All Posts Tagged With: "Patriot Act"
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate this charade than the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. In 2004, three years after the Patriot Act was enacted, politicians started to worry [...]
22Dec2010 | James Bovard | 7 comments | ContinuedNational Insecurity
Are we so afraid that we are eager to trash irreversibly what’s left of our civil liberties?
30Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 24 comments | ContinuedThe USA PATRIOT Act and Finance: The Hidden Threat
After 18 years in the investment business, a time I might add that has been rewarding in many ways, I am now truly questioning whether I should stay in this profession. It just isn’t fun anymore. When it actually stopped being fun is hard to pinpoint, but why it stopped is not. Although we in [...]
1Sep2006 | Gary D. Barnett | 2 comments | ContinuedWe Should Trust the Leader, Not the Law? It Just Ain’t So!
Los Angeles Times columnist Max Boot has a message for the American people: put all your fears of diminishing civil liberties back in the closet; the good guys are running the show. That, at least, was the message in his column last January, “The Wiretaps Shouldn’t Bug Us,” prompted by a 2005 New York Times [...]
1Sep2006 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | ContinuedDemocracy Versus Liberty
If a foreign power took over the United States and dictated that American citizens surrender 40 percent of their income, required them to submit to tens of thousands of different commands (many of which were effectively kept secret from them), prohibited many of them from using their land, and denied many the chance to find [...]
1Aug2006 | James Bovard | 2 comments | ContinuedWartime Executive Power: Are Warrantless Wiretaps Legal?
Robert Levy is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute. This article is drawn from his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, February 28, 2006. President Bush has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop, without obtaining a warrant, on telephone calls, e-mails, and other communications between U.S. persons in the [...]
1Aug2006 | Robert A. Levy | 1 comment | ContinuedPostconstitutional America?
It’s a cliché that in time of war we must shift the balance between liberty and security, sacrificing some freedom to protect our society from assault. Funny how we blithely forget other fond adages when they become unfashionable, such as Benjamin Franklin’s famous warning about trading freedom for security. It is more important than ever [...]
1Feb2003 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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