http://amendment.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Amendment en Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045122 unknown@Netscape.com An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045122FBIbigbrotherdatamining4thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2043186 unknown@Netscape.com Free speech, by definition, is the saying of anything one wants, whenever one wants. The FCC's objection might be more effectively translated, "If we can't restrict the use of these two obscenities, the First Amendment might be alive and well in America, and we can't have that." Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:42:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2043186freespeechfccFirstAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2040812 unknown@Netscape.com It's beyond galling for those of us who actually believe in the First Amendment--even for hate speech--to hear it eulogized by those who gave up even their lip-service to it after 9/11, at about the same time that Ari Fleischer warned "watch what you do, watch what you say." Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:17:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2040812freespeechFirstAmendmenthatecrimesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2035789 unknown@Netscape.com Thomas Jefferson said religion was "a matter which lies solely between man and his God." Therefore, the citizens of the fledgling country Jefferson helped create would have an unparalleled freedom: To seek Truth and Knowledge without the leash of government telling them how to do it. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:37:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/20357891stAmendmentfreedombillofrightsconstitutionReligionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2035370 unknown@Netscape.com Last month's dramatic testimony by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey has prompted renewed attention and focus on the administration's warrantless domestic spying efforts. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:20:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2035370spying4thAmendmentComeyWarrantsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2036413 unknown@Netscape.com Last month's dramatic testimony by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey has prompted renewed attention and focus on the administration's warrantless domestic spying efforts. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:20:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2036413spying4thAmendmentComeyWarrantsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2034300 unknown@Netscape.com It's a dangerous and frightening time in America today as the nation hurtles toward tyranny, and our right to speak out and protest continues being challenged and undermined. That makes the battle for the last frontier of press freedom crucial to preserving our fragile democracy now somewhere between life support and the crematorium. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:50:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2034300freespeech1stAmendmentbillofrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2027142 unknown@Netscape.com Last week, we were asking how police found themselves in the bedroom of a naked couple in Lancaster, Calif., in 2001, guns drawn. This led to a discussion of the problem with "no-knock" Ã;¢ââ;;¬" or even "shout-once-and-storm-in" Ã;¢& Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:22:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/20271424thAmendmentnoknocksearchesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2022987 unknown@Netscape.com Other than the internet, they hold a stranglehold over the kinds of news, information, entertainment and other programming and material most people get from which they form their views of the nation's state, its government, and the world. The media giants are master manipulators. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:13:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2022987mediapropaganda1stAmendmentfreespeechNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2019812 unknown@Netscape.com A recently declassified investigation from the Department of Defense's Inspector General confirms "how the military training was 'reverse engineered' for use by American interrogators," training interrogators on more "effective" ways to elicit information Thu, 31 May 2007 23:31:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2019812torturewar8thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2018469 unknown@Netscape.com The much-vaunted Senate "Compromise" on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are. Thu, 31 May 2007 00:08:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2018469Immigrationcompromisebordersronpaul2ndAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2009045 unknown@Netscape.com Kathleen Ensz, a Democratic volunteer, stuffs an envelope of dog feces through the mail slot of Marilyn Musgrave, CO-R 4th District. Ensz's lawyer says that the action is covered by the First Amendment. Tasty. Fri, 25 May 2007 10:47:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009045GOPdemocratspoopFlingingFirstAmendmentSACREBLEUNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2006685 unknown@Netscape.com In a post-9/11 climate, the right of free expression is under attack and endangered in the age of George Bush when dissent may be called a threat to national security, terrorism, or treason. Thu, 24 May 2007 06:31:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2006685FirstAmendmentfreespeechlibertybillofrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1994486 unknown@Netscape.com He politely put the peanut butter and jelly to the side, closed my bag and gave it back to me. I was too astonished to talk. I took my bag and walked towards the gate thinking about the 4 or maybe 5 meals that she had taken from me. Mon, 21 May 2007 20:22:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1994486TSA4thAmendmenttimryanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1924930 unknown@Netscape.com even after the outcry over publication of details about this program in December 2005, even after the Administration came up with changes in the program to appease Congress, even though some amazingly conservative people stood with Comey when he opposed the program in 2004, the Administration just reasserted its willingness to wiretap Americans wit Wed, 16 May 2007 19:01:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1924930bushsyping4thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1850407 unknown@Netscape.com In an increasingly fascist BushAmerica, students are punished for offending the entrenched power structure even though everything that they say is true! Sat, 12 May 2007 06:57:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/18504071stAmendmentfreedomofspeechfascisttruthTopowerpcNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1828494 unknown@Netscape.com Many said that if George W. Bush were reelected we'd see Americans punished for expressing their ideas. I guess they were right! Thu, 10 May 2007 21:43:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1828494studentdissentcivilrightsconstitution2ndAmendmentspeechcodeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1749896 unknown@Netscape.com Who are all these people? Suspected terrorists and spies. Sweet corn! There are 2177 suspected terrorists and spies in America? And their lawyers. There are 2177 terro Fri, 04 May 2007 21:48:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1749896Warrantsspying4thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1728147 unknown@Netscape.com Sixteen words may be all that stand right now between the apparatus of government and the Founding Fathers' worst nightmare. And those words are starting to give. