Archive for the 'Government Corruption' Category
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
A Scottish police officer has been accused of revealing confidential details about paedophile, Albert Hay, to a resident of the town where the man was living.
Gerard McCartney, 41, of Grampian Police, denied a charge brought under the Data Protection Act at Elgin Sheriff Court earlier this week.
Last July more than 200 people in Keith […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Brian D. Kelly is facing a felony wiretapping charge in Pennsylvania for running a video camera pointed at a police officer during a traffic stop.
This case would seem to indicate that Pennsylvania has a law that needs changing. The Rodney King beating is the best known of hundreds of cases of police misbehavior caught […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
The Boston Herald has placed the salaries of all Massachusetts state employees on line.
It appears that the state payroll may be loaded with friends and family of well connected Massachusetts politicians.
Maybe the list will give Massachusetts taxpayers the info to ask a few pointed questions.
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
Proponents of the Open Government Act have determined that Republican Senator Jon Kyl has placed a “hold” on the bill preventing a vote. By tradition, a senator may anonymously block consideration of a bill he finds objectionable.
Previously Mr. Kyl had objected under a Senate rule that allows members to hold legislation anonymously. He […]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Successful societies possess several important attributes including Private Property Rights, the Rule of Law, and Freedom of the Press.
Private Property Rights guarantee that owners may reap the benefits from investments of money and time in their homes and businesses.
The Rule of Law guarantees that all member of society play by the same rules.
Freedom of the […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
A Web site that matches roommates may be liable for what its users say about their preferences, a fractured three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled yesterday.
The Ninth Circuit appears to take both a broad view of who is a covered by the Fair Housing Act and a narrow view of […]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
The head of the Democratic Party said Wednesday that the best way to get presidential candidates to talk frankly about issues is to lock out the media. Dean said. “If you want to hear the truth from them, you have to exclude the press.”
This is an existential statement. Does it matter if a […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, has taken over the the nation’s oldest private television network, Radio Caracas Television.
A state run television station will replace RCT.
Government control of the organs of information distribution is a symptom of the command and control society that Venezuela appears to approach. A government that cannot tolerate criticism is a government […]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Virginia Tech college student, Cho Seung-Hui had been judged mentally ill and a danger to himself and others yet his parents didn’t know. Virginia Tech was prevented from telling them by FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
FERPA was one of a series of “privacy” laws passed following Supreme Court Justice William […]
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
News organizations filed documents in federal court Monday opposing a government request to close portions of an upcoming trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
Media organizations, including The Associated Press, are concerned the government wants to keep large portions of evidence in the case out of public view when former […]
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