The most recent poll question, which I let run for a while longer than I normally do, asked if people believe government can provide both security and liberty. And while I'd like to remind you that the poll is completely unscientific, the results were a little surprising.
The City of New York has released partial audio tapes of 911 emergency calls made on September 11, 2001. The recordings include only the voices of emergency personnel; the voices of callers have been removed.
Some of the worst news possible for the security of U.S. elections came a year ago, and somehow I missed it. In March 2005, Smartmatic, a company based in Venezuela, purchased Sequoia Voting Systems, a company which makes electronic voting equipment. What's the big deal? Sequoia's systems are just as insecure as Diebold's, with irregularities being reported this week in Pittsburgh and Chicago. And the parent company, Smartmatic, whose machines were used in Venezuela's 2004 recall election, still refuses to answer questions over the results of that election.
The color-coded Homeland Security threat advisory system, criticized by just about everybody as "vague and confusing," is about to get a lot more complex and confusing under a bill currently before the House homeland security committee.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, still just another three-letter agency despite their attempts to become more self-important, is moving into a new headquarters building in Washington, D.C. And because they don't want the walls to be bare, they asked their own employees to go home, and have their children draw pictures of what they thought their parents do at work. That was yet another foolish mistake on the part of the government, as a few of them actually did.
Government bureaucrats are the same everywhere. That is, they're stupid. And today's stupid bureaucrat is Jerry Taylor, city manager for Tuttle, Oklahoma.
A group of people held downtown Fernandina Beach, Fla., hostage Thursday night, reported the local weekly newspaper. That group of people was the local SWAT team.
The federal government wants to perform mental health screening on infants and get them started on drugs which they will take for their entire lives, if the drugs don't kill them first. And you're going to pay for it, whether you want to or not.
Deborah Davis was arrested last September in Denver, Colo., while she was riding a bus, after security guards boarded the bus and she refused to show ID. After a large public outcry, federal prosecutors dropped the charges against Davis. Now the Denver Regional Transportation District has proposed rerouting three of its bus routes which pass through the Denver Federal Center, after complaints from passengers about being required to show ID when riding that particular bus.
Two weeks ago I told you about millionaire John Gilmore, who lost in federal district court after he sued the Transportation Security Administration because he was denied boarding to aircraft after refusing to show identification. At that time he announced The Identity Project, which is investigating whether people who fail to show ID are actually allowed to board aircraft, as TSA claimed in court. The first results are in, and for once, it's somewhat good news.
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