The Department of Defense has agreed to change the database it uses for military recruitment efforts to better protect the privacy of millions of high school students nationwide, a civil liberties group announced Tuesday.

Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans' fundamental freedoms.

1. National Do Not Call Registry
2. Prescreened offers of credit and insurance
3. DMA opt outs
4. Financial institution opt outs
5. CAN SPAM
6. Credit freeze
7. FERPA
8. Data broker opt outs
9. Internet portal opt outs

Most recently, the Pentagon announced last week that it is shutting down its TALON database, which held secret files on local antiwar activists.

Atlanta, GA – Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr issued a statement today
praising yesterday's decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken
declaring that warrantless searches of private residences and offices
under the USA PATRIOT Act are unconstitutional.