The lawyer was en route but border patrol “didn’t want to wait” so they took her into detention. She allegedly ran a stop sign.
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Arizona Police Officer Says SB 1070 Violates the Constitution
Over at Cure This my Twitter friend los anjalis blogged this video of Phoenix, Arizona police officer Paul Dobson talking about his opposition to SB 1070. “This law is – pure and simple – a racist law,” Dobson says. Thanks to los anjalis for also transcribing important portions of Officer Dobson’s statement: So under SB1070 [...]
Privacy Matters
[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).] Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all. I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International [...]
What Is This You Bring My America?
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty…. Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to [...]
Labor Day Postscript
Maybe I’m being grumpy, but this Labor Day blog post by Seth Godin (via Matt) really rubbed me the wrong way. Your great-grandfather knew what it meant to work hard. He hauled hay all day long, making sure that the cows got fed. In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes about a worker who ruptured [...]
Vague And Overbroad Powers
The Black Commentator’s Margaret Kimberly notes that Halliburton has won yet another multi-million dollar government contract—this one to build “temporary detention facilities” in case of an “immigration emergency.” The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a [...]
Equality in Education – Day of Action
[If you are in the Boston area and are free tomorrow afternoon, come support this action. --BG] Join us as we gather 400 supporters to represent the number of Massachusetts high school graduates every year who are denied access to higher education. Let’s show the legislature that the everyone deserves the right to an education. [...]
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