The US isn't supposed to be an absolute monarchy, where leaders have the green-light to violate basic human rights & the nation's own constitutional guarantees...but these documents suggest that the absolute monarchs of the past got nothing on post-9/11 USA. Meanwhile, the EU wants to seize all digital communications...because child abuse. And the Supreme Court does it again and kills a lifeline (and by default the 6th amendment) for wrongfully convicted prisoners. PLUS ancient civilzations and the power of zooming out from our own cocooned blink in time. leecamp.locals.com