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Who will the thought police come for next?
2008-02-17 21:55:00 Web logger seeks asylum in StatesLuton on Sunday 17th February 2008A controversial 'web logger' from Dunstable is seeking asylum in America because he faces arrest in the UK for stirring up racial hatred.Paul Ray, who regularly writes an online diary as 'Lionheart', was due to attend Bedford's Greyfriars Police Station on February 18 as part of Bedfordshire Police's investigation into his blog.However, he has decided to apply for political asylum in America because he risks charges which carry a maximum prison sentence of seven years.His blog includes his opinions on the heroin trade, Islamic fundamentalism and police corruption.Mr Ray, 31, speaking to told Luton on Sunday on the phone from South Carolina, said : "I was going to meet Bedfordshire Police on Monday. But I don't want to come back to England and get arrested."I had death threats in Dunstable and I wrote everything down."I did it because if anything happened to me then I wouldn't just be another statistic."I have...
By: Christian Quoter
Here come the thought police
2007-11-20 23:30:00 The proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission - little Joe McCarthys - who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized... read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Here Come the Thought Police
2007-11-20 21:04:00 By Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson Baltimore Sun With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since the “Patriot Act” of 2001 has any bill so threatened ...
By: Current Era Blog
The Thought Police
2007-08-23 11:02:00 As society becomes filled with more and more evil the effort to prevent terrible acts increases. Much debate is heard regarding how far the government or any other entity may go in observing and recording our conversations and plans. Some fiction writers have even invented the concept of thought police who would be able to intercept our unexpressed thoughts.Of course no one can know our thoughts except one and that is God. However, God does tell us that we should be our own thought police. He warns us that "as a man thinks so is he". We are told in Romans 12 "not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought". We are also advised in that same chapter to "esteem (think of) others as better than ourselves."What we think about others will certainly impact our relationship with them. The first step in establishing a new relationship or resolving problems in an existing one is to have the proper thoughts regarding the person. On one occasion I was greatly hurt by another Christian. For...
By: Sending Grace
Careful: The FB-eye may be watching
2007-07-23 04:04:00 Reading the wrong thing in public can get you in trouble BY MARC SCHULTZ Published 07.17.03 Source: atlanta.creativeloafing.com "The FBI is here,"Mom tells me over the phone. Immediately I can see my mom with her back to a couple of Matrix-like figures in black suits and opaque sunglasses, her hand covering the mouthpiece like Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder. This must be a joke, I think. But it's not, because Mom isn't that funny. "The who?" I say. "Two FBI agents. They say you're not in trouble, they just want to talk. They want to come to the store." I work in a small, independent bookstore, and since it's a slow Tuesday afternoon, I figure, "Sure." Someone I know must have gotten some government work, I think; hadn't my consultant friend spoken recently of getting rolled onto some government job? Background check, I think, interviewing acquaintances ... No big deal, right? Then, of course, I make a big deal about it in front of my co-workers. Bookmark/Search this post with...
By: 1984comic.com
New-York City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photog
2007-06-29 17:25:00 From the New-York Times June 29, 2007 By Ray Rivera Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks. New rules being considered by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting would require any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a single public location for more than a half hour to get a city permit and insurance. The same requirements would apply to any group of five or more people who plan to use a tripod in a public location for more than 10 minutes, including the time it takes to set up the equipment. Bookmark/Search this post with: delicious | digg | reddit | technoratiread more
By: 1984comic.com
Thought Police On The Beat In Your Virtual Online World
2007-06-02 17:21:00 Some Internet users are participating in some pretty troubling activities in some online fantasy websites and real-life law enforcement officials are beginning to investigate, spy on, and generally, cause trouble for them. User-created animated characters are committing rape, child pornography, robbery, and other “crimes” against other animated characters created by other users, and ...
Thought Police On The Beat In Your Virtual Online World
2007-06-02 17:21:00 Some Internet users are participating in some pretty troubling activities in some online fantasy websites and real-life law enforcement officials are beginning to investigate, spy on, and generally, cause trouble for them. User-created animated characters are committing rape, child pornography, robbery, and other “crimes” against other animated characters created by other users, and ...
The Democrats Are The Thought Police?
2007-05-14 23:40:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/w-p-dyn/content/article/2007/05/1-1/AR2007051102133.html Who knew? Political entrepreneurship involves devising benefits to excite or mollify niche constituencies. Hence HR 1592, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, which has passed the House, trailing clouds of sanctimony -- lots of members announced their hatred of hate. Hate-crime laws -- 45 states already have them; Congress does not mind being duplicative -- mandate enhanced punishments for crimes committed because of thoughts that government especially disapproves of. That is, crimes committed because of, not merely accompanied by, those thoughts. Mind-reading juries are required to distinguish causation from correlation. The federal hate-crime law enacted in 1968 enhanced punishments only for crimes against persons engaged in a federally protected activity, such as voting. HR 1592 would extend special federal protections to persons who are crime victims because of their ...
By: Coldheartedtruth
The Thought Police
2007-04-26 06:31:00 Terrible feelings of Outrage. Embarrassment. Fear. This Tyee article incites these emotions about our Government. Since when is Google considered to be reliable enough of a tool for Homeland Security to use as a device to determine entrance eligibility into a country? Is all of the information it provides truly that dependable? Oh wait. My bad. I forgot that ...
Mrs. Clinton’s Thought Police
2007-04-15 12:48:00 Was Don Imus’s great crime uttering a phrase common to [c]rap music, or just offending Media Matters, a front group for Mrs. Clinton?  It appears to be the latter. It was Media Matters, and not Imus’ audience, which touched off the firestorm. Brooks Barnes, Emily Steel and Sarah McBride, report on “Behind the Fall of Imus, A Digital Brush Fire:” Karen Tumulty of the liberal rag, Time, made Keith Overbit’s Worst Person in the World for daring to question Mrs. Clinton’s website.  Are there any limits to the lengths Mrs. Clinton will go to silence her critics? (H/T: Sweetness & Lignt ) Extend This Post Reach
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