The vanishing right to travel
Online Journal
by Ezekiel Jones
08/20/07
Middle-aged Americans remember how our leaders, parents and teachers distinguished our country from the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies by pointing to the pictures and films of desperate East Germans and Hungarians who were forced to risk their lives just to move to a new country. In those days, there were people like William O. Douglas who had both the inclination and the power to defend Americans’ right to travel, but today, with so many fundamental liberties under assault at once, the more subtle attack on freedom of movement has received little attention. It would be tragic if some Americans finally come to the conclusion there is no option but to leave their repressive homeland only to find that they have already lost the right to do so without risking a dangerous, illegal run across a border...
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2321.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ezekiel+Jones
by Ezekiel Jones
08/20/07
Middle-aged Americans remember how our leaders, parents and teachers distinguished our country from the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies by pointing to the pictures and films of desperate East Germans and Hungarians who were forced to risk their lives just to move to a new country. In those days, there were people like William O. Douglas who had both the inclination and the power to defend Americans’ right to travel, but today, with so many fundamental liberties under assault at once, the more subtle attack on freedom of movement has received little attention. It would be tragic if some Americans finally come to the conclusion there is no option but to leave their repressive homeland only to find that they have already lost the right to do so without risking a dangerous, illegal run across a border...
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2321.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ezekiel+Jones
rudkla - 23. Aug, 11:43
