Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses – NYTimes.com.

www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Guangcheng

Challenge for U.S. After Escape by China Activist
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/world … china.html

China’s Forced Sterilization Tyranny Hits Home

Chinese activist fighting forced sterilisations beaten
Date: 10-06-05 09:38

A few days ago I saw the typical headlines from China, “Chinese abortion activist beaten”. Sensing nothing new I failed to read the news articles. This morning I was informed that the person in question is a blind doctor whom I met through my day job a year or so ago. Reading the articles now (and knowing the horrors* that await political dissidents there and our own govt’s disinfo about such horrors as “urban legends”**) makes me want to despair, but instead I am enraged.

– Miles

http://elfis.blogspot.com/2005/10/china … ranny.html

Friday, October 07, 2005
More News Links on Chen Guangcheng
http://elfis.blogspot.com/2005/10/more- … cheng.html

Chen Guangcheng
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World

While I was out of town recently, I read in a Google News Alert that Chen Guangcheng was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s “100 most influential people in the world” list. Of course Chen is listed among “Heroes & Icons” with such familiar names as Wynton Marsalis, Angelina Jolie, Bill Clinton / George H.W. Bush, Ralph Lauren, Paul Simon, Al Gore, Katie Couric and many others.

…

http://www.elfis.net/blog/2006/05/17/chen-guangcheng/

Chen Guangcheng Updates
http://www.elfis.net/blog/2006/08/23/ch … g-updates/

Washington Post – Chinese Rights Activist Stands Trial After Police Detain Defense …
Washington Post, United States – Aug 18, 2006
Chen Guangcheng,
34, appeared pale and thin when he showed up at a county courthouse in
eastern Shandong province wearing a black T-shirt, gray pants and

Updates on the Plight of Chen Guangcheng in China

Chen Guangcheng

Chinese Dissident Blogger Stands Trial for Subversion
Wall Street Journal – Mar 18, 2008
… of the current system,” said Li, who himself was detained in 2006 in connection with his representation of Chen Guangcheng, a peasants right activist. …
Wall Street Journal

http://www.elfis.net/blog/2008/04/11/up … -in-china/

Speaker Pelosi on Tiananmen Square and Chen Guangcheng

Chen Guangcheng, a self-trained legal advocate who tried in June 2005 to investigate reports that officials in Linyi city, Shandong province, had subjected thousands of people to forced abortions, beatings, and compulsory sterilization in order to meet population control targets. Although central government officials agreed that the officials used illegal means, authorities rejected the class-action lawsuit Chen tried to file. Chen was tried on August 24, 2006, and sentenced to four years and three months for “intentional destruction of property” and “gathering people to disturb traffic order.” Chen, who is blind, has reportedly been severely beaten in jail and has gone on a hunger strike to protest the beatings. He is serving his sentence in Linyi Prison.

http://www.elfis.net/blog/2009/06/08/sp … uangcheng/

Updates from January 2011…

A Chinese Advocate Is Freed, but Stays Under Surveillance

By MICHAEL WINES

Published: September 9, 2010

BEIJING — A blind, self-taught lawyer imprisoned by the Chinese authorities in 2006 after years of exposing government abuses was freed Thursday and confined to his home in Shandong Province, surrounded by guards and watched through closed-circuit surveillance cameras.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/world … china.html

Another rights advocate who exposed coerced sterilizations, Chen Guangcheng, has been confined since September to his home in rural Shandong Province with his family despite having served more than four years on a conviction for damaging property.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/world … china.html

China converts entire village into prison to contain pro-life activist

DONGSHIGU, China, December 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese authorities have converted an entire village into a prison in order to prevent Chen Guangcheng, a blind, pro-life dissident, from moving freely about the country, according to a recent report by the French magazine Liberation.

“The picturesque hamlet, situated close to a national highway, might resemble thousands of others in that part of the northeast of China. No one, however, is authorized to enter Dongshigu, nor to communicate with its inhabitants,” writes Liberation’s China correspondent, Phillipe Grangerou. “All of the telephone lines were cut months ago. The antenna of the local mobile telephone service has been disconnected, and six surveillance cameras have been placed around the perimeter.”

