Civil Liberties

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Long Journey Into the Knight

Joshua David Stein | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Civil Liberties, Heath Ledger Joker, New Batman Movie, Batman: The Dark Knight, Batman, Batman Reviews, Movies, Entertainment News

Director Christopher Nolan has decreased the contrast of Dark Knight not only visually but morally as well. Batman is no longer good. He's just less bad than the Joker.

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Real Homeland Security

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Mukasey Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Advisor, Homeland Security, Harry Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Patriot Act Civil Liberties, Ramsey Clark, Fdr, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

The next president should create a brand new position, which should become a permanent part of the Executive Branch in the future: a Civil Liberties Advisor.

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Reminder: Obama Told Us To Judge Him, and Pressure Him

David Sirota | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Barack Obama Moves Center, Progressives, Politics News

So by Obama's own admission, when he casts an anti-progressive vote on civil liberties, we shouldn't whip up wild fantasies about him supposedly doing it because he actually is progressive the issue.

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Congress Abandons the Fight for Liberty and Privacy

Bob Barr | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bob Barr, Civil Liberties, Spying, 4th Amendment, Fisa, Bob Barr Libertarian, Politics News

I'm a former U.S. Attorney, and I believed it when conservatives said, "you do the crime, you do the time." But if you violate the Fourth Amendment, you can count on a bipartisan amnesty.

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Live Tyrannized and Die Anyways

David Quigg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rudy Giuliani, New Hampshire, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Supreme Court, Election 2008, Newt Gingrich, Constitution, John McCain, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Habeas Corpus, Civil Liberties, Warantless Wiretapping, Patriot Act, Mccain Habeas Corpus, Politics News

In the interest of saving America from bin Laden, we have shown a terrifying willingness to strip away more and more of the founding virtues that make America worth saving in the first place.

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Don't Miss Anthony Romero and Ava Lowery in This Brave Nation Episode 3

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Courage, Brave Nation, Activism, Anthony Romero, Ava Lowery, Peace, This, Media News

This Brave Nation, a documentary series that brings progressive activists and thinkers together in one place -- your computer screen!

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Ava Lowery on Fear and Optimism

Erikka Yancy | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Fear, Courage, Activism, This Brave Nation, Optimism, Anthony Romero, Ava Lowery, Peace, Media News

While many others and I sat watching bombs exploding over Baghdad on March 20, 2003 with tears in our eyes, Ava was creating videos and speaking out against an illegal war.

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The Counterfeit Treaty

James Love | Posted 06.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Civil Liberties, Patriot Act, Copyright, Riaa, Patriot Act Civil Liberties, Acta, Business News

This "patriot act" for intellectual property "crimes" may be one of the late legacies of the Bush Administration.

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Orwell Cinema: Living in the Land of the Blind

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Civil Liberties, Movies, Big Brother, Entertainment News

Film may be the best representation of what we now face as a society on the verge of fulfilling Orwell's prophecy. The following are ten of my favorite films on the topic.

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Inflammatory Committee Terror Report Helps McCain/Lieberman Target Obama

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Liberties, Homeland Security Committee Report, Homeland Security Committee, Obama Appeaser, Lieberman Islam, And the Homegrown Terrorism Threat, Aclus Lieberman, Obama Hamas, Obama Homeland Security Committee, Terrorism Lieberman, Islamophobia, John McCain Hamas, Bush Nazi Appeaser, The Internet, Violent Islamist Extremism, Lieberman Obama, President Bush, Terrorism Obama, Home News

If Obama fails to embrace the report, he will be seen as ignoring his own congressional committee's findings-- and so knowingly failing to appreciate the threat of "radical Islam" and being willfully soft on terror.

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Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Liberties, The Internet, Lieberman Islamic Extremism, Repression, Terrorism, Homeland Security Report, Leberman Report, Liberman Homeland Security, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, And the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Susan Collins, Witch Hunt, Violent Islamic Extremism, Almontaser, Violent Islamist Extremism, Muslims, Joe Lieberman, Home News

Joe Lieberman's homeland security committee lobbed a biased bombshell last week in its report on the domestic threat of violent Islam. U.S. Islamophobia has consequences. Take the case of Debbie Almontaser.

