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Civil liberties
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City commissioner and Richmond pastor Robert Blythe said Tuesday he would not sit quietly in the wake of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky’s request to stop invocations from being given before the start of each regular commission meeting.
Blythe was showered with applause after reading a written statement in response to the ACLU’s August [...]
- Canadian Jews And Free Speech (tolerance.ca)
- Lobster Criminals Unite Conservative Ed Meese and the ACLU (feedburner.com)
Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?: Via Salon: Glenn Greenwald.
Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where he's not doing what [he] expected is in the area of detainee and civil liberties issues." Similarly, Andrew Sullivan cited "accountability for war crimes and civil rights" as among the very few issues...
From privacydigest.com
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- Is Obama's Civil Liberties Record Understandable? (commondreams.org)
- ACLU hosts speakers, stories at Frick Fine Arts (pittnews.com)
- Health care reform violates civil liberties (pottsmerc.com)
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union, (ACLU), Constitution Project (CP), and Rutherford Institute [advocacy websites] filed amici curiae briefs [ACLU brief, PDF; CP brief, PDF] Tuesday in support of a challenge [JURIST report] to a federal law [18 USC § 2339B(a)(1)] that prohibits providing material support to terrorism. The groups supported a Humanitarian Law Project (HLP) [advocacy
From jurist.law.pitt.edu
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- Liberty Counsel Defends Tenn. School From ACLU ‘Bully’ (faithnews.cc)
- Should Public School Use Church Facility? (z.about.com)
- ACLU: Bibles Passed Out in Schools (z.about.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Obama administration Tuesday to move quickly to fill seats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The group issued a new report with recommendations on privacy oversight it said were "desperately needed"...
From techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
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- Are Conservatives Coming Around on Civil Liberties? (mwcnews.net)
- New Push For Action On Privacy Board (techdailydose.nationaljournal.com)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a north Florida school district over a ban on anti-Islam shirts.
The lawsuit claims the Alachua County School District violated students' rights by not allowing them to wear T-shirts...
From nwfdailynews.com
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- ACLU threatens to sue Stow-Munroe Falls School District over 'interference... (blog.cleveland.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday on behalf of the Dove World Outreach Center claiming the Alachua County school districts policy against anti-Islamic T-shirts intrudes upon the wearers freedom of speech. The shirts, which read Islam is of the devil, raised controversy when students were sent home from local elementary and middle schools for wearing them. The churchs families said the shirts are protected...
From freerepublic.com
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- ACLU files suit over 'Devil' shirts (gainesville.com)
This is a crosspost by MoreMediaNonsense
There’s an excellent piece in The Times here by Sean O’Neill where he makes the case for the modern police methods so feared by swivel eyed Cif ranters and the likes of Sunny Hundal :
If the civil libertarians, the conspiracy theorists and the Conservatives had their way, Abdul Azad would probably [...]
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