Bush, Ashcroft Run Roughshod Over Bill Of Rights, Study Says

Cato Institute ^ | June 21, 2002 | Cato News Release

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

WASHINGTON--On Sept. 11 of last year, President Bush declared, "Freedom has been attacked, but freedom will be defended." However, a new Cato Institute report shows that Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft have supported measures that are antithetical to freedom, such as secretive subpoenas, secretive arrests, secretive trials, and secretive deportations....(snip)

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[Inspector Harry Callahan]

The United States Constitution

[rface]

secretive subpoenas,
secretive arrests,
secretive trials,
and secretive deportations.

Show me.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

US cartoonists under pressure to follow the patriotic line

THE USA PATRIOT ACT AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE REPUBLIC

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

"Show me."

The USA un-Patriotic Act

[concerned about politics]

Political correctness laws did away with free will a long time ago.
The Constitution breathed it's last breath years ago right along with it.
The people have chosen government as their God. You will obey.

[Pushi]

What about old Abe? That saint didn't, did he?

[Pushi]

And what about Slick and the 900 FBI files--and no telling what else the scumbag did?

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

"And what about Slick and the 900 FBI files--and no telling what else the scumbag did?"

Ashcroft to Make it Official: Clintons Are Above the Law

[sinkspur]

You weren't missed. And this thread won't be either.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

What makes you think this thread will be pulled? Read the FR mission statement big guy, this thread is well within those guidelines.

Whooo Hoooo!!

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

FBI Begins Visiting Libraries

[sandmanbr]

What makes you think this thread will be pulled? Read the FR mission statement big guy, this thread is well within those guidelines.

Whooo Hoooo!!

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Pay that clown no mind...he has absolutely nothing intelligent to add to a discussion. He'll try to cause trouble in order to get this post pulled. That's his job.

[NEPA]

The article makes sense. The Gov't does tend to over react to terror. For example the terrorism bill and Brady bill passed after OKC. With 911 we got the Patriot Act which even some law makers started having some regrets about soon after it passed.

As far as some of the measures taken after 9/11 I do have some concerns. The War on Terror holds greater promise for chipping away at the Bill of Rights than the War on Drugs (e.g., 4th Amend). But I'm also concerned about national security.

When push comes to shove the gov't never gives back rights it has taken away. Right now some basic rights are being denied to accused terrorists. I'm not boo hooing over that. But the way things usually work is that the gov't will push the limits all they can.

[sandmanbr]

BTW this article is 100% correct. The best part is the source...Cato

[B4Ranch]

With 911 we got the Patriot Act which even some law makers started having some regrets about soon after it passed.

They didn't even read the damn thing before the7y signed it!

[nunya bidness]

You were missed.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

Thanks man.

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