A federal judge delivered a blow Monday to Twitter’s drive to release more details on surveillance orders it receives, but the tech firm won a chance to try to reformulate its case. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Rogers said the government has the power to prohibit the release of classified information, barring claims Twitter made…
Category: Legal Matters
The Surveillance State: What Happened to the 5th Amendment and “Innocent Until Proven Guilty?”
Consider for a moment the implications of a world without the protections afforded under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights…the man in this story does not have to do that, he is living it right now. Now I am against child sex predators as much as anybody, but this case STINKS! The Man has…
The Surveillance State: Phone Database Security Called into Question
As if Illegal Mass Surveillance does not have enough downside, now it has also become a National Security risk??? -SF Federal officials fear that national security may have been jeopardized when the company building a sensitive phone-number database violated a federal requirement that only U.S. citizens work on the project. The database is significant because…
The Surveillance State: FISC Court Rejects Challenge to Warrantless Email Searches
In a just-released court opinion, a federal court judge overseeing government surveillance programs said he was “extremely concerned” about a series of incidents in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency deviated from court-approved limits on their snooping activities. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Thomas Hogan sharply criticized the two agencies over…
Gun Law News: Mississippi Becomes 10th Constitutional Carry State
Mississippi and Governor Phil Bryant are fast becoming one of my favorite States and Governors (Right Behind my Home State of Texas of course). First the Religious Freedom Bill and Now Constitutional Carry!! It does my heart good to hear and read about so many liberals CRYING and COMPLAINING…As the old saying goes: You know…
U.S. Citizens May Be Banned From Purchasing and Owning Body Armor
My advice to all CO’s concerning this issue is the same as it is whenever lib-tards and the “powers that be” try to FLEX their fascist muscles and “CONTROL” our guns or “BAN” our ammo….GEAR UP NOW and KEEP GEARING UP; THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER FROM HERE ON OUT.-SF It’s time…
The Surveillance State: First was the Breathalyzer, now Meet the “Textalyzer”
We’re all familiar with the Breathalyzer, the brand name for a roadside device that measures a suspected drunken driver’s blood-alcohol level. It has been in use for decades. Now there’s a so-called “textalyzer” device to help the authorities determine whether someone involved in a motor vehicle accident was unlawfully driving while distracted. The roadside technology is…
Let Political Correctness Be Damned!
I make it a point to stay away from the political carnival, and I know the actions of politicians are ALWAYS duplicitous and eventually self-serving, but it really is a breath of Fresh air to see a Governor, more to the point, a SOUTHERN Governor, stand up against the rising tide of liberalism and Federal…
Texas News: Supreme Court Get’s It Wrong Again…Non-Citizens SHOULD NOT be Counted
The Federal Judicial Branch is more screwed up than a soup sandwich. Bad Call. -SF In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against two residents of Texas who had argued that the Texas legislature diluted their votes when it used total population to redraw state Senate districts. In Evenwel v. Abbott,…
Cyber-News: FBI Is Pushing Back Against Judge’s Order to reveal TOR Browser Exploit
Last month, the FBI was ordered to reveal the full malware code used to hack visitors of a dark web child pornography site. The judge behind that decision, Robert J. Bryan,said it was a “fair question” to ask how exactly the FBI caught the defendant. But the agency is pushing back. On Monday, lawyers for…