23: 'recklessly creating ... a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by an act which serves no legitimate purpose.'
- 2008.04.23: Six Months in Jail for Parking a Taco Truck for more than an Hour?
- 2008.04.22: Appeals Court Rules Your Laptop is Like Your Luggage
- 2008.04.21: Arizona House Committee Wants to Ban Chicano Studies as Part of "Homeland Security" bill
- 2008.04.21: High School Principal Turns Pot War Vigilante
- 2008.04.21: Wisconsin Town Government Mobilized to Catch Social Critic and anonymous blogger
- 2008.04.20: Federal Genetic Database Set for Radical Expansion
- 2008.04.12: FBI Seizes Family's Entire $400 Thousand Life Savings For Small Stash of Medical Marijuana
- 2008.04.11: Professor Told to Remove "Controversial" Political Cartoons from His Office
- 2008.04.09: Insta-Tap
- 2008.04.07: California Cop Shoots and Kills a DUI Suspect
- 2008.04.05: 8 Year Old Suspended for Sniffing a Magic Marker
- 2008.04.04: Art Student Kicked Out of Class for Challenging Ban on All Religous References in Drawing
- 2008.04.03: Pentagon Using FBI for Domestic Spying
- 2008.04.03: EFF: Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations
- 2008.04.02: Pentagon Leaning on College Adminstrators to Open up Student Data to Recruiters
- 2008.04.01: 80 Year in Wheelchair Arrested at Mall for Wearing Anti-War T-shirt
- 2008.03.31: College Calls Distributing Satire An Act of Violence
- 2008.03.30: Free Speech-Use it or Lose It
- 2008.03.29: Strip Search of 8th Grade Girl Challenged
- 2008.03.28: Million-dollar bond for convenience store fraud
- 2008.03.28: TSA Demands Woman Pull-Off Nipple Rings
- 2008.03.28: Patriot Act scope creep in Wichita
- 2008.03.26: Gulag Illinois (and 43 Other States)
- 2008.03.25: Brother Can You Spare a Job?
- 2008.03.25: Undercover Police Prostitution Sting Nets Two 93 year-olds
- 2008.03.24: China accuses Dalai Lama of being a terrorist - Times Online
- 2008.03.24: Fla. County School District Debates Ban on Energy Drinks
- 2008.03.24: The Penal Colony Revisited
- 2008.03.22: High School District Set to Become a Mini- Surveillance State
- 2008.03.22: Who Needs Tasers? Let's Just Ram Em with Our Patrol Cars
- 2008.03.22: Camera Shy police arrest observer for taking cell phone pictures of attempted drug bust
- 2008.03.21: Kid suspended from school for two years because of ... a list of names
- 2008.03.21: PZ Myers barred from cinema by police
- 2008.03.21: The Drug War Hath No Mercy
- 2008.03.21: Brit Author Declared Contraband by US Customs
- 2008.03.20: FBI's war on WWW linking making progress
- 2008.03.20: New Policy: Public Information Goes Public Only if You Can Afford It
- 2008.03.20: Sprawling, Inaccurate Terrorist Watchlists
- 2008.03.20: To Serve and Inspect
- 2008.03.20: Busted for Pot: It's Jesus or Jail
- 2008.03.18: Voting system manufacturer threatens lawsuit to stop quality analysis
- 2008.03.17: Guardian: Police want children on DNA list
- 2008.03.17: America's war on tourism continues!
- 2008.03.17: S. 1375: MOTHERS Act - caveat legislator
- 2008.03.17: LA Times: why you should care about wiretapping
- 2008.03.15: High School Principal Loses Job for ( Pseudonymously) Writing Erotic Poetry
- 2008.03.15: Surprise, Surprise
- 2008.03.14: Turning Back the Clock
- 2008.03.14: Ex-Student Linked To Music CD Is Found Guilty Of Terrorizing
- 2008.03.14: Opacity in Government
- 2008.03.13: Why Wait for a Law?
- 2008.03.13: Is it Child Abuse? Or an Absurdly Intrusive Abuse of Police Power?
- 2008.03.12: 8th Grade Honor Student Removed from Office as Class Vice-President
- 2008.03.12: Winning the War on Tourists
- 2008.03.12: Stop Making Scents
- 2008.03.11: AP probe finds drugs in drinking water (not news) - officials won't talk about it due to "post-9/11 security concerns"
- 2008.03.10: Back to the Data Mines
- 2008.03.10: High School Bars Student from Wearing Shirt with Gun Image on it
- 2008.03.10: District Judge Takes Dead Aim at Independent Journalism and the First Amendment
- 2008.03.09: The State In Loco Parentis
- 2008.03.08: Feds Opening Up Backdoor to Wireless Data?
