Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)







Monday, February 27, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security's Key Words for Searching for Terrorists

The Alexander Higgins' blog refers to Electronic Privacy Information Center's success in using the Freedom of Information Act to force open access to the Department of Homeland Security's list of words that they are seeking as being possible security threats. The DHS's vaguely named "Analyst's Desktop Binder" lists hundreds of words on 39 pages, as a guide to spying on people while looking for terrorists. Here is the list.
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