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Sunday, February 26, 2006

LAND: The week in review Feb.20-25
Liberty Activist News Digest

In good news this week, Doctors in California delay a state sponsored murder by walking out, as lethal injection as a method of execution appears to be on shaky ground ... in Georgia, A federal appeals court has ruled that Georgia's obscenity law unconstitutionally limits the free-speech rights of businesses to advertise, and the US Supreme Court rules for church, against drug thugs. In bad news, SD Senate passes an abortion ban, a city in NM City considers stealing property for ditch, and an Indiana Court rules warrantless seizure OK and Homeland Security hassles owner of truck for his bumperstickers.

In really scary news this week, don't miss 'Bush's mysterious new programs and Wendy McElroy's blog entry 'Of 5th Columns and Detention Centers ', Jarrett Wollstein's '80,000+ now on "no-fly" lists'. Also commentaries on the political scene, L. Neil Smith's 'Time for a BOYNout' and Paul Craig Roberts 'From conservatives to brownshirts', and commentaries on the Austrian court which sentenced 'crackpot British historian David Irving to three years' imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust 17 years ago', and thus endorsed tyranny by repressing free speech.

Til next week

For Freedom

Mary Lou

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Sunday, February 19, 2006

LAND: The week in review Feb.13-19
Source: Liberty Activist News Digest

In bad news this week ... the idiot Houston Police Chief wants surveillance cameras in private homes, the US terror suspect list rises to 325,000, More worries about Google Desktop 3, China defends "right to police" Net, Feingold drops effort to block Patriot Act, Brits lose Round one to Blair on ID cards, RFID chips are implanted in 'volunteers' at a surveillance equipment company, and activist writers receive death threats. On the bright side, protests against Google for its China stance (in particular, the censoring of information related to Tibet to placate China), activists fast against the Iraq War, and activists protest the use of radio frequency identification tags at a California library 'gala'. On the 'monkey wrenching' front, we learn 'How to kill RFID tags with a cell phone'. Commentaries this week on privacy, Cory Maye, the First Amendment, the war in Iraq, the upcoming war in Iran, medical marijuana, and my personal favorite, the unsung hero of the civil rights movement, Robert F. Williams ('Negroes with Guns').

Til next week

For Freedom

Mary lou


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Sunday, February 12, 2006

LAND: The week in review Feb.06-Feb.12
Liberty Action News

In good news this week, a 93-year-old tenant wins eminent domain case, Privacy concerns may delay two air security programs, a Lawsuit challenges "e-annoyance" law. In bad news this week, in the US, NC Protesters say police invading privacy, Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war in schools, a VA Nurse's letter prompts sedition probe, and US plans massive data sweep and Google copies your HD; from abroad, in China: Man "jailed due to Yahoo", from Cuba: Internet hunger striker hospitalized, from Zimbabwe: Press crackdown intensifies. In to be expected but still awful news this week, pols compromise on Friday and it looks like the Patriot Act will be extended, but Sen. Feingold hasn't given up yet ...

Deaths this week, Betty Friedan, 1921-2006 (don't miss Wendy McElroy's 'A different look at Betty Friedan').

In anniversaries this week, the 10 year anniversary of the overturning of the Communications decency Act (They saved the Internet's soul), and, the 38th anniversary of the Orangeburg (SC) Massacre (Orangeburg pain continues). In ongoing atrocities, the fight to save Steve Jubby continues ('The crimes of pot justice' 'Who will murder Steve Kubby?).

And don't miss excellent commentaries on 'Googleocracy' (L. Neil Smith), unions ('Paradign Shift'), domestic spying {'On domestic spying, we the people are to blame') and the war {'It's your war -- you go fight it!' and 'Numbers') and, some wonderful 'Patriotic Posters' from the folks at Whitehouse.org!

Two new actions this week, a Petition to free Cory Maye, and David Codrea launches the 'The Million Moon March'.

Til next week

For Freedom

Mary Lou

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Sunday, February 05, 2006

LAND: The week in review Jan.30- Feb.05
Source: Liberty Action News Digest

We mourn the passing of two quite different activists this week ... Coretta Scott King [1927-2006] and Stew Albert [1939-2006]...free at last.

In other news, NH residents reject the 'Lost Liberty Hotel', anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is arrested at Bush's State of the Union address ... for the terrible crime of wearing a T-shirt with an unpopular message, a brave 'loony liberal librarian' faces down the FBI and refuses to let them seize computers without a warrant, peace activists in Ohio stage a'spy-in', EFF sues AT&T over NSA eavesdropping, protests in the UK over 'hate crime' legislation, support grows in the blogosphere and meatspace for medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby, a clever duo comes up with a RFID 'zapper'and more!

In commentaries this week, don't miss Kathryn Graham's 'The time is approaching', Claire Wolfe's 'The politician's rulebook' and Wendy McElroy's 'Question medical authirity'... also great commentaries on Steve Kubby and the evil drug war, domestic spying, the Dems Alito 'debacle' and the REAL ID Act.

Til next week

For freedom

Mary Lou


For these stories and daily updates
http://rationalreview.com/land