Occupy Boston activists denied entry to Canada for political reasons?

On June 21, 2012, a number of Occupy Boston activists were denied entry to Canada. One of the activists wrote the following tweets after being turned away from the border:

As Obama stonewalls on drone strikes, critics warn of war crimes

There they go again. 

Rather than simply allowing the US government to get on with the business of targeting “suspected terrorists” for death no matter where they are found, the ACLU is insisting that the American public has a right to know the legal grounds for putting Americans on the hit list. 

More life breathed into warrantless wiretapping act

Now that President Obama has fully bought into the broad surveillance powers that Senator Obama had first vowed to filibuster and then supported, Congress seems bent on doing its bipartisan best to trash the Fourth Amendment. 

The spy stakes: showdown on domestic turf

“Although the CIA is best known for its spy work overseas, the agency has stations in most major U.S. cities.”

Terror Tuesday: Accelerating the use of drones at home

That’s what the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to do. In a June 4, 2012 report on the 2013 Defense Authorization Bill, it is pulling out the stops. 

FBI, DHS under fire from environmentalists over stewardship of protected lands

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Conservation and wildlife activists are concerned that FBI stewardship of 900 acres of federal land connecting Laguna Wilderness Park to the Cleveland National Forest will destroy habitats and wreak biological havoc. 

Going to Ottawa? Watch what you say at the airport.

Watch what you say as you travel through security and customs controlled areas at the Ottawa airport: officials will soon record your every word.

Dream a (little) dream

_{These students were detained in Tucson, Arizona, after a May 2010 sit-in at US Senator John McCain’s office, where they urged him to support the DREAM Act. (Source)}

Outrage on leak hypocrisy may lead to a harsh ‘secrets act,’ advocate warns

President Obama has overseen an unprecedented war on whistleblowers, indicting six people in just three years -- more than all prior presidents combined. But his administration is now under fire for hypocrisy, accused of leaking sensitive or classified information to reporters in order to glorify the President.

Move over, cyberwar: is there an inside threat to US digital networks?

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