Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category

No Tattling

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

According to a recent article in the Washington Post, a bill to be proposed in the senate would criminalize any attempts to reveal information on government eavesdropping. An aide to the bill's author insists that reporters would be exempt, but presumably their sources would not.

This Blog Is A Pipe Bomb

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

An Ohio University graduate student was recently charged with a misdemeanor for inducing panic when the Columbus Division of Fire's bomb squad shut down several buildings and destroyed his bicycle. The cause for concern was a sticker on the bike featuring the name of a Florida punk band, "This Bike ...

Pay your bills, set off Homeland Security flags

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Scripps Howard tells the story of a very ordinary married couple who paid off a large chunk of their credit card bill and thereby attracted the attention of Homeland Security. Pay your bills, get harassed by secretive federal agency. That's awesome. In fact, that's exactly what the Founding Fathers had in ...