UE convention resolution supports civil liberties, condemns FBI

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 10-06-2011

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following resolution from the 72nd National UE Convention, held Sept. 25-29. The resolution condemns the FB…

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Turley: Obama Worst Civil Liberties President Ever | Dispatches from

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 10-04-2011

Jonathan Turley writes in the LA Times that Obama may prove to be the worst president ever for civil liberties: Civil libertarians have long had a.

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Considering Civil Liberties | Security Management

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 10-02-2011

The effort, however, has been met with a cool reception from civil liberties and privacy watchdog groups, who caution that government programs such as these lead the United States further down the path to a surveillance

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Obama and Civil Liberties | Cato @ Liberty

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 10-02-2011

Jonathan Turley has a terrific column about President Obama and his deplorable record on civil liberties. Here's an excerpt: Obama failed to close Guantanamo Bay as promised. He continued warrantless surveillance and

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US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Turley: In terms of civil liberties

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 10-02-2011

News and opinion about US politics from a liberal/Democratic/progressive perspective.

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President Obama: A disaster for civil liberties

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 09-30-2011

He may prove the most disastrous president in our history in terms of civil liberties. By Jonathan Turley / LA Times / September 29, 2011 With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating.

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Obama and the Decline of the American Civil Liberties Movement

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 09-30-2011

But perhaps the biggest blow to civil liberties is what he has done to the movement itself. It has quieted to a whisper, muted by the power of Obama's personality and his symbolic importance as the first black president as well

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Civil Liberties in the Digital Age (9/27/2011)

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 09-28-2011

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU.org) | September 27th, 2011 at 6:10 pm. In the digital age that Each week, we feature some of the most interesting news related to technology and civil liberties that we've spotted from the previous week.

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Top threats to our civil liberties

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 09-27-2011

The federal government is very much a threat to your privacy.

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Cheney Reflects on Civil Liberties, Terror Fight, Bush Team

Filed Under (Civil Liberties Blog Posts) by webmaster on 09-25-2011

And they would be hard-put to find any evidence that there was, in fact, infringement on people's civil liberties. There was a lot of emotion generated by that, also by the enhanced interrogation techniques that were used just

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