- 2008.03.08: High School to Students: No Controversy Allowed in School Paper
- 2008.03.08: No Doubt J. Edgar Hoover Would be Proud
- 2008.03.07: Prison staff denies insulin to diabetic prisoner, then watches him rot to death
- 2008.03.07: University Janitor Brought Up on Charges of Racial Harassment
- 2008.03.07: US government silences European travel agent (NYT)
- 2008.03.07: Warrantless Surveillance Gone Postal
- 2008.03.07: Bush scolds America for forgetting dire terra .. trrerr .. terrorist threat (Reuters)
- 2008.03.06: The War on Baggies
- 2008.03.06: High School Bars Student From Council for Blog Post
- 2008.03.05: Miami Herald: Crimes by Homeland Security agents stir alert
- 2008.03.05: Rolling Stone - Anti-terrorist police creating terrorists to justify their pay
- 2008.03.03: TSA: Missing Luggage Totals $31 Million Over Three Years
- 2008.03.03: Teen-Age Gulags?
- 2008.03.03: The right formerly known as free assembly
- 2008.03.01: Judge Remembers Constitution, Wikileaks Gets Domain Name Back
- 2008.03.01: IRS investigating UCC for allowing Obama to address them
- 2008.02.29: Air Force Says Airmen Can't Read Anything With Blog in Title
- 2008.02.29: Math Teacher Fired For Adding Word Nonviolent to Her "Loyalty Oath"
- 2008.02.29: Iraq war's true costs more like $3,000,000,000,000 (and that's just for America)
- 2008.02.28: The Constitution on ICE
- 2008.02.27: Smoke-In to Protest Smoke-Free State
- 2008.02.27: The War (Against Baggy Pants) Grinds On
- 2008.02.27: The phantom terrorists of the War on Terror - DeepJournal
- 2008.02.26: A Drug War Success Story
- 2008.02.26: If You're 17 and out after 10 You're Under Arrest
- 2008.02.25: Consensual Teenage Sex = Sex Offender Status for Life
- 2008.02.25: Six Years in Jail
- 2008.02.24: New Amtrak "security" measures to restrict travel
- 2008.02.23: Stupid Police Dog Tricks
- 2008.02.23: Complexity is Offensive
- 2008.02.23: TSA steals food from baby
- 2008.02.21: Do You Have the Right to Haul Trash?
- 2008.02.21: Banned in Boston- Political Protest Art
- 2008.02.21: Video Beating Interruptus
- 2008.02.20: Autistic Boy Abducted From Parents by Child Protection Services
- 2008.02.19: Supreme Court: Illegal Wiretaps, Executive Lawbreaking, Not Their Problem
- 2008.02.19: First Congress gave immunity to the telcos, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a telco
- 2008.02.18: Wikileaks Taken Off Line in US by court order
- 2008.02.18: ST. Paul PD Taser Ready for Protest
- 2008.02.18: Should We Have to Have Our ID card checked everytime we walk into a public library?
- 2008.02.17: Meet the Incapacitator
- 2008.02.17: Only One-Tenth of One Percent of Americans Know All Five of their First Amendment Freedoms
- 2008.02.16: PA. Lawmaker Calls for Mandatory Commitment for Anyone Deemed "Drug Dependent"
- 2008.02.16: Number of Sealed Court Cases Increasing, Minnesota Paper Finds
- 2008.02.16: No News Must Be Good News
- 2008.02.16: Bush Administration Looking to Supreme Court to Do Its Bidding on Enemy Combatant Status
- 2008.02.16: Texas Appellate Court Overturns Convictions Against Crawford Ranch Protesters
- 2008.02.16: US Customs and Border Protection kill baby
- 2008.02.15: My open letter to Claire McCaskill
- 2008.02.15: Glenn Greenwald, one of America's best political writers
- 2008.02.14: You Have the Right of Free speech
- 2008.02.14: Pay No Attention to Those Torture Flights Up in the Sky
- 2008.02.13: Texas Court Repeals Dildo Prohibition
- 2008.02.13: DHS Warns Of Pregnant Prosthetic Belly Bombings
- 2008.02.13: Democratic Senate Folds Like a Cheap Umbrella
- 2008.02.13: No probable cause, No problem
- 2008.02.12: Do you Trust this guy with a gun?
- 2008.02.12: Is Today Opposite Day?
- 2008.02.12: HS Students Freak-Out
- 2008.02.11: Wanted by the Adminstration: a Court To Pimp For the Patriot Act
- 2008.02.10: Meet The New Boss?
- 2008.02.09: Drive-By Drug Detection
- 2008.02.09: Big Pharma The Next Frontier: Curing Anti-Authoritarian Tendencies
- 2008.02.09: DEA Harassing Landlords of Medical Marijuana Facilities
- 2008.02.09: Support the Troops Or Else
- 2008.02.08: InfraGard- Who controls the FBI's Corporate Auxiliary?
- 2008.02.08: Mukasey says investigation of CIA torture isn't necessary
- 2008.02.08: They Know She's No Good
- 2008.02.07: Secret document leaked, proves government is lying (this is news?)
