The following posts have been tagged Civil Liberites.


Prof Norman Finkelstein on the Riz Khan show

His tenure denial was atrocious. Throw him some love:
normanfinkelstein.com
finkelgate.com

Don’t look for democracy in Israel

In Israel, it is illegal to call for the laws to be applied equally to all its citizens regardless of religion. If you support a national government for its citizens and not for “Jews all over the world”, you are prohibited from forming a political party. There’s your ‘democracy’ in the Middle East [...]

No Defense Against Persecution

by Sarah Shields
“Has anyone told you that you look like Gandhi?” my companion asked Professor Sami al-Arian. Al-Arian was sitting behind a plastic wall, wearing striped prison clothes and speaking into two telephones.
It was easy not only to see the resemblance, but also to feel it. Dr. al-Arian has a strikingly similar smile, Gandhi-like eyes [...]

President W. invokes Amendment 0

Most people forget that the Bill of Rights actually starts at 0, not, as is commonly thought, with #1. The Fathers probably made a bad marketing choice starting with 0, but it was long before counting had been invented, so it’s understandable. Amendment 0 gives the president the powerful power to create definitions to words [...]

What is this Apple bullshit?

Mighty Seek blogged about Apple trying to remove the word “pod” from the English language. Do a Google search, they are actually trying to assert that the word “pod” has now come to be associated with Apple regardless of the context it is used in.
What a load of bullshit. I love Apple computers and iPods [...]