Monthly Archives: September 2014

NSA EPISODE 1 – Video

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NSA EPISODE 1
FIRST EPISODE IN THE NSA SERIES, THE STORY LINE IS THAT THERE IS MANY MICROCHIPS CALLED ZELDA AND THEY ARE LOCATED ALL OVER THE WORLD AND THE TEAM MIDW (MILITARY INTELIGENCE, DW)

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Proof Against SSO and NSA [for court] – Video

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Proof Against SSO and NSA [for court]

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The chilling loophole that lets police stop, question and search you for no good reason

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This article originally appeared on AlterNet.

Checkpoints occupy a unique position in the American justice system. Atthese roadside stations, where police question drivers in search of the inebriated or illegal, anyone can be stopped and questioned, regardless of probable cause, violating theFourth Amendments protection against general warrants that do not specify the who/what/where/why of a search or seizure. Though the Supreme Court agrees that checkpoints skirt the FourthAmendment, the Court has been clear that the special needs checkpoints serve, like traffic safety andimmigration enforcement, trump the slight intrusions on motorists rights.

We have checkpoints for bicycle safety, gathering witnesses, drug trafficking, illegal immigration and traffic safety.Many states,like California, require cops to abide by neutral mathematical formulas when choosing which drivers to pull over (like 1 in every 10 cars). In reality, these decisions are left to the discretion of individual police officers, which results in a type of vehicular stop and frisk.

Thats why people in Arizona havesuedthe Department of Homeland Security for its wantondeployment of immigration checkpoints in their state.Among their complaints are racial profiling, harassment, assault and unwarranted interrogation,and detention not related to the express special need of determining peoples immigration status.

A key legal detail about checkpoints is that they cannot be used for crime control, as that would require individualized probable cause. But legal scholarsarguethat non-criminally-minded checkpoints are also illegal. They point out that the FourthAmendment protected the colonists from being searched for non-criminal wrongdoing. Doing nothing wrong at all, they argue,is not grounds to be searched or haveyour property seized.

Regardless, unlike DUI checkpoints, these immigration checkpoints, expanded by the 2006Secure Fence Act, are only allowed within 100 miles of the continental United States border. But thats abig perimeter. Nine of the countrys 10 largest cities, entire states and some two thirds of the US population reside within this constitutionallyexempt zone.

At these checkpointssome of which have becomepermanentfixtures on the highwaypeople are forced to stop when flagged down, againregardless of probable cause. But the extent to which people are legally obliged to answer officers questions isunclearand seemingly arbitrary. Not surprisingly, the militarysimmigration checkpoints havegarneredoutspoken criticism from across the political spectrum.Legalized by the Supreme Court in1976, these checkpointsseem to have taken on a newmomentum in the post-9/11era. (Private militias have eventaken tosetting uptheir own versions.)

DUI checkpoints, on the other hand,deemedconstitutional in 1990, monitor roadwaysin38 states. But they have been outlawed by12 othersthat have invoked states rights to increase federal civil liberty protections.In the Courts 1990opinion, Chief JusticeWilliam Rehnquist wrote that states interest in eradicating drunk driving is indisputable and that this interest outweighed the measure of the intrusion on motorists stopped briefly at sobriety checkpoints, which he described as slight.

In the dissent, William Brennan reminded the Court that, some level of individualized suspicion is a core component of the protection the Fourth Amendment provides against arbitrary government action. In pulling people over at random, checkpoints remove this individualized component.

Today, the practice seems to be experiencing a renaissance of sorts. With the help of local police, private government contractors have used the tactic to collect anonymous breath, saliva and blood (DNA) samples of American motorists for the federally fundedNational Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drugged Driving. Participation in the survey is voluntary, despite the confusion that may come with uniformed police asking for bodily fluids. Motorists are offered $10 for cheek swabs and $50 for blood samples. These practices have sparked considerable publicoutrage; law enforcement officials inSt. Louis, Missouriand Fort Worth, Texashavestatedtheir intent to limit their future participationin the study.

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Freedom From Religion? – Video

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Freedom From Religion?
In short what freedom of religion is and is not as it pertains to the first amendment to the US Constitution Twitter: @irvinepatriot Blog: http://theirvinepatriot.blogspot.com.

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Alex Jones Show (Monday, September 8, 2014) Hour 3 Commercial Free – Video

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Alex Jones Show (Monday, September 8, 2014) Hour 3 Commercial Free
Guest: Lee Rockwell Alex Jones Show (Monday, September 8, 2014) Hour 3 Commercial Free Alex breaks down recent attacks on the First Amendment and the rising hostility between NATO and Russia...

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A Physics Approach (short) – Video

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A Physics Approach (short)
Going after the Nobel Prize in Physics grants first amendment protection to use the lives of living people to determine the existence of parallel universes.

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Q&A with First Amendment Day speaker Greg Lukianoff

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By Katie Kilmartin | Published 10 hours ago

Greg Lukianoff is the presidentof the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the keynote speaker at UNC's sixth annual First Amendment Day, which is put on by theUNC Center for Media Law andPolicy.

Staff Writer Katie Kilmartin asked him questions about what he plans to talk about, his opinion on UNC's First Amendment climate and more.

DAILY TAR HEEL:What are your thoughts on UNCs ranking as one of the worst 10 universities for free speech?

