A message to you, Rudy Giuliani
Mother Jones
by JoAnn Wypijewski
05/07
As in New York, communities across the country gave police more reasons to stop and frisk people, hence more opportunity to find drugs as drug laws tightened to put more people away for a longer time. America’s prison population nearly doubled in the 1990s, and no one much complained. Prisoners were stripped of legal rights to challenge their conditions, and no one much beyond the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta intervened. State after state restricted the rights of journalists to interview prisoners, and punished prisoner whistleblowers. In the speed of a decade, this self-declared free country had denied more of its people liberty than any country in the world, with stunningly little protest. Having gradually resigned ourselves to the trade-off of liberty for a promise of safety during the supposed good times of the Clinton years, is it surprising that after 9/11 Americans would acquiesce to secret prisons, kangaroo courts, torture as policy, the shredding of habeas corpus and due process, the invasion of our mail and private conversations?
http://tinyurl.com/2uu29j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wypijewski
by JoAnn Wypijewski
05/07
As in New York, communities across the country gave police more reasons to stop and frisk people, hence more opportunity to find drugs as drug laws tightened to put more people away for a longer time. America’s prison population nearly doubled in the 1990s, and no one much complained. Prisoners were stripped of legal rights to challenge their conditions, and no one much beyond the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta intervened. State after state restricted the rights of journalists to interview prisoners, and punished prisoner whistleblowers. In the speed of a decade, this self-declared free country had denied more of its people liberty than any country in the world, with stunningly little protest. Having gradually resigned ourselves to the trade-off of liberty for a promise of safety during the supposed good times of the Clinton years, is it surprising that after 9/11 Americans would acquiesce to secret prisons, kangaroo courts, torture as policy, the shredding of habeas corpus and due process, the invasion of our mail and private conversations?
http://tinyurl.com/2uu29j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wypijewski
rudkla - 18. Mai, 13:02
