President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Eric Holder, told his Senate confirmation hearing that waterboarding is torture and the President cannot authorize it. On the heels of Burge’s conviction, a group of artists and educators joined forces with activists and PLO attorney Joey Mogul to form an organization that would become known as the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM). Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Robert Norse seems to have the opinion that surveilance of politcal activists does not violate the 4th amendment, but I would dissagree in this case. That is because police and FBI agents typically engage in naked-eye surveillance before they have probable cause or anything like it. Indeed, it is often such surveillance that generates the probable cause supporting a later application for a search warrant. This insistence, in turn, has pressured the Court into denying that an instance of naked-eye surveillance is a search at all. Similarly, in 1977, the Court ruled that the local government's requirement that members of the American Nazi Party post $350,000 in insurance in order to hold a march and rally in Skokie, Illinois was an unconstitutional infringement on the group's First Amendment rights.

Confusingly for both theorists and practitioners, the Court has sometimes upheld searches without individualized suspicion; but at other times has insisted that such searches are presumptively unconstitutional. I think my uninformed speculation (see the other thread) concerns the 4th amendment against unreasonable searches and siezures. It seems that they are referring to searches in public places, as opposed to private homes. It would be interesting if the City Government tried to use the Patriot Act to defend their activities subverting democratic rights here in Santa Cruz since the City Council has also passed a resolution saying they are opposed to that same act. I wanted to take the time address a few of your observations about the Santa Cruz police actions. Politically the City Government will have a hard time using the Patriot Act to defend their actions. If you have time and want experience building websites: this website is looking for contributors. According to an NCIS report, a team from the Regional Legal Service at Naval Air Station Mayport in Florida, including four JAG officers, orgy was activated on Oct. 23, 2006. The NCIS said at the time that it had collected 34 boxes and one bag of material, weighing a total of 1,065 pounds, all of which had to be reviewed by the JAG officers and others.

In addition I think that a very good legal and political argument can be made that the Patriot Act itself is illegal in that it violates various constitutional rights including the First Amendment. Of course, you can always try one of the establishments we have recommended above to be sure, as we've already checked this for you, so you know if ETH is your gambling choice, then you're good to go with any of them. As best i can determine so far, there is no evidence that the Police were gathering any information at the meeting they did go to about the individuals there or their politics, organizational affiliations, or anything else which would constitute an infringement of anyone's civil liberties. McCarthy did not respond to a request for comment but confirmed to the Washington Post he had ordered DeSantis to gather information. The city's Public Safety Committee will look into this, but so far at least on the surface, there is no reason to think that the Police were doing anything other than attending a public meeting to get logistical information related to public safety (e.g. potential car and pedestrian conflicts) concerning an announced demonstration in the streets downtown in which the planners of the event refused to talk to the police about their plans or apply for a permit.

Although there are certainly people who do this, we're guessing for most of our readers, the more traditional exchange purchase route would be the easier option. The city last year alone approved a $12.3 million settlement to a pair of Burge’s victims who are among the 120 known black victims of Burge’s ring. Escalante. But how can we be sure about WHO the infiltrators are? If it can be shown that the cops needed a warrant to do any kind of undercover work at a private residence, then what actually happened may be a 4th amendment violation. My uninformed speculation is that the cops may have been attempting to move the meeting to that location (Wired Wash) so as to provide "admissable evidence", since surveilance without a required warrant at a private residence would have been "inadmissable". You might still need a warrant to put a bug in the room, but probably not to have an undercover cop be there. Did your source approach you with the info, or did you first suspect the two might be cops and approach the SCPD? Its as if you think I might not be an "@ctivist." I consider myself to be an @ctivist, but I am also a reporter, so actually, yes, that would make my job alot easier.