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Supreme Court backs Due Process rights for Guantanamo detainees!

WASHINGTON - June 12, 2008 - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

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Freedom under Fire: Man who fell off couch laughing at TV show ends up pepper sprayed and arrested!

LONDON, England - June 11, 2008 - A British man who was so amused with BBC1’s "Have I Got News for You" that he fell off his couch in a fit of laughter was not so happy when it got him arrested and pepper sprayed.

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Totalitarian Files: Anti-war protesters banned from demonstrating against Bush!

LONDON, England - June 10, 2008 - London police have announced a ban on anti-war campaigners hoping to protest against President George Bush's visit to Downing Street this Sunday. The Whitehall ban has been immediately condemned as a "totalitarian act" by the playwright Harold Pinter, while Stop the War organizers are urging people to defy it and to demonstrate nearby in Parliamen

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Department of Defense instructed jailers at Guantanamo to destroy interrogation notes!

WASHINGTON - June 9, 2008 - U.S. interrogators of "war on terror" detainees were instructed to destroy handwritten notes that might have exposed harsh or even illegal questioning methods at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a lawyer for one of the prisoners said Sunday.

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Housing bill creates national fingerprint registry!

WASHINGTON - June 9, 2008 - Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) authored a bill (with 11 co-sponsors, including Senator Barack Obama) that was incorporated into a housing bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee, 19-2, before the Memorial Day recess - a bill that creates a national fingerprint registry.

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District Attorney bullies child abuse investigators into falsifying reports!

State welfare chief says D.A. office willing to 'cuss, scream, threaten' social workers

WICHITA, Kansas - June 9, 2008 - A parental rights advocacy group in Kansas was "floored" when the state child welfare chief admitted that his social workers were being "bullied" into falsifying the reports that lead to children being taken out of their h

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Hitler would be Proud: D.C. setting up neighborhood checkpoints, warrantless, door-to-door searches!

WASHINGTON - June 4, 2008 - D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.