Tag: search and seizure

Mind-blowing: the French State is relocating political repression

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
A historical fact that the French should remember better: the Police nationale, which is subordinate nowadays to Gérald Darmanin, a church mouse who on occasion, gets oral sex from citizens against reward, was founded on August 14, 1941. Here on January 21, 1942, French police officers pledged allegiance in Paris to the head of the fascist State, Philippe Pétain (Roger-Viollet)

the DGSI subcontracts to London

read a brief evocation on April 18, found it difficult to believe, until a first French article [English] in the evening, in Libération.

Mind-blowing: the French State is relocating political repression

Pakistan court cancels arrest warrants for ex-PM Imran Khan

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Court adjourns hearing in corruption case against leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party until March 30.

Pakistan court cancels arrest warrants for ex-PM Imran Khan

Spying In Plain Sight

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Last week, the Biden administration asked Congress to permit its agents to continue to spy on Americans without search warrants. The actual request was to re-authorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. FISA requires warrants from the FISA Court for all domestic spying. Section 702 is a 2008 amendment to FISA. It expressly authorizes warrantless spying of foreign persons.

Spying In Plain Sight

Germany, Freedom of Speech: With house searches against Facebook likes

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Can a Like be punishable? The district court of Meiningen affirmed this question for the first time and even justified house searches. The questionable verdict thus allows law enforcement agencies to use bazookas to shoot at sparrows – and pushes the boundaries of freedom of expression. A comment.

With house searches against likes (original in German)

H/T: Steve Lehto