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Category: Civil Liberties

Dan Stubbs explains the folly of the Parental Advisory Explicit Content sticker

February 2nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Art, Civil Liberties, Core Topics

It’s become a real badge of honour to have that sticker on your CD now… It came out of this puritanical drive in America against

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John McCain to protesters: “Get out of here, you low-life scum”

January 29th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Senator John McCain has a short fuse, as a group of protestors discovered when he snarled at them to “get out of here, you low-life

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Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state

January 14th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Technology

That we can identify government officials, journalists and politicians with the help of a wireless network and their less thoughtful use of online services demonstrates

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Author J.K. Rowling: “I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate.”

January 11th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate. — Author J.K. Rowling, responding to another offensive, bigoted tweet by media

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It is sadly unclear whether this article will put lives at risk

January 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, World Community

It is sadly unclear whether this article will put lives at risk The Onion, one of America’s best known satirical publications, responded to the attack

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Former editor of The Onion: Freedom of speech cannot be killed

January 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, World Community

Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the

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U.K.’s Cameron, Germany’s Merkel: We stand with France against terrorism

January 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, World Community

We stand absolutely united with the French people against terrorism and against this threat to our values – free speech, the rule of law, democracy.

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Je suis Charlie! The people of France take a stand against terrorism

January 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Topics, World Community

A man in Strasbourg shows solidarity with the staff of Charlie Hebdo, who were targeted by Islamic terrorists in a brutal attack earlier today. “Je suis” is French for “I am”. (Photo: Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons)

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Still more evidence that guns don’t make us safer: Toddler shoots, kills mom at Idaho Wal-Mart

December 30th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Still more evidence that guns don’t make us safer: Toddler shoots, kills mom at Idaho Wal-Mart A woman shopping at a Wal-Mart in Hayden, Idaho

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Families of shooting victims in North Portland lament America’s epidemic of gun violence

December 12th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

I’m just confused. All of these kids getting shot and killed. It doesn’t make any sense… It’s not like it was when we were kids.

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Hakeem Jeffries decries “stunning miscarriage of justice” in wake of grand jury finding

December 3rd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Public Planning

The failure to indict is a stunning miscarriage of justice, and makes clear that equal protection under the law does not exist for all Americans…

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Demonstrators protest Missouri grand jury’s failure to indict Darren Wilson for Michael Brown shooting

November 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Public Planning

Demonstrators are pictured in Seattle protesting a Missouri grand jury’s failure to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown (Photo: Tiffany Von Arnim/Reproduced under a Creative Commons license)

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Thoughts on tonight’s shameful press conference by St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch

November 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Public Planning

Earlier this evening, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch held a long, self-serving press conference to disclose that the grand jury he decided to make

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Tim Cook: “I’m proud to be gay”

October 30th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. — Tim Cook, writing in a personal

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Microsoft’s Nadella sorry for women’s pay comments

October 10th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, World Community

I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. I believe men and

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Eric Holder announces new civil rights probe in Ferguson

September 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Economic Security

As a result of this history of mistrust of law enforcement — and following an extensive review of documented allegations and other available data —

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Gun sales are significantly down after record year

August 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Gun sales are significantly down after record year Businessweek reports that sales of long guns, modern sporting rifles, and handguns all fell during the last

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Hoyer, Hispanic Democrats assail Republicans as House approves draconian immigration bills

August 1st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

It is simply a message they want to send, not a solution that they want to affect… Republicans are racing to the right, putting forward

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DelBene condemns House Republicans’ divisive, flawed immigration bills in floor speech

August 1st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Above is the video of the speech delivered today by U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene in opposition to a pair of divisive, fatally-flawed Republican-backed bills on

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Peter King: “I wish Ted Cruz would stay in the Senate”

July 31st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Party Politics

I do wish that Ted Cruz would stay in the Senate… Nobody elected him speaker. Nobody elected him majority leader in the House, and it’s

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Today’s tragedy in Chubbock, Idaho could have easily been prevented

July 31st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Earlier today we posted a link to a story about a five-year old girl who was accidentally shot and killed by another five-year old child

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