21WIRE’s Week in Review: 12 MAR 2016 Edition
21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
And the DEA violated its own policy in the process.
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Libertarian stand-up comic Doug Stanhope has said: “Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” I would only quibble with the “nothing but” part. The collectivist herd-think that is nationalism also teaches you to take offense at imagined insults that […]
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According to the claims of one Congressman.
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Peter B. Collins Presents Prof. Rebecca Gordon
The Interceptby KenI originally thought of springing this on you on April Fool's Day, but worried that you would think it was some sort of April Fool's joke, demanding to know whether you could by chance be a terrorist. Sorry, buster, this is no joke. Or are you one of those terrorist-loving Islamofascist-lovers who would like nothing better than to see us patriotic Americans let down our guard? Get real there, friend.
AllGov | March 23, 2015 The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been accused of spending a billion dollars on a passenger-screening program that’s based on junk science. The claim arose in a lawsuit (pdf) filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has tried unsuccessfully to get the TSA to release documents on its […]
The truth is that the risk of an American being killed by terrorism is close to zero, having been calculated at 1:20,000,000 By John Chuckman | Aletho News | February 25, 2015 In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, […]
By Andrew Meyer | PINAC | February 4, 2015 Roger Vanderklok only wanted to file a complaint. Instead, he was taken to jail. After being questioned by Transportation Security Administration workers at Philadelphia International Airport about some PowerBars and a watch in his bag, Vanderklok was accosted by TSA supervisor Charles Kieser. When Vanderklok asked […]
By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | September 15, 2014 Via Amy Alkon, we learn of yet another bizarre moment in the world of security theater known as the TSA. It involves a young man from Orono, Minnesota, named Kahler Nygard, who for reasons no one will ever explain, happens to be on a “selectee” list […]