Stand up for freedom
Reason
by Ronald Bailey
10/17/06
The American Civil Liberties Union opened its annual membership conference in Washington, DC on Sunday evening. The conference brochure declares: 'We must not stand on the sidelines while our leaders in government extinguish the light of liberty. Today, we have an administration that has asserted an unchecked power to eavesdrop on ordinary people, to hold prisoners -- including American citizens -- without trial or access to a lawyer, to secretly kidnap and torture people have not been charges with any crime, and to repeatedly ignore its duty to enforce laws passed by Congress. It's time to stand up against government abuses of power!' At Sunday's sessions the 1,500 conferees listened to conversations on civil liberties and ended with a poetry slam and a hip-hop all-female dance troupe. The first conversation was between ACLU president Nadine Strossen and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb101706.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Ronald Bailey
10/17/06
The American Civil Liberties Union opened its annual membership conference in Washington, DC on Sunday evening. The conference brochure declares: 'We must not stand on the sidelines while our leaders in government extinguish the light of liberty. Today, we have an administration that has asserted an unchecked power to eavesdrop on ordinary people, to hold prisoners -- including American citizens -- without trial or access to a lawyer, to secretly kidnap and torture people have not been charges with any crime, and to repeatedly ignore its duty to enforce laws passed by Congress. It's time to stand up against government abuses of power!' At Sunday's sessions the 1,500 conferees listened to conversations on civil liberties and ended with a poetry slam and a hip-hop all-female dance troupe. The first conversation was between ACLU president Nadine Strossen and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb101706.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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