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U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
boarder8925 writes "Be careful what you read when you fly in the United States. What you read is being monitored by airport screeners and stored in a government database for years. 'Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd packed for the trip. The breadth of the information obtained by the Gilmore-funded Identity Project (using a Privacy Act request) shows the government's screening program at the border is actually a survelliance dragnet."
Go Go Gadget editors!
Someone steals the text of the actual article (not unusual, I know), instead of providing an actual summary... but leaves out the hyperlink that's actually IN the stolen text for the Identity Project referenced in the article.
Why bother with editors?
Take a different issue (say, gun rights - you know, the one with which you can theoretically protect your other rights) and it's just the opposite - Dems violating the Constitution at nearly every turn. Fact is, both major parties routinely ignore it whenever convenient. If you're not voting third party, you're wasting your time. The country needs a reboot, and we won't get that by voting status quo.
Constitutionally Correct
"...every Democrat voted to restore it, every Republican voted to keep it suspended"
Your link shows that this is false.
Hagel (R-NE)
Lugar (R-IN)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Sununu (R-NH)
voted for restoring habeas corpus.
On the other hand the following senators voted against the constitution despite the example of their fellow senator of (supposedly) the same party and state:
Lieberman (ID-CT) (former Dem., lost primary)
Collins (R-ME)
Gregg (R-NH)
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry