Civil Liberties
Position: We are gravely concerned about the Bush administration's disregard for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We call for the repeal of the so-called "USA PATRIOT ACT I," including the Security Enhancing Act. We further call for the passage of the "Benjamin Franklin, True Patriot Act" and enforcement and expansion of the Freedom of Information Act. The following must be implemented: - Access to counsel, writ of habeas corpus, and due process.
- No further use of "Free Speech Zones," used to curtail and marginalize dissent.
- No further use of "No fly lists," and other forms of intimidation.
- Termination of FBI infiltration of church, libraries, and political organizations.
- No further use of indefinite detentions without charges.
- No further use of Military Tribunals.
- No further use of "Enemy Combatant" status.
- No more infringements upon attorney-client privilege.
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Issue 40) Civil Liberties
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From:
Gary Kleppe
on October 21, 2004 at 03:20 PM
Isn't this the same thing as civil rights?
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Dwight
on March 5, 2006 at 07:36 PM
Question; Can states add a "bill of rights" to state constitutions, so that if a totalitarian federal administration tries to abridge our rights under the national constitution, we would have some recourse to civil liberties delineated in our state constitutions? Would this be of legal or political
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From:
Thane Walkup
on April 21, 2004 at 01:44 PM - Processed July 7, 2004
I think that it's time to look at civil liberties, and more specifically, the implied right to privacy, in a different light.
David Brin wrote this neat little book named "The Transparent Society", in which he postulates that the only way we can successfully keep our freedoms and liberties in the future is by giving up our right to privacy - specifically noted here in the sections about FBI infiltration of political and religious organizations, as well as client-attorney privelege - in exchange for everybody else giving up theirs.
The very basic gist is this - if we attempt to keep our privacy, we will end up trading our privacy and freedoms for the illusion of privacy, as the technological ability to unobtrusively monitor us continues to grow. By demanding full accountability from the monitors (by being free to monitor them back!) you can at least keep the abuses of the system to a minimum.
More information can be found here:
http://www.davidbrin.com/tschp1.html
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