Sunday September 23, 2007 [Category:  Politics Politics]

American freedom of travel, association or speech?

Posted by gwfrink3

Vanishing before your eyes:

American freedom to travel without a federal permit.

Freedom to travel by air goes first. Hearings were held Thursday (09/20/2007) on rules requiring anyone boarding a commercial air flight to receive prior federal approval.

"Your papers please," long a cliche of movies about totalitarian regimes, would permeate peacetime American travel.

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Wednesday September 19, 2007 [Category:  Politics Politics]

Ticking toward your turn against the genteel wall

Posted by admin

Deadening oppression this time has many sources, rather than the monolithic face of a state run out of control.

Midnight by the ACLU clock ACLU privacy doomsday clockwould not be heralded by a gunfire-punctuated parade of those who love freedom to a bloodstained wall. It would attended instead by our quiet acceptance of endless high-tech watching, yoked to corporate/governmental nudges, made almost irresistible by our lassitude and loss of basic freedoms.

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