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Your Lost Liberties

Your Lost Liberties

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A must-read. This sums it up. Five Ways Bush’s Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11 By Matthew Rothschild, The New Press. Posted July 24, 2007 at AlterNet. From the new book You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression. Chilling stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. One small bit: The 1976 Levi guidelines prohibited the FBI from investigating the First Amendment activities of individuals and groups…

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Executive Order Overrides War Dissent?

Executive Order Overrides War Dissent?

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One interpretation of the Executive Order “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq” is that is actually provides the President with the authority to confiscate the assets of whoever opposes the US-led war. A presidential Executive Order issued on July 17th, repeals with the stroke of a pen the right to dissent and to oppose the Pentagon’s military agenda in Iraq. … In substance, under this executive order, opposing the war becomes an illegal act. The…

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Murderous Dispute Over War

Murderous Dispute Over War

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Man Kills Another in Dispute Over War — Press Calls It a First Kentucky, August 6, 2006 at a flea market. Two firearms dealers, friends, standing outside a “snack shed.” The one who backs the war shot and killed the one who opposed the war. No charges as yet: he claimed self-defense. “I’m sorry this has happened,” Moore, a retired railroad worker, said. “But then what’s done can’t be undone.” Moore told the Lexington reporter he thinks Smith and his…

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