Tag Archives: constitutional rights
US Park Police remove 32 year old peace vigil in DC
Concepcion Picciotto held a vigil for 32 years across the street from the White House, protesting war and nuclear proliferation. Her small encampment never left the edge of Lafayette Square, her tent surrounded by signs with slogans like “Read My Lips, No New Wars.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/after-32-years-a-protester-briefly-loses-her-spot-near-the-white-house.html?ref=us “I’ve been beaten up, arrested many times and gassed,” said […]
US Justice Department rules against reporter in CIA case
The Justice Department on Monday asked a full federal appeals court not to hear arguments from lawyers for a New York Times reporter, James Risen, whom prosecutors have subpoenaed to testify in a criminal leak case against a former C.I.A. officer, Jeffrey Sterling. A three-judge panel of the appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled in […]
In the East as in the West, perils for tyranny
Several perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9, that bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping, China’s new top leader. The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past. […]
US assails press, violating 4th amendment
Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press in what the news organization said Monday was a “serious interference with A.P.’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?hp&_r=0 the Justice Department informed it on Friday that law enforcement officials had obtained the records for […]
US gun crime down sharply according to recent studies
Gun homicides in the United States have fallen sharply since peaking in 1993, two studies have found. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22443441 The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics said firearms-related homicides had dropped to 11,101 in 2011 from 18,253 – a reduction of 39%. Meanwhile, the Pew Research Center found gun homicides fell to 3.6 per 100,000 people in […]
Dirty Babylon 