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1 month ago with 1 note

Tagged: Cory Doctorow boing boing

Santa Fe Institute economist: one in four Americans is employed to guard the wealth of the rich

This ain’t good. (Via Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing)

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2 months ago with 4 notes

Tagged: Amy Thibodeau Orson Wells Boing Boing The Januarist

“I’m willing to admit that the policeman has a difficult job, a very hard job, but it’s the essence of our society that the policeman’s job should be hard. He’s there to protect, protect the free citizen, not to chase criminals, that’s an incidental part of his job. The free citizen is always more of a nuisance to the policeman that the criminal. He knows what to do about the criminal.”
— Orson Welles
Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights by Amy Thibodeau (Via Boing Boing)

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2 months ago

Tagged: The Independent boing boing police suspicion

Dominic Lawson: If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened

People meekly accept official behaviour, even if they might strongly suspect it is the police who are behaving illegally

The Independent (via Boing Boing)

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3 months ago with 3 notes

Tagged: cory doctorow boing boing

Police State Update:

Britain’s cops have the largest DNA database in the world, and it’s full of innocent people who were arrested but not charged, or charged but not convicted (the EU’s Court of Human Rights have ordered this practice to stop, but the cops refuse to comply with the law — their latest dodge is to keep innocents’ DNA for six years). Now an inquiry that begins today claims that police are “routinely arresting people” that they know they can’t convict of any crime, simply to get their DNA into the database. -Cory Doctorow (Via Boing Boing)

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5 months ago

Tagged: Boing Boing safety halloween kids

“Skenazy points out that there has never been a single substantiated incident of a kid being sickened, hurt or killed by doctored candy handed out during trick-or-treating in the history of America. Ever.”
— Via Boing Boing