The global war on civil liberties
CounterPunch
by Mike Marqusee
12/19/05
Two pieces of legislation currently wending their way through Britain's Parliament illustrate how the war on terror is being used to dismantle the very freedoms it's supposed to secure. Both criminalise the expression of ideas and neither is likely to deal effectively with the problem it purports to address. They are opportunistic gambits, characteristic of a government whose moralistic bombast is in inverse proportion to the morality of its behaviour...
http://www.counterpunch.org/marqusee12192005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Mike Marqusee
12/19/05
Two pieces of legislation currently wending their way through Britain's Parliament illustrate how the war on terror is being used to dismantle the very freedoms it's supposed to secure. Both criminalise the expression of ideas and neither is likely to deal effectively with the problem it purports to address. They are opportunistic gambits, characteristic of a government whose moralistic bombast is in inverse proportion to the morality of its behaviour...
http://www.counterpunch.org/marqusee12192005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 20. Dez, 16:49
