1. Wiretaps without oversight
2. Entering into a home with only probable cause being "suspected
terrorist" with no requirement to show what that means.
3. Monitoring of internet activity without notice or oversight
4. Collection of bookstore/library records
5. Total Information Awareness.
6. Detention of US citizens without access to legal council
7. Outlawing the right to assemble peacefully except in limited
permitted zones that are nowhere near the relevant issue/event.
8. Extradition of US citizens
9. Stripping citizenship
10. Torture
-Kevin
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:40:42 -0400, Michael Dinowitz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about we take a step back here and look at the rights that people feel
> are being removed. We have
> freedom from search - airport searches, which I'm willing to give up to not
> be blown to hell
> freedom of speech - no reason for this to be removed
> what's missing? What else is being threatened
>
> _____
>
> The reason why Franklin fought for those rights was because they
> didn't have them. Under British rule the people of the colonies were
> subject to having British troops break into their homes searching for
> revolutionaries, guns, etc. The colonists were required to even house
> the British troops and could be carted off and killed for refusing.
>
> Yes, the interpretation and application of what the Constitutionally
> granted rights cover has evolved, but their existence is fundamentally
> because of the lack of those rights the people suffered.
>
>
>
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