(2011/12/08) Go to the mat for liberty or to 3rd base with the TSA (Police State)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 December 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #555
Go to the mat for liberty or to 3rd base with the TSA
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Act 1: The FBI's Next Generation Identification - The Progressive Air date: 7-18-11
Song 1: The Day The Violence Died (Medley) - The Simpsons
Act 2: UK Man Arrested For Planning Water Fight Via Mobile Phone - Young Turks Air Date: 8-17-11
Song 2: Having a good time - Theo Bard
Act 3: American Wrongful Convictions Part 1 - Truthdig
Song 3: Swing low sweet chariot - The Persuasions
Act 4: Landmark Civil Rights Act Made Racism Slightly Less Overt - The Onion
Song 4: Harriet Tubman - John McCutcheon
Act 5: American Wrongful Convictions Part 2 - Truthdig
Song 5: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
Act 6: A Courageous Governor on the Death Penalty - The Progressive Air Date: 11-25-11
Song 6: Thanksgiving - George Winston
Act 7: Innocent Man Spends 25 Years In Prison For Wife's Murder - Young Turks Air Date: 5-10-11
Song 7: Big mistake - Tim Fite
Act 8: Rape Blocks - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 10-10-11
Song 8: A beautiful world - Tim Myers
Act 9: ACLU Obama Continues Bush Abuses - Young Turks Air Date: 7-9-11
Song 9: Leader - Burning Spear
Act 10: Less Free, More Lawless after 9/11 - The Progressive Air Date: 9-12-11
Song 10: Fight back - Garnett Silk
Act 11: This Weak In National Cecowardty - Colbert Report Air Date: 9-7-11
Song 11: Naked and famous - The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Act 12: TSA Adult Diaper Controversy - Young Turks Air Date: 6-27-11
Song 12: I wish I knew - Years and Years
Act 13: Excuse Us While We Fondle Your Privacy - Lee Camp
Voicemails:
Standing with the Occupiers - Brandon from Fort Worth, TX
Thoughts on the removal of Occupy LA - Todd from LA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on how the Occupy Movement can be like the Industrial Revolution
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Buildings You Are Not Allowed to Photograph - David Pakman Air Date: 6-20-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, where details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at bestableleft.com, and welcome to the award-winning Bestable Left |
| 0:10.8 | Podcast with Cups today from the Progressive, The Young Turks, Truth Day Radio, The Onion |
| 0:15.2 | Radio News, Moomio Bougamel, The Colbert Report, and Communing League Camp with the bonus |
| 0:20.0 | video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the David Pakman Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Here's a civil liberties story I didn't know anything about, and I try to follow this |
| 0:33.4 | stuff. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Lisa double-skaya, the Texas Observer reports that the FBI has been pushing its Secure |
| 0:39.4 | Communities program not so much to make us more secure, but to try out some of its new |
| 0:43.9 | and most intrusive technology. |
| 0:46.4 | The Secure Communities program requires local law enforcement to run fingerprint checks through |
| 0:50.9 | the FBI and Homeland Security, and everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the offense. |
| 0:56.3 | But the FBI isn't content with mere fingerprints anymore, it wants your eyeballs, and then some. |
| 1:01.9 | The program is promoted as a way to determine US citizenship status after someone's arrested |
| 1:06.8 | the Texas Observer noted, but it's also a key part of a little-known FBI project called |
| 1:12.8 | the Next Generation Identification Project, designed to accumulate biometric information |
| 1:18.9 | on both citizens and non-citizens. |
| 1:21.8 | This Next Generation Identification Project will expand the FBI's existing fingerprint |
| 1:27.4 | database to add iris scans, palm prints, and facial recognition, the story says. |
| 1:33.8 | With this new project, the FBI is becoming bigger brother, and as one critic pointed out, |
| 1:39.1 | it's a backdoor route to a national ID to be carried not in a wallet, but within the |
| 1:44.3 | body itself. |
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