My wife recently showed me something disturbing about the Insurrection Act

[Debs]

About the amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill and its widening of the scope of the Isurrection act to allow US troops to be deployed to American cities to quell unrest. This is disturbing when coupled to the building of camps by Halliburton. I mean I am a liberal. I am the kind of guy that ends up in those kind of camps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act

On June 22, 2006, the Congress modified the Insurrection Act as part of the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill. Section 1076 of the new law changes Sec. 333 of the "Insurrection Act," and widens the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States to enforce the laws. Under this act, the President may also deploy troops as a police force during a natural disaster, epidemic, serious public health emergency, terrorist attack, or other condition, when the President determines that the authorities of the state are incapable of maintaining public order. The bill also modified Sec. 334 of the Insurrection Act, giving the President authority to order the dispersal of either insurgents or "those obstructing the enforcement of the laws."

Sorry if I missed this being talked about before been away on vacation. If there is any further information on this I would like to be clued in. Isnt this something the ACLU ought to take up?

[bullimiami]

1. good plan. give bush and cheney the power that noone else has had.

they can be trusted with it.

republicans are insane. bush and friends are just evil.

[razors edge]

2. There is more in the works

I'll see if I can find it, but I read earlier today a report that all international travel will require prior authorization, a violation of the first amendment right to gather peaceably, since to gather one must travel, etc.

But basically if you leave the US you may not be allowed back in for secret reasons you can not challenge.

[Uncle Joe]

3. This is the real joke being played out on the American People,

and it's not going to be funny when the pudding hits the prop.

Kicked and recommended

:kick:

[razors edge]

4. Didn'y find the one I was looking for but

this is probably of interest concerning the RFID passport.

U.S. Passport RFID Already Hacked

Well that didn't take long. It's been roughly a whole month since the U.S. has been issuing passports with RFID chips in them, and already they've been hacked. In theory, at least.

The hack was released late last week and is now making the rounds. For a first stab at a hack, it is still on the limited side and is nothing to panic too heavily over. The hacker needs certain "seed" information in order to read all the data on the passport, including: Your passport number, your date of birth, and the date the passport expires. Using that information, anyone can obtain some of the digitally encoded data on the passport, including the digital image of your face and some personal information (it's not clear exactly what).

At first glance this doesn't sound so bad: Obtaining someone's date of birth is easy, but their passport and expiration date much less so. Still, all a hacker needs is a quick photo of that info or, more realistically, a simple method to intelligently brute-force-attack the passport in order to get the data.

More importantly, though, this is just the first passport crack in what will undoubtedly be a long line of them, culminating with a one-click method to crack any passport there is. For now, there's just the one: RFIDIOt, and the code is online for all to see. Hang in there, folks. Happy Halloween.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/6808;_ylt=AjbXWhYUUV.GFc51W61xkp8rLpA5