In addition to the communications blackout and electronic surveillance, the town is guarded by about forty armed men dressed in military garb, who maintain a checkpoint for the few people permitted to come and go. “This group of men terrorizes all of us. But they have been sent by the [Communist] Party committee of the province, so there’s nothing that can be done about it,” one resident reportedly said.

According to Grangerou, the sophisticated security operation surrounding the town of Dongshigu exists for the sole purpose of preventing any contact between Chen and the outside world. Chen and his wife live under house arrest inside their residence, and the only person permitted to enter or leave is an aged relative, who is allowed the privilege only to make minor purchases for the home.

Chen’s troubles stem from his decision in 2005 to file a lawsuit against the local provincial government for carrying out thousands of forced abortions and sterilizations against the population, a practice that is common in China as a means of enforcing the nation’s “one child policy.”

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/china- … e-activist

… and late 2011 …

Visitors to Chinese Blind Rights Lawyer Chen Guangcheng Disappear
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_ … ppear.html

Posted at 08:31 AM ET, 12/16/2011 TheWashingtonPost
Christian Bale attempts to visit Chinese activist, is blocked by guards (Video)
By Sarah Anne Hughes

Christian Bale. (Andy Wong – AP) Christian Bale was blocked from visiting a human rights activist under house arrest in rural China by plainclothes guards Thursday, as video posted by CNN shows.

The “Dark Knight” actor traveled eight hours from Beijing, where he was promoting the film, “Flowers of War,” to meet Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer and activist who has been confined to his home since being released from prison in September 2010.

Bale — whose run-in with the guards was taped by the CNN camera crew he was traveling with — was pushed and hit by guards attempting to knock a small camera from his hands. He asked the men, “Why can I not visit this free man?” Bale later told CNN, “What I really wanted to do was to meet the man, shake his hand and say what an inspiration he is.”

Chen, a self-taught lawyer, gained international notoriety after he began taking the cases of women who underwent forced abortions and sterilization. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2006 for damaging property and disrupting traffic, charges that his supporters say were fabricated, as the Post reported.

By Sarah Anne Hughes | 08:31 AM ET, 12/16/2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cel … _blog.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng

	Quote: April 30, 2012 7:42 AM High stakes for U.S. in China standoff over Chen Guangcheng By Norah O’Donnell(CBS News) WASHINGTON – The White House is trying to contain a potential crisis before bilateral talks between the U.S. and China kick off on Thursday after a prominent legal activist escaped his house arrest and reportedly took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. This one case about one man could seriously alter relations between the two nations. Neither side has confirmed the whereabouts of Chen Guangcheng, but sources tell CBS News American and Chinese officials are involved in frantic negotiations to reach a deal on the blind, self-taught lawyer’s fate. There are two basic options; Chen could be allowed to remain in China with the government guaranteeing his safety and the safety of his family, or an agreement could be reached for him to leave China – likely for the United States. -U.S., China rush to resolve standoff over activist -White House mum on missing Chinese activist Chen -Blind Chinese lawyer said under U.S. protection The talks will be difficult, as China considers Chen a criminal, and now an escapee, but both sides have said the issue will not overshadow the economic talks later this week. With Obama already facing criticism from his Republican rivals for his stance on China, the White House will really want to get something agreed to secure Chen’s safety before the talks begin. The U.S. needs China’s help in dealing with Iran, North Korea, and Syria, particularly in light of Beijing’s veto-wielding seat on the U.N. Security Council. Given the timing, Chen could represent the most significant challenge to U.S.-China relations since Beijing’s infamous crackdown on student protesters in Tiananmen Square. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162- … uangcheng/

China, US Rushing To Resolve Crisis Over Blind Activist Chen
NPR (blog)‎ – by Mark Memmott‎ – 17 minutes ago
… in China for economic talks that start on Thursday, the two countries are talking about Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest earlier this month.

