The other war: Three years later

by Elaine Cassel

Civil Liberties Watch

10/18/04

Terrorism is whatever the government wants it to be. It is a moving and mornping [sic] construct. It can justify the closing of streets at home, and the waging of war abroad. It encompasses peacefully demonstrating against George Bush at home, and speaking negatively against him abroad (I am referring to restrictions on Arab news media who are trying to report on Iraq). It is the excuse for declaring a war on civil liberties. By war on civil liberties, I am referring to the erosion of the freedoms embodied in the first ten amendments to the Constitution -- known collectively as the Bill of Rights...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp