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Liberty Coalition on Facebook

March 11, 2010 - 6:58pm

Liberty Coalition now has a page on Facebook where you can follow our latest activities. Follow this link, check it out, and click on "Become a fan"!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberty-Coalition/318132301249

Justice Dept promises not to plunder Census data

March 4, 2010 - 8:54pm

The Assistant Attorney General has sent a letter to concerned members of Congress   insisting that personal data collected on Americans by the U.S. Census Bureau will not be disclosed to "law enforcement or national security officials."  This is a commendable position.  It would be nice if the NSA Director released a similar letter.

This concern would not be so pronounced if the Census stuck to their Constitutional mandate in the first place and only inquired as to the number of persons in the household. 

Latest surveillance tech: Portable license-plate scanners

March 4, 2010 - 8:25pm

The latest in police/revenuer surveillance technology?  Read all about it in The USA Today:

The cameras read license plates of parked and moving cars — hundreds per minute — and check them against vehicle databases, said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which purchased several systems for its police vehicles last fall.[...]

Another dubious database

March 2, 2010 - 4:59pm

The NYPD has stopped, harrassed and frisked nearly three million people without probable cause over the past six years.  Bob Herbert has more in the New York Times:

Police Department statistics show that 2,798,461 stops were made in that six-year period. In 2,467,150 of those instances, the people stopped had done nothing wrong. That’s 88.2 percent of all stops over six years. Black people were stopped during that period a staggering 1,444,559 times. Hispanics accounted for 843,817 of the stops and whites 287,218.