CIVIL RIGHTS are defined as protections we are granted by constitutions or by statues. These rights include protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and protection against discrimination because of race, religion, ethnicity, or sex. Civil rights are not automatically possessed by people; governments can and often do take away these rights.
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The detaining of "the usual suspects" in New York for indeterminate amount of time without due process, for one. Reminds me of Argentina, Russia, Israel, most African nations, etc....
Wiretapping conversations between lawyer and client.
wire tapping, including email. Here's a primer for small business in dealing with 'Carnivore'.
portland.com
Who's afraid of Carnivore? Not this guy... As if we're all geeks and implement his solution.
infowarrior.org
Hell, all I have to do is go on the net and find enough info about these "new and better" laws to protect us from ourselves and the assbackward reasoning that goes along with it. A perversion of a right may not affect you today but it might affect you some day. And not only you but a lot of other people.
Light reading about the 1996 Anti-terrorism bill which is mild compared to the current one. That bill was denounced by the ACLU and the NRA. Something must be terribly wrong if they both agree.
cdt.org
1. Gutting of habeas corpus, the "Great Writ" by which federal courts have granted relief from violations of the Bill of Rights in state court criminal proceedings.
2. Makes it a crime for U.S. citizens to provide any material support to the lawful political or humanitarian activities of any foreign group designated by the Secretary of State as "terrorist."
3. Denies visas to foreigners visiting the U.S. based on mere membership in groups designated as terrorist by the Secretary of State.
4. Creates a special court that will use secret evidence to deport U.S. residents or visitors suspected of being members of terrorist groups.
5. Severely curtails the ability to claim political asylum, by requiring an undocumented alien entering the U.S. to be immediately sent back to the country he is fleeing unless he can prove, at the border inspection point, a credible fear of political persecution.
6. Deprives aliens of due process rights if they entered the U.S. without inspection. Again, this provision has nothing to do with terrorism.
7. Opens the door once again to politically focused investigations like the flawed CISPES probe, by repealing the Edwards amendment, a provision enacted less than two years ago, which barred the FBI, when investigating the crime of material support for terrorism, from opening investigations based solely on activities protected under the First Amendment.
The Libertarian Party hated it too....
archive.lp.org
This is a good web site.... privacylaw.net
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