BOYCOTT THE AIRLINES!

The gross part is, 70% of the respondents to this poll support body scanners at the airports. HELL NO.

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KCI Airport To Get Body Imaging Scanners

Scanners Raise Privacy Issues

POSTED: 9:58 pm CST February 26, 2010

UPDATED: 9:23 am CST February 27, 2010

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. –

Your next trip to Kansas City International Airport may include body imaging scanners.

KMBC confirmed that the scanners will be coming to Kansas City.

The scanners allow security to see beneath your clothing in order to stop someone from smuggling weapons, explosives or drugs. They are being used in limited areas now but are becoming more common at airports worldwide.

However, the images are fairly revealing, and that is raising issues of privacy, KMBC's Martin Augustine reported.

Many passengers told KMBC that they're willing to risk the scanners if it helps to increase security.

"Anything you can do to make things safer is definitely the way to go," one passenger said.

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"If it keeps everyone safe, keeps the terrorists off the planes, that's what we have to do," another passenger said.

Experts said body imaging scanners would have prevented a man from smuggling explosives inside his clothes on Christmas.

via KCI Airport To Get Body Imaging Scanners – Kansas City News Story – KMBC Kansas City.

U.S. Law Enforcement Receive Counter-Terrorism Training in Israel

Posted: September 11, 2009

In early September, the Anti-Defamation League brought a group of fifteen U.S. law enforcement professionals to Israel to learn advanced counterterrorism strategies from their Israeli counterparts as part of the ADL National Counter-Terrorism Seminar (NCTS).

The group consisted of law enforcement from federal, state, and local agencies from around the country including, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE), Texas Department of Public Safety, Missouri State Highway Patrol and Atlanta Police Department.

Over the course of the week, participants met with and were briefed by members of the Israel National Police, Israel Security Agency, and Israel Defense Forces. They met with some of Israel's strongest leaders in the face of terrorism, such as Brigadier General Yeshayahu Horowitz and Brigadier General Nir Meriesh of the Israel Police, and Major General Dov Lutzky of the Israel Prisons Service. Participants were given behind the scenes tours and briefings as to how Israel secures its airports, malls, and holy sites. In addition to formal presentations and site visits, the program enabled participants to visit some of Israel's most important cultural, historical, and religious sites.

Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Keen of the Illinois State Police stated, "The information I learned on this trip will be shared when I return and will certainly help the Illinois State Police be better prepared if/when this type of threat occurs in Illinois." He continued, "I have attended numerous law enforcement training sessions in the last 24 years, and none compare to this." Major Debra Williams of the Atlanta Police Department described the trip as "unimaginable" and stated, "I recommend this training to all that hold an executive level in their field."

via U.S. Law Enforcement Receive Counter-Terrorism Training in Israel.

Tony’s Kansas City Covers the Red Light Cam Protest

Have I mentioned how proud I am of Tracy? I have been on the road for a month and have not gotten my official announcement out, but if you haven’t noticed the WAVES OF LIBERTY rippling through KC this past month, you must be blind. Tracy has stepped up as the new KC area director and is going 90 mph. I am so proud of her. I’ll do the formal announcement when I’m off the road for a bit

Tracy, LRP KC, I love ya’ll!

Tony, THANK YOU FOR COVERING THE REAL NEWS!

<3 Catherine

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

THE TKC SATURDAY NIGHT PLAYLIST!!! GRASSROOTS PROTEST AND THE FUTURE OF LOCAL POLITICS!!!

Today I stopped by the Liberty Restoration Project Red Light Camera Protest and I was impressed.

Over the past few years I’ve noticed a lot more people organizing through the Internets and even old school grass roots methods because local politicos haven’t offered much in the way of leadership. This dedicated group is a great example of a few pissed off locals rallying on a subject that is evoking the ire of quite a few locals.

More importantly, I think grass roots organizing via the Internet is only going to grow more important as (by and large) the current crop of politicos in power (still) seem to be disconnected with what the vast majority of people on the street are thinking. I was talking with a rather well-connected professional working for a bit of change in his community today and he spoke of his efforts to simply, “bypass the leadership and go straight to the people.” That’s a sentiment I’m hearing more often nowadays and I can’t help but think that the local Internet is going to play some role . . . Don’t get me wrong, it’s not going to be all sunshine and flowers . . . Local politics moving to the Internets definitely means more fighting, nastiness and divisive content online but it also puts more hands into individuals and small time operators who also want to aggregate and congregate online like so many recent political campaigns.

via Tony’s Kansas City.

via The Liberty Restoration Project » Blog Archive » Tony’s Kansas City Covers the Red Light Cam Protest.

Friday, January 22, 2010

KANSAS CITY RED LIGHT CAMERA PROTEST THIS SATURDAY!!!

Interesting . . . The Liberty Restoration Project takes on Kansas City&apos;s Red Light Cameras this weekend.

This group has a pretty solid list of complaints with local Red-Light Camera efforts.

