6. March, 2003 - Know Your Rights
- Because links in the title don't work so well: Know Your Rights.
- I know I’ve been harping on how our rights are being trampled more than a bit lately but I think this is some pretty important shit. I’m not quite ready to succumb to full-on paranoia and move into a Unabomber Shack in the woods or anything just yet (as if moving to the mountains would help anyhow), but the outright trampling of the Bill of Rights in the name of
Security
over the past couple years has got me worried. And I think it’s just going to get worse as the gummint continues to fight the War on Terror.
- It just seems as if Defending the Bill of Rights is turning into a losing battle. Sigh. [some guy]
- U student antiwar group finds itself on watch list
because of an alleged plot by members to leave cars in intersections to block traffic at a future demonstration,
but apparently that’s not an idea they’ve had or discussed.
- Terror is more hype than risk, according to 85% of businesses insured with the Hartford, who have mostly declined to take on
Terrorism Insurance
even though it’s less than an addition 10% in cost.
- Mall Wants to Drop Peace T-Shirt Charges [warning: popups]. They desperately want to drop them. Remember when Ari Fleischer warned that Americans need to
watch what they say
? Well, apparently we need to watch what we wear, too. [fark!]
- If you catch this early enough in the day, and think it might help stop a U.S. invasion of Iraq, go sign the Emergency Appeal to the U.N.. Personally, I don’t think it’ll stop the wheels that have been in motion for over a year, but maybe I’ll be surprised.
- The Nathan Hale blog is the blog of a foreign policy discussion group begun by a bunch of Yalies and their friends working in foreign relations in Washington, D.C.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:39:36.