Occupy July Fourth: Honor the Fourth Amendment

Occupy Wall Street folks will be demonstrating in support of the 4th Amendment, on this 4th of July, in New York City (and other cities around the nation). “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…” -The Bill of Rights, Amendment Four from […]

Drum roll, please…Winner of The Strip Search Limerick Contest

Strip-Search For Poetry: A Limerick Contest For The Supreme Court The results are in for the contest we held to create limericks about the Supreme Court’s horrible decision on strip searches, which has decimated the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.  With this recent decision, any person who will be held in the “general population” in […]

Obama Kills The Fourth Amendment » American Civil Liberties Union

In 1994 the FBI decided it needed a surveillance system built into the telephone network to enable it to listen to any conversation with the flip of a switch. Congress obliged by passing the Communication Assistance to Law Enforcement Act CALEA, forcing the telecoms to rebuild their networks to be “wiretap ready.” Seventeen years later, […]