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South Dakota Police Use Forced Catheterization to Collect Urine Samples

An attorney has filed a motion to quash a search warrant and evidence gathered in a forced catheterization in South Dakota. According to the motion, law enforcement “strapped the defendant to a bed, and conducted a forced catheterization on the Defendant’s urine.” The Argus Leader reports: Dirk Landon Sparks was arrested March 14 after a … Continue reading

Hawaii becomes first U.S. state to place gun owners on FBI database

Hawaii is implementing FBI tracking and monitoring of gun owners in it’s state. Hawaii police will be notified when a firearm owner from the state is arrested anywhere in the US. The new bill was signed into law on Thursday. Reuters Hawaii’s governor signed a bill making it the first state to place its residents … Continue reading

Government Watch Lists

In 1963, Martin Luther King was a gun owner on an FBI watch list.https://t.co/xN8vQDQAnJ — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 22, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

4th Amendment Under Attack in Supreme Court Decision

On Monday the US Supreme Court ruled to uphold evidence gathered during an illegal investigatory stop in Utah. The case, Utah vs. Strieff, has wide implications for the 4th Amendment, which protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Supreme Court decided that even if the stop of Edward Strieff by narcotics … Continue reading

New Report: FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos

Jennifer Lynch Electronic Frontier Foundation Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos than we ever thought. And the Bureau has been hiding this fact from the public—in flagrant violation of federal law and … Continue reading

Developing: Senate compromise on gun control bill focuses on FBI lists

Four gun control measures were defeated in the Senate on Monday; two from Democrats and two from Republicans. The focus of the debate between the two sides has been on who is affected by new restrictions on fire arms purchases, with the Democrats pushing for broader restrictions for a larger number of people on various … Continue reading

Federal Judge Allows FBI To Hide Documents Related to Seattle Surveillance Cameras

Derrick Broze Activist Post A federal court has ruled that the city of Seattle cannot release information related to hidden surveillance cameras operated by the FBI. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard issued a temporary restraining order preventing Seattle from releasing any further information about the purpose and location of surveillance cameras hidden throughout the … Continue reading

US Government Declaring All Out War on Tiny House Living

Isaac Davis, Staff Waking Times The tiny house movement is one of the latest innovations in personal freedom from an overly consumeristic and a debt-driven society. Many people construct tiny houses themselves, often but not always on wheels, for a fraction of the cost of typical housing. In a tiny home, one has everything needed … Continue reading

Lavoy Finicum supported Native American tribal sovereignty before his death

Is a multi-racial movement for liberty and local sovereignty scary enough to the FBI that they will shoot a man over it? From Lingit Latseen In a video released the evening of his death, LaVoy Finicum, the man who was shot and killed on Tuesday in Harney County, addresses some concerns voiced by Natives regarding … Continue reading

FBI Video of the Killing of Levoy Finicum

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