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NYCLU And ACLU Sue TSA Official And Jetblue For Discriminating Against Passenger Wearing Arabic T-Shirt

Posted August 24th, 2007 by Anonymous
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U.S. government silences "We Will Not Be Silent" t-shirt


The New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal civil rights lawsuit charging that a Transportation Security Administration official and JetBlue Airways illegally discriminated against an American resident based solely on the Arabic message on his t-shirt and his ethnicity.

New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown (NY Times)

Posted July 9th, 2007 by Anonymous
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"If completed this program would include license plate readers and 3,000 security cameras below Canal Street."


By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a London-style surveillance system that would be the first in the United States.


The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble London’s so-called Ring of Steel, an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists. British officials said images captured by the cameras helped track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005 and the car bomb plots last month.

CIVIL RIGHTS: Un Birthday Bash for the Patriot Act

Posted October 24th, 2003 by Anonymous
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This Week opened with a government-operations hearing on Resolution 909, a bill introduced by Bill Perkins and Margarita Lopez opposing the infringement of civil liberties in the name of national security. Dennis Kucinich sent in a statement against the Patriot Act, as did Bob Barr.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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