[*]The Saga of China’s Blind Dissident: Let Obama Be Obama
Huffington Post‎ – 31 minutes ago

[*]The Baffling Case of Chen Guangcheng
Wall Street Journal (blog)‎ – 8 hours ago

Activist Chen Guangcheng Escapes in China – The Takeaway
www.thetakeaway.org/2012/…/activist-chen-guangcheng-escapes-chi…
45 minutes ago – A blind Chinese pro-democracy activist, Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest recently from his village of Shandong province. Reports suggest …

How Did China Let the Chen Guangcheng Case Get So Out of Hand [b]…[/b]
blogs.wsj.com/…/the-baffling-case-of-chen-guangcheng/ – Hong Kong
49 minutes ago – The escape of the blind activist Chen Guangcheng from his home village in Shandong Province highlights the puzzling way in which his case has been handled.

US asylum likely for China dissident – Associated Press
hosted2.ap.org/…/id-03ed6ed66ab541dba56b10213cd73b3d
44 minutes ago – FILE – In this undated file photo provided by supporters of Chen Guangcheng, blind activist Chen Guangcheng sits in a village in China. Assistant Secretary of …

Daily Kos: Chen Guangcheng 权力说真话 – Speaking Truth to Power -
www.dailykos.com/…/-Chen-Guangcheng-Speaking-Truth-to-Power-
5 minutes ago – Anything vaguely related to Chen has been blocked on Chinese social media sites, such as posts including or key word searches for Chen, Guangcheng, GC, …

High stakes for US in China standoff over Chen Guangcheng – CBS [b]…[/b]
vaughanbassett.net/high-stakes-for-us-in-china-standoff-over-chen-…
55 minutes ago – CBS News High stakes for US in China standoff over Chen Guangcheng
CBS News(CBS News) WASHINGTON – The White House is trying to contain a potential …

HK protesters turn out to support Chen Guangcheng – YouTube
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjzpTZmAwMo New 8 minutes ago – 25 sec – Uploaded by AFP
Protesters supporting Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng shout slogans outside the Chinese Liaison Office …

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Chinese police crack down on entourage of dissident Chen [b]…[/b]
www.france24.com/…/20120430-2012-04-30-0223-wb-en-w… – France
14 minutes ago – Chen Guangcheng spent over four years in prison, and has lived virtually cut off from the rest of the world, since his release in September 2010. As we can see …

High stakes for U.S. in China standoff over Chen Guangcheng
www.progressivenewsdaily.com/?p=29217
56 minutes ago – This one case about one man could seriously alter relations between the two nations. Neither side has confirmed the whereabouts of Chen Guangcheng, but …

ALERT EU urges China to ‘exercise utmost restraint’ in Chen [b]…[/b]
vancouverdesi.com/…/alert-eu-urges-china-to-exercise-utmost-restrai…
20 minutes ago – ALERT EU urges China to ‘exercise utmost restraint’ in Chen Guangcheng case. Published on April 30, 2012 by DesiWireFeed · No Comments. EU urges China …

Posted at 08:31 AM ET, 12/16/2011 TheWashingtonPost
Christian Bale attempts to visit Chinese activist, is blocked by guards (Video)
By Sarah Anne Hughes

Christian Bale. (Andy Wong – AP) Christian Bale was blocked from visiting a human rights activist under house arrest in rural China by plainclothes guards Thursday, as video posted by CNN shows.

The “Dark Knight” actor traveled eight hours from Beijing, where he was promoting the film, “Flowers of War,” to meet Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer and activist who has been confined to his home since being released from prison in September 2010.

Bale — whose run-in with the guards was taped by the CNN camera crew he was traveling with — was pushed and hit by guards attempting to knock a small camera from his hands. He asked the men, “Why can I not visit this free man?” Bale later told CNN, “What I really wanted to do was to meet the man, shake his hand and say what an inspiration he is.”

