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Offline FWiedner

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The New McCarthyism
« on: June 15, 2005, 04:32:44 AM »
The New McCarthyism:  Depriving Constitutional Rights Based on Mere Suspicion

The civil libertarians who warned about a New McCarthyism in the United States turned out to be right. As in the early 1950s, politicians—abetted by an uncritical press—are using national security as a pretext to take away constitutional rights. Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism wants constitutional rights eliminated without due process, based on mere suspicion. Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism’s leading advocate happens to be a Congressperson named McCarthy.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) has introduced legislation, H.R. 1195 to ban persons on the “No Fly List” from buying firearms.

Read the article at:

http://www.davekopel.com/2A/IB/New-McCarthyism.pdf

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A truly distubing trend in American politics.  It's way past time to put the reigns on our legislators.

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They may talk of a "New Order" in the  world, but what they have in mind is only a revival of the oldest and worst tyranny.   No liberty, no religion, no hope.   It is an unholy alliance of power and pelf to dominate and to enslave the human race.

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The New McCarthyism
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2005, 01:23:03 PM »
Never in over half a hundred years have I see our freedoms being destroyed so fast since 911. It isn't about terrorism it's about the Constitution. To GWB and the rest of the nit wits in the house and senate doesn't the bill of rights mean anything? I don't think so anymore!
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