Protest Details:

Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010

Time: 11:30am – 3:00pm

Location: 39th and Southwest Trafficway, Kansas City, MO

Protesters are encouraged to meet first at Westport Coffee House to distribute supplies among the group, the group will then move to 39th and Southwest Trafficway.

Double Bonus Points, the group will have fliers available to educate drivers on how to fight their tickets.

via Tony’s Kansas City: KANSAS CITY RED LIGHT CAMERA PROTEST THIS SATURDAY!!!.

Boone County Sheriff&apos;s Department to receive new investigative device

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 6:06 p.m. CST

The Universal Forensics Extraction Device, or UFED, is manufactured by CelleBrite, a leading company in the transfer and backup of mobile content. The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force will use the device to copy cell phone data that might be useful in its investigations. ¦ Photo courtesy of CelleBrite

BY Jonathan Stephanoff

COLUMBIA — The ability to peer deep into cellular phones and other mobile devices soon will become part of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department investigatory arsenal.

The department will spend $3,999 on a gizmo that carries an extravagant name. The Universal Forensics Extraction Device, or UFED, is manufactured by CelleBrite, a leading company in the transfer and backup of mobile content. It also sells UFEDs to law enforcement agencies worldwide, according to CelleBrite’s Web site.

The Boone County Commission approved the purchase Tuesday morning. The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force will use the device to copy cell phone data — including phone numbers, contacts, pictures, videos, text messages, call logs and even some information the phone owner thinks has been deleted — that might be useful in its investigations.

The UFED is a “known device in forensics investigation tools,” Detective Tracy Perkins of the task force said.

The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force focuses much of its resources on child exploitation, serving Boone and the seven surrounding counties. Perkins said the device will be used by the task force lab in a wide variety of investigations.

Having their own UFED will “save a lot of time and travel for the officers involved,” Perkins said. Until now, the task force has had to travel elsewhere to borrow another agency’s UFED.

The ability to extract data from mobile devices raises some privacy concerns.

“Cell phone privacy issues all depend on the case,” Perkins said. With written permission of the user, investigators can access the phone; without it, they would have to get permission from the courts.

The UFED is about the size of a desk phone. Operating as a stand-alone unit or tethered to a computer, the device comes with a host of cables to plug into nearly 2,000 mobile devices, or 95 percent of all marketed cell phones, according to CelleBrite’s Web site.

The purchase is part of requirements for the Multi-Jurisdiction Cyber Crime Grant, which provides federal money through the Missouri Department of Public Safety, according to the county purchase request.

via Boone County Sheriff’s Department to receive new investigative device – Columbia Missourian.

You&apos;ve been served, Ben Bernanke

By David Martin in Martin, News, Out & About, Picket Lines

Mon., Apr. 27 2009 @ 3:39PM

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Ron Paul supporters, goldbugs and people wearing JFK T-shirts amassed on the lawn between Liberty Memorial and Union Station to protest the Federal Reserve Bank on Saturday.

End the Fed rallies took place in Kansas City and other cities where the Fed operates banks. The Kansas City protesters brought signs blasting various aspects of the U.S. financial system, including the government&apos;s $54 trillion deficit.

Working without the benefit of the media apparatus that promoted the tea-bag parties, the protesters hoped to muster support for Paul-sponsored legislation to audit and dismantle the Federal Reserve System. Congress created the system in 1913, after two earlier central banks lost their charters. "The first two were abolished because of corruption issues," Catherine Bleish, executive director of the Liberty Restoration Project, said on Saturday.

The JFK shirts recognized an executive order relating to the issuance of silver certificates the 35th president signed in 1963. The timing of the order has prompted conspiracy theorists to wonder if bankers afraid of losing their grip on power supplied arms to the second gunman on the grassy knoll.

via You’ve been served, Ben Bernanke – Kansas City News – Plog.

Tony’s Kansas City covers LRP and our list of grievances against red light traffic cameras!

We’ve been learning a lot from other groups fighting these corporate revenue generating scameras and look forward to the fight in the MO legislature in 2010.

Have you heard about or day of redlight traffic camera street action the day after Christmas?

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209554363000&index=1

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Liberty Restoration Project Files List Of Kansas City Red Light Complaints!!!

Copied and pasted from an upstart group of Missouri Libertarians circulating this message on Facebook. Here are The Top 15 Arguments Against Red Light Camera Enforcement:

1. No clear proof that red light cameras reduce accidents or save lives (but they usually do generate lots of revenue for the city!).

2. Red light cameras might actually cause more rear end collisions, because people brake suddenly at yellow lights to avoid red light camera tickets.

3. The red light camera system might not be functioning properly, or might not be properly calibrated, and you could get stuck with a bogus ticket as a result.

4. If somebody else is driving your car and runs a light, YOU are responsible for the ticket.

5. You might have a bunch of red light cameras along your daily route, and thus be unfairly targeted.

6. Most of the Kansas City red light cameras are located in areas with higher minority populations and lower income populations.

