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Police departments across the country are feeling the need to upgrade their forces' weaponry with military grade firearms.
The Conservative party in Britain will scrap Tony Blair's planned compulsory ID card scheme if it wins the next election, according to a statement by Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.
Under a European Union directive tabled this week, anyone found denying or even questioning the official history of the Holocaust or recent conflicts in Africa and the Balkans could be punished with up to three years in jail.
The Texas State Legislature has introduced a bill that will fine parents $500 if they miss or choose not to attend a meeting with their child's teacher.
In yet another blow to the Chinese people's online liberty, the PRC's Paramount Leader Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet.
California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber plans to give California parents a lesson in parenting -- whether they like it or not.Next week, she will introduce a bill that will outlaw the spanking of children under four by their parents, a move that has sparked a flurry of both criticism and support in California and beyond.
A recent study of social attitudes in Britain has discovered that support for civil liberties is on the wane, with the majority of the population seeing infringements on their rights as a reasonable price for apparent security.
Beginning this summer, European travellers to the U.S. will face even more affronts to their civil liberties when new regulations designed to combat terrorism come into effect. "This must be the Keystone Cops school of border control."
The UK Press Complaints Commission, a regulatory body for the newspaper and magazine industry, has called for a "voluntary code of conduct" for blogs similar to the one adhered to by the mainstream press.
In a trial measure rolled out this week, British police gained the power to take the fingerprints of members of the public while out on patrol, cross-referencing the data against a national database containing 6.5 million fingerprints.
Worried Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism officers are increasingly taking advantage of government-reimbursed insurance plans to help them in the event of their being sued. According to many fomer intelligence officials, increased usage of the program is representative of a growing fear among CIA officers, many of whom fear accusations of prisoner abuse, torture, human rights violations and other crimes.
The U.S. military in Iraq has issued a $20 million, two-year contract to provide what they see as an essential service: a public relations program that seeks to "promote more positive coverage of news" from the region.
A series of blunders by airport security staff in the United Kingdom have raised concerns that, despite increased restrictions and checks on passengers and baggage, British airports are simply not prepared for a possible terrorist threat.
Republican Senators were frustrated once more this week in their attempts to see levels of taxation reduced. GOP lawmakers had bundled the cuts with a proposed increase in the federal minimum wage in an attempt to engender Democrat support; however, the bill failed Thursday in a Senate vote. Despite this setback, GOP representatives have promised that the bill will be voted on once more in September.
The United Nations issued a damning report Friday decrying the human rights record of the United States. The report urges the U.S. to close its secret detention centers, reduce its usage of the death penalty, ensure that minorities are adequately aided in relief efforts such as those after Katrina, and more.
I really hate minimum wage laws. What I hate more, however, is when government not only gets it completely wrong, but does so in trite, populist terms; exactly what Chicago's City Council has done this week, passing on Wednesday an ordinance that enforces a "living wage" for the city's employees.
In September 1999, painter and decorator Harry Stanley was shot to death by armed police in London. Challenged by Metropolitan Police officers who thought the table leg he was carrying was a gun, but given no chance to respond or display the fact that he was unarmed, Stanley's death was a chilling precursor to the July 2005 shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, equally unarmed, equally harmless and killed in an equally barbaric way, shot eleven times at close range in a London station when police mistook him for a suicide bomber.
In most countries throughout the world, prostitution is illegal. Punishments vary tremendously, from those in countries such as the United Kingdom and most of the United States, in which prostitution is typically classed as a misdemeanour, to more extreme examples such as those in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries in which prostitution carries the death penalty. Other countries -- such as the Netherlands, Germany, Greece and New Zealand -- have chosen to legalise prostitution. There is one thing all these countries have in common, regardless of their legislative policy: they all have a thriving sex trade, be it legal or illegal.
Minarchism, sometimes known as "minimal statism", is a governmental framework that aims to keep government as small as possible and places an emphasis on constrained government power, minimal spending and minimal levels of intervention. Minarchism is in keeping with liberal tradition and has won particular favour amongst libertarians.
Following on from the Supreme Court's decision on Thursday that Bush's proposed military tribunals were not currently legal, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has issued a response detailing his opinion.Not surprisingly, he condemns the ruling.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military tribunals held at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba were not legal, and that the Bush administration was overstepping its legal boundaries in allowing them. In a 5-3 ruling, Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion with Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Souter, and ultimately decided that the tribunals violated military justice law, the Geneva convention and 2005's Detainee Treatment Act.
Democrats announced plans Monday to block a proposed Congressional pay raise unless the federal minimum wage sees its first increase in nearly a decade.
Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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