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Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been described by former colleagues as "psychotic." As more details emerge about Hasan's troubled state, gun safety advocates are launching fresh attacks on a Senate bill they say would make it easier for mentally unstable veterans to buy firearms.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his "Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act" will protect veterans' gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a "dangerous" proposal that could allow "over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompetent persons" to buy guns—people who would previously have been barred from doing so by the Veterans Administration (VA).
(click on the link for the full story and for the in-text links)Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been... more
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"A trial of a scanner that produces "naked" images of passengers has begun at Manchester Airport.
Sarah Barrett, head of customer experience at the airport, said most passengers did not like the traditional "pat down" search.
At Manchester Airport's Terminal 2, where the machine has been introduced, passengers will no longer have to remove their coats, shoes and belts as they go through security checks.
Ms Barrett said: "This scanner completely takes away the hassle of needing to undress."
Ms Barrett said the black-and-white image would only be seen by one officer in a remote location before it was deleted.
"The images are not erotic or pornographic and they cannot be stored or captured in any way," she said.
Passengers could refuse to be scanned, she added."
Coming to an airport, school, court, amusement park, concert and sports venue near you. Makes you long for the days of profiling."A trial of a scanner that produces "naked" images of passengers has... more
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This FBI pamphlet has been around awhile. It may not be current, but when viewed beside the latest speech by Obama, and his plans for Prolonged Detention, it becomes imperative that my fellow brothers, and sisters in Arms, as well as citizens in general, band together to ensure his presidential powers are kept in check. Otherwise we'll just end up with a more potent version of GW!
Pay attention to the following links....This FBI pamphlet has been around awhile. It may not be current, but when viewed... more
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"Profiling is a hot-button issue—civil liberties groups maintain that making assumptions based on race, nationality or ethnicity is unacceptably discriminatory, whereas some prominent conservatives argue that the method is an effective means to combat crime and terrorism, and therefore worth the social cost.
So who's right?
According to new research, it is no more effective to profile strongly—that is, subject individuals to increased scrutiny in proportion to their presumed likelihood of malfeasance—than it is to randomly flag individuals in the general population when it comes to rooting out terrorism. The reason, says study author William Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist at the University of Texas at Austin: terrorists are vastly outnumbered by innocents, and it's a waste of time and money to screen and rescreen the same benign people."
More at link!"Profiling is a hot-button issue—civil liberties groups maintain that... more
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This started when he was 5 years old.
The TSA and the resulting watch-list are complete shams which have no credible basis for selecting and assigning people as terrorists, other than being a costly political band-aid for the Bush administration to have appeared to be doing something to protect against further terror attacks.
This started when he was 5 years old.
The TSA and the resulting watch-list are... more
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Yesterday I ranted on Facebook about how annoyed I was with it. I've also had my share of emotional posts about various topics on Twitter. And I'm frequently opinionated in my blog postings on this site.
Unless you are following my writings on all the various sites, you might not know how cranky and critical I can be. My emotions and opinions may not be of concern to anyone beyond my close personal friends and co-workers (who have to listen to my occasional verbal tirades). But if you did care, there might soon be an easy way to track my online mood swings--a digital emo-meter, if you will.
Nitesh Dhanjani, senior manager and leader of application security services at Ernst & Young, and Akshay Aggarwal, Microsoft InfoSec team's practice manager for North America, are developing a "proof-of-concept" tool that analyzes a feed from peoples' various online presences. The dashboard looks at the stream for expressions of emotion in real time and uses colors to indicate different emotions.
Inspired by the site WeFeelFine.org, the researchers plan to unveil their tool at the BlueHat Security briefings Microsoft will host in October, and at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur later that month.
"It will tell you what's going on in your brain," Dhanjani said. "Reading the mind or emotions, people haven't looked at that before" on social networks.
We all know how photos on social networks can get us into trouble. There's the 22-year-old student who was sentenced to more than 5 years in jail for a drunk driving accident that killed her passenger after the judge said photos of her drinking on her MySpace page after the accident showed her lack of remorse. And then there's the bank intern whose photo of him at a Halloween party on Facebook was seen by his bosses who thought he had skipped work because of a family emergency. Yesterday I ranted on Facebook about how annoyed I was with it. I've also had my... more
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Jessie Misskelley, Jr., Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin, subjects of the 1996 "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" and 2000 "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" HBO documentaries, have a new court date in September 2008.
The hearing will likely cover new DNA evidence that Jessie Misskelley, Jr., Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin DNA did not match.
Both HBO documentaries focused on the lack of evidence connecting the 3 16 year old boys to the murders and the possibility that profiling led to their arrest.
Case overview from wm3.org
"Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. Evidence?
The same police officers coerced an error-filled "confession" from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late— Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994."
Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40.
For over 14 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection our tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment. "Jessie Misskelley, Jr., Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin, subjects of the 1996... more
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