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Personal Freedom Watch

Another Year of the Patriot Act HR 67, a house bill introduced by Republican congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan, is set to pass the House of Representatives with out any resistance. This bill will extend the privacy destroying Patriot Act. The Patriot act eases the restrictions on law enforcements ability to search and watch suspected “terrorists”. This act allow law enforcement to use roving wiretaps, which is a wire tap that follows a target no matter what form of communication they use. The act also allows for indefinite detentions of immigrants suspected of terrorism, a direct breach of 6ht amendment. In short this act allows the government to take constitutional breaking actions if a suspect is declared to be a “terrorist. ” The renewal of this act merely continues a decade of invasion of personal liberty and freedom.

What is the problem with the TSA???

There is a huge up roar among travelers who fly from American Airports. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has introduced new security procedures to "protect" the American public. The TSA has installed hundreds of backscatter radiation machines that x-ray the human body to the skin. The TSA agents can see everything on the scanned person, including genitalia. This system is used to try to find weapons and other illegal substances. The other new procedure that is now commonly used at Airports are full body pat downs. They touch all over the passenger’s body in an effort to find weapons. There has been many reports of TSA agent purposely and sexual groping passengers. These procedures are an outrage. The American public has been abused by the government in too many ways because of "National Security." These new TSA regs are overblown and need to be abolished.

ISP Trouble Breaking News: Today, December 21, the Federal Trade Commission will ratify new rule for the internet. These new rules will dictate on how Internet Service Providers (ISP) will allow access to the Internet. For fixed line ISPs, the new rules would make it illegal for companies to give preferential treatment to certain users and disallow the practice of blocking rival companies’ content and services. This is the very definition of Net Neutrality. These new regulations are the first time that Net Neutrality has been endorsed by The Government. The threat to personal freedoms and the internet itself comes from the new regulations of mobile internet service providers. Under the new rules Mobile ISPs can charge more for faster delivery of content and block non-competing applications. The mobile ISPs could charge more for a small time news outlets website to load when compared to a major news networks site loaded at the same speed. This can lead to the exclusion of certain websites that would be determined by the ISPs.