SYNDICATED COLUMN: Next: Digital Totalitarianism
The Conspiracy to Abolish Cash For many years figures on the political fringe, especially on the right, have claimed that the government and its corporate owners want to transform us into a cashless...
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Political Scientist Argues the U.S. is a Police State The United States is a police state. Not in danger of becoming one. Is. And it’s too late to restore democracy. That’s the stark message of Andrew...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Every Policeman Is A Licensed Rapist
This week, you can read my column, or watch it! Strip-Searching is Legal and Democracy is Dead The text of Justice Kennedy’s majority is cold and bureaucratic. “Every detainee who will be admitted to...
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Which Comes First
Police in rural Georgia arrested and handcuffed a 6-year-old for throwing a temper tantrum in kindergarten. After last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, she could also have been subjected to...
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Giving Up a Little Freedom
Who are you afraid of more? A few terrorists half a world away? Or an all-encompassing police state?
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Arrest Them All, Let the NSA Sort Them Out
Under the NSA’s “three-hop analysis” policy, they mine the records of 2.5 million Americans for each suspected terrorist. It’s the miracle of math!
View ArticleANewDomain.Net Essay: NSA versus Tech Economy, Cost-Benefit Analysis
Silicon Valley worries that NSA spying is hurting American tech companies’ ability to compete internationally. Who wants to store their data here when they know it’s going to be spied upon? But the...
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Coming Soon
Between the NSA, license plate scanners and skies full of drones, there will soon be no place for anyone who opposes an oppressive dictator to hide. So it’s only a matter of time before someone...
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You Can’t Escape Zombies in a Canoe
A Pentagon program to militarize local police departments is even giving heavy weaponry to local officials that don’t have any law enforcement functions, including a coroner in the remote Ozark...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: The NSA Loses in Court, but the Police State Rolls On
Edward Snowden has been vindicated. This week marks the first time that a court – a real court, not a sick joke of a kangaroo tribunal like the FISA court, which approves every government request and...
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