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Friday 14th May 2010
Counterpunch: Operation Tarmac
11:05 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | FBI | Justice Department | Lying | Patriot Act | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1
From Counterpunch -
OPERATION TARMAC
by James Bovard
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Unfortunately, few people recognize the political racketeering involved in the post–9/11 roundups of airport workers. That practically ensures that, if there is another major terrorist attack or some similar debacle, mass arrests will once again be used to burnish the government’s image.
Tuesday 20th April 2010
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
11:04 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Census | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | War crimes | Wiretapping | lese majeste | Comments: 2
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out this op-ed today….
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
by James Bovard
Americans are once again hearing of the perils of extremism. But the definition of this offense is slippier than a politician’s campaign promise. The definition of extremism has continually been amended to permit government policies that few sober people [...]
Friday 2nd April 2010
Extremist Blogs Could be Next!!!!
10:30 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Surveillance | Wiretapping | wool | Comments: 2
From today’s Washington Post website -
“FBI warns extremist letters may encourage violence”
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press
Friday, April 2, 2010; 9:34 AM
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The article ominously notes: ” In the past year, federal agents have seen an increase in “chatter” from an array of domestic extremist groups, which can include radical self-styled militias, white separatists [...]
Wednesday 17th March 2010
Is the FBI Your Friend on Facebook?
9:07 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | FBI | Surveillance | wool | Comments: 9
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released internal federal documents detailing how FBI agents are creating false or deceptive profiles online to gather more personal information on Americans.
From the Associated Press story:
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate [...]
Friday 5th March 2010
FBI Bankrolling Bloggers Advocating Murder?
9:17 pm | FBI | Surveillance | wool | Comments: 8
The Associated Press story on the New Jersey guy who advocating killing federal judges reveals that the bloodthirsty blogger was apparently a paid FBI informant.
A right-wing New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges told a
jury Thursday that his racist Internet rants were an FBI-sanctioned ruse to “flush out” dangerous neo-Nazi and white supremacist [...]