Midweek link dump

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• Rush Limbaugh declared war against the United States of America.
• California cartoonist Mark Fiore has received death threats for making fun of the Tea Bag movement.
• Amnesty International is teaming up with al-Qaeda supporters to condemn the imprisonment of a British man by the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.
• Google keeps "internal intercept" hardware on its network to record email headers for forwarding to the police, which we now know because China broke into it.
• The French Supreme Court ruled that an employee cannot be fired for downloading pornography at the workplace if it does not affect his job performance.
• The Questioning Transphobia blog relates the story of a transgenered person made comatose by a car accident and whose parents intend to train her to forget her transition when she wakes up.
• A British businessman was arrested and had his D.N.A. registered with the police because one of his employees made a racist post to a web forum.
• Wal-Mart fired an employee for defending himself after a thief attacked him.
• British safety experts warn the public not to clear ice off their walkways because they can be sued.
• Boston police are jailing people who record their abuses of power.