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GRITtv: The F Word: Looking Closer at Joseph Stack

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Joseph Stack -- remember him? He's the guy who crashed his plane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin last week. Fifty-three years old, a Vietnam veteran, Stack killed one IRS manager, Vernon Hunter, and wounded 13 more before killing himself, but you'd be forgiven for forgetting his name, because he largely fell out of the news in the days afterward. That's not so say there hasn't been howling.

GRITtv: Can We Scan Ourselves to Safety?

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"There's money to be made and there are people out there who are going to say it can be done. And, yeah, it's techie and sexy and sounds good." That's Bruce Schneier quoted in a piece by Liliana Segura at AlterNet, talking about new airport security technology. In the wake of the failed underpants bombing attempt, new rules have been added, and discussion has ramped up of the use of full-body scanners and other invasive technologies.

GRITtv: Got Docs: Behind The Mask

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As the federal government ratchets up various terrorist enforcement statutes, environmental and animal rights activists have quickly complained that laws originally intended for cartoon villains with weapons of mass destruction are being applied to treesitters working to prevent the wholesale logging of old growth woods or, in the case of this week's Got Docs, the nighttime activists freeing animals from science labs. "Behind the Mask" sells itself as "The story of the people who risk everything to save animals." Check out the story.

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