Patriot Act II: Civil Rights Alert
Red Alert for Bill of Rights by Nat Hentoff is up at the Village Voice. It's another Ashcroft bashing, this time for Patriot Act II. How's this for an opening quote?
"This nation . . . has no right to expect that it always will have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. . . . [If] the calamities of war again befall us, the dangers to human liberty are frightful to contemplate. --United States Supreme Court, Ex Parte Milligan, 1866, declaring Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and other abuses of the Bill of Rights unconstitutionalIf you'd like to know more about Patriot Act II, here's the ACLU's 19 page analysis.
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