7. Cities and red light camera companies often reduce the green->yellow->red light cycle time (aka "signal timing") at intersections so more people will run the light, and get a ticket, and pay the $100+ fine … and consequently increase revenue for the city and/or red light camera company that shares in ticket fine proceeds. An unfortunate side effect of this practice is an increase in accidents and injuries.

8. Steve Worley, the city traffic engineer who pushed for the red light camera system use, quit his job and went to work for the company that got the contract to supply red light cameras to the city. [source]-

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/17/1733.asp

9. City employees and other people with connections in city hall often get their tickets dismissed. But YOU still have to pay your fine.

10.Red light camera tickets are a bogus revenue generator for the city that ultimately comes out of YOUR paycheck.

11.If you supposedly run a red light and get issued a ticket, the ticket is mailed to you. What happens if the ticket gets lost in the mail? You&apos;ll probably never know about the ticket until you&apos;re arrested for failure to

pay the fine.

12.Hearsay (i.e. there is no certifiable witness to the alleged violation). "Ordinarily, if you wish to use a document or letter as evidence in court, you need to bring in a live person to testify as to its authenticity

and accuracy (and he can be cross-examined about the same, by your opponent). Without that &apos;live&apos; authentication, the document would be ruled to be &apos;hearsay,&apos; and it would be excluded from evidence.

There is an exception to the hearsay rule, for documents created by a government employee – but many of the documents the police present in court have been created by a private company&apos;s employees, who have

no official duty to report accurately." In other words, if you want to contest the ticket in court, you most likely would not win your case. source one – http://www.highwayrobbery.net/

source two – http://www.motorists.org/photoenforce/

13.This type of enforcement emphasizes ticket volume. [source] -

http://www.motorists.org/photoenforce/home/nma-objections-to-photo-enforcement/#volume

14.Red light cameras encourage artificially low speed limits, and adversely affect traffic flow. [source]

http://www.motorists.org/photoenforce/home/nma-objections-to-photo-enforcement/#artificiallylow

15.There are better alternatives to red light cameras. [source]-

http://www.motorists.org/photoenforce/home/nma-objections-to-photo-enforcement/#alternatives

via Tony’s Kansas City: Liberty Restoration Project Files List Of Kansas City Red Light Complaints!!!.

Interested? I’d love to haaaaave you <3

Cat

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LRP looking for a few spring interns!

Operation Defuse Research Intern – Qualifications/Requirements

1. Genuinely interested in the following subjects / enjoys researching / willingness to scour government documents and websites

-fusion centers

-taser abuse

-dhs

-fbi

-databases

-data breaches

-private/public information sharing

-fema

-war on terror

-war on drugs

-surveillance

-redlight traffic cameras

-open records requests

2. Willing to dedicate a minimum of 5 hours per week to researching and documenting your research

3. Understands good citation / research practices, or is willing to learn

4. Willing to help put research into digestible formats such as power point, online wiki technology, spreadsheets, basic 1/4 page fliers, and blogs

5. Has steady access to a computer with Internet

6. Can make one weekly conference call

7. Willing to dedicate 6 months

8. Willing to teach others who are interested in helping

9. Good at Internet research

10. Willing to document their time spent researching and submit weekly

11. Willing to help Operation Defuse State Coordinators with research

Missouri Legislative Intern – Qualifications/Requirements

1. Genuinely interested in learning about the Missouri legislature / willing to pay close attention in 2010

2. Willing to dedicate a minimum of 5 hours per week to researching and blogging about current Missouri Legislation

3. Willing to track specific legislation (10th amendment, nullification, privacy), mobilizing folks to action through the LRP blog, facebook and twitter when needed

4. Willing to help put research into digestible formats such as power point, online wiki technology, spreadsheets, basic 1/4 page fliers

5. Has steady access to a computer with Internet

6. Can make one weekly conference call

7. Willing to dedicate 6 months

8. Willing to teach others who are interested in helping

9. Good at Internet research, willing to contact legislative offices for more details by telephone

10. Willing to document their time spent researching and submit weekly

11. Willing to network with other Missouri grassroots organizations and activists

Benefits

1. The opportunity to learn a *lot* about a subject most people in our movement aren’t yet aware of – basically within one month of research you’d be one of the top fusion center experts in the country.

2. Networking with some of the top activists in the country – great way to launch your role in the activist community.

3. Become a part of a dynamic partnership of two of the most successful grassroots organizations, LRP and TAG – see how we operate – learn how to do what we do.

4. Letters of recommendation from LRP, TAG and potentially dozens of other grassroots organizations who you interact with during the process.

5. If you are a college student, I can work with your university or college to secure you college credit for your internship – the amount of credit hours will likely depend on how many hours you give per week – I still had to pay for my internship college credits when I was in college, too..

6. Build your resume / find potential career contacts

7. Become an official part of the LRP “team” – (photo and bio up on our website!)

via The Liberty Restoration Project » Blog Archive » LRP looking for a few spring interns!.