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Friday, June 22, 2018
Landmark decision--US Supreme Court rules 4th Amendment protects cell phone records.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/carpenter-v-united-states-supreme-court-rules-fourth-amendment-protects-cell-phone-location-records-in-an-opinion-by-chief-justice-john-roberts.html
FYI, in 2007, in what later became known as The Saffron Revolution,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron_Revolution
the monks' leader U Gambira was tracked by his cell phone.
My source was a broadcaster based in DC and he told me this while we were at a debriefing at the NED by the World Bank? delegation wh suggested freeing controls on fuel prices, which resulted in widespread rioting.
The monks demonstrated peacefully by walking and reciting the Metta Sutra, but were lassoed, caught and arrested and tortured.
U Gambira was forced to disrobe and beaten and tortured, and he suffered permanent brain damage and had to leave the monkhood on his release from prison.
kmk
6-22-2018
My Mostly Burmese Monks art show, 2009.
Roger Ebert.com--Great Performances 2024
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-great-performances-of-2024-part-two
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