Compromising civil liberties
CounterPunch
by Walter Brasch
03/08/06
Two weeks before President Bush signed Congressional legislation that made permanent all but two sections of the USA PATRIOT Act, State College, Pa., became the 397th American community to reaffirm the belief that the Constitution and Bill of Rights take precedence over any federal law. Not one of those resolutions should have been necessary. Nor should the legislatures of eight states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana and Vermont -- have had to pass legislation affirming the rights of all Americans. But they had to, and they did...
http://www.counterpunch.org/brasch03082006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Walter Brasch
03/08/06
Two weeks before President Bush signed Congressional legislation that made permanent all but two sections of the USA PATRIOT Act, State College, Pa., became the 397th American community to reaffirm the belief that the Constitution and Bill of Rights take precedence over any federal law. Not one of those resolutions should have been necessary. Nor should the legislatures of eight states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana and Vermont -- have had to pass legislation affirming the rights of all Americans. But they had to, and they did...
http://www.counterpunch.org/brasch03082006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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