(Untitled)- May 23, 2006 Supreme Court Nullifies Fourth Amendment - home searches without warrant OKed (David G. Savage, L.A. Times, May 22, 2006) Police officers may go into a home uninvited and without a search warrant in order to break up a fight they have seen through a kitchen window, the Supreme Court ruled today. . . . Usually, homes are off limits to the police and government searches, except when officers havehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/05/supreme-court-nullifies-fourth.html (Untitled)- May 22, 2006 Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State One saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course,http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/05/top-ten-signs-of-impending-u.html (Untitled)- May 11, 2006 NSA has domestic phone call database (MSNBC News Services, May 11, 2006) The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. borders...In an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, the agency in charge (NSA) of a domestic spying program has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, USA Today reported onhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/05/nsa-has-domestic-phone-call-database.html (Untitled)- May 6, 2006 U.S. government continues to escalate domestic spying (Joe Kay and Marge Holland, World Socialist Web Site, 5 May 2006) Nearly five months after the secret National Security Agency spying program was first revealed in the media, the US government continues its unchecked expansion of domestic spying powers. Several recent reports document this expansion, which is taking place on many fronts,http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/05/u_06.html (Untitled)- May 5, 2006 U.S. Congress Votes for Police State Laws (Free Market News, 2 May 2006) Last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted 327 to 96 in favor of passing a national intelligence bill reminiscent of laws created in police state nations, according to OnlineJournal and other sources. . . . The bill, HR 5020, proposes to create a number of sweeping changes to intelligence agencies in the name ofhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/05/u.html (Untitled)- May 2, 2006 Feds Go All Out to Continue Domestic Spying (Ryan Singel, Wired News, May, 02 2006) When the government told a court Friday that it wanted a class-action lawsuit regarding the National Security Agency's eavesdropping on Americans dismissed, its lawyers wielded one of the most powerful legal tools available to the executive branch -- the state secrets privilege. . . . That privilege allows thehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/05/feds-go-all-out-to-continue-domestic.html |