Chen, a self-taught lawyer, gained international notoriety after he began taking the cases of women who underwent forced abortions and sterilization. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2006 for damaging property and disrupting traffic, charges that his supporters say were fabricated, as the Post reported.

By Sarah Anne Hughes | 08:31 AM ET, 12/16/2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cel … _blog.html

democracynow.org – As Congress asks if full-body scanners are “Effective Security or Security Theater?” we examine safety concerns at the heart of a lawsuit that seeks a freeze on the use body scanners pending an independent review. The Transportation and Security Administration has installed about 640 full-body millimeter wave and X-ray backscatter scanners at 65 airports as of January. Those who object to the full-body scans are subject to enhanced pat-downs and extremely invasive manual checks. We’re joined by Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which is suing the TSA; and ProPublica reporter, Michael Grabell, author of a series of critical articles on the new scanners.

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Robotic Bees One Step Closer To Reality

Rise Of The Robotic Bees

Polish protesters send up ‘Robokopter’ drone to spy on police
Defense Tech / November 18, 2011

The video below showing a civilian operated drone chopper filming riots in Warsaw, Poland last Friday is a great example of the democratization of what was until very recently, military-grade tech. This is a straight up ISR drone that’s flying high above the streets of a major city taking camera footage that was once the exclusive domain of high-priced news choppers and government helos.

Read full article here:
defensetech.org/2011/11/16/video … rom-above/
www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/17/w … on-police/

Guy Rundle  ’From Cold war to Cyberwar: Power, the State and the Wikileaks Effect’.

This is the first lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

WACA will be posting videos of each of the Wikileaks lectures and would like to thank the Melbourne Law School for granting us permission to film the entire series.

Details of the Wikileaks Series of The Wednesday Lectures :

8 June – Guy Rundle ‘From Cold war to Cyberwar: Power, the State and the Wikileaks Effect’

Two decades after the Berlin Wall came down, and a decade after 9/11 became the pretext for a relentless attack on citizenship and civil liberties, a series of releases by the Wikileaks website threw the operation of secrecy and state control of information into chaos. From the Icelandic rebellion against financial crisis, to the Arab Spring, both the quantity and quality of information released has changed the relationship between state, citizen and information.

These momentous events allow us to rethink the inherited privileges and assumptions of state and corporate power, and to ask if a new relationship can be created between global citizens, states and international organisations – indeed, it causes us to ask how it could not be.

Guy Rundle is currently the UK correspondent for Crikey and a regular contributor to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. A former editor of Arena Magazine, and a writer of several stage shows for Max Gillies, his most recent book is The SHellackling, on the rise of the US ‘Tea Party’.

15 June – Raimond Gaita ‘ Power and Consent’

This is the second lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

At the heart of democratic ideals is the contrast between legitimate and illegitimate persuasion. To a large extent, the difference is marked by the ways that forms of persuasion respect – or fail to respect – what Simone Weil called our “faculty of free consent.” The lecture will explore what we should make of the distinction and what its implications are for political action when democratic governments become more secretive, more authoritarian and more reliant on spin.

Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice, Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics and, as editor and contributor, Gaza: Morality Law and Politics and Muslims and Multiculturalism.

22 June – Panel Discussion ‘Secrecy, Power and Democracy’

This is the third lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

Join this panel of experts as they discuss the overall theme of this lecture series.

Raimond Gaita: Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice, Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics and, as editor and contributor, Gaza: Morality Law and Politics and Muslims and Multiculturalism.

Guy Rundle: Guy Rundle is currently the UK correspondent for Crikey and a regular contributor the The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. A former editor of Arena Magazine, and a writer of several stage shows for Max Gillies, his most recent book is The Shellacking, on the rise of the US ‘Tea Party’.

Gerry Simpson
: Gerry Simpson is the Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at Melbourne Law School, and is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Winner of the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit in 2005) and more recently Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law and Outside International Law.

