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Showing posts with label Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rights. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)

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In light of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and because I'm a glutton for punishment, I'm re-posting a link to my left ar...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
(Reprise)

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(This article, which was published on Counterpunch , is a condensed and updated version of an essay that was published on this site in 2013...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Sealed With A Kiss: Mabel and Kathleen Talk Armed Self-Defense

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In a previous post ( The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights ) , I remarked that: “Only in the ridiculous political dis...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

The New Privateers:
Civil Forfeiture, Police Piracy, and the Third-Worldization of America

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I know you're already mad about various injustices, but when you read Sarah Stillman’s recent New Yorke r article, “ Taken ,” your bloo...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Social Network, NSA Version:
"They took those programs that I built and turned them on you"

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Laura Poitras's short take on William Binney, 32-year NSA veteran who quit the Agency in October 2011 when he saw the deep data-mining c...
Monday, June 17, 2013

“No matter what the law actually says”:
The Snowden Revelations and the Eternal Surveillance State

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The sudden cascade of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden through Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Laura Poitras in the Gu...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Snowball in Hell:
The Momentum of Same-Sex Marriage in Our Sulfurous Polity

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Glenn Greenwald’s column in The Guardian the other day, “ The gay marriage snowball and political change ,” makes an important point ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Double-O bama: License to Kill

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Self-Issued. The unbelievable has become the norm. From Glenn Greenwald : "As always, it's really worth pausing to remind our...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Flight Club: The No-Fly List and the Authoritarian Theater of the Absurd

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[I]t is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. ―  Franz...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Hunting 250s: “We’re going to go out there, and we’re going to violate some rights.”

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This video, published by The Nation , captures one incident of a kind that occurs about 700,000 times a year to New Yorkers.  Exce...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Dimples on the Ass of American Justice

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I’ve come across two horrifying stories that everyone interested in civil liberties, equality before the law, freedom from persecution, and ...