GREG LUKIANOFF:I was disappointed that I had to include UNC on this years list. I explain my reasons in that piece which you can find here:http://huff.to/1qoIv5M

Im quite sure I will be getting questions about it tomorrow!

DTH:What do you plan to speak about at the Keynote Address for First Amendment Day?

GL:Tomorrow, I plan to talk about, of course, the First Amendment, but beyond that the larger principles of freedom of speech itself and why I believe those principles are under threat. Make no mistake about it, free speech is an eternally radical idea, so it is always under threat at all times in human history.

I will also talk about my first book Unlearning Liberty, and my new short book, Freedom From Speech, in which I lay out my causes for concern for speech going forward.

DTH:What main ideas do you hope people will take away from you address?

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SEPTA's ad refusal sparks free-speech fight

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DANA DiFILIPPO, Daily News Staff Writer difilid@phillynews.com, 215-854-5934 Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 3:01 AM

WHEN an anti-Islamic group decided to advertise on city buses and billboards this fall with photos of a terrorist poised to behead an American and a Muslim leader smiling at Adolf Hitler, transit officials in New York and Washington, D.C., huffed their disapproval - but allowed the ads to run.

They had no choice, they said, because the ads were protected under the First Amendment.

SEPTA's officials disagreed and rejected the ads.

But the group behind the ads - the American Freedom Defense Initiative - won't surrender quietly. The New Hampshire-based group sued SEPTA in federal court last week, complaining that the transit agency violated AFDI's free-speech rights.

One local First Amendment expert says SEPTA picked an unwinnable fight.

"The most fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that you may never bar any message based upon the content of the message," said Burton Caine, a law professor at Temple University and past president of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "This is absolutely prohibited, what SEPTA is doing.

"Everybody has this same idea that they like the First Amendment," Caine said, "but when the speech is offensive, people will make all kinds of excuses why it's not protected. The whole point of the First Amendment is to protect speech that offends. No exceptions."

A federal judge said as much in 2012, ruling that the AFDI could post ads in New York City and Washington, D.C., that compared Muslim jihadists to "savages."

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Pit Preacher Gary Birdsong claims First Amendment rights

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By Kate Albers | Published 9 hours ago

Gary Birdsong speaks in the Pit on Monday morning. Birdsong has been preaching on campus since the early 1980s.

Some people come to UNC for the academics, clubs or sports. But Gary Birdsong, commonly known as the Pit Preacher, comes to UNC because of a divine inspiration.

God gave me the desire, he said. If you dont have a desire, you cant do it, especially on college campuses.

Birdsong said he began preaching at UNC in the early 1980s. He has traveled to schools all over the nation, including nearby institutions like N.C. State University and Duke University.

Birdsong said before he was saved and began preaching, he spent time with members of The Brotherhood and Hells Angels biker clubs.

After his religious transformation, he attended Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas, and he visited Israel for a few months. He met Brother Jed Smock, who also preaches on college campuses, and started sharing his testimony as well.

Birdsong said hes glad he has the protections under the First Amendment, but he wouldnt stop preaching even if it werent allowed.

I dont care if I have it or not, Birdsong said. If God tells me to do it, Ill do it.

Freshman Bryan Labra said that Monday was his first time listening to Birdsong in the Pit. He said he thinks Birdsong should be allowed to preach on campus and that he does not abuse freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

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How to use the Tor Browser to surf the web anonymously

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Recently, BoingBoing ran an article about how some librarians in Massachusetts were installing Tor software in all their public PCs to anonymize the browsing habits of their patrons. The librarians are doing this as a stand against passive government surveillance as well as companies that track users online and build dossiers to serve highly-targeted advertising.

It's an interesting project and a bold stand for user privacy. But the good news is that if you want to browse anonymously, you don't have to go to the library to use Tor. Connecting to the Tor network from your own PC is quick and painless thanks to the Tor project's dead simple Tor Browser.

Tor is a computer network run by volunteers worldwide. Each volunteer runs what is called a relay, which is just a computer that runs software allowing users to connect to the Internet via the Tor network.

Before hitting the open Internet, the Tor Browser will connect to several different relays, wiping its tracks each step of the way, making it difficult to figure out where, and who, you really are.

While Tor is gaining a reputation as a tool for buying illicit goods online, the software has numerous legitimate uses. Activists masking their location from oppressive regimes and journalists communicating with anonymous sources are two simple examples.

If, like the librarians in Massachusetts, you don't have an exotic reason for using Tor, it's still a good tool to keep your browsing private from your ISP, advertisers, or passive government data collection. But if the NSA or other three-letter agency decided to actively target your browsing habits that's a whole different ballgame.

The easiest way to use Tor is to download the Tor Browser. This is a modified version of Firefox along with a bunch of other software that connects you to the Tor network.

Once you've downloaded the installer, you have two options: You can just install the software or you can check the installation file's GPG signature first. Some people like to check the installation file to make sure they've downloaded the proper version of the browser and not something that's been tampered with.

But checking the GPG signature is not a painless process and requires an additional software download. Nevertheless, if that's something you'd like to do, the Tor Project has a how-to explaining what's required.

Whether or not you've checked the GPG signature, the next step is to install the Tor browser itself.

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