Robert Manne
: Robert Manne is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University and a member of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. He is one of Australia’s best-known public intellectuals. His publications include The Petrov Affair, The Shadow of 1917, The Culture of Forgetting, In Denial, and The Howard Years. Whitewash: On the Fabrication of Aboriginal History (editor and contributor), Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia (editor and contributor), Left, Right Left and Making Trouble. He contributes regularly to The Monthly).

29 June – Kevin Heller ‘Can the U.S. Prosecute WikiLeaks for Espionage? Should It?’

This is the fourth lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

Kevin Heller is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He is the author of The Nuremberg Military Tribunals, The Origins of International Criminal Law and The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (with Markus Dubber). He is also a permanent member of the international-law blog Opinio Juris. He has written for numerous journals of international law and been advisor numerous international criminal trials including those of Saddam Hussein and Radovan Karadzic.

6 July – Helen Pringle ‘Gimme Shelter: The Power of Secrecy and Silence in Democracy’

This is the fifth lecture in a series of five, as part of The Wednesday Lectures – Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

This talk offers an appreciation and defence of the power of secrecy and silence in a democracy. It is often assumed that secrecy shelters domination and that silence provides a license for coarse exercises of power by government or business.

Breaking the silence and the triumph of a principle of general transparency are not only the apparent aims of the Wikileaks project, but form a broader injunction to publicise the smallest details of every aspect of our lives. Pringle argues that this is not an emancipatory project: a general breaking of silence shatters the shelter within which our intimate lives are conducted, and in turn guts public life of its standing and dignity.

Helen Pringle is in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Her research has been widely recognised by awards from Princeton University, the Fulbright Foundation, the Australian Federation of University Women, and the Universities of Adelaide, Wollongong and NSW. Her main fields of expertise are human rights, ethics in public life, and political theory. Dr Pringle is currently working on a project concerning the place of pornography within considerations of free speech, entitled Practising Pornography. She is also involved in an international research project on ethnography and sexual slavery in early colonial Queensland.

http://wikileaksaustraliancitizensallia … %E2%80%99/

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

Obama moves forward with Internet ID plan
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Texas: Red Light Camera Tickets a Man Running a Green Light
Port Lavaca, Texas issues $75 ticket to man who ran a green light.

Cities that use automated ticketing machines at intersections routinely assert two things: The camera does not lie, and at least three humans review each citation before it is dropped in the mail. That did not happen in Port Lavaca, Texas. On September 12, Port Lavaca Police Sergeant Kelly Flood signed a ticket accusing Dale Price of running a red light and demanding he pay $75 by October 12, but the light was green.

“Based upon my review and inspection of the recorded images, I state that a violation of ordinance #S-1-08 did occur,” the ticket stated just above Flood’s signature. “I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Texas the foregoing is true and correct.”

On September 6 at 12:04pm, Price drove his grey 2009 GMC pickup through the intersection of US 35 and Travis Street. He was making a left-hand turn, with turn signal active, at 17 MPH. According to the red light camera, the light had been red for more than a minute. According to the photographs (view first photo, view second photo), and the video evidence, the light remained green throughout his turn. After being notified of the citation, local officials scrambled to order Redflex Traffic Systems, the Australian company in charge of the program, to cancel the ticket (view ticket). That is not good enough for Port Lavaca Citizens Against Red Light Cameras, a group working on a petition that would allow voters to decide the camera program’s future.

“This is one of the reasons that we’d want to shut down the program,” group co-founder Dwayne Buehring told The Newspaper. “We don’t know how many people have paid tickets without looking at the video. Because of the scare tactics they use, some people are just going to pay. This cop down there is just mailing them out to everyone.”

The group is looking to collect the 200 signatures needed to place a ban on red light cameras before voters. Earlier this year, the group succeeded in gathering those signatures, but the city cited the court case in Houston as a reason not to place the measure on the ballot. With a new petition, activists are say the law is now firmly on their side. They cite the very ruling of federal Judge Lynn Hughes that attempted to save Houston’s red light cameras as a reason why the Port Lavaca vote must proceed (view ruling).

