Loss of Privacy

You can read a detailed description of what happened to Robert Phillips and the weird disappearance of Dave Vasey’s charges.

From CBS News:

About 80 miles from the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona, the desert has become a battlefield for armed civilian patrols who claim they are ready to kill drug smugglers crossing the border. Steven Fabian reports.

Read more here and here. 

From EPIC:

On July 20, 2010, the Department of Homeland Security announced a substantial change in the deployment of body scanners in US airports. According to the DHS Secretary, the devices, which had once been part of a pilot program for seconary screening, will now be deployed in 28 additional airports. The devices are designed to capture and store photographic images of naked air travelers. EPIC has filed an emergency motion in federal court, urging the suspension of the program and citing violations of several federal statutes and the Fourth Amendment. Public opposition to the program is also growing. For more information, see EPIC v. DHS (Body scanners) and EPIC Body Scanners.

A new set of posters at LAX is being dubbed “terror-veillance” as they were made to invoke terror in people instead of preventing it.

See something. Say something. Imprison innocents. Terrorize travelers.

The police want you to iWatchLA, but I won’t be. Put these posters together with the anti-terror citizen watch groups and the iwatch videos from last year, and you’re got scared citizens everywhere.

Dan Dicks and Charlie Veitch, G-20 protesters just back from Toronto, give their on-the-ground view of the battles between police and those opposed to the New World Order