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Tag Archives: Civil Liberties

Never Mind the Torture Report (Or Rectal Re-hydration for the Masses!)

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: December 9, 2014

Today the Senate Intelligence Committee is set to release a report on the CIA’s use of torture in the years after 9-11, but the contents of the report are practically irrelevant since the decision not to punish those responsible makes it an exercise in historical archiving at best, nothing more. After his inauguration in 2009, President […]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged Imperial Presidency, Justice System, Social Criticism, Terrorism, Torture, War | Leave a comment

The Earth-Shattering Whistleblower You Haven’t Heard About

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: June 26, 2013

While many in the nation are concerned with Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) leaker who helped to spread the word about the agency’s spying and data collection within the US, the extent of that spying still remains clouded. Are our calls actually being recorded? Can that information be recalled at a later date? […]

Posted in News | Also tagged Media, Whistleblowers | Leave a comment

The King of Ruffle Bar and the Insanity of Bureaucracy

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: August 17, 2012

In anthropologist Edward Hall’s 1976 book Beyond Culture,  he describes a story of a wild dog that lived on the small, otherwise uninhabited island of Ruffle Bar, which is just off the coast of Brooklyn and Long Island. The dog, nicknamed “The King of Ruffle Bar,” seemed to be in good health and had sustained […]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged Justice System, Law Enforcement, Social Criticism | Leave a comment

Strip Searching Innocent Victims in the ‘Land of the Free’

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: August 9, 2012

Last July, Leila Tarantino, a citizen of Citrus County, Florida, was driving with her two children. According to a lawsuit she filed with the district court last week, Tarantino says she made a full stop at a stop sign, but was pulled over by police anyway. She was held in the back of a police […]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged Justice System, Law Enforcement | Leave a comment
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