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I just finished reading "What Price Security?" in the latest Newsweek. The tag line for the article was "As America vows 'never again,' it is launching a series of antiterrorism measures--from ethnic profiling to snooping through your personal e-mail." I think my favorite quote from the article was:
Within hours of the rushed vote, the American Civil Liberties Union got calls from Senate offices asking, "What did we just pass?" Well, says the ACLU's Gregory T. Nojeim, "they enacted an amendment that will basically function like a blank warrant. It writes meaningful judicial oversight out of the process."
The assault on America's civil liberties has begun. The article quotes Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, saying "If we allow our freedoms to be undermined, the terrorists will have won." Our civil liberties don't require letting people on airplanes with knives and box cutters but they do protect us from unreasonable searches and seizures. I think we need to protect those rights.
posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:56 PM Print
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