- 2008.02.07: Maryland Bill Calls for Mandatory Drug and Alcohol Tests For Young Drivers
- 2008.02.07: Do Customs Agents Have the Right to Download Your Laptop Files?
- 2008.02.07: Jumbo Shotgun Tasers
- 2008.02.06: Washington State Senate: FU to Student Press freedom
- 2008.02.06: Cleveland Rocks
- 2008.02.06: Bush Lawyers Push Judge to Dismiss Torture Flight Lawsuit
- 2008.02.05: Lawyer, TV station call for missing video of police strip search
- 2008.02.05: Open Government Act Repealed Before Even Being Implemented
- 2008.02.05: The FBI Wants to Map Your Tattoos
- 2008.02.04: U of Michigan to regulate distribution of student publications
- 2008.02.04: Abercrombie and Fitch Store Busted for Risque Window
- 2008.02.04: How Domestic Spying Could "Blowback" on US security
- 2008.02.03: Muslim Physicist Loses Career Due to Book on Ant Biology
- 2008.02.03: New DOJ priority: intimidate journalists who investigate government crime
- 2008.02.03: Zero tolerance, Sub-Zero Judgement
- 2008.02.02: Disrespect Each Other So We Can Hear You
- 2008.02.02: Grand Inquisitions?
- 2008.02.02: McClatchy: Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens
- 2008.02.02: Put paint on Muncie's streets, go to jail!
- 2008.02.02: California Lawyer Magazine: Excellent backgrounder on telecomm eavesdropping
- 2008.02.02: Freedom Might Cost Berkeley a Bit More
- 2008.02.01: Welcome to America: But Don't Get Sick
- 2008.02.01: Exercise Your Rights And Lose Your Job
- 2008.02.01: Afghan journalist sentenced to death for downloading report on women's rights
- 2008.02.01: The TSA has a blog
- 2008.02.01: Whoops! Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens
- 2008.02.01: Bush asserts authority to break the law whenever he wants to
- 2008.01.31: Defending the Constitution (From the Federal Government)
- 2008.01.31: We The People Are On Our Own
- 2008.01.30: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.30: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.30: I Recruited Jihadists (For the FBI)
- 2008.01.29: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.29: Annals of the Ice Age
- 2008.01.29: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.29: Bruce Schneier: "The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control."
- 2008.01.29: State of the Union - Bush calls for more wiretapping
- 2008.01.28: Bill would let schools scan thumbprints
- 2008.01.28: Six Degrees of... Porn!
- 2008.01.27: XXXtreme Cop Abuse
- 2008.01.27: NYPD wants to make it illegal to own air quality sensors without their permission
- 2008.01.27: Australian Lawyers Are Tougher Too
- 2008.01.26: No Matter How Little Threat You Pose...
- 2008.01.25: 75-year-old Floridian woman handcuffed and jailed for being mean to policeman
- 2008.01.25: A Radically Novel Concept
- 2008.01.24: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.24: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.24: Civility as the New Coercion
- 2008.01.23: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.23: Hard to Know What To Say
- 2008.01.23: Kafka Lives
- 2008.01.23: Another Day, Another Drug War Scandal
- 2008.01.23: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.23: Zoning Out (more) Protest
- 2008.01.22: Zoning-Out Protest
- 2008.01.22: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.22: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.21: Remembering Martin Luther King, Government Surveillance and Disinformation Target
- 2008.01.21: Less Free, Less Safe
- 2008.01.21: Private military forces in the news: unAmericanism at its best
- 2008.01.21: Vignette from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.21: Mission Creep(y)
- 2008.01.21: Lawyers, Guns and Money: For Kids, Life Means Life
- 2008.01.20: Bad Drugs are Legal, Good Drugs are Illegal
- 2008.01.20: The CIA Tapes in Human Terms (and in a Nutshell)
- 2008.01.20: Hopeful Signs
- 2008.01.20: Sleazing Its Way Out of History
- 2008.01.20: FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft - Times Online
- 2008.01.20: How Prohibition made Detroit a bootlegger's dream town
- 2008.01.20: Bush Team Urges Local Schools to Conduct Random Drug Testing
- 2008.01.20: 27 officers in NYPD steroid probe
- 2008.01.19: More Mission Creep
- 2008.01.19: What to Buy for the Surveillance State That Has Everything
- 2008.01.18: Welcome to the Ice Age
- 2008.01.18: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.18: AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Punishing Thought Crime
- 2008.01.17: Just Say Whoa: White House pushes for random drug testing at schools
- 2008.01.17: Mission Creep: DHS Suggests a REAL ID Could be Necessary for Prescriptions
- 2008.01.17: Surveillance on Steroids
- 2008.01.17: Vignettes from the Land of Liberty
- 2008.01.17: Surveillance on Steroids: New National Intelligence Director outlines plan to increase web search, email surveillance power
- 2008.01.17: Sinfest 2008-01-17: State-Sponsored Comic Strip
- 2008.01.16: Call for participation
- 2008.01.15: Don't Tase Me Bro live
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