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Gary North
Written by Gary North on October 31, 2012
What would lead a police officer to do this? We are taught that “all guns are loaded,” and therefore we are never to point a gun at anyone, then the same should apply to Tasers. This should have been dealt with by the local police department: restitution for the boy paid for by the cop. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 30, 2012
Some bureaucrat who polices a retirement center that was built with HUD funding is making sure there is no public Bible reading going on. She told Ruth Sweats to stop reading her Bible and discussing it with another resident. To read the Bible and then discuss it — yes, my friends, actually discuss it . […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 26, 2012
This report is from Kate Crockford. She has raised some interesting questions. Imagine a searchable database that would enable police or federal agents to instantly track everywhere you’ve ever driven in your car, like a “Google search” of your location over a period of months or even years. According to a law enforcement data manager […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 26, 2012
The Seattle police department wants to show off its new system of public surveillance. It invited the public to see one of the drones. The drone will not fly. Neither will the conference. Who is going to spend his day looking at an immobile drone and asking questions to a bored police officer? But the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 25, 2012
Free food given away in driveways is no laughing matter in Arizona, where it until this month was also illegal to give bottled water to people at a public religious festival. It took the threat of legal action, coupled with a public relations campaign by the Rutherford Institute, to persuade the Phoenix city council to […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 24, 2012
Think of the cell phone as unleashing a million Rodney King videos. As citizens grab their cell phones to make YouTube-ready copies of bureaucrats’ unconstitutional imposition of force, the bureaucrats are going on the defensive. There is a kind of cold war going on. Every time the bureaucrats impose new restrictions on cell phones, cell […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 19, 2012
The state of Minnesota created a mandatory data base. The state collected the DNA of every newborn infant. In the name of the privacy rights of infants, a small group of nine Minnesota families sued the state. They won the case. The state Supreme Court decided that state law does not authorize state health agencies […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 18, 2012
What if your name is placed on a n-fly list after you are in the air? You will return home by car, bus, or train. “Take the bus, and leave the driving to us!” Exception: you are already on board a flight to Hawaii. Then you will return by cruise ship. Or maybe a freighter. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 15, 2012
Does Google use its softeare to search your G-mail account, looking for patterns that will increase its ability to target afs? Two plaintiffs say so. They have taken Google to court. I have never used Google’s G-mail except as a way for me to get access to my YouTube channel. I figured there would be […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 12, 2012
A neighbor called the sheriff’s office to report an argument between husband and wife. The sheriff’s office recognized the disturbers of rural peace: a known “Constitutionalist.” You know the type. He owns guns. He doesn’t like invasions of his privacy. Troublemaker. So, the sheriff sent a team of men to handle this. They invaded the […]
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