Posts Tagged ‘peninsula’

French President: ‘Security Services Exaggerate Terror Threat to Justify Security Measures’

     In 2009, before he was President, Francois Hollande appears to have been much more perspicacious about the nature of the ‘terror threat’, including the way in which authorities can and do exaggerate that threat to justify draconian legislation that deprives innocent people of their freedoms and civil liberties. What happened in the interim Mr. […]

Men in Black: Lawyers protest mass surveillance in Berlin (VIDEO)

Screenshot from Ruptly video More than 300 protesters gathered in front of the German Chancellery to mark the upcoming second anniversary of Edward Snowden’s leak of the NSA secret intelligence data that removed the veils from the eyes of the public. Berlin saw a crowd of several hundred lawyers all dressed in black robes on […]

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