“Clearly the city was in error when they rejected placing our petition on the ballot,” Carl Baugh and Dwayne Buehring wrote in a June 20 letter to the city council. “The case you were waiting on for vindication of denying a vote has not gone your way. While the judge did rule that Houston was in error for placing the issue on the ballot it was merely because it was untimely as Houston has a thirty-day limit on referendums. The Port Lavaca charter has no such restriction. By your own statements as well as your ministerial duty to the citizens of Port Lavaca you have an obligation to immediately proceed with the process to place our petition on the next legal election.”

Buehring, who recently moved to Houston, is still helping to collect signatures.

“We know the 500 people who signed it last time, we just have to go see them,” he said.

View the video of the green light camera ticket:

Red light camera ticket on a green light.

Senate stirs pot with TSA groping bill, sanctuary cities
By Mike Ward / AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 11:02 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Protesters led by radio host Alex Jones, center, gathered outside the doors to the Senate gallery Wednesday, upset that the upper chamber sunk a bill that would have prohibited ‘intrusive touching’ by airport screeners. Bill sponsor Sen. Dan Patrick is upset, too.
Larry Kolvoord / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
www.statesman.com/news/texas-pol … 98725.html

“Protestors try to storm senate” – Texas vs TSA

REPORT: US to store passenger data for 15 years…

TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If ‘Groping Bill’ Passed…

TEXAS CAVES IN…

Boisterous protest over airport-groping bill
By Mike Ward | Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 03:16 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2011/05/25/protestors_try_to_storm_senate.html

Protesters at the Capitol
KXAN.com – ‎5 hours ago‎
Crowds spoke out loudly in protest of the failure of the anti-groping bill in the Texas Capitol Wednesday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esW0mCkChxQ

Alex Jones Storms The Capitol
Texas Tribune – ‎6 hours ago‎
May 25, 2011 Talk show host Alex Jones gathered a group to protest the Texas Senates so-called TSA “groping” bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42kDecHQjdo

KXAN: Protesters loud at Texas Capitol – 6 pm News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE4WJ6vk4c

KXAN.com – Web Extra: Protesters at Texas Capitol, May 25, 2011
A crowd of people yell “criminals” inside the Capitol in protest of the failure of the anti-groping bill which is about TSA body checks at airports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdETlZDDvEE

Texas Legislature, Federal Government Clash Over Airport Pat-Down Bill
NPR (blog) - Eyder Peralta – ‎7 hours ago‎
A Transportation Security Administration agent performs a pat-down check on an airline passenger at a security checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A Transportation Security Administration agent performs a pat-down …
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 … -down-bill

9/11 Truther, Radio Host Leads Mob to Capitol
Houston Chronicle (blog) – Gary Scharrer – ‎7 hours ago‎
Alex Jones — a man best known for claiming the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks were an inside job and hosting Charlie Sheen’s phone-in program of choice — led a group of about 100 people, initially, to the wrong chamber as they protested the failure of … http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/201 … o-capitol/

The TSA war appears over and Dan Patrick lost
Houston Chronicle (blog) – ‎7 hours ago‎
The headlines out on the Internet about the death of Houston Sen. Dan Patrick’s anti-groping TSA bill sound so dramatic: Yesterday, Patrick accused Dewhurst of undermining his anti-pat down bill on the Senate floor. Today, he took his complaints a step …
http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05 … rick-lost/

Anti-TSA protesters storm through Capitol halls
Dallas Morning News (blog) – Kelley Shannon – ‎8 hours ago‎
Protesters shouting “cowards, cowards” and “treason, treason” marched through the Capitol halls on Wednesday protesting the reluctance of the Senate to take up a bill banning routine invasive pat-downs by the Transportation Security Administration. …
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/ … -thro.html

TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If ‘Groping Bill’ Passed
Forbes (blog) – Kashmir Hill – ‎14 hours ago‎

Upset about invasive screening techniques at the airport, the Lone Star State was considering a bill that would make a TSA patdown that involves touching “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person including through …
http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/201 … ll-passed/