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Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Witch Hunt, Muslims, Repression, Terrorism, Civil Liberties, Lieberman Islamic Extremism, Susan Collins, Violent Islamic Extremism, Homeland Security Report, Leberman Report, Liberman Homeland Security, Joe Lieberman, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, The Internet, And the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Violent Islamist Extremism, Home News

A stacked senate committee on homeland security today issued the first of a series of reports on "homegrown terrorism and violent Islamist extremism." It's readymade election-year swiftboating material.

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May Day! May Day! Hijackings of the 4th Estate

Paige Donner | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

The title of this piece, Hijackings of the 4th Estate, is purposefully provocative. For any journalist, Blogger or otherwise muckraker laboring in ser...

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Police State Tactics: Tasering Pregnant Women and the Elderly

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.07.2008 | Living

Read More: New World Order, Civil Liberties, Tasers, Constitutional Rights, Police, Living News

Tasers have become a prevalent force tool, often used against individuals who pose no serious danger to themselves, the officers or others.

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Standing Up For Justice In The Military Commissions Proceedings

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Aclu, Civil Liberties, Military Commissions, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, American Civil Liberties Union, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

We've been at a critical juncture since September 11. How we respond to the atrocities thrust upon us after that terrible day says everything about who we are as Americans - what values we defend, how the world sees us, and how history will remember us.

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Fourth Amendment Does Not Apply To Military Operations Within U.S.?

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fascism, Civil Liberties, David Addington, Fourth Amendment, Domestic Surveillance, State of Emergency, Abuses of Power, Police State, Dick Cheney, Politics News

According to a new Department of Justice memo, it seems the Bush administration has justified its crimes by not suspending the state of emergency that went up on 9/11.

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"Indecency"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Where is the oversight of those who declare what is indecent? Indeed, where is the oversight of those who are providing oversight?

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Absurd Watch List Bloat Hurts Everyone

Barry Steinhardt | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Watch List, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, No Fly List, Politics News

We've created a rolling, odometer-style "Watch List Counter" with a real-time readout showing how many names are on the government's no-fly watch list at a given moment.

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The Sound Of Democrats' Silence On Civil Liberties

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 02.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Liberties, Hillary Clinton, Constitutional Law, Alberto Gonzales, Democratic Candidates Civil Liberties, HuffPost's Off the Bus, Huffington Post Off the Bus, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Home News

A recent gathering protesting Alberto Gonzales' appearance in St. Louis underscored the Obama and Clinton's deafening silence on the erosion of our civil liberties under George W. Bush.

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Musharraf's Playbook is the Same as the Bush Administration's

Naomi Wolf | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Benazir Bhutto Assassination, Civil Liberties, Benazir Bhutto, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Pakistani Elections, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto Killed, Pakistan Democracy, Benazir Bhutto Pakistan Elections, National Lawyer's Guild Pakistan, Politics News

The United States is doing very little to help the situation in Pakistan and may well be making it worse.

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Let the Eagle Whore

William Fisher | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Warrantless Wiretapping, Spying, John Ashcroft, Wiretapping, Let the Eagle Soar, Politics News

How much credibility does the Bush first-term attorney general have on the subject of protecting civil liberties and the rule of law?

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St. Veto's Day?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Nsa, Civil Liberties, Warrantless Wiretapping, Veto, Fisa, Protect America Act, Warrantless Surveillance, Home News

This president's concept of the veto is not unlike Reagan's notion of detente, i.e. the threat is more potent than the thing itself.

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Torture: Leadership Requires Accountability, All the Way to the Top

Gov. Bill Richardson | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Investigations, Torture, 2008 Election, Bill Richardson, CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Democratic Congress, Congress, CIA Interrogations, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Politics News

In the thirteen months since winning back Congress, Democrats have done too little to force this administration to stop torturing.

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'Credibility Fatigue' May Linger Beyond Bush

Byron Williams | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Iran Revolutionary Guard, National Intelligence Estimate, Richard Nixon, Bush Iran NIE, Kyl-Lieberman Iran, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Lyndon Johnson, Domino Theory, Iraq, Energy Policy, Torture, Politics News

At least Johnson and Nixon had major domestic and international achievements, respectively, that softened the historical impact of their dishonesty. The current administration's raison d'etre and its dishonesty are intertwined.

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Beyond Guantanamo

Tram Nguyen | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

The civil liberties debate isn't only about the right to privacy and dissent and other good things citizens enjoy, but the integrity of the Constitution and the human rights of all persons under its jurisdiction.

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