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The Arrival of Secret Law FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Volume 2004, Issue No. 100, November 14, 2004

“That is called ‘sensitive security information.’ She’s not allowed to see it, nor is anyone else,” he said.

Thus, in a qualitatively new development in U.S. governance, Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know.

This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory.

this is not my america.

[via metafilter

Cross-Dress Tradition A Real Drag [cbs news, november 17, 2004]

A homecoming tradition in which boys dress like girls and vice versa in a tiny Texas school district won’t be held Wednesday after a parent complained about what she regarded as the event’s homosexual overtones.

the complaining parent is one delana davies, backed up by the liberty legal group

Cross-Dress Tradition A Real Drag [cbs news, november 17, 2004]

“It’s like experimenting with drugs,” Davies said. “You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. … If it’s OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?”

well, as long as we’re clear that it’s never ok to dress like a girl….

more interesting is that the school district has replaced this tradition with a new one – camo day. encouraging children to dress up in camoflage and black boots.

if it’s ok to dress like a soldier, then why is not not ok in the future?

violence is always a better message to send to kids than sex.

welcome to your future, children. hello columbine.

in a followup to an important security story from last month, the notorious duck woman has been allowed to keep her business license.

‘Ducky’ seller strikes deal with city, gets license back [the tennessean, nov 16, 2004]

”I basically agreed not to be present at school or church functions,” Williams said. ”And I also agreed to not ever bring products, only literature, to other public events that I might participate in.”

She also agreed to drop her federal lawsuit.

bzzzzzzzzzz…….

just after i praised good works by queen, along comes their label (or rather, the parent of their label, i suppose), and lays down the lawyers to defend the empire…

back in september, good musigeek waxy brought brought us a bit on te kleptone’s night at the hip-hopera, and went the extra mile, mirroring the work and tracking down a really comprehensive sample list (credit where due)…

then today, waxy gets a done to others since the good old days of uncle walt [pdf].

update: boingboing has it. it’s got legs.