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . ." Thu, 03 May 2007 19:43:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1728147bushFirstAmendmentbillofrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1641565 unknown@Netscape.com they want to use the law-of-war framework that says we can kill anyone anywhere, we can detain anybody anywhere Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:38:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1641565war6thAmendmentguantanamoNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1556140 unknown@Netscape.com There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment to the US Constitution giving people the right--albeit an increasingly circumscribed one -- to bear arms. Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:54:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/15561402ndAmendmentshootingguncontrolposseVirginiatechNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1542817 unknown@Netscape.com In the aftermath of Monday's deadly shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is proposing a comprehensive, three-point plan to deal with the violence plaguing America, including a ban on handguns. Never mind our rights.. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:45:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1542817Kucinich2ndAmendmentgunbanlibertyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1511186 unknown@Netscape.com Two U.S. senators on Monday reintroduced a proposal designed to rein in government electronic spying activities like a once-secret National Security Agency program. Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:07:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1511186spying4thAmendmentbigbrotherNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1513586 unknown@Netscape.com A court battle that could result in substantial fines for news organizations and jail time for reporters is looming, after lawyers for a former Army scientist investigated in connection with the deadly anthrax mailings in 2001 signaled plans to demand the names of confidential sources for news stories about the anthrax probe. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:38:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/15135861stAmendmentfreedompressNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1502437 unknown@Netscape.com Everyone who visits the Common Dreams site is reading articles that were first published or commissioned by print publications. Without these print publications, there would be a lot less material for all of us to read, and some of our most important reporters and thinkers wouldn't get paid to write. Yet the independent magazines and small publi Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:06:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1502437postofficeToTheFirstAmendmentdropdeadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1488229 unknown@Netscape.com Switzerland has year after year turned in one of the world's lowest murder rates even while sending machine guns to every home of every member of their citizen army. And they do not keep their machine guns in safes or encumbered with trigger locks. They keep them at the ready. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:11:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1488229guncontrol2ndAmendmentswitzerlandconstitutionselfdefenseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1492601 unknown@Netscape.com The murders on the Virginia Tech campus, the worst such rampage in our history, might have been mitigated if just one member of the faculty or a student had the means to return fire. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:37:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1492601guncontrol2ndAmendmentVirginiatechNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1499642 unknown@Netscape.com The father of a GuantÃ;Æ;Ã;¡namo Bay, Cuba, detainee has written to a military panel that his son, as well as young children, were abused in a Pakistani prison by U.S. or proxy interrogators on the hunt for al Qaeda leaders. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:19:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1499642torture8thAmendmentguantanamoNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1483166 unknown@Netscape.com The tribunals determine whether an individual is an enemy combatant. Needless to say, the cards are stacked against the prisoner from the get-go. The tribunals are allowed to rely on hearsay evidence and information acquired though coercion. Any evidence deemed "secret" is withheld from the prisoner. Can you imagine trying to defend yours Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:40:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/14831666thAmendmenttribunalsHabeasCorpuslibertyguantanamoNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1475370 unknown@Netscape.com The administration proposed a bill on Friday to relax certain legal restrictions on the government's ability to intercept telephone calls and other communications in the United States. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:29:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/14753704thAmendmentbigbrothersurveillancespyingWarrantsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1477282 unknown@Netscape.com T he closed-door meetings held between presidential candidates and a dozen retired generals and admirals this weekend at Franklin Pierce Law Center were billed as an opportunity for robust debate about torture. Several of the generals have publicly criticized the Bush administration's policies on interrogation and worked with the nonprofit group t Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:27:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1477282torture8thAmendmentelectionsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1480992 unknown@Netscape.com Some lending companies with access to a national database that contains confidential information on 60 million student borrowers have repeatedly searched it in ways that violate federal rules, raising alarms about abuse of privacy, government and university officials said. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:24:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1480992datamining4thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1436724 unknown@Netscape.com REAL ID reduces rights of the individual to a string of digits, subject to the good-will of politicians, the government, software and/or bureaucrats. It makes Americans get permission to live and move in the basic functions of society: banking and travel. We shouldn't have to ask permission to be functioning citizens within our own country. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:28:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1436724Realidnationalbillofrightsliberty10thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1390344 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush's spy chief is pushing to expand the government's surveillance authority at the same time the administration is under attack for stretching its domestic eavesdropping powers. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:58:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1390344McConnellnationalintelligencedirectorspyingfisa4thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1208612 unknown@Netscape.com "student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate. But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy - because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion." Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:54:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1208612flyingspaghettimonsterpastafarianfreedomFirstAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1201651 unknown@Netscape.com Campaign finance laws, meant to rein in runaway spending on national political races, are discouraging Americans from participating in local issues like ballot initiatives, a libertarian public interest law firm warned Tuesday. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1201651freespeechcampaignFinance1stAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1189299 unknown@Netscape.com The presiding judge in the JosÃ;© Padilla case has held that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a speedy trial does not protect American citizens from being indefinitely incarcerated by the Pentagon. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:34:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1189299josepadillalaw6thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1190530 unknown@Netscape.com What is more dangerous to passenger airplanes, human breastmilk or Dell laptop computers? Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:59:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1190530TSA4thAmendmenttravelairplanesSecurityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1185625 unknown@Netscape.com FBI agents repeatedly provided inaccurate information to win secret court approval of surveillance warrants in terrorism and espionage cases, prompting officials to tighten controls on the way the bureau uses that powerful anti-terrorism tool, according to Justice Department and FBI officials. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:33:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/11856254thAmendmentWarrantsspyingFBINews http://web2announcer.com/go/1165474 unknown@Netscape.com Monica Goodling, a counsel to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who helped coordinate the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, will invoke her constitutional right not to answer Senate questions about the firings, her lawyer said. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:04:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1165474monicaGoodling5thAmendmentAlbertoGonzalesusfederalattorneysNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1138784 unknown@Netscape.com Anti-gun Democrats are trying to make up for lost time by reintroducing legislation intended to ban so-called "assault" weapons, a Second Amendment group warns. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:08:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/11387842ndAmendmentguncontrolassaultweaponsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1106536 unknown@Netscape.com Federal standards for identification are not authorized by the Constitution. It doesn't matter whether they're enforced through "laws" or economic "incentives" to the States. The politicians, by trying to force this on us without amending the Constitution to allow it, are showing utter contempt for states' rights and the princip Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:48:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1106536RealidnationalconstitutiontenthAmendmentstatesrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1103793 unknown@Netscape.com A senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday said he finds privacy concerns prompted by the proposed Real ID regime puzzling. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:29:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1103793RealidnationaltenthAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/981913 unknown@Netscape.com The uncoupling of American evangelism from the administration of George Bush gathered pace yesterday when one of the largest national umbrella groups of socially conservative Christians issued a statement critical of US policy towards detainees and repudiating torture as a tactic in the war on terror. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:03:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/9819138thAmendmenttortureevangelicalsdetaineesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/982517 unknown@Netscape.com The federal government is urging an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program, warning that disclosure of such activities could compromise national security. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:48:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/982517collusion4thAmendmentwiretappingspyingtrialNews http://web2announcer.com/go/934441 unknown@Netscape.com The Pentagon has refused to reveal which of its 14 "high-value" detainees were being examined by military lawyers in closed proceedings in Guantanamo Bay. Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:30:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/934441guantanamo6thAmendmentHabeasCorpusNews http://web2announcer.com/go/889417 unknown@Netscape.com Lawmakers and privacy advocates are concerned that a powerful new data searching tool being tested by the Department of Homeland Security could pose a threat to Americans' privacy as it sifts through mountains of information for patterns that might reveal terrorists. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:42:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/8894174thAmendmentlibertydataminingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/873422 unknown@Netscape.com The neocons are claiming that us liberals are being hypocrites and denying Coulter her right to freedom of speech under the First Amendment. The couldn't be more wrong. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:05:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/873422AnnCoulterFirstAmendmentfreedomofspeechhateconsequencesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/824101 unknown@Netscape.com A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a refusal to hear the case of a Lebanese-born German man who says he was tortured by the CIA, citing national security reasons. Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:58:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/8241018thAmendmenttortureciasupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/757958 unknown@Netscape.com The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid. Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:12:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/757958welfare10thAmendmentpublicAidNews