Category Archives: security theater

How can we protect our chilldrun, when any six-year-old terrorist can take a plastic butter knife from the school cafeteria? (Link from Jimmy Wales) Later: . . . if the school insists on upholding the suspension, his parents reportedly will seek criminal … Continue reading →

Yet another tale of petty banal evil. There are plenty of stories like this these days. I don’t know how many I’ve read where the writer describes some breach of civil liberties by employees of the state, then wraps it … Continue reading →

Five Technically Legal Signs for Your Library Q. How can you tell when the FBI has been in your library? A. You can’t. the USAPATRIOT Act makes it illegal for us to tell you if our computers are monitored; be … Continue reading →

Plaintiff’s Consolidated Opposition to Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss in Gilmore v Ashcroft. Related items here. John Gilmore is challenging the secret regulation which supposedly requires passengers to either show an official annotated photograph (internal passport) or submit to search. As … Continue reading →

A correspondent asks: Anyone else starting to wonder if the IAO isn’t a sacrificial Day-Glo “rabbit” intended to draw eyes away from the real danger buried somewhere in, say, the Department of Agriculture?

I am anticipating the day when the possession of Tibet and Afghanistan will be represented as vitally necessary to the security of Kansas and Nebraska. There is no logical end to this elastic conception of ‘security’ short of the conquest … Continue reading →