Search Results for ‘dissent’ — 171 articles
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ACLUm statement on Tarek Mehanna verdict
Mehanna verdict compromises First Amendment, undermines national security Decision today threatens writers and journalists, academic researchers, translators, and even ordinary web surfers. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 20, 2011 CONTACT: Christopher Ott, Communications Director, 617-482-3170 x322, cott [at] aclum [dot] org BOSTON -- The following statement on the conviction today of Tarek Mehanna may be attributed to American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts executive director Carol Rose:
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Tweetcheck! Say ‘no’ to indefinite detention!
At 12:15 PM on December 15, 2011, Bill of Rights day, activists will gather at Dewey square in Boston to say 'no' to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which as written, will authorize the indefinite detention of anyone, including US citizens, without charge or trial. It would allow the government to create GITMOs here at home, for US residents and citizens. It would signal the death of the Bill of Rights as we know it.
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Spying on Peace Groups
The 2010 report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General into FBI spying on such advocacy groups as Pittsburgh’s Thomas Merton Center found that the Bureau initiated investigations on grounds that were “factually weak” and provided false information and “inaccurate and misleading” statements...
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Twentieth Century Background
Domestic surveillance within the United States has a history that is rich in lessons for our post 9/11 world. Early in the 20th century, the threat of terrorism spurred the development of a domestic intelligence bureaucracy. The fear of “radical ideas” brought...
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Fear of “Radical Ideas”
In the closing decades of the 19th century, ideas associated with the writings of Karl Marx and the 1848 European revolutions were carried to the United States by immigrant workers. Trade union organizers and sympathizers with the effort of workers to fight...
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Rolling Back the Surveillance State
Nearly a decade after 9/11, there has been no national discussion about whether we are on the right track in the war against terrorism. There has been little attempt to probe root causes and the proclaimed motives of terrorist plotters have been...
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“Intelligence Revolutions and the New Normal”
by Christopher H. Pyle Remarks to the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association Netherlands Defence Academy, Rijswijk, Netherlands | May 27, 2011 Thank you. I am delighted to be here and to be among such distinguished company. This visit is something of a homecoming...
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The Red Scare
For most of the 20th century, the “war on communism” ebbed and flowed, and sometimes hit riptide as it did during the late 1940s and 1950s. When the Soviet Union – our World War II ally – became our “Cold War”...
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Japanese-American Internment Camps
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, placing a curfew on people of Japanese descent who were within a designated military area. The head of the Western Defense Command, General John DeWitt, had pushed for such a...
