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Microstamping and Serialization | Slinging Lead...downrange...

Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during a religious education lesson.

Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.

Simply stupid. This teacher should be fired, along with the Superintendent that allowed this behavior. As far as having a religion class in school, I'm glad we're not British... although with our looming gun control, "terrorist" classifications, government sponsored domestic spying, and losing our rights to free travel, we're quickly getting subjugated by our own politicians.

It's only going to be a matter of time until this happens in a U.S. school system.

Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel down and pray to Allah | Mail Online

Add to all of this the legislation that is being put forward to "Serialize" and/or "MicroStamp" ammunition in several states.

These legislative moves are designed to remove ammunition from legal and licensed weapons holders, and make home reloading illegal. It would also require those who own ammunition that is NOT serialized, to destroy it at their own cost, and loss.

Not only would these impending laws remove sport shooting from our country, due to the fact that ammunition would then be "regulated" and therefore more expensive to obtain, but it would not allow the competition shooters to reload their own ammunition to save money. Lastly there would be an amazing shortage of ammunition for the general populous, the police forces, and the military.

Check the list below to see if your state is pursuing this legislation...

As of today's date the following States have put forth this legislation:

Arizona House Bill 2833
California Senate Bill 997 (Carried Over from 2007)
Hawaii House Bill 2392
Hawaii Senate Bill 2020
Hawaii Senate Bill 2076
Hawaii House Resolution 82-07 (Carried Over from 2007)
Hawaii Concurrent Resolution 104-06 (Carried Over from 2007)
Illinois House Bill 4258
Illinois House Bill 4259
Illinois House Bill 4269
Illinois House Bill 4349
Illinois Senate Bill 1095 (Carried Over from 2007)
Indiana House Bill 1260
Maryland House Bill 517
Mississippi Senate Bill 2286
New York House Bill 6920 (Carried Over from 2007)
New York House Bill 7300 (Carried Over from 2007)
New York Senate Bill 1177 (Carried Over from 2007)
New York Senate Bill 3731 (Carried Over from 2007)
Pennsylvania House Bill
Tennessee House Bill 3245
Tennessee Senate Bill 3395
Washington House Bill 3359

2007 Legislation
California Senate Bill 997
Hawaii House Resolution 82-07
Hawaii Concurrent Resolution 104-06
Illinois Senate Bill 1095
Maryland House Bill 1393
New York House Bill 6920
New York House Bill 7300
New York Senate Bill 1177
New York Senate Bill 3731

Courtesy: GOAL Post 2008-4, Legislative Update from Olympia 8 February 2008

RE: Supreme Court upholds 2nd Amendment [PDF]

Given their frustration, employees may be distracted and less focused on their security and screening responsibilities," Skinner's report says.

Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley ripped Tuesday's report, saying it relies on disgruntled screeners at a few airports. "This results in flawed conclusions," Hawley wrote in a sharp, point-by-point rebuttal.

Kip Hawley is in Denial. He thinks his "department" is authorized to destroy our rights, and now he thinks that everyone is "happy". He's obviously not flown through Atlanta recently.

Lastly, Hawley himself called screening a "dead end job" two years ago. Now he thinks that the TSA is a "well oiled machine". A "well-oiled pig" is more like it.

Report: TSA screeners' low morale may hurt airport security - USATODAY.com

Beginning Saturday, June 21, travelers like Kloiber who "willfully refuse" to show IDs won't be allowed through checkpoints or onto planes. Only passengers who show IDs, and "cooperative" passengers, who explain why their IDs are missing and help police confirm their identities, will get through.

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The right to free travel -- unencumbered by government officials demanding identity documents -- is "something that distinguishes ourselves from others not living in the free world," said Jim Harrison, an attorney who has fought document requirements.

"History will judge," Harrison said. "What's going on here is the TSA is incrementally chipping away at the freedoms that Americans have. And the freedoms that we're talking about are the fundamental right to travel, the freedom to be free of search without reasonable suspicion and your First Amendment freedoms to assemble and associate freely without government interference."

That's not the way TSA chief Hawley sees it. "To us, it's not a philosophical argument," he said. "There are people trying to do harm, take down planes, and we can't let them [exploit] a vulnerability."

This CANNOT be legal!

Flying without an ID is coming to a controversial end - CNN.com

Here is the list of charges against Khan

34 felony counts of altering public record
11 felony counts of stealing and secreting public records
7 felony counts of illegal computer access and fraud
6 felony counts of burglary
4 felony counts of identity theft
3 felony counts of altering book of records
2 felony counts of receiving stolen property
1 felony count of conspiracy
1 felony count of attempting altering of a public record

Khan was caught after he requested an official school transcript for a university he was applying for.

Note that he wasn't caught by any software, intrusion detection or prevention, any technical controls whatsoever.

I thought that School systems were supposed to have better system control by now...

TG Daily - High school student faces 38 years in prison for hacking grades

IPhones present Wi-Fi risk to businesses
Expert warns that as the use of Wi-Fi and Web 2.0 applications increases, so will the security threat to businesses

NO WAY! An Apple product that isn't the utmost in security? (expect a slander suite soon!)

IPhones present Wi-Fi risk to businesses | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-13 | By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor

The billing tapes were stolen from the car of a driver of Perpetual Storage, which has stored the university's tapes at an off-site vault for 16 years. The university has suspended deliveries to Perpetual Storage pending completion of the investigation.

From his CAR? Come on, aren't we smarter than this yet?

Utah Hospital Says Billing Records of 2.2M Patients Stolen - iHealthBeat

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Betty "BJ" Ostergren, a Virginia-based privacy advocate who has been fighting to stop county and state government offices from posting public records containing Social Security numbers and other personal records on their sites. As part of her campaign to publicize the issue, Ostergren has routinely downloaded documents containing Social Security numbers from county Web sites and reposted them on her own site .

Just more proof that Governments don't understand privacy... This is frightening.

PC World - Business Center: Privacy Crusader Sues Virginia

A key danger with PDAs was that over half of IT executives surveyed were "not bothering" to enter a password when they used their phone.

And we're surprised?

PC World - Business Center: Smartphones: Riskier than Laptops?