Students as young as 6 arrested and fined for minor disciplinary events

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Silencing the truth: TSA doesn’t want Congress to hear Bruce Schneier

UPDATE: No wonder the TSA didn't want Schneier's testimony on the record. It's damning.

Toys for the boys

Hey, did you hear the one about the $300,000 drone belonging to the Sheriff’s Office of Montgomery County, Texas crashing into the Bearcat armored vehicle belonging to the Sheriff’s SWAT team?

This is no joke. It actually happened early in March turning a test flight photo op at an airfield near Houston. 

What’s terrorism?

Can this be real? There is no punishment for police who shoot dead a nearly 70 year-old man in his own home, after his own medical alert device sent the alarm to police that brought them to his door? DemocracyNow! describes what happened to 68 year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, who was killed by police in White Plains, NY back in November.

Victory! Bradley Manning supporter will get his day in court

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Back on November 3, 2010, political activist and computer engineer David House ended his vacation with his girlfriend in Mexico, where they had been fishing and relaxing. House worked for MIT at the time, but he had a brief layover in Chicago before his flight back to Boston.

Police state UK? Minor crimes punishable by years in prison while police beatings don’t warrant investigation

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Boston Dynamics is creating super creepy robots

Congress can now order people into solitary?

Ecological rights activist Tim DeChristopher, who is serving two years in federal prison for bidding in a land sale auction for land he never intended to pay for, has reportedly been moved to solitary confinement at the request of an unnamed Congressperson. 

The new witch trials? Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

It's finally happened. After scores of FBI entrapment cases in which the organization set up young Muslim men to do illegal things and then slammed them with long prison terms when they complied, it has finally happened: someone said 'no.'

NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake speaks

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